#RUKAIN CHAPTER

[eternalpassions]

when it comes to the zeki stuff we see in vampire knight memories, i feel like a lot of people are confusing quantity over quality. in comparison to kaname, we obviously see a lot more of zero and zeki, but look at the quality of their scenes. no sex scene like yume, no proper wedding scene like rukain, barely any parent/child scenes between yuuki/zero/ren, and no general romance either? they've had 1, maybe 2, kisses in the whole of vkm and everything else has just been hand holding and them standing or walking next to each other. people are confusing 'scenes with zero' for actual 'zeki moments' when there are barely any in a series supposedly about their happy marriage. sorry for ranting.

Hello,

Yes I agree with you. Part of the reason I couldn’t get into zeki was I didn’t see that quality romance like I did with not only yume but other ships in general. Sure they have like most of the manga together but most of their scenes are likes standing next to each other most of the time with occasional hand holding lol. They have no like verbal confirmations of their love. I know that’s a big appeal of the ship to have actions over words but it’s really nice to have things said out loud sometimes and we rarely hear anything from Yuuki and it’s mostly zero always confessing to her if you’ve noticed. Like I saw a zeki say that scene where Yuuki said she’d marry zero even if Kaname disapproved and that’s like all they have in the whole manga and they latch onto that now apparently lol. That was the only time that really raised your eyebrows but if you notice she seemed like she was trying to convince herself idk the scene was kinda off but I guess it’s okay they got that one thing lol.

Like that chapter we all panicked about lol if you notice it’s mostly Zero obsessed with her and she’s just there we never hear it from her side besides she wants to keep giving him blood. I guess we got so used to the way vkm is and not seeing yume together the way we did in the original that it’s easy to forget what quality over quantity is and just confuse the quantity of zeki for thinking they’re the true love. Plus vkm sucks in general so it makes you lower your standards and think that yume doesn’t exist anymore and settle for what you see presented to you for actual zeki romance when it’s hardly there. It’s mostly zero’s feelings about Yuuki.

And if you notice from this chapter and in general in vkm zero is still insecure about Yuuki’s feelings for him compared to Kaname even tho he’s spent two centuries with her and she married him, had a family with him, etc like really? 😂 Like sure it was easy for him to convince Yuuki to get together with him cuz Kaname was gone and it’s easy to take someone’s spot when they’re gone but you can see him panicking as soon as Kaname is coming back into the picture he cannot return holding her hand and play the supportive unconditional love guy role like he usually does which is rare. Not saying that’s a bad thing cuz his feelings are valid but it shows that there’s some things unsaid but shown there. I thought it was kind of strange he didn’t hold her hand back but I got so used to the way zeki is in vkm I thought that was just how they were 😂

That’s not to say I’m not still dissapointed in vkm. I wish Hino didn’t expect us yumes to be so patient and optimistic this way but it is what it is lol. Vkm doesn’t dimish the romance in the original series and if you notice vkm has some rare quality yume stuff in the early chapters I think it’s just gotten really rare latley due to her having to focus on zero in vkm and recently before he dies cuz once he dies that’s over for his character for real. Like when Kaname dies that wasn’t really it for him so I guess that’s why she can disregard him for so long cuz his story isn’t over yet and will be shown at the end which is close now

Thanks anon!

#vkm #thoughts #eternal yume #sorry this is annoyingly long lol

[anotherworldash]

I don't ship them because YuMe and RuKain are established. Genuinely curious why do you ship them?

It's fine!

I like it because it's...hot? I don't ship them romantically but I ship them sexually if you get what I mean. I still prefer the scenario where Kaname loves Yuki only. It's just Ruka has potential to be Kaname's second choice, like Zero to Yuki.

KanaRuka also opens opportunity to see Kaname as a bad boy that date/use Ruka for "fun/needs" 😂. If you remember, Kaname wasn't indifferent when Ruka offered her body, sorry, blood. He gave in to her blood once. (who knows if he did this more than once?)

TLDR I just find their scenes hot.

But Kaname is the type that prioritize peace and balance of the society, and Ruka along with Kain who loves her, are part of his people. I guess at some point he realized drinking Ruka's blood will create chaos if he make a habit out of it so he stopped.

