[nodding] i have a lot of thoughts on stampede...but it's hard to form a complete opinion when i know i'm not working with the full set. i think part of why legato's role is much less prominent is because in trimax and 98, knives isn't at full power yet...so the gung ho guns are in the frontlines. in stampede we experience the reverse, where knives is at full power...and when he's at full power he prefers to do the work himself.

i think s2 will (hopefully, fingers crossed) be gung ho gun's time to shine since knives is "dead", and there's a time skip. also bc they were teasing midvalley and im like u better. u better do mv justice with making me wait so long to see him. cries. i want to see him and legato side by side...

oh!! legato!!! also JDFHSKJDFH LAUGHS that is a fair assessment of stampede legato LOOOL

i think...stampede legato is the frailest of the legatos. trimax legato is strongest because his entire spine is broken and he can still kill with just as much effectiveness while being encased in a coffin. that is objectively metal as hell. 98 legato is second just because we have not seen his spine broken so we don't know what his potential would be in that situation. stamp legato....is so cute next to both of them. he's like. the little theater kid in a musical about rival gangs while his older brothers are actual contract killers LMAOOO i love them all so, so much. excited to see what he does in s2.

oh i do very much. who would i be to stay silent in the face of the importance of talking about how vash is fucking knives.

this feels like a very funny segway disclaimer that i may include TMI elements because like….i’ll be candid. i mean i’m rarely not but i guess. candid x2, when i write or draw sex…many things are sex. all my art is sex even when it’s SFW. but explicit fucking if you will, it’s based on what i like in sex. what i like when i have sex with other people. like for me, if it was a sex act i wasn’t turned on by…i would see no reason to draw it. art is sex and sex is arousal and etc. sex ouroboros.

so yes this is an ask about vash fucking knives but it’s going to be spliced between what i like about sex and what i splice into vash and knives fucking that seems applicable and also because i find it hot. there really isn’t a clean way to separate one from the other so if you are someone who only wants to read about fiction and not, fiction And brief accounts of a …sex haver femboy, LMFAO, maybe sit this ask out. i won’t be offended.

to go into how many ways vash fucks knives could take up an entire novel. that’s basically what moment of impact is at this point since it surpassed the average word count for a novel a few thousand words ago. so i’ll focus on the ways vash enjoys fucking knives and the way knives enjoys being fucked by vash.

the way vash most enjoys fucking knives is missionary. [tapping my lecture stick against my fake board] stay with me. missionary gets a bad rap but this is one of my fav sex positions to draw/write. vash i see…having an obsession with maintaining eye contact. he doesn’t like viewing himself as a weapon for harm. i don’t think he’s incapable of having sex w/o eye contact but it would be very easy to stray into anxiety or dissociation. vash and knives can maintain eye contact in different positions in different ways, or if there’s some sort of mirror/reflective surface, but i think vash prefers missionary because it’s as face to face with knives as possible…and of course knives loves that too.

they love the same thing for different reasons. vash likes being able to see the pleasure knives derides from being fucked by him which both takes away the anxiety of feeling like knives is just an object for his own pleasure and opens the gateway (pun uninteded) for him to be a little more sadistic in pushing knives to the edge. vash fucking knives is, knives’ equivalent of being unable to stop stuffing yourself at a buffet even though you’re already full. even when the pleasure is tilting into pain/sensations so overwhelming he can barely breathe or think he’ll push past his limits.

