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devouring your shadow by hlaalus
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
21 Apr 2024
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Summary
Can an alternate self even have different preferences? He wonders as he bites into the bread. If there are multiple personalities, he supposes. But Nai is not an alternate personality. He’s a facet, an expression of Vash’s psyche that protects him, his—
Knife. He remembers when a patient in his dream state went off the rails and attacked him. Nai destroyed him with a flurry of sharp, otherworldly knives, turning him into nothing but specks of meat. The patient quickly changed therapists, and Vash almost lost his license over it.
In his own dream that night Nai put his hands on Vash’s face, cupping his cheeks and rubbing his thumb over their shared, mirrored beauty mark, promising that it was better to lose a job than to suffer the lasting mental effects of a traumacase stabbing him to death, even if the most lasting physical consequence was waking up shaken. Nai kissed the corner of his lips and promised to be a weapon, a blade, a knife. To make sure that they’re always safe. That no one would hurt them again.