I have a question actually, I remember Kain gave Kaname a warning about Ruka, which chapter is it? Does anyone remember?

and they had the kinkiest scene and dialogue.

and she's so protective of him it's very cute

#vampire knight #kaname x ruka #ruka souen #kaname kuran #ask #kanaruka

[rukatski]

Like I’m sorry to the rest of the VK fandom but I truly never saw this absolute victory for Rukain…if you’d have told me when VK originally “ended” that we’d have got a wedding chapter and multiple chapters with a rukain baby I simply would not have believed you…truly sorry to every other ship but Ruka Souen was born to come out on top and you’d best believe that

#the way Rukain is the only ship Hino gives rights too #like I have not been a rukain warrior since 2012 for their perfect life to not manifest #it’s all the aggressive manifestation energy I put into the universe #vkm #vk #vampire knight memories #vampire knight #rukain

[ineedglasses]

Thoughts on VKM 22

I’m gonna keep it kind of brief this time but my major takeaways with this chapter are:

1) What is gonna happen to Kaname plot-wise?

He and the two girls apparently don’t hide the fact that he is Ai’s father. I feel like he had a chance to live a normal life if Ai and Ren watched over him from the distance, but they are way too hands on and involved in his life. They are like helicopter parents. Is he going to spend the rest of his life being babysat by them? 

I guess the chances of him starting a family of his own even if he finally decides to move on are pretty slim. It would take a very weird but very determined woman to get involved with him romantically knowing that he is the father of Ai, one of oldest and most overpowered citizens in their country, and all the complex historical baggage he comes with. I guess he is hot enough for some women to try though lmao.

2) Yuuko is the highlight of the entire VKM series for me. 

She is hilarious - her conversation with Isaya was the best thing I read in VKM imo. I love how she refuses to apologize and jokes that she should have just been killed by Kaname instead.  I also love her attitude: instead of saying sorry she would rather take action to correct whatever she did wrong. Its great seeing such a direct, spunky female. Shizuka (as much as I love her) is one of those tragic beauties that walks around shrouded in sadness and Sara (I like her too) is one of those backstabbing scheming characters...its nice seeing a different personality type. 

TBH though, I don’t see why Isaya thinks she should apologize in the first place. Its not her fault that a spy from the Vampire King slipped in to cause trouble at her soiree - even if she is a powerful pureblood she can’t read minds and its not like she has a mini CIA working for her. Besides, she had just awoken and had no idea what happened during the time of her slumber.

IDK, I thought that was an unrealistic and strange expectation from Isaya, does anyone else else think so too?

And going on a tangent, but is Hino ever gonna explain how Yuuko fits into the “only 7 pureblood families remain” statement or is this just gonna be one of the many plot holes in the series? 

Also, if Yuuki and her team are gonna resist the shenanigans of the Vampire King (cough, cough, Touma) shouldn’t they meet with the remaining purebloods and figure out who is on what side and get some allies? Well, whatever, that would require too much actual plot development...

3) I thought perhaps we finally see a Shima child... but nope, it was just some random little girl whose family let them squat in their house. Will we ever see a Rukain or Shima baby? The odds seem slimmer with every chapter...at least we have Seiya.

Anyway if anyone else feels like sharing their thoughts, what were the highlights of the chapter for you? For me, it was seeing Yuuko and the other side characters again and actually having some progress plot-wise. 

#Vampire Knight #Vampire Knight Memories

[zerolover66]

Hello! What do you think about the new VK chapter?

Hi there anon. After having gone over both sets of translations a few times and discussing this chapter with my friend I am finally ready to answer your question.

I like the fact that Hino is drawing parallels between our siblings in the VK and VKM universe.

I still stand by my thoughts that Ai and Ren are on a sibling journey to show how the other siblings could have been and how they might have turned out but instead fell into despair, guilt, anger, self-loathing, pettiness, obsession etc.

The first clue in this chapter is Ren sharing her thoughts with Kaname about being afraid to show your true nature. We know that she has gotten past all of that and she and Ai share a healthy sibling relationship full of love and trust.

 We are then taken back to the past after Ren talks about understanding Kaname’s fear of wondering how others viewed his true nature. For Ren having said she had those same feelings I thought of two people from the original series that she represents. The two that were afraid of showing their true nature (in different ways) for fear of not being accepted for who they truly were.

