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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Knives is Vash's twin brother, born alongside him aboard the SEEDs Ship Five as it journeyed to find a new home for humanity and the Plants, living generators of power, matter and gravity that humans depend on to survive. Both twins are rare examples of Independent Plants, who look and behave human, but possess the ability to survive outside the specialised environments required by their dependent brethren. As infants, the boys were discovered and adopted by Navigational Officer Rem Saverem. She named one twin Vash and the other Kni. The twins matured quickly, growing to appear age seven or eight when they celebrated their first birthday. By that stage, Kni had begun to demonstrate the generative abilities of a Plant and to distance himself from human traits like eating for nourishment, {{Storylink|Our Home.}} while Vash remained apparently powerless, but eagerly embraced humanity. {{Storylink| | Knives is Vash's twin brother, born alongside him aboard the SEEDs Ship Five as it journeyed to find a new home for humanity and the Plants, living generators of power, matter and gravity that humans depend on to survive. Both twins are rare examples of Independent Plants, who look and behave human, but possess the ability to survive outside the specialised environments required by their dependent brethren. As infants, the boys were discovered and adopted by Navigational Officer Rem Saverem. She named one twin Vash and the other Kni. The twins matured quickly, growing to appear age seven or eight when they celebrated their first birthday. By that stage, Kni had begun to demonstrate the generative abilities of a Plant and to distance himself from human traits like eating for nourishment, {{Storylink|Our Home.}} while Vash remained apparently powerless, but eagerly embraced humanity. {{Storylink|NOMAN'S LAND}} | ||
Though demonstrably inhuman and highly intelligent, Kni seemed in other respects a normal child, albeit serious and somewhat emotionally withdrawn. He enjoyed composing and playing classical piano with Vash, {{Storylink|Millions Knives (episode)}} loved cowboy movies, {{Storylink|High Noon At July (episode)}} and colluded with his brother to play pranks on Rem. {{Storylink|Our Home.}} He adored his brother, who was always at his side, and cared for Rem, but resented her efforts to have him appear human by concealing his powers and eating food he didn't need (which he viewed as wasteful). {{Storylink|Our Home.}} In time resentment turned to suspicion, particularly as Vash seemed to grow more humanlike under Rem's encouragement, bringing him closer to Rem but alienating Kni, which he expressed by needling Vash for being useless as a Plant.{{Storylink|To A New World}} Kni began to investigate areas of the ship Rem had forbidden them from entering, pulling Vash along despite his trepidation, and the twins stumbled across a classified databank of the SEEDs fleet's history. Vash gleefully entered the password himself when Kni was stymied, but both were horrified by the databank's contents.{{Storylink|To A New World}} | Though demonstrably inhuman and highly intelligent, Kni seemed in other respects a normal child, albeit serious and somewhat emotionally withdrawn. He enjoyed composing and playing classical piano with Vash, {{Storylink|Millions Knives (episode)}} loved cowboy movies, {{Storylink|High Noon At July (episode)}} and colluded with his brother to play pranks on Rem. {{Storylink|Our Home.}} He adored his brother, who was always at his side, and cared for Rem, but resented her efforts to have him appear human by concealing his powers and eating food he didn't need (which he viewed as wasteful). {{Storylink|Our Home.}} In time resentment turned to suspicion, particularly as Vash seemed to grow more humanlike under Rem's encouragement, bringing him closer to Rem but alienating Kni, which he expressed by needling Vash for being useless as a Plant.{{Storylink|To A New World}} Kni began to investigate areas of the ship Rem had forbidden them from entering, pulling Vash along despite his trepidation, and the twins stumbled across a classified databank of the SEEDs fleet's history. Vash gleefully entered the password himself when Kni was stymied, but both were horrified by the databank's contents.{{Storylink|To A New World}} | ||
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Along with files on both twins there was a third - another Independent Plant born fifty years before, a girl named Tesla. She was discovered by the crew and treated like a research specimen, subjected to brutal and invasive examination until her body fell apart. Worse yet, though vivisected and dismembered she was still alive fifty years later in suspended animation, as the twins discovered when the tanks containing her remains were unlocked and revealed.{{Storylink|To A New World}} | Along with files on both twins there was a third - another Independent Plant born fifty years before, a girl named Tesla. She was discovered by the crew and treated like a research specimen, subjected to brutal and invasive examination until her body fell apart. Worse yet, though vivisected and dismembered she was still alive fifty years later in suspended animation, as the twins discovered when the tanks containing her remains were unlocked and revealed.{{Storylink|To A New World}} | ||
