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Trigun characters - Brilliant Dynamites Neon

Brilliant Dynamites Neon is the leader of a large gang of armed bandits known as the Badlads. He's an enormous man, bulging with muscles and wearing clothing decked out with neon lights covering almost every inch of his body. He encounters Vash while raiding a sandsteamer Vash happened to be traveling on, and after the ensuing chaos the two decide to have a duel, to determine the fate of the sandsteamer. Neon was planning on sending the Steamer over a cliff in order to smash open a safe in the hull of the sandsteamer.

After a brief exchange of gunfire, both of them walk away damaged from the duel, though Vash escaped with no wounds inflicted by Neon, but by a member of the Badlads that had shot Vash earlier in the episode when he hesitated to shoot to kill. The wound had opened up during the duel, and had resulted in the draw. Neon was angry that he had only come out even because of Vash's wound, but kept true to his word to spare the sandsteamer from destruction if he was defeated.

Neon is one of the most intriguing characters in the entire series. On the one hand, he is definitely a sociopath, interested in "brilliance," "fun," "glory," and "beauty." While living this ultra-violent lifestyle, he seems to have a distinct sense of honor, feeling a moral obligation to those as "brilliantly flashy" as he. While the former is far more present in this episode than the latter, both are there within the episode.

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