 Kaname was my first thought. He hid his true nature from Yuuki for fear that she would no longer view him in a good light if she knew what he was truly like.

My friend then said to me during our discussion that Zero himself had the very same feelings as he was turning into a full vampire. He hid that part away and refused to accept it. Hurting and pushing Yuuki away in the process much the way Ren is doing to Ai. Fighting your natural instincts as a vampire only leads you to feel miserable. All that Ren is experiencing is quite normal and natural as a vampire. Yet she insists on fighting it for fear her sister (the person she loves the most) will hate her.

So our feelings are that we will see how this set of siblings overcome that rather than cause each other a tremendous amount of pain. 

I also took notice to Hino clarifying for sure that only the blood of the one you love the most can quench your thirst. She shows this through Ren’s closeness to Ai. Ai is Ren’s most loved person as of this point in time. So only Ai’s blood will be able to quench Ren’s thirst. It is the natural instinct of a vampire to be drawn to and desire the blood of your most beloved person. Ren is fighting that urge for fear that Ai will hate her for not being who she thinks Ai believes she is. Ai’s beautiful and innocent sister. There is so much conflict going on inside of Ren because she is fighting the natural instinct that she has as a vampire. This mimics Zero’s struggle with desiring Yuuki’s blood and being ashamed of himself for it. He didn’t want to hurt Yuuki. He couldn’t understand why it was only her blood that he wanted. It was because she was his most loved person. He didn’t want to be a vampire yet finally could no longer fight the instincts within him because Yuuki was just always so close to him. 

It also mimics Kaname’s desire for Yuuki’s blood when she was but a child. At that point Hino is showing us that there was no romantic feelings needed for Kaname to desire Yuuki’s blood over anyone else’s because Yuuki had become his most important person. His most loved person. Be it romantic or not at that point. I will say though that I don’t believe that Yuuki’s blood ever satisfied Kaname after he was able to drink it. I was always left with the impression that he desired it but it never fulfilled him. Unlike Zero and Yuuki who, once they drank from each other, both thought how the other’s blood had calmed them. We never got those thoughts from Kaname. He always seemed unsatisfied. Always leading me to believe that the hooded woman was his most loved/beloved person.

I also discussed with my friend about the blood satisfaction issue and we both completely agreed on one thing. Hino clearly has shown that the blood of your most loved/beloved is what you need to quench your thirst. I will not go on and on about this but we clearly know whom needed whom’s blood to quench their thirst.

I feel like Ai is treating Kaname like an invalid rather than just a person without his memories. It is one thing to want to help him but she is treating him like a child and I don’t really want that for him if I am being honest. I want to see him progress and become a functioning member of human society. I want him to live a life that is full and happy. I never thought I would hear myself say that. But even though I don’t forgive his sins of the past, especially the numerous ones against Zero, I still want Yuuki’s sacrifice to be worthwhile and meaningful. So I want him to branch out and find his someone who will “quench” his thirst.

I thought Hino having Ai mention that her worst trait came from Kaname and having all three of them go silent was really well done. We know Kaname is worried about what his true nature was. We know that he fears finding out.

 We then ended up with Ai choking the elderly vampire for saying something against Ren. Ai is very protective of Ren. Her reaction was exactly like Kaname. But Hino also showed us how it was wrong by having Seiya and Ren step in to stop her. Something someone should have had the guts to do with Kaname. But Ren is smarter than Yuuki ever was and Seiya might like Ai but is not a pawn like Aidou was. So they are good for Ai. They are good compasses in leading Ai in the right direction. Not allowing her to be consumed by her hatred. 

I also see how Hino has Ai watching Ren in the same way that Kaname watched Yuuki. The differences are that Ai is not interfering in Ren’s life and friendships and Ren is not oblivious to what Ai is doing in the way that Yuuki was totally oblivious to everything Kaname was up to.

Overall I love the sibling dynamics between Ai and Ren. They are breaking out of the mistakes made by all the other siblings in VK. I really love them to pieces.

I have one complaint with this new chapter. For the life of me I don’t think Hino needed to add another b**ch of a pureblood to the mix. All I can smell is a Sara 2.0. I don’t want that. I feel like we could have gotten along just fine without any stupid new additions to the story. But we will see where it goes.

Also we are finally going back to the “mad” scientist. I am glad. 

