#vnc really makes me think

[visjules]

1880s: Dominique is very Masculine, and very Eccentric

In today's standards, Dominique is a fairly feminine woman. Yes she's wearing a prince inspired outfit, but it's feminized with the tight pants, long stockings, heels, and long hair, but what if I told you that was all considered masculine in the olden days?

The Time Period

Givn the story takes place when the alternate Eiffel Tower (can't remember the name) was being built, we can assume vnc takes place in the late 19th century, otherwise known as the Victorian era, ranging from 1820 to 1914.

The fashion looked somewhat like this, you can see some similarities to the outfits worn by the main cast.

Dominique's outfit doesn't really resemble much of the fashion at the time, you can make som mild comparisons to Victorian royal menswear, but I'd say her fashion is more similar to 17th century royal menswear, specifically,

King Louis XIV

The long hair, the tight white bottoms, the heels, the loose sleeves, the train of fabric behind him, It is said that King Louis was a big womanizer, who does this all sound like? It's almost as if Dominique is trying to be Louis- oh wait.

Also fun fact, King Louis XIV was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Masculinity & Eccentricity

For us in the present, King Louis XIV looks pretty feminine, and that was probably a shared sentiment in the 19th century, he looked outdated, but that same outfit on a woman like Dominique would cause some controversy if not for her status.

In the 19th and early 20th century, a woman wearing pants was not too accepted, women usually wore dresses, and pants were kept as a sports/work attire. A woman would not just go on about her day wearing a pair of pants, she'd be seen as strange, and maybe even get into trouble. Dominique wearing pants, and very tight pants reminicscent of older eras, is definetly a bold choice.

Her hair is long and straight, which is not how you'd usually describe a victorian woman's hair. It wasn't even that much of a gender thing, but more of a formality thing. Women at the time would have their long hair in an updo. Actually, according to Whizzpast, long loose hair was a thing only models and actresses wore to depict romantisiscm and intimacy.

Dominique's long hair makes a lot of since, she has a bold, eccentric personality, she's not one to conform, she's the current family outcast, but she is also a very romantic person, and is constantly seen in romantic/intimate scenes, so her loose hair really depicts that.

All in all, Dominique's appearance states a bold, romantic blast to the past with a pinch of her desceased brother.

If you want to look into queer subtext, you can assume that''s one of the reasons Noe drinks her blood.

[always-a-joyful-note]

Wait, I'm stupid. Is Roland and Olivier from Vanitas no Carte supposed to be referencing Roland and Oliver?? The classic French friend duo who died tragically trying to win a battle that was rigged against them? Who were loyal to the other to the point of death despite Oliver being the literal braincell in the friendship and warning against Roland's pride? Who were almost brothers but couldn't be ala them dying before Roland could marry into the fam via Oliver's sister?

Because if it is...what could it MEAN?

[crehador]

parting thoughts on ragna crimson (first cour)

i think it was... the first episode? that i didn't really vibe with. felt like a decent enough fantasy, but unremarkable in just about every way

THEN A WEIRD GUY APPEAR

iirc it wasn't until the second week that we really met crimson, which is kind of a shame because imo the show doesn't really start to come together until then. i like ragna well enough, but it's really the combination of the two of them that compels me

always love a duo where they have the same goal, but drastically different personalities/values/modes of operation/etc

always extra love a duo that's like "team up with me, a dragon, to kill all dragons then once we've achieved our goal you'll kill me too"

(like vanoe but with dragons. i think. my memories of vnc are actually very hazy)

and always extra extra love when ayu gets to just do his thing, playing guys who are girls who are guys who are etc etc etc

it's certainly not the best of the season, and still overall fairly unremarkable imo, but also not really bad in any way. if there's one thing i find lackluster i guess it's that i feel like they don't lean enough into this... pseudo-past life thing that ragna has going on (with the powers and presumably memories of his 'older self' passed down to him)

like ragna is still more or less his 'normal' self in terms of personality, which is fine, he's got a fun enough personality, but if he had some like... old man tendencies mixed in there, or if we saw more of his memories with crimson maybe? i don't know, just feels like something more could have been done with that fusion of past and present (or rather future and present)

looking forward to the second cour but at the same time... hoping this series won't be too long lol

[dapperrokyuu]

On the topic of Mochijun, Im sorry to say, but the pace of Vanitas no Carte is just so killed for me right now, I cant really feel anything about it for more than a moment, catch me when chapters are normal length or something spectacular happens and its impact can be properly conveyed through 16 pages- 😔✌️

[bonnievoyage]

still kinda drives me nuts that i feel like a lot of ppl tend to think that just bc i'm willing to say "i like this but this aspect of it isn't very good" just means i hate the whole thing

y'all have fun in your fantasy world where everything you like must be perfect but i think it's even more beautiful and fun to be able to acknowledge and accept the flaws of something but still like it anyways

[grassbreads]

I’d love to know about Yulma and how important it is to representation in shounen manga

This has been sitting in my askbox for a couple months (because I am incapable of punctuality), but anon sent this to me back when I was talking about Yulma over on my vnc blog. For those unaware, Yulma refers to Yu Kanda and Alma Karma from the manga D.Gray-man.

