Legato Bluesummers (anime)

Legato Bluesummers
Japanese name	レガート・ブルーサマーズ
Alternate spelling
Age
Born
Alias
Race	Human
Height
Hair Color	Cornflower Blue
Eye Color	Golden Yellow
Gender	Male
Occupation	Knives' second-in-command Gung-Ho-Guns' de facto leader
Affiliation
First appearance	DIABLO (disambiguation)
Last appearance	SIN (disambiguation) physical UNDER THE SKY SO BLUE In Flashback
First manga appearance
Last manga appearance
First anime appearance
Last anime appearance
First Stampede appearance
Last Stampede appearance
Japanese voice actor	Toshihiko Seki
English voice actor	Richard Cansino

Legato Bluesummers is one of the main characters in Trigun (1998 anime). He does not appear in Trigun: Badlands Rumble.

Biography

1998 anime

In the 90s anime, no mention is made of Legato's past or how he came to know Millions Knives. He is first seen telling Monev the Gale that it is now his time to go challenge Vash the Stampede. Later on, he finds Vash and tells him that he'll be visited by the Gung-Ho-Guns. After this, he ends up in the saloon at Jeneora Rock, where he catches the eye of a gang member's girlfriend and is challenged to a fight. At first he ignores the challenge, but is finally provoked enough to do something. He makes the challenger quite literally rip his own heart out, and then gets the rest of the gang members present to shoot each other (notably, he spares the gang member's girlfriend, along with two other women who were present). He then proceeds to travel to the top of a rocky spire housing the town's giant windmill, where he is confronted by the rest of the gang. The other Gung-Ho-Guns meet up with him here and they kill half of the gang members - the half that were spared are explicitly told that it was only so that they could bury their dead. Legato sets Dominique the Cyclops to fight with Vash and then leaves.

Legato then goads Vash into coming to the city of Augusta to fight with him. When Vash gets there, he is confronted first by E.G. Mine and then challenged to a fight with Rai Dei the Blade. Rai Dei is surprised and disgusted to find that Vash really doesn't want to fight with him, but is even more surprised when Vash's Angel Arm begins to activate. Legato invades Vash's mind and pushes him into fully activating the superweapon, annihilating the city of Augusta in the process. Legato and Midvalley watch the mayhem unfold from atop a distant scarp of rock, where Legato reveals that the events of July happened 23 years prior before creepily licking his hand.

Legato appears again in "Flying Ship" when Leonof the Puppetmaster (disambiguation) infiltrates the floating ship and reports back to him what's going on. This is when he realizes that Nicholas D. Wolfwood has turned traitor, and also realizes how he can really make Vash suffer...His plan plays out in the episode "Paradise", when he has Chapel the Evergreen confront Wolfwood about killing Vash and then challenge him to a duel. Chapel loses, but initially spares Wolfwood. Legato, however, takes control of Chapel's body and makes him shoot Wolfwood in the back, killing him. Chapel is angry enough to try and seek vengeance by killing Legato, but is unsuccessful. Knives has healed by this time.

Character

Appearance

Legato is about as tall as Vash, with a slender build and broad shoulders. He has overgrown blue hair, the bangs of which cover his left eye. Aesthetically speaking, he is an unusually beautiful man.

For clothes, he wears a black long-sleeved turtleneck paired with waist-high gray pants that have a skinny leg. Over this outfit he wears a long white duster with a high collar and prominent lapels (the left lapel has a notch taken out of it). The sleeves on the jacket are short, and are cuffed with metal rings (iron?). The right shoulder of the jacket bulges into a spherical shape and has a set of wicked-looking impalement spikes protruding from it. The left arm of the jacket has a skull lashed to it. To complete the outfit, Legato also wears fingerless gloves and leather boots that are cuffed at the ankles with metal rings. He wears a weird metal ring around his right thigh like a garter.

Personality

Legato is a "straw nihilist".

Occupation

Legato serves as Knives' second-in-command and the de facto leader of the Gung-Ho-Guns (he is the first Gung-Ho-Gun). His primary job is to cause Vash eternal pain and suffering on Knives' behalf, presumably for injuring him during the events that annihilated July.

Family

He has no canonical family.

Relationships

Legato's relationship to Knives is that of a devoted worshipper and faithful servant. His relationship to Vash is that of a bully or antagonist. His relationship to the Gung-Ho-Guns is that of "boss" (though Midvalley the Hornfreak (disambiguation) serves as a kind of personal assistant). His relationship to himself is one of loathing and contempt. Legato does not have a relationship with the insurance girls, except to take them hostage in order to provoke Vash into shooting him. He has no canonical lovers.

Weapons & Abilities

Telepathy

Legato's weapon is his mind. He is able to take control of another person's mind and body, and make them do his bidding (they may or may not be conscious of what's happening). He can also project mental images into a person's mind, and seemingly astral project. Most significantly, he is able to activate Vash's Angel Arm.

Though it isn't outright stated, the source of Legato's power is thought to be Vash's left arm - this was grafted to his body at some point prior to the events of the series. Since Vash is a plant, the graft likely imbued Legato with some of whatever it is that gives plants their powers and abilities.

Gallery

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  Legato's outfit

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  From one of the artbooks

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  Legato.

Notes & Trivia

• The word "Legato" comes from the Latin term ligare, which means "to bind". It's where the terms "ligand", "ligament", and "delegate" come from. The character was probably so named because he acts as Knives' emissary, or delegate, for most of the series - he is the tie binding Knives to his brother. (His weapon of choice in the manga also makes use of strings, but that hadn't yet been revealed at the time the 90s anime was produced.)
  • Legato is also a type of musical notation used to indicate that a series of notes should be played in a smooth and connected way.

Appearances

Trigun (1998)

Episodes

• DIABLO (disambiguation)
• DEMONS EYE
• FIFTH MOON (disambiguation)
• FLYING SHIP
• OUT OF TIME
• ALTERNATIVE
• PARADISE
• SIN (disambiguation)
• LIVE THROUGH (Flashback only, reused footage)
• UNDER THE SKY SO BLUE (Flashback only, reused footage)