missionary is fantastic. this feels so funny to say when im. kinky. im such a longwinded little pervert. i love being tied up i draw and write shota incest dogfuck stuffing whatever but most scandalous of all is my fav sex position is….[trying not to laugh] missionary!!!!!! u can kiss, u can bite, i really really like the weight that comes from someone on top of me thrusting into me, i like cradling the back of their head or touching their neck…. oh especially being pinned down. sooooo sexy to have my wrists restrained or even a hand placed on my neck (SEX!!!). i am such a civil, organized and very controlled businessman in my professional environment so i love feeling like a helpless prey animal relinquishing all control in sex. i call myself submissive and i am very submissive but imo submissive and dominance require a little bit of each other In each other, like yin and yang. i am handing over control, i am relinquishing my power to someone else. i WANT to be submissive. for the love of fucking god toss me like a very cute lamb plush i make too many decisions being an adult i can hand over control in the bedroom. i think knives is the same way. he’s a huuuuuge brat and control freak but absolutely crumbles when vash is on top of him. or becomes a mountain lion in heat. i think knives likes the duality of handing over power to vash but also feeling like vash is so overcome with lust he can’t help domineering over knives.

oh and it’s so easy to cervix pound in missionary. if knives isn’t being fucked so hard by vash it feels like cramps when he wakes up in the morning….he doesn’t want it!!! the pain the morning after is another pleasure. which is also something i love about sex. i love rough sex bc i guess i’m a bit of a masochist but it feels like finding a dollar bill in my coat pocket but it’s just like. walking through the day and feeling a cramp because someone scrambled my guts but it’s not unpleasant bc it just makes me think of how much i enjoyed having my guts scrambled. i think knives is similar in that he likes pain bc its just a lingering ghost of a memory of how vash enjoyed fucking him so much.

oh also i think vash is such a typical boy in that he prolly gets really turned on seeing himself fuck knives and knives’ expressions correlating with when he thrusts into him. also missionary grants him access to also play with knives’ boobs, should he choose to. (and does, a lot.)

[barely restrained laughter] i feel like a loony professor darting between two different points on a whiteboard but it’s “things i like about sex” and “things VK likes about sex” but!!!! it’s true!!!!

anyways thanks for coming to my TMITedTalk. vash and knives fuck so much i love to think about it when i got this ask i just spent some time daydreaming like yeah :) VK sex :) love to think about it :) <-still thinking about it

i answered an ask about this here i went into a longer ramble and i found it here!! https://retrospring.net/@peachglumpear/a/109315899538447581

i did want to read it over to see if any of my opinions had changed since then...

wrt the art: i looked at the art and i think it's fine. i prefer sketchy messy lines, so i think something about aono-kun's art is sometimes too rounded and clean to me. i think i was just so embittered after reading the story i was being petty so everything that was not to my taste was magnified by that LOL.

also i disagree with past me's views on general manga needing to show someone moving on after dying. fiction is fiction, so like. if your otp never loves again after their loved one dies that's fine. (i say this after finishing an entire doujin related to the premise but to be fair its like. Very, very specific circumstances i need this trope under to avoid landmine.)
but that never happens with yutarika. yuta literally pledged his soul to rika he is hers forever and ever and ever.

but um largely, i think my feelings remain the same. i think it's a fun horror story but i need to read it without the yutarika lens because (as i go over in the previous asks) it hits so many tropes that are landmine for me with yutarika.

i do want to reread it because i think going into it expecting yutarika actually dashed my first impression of it LOL... anyways it's fun to reread my old thoughts. there are some things where i'm like "yes, past elio, this is still correct," and there's other things where i'm like oh...hmmm. you kind of missed the mark here but i understand what you were getting at, even if i don't agree now. interesting to see what does and doesn't change.

omg...so. about a year or so ago i started reading it specifically because...the main characters looked like juntoge. i was obsessed. they're best friends?? and?? go through experiments????

at one point (i think i lost it) i had an entire folder dedicated to manga caps of tokio and azuma together...their personalities and set up are different but i was still implanting otp vision over them, again shrouding the series in my delusion...oh maybe to make this funnier i've never read/watched tokyo ghoul. i just saw this and was like "they look like juntoge. what is this"

i'm also really bad with keeping up with multiple manga (and i think it had a few months of hiatus?) so i forget where i left off but i want to catch up/reread...sorry you sent me an ask and my answer was basically "[nodding] the manga with the two characters that look like juntoge :) yes :)" my otp brain is deep sdjkfhs