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With Vash gone after the Julai explosion, Meryl's keeping a tenuous grip on hope. But when Wolfwood shows up outside the news agency, injured and out of serum, there's finally someone else in her life who hasn't given up on Vash, either.
Someone who misses Vash—who loves him—the same way Meryl still does.
(And who, when they finally get a lead on Vash’s whereabouts, is just as willing to go tearing after him as she is.)
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half your life you've been hooked on death by procrastinatingbookworm
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
24 May 2023
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Wolfwood is cornered in an alleyway. Things get worse before they get better.
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17 Jul 2026
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He’s going to die. Not quick and violent, like he always imagined, shredded apart by bullets before he could get a vial to his lips.
Not by Vash’s hand, one of those tiny bullets from his gun right between Wolfwood’s eyes or at the base of his spine, like’s he’s always dreamed.
He’s going to die here. Alone.
Under the sound of his own sobs, he can hear blood spattering to the ground, slow, slow, slow. -
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The beginning of a different End.
My take on a post-canon AU where Wolfwood lives.
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14 Jul 2026
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You didn't look fine, back then. When that gentle boy carried you here, I thought you were dead. You both were covered in blood. And then you slept for weeks. Thought you weren't going to wake up anymore...
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to know all i had has been lost by procrastinatingbookworm
Fandoms: Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
08 Jun 2023
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my heart was a glass and it's broken at last / you have finally broken my heart
Vash tries to uninvolve Wolfwood before it's too late. Wolfwood takes being left in the desert with no warning or goodbye about as well as could be expected.
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11 Jul 2026
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But not this. It’d never crossed his mind.
He’d assumed. Assumed the unspoken thing that had bloomed slow and bright between the two of them, across all the iles they’d traveled together, whatever it is, had come packaged with some kind of promise. The end of the line coming faster than either of them would want, closer and closer every day, but they’d reach it together. There was nothing else to be sure of but that.
Wolfwood had been played for a goddamn fool. -
The Wall by Dezace
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
07 May 2023
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Wolfwood was taken as a Child of Blessing, getting changed fundamentally and thrown into a cell without any hope for the future. What he didn't know was that there was a specific person held in the cell next to his own. Someone that knows far more than what he lets on. That changes everything.
Or: What if Knives captured Vash decades before canon and Vash and Wolfwood met while Wolfwood was first starting to undergo the operation that gave him his enhancements? Knives' nightmare, that's what.
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- Part 1 of Love you like Gunsmoke
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11 Jul 2026
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The next few months were horrible, but they could be worse because he could have been alone in his suffering.
Every time he was dragged back to his cell after the operation, Vash was there to lighten the atmosphere with a joke or go on tangents about this and that. -
Back and forth on the same road by tucuxi for TheDameJudiWench
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
04 Apr 2023
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Roberto’s only half-listening to the radio when the rookie takes them over a ridge hidden under the dunes just a bit too fast.
When the car clatters down onto the sand again with a spine-jarring rattle, Roberto hears the shitty undertaker swear softly in the back seat.
The cussing isn’t what makes Roberto pay attention: it’s the man’s tone of voice, quiet, intense, alarmed. Very little alarms Nicholas D. Wolfwood, including a veritable hail of gunshots at extremely close range. Roberto had really been hoping he and the rookie would get away from the pair in their backseat before he had to find out what it took to really scare either of those men.
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(Roberto POV)
Canon-divergent extra scene. During a quartet-only road trip on the way from Home to July, Vash conceals a serious injury. Everyone has a terrible time when the truth comes to light.
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11 Jul 2026
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Roberto can respect that: he knows when to back the fuck off, or he’d be long dead by now, just another desiccated corpse in the sands of No Man’s Land.
But Wolfwood’s obviously increasing anger and fear fundamentally change the situation. Roberto doesn’t fuck around with dangerous men who sound that scared, not even when their fucking enormous laser machine guns are out of easy reach.