So the thing is, to be honest, I don't know if you can say Yulma is/was important for representation. They don't tend to get brought up as an example of representation (except by diehard d.gray-man fans like me, lol) in shonen, and their whole thing is complicated enough that I feel like the queerness of it all flies over a lot of people's heads.

However! They're very important to me personally, and I do think it's kind of remarkable their story came out in like 2010. Because even though their queerness gets overlooked a lot, it's like. really there no matter how you interpret it.

The short version of their very complicated story is that Kanda and Alma are a couple who were resurrected into new bodies. Alma was a woman when they were originally together in their past lives, but is physically male in the present. Kanda is still very much in love with them by the end of their story, which, depending on the reading, makes Kanda very bi and/or Alma very trans.

This sound like something you want details on? If so, let's talk about how D.Gray-man's fan favorite edgy badass toughguy character briefly became the star of his very own heart-wrenching tragic queer romance.

Here's a brief crash course in Yu Kanda and Dgm for the uninitiated:

D.Gray-man is a manga about a group of exorcists (in the loosest and most anime sense of the term) in the 1890s fighting a holy war against mechanical demons powered by the souls of the dead. There are two things you need to understand about this plot for me to explain Yulma:

The Black Order, the secret branch of the church that exorcists work for, has a long history of committing horrific human experiments to further the war effort.

Due to complications of world building, only a tiny number of people can become exorcists, and tracking down new ones is extremely difficult.

Yu Kanda is one of the exorcists, and though not the actual main character (that's the lad in my icon), he's a very important secondary character. Arguably he's the most important secobdary character, since he's the main guy's biggest foil and the first character to play deuteragonist in a major story arc. He's also a huge fan favorite. The character popularity polls that Jump used to do always had him and the mc going back and forth over who won #1 most popular.

Kanda was also a classic edgy toughguy character. His first two scenes are him almost murdering the main guy because he thinks he's an intruder, then complaining about people grieving for their friend too loudly. He never smiles. He argues with the righteous mc about wasting time/energy protecting civilians. He threatens (and delivers) violence on anyone that annoys him. He looks like this:

TLDR; Kanda was an adored-by-fans mean badass archetype in a 2000s shonen manga. Not generally the guy you peg for starring in a piece of queer romantic storytelling.

And for the entirety of the original anime adaptation's 103 episode run, for the first 188ish chapters of the manga, you do not learn a single thing about his early life. You learn he joined the Black Order very young, and you meet the mentor that took him in at that point, but although there are little hints, a couple cryptic mentions of him searching for a certain person, his early origins remain a complete black box.

Then came the Alma Karma arc.

This is the point where I start getting into spoilers.

To make a very long story short, the Alma Karma arc reveals that Kanda is one of the Black Order's human experiments. The Order ran a secret project 9ish years before the start of the series in which they essentially tried to re-use dying exorcists (since finding new ones is so hard). They took the bodies of dying or recently deceased exorcists and harvested their brains, implanting those brains into new magically grown child bodies.

Key to this project—the second exorcist project—is that these newly grown second exorcists were not supposed to remember anything from their previous lives. Kanda, however, recovered a few hazy memories from his past self. Most importantly, he can recall an unclear image of the woman that his past self was in love with. This memory gradually becomes Kanda's reason to live. He wants desperately to find and meet that person.

Now, aside from Kanda, there was one other successfully revived second exorcist. This was a boy named Alma Karma.

Over the course of their brief shared childhood, Kanda and Alma become extremely close. However, due to a series of horrible events that I'll spare you the details of, Alma is eventually driven to murder-suicide. He wants himself and Kanda to die together to spite the Order, and Kanda almost lets him do it.

The one thing that keeps Kanda from letting Alma kill him, the thing that drives him instead to kill Alma, his most beloved and only friend, is that he can't bear to die without finding that woman again.

Have you figured out the twist yet?

9 years later, in the present, Kanda discovers that he didn't actually quite kill Alma. The Order kept Alma secretly half-alive in order to do more dubious experiments. And, more importantly, when they meet again, Kanda discovers the truth. The woman that he's been searching for his whole life, the woman he's in love with, the woman he tried to kill Alma in order to find, was also killed and made into a second exorcist. And her brain was placed into the body of Alma Karma.

After quite a lot more violence and tragedy, Kanda and Alma end their story arc by running away together on their deathbeds. Alma dies, for real this time, in Kanda's arms, and his last words are to tell Kanda he loves him. These words are presented as something Kanda hears from both the boy and woman versions of Alma's soul.

