[ Vash was about say something to Nai about that kick when he and his brother were pulled in by the wings, and any words died on his lips under the flood of memories, wonderful and terrifying and different, but then his own started rising up, pulled to the surface by the presence of Nai so, so young, and so determined to be there by his side.
Similar fields of green, peace and serenity, just the two of them crawling behind Rem as she's watching again the recordings of them.
A single geranium in a laboratory filled with living parts of their older sister, and the sheer horror of what was done to her, on what might be coming to them.
Nai looking up from reading the Bible, telling him that humans are repeat offenders.
Nai standing up on a rock, cackling as ships burn around them. And you are my accomplice, Vash!
Vash in handcuffs, shut in a cell, waiting for experiments on him to start, feeling of hunger gnawing at him but the food untouched next to him, when he can hear the Plant shrieking, the pain and loneliness overwhelming, and then he is beating against the locked door, shouting to be let out, to be allowed to help, until Luida comes and opens the door and he stumbles, but then his little hand finds her slightly bigger one, and there is hope.
Vash's Gate opening, dark whirlpool sucking everything in right from his left palm, red Plants all around them, their pain echoing in his mind, dead humans and so much blood, and Nai's blades cutting off his arm, pain, pain but also gratitude because he was panicking and Nai saved him, saved them all, Nai crawling across the floor because what he had done staggered him.
Vash, sinking into water until a pair of blades pin his shoulders, and dark tendrils start issuing from him-- ]
NO!!!
[ As Vash struggled to stumble out, away, no, don't show this to Nai, please, there is one last glimpse of memory, one of extreme wrongness, and distorted as though coming through so much thick liquid.
Memory manipulation and assimilation complete. Conrad's voice.
And then, Nai. I've finally got him back.
And then he had lost contact with the feathers, disoriented, shivering, only to see Wolfwood pointing a gun at Nai, little Nai, who had not done any of these things, and it was Vash's turn to scramble on his knees to sort of wedge in between them. His voice was broken, gasping. ]
He only-- saw that you were m-making Vash cry. It's. It's so much...
sorry, nai. sorry.
Similar fields of green, peace and serenity, just the two of them crawling behind Rem as she's watching again the recordings of them.
A single geranium in a laboratory filled with living parts of their older sister, and the sheer horror of what was done to her, on what might be coming to them.
Nai looking up from reading the Bible, telling him that humans are repeat offenders.
Nai standing up on a rock, cackling as ships burn around them. And you are my accomplice, Vash!
Vash in handcuffs, shut in a cell, waiting for experiments on him to start, feeling of hunger gnawing at him but the food untouched next to him, when he can hear the Plant shrieking, the pain and loneliness overwhelming, and then he is beating against the locked door, shouting to be let out, to be allowed to help, until Luida comes and opens the door and he stumbles, but then his little hand finds her slightly bigger one, and there is hope.
Vash's Gate opening, dark whirlpool sucking everything in right from his left palm, red Plants all around them, their pain echoing in his mind, dead humans and so much blood, and Nai's blades cutting off his arm, pain, pain but also gratitude because he was panicking and Nai saved him, saved them all, Nai crawling across the floor because what he had done staggered him.
Vash, sinking into water until a pair of blades pin his shoulders, and dark tendrils start issuing from him-- ]
NO!!!
[ As Vash struggled to stumble out, away, no, don't show this to Nai, please, there is one last glimpse of memory, one of extreme wrongness, and distorted as though coming through so much thick liquid.
Memory manipulation and assimilation complete. Conrad's voice.
And then, Nai. I've finally got him back.
And then he had lost contact with the feathers, disoriented, shivering, only to see Wolfwood pointing a gun at Nai, little Nai, who had not done any of these things, and it was Vash's turn to scramble on his knees to sort of wedge in between them. His voice was broken, gasping. ]
He only-- saw that you were m-making Vash cry. It's. It's so much...