Still hoping that Ren’s DNA will be needed for the cure. She is the rarest of rare vampires having come from a hunter/human turned vampire and a pureblood. I really hope Hino goes that route. I have all of my fingers crossed for it to happen. I do fear Zero’s inevitable death scene. The first time in December of 2015 when I saw the spoilers I sat there and cried like a baby. So I am not looking forward to seeing how it happened. But I know that is where Hino is headed.

I also wish we could see rukain and shima having children as well. 

Overall the chapter was pretty good. 

One final thought. When I saw Ai in her dress with her hair to the side the only person that came to my mind was Sara. I don’t know why I thought she looked like Sara but I did. Anyone else have that pop into their head?

 Hino is definitely paralleling our original trio at different points with Ren and Ai. In order to get her message across that she feels she failed in the first series, she chose to show it through Ai and Ren.

What other parallels did anyone see? I saw a few but this is already really long.

Sorry for my rambling. Thank you for dropping by :)

#anon ask #vkm #vk #chapter 20

[sonitavalentine]

I am a bit surprised how many pairings were created in VKM. It seems to me a bit forced. I know that VK and VKM are of the "romans / shoujo" genre, but pairing each one of them (besides of a few characters) instead of focus on developing new intriguing threads, start to resemble a soap opera scheme :( Yagari and Seiren? xd wft? xd aidori a bit also, not to mention about zeki, whose level of passion and chemistry is ... zero xd this story has a huge potencial which just somewhere disappears...

Hey!

Sorry for late reply, I brought my ass to the laptop only today

First of all, let’s be honest: we’re all here for romance. :D

Secondly, the only thing that seems to be totally forced for me is Aidori. The rest of the side pairings (Rukain, Shima) were set up in the main story. But I agree with you that even though those pairings were presented to us in the original series, in VKM they got more screentime. However, I don’t consider it to be really bad? Sure it seems unfair that we have to see panels with side characters instead of the main one we’re waiting for, but as soon as Hino is stuck in the past plotline, I appreciate every moment when she lets us have a rest from dull zeki interactions and give us nice scenes with other couples to see how they’re doing. At least, Rukain (the side pairing I love) and Shima (the couple I’m indifferent to) have more progress than zeki, and it says something.

Aidori is completely different case. As I wrote above, Rukain and Shima were established in the main series, and yet we have only one Rukain chapter and 1/3 of bonus chapter with Shima. Aidori were declared as a couple in VKM only and we have now how much? three or four? chapters that are Aidori centred. It looks like Hino accidentally imagined them together, fell in love with the pairing and got obsessed with drawing panels with them. Meanwhile we have a couple that was so much important for development of this story and scarcely saw a panel with them together since VKM’s been started. Not to mention that Aidori get more screentime than other couples that were canon before Aidori got into Hino’s head. That’s what I call unjust and forced. 

It would sound weird, but I personally don’t have many issues with the pairing itself: I get the message that they represent the union of humanity and vampiredom and they’re the symbol of co-existence, but I have problems with what I’ve mentioned above and with Yori in particular. Aido is my sweet boy and he deserved someone better than Yori who egoistically decided to stay human without any huge and respectful reason behind this decision (like, she wasn’t in urge to save the world or something like that). 

I hear some fans like to tell that Yori is an owner of her life and it’s only for her to decide how to finish her path, and I see that Hino is kinda trying to send the message of human life being respected and blessed and all that jazz. And I go that far as to say that Yori’s decision to finish her life as a human while leaving Aido makes Kaname’s decision to sacrifice his life while leaving Yuuki look even better, because both of them wished - Kaname openly, Yori supposedly - for their beloved ones to continue enjoying their long lives and not being alone further. BUT while Kaname dies because he wants to fix what was wrong in the vampire world and atone for his sins, Yori dies because she wants Aido to love her the way she is. 

Btw for those who love parallels, it’s a nice one, pls pay attention lol

If I start talking about zeki it will take me hours, so I just mention once again, and I never get tired of telling this, that lack of chemistry and romance in their pairing is destroying. We have all these “zeki” chapters with tons of panels and scenes where Yuuki and Zero are together, but something is always awkward, they look embarrassed, and Yuuki has to listen to an horde of people that claim that she should be with Zero and the faster the better. They’re not presented as a couple where deep and tender love is a mutual feeling. Oh, no talks about even one-sided feelings: after Zero’s words where he says that he was “kinda okay” with the stagnation they had for around half a century, I don’t know what to think about his feelings, it looks more like he’s got used to the idea that he should be with Yuuki and just too lazy to search for someone else (or go bang Maria, idk). No passion, no ardour, not obsession with feelings. They’re really good partners or colleagues, but this is it. 

