[There's a lot about this he's unprepared to think about for long. Potential time travel, alternate realities, multiple alternate selves, possible multiple alternate Knives..es.. and adult ones at that. On one hand that definitely means he didn't die when Vash shot him, which is great, but on the other hand an adult could probably do a lot more damage. Maybe he got better eventually!

Yeah he's.. going to hang onto that thought, because it was at least a potential bright spot.]

I.. don't really want to change my name. [Even temporarily! Rem gave it to him! It's almost all he had left of her, a lot of ideals, and a name.] I'll be alright, I'm too small anyway. I'll probably get yelled at for taking the name of such an infamous outlaw! [This comes with a wide, broad gesture and a briefly fierce expression, but it fades right back to normal quickly.] Which I can blame on my nonexistent dad, I have this worked out.

[He doesn't, at all, he's making it all up as he goes along.]

...If anything, having all of you around is going to make me a lot safer, because they're never going to look for someone that looks like a kid. [Vash, you ARE a kid. Being eighty means different things to plants.] Just.. just, um, don't get shot or something, okay?