Legato Bluesummers (anime): Difference between revisions

In the 90s anime, no mention is made of Legato's past or how he came to know [[Millions Knives (disambiguation)|Millions Knives]]. He is first seen telling [[Monev the Gale]] that it is now his time to go challenge [[Vash the Stampede (anime)|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]] alongside some of the [[Roderick Thieves]] and their girlfriend-captives. He catches the eye of one of the girls, which enrages her gang-member boyfriend and makes him challenge Legato to a fight. At first Legato is indifferent, but once he's provoked enough he makes the challenger quite literally rip his own heart out. He then makes the rest of the gang members present shoot each other to death (notably, he spares the girls). Legato leaves the saloon and travels to the top of a rocky spire housing the town's giant windmill, where he is confronted by the rest of the Roderick Thieves. The other [[Gung-Ho Guns (anime)|Gung-Ho-Guns]] meet up with him here as well, and they all proceed to kill half of the remaining 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 [[EG Mine]] and then challenged to a fight with [[Rai-Dei the Blade]]. Legato invades Vash's mind and pushes him into fully activating his Angel Arm, 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 to him that this was the exact same thing that caused the annihilation of [[July]] 23 years prior.

Legato appears again when [[Leonoff the Puppetmaster]] infiltrates the semi-intact SEEDS ship that Vash is visiting and reports back to him what's going on. This is when he realizes that [[Nicholas D. Wolfwood (anime)|Nicholas D. Wolfwood]] has turned traitor, and also realizes how he can take advantage of that to make Vash truly suffer. Legato's plan presumably plays out in the episode "Paradise", when he has [[Chapel the Evergreen]] confront Wolfwood about proving his loyalty and killing Vash. Chapel challenges him to a duel, but surprisingly loses. Wolfwood decides to spare Chapel, trusting that his old mentor won't shoot him when he turns his back. Legato, however, takes control of Chapel's body and makes him shoot Wolfwood anyway, killing him. Chapel is angry enough to try and seek vengeance by killing Legato, but is unsuccessful. Knives has healed by this time, so Legato assumes that he's no longer needed and decides to go out in dramatic fashion. He has Vash meet him on a scarp of rock above [[LR Town]], where he forces Vash to deliberately kill him. He dies smiling, knowing that he's likely broken Vash mentally.

Legato is a "[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawNihilist straw nihilist]" who is preoccupied with the idea of living being painful. He has a sadistic streak and a flair for the dramatic. He lives to please his lord and master, Knives, which usually involves tormenting Vash in one way or another. He can be passive-aggressive and is given to sarcasm, though this can be hard to catch since he seems to talk in a slow, monotonous cadence much of the time. He gives the impression of someone who needs to have tight control over everything, including himself.