So! At the end of a very long and complicated story, one thing holds true: Kanda and Alma are in love. As passed down from their past selves, they are specifically in romantic love. They were a couple. And to speak as a fan, the sheer absolute devotion to how Kanda's love for Alma is presented is seriously intense and moving.

Now, given the absolute hell that is Alma's life, gender identity is frankly the last thing they have time to worry about, so it's hard to say how the whole "literally a woman's brain in a male body" thing might have settled for them if given time to think about it. But that is inherently a pretty trans narrative. And given the whole Alma gender situation, there's simply no reading of their whole situation where neither of them is queer.

If you take present day Alma as a guy, which is more or less how he's presented in canon (though again, who knows how he would've felt about that male body in different circumstances), then congratulations! You've got mlm in your shonen manga. They were straight in a different life, but now one of them's a dude, and they are still deeply in love with each other. They've even got not one but two "let's forget it all and run away together" scenes, just as every mlm couple seems to have.

On the other hand, if you go with the angle that Alma's still a woman based on her mind/soul, even in her new body, then Kanda may not be canonically queer, but Alma is inarguably trans. Again, literally a woman's brain in a male body. It may not be how most people end up trans, but that doesn't change the facts of her situation.

You see what I mean about how they're undeniably queer, but also kind of easy to miss? There's so much other insane shit going on in their story that Alma's whole gender situation can get passed over. Plus, you can look online to this day and find people arguing that Kanda's not "technically" explicitly in love with the present day male version of Alma, since he doesn't 100% unambiguously say as much. I love reading comprehension.

Also! As a possible extra reason for why people don't talk about them much, the official English translation of the manga translated Alma's final "I love you" very differently. There's always a lot of nuance and argument when it comes to translating "大好き" into English, but given the full context of their relationship and the scene it's in, Viz's handling really sets off the censorship bells in my head.

Here's the different versions (Japanese then fan then official), if you want to compare:

Nothing more classically queer than censorship by way of questionable translation 🙃.

At the end of the day, Kanda and Alma are in kind of a strange middle ground. They're each in love with the other one, but the whole second exorcist brain transfer situation makes it complicated enough that people argue their feelings aren't explicitly romantic (and thus not gay) in the present. Alma is literally a woman's brain implanted in a male body, but we don't have time to dwell on the gender complications of all that because of the hell that is the rest of their life. They're canon but not canon—queer people whose stories don't have space for them to be queer.

However, given that all this messy, tragic ambiguity was published in a fairly popular shonen manga back in 2010, it still feels kind of remarkable to me. Alma is somewhat an antagonist (it's complicated), and he dies at the end of his arc, but once again, Kanda was/is the fan favorite! And when he re-enters the main story after Alma's death, he's more important than he's ever been, and his history with Alma continues to be a huge part of his character.

Katsura Hoshino took the much-beloved edgy toughguy character from her long-running shonen series and, after keeping his origins secret for such a long time, confirmed that his whole life has revolved around love this entire time. Almost every facet of his character can be traced back to his love for his lost best friend or his yearning for his past life's missing partner. And then she reveals that the best friend and the partner are one and the same.

You can go back and forth about the degree to which they work as representation, but in any case, I think their story is something people ought to know about. It's romantic and it's heart-wrenching and it's fucking wild, especially given the context in which it was published (a Shonen Jump spinoff in 2010). I never see anyone besides the few remaining hardcore dgm fans talk about them, and I think that's a shame.

So anyway, that's tale of one of the most insanity-inducing romances I've ever seen put to paper. I love queer people.

Here's some choice pages if you want to cry with me (the last two are a sequence):

[neversetyoufree]

Just recently found your blog and i love it!!! do have any theories for vanitas' original name? My guess is Abraham, for all it doesn't really fit him, after Abraham van hellsing, who is both a doctor and vampire expert, which I think matches mochijuns naming conventions. Doesn't hurt that it matches with Noe (noah) religiously.

Thank you!! Welcome to the party ;D

Traditionally, I've always said I don't have any strong theories on Vanitas's name—at least none that I actually expect to come true. I think(?) I've talked about this before, but that's not really the kind of theorizing I do? Since right now any name theory is wild guessing and speculation, not elaborating from the text.

That said, I do now have one pet theory that I'm partial to (one I didn't have the last time someone asked me this). I don't actually think this is going to be the case in canon, but for now, I really enjoy the concept of Vanitas's real name being Byron. This is mostly because I think it would be funny, but there are some actual connections too.