“Meryl,” he says, stubbing out his cigarette in the overflowing mug on the dash. “Pull over. Now. Then get the first-aid box out of the trailer.” -
if you got tomorrow (Then You Still Got Time) by Triscribe
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
26 Oct 2025
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Shanks,
I don’t know how quickly this letter will get to you, if there’s time for you to do anything, but- two days ago, marines came to Dawn and took Luffy. I don’t know if you can do anything, from the Grand Line, but- if you could try- or even just let Garp know, somehow, tell him it’s an emergency-
Please.
-Makino
Whumptober Day 26: "Nothing like a relapse to rehash the kid who was scared."
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- Part 6 of my love, for you will never change
- Part 16 of Tri Writes Whumptober 2025
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10 Jul 2026
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“Gone as in sunk.”
...no.
“Marines and one of those damn Knights got a line on him, a month back.”
No, no, no-
“A few of ours went after him, into the East Blue of all places, but- shit went down, and the ship sank.”
No, that’s- that can’t- not Dragon, he’s not- Mind whirling, breath coming faster, Shanks makes himself ask, “The kid- what about the kids?”
There’s a moment of silence. (If he weren’t so panicked, maybe Shanks would have noticed the hesitation in it, more than simple confusion.) “What kids?” -
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When Marine ships show up at Dawn Island and start hunting through the jungles, Ace has a plan.
Too bad his plan rested on actually knowing what--or who--they were actually here for.Luffy doesn't like the marines, or the zippy yellow guy, or the stupid Banana-haired old man.
The big guy chained to the wall with tattoos on his face, though, he's pretty cool.And Sabo, well, it's not like he needs that much extra help to go rescue his captured boss, but he's not about to say no to the very helpful stranger with a very obvious axe to grind.
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- Part 2 of my love, for you will never change
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09 Jul 2026
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The marines drag each other away without another look at him, and it turns out, today isn’t Luffy’s second time of going through this nightmare of having a brother ripped away from him while he's powerless to do anything. It’s Ace’s, tied to a tree, weak and furiously weeping and failing all over again.
He’s failed Sabo all over again, failed Luffy, failed to even goddamn die right. This had never been how this was supposed to go. It isn’t supposed to be him who got left behind. -
Daughter of Eve by tragic_unpaired_electron
Fandoms: Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
21 May 2023
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Tesla read, "'And may I ask, O Lucy, Daughter of Eve,' said Mr. Tumnus, 'how you have come into Narnia?'”
And Tesla said, "You have to get out of here, Vash."
After an incident in a distant town leaves Vash as close as he's ever been to dying, he hovers between life and death. On the other side, he finds a friendly face.
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- Part 2 of The Second Celestial Evening
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09 Jul 2026
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They grabbed the stranger–still kicking and fighting but feebly, hampered by the many cords in his skin–and lifted him to the aperture of the bulb. She saw him look back at her once more, eyes still pleading, and then they pushed him down into the chamber and he was gone.
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towards an endless paradise by inkpot__gods
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
18 Dec 2023
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She would lose entire days to memory, laid across the back seat, alone alone alone, her palm pressing into a stain and wishing there was someone there to get her up. Someone to remind her what it was to be human.
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Meryl is alone after JuLai, and there's no one to put her life back together but her. If there's planetary gods, wayward priests, and ghosts along the way, well...that's just her life now.
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- Part 3 of blended in measure
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04 Jul 2026
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Three months of worms darting quickly out of her field of vision, glowing eyes and bodies of messengers and sentries curled into out-of-the-way places and dark reaches of cracks in roofs and old buildings.
“I’m always alone now, Zazie.”
A chittering came from behind her, and Meryl sighed, sitting up and turning toward them, looking up at the now-human face and mentally preparing for whatever would come. The luminous eyes blinked, the head tilting in a bird-like manner. “Why?” -
And Home Followed With Us by ajsmellslikebooks
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
20 Jul 2026
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Ryland Grace wakes up in space... and he's not alone.
All three members of the Hail Mary wake up en route to the Tau Ceti system. One of them doesn't know who he is. All the answers they need are here for them to find, deep in interstellar space. They just don't know it yet.
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04 Jul 2026
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“… Just us three? What? Saving the world?”
