Re: fighting. You said it, exactly. I think mastery (of his body, of any given situation) is very important to Vash, both versions. He enjoys his little tiffs in the beginning, but once Legato gets involved and he doesn't know who/how is going after him and he can't be sure that he can control the situation so that everyone's safe, that's when he loses the fun of it. Only natural.

And that's what I meant re: Nightow and Vash. The manga version. It owns me. I loved all the characters in the anime, even though Vash's idealism/naivete were very frustrating, but there aren't words to express my love for the manga. And manga Vash. And it's more realistic, too, because it makes no sense for Vash to be as rigid in his ideals as he is in the anime, given his intellect and how long he's lived.

And I'm not going to start ranting about what I think it means that it's women writing the rapes in the het