Legato Bluesummers (Stampede)
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- This article is about the Stampede continuity iteration of the character. For other uses of "Legato Bluesummers", see Legato Bluesummers (disambiguation).
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| Japanese name | レガート・ブルーサマーズ |
| Race | Human |
| Hair Color | Cerulean Blue |
| Eye Color | Golden Yellow |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | de facto head of the Eye of Michael cult |
| First appearance | Once Upon a Time in Hopeland |
| Last appearance | TBD |
| Japanese voice actor | Kouki Uchiyama[1] |
| English voice actor | Daman Mills[2][3] |
Legato Bluesummers is one of the main characters in Trigun Stampede.
Biography
Legato first appears in episode six, as part of Wolfwood's flashback. Wolfwood tries to escape from the Eye of Michael prison block by jumping out of a giant window, but he is caught mid-air and brutally crushed right before achieving freedom. When next we see him, he is in a holding cell whose doors part to reveal Legato. Legato tells Wolfwood he's working for the EoM now, despite his resistance. The two men verbally spar with each other, with Legato crushing Wolfwood into the floor in retaliation for being called a "blue-haired freak". He then presents Livio - the closest thing Wolfwood has to a brother - and says that if Wolfwood won't do the job, Livio has volunteered to do it instead. This at least gets Wolfwood working for Legato, albeit reluctantly.
In the present day, Legato has Livio target Vash aboard a sand steamer on its way to the city of July, knowing Wolfwood will protect Vash from harm. Legato's plan is to see whether Wolfwood will choose to protect Vash by killing Livio or spare Livio by allowing Vash to die. To up the ante, Legato uses telekinesis to break one of the drive shafts within the sand steamer and put it on a crash course with the Hopeland Orphanage - the place Wolfwood grew up.Once Upon a Time in Hopeland Legato's reasoning is that if he can eliminate all emotional ties that Wolfwood has, then he can make Wolfwood into the perfect believer and a perfect instrument of Knives's plans. He is fixated on Wolfwood because Wolfwood has the rare physiological distinction of being highly receptive to the experimental drugs used on subjects of the Eye, with a grade of S+ - Wolfwood cannot simply leave the cult or die because more children would be taken from the orphanage until another like him is found. Legato is ultimately unsuccessful at crashing the sand steamer into the orphanage, nor does he secure Wolfwood's loyalty, but he orders Zazie to retrieve Livio's body, saying that he is still useful. WOLFWOOD (episode)
Legato resurfaces two years after the destruction of July and resumes stealing Plants alongside some of the other Gung Ho Guns. These new Plants will be used to rehabilitate Knives, who exists solely as a nervous system in a stasis tank in the wake of his last fight with Vash. Legato and Elendira are excited for his eventual awakening, though another Gun, Midvalley, is not. Legato takes Midvalley along with him on another Plant-stealing mission in which he uses telekinesis to turn the targeted town's armed guard into pureé by cramming them all into a parked tanker truck through the hatch on top of it. Knives is eventually physically reconstituted, but one more ingredient is needed to awaken him fully: his brother Vash. Vash is currently residing on Ship 3, or "Home", with Luida, Brad, and the others, and a plan is hatched to break in and get him.
Legato and Grey the Ninelives volunteer to procure Vash after Midvalley is sent first and ends up defecting. Grey goes after the Plants onboard the ship and is confronted by Wolfwood. Vash meets up with Legato and confronts him, but won't kill him. Legato suspends Vash with his telekinetic powers and is about to leave when he notices Vash shakily raise his gun in spite of the forces being exerted upon him. This excites Legato, and momentarily forgetting about everything else, he decides to turn up the intensity of his telekinesis to see just how much Vash can handle before he breaks. He pushes Vash to the point where one of his black Plant wings begins to sprout before he is interrupted and neutralized by Elendira, whose nails bring him back to his senses. He apologizes, and she rebukes him. Vash is taken onboard the Ark and secured in a stasis tube next to Knives.