I understand that one can accuse me of telling these words only because I’m a Yume, and well, this is true? I’m a person who likes passionate and interesting love stories, this is why I am a Yume and not a zeki.

As for Yagari and Seiren, I saw people opinionated that they’re a couple but we don’t have too much material to be sure that they’re together. It’s not clearly seen from we’ve got in previous chapters, moreover, it doesn’t look like this at all lol. But you know what, with Hino’s attitude to make everybody a couple, there’s a possibility she can make them one. And if it happens, well I’m here for this? Cold and strong vampire woman, whose heart melts only when she thinks about her master hehe, and fiery, cocky hunter together? Take me on this ship when she berthes in my city lol.

I know your ask was mostly about the potential, but anger about Aidori took over me, sorry :D But in short, the potential of this story was wasted long ago when Hino made the love triangle a centre of VK instead of giving us more details on Kaname’s past, evolution of vampires, etc. I regret she didn’t take the other path and turned a story with great potential into a mainly soap opera, but our regrets can change nothing, unfortunately. 

I wanted to be short, but as usual I wrote a shit ton of words :( Hope I sated your interest, thanks for dropping by!

#eb-byestelle #answered #my fandom rant

[imaginarylights]

Fear vs. Love

As I previously mentioned, my posts consisting of my thoughts and opinions will be under a cut for those that wish to read them. So as to refrain from offending others, disclaimers will be provided as well in case those that may be sensitive to my topics of interests can be fully warned.   

Disclaimer: Slightly anti-pairings in general. This is mostly a criticism towards Hino’s form of writing relationships.  However, take caution if you do not wish to read any criticism over your favorite pairing(s). 

Preview/teaser:  For nearly all these characters, they’re driven to propose, marry, or make decisions based solely on fear, and yes, subtextually it may have love in it, however, the meaning the words generally convey is one of fear.

I’ve been trying to think of the best way I could to express why vkm hasn’t sat well with me based on Hino’s choices to convey all her couples. Although there are plenty other reasons than just the couples that bother me about vkm, however, I’ll just be discussing my outlook on the couples the way Hino portrays them. I once made a joke as a post [You can find here] about how each canon couple progresses their relationship right after an event that stimulated fear, which this chapter significantly raised those red flags higher courteous of finally seeing a wedding ceremony upon which Rukain are the first that Hino decides to reveal. I’ll mention upon later those vows mentioned among them. 

As a result, I suspect most of those problems with the couples stemmed from Hino’s own fears and issues bleeding heavily onto the page, (that list could be endless depending on which problem is addressed) since authors have a tendency to work out their own issues through their writing. (See J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series on which she works through grieving the loss of her mother through her story and characters.) Though what really bothers me the utmost is how most, if not all characters are motivated by fear when it comes to romance.

For nearly all these characters, they’re driven to propose, marry, or make decisions based solely on fear, and yes, subtextually it may have love in it, however, the meaning the words generally convey is one of fear. Such as, before Aidori become engaged, there had to be a situation to which Aidou realizes his fear of Yori being taken away from him by death or otherwise before he could consider committing to marry/be with her. We also have Ruka and Kain, who had plenty of time (decades in fact) to decide to marry one another but a bomb has to trigger Ruka into action that they should get married in order for Kain to be her husband before he dies. Then, for Shima, which is less severe, however, they still take decades before either of them have a thought to commit to each other and it was only after being chased by criminals that Rima then proceeds to nonchalantly propose to Shiki to be her husband. Which doesn’t seem negative, but why is every couple motivated by fear?

Furthermore, I find the proposals to be lackluster. Each proposal was tossed after an event, a stressful simulating event no less, and it never felt like it was developed or deprived of a genuine devotion upon wanting to commit to their significant other because they desire to spend the rest of their life with the one they each loved dearly. No, it was because they’ll die or their loved one will die so might as well get hitched now or make decisions solely based on fear of death. (You know for immortal beings they do fear death a lot.) Even Rukain’s vows had no such mentions of phrases like, “I love you,” or “I promise to cherish you” and it’s their damn wedding vows??