Rem tried to soothe their fears by explaining that she had adopted them to ensure they wouldn't meet Tesla's fate, hoping that they would become the means by which Plants and humans could communicate and together ensure nothing like that ever happened again. Kni, however, no longer trusted her ability to keep them safe, concluding that humanity was incapable of changing for the better, whatever their intentions. When the twins discussed between themselves whether they would be accepted by humans, Vash told Kni he had faith that they would. It was then that Kni decided his course was set: Vash was naïve, weak and needed protection from humanity's exploitation.{{Storylink|To A New World}} Kni secretly accessed the SEEDs fleet's navigation with the password Vash had shown him and forced every ship in the fleet to crash on the desert planet that would be named No Man's Land, sparing only the Plant carriers, believing this would wipe out all threats. {{Storylink|Millions Knives (episode)}} Rem took the twins to an escape pod, but despite Kni's solemn request she come with them, she chose to stay aboard the ships to save whoever she could. {{Storylink| | Rem tried to soothe their fears by explaining that she had adopted them to ensure they wouldn't meet Tesla's fate, hoping that they would become the means by which Plants and humans could communicate and together ensure nothing like that ever happened again. Kni, however, no longer trusted her ability to keep them safe, concluding that humanity was incapable of changing for the better, whatever their intentions. When the twins discussed between themselves whether they would be accepted by humans, Vash told Kni he had faith that they would. It was then that Kni decided his course was set: Vash was naïve, weak and needed protection from humanity's exploitation.{{Storylink|To A New World}} Kni secretly accessed the SEEDs fleet's navigation with the password Vash had shown him and forced every ship in the fleet to crash on the desert planet that would be named No Man's Land, sparing only the Plant carriers, believing this would wipe out all threats. {{Storylink|Millions Knives (episode)}} Rem took the twins to an escape pod, but despite Kni's solemn request she come with them, she chose to stay aboard the ships to save whoever she could. {{Storylink|NOMAN'S LAND}} After planetfall, Vash found Kni laughing gleefully over the wreckage of the fleet and confronted Kni over the mass murder he'd just committed, but Kni countered by calling Vash his accomplice for giving him the code to access the fleet's controls. Guilt-stricken and fearful, Vash fled and vanished into the alien desert.{{Storylink|Our Home.}} | ||
Kni located a surviving SEEDS crew member, one Dr. William Conrad, and under threat of death recruited him to research Plants and acquire the resources necessary to complete his plan and | Kni located a surviving SEEDS crew member, one Dr. William Conrad, and under threat of death recruited him to research Plants and acquire the resources necessary to complete his plan and retrieve Vash. {{Storylink|Humanity}} Renaming himself Millions Knives to represent his belief that he was a righteous and noble avenger for his species, Knives founded the cult called the Eye of Michael in the third city of July, providing himself with loyal troops and headquarters, and appointed Dr. Conrad as his high priest. He also continued to develop his powers as a Plant, refining his abilities from producing rough metal blades from his hands and feet {{Storylink|Millions Knives (episode)}} to the capacity to destroy whole settlements and kill dozens of people in the blink of an eye. {{Storylink|Bright Light, Shine through the Darkness}} {{Storylink|High Noon At July (episode)}} | ||
Since the day the ships crashed, Knives has been plotting to complete the extermination of humanity and bring Vash back to his side - a desire only intensified when Vash demonstrated he did indeed have abilities as a Plant, both to produce and, uniquely, to ''consume'', drawing matter ''to'' the plane that Plants draw matter from. {{Storylink|Millions Knives (episode)}} Every time Knives and Vash meet, they find themselves arguing over or battling to determine which of their philosophies is the right one. {{Storylink|Bright Light, Shine through the Darkness}} {{Storylink|Millions Knives (episode)}} {{Storylink|To A New World}} {{Storylink|High Noon At July (episode)}} | Since the day the ships crashed, Knives has been plotting to complete the extermination of humanity and bring Vash back to his side - a desire only intensified when Vash demonstrated he did indeed have abilities as a Plant, both to produce and, uniquely, to ''consume'', drawing matter ''to'' the plane that Plants draw matter from. {{Storylink|Millions Knives (episode)}} Every time Knives and Vash meet, they find themselves arguing over or battling to determine which of their philosophies is the right one. {{Storylink|Bright Light, Shine through the Darkness}} {{Storylink|Millions Knives (episode)}} {{Storylink|To A New World}} {{Storylink|High Noon At July (episode)}} | ||
As of the first episode of ''Stampede'', Knives has been stealing Plants from human settlements and slaughtering their inhabitants, dooming survivors to death by starvation or dehydration. {{Storylink| | As of the first episode of ''Stampede'', Knives has been stealing Plants from human settlements and slaughtering their inhabitants, dooming survivors to death by starvation or dehydration. {{Storylink|NOMAN'S LAND}} He exploits his resemblance to Vash to frame his brother for these crimes, marking him as a dangerous criminal in the hopes that Vash will realise humanity can never accept him, driving him back to Knives as his only refuge. {{Storylink|The Running Man}} | ||
The primary plot of ''Trigun Stampede'' is driven both by Knives's efforts to convince, then force Vash to assist in his plans, and by his desire to claim and control Vash's power so he can use it to make No Man's Land a paradise, with the Plants its sole inhabitants. | The primary plot of ''Trigun Stampede'' is driven both by Knives's efforts to convince, then force Vash to assist in his plans, and by his desire to claim and control Vash's power so he can use it to make No Man's Land a paradise, with the Plants its sole inhabitants. | ||