Status Updates From ヴァニタスの手記 3

genuinely is vanitas just on a suicide mission

Vanitas wanted sexual dominance so much he agreed to become a woman’s personal juice box

“We have excellent physical chemistry” how is this not a sex metaphor? And Noè being jealous of Jeanne drinking Vanitas’ blood??? What are these implications?? 😭😭

noé getting a kick out of vanitas meeting his match in roland’s undying good nature is SUCH married couple behavior. and the ellipses in “i’ve started to rather like…….HIM” is so pointed wtf was THAT translation choice???? was noé about to say that he’s actually starting to like VANITAS because of everything he’s begun to understand about him????? i’m gonna read it that way for my own enjoyment

“he wants to use me as a shield, but he doesn’t want me to shield him of my own accord?” THIS REALIZATION FROM NOÉ IS WILD!!!!!! so much of this volume is him starting to understand vanitas’ strange, usually contradictory, actions, and this is a massive step in solving that puzzle. agency is EVERYTHING to vanitas. if he’s decided to risk his life, then he doesn’t want ANYONE standing in his way

fantastic how this volume is pretty much bookended with noé standing between vanitas and ruthven and then vanitas standing between noé and roland. AND both of them being pissed at the other for being too careless with their safety. for vanitas i think it’s a general lack of care for his well-being and for noé maybe it’s more naïveté? he hasn’t seen much REAL combat and cruelty in his life yet

love that the moment that roland mentions luna and pities vanitas for being taken in by them, THATS when vanitas instinctively shoves him away and claws at his face. he could handle roland assuming that the vampires were forcing him to cure them but as soon as pity gets involved??? he lashes out like a wild animal