i haven't (although i did glimpse ~beskar's kickass profile) but thx for the tip! i'll hit up their dropbox and see if we can work some magic. in any event, i think vash will bring out a kinder side of rio -- he's like a sweet little reminder of a time before the war, when she wasn't broken (physically or mentally) and believed diplomacy could win the day. now she's bitter and resentful and feels like there's no escape, no matter how far she hitchhikes, so she steals and drinks because why the fuck not? the world's going to hell regardless. i like the idea of her coming across him in bizarre places, just running into vash on backwater planets and in sleazy cantinas (intentional or not). maybe she adopts the mindset "nobody can claim the bounty on his head except for me!" but she never turns him in for reasons she doesn't quite understand? he's a doofy golden retriever but he's her doofy golden retriever, so she beats the piss out of any other hunters who make the mistake of targeting him