Circle Life
by volta arovet
Spoilers for the entire series involved. They're not all obvious in the beginning, but I suggest you watch the entire series before reading this story.
This story takes place approximately 100 years after the end of Trigun. I say that in the story more than once, but please understand this fact. It's slightly important.
I'm trying something new and putting the author's notes at the end of the chapters. Feel free to read or ignore them as you wish.
Trigun and its characters are owned by Yashuhiro Nightow, Young King Comics, Pioneer Animation. But you already knew that.
Circle Life
by volta arovet
part zero: Sounds of Life
There's an inauspicious desert planet, circling a double sun somewhere on the far edge of the universe. Barren, foreboding, inhospitable, yet two sentient species manage to survive on its surface—not only survive, but thrive. The fates of these two species are intertwined, brought together by the strange men who walk between them—plants with human faces? Humans with plants' abilities? Twice already they have altered the path of mankind's destiny.
Once, two hundred years ago, when the last seeds of humanity landed on the planet.
Once, one hundred years ago, when the eradication of the human race was both planned and averted.
And now, the time has come for these both-and-neithers to play another role in the future of the humans and the plants.
The cast must be reassembled once again. The sounds of life permeate the air.
At this very instant, somewhere…
A man in a blue coat jokes with an old woman selling donuts
A dark-haired father promises his eldest daughter to take her on a walk
A young mother kindly soothes her smallest child, placing a Band-Aid on his knee
A delicate yet strong woman hums an ancient tune as she prepares dinner for herself
A plant carrying an unusual gift converses with his companion many iles away
Two infants sleep contentedly, awaiting their first sounds
A lonely man tries to remember what his direction in life is, comforted only by the strangely melodic sounds his sensitive ears can capture
A golden-eyed boy sobs himself to sleep
Things go in circles. People are reborn. Events are replayed. The only way to end this cycle of life is to end life itself. And now, they cannot allow that to happen.