“Yep,” Ilyukhina popped the “p.” “It’s what you’d call a skeleton crew, right?” The commander nodded silently.
It was in the mission name. A hail mary. A last ditch effort to save the world. -
fool in the moon by arahir
Fandoms: Trigun (Anime & Manga), Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
04 Feb 2023
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Wolfwood carries a body.
Vash is a walking death wish. A race between self-sacrifice and skill, and in all Wolfwood’s shitty years on this shit-ass planet he’s never met a man with so much of each.
So maybe Vash taking a bullet to the head for him shouldn’t have been a surprise.
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04 Jul 2026
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Roberto told him what happened at Jeneora, the fruitless sacrifice a repetition of a pattern, a track playing on repeat for this idiot’s whole damn life. Momentum like that is impossible to stop. Whatever’s going to happen to Vash, Wolfwood hasn’t got a chance in hell of stopping it. And why would he try? Because the idiot looked into his eyes and saw something that wasn’t there?
Nah, Wolfwood can’t stop shit. But maybe he can delay it for a little while. Carry him another step and then another ile. -
headlights pointed at the dawn by yormgen
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
14 Jul 2023
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“Undertaker. You still breathing?” Meryl asks flatly, even though she can see his shoulders moving just enough to settle the pit in her stomach she’d been ignoring until then. It loosens entirely when his head snaps up in response to her voice, his eyes wide, sand flying, sunglasses slipped to the tip of his nose.
A toothy grin splits his face at the sight of her, and she manages to bite back a smile in turn. “Oh, thank the heavens above,” he gasps, melodramatic, and he reaches his arms out vaguely in her direction, vaguely towards the sky. “The big guy hasn’t abandoned me for good after all. Do you have any water?”
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03 Jul 2026
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For as fondly as she says it, something about that stokes Wolfwood’s nerves. Something about Vash not being able to exist any goddamn where without being squeezed and strained for any use he can give and then let back loose into the desert once his presence stops being convenient. And besides, watching Vash soothe a plant had played part to one of the worst days of Wolfwood’s life, which was already mostly bad days. How much did it take from Vash, every time he did it?
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come and see by avoidingavoidance
Fandoms: Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), Trigun Stampede & Trigun Stargaze (Anime 2023-2026)
07 May 2025
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After July, Wolfwood is left with nothing to his name but a piece of paper and a heavy cross to bear, so he returns to the only roots he ever had to try his hand at healing. It's a difficult process, but soon enough he'll discover that there's a damn good reason he can't let go.
A voice calls from the east. He just needs to hear it.
(A story about grief, healing, love, and one funny little housecat.)
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02 Jul 2026
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The sound is even quieter now. He has to strain to hear it, but when he finally catches that single thread, it blooms in his grasp. A familiar melody opens up for him like the glowing starbursts flourishing from the strange life forms swaying past him, around him, black tendrils giving him a careful berth where nothing else has been spared.
Vash is humming.
Wolfwood knows this the same way he knows his own name. -
Cold Snap by scheidswrites
Fandoms: Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
08 Sep 2024
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A period of unusually cold weather on Noman's Land causes new changes in all of the plants. They start acting strangely...
Or, in Vash the Stampede's case, more strangely.
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23 Jun 2026
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Vash drifted down, down through the enormous tank. His arms and legs splayed loosely, relaxed. He seemed neither to be holding his breath nor struggling to breathe. The caustic chemical solution didn’t appear to bother him. Below him, the plant’s idly questing appendages took notice and moved in his direction.
Its entire gigantic form drifted upward, reaching up and out with a thousand grasping petals. It bloomed like some strange, translucent mushroom in time lapse. Blue lines pulsed in waves all along its body, making the light waver along the walls of the chamber. Vash lit up in response, similar lines scrawling intricate patterns across his skin. The two pulsed back and forth in bursts of blue light, like signalers across the dune sea. -
Mycorrhizae by Obtenebratia
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
24 Jul 2023
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If he’d forgotten, Vash thinks he’d probably still be frightened of stillness. He’d probably try to make himself smaller, more human, more distant from the humming song of a thousand sisters and the ultraviolet glow of cataclysm beneath his skin. If he’d forgotten, Vash thinks he’d have done everything in his power to never remember.