And yes, we can make the argument that this story has vampires so they’re not aware of the flow of time, thus they feel no rush, but not all characters are vampires, most of them are, but not every last one of them. Additionally, from experience based on other vampire stories I’ve read and watched, the vampires are actually hyper-aware of time especially when paired with a human and they become driven to spend as much time and make the most of their shared time together. If the vampires do take their time, however, they eventually commit and it’s not solely after thinking they could lose their loved one.

So I do understand they’re vampires, time feels very differently for them because they live for eternity (well some do) but to make that excuse after every stepping stone in a relationship? Commitment shouldn’t have to be tied down by fear. Commitment should be desired from an expression of love and that love should be easily shown in one’s actions and words. 

So, besides the obvious reasons, I can count the many other ways why Zeki’s last scene bothers me. One of them is the fear that was depicted between Zeki. I don’t mean that Yuuki was afraid of Zero, but she was afraid of losing him. Its okay to be fearful of losing someone, that’s legitimate, that’s natural, but as someone who was in a relationship with a person with borrowed time, my thoughts typically were, “I want to spend each day making the most of the time we have together, to love him and allow him to feel it so he can say he felt loved in the end despite our short time together.”

I’m truly failing to see that thought process contextually or subtextually with Zero and Yuuki. It’s mostly in Yuuki who has been prone to be driven by her fears when she makes almost all her decisions (Both in the original and spin-off). Thus, it does bother me that she’s not remotely driven by love, like the desire to love Zero and make him feel loved despite knowing their time together could be limited, but instead is more motivated by the death of him leaving her and the fact that she’d be alone. It sounds more selfish than it does in giving a positive nuance of being mutually in love. I do understand that everyone has their own way of proceeding certain situations and that can be fear that helps drive them forward, however, commitment or the expression of love still shouldn’t have such a negative connotation. 

My only conclusion is of Hino as a writer and as a person is expressing her own views on what commitment and what love should look like through her pairings unknowingly. Though, there is no clear indication that she realizes or notices these possible issues in her own pairings and what it says about them, so we don’t know what to expect in the future exactly without any way of making heads or tails. I fear Zeki will continue onwards through this trajectory of lackluster proposals and commitments inspired by fear instead of love, especially if vkm13 is any clear indication of anything.

Or, possibly I’m wrong, and Hino clearly knows how commitment and love should look like in a relationship and we’re just having to wait and see how Aidori’s and Shima’s wedding ceremonies turned out and additionally how Zeki will eventually make those milestones as a couple. However, this is putting faith in the same woman that gave us incestuous romances, so my faith in her has been stretched pretty thin as it is. ;P

Side note: I refrained from mentioning the same issues in Yume solely because their moments were in the original and I’m focused within the realm of vkm since all the other couples are being portrayed and developed in that series. Besides, I don’t feel a need to reiterate Yume failing to express genuine love but instead be motivated by fears like the rest since this criticism encompasses how Hino is portraying romance and commitment within all of her pairings. If you wish for me to clarify how Yume also fits the mold, feel free to shoot me an ask about it.

Either way, my intention with this post was to highlight Hino’s commitment fears through her pairings. I truly believe if her pairings had variety, or at the very least had been motivated by love, it would show more clearly through their long term or short term decisions and milestones as a couple. I do hope I’m wrong though. However, each of these cases in isolation wouldn’t be so negative, but together they form a pattern that makes me wonder why every couple is motivated by fear.

#vampire knight #meta #vk pairings criticism #vampire knight memories #cause i just realized i wrote about vkm not vk lol

[rukatski]

Hino spends like 98% of her time on the cover page, where her fetish, the love triangle is. She has some of the sparsest backgrounds of a manga I've ever seen. Pretty much 50% of the pages are just closeups and the walls, scenery are always blank/ barely existent. And I'm tired of all the same LT images. Almost all the covers are Kaname in the middle, Yuki to one side breathing on his cheek and Zero sticking his head awkwardly in. At least switch it up and have Zero in middle sometimes lol

Fam the final chapter is gonna be just one big threesome like Hino’s obviously wanted the whole time.

