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1. come and see by avoidingavoidance

   Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   07 May 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood
   • Nicholas D. Wolfwood
   • Meryl Stryfe
   • Vash the Stampede (Trigun)
   • Miss Melanie (Trigun)
   • Milly Thompson
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • heavy tristamp spoilers
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Mortality
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Blood and Injury
   • Possession
   • Guilt
   • Healing
   • also trimax spoilers probably
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Cosmic Horror
   • (gonzo voice) vash the stampede was dead to begin with
   • no seriously he's dead for a large chunk of the fic lmao
   • he gets over it tho
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Angst
   • Human Experimentation
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • Self-Harm
   • Stitches
   • Alcohol
   • Vomiting
   • Hangover
   • Ghosts
   • Slow Burn
   • a pinch of insurance girls romance on the side
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Trauma
   • moderately graphic workplace homicide
   • some probably one-sided legato being unhinged about knives
   • Gun Violence
   • Kidnapping
   • Amputation
   • Bugs & Insects
   • Spiders
   • Pining
   • Human Trafficking
   • Body Horror
   • cat-specific body horror
   • the cat is not hurt or in danger
   • just a lil discombobulated
   • this body horror too shall pass
   • Vash the Stampede's Disordered Eating (Trigun)
   • Panic Attacks
   • referenced animal death
   • Demisexual Nicholas D. Wolfwood
   • Vash has PTSD
   • Suicidal Ideation
   • Ableism
   • Masturbation
   • Explicit Sexual Content

   Summary

   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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   English

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