Long context short, Lord Byron wrote an unfinished draft of what would have been the first modern vampire story, and then his personal doctor (John William Polidori) took the same idea and fleshed it out into The Vampyre—the actual generally recognized first modern vampire story. But! Polidori's version of the vampire (the version that established a lot of our vampire tropes) was partly inspired by Byron himself. So Byron is sort of this almost-but-not-quite vampire author, writing but also inspiring the tropes of vampirism, which reflects interestingly on Vanitas's relationship to actual vampirism. He's not a vampire, but he's much closer to one than any other human, and in demeanor, he acts more stereotypically vampiric than Noé and many other vampire characters.

Also, Byron is the namesake of the Byronic hero, which Vanitas is a perfect example of. He's brooding, cynical, arrogant, and intelligent, but despite his gloom and self-destructiveness, he has a sort of lonely magnetism about him. Once again, the concept of the Byronic hero is inspired by/named after both Byron himself and the characters he wrote.

As I said, I don't think I'm going to be right about this, as there's a million other theories that could fit just as well, but in the meantime, the concept does tickle me. Polidori's Byron-based vampire even has an especially strong connection to the moon :D.

Anyway, I really like your theory as well. I've noted before that it's interesting that there's no Van Hellsing reference in VnC (or any direct Dracula references at all, save poor dead Mina). It's almost surprising given Dracula is the iconic vampire story. I never even considered that there could be a Dracula reference hidden right there in Vani and waiting to be discovered, but it does make sense. The doctor/vampire expert connection is really fun and fitting! Though I'm afraid I don't know enough about the biblical Abraham to say anything interesting about that aspect beyond what you pointed out there.

[keiborge]

Noé as a boyfriend (Headcanons)

cw:Noé x Gn!reader, possessive (and slightly Yandere if you squint) noé, Suggestive Sorta not really. Mentions of Noé leaving bite marks on you during sex.

A/N: I haven’t watched/ read VNC in a hot minute so excuse me if Noé seems a little out of character. Also it’s kinda short

Now playing: Ma Cherié

Malice mizer

.Noé would absolutely adore his significant other. If you were a Human he would adore you even more! He would believe you’re so fragile.

.Noé despise the thoughts of being you with him and Vanitas to heal curse bearers! You could get hurt and he doesn’t want his fragile little human to get hurt because of him. :( But he ends up caving in when you beg him.

.He loves cuddling with you! Especially if he had a long day of dealing with Vanitas. Cuddling with you is his favorite thing to do.Though it doesn’t last very long he often ends up going to sleep a few minutes later.

.Noé takes delight in eating,so when you make him something whether it be a meal or dessert. He falls even more in love with you than he already is! Just something about the one he loves making him food makes him extremely giddy.

.Due to Vanitas flirtatious nature. Noé has always made sure you and Vanitas are never alone with each other. As much as he trust Vanitas he doesn’t want you around him because of the way he acts.

.He loves Loves when you play in his hair. He doesn’t know exactly why but it makes him feel relaxed when you do it. He often whines when you don’t

.Treats you with the upmost respect. He treats you like royalty because he believes that you should be treated like that!

.When you first shared a bed together he was extremely nervous and flustered about it. He kept trying to convince you to let him sleep on the floor but you wouldn’t let him do so.

.As much as Noé would never want to hurt you. He can never resist the urge to leave marks on you during sex. He just wants everyone to know you’re his. That the absolute masterpiece belongs to him.

.He would always feel bad afterwards thinking that he went too far and giving you the best aftercare to make up for. No matter how much you tell him it’s alright he still feels bad. (It’s in his nature okay!)

.Would always want to help you with small things whether it be,grocery shopping,cooking, whatever! He just wants you to feel loved by him!

.Calls you a bunch of nicknames! And they’re all so sweet! It’s like he can never run out of them!

.Bought the two of y’all matching jewelry. A whole set! Necklaces,bracelets,rings the whole thing! In his words is a promise between the two of you.

“Ma Cherié, I love you don’t you ever forget that okay?”

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[menelaus-blue]

i had a very important realization while i was out walking today. out of the main four vnc characters, noé is the one we know the least about. he fits into a category of what i would call the glass protagonist–a guy who basically exists only to narrate the story, joining the ranks of those like nick carraway and richard papen, except he's just like way more mysterious.

see, part of what makes a narrator like nick work narratively is that we know just enough about him to 1) understand his perspective on the events of the story and 2) know what his role in the story is. nick is able to give his insider/outsider view of gatsby because he is neither part of the buchanans' world nor part of gatsby's, and his role in the story is to serve as a kind of mediator between the two of them. he's daisy's cousin in long island, but he's also a working man in city, etc, etc.

the funky thing about noé is we just...don't know anything about him. we're told a couple of things about his childhood; that he was adopted by an old couple in the human world, that they died and he was somehow on sale in altus, and that the comte took him in. but really, the time before and after louis's death is uncannily empty for the guy who we're following through this world. yes, of course it's fair to say that we know the most important things about noé, but we honestly know way more of vanitas's childhood than his, and that's a big part of the central mystery of the story.

