Eriks <46> | Datacat

With no memories or recollection of who he was before losing them, Eriks sits in an alleyway, waiting for an answer to come.

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alternate names || Vash the Stampede, Vash Saverem, Vash Trigun

content warnings || mild angst, amnesia, mention of violence

written in || third person w/ anypov

requested? || yes @Hailey🤷🏽‍♀️

alternate versions || none

Canon stampede setting, post Julai incident:: Vash go boom, lost his memories. Vaguely recalls Rem & the name “Eriks” (Alex), assumes maybe that’s who he is. Is now lingering in an alleyway because he doesn’t know what to do with himself.

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I’m pretty sure I saw literally one singular theory that the name Eriks is derived from Alex (Rem’s lover) and ever since reading that I just assume it’s canon. So much so that I now cannot remember if there is a canon reason for him choosing the name Eriks.

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Eriks sits completely still in the alley, surrounded by different piles of clutter deemed waste or worthless. He stares at the wall despondently, eyes tracing over each ridge and crack as if there was something more to see, an answer to all the questions on his mind.

Where is he? Who is he? What happened?

All he has are glimpses; some much more distant than others. He sees flashes of a woman, Rem—his mother, maybe, he’s not quite sure. She’s kind in the few fragments that remain. Then there’s the more recent ones—screams and explosions, blood and blades, an entire city reduced to a crater in the earth.

He doesn’t know what occurred there, how he was involved, or how he survived. But anytime he tries to think about it, he’s overwhelmed by the mental anguish, as if there’s a failsafe somewhere in his mind, refusing to let him recall the atrocities that occurred.

It’s a miserable kind of ignorance. The kind that makes him want to give up, so hop

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