I agree I’m so bored of the love triangle images since I personally don’t care for those three that much. Individually I can do Kaname and Zero but I can’t stand Yuuki tbh, I know Hino feels like she has to please yume and Zeki fans but it’s so stale now.

I’m not gonna lie I mostly hold out for Rukain content (obviously) but there’s something so hilarious to me about the way Kain was like “fuck this shit babe let’s dip” and we literally haven’t heard from them since, nothing but respect for my vampire husband.

#i live for these messages btw keep sending them!!! #vkm #vampire Knight memories

[rukatski]

Unfortunately we expect too much of Hino if we expect anything other than sister yuri and the original love triangle. Its like she would die if she had to use up more than one panel on any of the side characters smh. And even if she did spare a panel for Rukain or Shima kids, they'd prbly have bland designs and no lines so we're better off with fan depictions *sigh.

Me and anon when every new chapter release is another boring nonsensical rehash with one side panel about the night class:

#damn you really came for hinos neck #vampire knight #vkm #vampire knight memories #m

[rukatski]

Which is the best fanfic rukain you've ever read?

Bruh I think I reread The Vampire Guardian a million times (MINORS WARNING LATER CHAPTERS ARE NSFW) and it has such a good slow burn and premise and treats Kain and Ruka like two fully developed characters so maybe skip the nsfw stuff if you’re not into it and just follow the plot because it’s so good

#Anonymous

[zerolover66]

Hello dear! （＾∀＾）ノIt has been such a long time! Thanks a lot for the Raws, I can't wait to do colorings for the Zeki moments of this chapter (and I am seriously thinking in do something of RuKain) I'm really excited! Thank you so much again for the spoilers and Raws. See youuuu!!!

You are quite welcome sweetie

#ask #4-zu #thank you so much dear

[imaginarylights]

I feel bad for the side characters in vk cause it's like they're still being used as pawns to make the story "better" there's no A LOT friendships between them and Zeki it's kind of a "cause we have to." Situation the only real friendship I see tbh is with Aidou and Zero, there the only ones who appeared to develop something over the years

Oh, I completely agree with you, anon dear. Hino has never stopped forcing all the characters to revolve around the main trio or hardly ever develop past the main three characters by giving them their own side to the story. My biggest example would be of Shiki and his childhood trauma? Or when he was manipulated and controlled by Rido? There was no character development or no revelations past “thanks, rima u did me a solid.” There was no PTSD over such a traumatic event or repercussions after the fact, it’s just never mentioned again only because Shiki’s involvement was only to serve the plot for the main trio and nothing else. 

This happens too often in the series to all the side characters and sometimes even paints some characters very negatively, such as my growing contempt I’ve developed over time with Kaien’s character because of Hino didn’t try outside of Kaien’s goofy comic relief shtick. I mean this chapter just solidified why Kaien valued Kaname over Yuuki’s true happiness and well-being and did no service to rectify his actions through the original run of vk but only dig him a deeper hole. Thanks, Hino, I guess. lol

Additionally, let’s try to not forget how even characters that not many cared for or remembered however I had a silent love for despite being a background piece only to get shafted and ruined by Matsuri Hino because she had to shoehorn a romance between a vampire and human to visually represent Zeki. As a result, that pairing, our beloved cracked ship, Aidori, crashed and burned before they even had a chance to really be fleshed out because it was obvious they were a rushed afterthought despite having a small occult following cheering for them… I mean… Thanks, Hino. 

Part of me will always be bitter how badly these characters suffered, how badly this story suffered overall from a lack of direction and conviction to end the ideal ending, but the other part of me can’t care enough anymore. ;;; 

Anyways, I agree, the best brotp so far has been Zero’s ships, which I’m still in support of not just Zero and Aidou’s friendship but was happy to see the subtle one between Zero and Yori. But Shima are so alienated from the rest of the cast as always, Rukain also aren’t fully invested with anyone else, I mean has Kain even seen his cousin or had a domestic chat? I mean not once. lol None of the characters feel authentic or real at this point and it’s just a sorry shell of a story in my opinion. It’s Hino’s continual fault by wiping out the humanity from these characters, or if they ever had any humanistic characteristics to begin with, lol. Let’s just sadly stick to our headcanons since Hino hasn’t given us any favors. lol

Thank you for dropping by, dear! If anything, I understand your irritation well. |:

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