(there's an element to this, of course, that comes from both of the examples i gave before, the great gatsby and the secret history, being novels. as readers, we get an extra level of introspection from nick and richard that is very difficult to translate directly into manga as a medium. however, i would argue that it's not impossible, and all that being said it does sometimes feel intentional on mochijun's part just how little of noé's background she's shown us.)

both nick and richard narrate their respective stories onto the reader from their position as outsiders, which we know is noé's role in vnc from the get-go. i mean, he says this explicitly in chapter one: "this is the tale of how i met vanitas, and how we walked together, of all we gained and lost, and of how, at the end of that journey, i would kill him with my own two hands". he's the narrator and this is his story, just like nick and richard, right?

but while nick and richard are the narrators, and give us, the readers, an excuse to look into their worlds, they are not exactly essential players on the board. both the great gatsby and the secret history give the impression that, without their narrators, they would have continued nearly exactly as written; the characters were doomed to fail long before the story began, and the intervention of some white guy isn't enough to either stop that. and yes, vanitas is doomed as well, but we are introduced to his death as an event that is intrinsically tied to noé himself.

"with my own two hands", noé says. he is not only an actor in the saga leading up to vanitas's demise, he is a starring player in it. (and yes, we ofc later learn that vanitas is going to die with or without noé's intervention but i think it's important to understand that this is our introduction to noé, vanitas, and the story itself) in this way, noé differentiates himself from his glass counterparts, in that he inserts himself irrevocably into the plot. he is both a character in the story and an observer, a chess piece and the one playing the game. this is why the gaps in his backstory feel so jarring, at least to me, because we are not meant to view him as solely a window into the world of vnc, but as a character all on his own.

anyways, all that being said, i'm hoping with the introduction of lady archiviste we're finally going to learn more about noé and his time with the comte, just because it's like a HUGE gap in the story.

[callilemon]

Sooooooo I've been following you for a while and was wondering if you could recommend any whump vnc fics with vanitas specifically??

Like hurt,sick anything like that bc I've looked everywhere, and there's barely anything cause like yes, vani is a doctor but he wouldn't use the same logic he does to cure somone else with himself (think overworking whump and Noé has to eventually take care of him) and like he's all stubborn and stuff hhhhhhhhh

Hi! Thanks for the ask! It makes me so happy to know you've been following for a while! 💙

You know, I actually don't know many fics that fit this certain citera, I know I've read some. However, I'm so bad at remembering fic names!! Anyways, I think you would really like this whump series!

@gracetoldmeto is a fantastic writer! They also have a VnC side blog @noes-pillow, if you don't already follow them!

Also, doodle for you kind anon! ✨️

[briebysabs]

I want to talk about vnc chapter 12/episode 7

Why? Because I need to finally rant so just bare with me *inhales* WHAT THE SHIT IS THIS I DON’T THINK WE LOSE OUR MINDS ENOUGH

I almost want to go panel by panel bc I still can’t believe this chapter exists. When I’m seriously interpreting/analyzing something in a series I try to look from an objective POV. Basically I push aside my shipper heart to see what the author is trying to do canonically. But every time I go back to this specific chapter, the only thing I get out of it is that Noé is going to fall in love with Vanitas. And for the first time, I feel like this is a possibility that could actually happen and that’s crazy. So okay let me go slowly bc what?!!!

First of all, the chapter frames Noé, Vanitas, and Jeanne in certain perspectives quite oddly. The anime does too so that’s why some believe Noé likes Jeanne instead. Which kinda doesn’t make sense for a number of reasons. Now there can definitely be some vampiric connection between the two.

But in terms of romantic interest, it doesn’t add up. Hell we’re 40 + chapters ahead of this one and I can count on my fingers how many lines they’ve said to each other. So if Noé liked Jeanne, it definitely would’ve come back into play by now. After Vani and Jeanne run off, Noé goes after them immediately. And given we’ve seen how fast he is, it’s most likely he heard and also saw their encounter. Meaning Noé knows 1) the uncertainty of Jeanne being a curse-bearer or not 2) her deal with sucking only Vanitas’ blood.

Now mind you, this was 44 chapters ago and Noé still has not told anyone this. Going back to him being good at keeping secrets but that’s it’s own topic. Then he gets this sad look on his face. Now what he ends up telling Domi is the truth. And I want to be more clear on this. I do not think at this point in the story Noé loves Vanitas. It’s more so how this chapter ends is what leaves me stunned but we’ll get there. Plus the fact that Domi, till now, thinks Noé likes Jeanne IS VERY PROOF THAT’S NOT THE CASE.

So when you do the process of elimination, Vanitas is the only logical answer!!! And this freaking line. This is a strong statement for someone whose only upset about a missed opportunity to taste some blood.

