The real reason Knives never killed Vash
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Trigun
Prosecutor-Edgeworth — 12 years ago(January 12, 2014 02:12 PM)
Watched this series again recently. I understand the stated rationale for Knives not killing Vash (i.e. he wanted to make him suffer), but all in all, Vash was too much of a liability to Knives' plans for him not to want to kill him. He could've killed him in Augusta, but did not. Instead, he tried to convince Vash to join him. He could've mind-controlled Vash on the 26th episode, like he did in Augusta, but refrained from doing so. I'm inclined to think that Knives never intended to kill Vash under any circumstance.
I'm thinking that at very best, he intended to blast a good chunk of his body away like Vash did to him 80 years before the series began, but he could've easily regenerated him afterwards. Ultimately, Knives loved his brother and nothing was going to change that.
Perhaps Vash realized this before deciding to spare him, treat his wounds and take him back to town as opposed to leaving him for dead as he had done decades ago. Perhaps Vash knew what he was doing in the end after all.
Kaizoku oni ore wa naru
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