“You had me kinda worried. I noticed you always smile and seem really friendly, but the way you smiled was so empty it hurt to watch you. You're hurting like crazy on the inside, yet you grin and bear it.”
Nicholas D. Wolfwood Quotes
2 quotes from Trigun, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
Arrives dressed as a joke dragging a cross-shaped machine gun, and is the first person to read the protagonist correctly, because he is running a performance of his own.
“Sometimes the answers just crash down from heaven.”
It reads as a priest's throwaway piety and it is closer to a confession of method. Wolfwood's answers do not descend, they are delivered by the cross-shaped weapon he carries everywhere, and the joke he is making at his own expense is that the difference has stopped being clear to him. A man who says this in that costume is telling the truth in the least examinable way available.
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The first person in the series to read the protagonist correctly is the one who arrives dressed as a joke, dragging a bundle the size of a coffin. Wolfwood was raised in an orphanage funded by the man who will later own him, and he recognises a performance because he is running one. Everything that makes their friendship work, and everything that makes it end badly, is in that recognition.