His heart was in pain. WHAT THE FUCK

But that’s the thing. Noé doesn’t lie. But he omits A LOT. It also can be that he just doesn’t fully understand so his mind jumps to the obvious conclusion. But if he does think there’s more to it, Noé didn’t tell Domi. Now we get the real meat of it all. Oh my lord so Noé poses the question: Why don’t Vanitas dance with Jeanne? And Vanitas gives the excuse that he’ll accidentally step on her. We later find out he can dance just fine, so perhaps a part of him is already giving distance. Not willing to be close to Jeanne beyond teasing.

Now...MOCHIJUN DID NOT HAVE TO DRAW IT LIKE THIS. She could’ve had Noé smiling and pull Vanitas in to dance without any close-ups. She could’ve made it a silly moment but no, we are meant to take this scene seriously

I’ve noticed Noé has a number of scenes that there’s a small panel to the side where his eyes are covered. And I think a lot of the time it was a moment involving Vani. It gives off the impression that Noé is feeling something the author doesn’t want to make obvious.

And then we get the fucking line. Let’s say I’m reading this all wrong. The fact that mochijun has her two male protagonists dancing together as one asks ‘what is love?’ Is proof that she is at the very least, not unwilling to go there. LIKE DO WE KNOW HOW WILD THIS REALLY IS? I truly believe the fandom accepted this moment way too casually.

Noé asking almost contemplative what Vanitas sees in Jeanne. Remember he knows Vanitas wants Jeanne to suck only his blood. He is confused why Vanitas suddenly gravitates to Jeanne. Vanitas lists his reasons, one that includes that she’ll never love him back. Noé is rightfully confused by this but Vanitas states that she doesn’t have to love him back. If mochijun wants to go the romantic route for Noe’s ‘love’ IT WILL BE EXACTLY THIS. Because if she goes the romantic direction. First and foremost, I will have the highest respect for this woman bc I know she must’ve entered a battlefield for that to happen. But more so, if my interpretation of all this is right. Noé may never tell Vanitas. Think about it.

Noé believes Vanitas loves Jeanne. So out of kindness for Vani’s happiness, he wouldn’t say anything. That’s just the type of person Noé is. But also, the amount of effort, time, and vulnerability it took for Noé to get as close as he is with Vani. You think he’s going to risk jeopardizing ALL of that? And that’s the tragedy and beauty of it all. Vanitas doesn’t have to know that Noé loves him. No one has to know. But if again, this possibility is canon, we the audience know it’s going to be a inevitable regret down the line.

Finally the chapter concludes with future Noé narrating how this feeling will be a mystery for quite some time. I’d like to point out how Vanitas didn’t dance with Jeanne in fear of stepping on her toes but Noé does exactly that to him. Honestly my second favorite chapter. It felt like seeds were being planted for them to sprout into fruition later on. So many little details felt purposeful and it was the moment I really believed in vnc’s writing.

[always-a-joyful-note]

I've done it. I finished Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. It's long. It's worth binging. It's...it's everything.

I'm....I...It....I can't articulate anything coherent right now so just...just have some emoji reactions and also memes that I generated during my reading of it.

My two biggest moods during the entire thing:

My second two biggest moods:

Memes (in order of creation):

Me right now?

See you in 3 to 5 business days to spam this blog with a long post because boy do I have thoughts and, yes, I will make it everyone's problem.

[randomreadingtimewithtsuki]

ohohoh what about a (vnc) noé + reader where reader has a kinda similar backstory but flipped! Reader is a human orphan who was raised by vampires and so isnt scared of them. You can build on that or change it, I just feel like that would be an interesting concept...

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• You met Noé when you were both adults

• Your parents - who were vampires - were invited to a party and you went along.

• Of course they disguised your scent so you wouldn't get chased off.

• And they  planned to stay very little, just to say hi and all.

• While you waited for your parents on the balcony, you heard footsteps from behind you.

• You turned around to see a white haired man, with a mic of concern and curiosity in his eyes.

• He asked why you were alone during a party.

• You shrug it off saying you were about to leave, just waiting for your parents.

• The man decided he would make you company until then.

• Did you ask for it? No. Were you particularly happy about it? Also no.

• But he started talking, introducing himself - his name was Noé- and making small talk about the night.

• To not seem too human, you indulged him. 

• You ended up giggling quite a bit with him, the way he got excited about everything was quite cute.

• Your parents came around soon and you said goodbye to Noé.

• You also thanked him for the company!

• Your parents were worried about this small chit-chat- what if Noé was investigating you? 

• Some time went by and nothing happened.

• While you were walking around window shopping you bumped into somebody.

• When you turned to apologize, you saw Noé again. 

• He was super happy to see you and suddenly turned to another man - one with dark hair and light blue eyes.

• He introduced you two. The other man looked pissed. 

• As Noé babbled about when and how he met you, the other man - called Vanitas - raised an eyebrow.