Or: Vash doesn’t forget after July.
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21 Jun 2026
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He’s been running since his feet first touched sand, since the first spaceship started burning against Nai’s laughter and he realized that he could never truly exist among humans without bringing ruin with him, but it hasn’t solved anything. People still die, no matter how hard Vash tries. The people he loves still die, no matter how hard Vash tries. There are four new graves on the outskirts of town, and Vash can fill two of them on his own already. If he keeps going as he is, if he keeps running and hiding and pretending to be something he’s not, how long until those other two graves are filled too? How long until Wolfwood and Meryl only exist as piles of stones atop freshly turned sand?
This final thought finally looses a slow roll of despondent terror through his guts, and maybe it’s greedy to care more about the lives of his own humans than the rest of the planet, but Vash has spent his entire life trying not to be greedy and he’s so, so tired. Tired of running, tired of letting people die, trying to be smaller and more human and less than what he is. -
The Laws of Conservation by scheidswrites
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
21 Dec 2023
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Rem cannot be trusted, Vash cannot be relied upon, so it's up to Nai to find a way to save them. And he will not leave his sister behind.
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21 Jun 2026
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Because they had seen a Plant in the feeble shape of a human child–a form that, according to their own research into their own biology, was meant to elicit feelings of care and protectiveness–and had wasted no time in dehumanizing her. Reduced her to…to…not even a Dependent Plant, as if that were somehow lesser. They didn’t grasp the sentience of Dependents. They weren’t collaborators with the Dependents, nor even their stewards. In humanity’s eyes there was only Human and Thing. And all Plants were Things, no matter how human-shaped they may be.
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It's not a trolley problem, it's a trolley solution!
[Oopsie! Eh-]
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20 Jun 2026
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"What are your plans for the silk blanket?"
"The wrapping paper," Maínomai corrects before his brain catches up. "For Captain's Christmas Gift."
"Wrapping paper? Then perhaps it should be shaped into a dressing gown or other sleepwear, so Boss can be 'wrapped' for Captain," Tyrant suggests, to Maínomai's amazement. The sheer mischief! No one would ever suspect the ever poised and always scary Tyrant of being mischievous!
No one will ever believe him if he says anything! Except Pýř! -
there’s what I believe (and then there’s you) by mimosaeyes
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
09 Sep 2025
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“Satoru,” he says slowly, “how long has it been since you deactivated Infinity?”
Or: Suguru takes care of an overworked Satoru, learns to let Satoru help him in turn, and ultimately makes a different choice.
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18 Jun 2026
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Even now? the murky, bitter part of Suguru wants to ask. Even after you’ve left me behind?
But then Satoru stumbles, his face scrunching in pain, and Suguru holds him up on pure reflex. And that little voice in his head goes quiet for the moment. -
yourself or someone like you by suzukiblu
Fandoms: My Adventures with Superman (Cartoon), Superboy (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
17 May 2024
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"Crap!" the food truck worker shrieks in alarm. "Don't hurt him, Superman, he's just a kid!"
Clark . . . pauses, then looks up from the kid that he is currently pinning into the street as said kid struggles underneath him.
"'Hurt him'?" he asks in reflexive confusion, and then realizes how batting a teenager around like a person-shaped cat toy and pinning him to the street hard enough to crack it probably actually looks to an outside observer.
. . . um.
Whoops.
"Um," he starts awkwardly, and then the kid slips his pin while he's distracted and throws his arms around his neck with a gleeful laugh and a bright grin.
"Dad!" he crows triumphantly, and hugs Clark harder than literally anyone has ever hugged him before.
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16 Jun 2026
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“What do you mean?” Clark asks, still puzzled. “This is a totally normal way to have a kid.”
“In what possible way is this normal, Smallville?!” Lois demands. “Did your parents not give you the talk?!”
“Yeah, it went ‘we kinda just found you in a field out back’,” Clark replies reasonably. Lois . . . pauses.
“. . . I hate how much this explains about you,” she mutters under her breath, putting her hands over her face.