Vash is used to successfully re-awaken Knives, whose first act is to order that Vash be held prisoner on board the ship. Legato proceeds to use his telekinetic powers to suspend Vash for five entire months while Knives unsuccessfully interrogates him. Legato is naturally exhausted by this, which allows Wolfwood to get the drop on him and shoot him multiple times. Wolfwood then flees with Vash and manages to escape. Legato eventually catches up to Vash again and challenges him to one final fight. He has the upper hand for most of it, but in a brief moment of weakness, Vash is able to seize him from behind and expose the emblem on his arm, which appears to be the source of his powers. Wolfwood aims at it to destroy it, but both Wolfwood and Vash are immobilized by a burst of telekinetic energy. Legato has them both pinned, and tells Vash that he must kill him if he wants to save Wolfwood from being crushed to death. Vash holds out for as long as he can before resigning himself to fate and pulling the trigger. However, right as the bullet touches Legato's forehead, it is dissolved by none other than Knives himself, who descends to the scene to congratulate his brother for finally overcoming his absolute pacifism. Legato, for his part, is subsequently beheaded by Knives both for overstepping his bounds and for no longer being useful to Knives' plans. The cut by Knives' blade is so clean that as he dies, Legato is able to shed a single tear and declare that he can now be reborn.
Character
Appearance
Legato is very slender, with a toned physique. He has cerulean blue hair that's parted on the side, causing his long bangs to flop over his right eye.
Legato's outfit consists of white pants fastened at the waist with a belt and tucked into calf-high white boots. Tucked into the pants is a form-fitting black shirt, and over this shirt he wears a cropped white jacket with long sleeves. The right sleeve is normal, with a cuff at the wrist, but the left sleeve is fully enclosed, ending in a glove that has a pattern traced onto it in blue. The left sleeve also bears an emblem that looks like a spider with a skull-shaped body, and is topped with spikes in a fan shape.
Personality
Legato comes across as a sadist and sociopath. He is a fanatical devotee, striving to be like Knives in every way, including being cold and emotionless. However, every so often the mask will slip to reveal a man who is passionate and driven. He is devoted to Knives to the point of obsession, fully buying into the Eye of Michael's scripture describing Knives as an angel and referring to him as "beautiful", while regarding any opposition to him or his vision with disgust. Hypocritically, however, Legato's devotion borders upon jealousy and causes him to interfere with his master's plans. Like his master, Legato is prone to petulant violence when things don't go his way, despite regarding himself as above such emotional displays.
Occupation
Legato serves as the de facto leader of the Eye of Michael cult, using them to further Master Knives's agenda.
Family
He has no known family.
Relationships
Legato's relationship to Knives is that of a devoted worshipper and faithful servant. His relationship to Wolfwood is that of a cruel master and personal enemy, particularly after the events on the sand steamer. His relationships to Conrad and Zazie are ones of grudging tolerance laced with contempt. He vacillates between loathing and idolizing Vash, seemingly jealous of the little brother his beloved master is so tirelessly focused on. He has no known lovers.
Weapons & Abilities
Telekinesis
Legato has the ability to manipulate physical matter without physical contact. The series never reveals how he came by this ability - all he has said is that it isn't electrical or nerve impulses. One sleeve of his jacket has an emblem on it that may serve to amplify or enhance this power.
Non-Canon
Development
Gallery
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Legato.
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Don't talk about his hair.
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In better lighting.
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Licking his lips.
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Monologuing.
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Shot by Elendira.
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Hollering at Vash.
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Looking irritated.
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Hugging Knives' stasis tank.
Notes & Trivia
Unfortunately, Legato's backstory in Stampede & Stargaze is never revealed to the viewer. However, Takehiko Okishi, writer of Stampede's background, offers a strong hint about it in one of his tweets: unnatural hair colors like blue are a legacy of SEEDs passengers who underwent gene therapy to modify their appearances. These characteristics were merely intended to be fashionable and cosmetic and were not intended to be passed on, but children born on No Man's Land can still inherit them in extremely rare cases. Sadly, they subsequently become targeted for human trafficking and attract high prices on the slave market.[4]
Appearances
Trigun Stampede
Episodes
Audio Dramas
References
- https://www.trigun-anime.com (the character section)