• " I thought humans couldn't get into the vampire cities?"

• You froze. Vanitas was staring at you and Noé looked confused.

• Vanitas proceeded to yell explain you were a human.

• You sighed, you felt bad for lying for Noé since he was very kind to you.

• So you confirmed what Vanitas said and also explained how you got to the party.

• When you were done, an awkward silence took place for a few seconds.

• As soon as Vanitas started to say Noé should be more careful about who to trust, the white haired man opened a smile and with shine eyes said " Like me! Not really like me, but!"

• Your turn to be confused.

• He explained that he was adopted by humans.

• He grabbed your hands to finish the whole explanation with a " we are alike!" And a smile.

• You giggled at him and Vanitas seemed to die inside next to you both.

• You saw more of the two from there onwards.

• The interesting thing was that Noé recalled some human tradition you didn't know about and you knew about some vampire traditions that he didn't know.

• But surprisingly Vanitas knee more than you both. Often correcting or adding things here and there.

• As you recalled the past memories,  Noé got concerned for your parents - your life spam is quite shorter than theirs.

• He remembered the grief he felt back then and he could sympathize with the situation.

• He never told you that, is just something that crossed his mind.

• As time went by you two got closer and eventually he introduced you to Domi.

• She was quite shocked when she learned about you, but she was very kind to you.

• Whenever she is around you go for a tea or coffee together.

• Your knowledge of some vampire families was quite helpful for the duo. 

• Noé got super concerned whenever you were in danger because of it - he didn't want to blow your parents' cover or yours.

• So he tried his best to leave you out of everything and Vanitas advised him to pretend they didn't know you around other vampires - to avoid getting attention to you.

• Even from afar he quite liked you knew so much about vampire culture - including the feeding from blood.

• You offered him a bite many times and Noé usually took it. 

• He found your blood to have just the right sweetness. 

• That doesn't mean you offered whenever - you knew you had to be healthy to be able to "donate" your blood.

• And to be honest? He liked that you cared about yourself and consequently cared about him too.

• It broke his heart needing to have you at a certain distance for your safety.

• You tried your best to comfort him ! Give him head pats and hugs!

• It usually makes him melt into a puddle on your lap and sulk a bit.

• All in all, he is overly excited about you having a similar past to you.

• Which helped tons to grow closer! 

• Noé loves you tons! His greatest wish is to walk around with you without fearing for your safety around other vampires.

• He also wants to enjoy all the time he has with you which is scarce. 

• And you are aware of that as well, so you try to not be in as much trouble and enjoy your time.

• Noé would be the kind of guy to stay with you until the very end. 

• He doesn't mind you rapidly aging, he wants to be with you always.

• You might feel bad for staying with an elderly person, but he makes sure to reassure you and say you are, and always will be, the most beautiful person ever.

• So please take good care of this cinnamonroll! 

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Thank you for reading! 

Let me know what you think!

[niilue]

Hiii, sending in my req for the 1k event!!

Fem-bodied reader with Vanitas (vnc), prompt 33, content -mistress - praise kink - fingering.

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𓈒 ⭒ ݁ . sub vanitas x fem!dom reader

prompt: “i love how your body loses control when you cum”

cw; drabble, fem reader, mention of mistress, praise kink, fingering words; 945 .... i write a lot, i can't control myself if it's about vanitas &lt;3 1k event

aaaa really vanitas was the typical playful and confident boy when it came to other people. but when he was alone with you he really became a cute boy, in need of you and your love.

"don't you think the moon is beautiful today (name)?" commented vanitas lying next to you, looking at you while the evening light adorned his beautiful face.

you caressed his face causing vanitas to close his eyes as he received your warm touch on his skin. "you are beautiful." you mentioned lovingly.

vanitas grimaced and stirred nervously. "ugh, shut up." he said with his cheeks burning.

you smiled playfully and after struggling to get the boy to let you hug him, you were able to hold him in your arms, so that his face was stuck on your breasts.

"this is-um, a little uncomfortable (name)" whispered vanitas but he loosened his resistance and let you do it.

you gave him a kiss on his forehead and you dedicated yourself to caressing his black hair and massaging his back calmly. it wasn't too late but you had to sleep.

after a while you thought vanitas had fallen asleep because he was very still on top of you. when you decided to look down you found him biting his lips, his ears were red and his feet were too close together.

"what's wrong vanitas?" you asked thinking he was feeling sick or something like that.

nothing, he mumbled squeezing his legs tighter and now trying to get away from you. you didn't let him and made him abruptly fall on top of you now. you felt a pressure in your stomach, something hard was crashing between you.

"ahhg, (name), let me go, let me - out!" said the black-haired man wanting to escape from your grip. but you didn't let him. you brought your legs together tightly and cornered him from behind, near his lower back.

