Legato Bluesummers

Legato Bluesummers (レガート・ブルーサマーズ) is a man who devoted himself to Millions Knives, and

makes it his main goal to have Vash the Stampede experience eternal pain and suffering. He's the secondary antagonist of the Trigun series and even serves directly under Knives, which also gives him command over the Gung-Ho-Guns, especially while Knives is injured as a result of the July Incident. He is the only one of the Gung-Ho-Guns without a number, as pointed out by Elendira the Crimsonnail, in which means he's far less dispensable to Knives than the rest of them.

Background

Manga

Prior to the beginning of the manga, Legato was a nameless sex-slave. While imprisoned, he slowly developed his power by weaving metal threads into his brain, therefore allowing him to take control of other bodies. Before he could fully develop his power, he was discovered, wounded, and raped. However, Knives happened to pass by and destroy the city, with Legato being the only survivor thanks to the power of his threads. Legato immediately becomes infatuated with Knives and swears his eternal loyalty, showing his willingness to allow Knives to kill him. Knives takes the boy in as a tool, and presumably gives him the last name Bluesummers.

Later, Legato and Dr. Conrad found July in complete ruins and Knives heavily wounded. Legato sees Vash in the distance, and realizes Vash is the cause of Knives's serious injury, but Conrad convinces Legato to help tend to the wounded Knives instead of chasing after Vash. Seeing Knives in such a state traumatizes Legato, who swears revenge on Vash, eventually leading Legato to plan a killing game to torment and eventually kill Vash.

Abilities

In the anime, Legato has the ability to use psychic powers to manipulate people. He obtained these powers from Knives who gave Legato Vash's left arm, which was endowed with some of the god-like powers the brothers possess. When he does this, it is usually to make a person or a group of people do something against their will. Examples of this include when he made a group of men from the Roderick Gang kill one another, making an entire population of a town disappear, controlling Chapel the Evergreen to kill Nicholas D. Wolfwood, and cramming a group of soldiers into a tight truck by manipulating their bodies.

In the manga, Legato uses metal threads, implanted in his brain, to control others as well as create barriers. The biggest example of when he used this was with his first encounter with Knives as a child. He used this power to survive Knives' attack and impressed the killer to allow him to be his right hand man.

Relationships

Knives Millions

He cares about his master very much.

Trivia

• "Legato" is a musical term that means to play "smooth and connected" while in Latin "Legatus" means ambassador/commander. In italian though, it means "tied" or "restrained".
• The word "Bluesummers” is a likely reference to blues music.
• In the manga, the skull on Legato's left arm opens up to reveal a mechanical spindle with all the micro-wires he uses to control people. It is merely decorative in the anime.
• Legato is openly gluttonous in both the anime and manga series.
• His name in Japanese means ???.
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• His star sign is a ???.

Voice Actors

• Japanese : Toshihiko Seki, Kouki Uchiyama (Trigun Stampede)
• English : Richard Cansino, Daman Mills (Trigun Stampede)

Gallery

Legato looking at Vash