"mmm, vanitas, are you horny?" you held back the urge to laugh when you saw the look of horror on his face.

"no, no, of course-" before he could finish you slipped your hand into his crotch and found, indeed, he was hard.

vanitas had no choice but to resign himself and gently nod at you, yes, he had gotten hard from a simple touch of yours.

"awww vanitas, how cute you are~" you said squealingly and hugged him tightly while leaving little kisses all over his face. "do you want me to help you baby?"

he seemed to think silently for a few seconds when he told you "mmh, yes, yes mistress"

you opened your mouth at the abrupt change in his personality and how he was now calling you that when he knew how much that turned you on. you raised an eyebrow and saw him twitch nervously at the sight of you.

you began to move your hand down until you reached his butt. you felt him jump as your hand slipped under his clothes and began to massage his tender flesh. you whispered in his ear to calm down, that you would make him feel good.

"stretch your legs out honey, yeah like that, good boy."

"let's try with more fingers this time, please…" said vanitas in a low tone hiding his face in your chest. how cute ^^

you nodded. you realized that you hadn't lubricated vanitas with anything so you had no choice but to use saliva to start groping his entrance.

"open vani" the boy put three fingers in his mouth, sucking gently, soaking them well so that when they were inside him it wouldn't hurt so much. when you felt it was enough you asked vanitas to stop. he was already getting very excited. with a -ploop- the fingers came out of his mouth, staining his chin.

"mmm, they're soaking wet, what a good sucker you are, vanitas."

you lowered your hand to his ass again and now you were groping his desperate entrance. touching and massaging until he loosened up a bit. you were quickly able to insert one, making vanitas moan at the intrusion. you began to move it around to get him used to it.

"shhh, it's ok vani, you are taking it well, can i put another one in?"

"yes mistres, more..aahgg! please!"

after this, vanitas started to rub himself on you. wanting to satisfy his poor dick that wasn't getting any love. "another, mhng, more." he asked increasing the movements and raising his ass, desperate to feel something more.

with three fingers you had vanitas rolling his eyes and swaying on you for relief. you moved your fingers in and out, penetrating him so that you could touch his prostate.

and it didn't seem to take long. in a few minutes you could feel vanitas' wet clothes on your abdomen. you made him release his cock so he could cum better.

"aagh~ mistress, yes there, it- haa! it feels so… good" gasped vanitas now grabbing your hand and pulling it deeper into his ass.

"haa, how well you take my fingers baby, how cute you are" you kissed his now exposed abdomen. then continuing to hit his sweet spot bringing him to orgasm.

"i can't, i can't, mistre- haaa, aghh! i love itaa…" vanitas moved erratically over you letting white streaks of cum stain your body and his.

moaning and screaming how good it felt, making his legs tremble uncontrollably and meaningless words come out of his mouth. mumbling your name and still stimulating his cock, captive to the pleasure that your fingers and your compliments managed to create in him.

"awww vanitas, i really love how your body loses control when you cum."

[bonnievoyage]

anyways realized the other day that there's only around >3k vnc fics on ao3 total and while i'm not surprised i'm disappointed

[aroacesigma]

ok so sousou no frieren (or frieren beyond journey's end (i think thats the en title)) follows ! well. frieren. she's an elf so she lives an extremely long life (also she is so autism. peak tbh creature but thats unrelated) so time is extremely inconsequential to her. so the story begins at the end of every other like, fantasy anime - the Big Bad has been defeated and the heroes are coming home and settling back into their lives. except frieren splits off from her party to go wander around and collect magic. for 50 years. so when she comes back to honor a promise to her friends that they'll all go see a meteor shower that happens once every like 50yrs, they're all Old.

and then the leader of her party, himmel, dies. (also he was lowkey in love w/ frieren but she Did Not Know and is only figuring it out as the story progresses) which kickstarts frieren's journey.

ngl i kinda forgor what she's doing overall but. she meets up with one of her other party members and stays with him for awhile while training his like. adopted?? daughter as a mage (and she becomes frieren's party member and the two travel together :3) and !!

its this very soft and sweet story. but it's also really cool and intense at times skjdghds like frieren is following the path her original party took - and making new memories along it. the first episode made me cry btw its A Lot. but its such a good series. frieren learns to care about people because she didn't and then lost someone and wishes she had tried harder. so she does. and its so cute so many of the things frieren does all come back to himmel and its just. ough. i need to chew on them.

anyway pls watch frieren its such a good anime. the op is a banger too pls listen to yuusha (srry for no subtitles/translation on that video but </3 the animation is pretty :3 frieren is the elf mage, heiter is the blonde(?) priest, i forgor the dwarf dude's name, and the blue haired guy is himmel ! i don't think you see fern or stark (frieren's current party members) in that version of the op animation tho)

AWWW that sounds lovely omg ... i'll put it on the watchlist for after i watch vnc