Sofie’s Reviews > The Case Study of Vanitas, Vol. 7 > Status Update

"don't set me free bc it's not freedom unless we're together. loneliness is never the salvation, it's always the cage." hm i wonder if this idea will come back later with a different pairing.......one that is just as tragic but much more gay

"what is the point of salvation without you?" this story just keeps adding more and more layers to that ever-present question of "what is salvation?" and i am eating it up!!! chloé and jean-jacques have both been desperately trying to set the other free for so many years, but this is the first time they've realized that the freedom they seek can only exist if they're together. anything else would be hell

so chloé really believed that the d'apchiers deserved to take revenge on her????? FOR WHAT????? i mean i guess the church killed the last of them because they assumed they were concealing a vampire but that's still not her fault????? her only crime has ever been existing. but i guess after all those centuries she learned to internalize the guilt of it all and take responsibility for all the pain of her family

oh that's so tragic noé my love!!!!!! the parallel of chloé/jean-jacques and louis/noé mmhmmm. but also the contrast of vanitas pointing out the suicidal look and privately feeling guilt/anger over the memories it brings up vs noé being galvanized by his memories and begging jean-jacques to be vulnerable with chloé bc it just might change everything???? vanitas keeps his pain internal while noé lets his guide him

okay THIS was the reveal i remembered!!! vanitas recognized chloé's intention to die after doling out her revenge, perhaps because luna had a similar wish? the focus on his mark when he says it makes him sick seems pointed....although luna didn't die alone right? vanitas killed them? but maybe they forced his hand somehow?? some kind of martyr situation?

WEE WOO WEE WOO DANTE LORE first of all i'm pissed that we're getting to see glimpses of everyone's charlatan hallucinations EXCEPT VANITAS, but second of all, it's so interesting that this memory of vanitas is what snaps him out of it!!! vanitas is really helping everyone today huh. i'm curious as to how long they've been working together too cause they look significantly younger!! a few years maybe??

no i'm not over that parallel what the FUCK. noé has really changed vanitas huh. he has genuinely made him a more hopeful person, someone who is less willing to give up on others (and maybe also himself?). so is he still nobody's ally? really?

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??????? i'm so glad vanitas pointed out the parallel cause i sure as hell didn't catch it!!! it's hilarious that right when vanijeanne has a big moment, vanitas has to stomp over to noé and blame him for making him more emotional and hopeful and inspiring him to help jeanne like noé had helped him before.......that paired with the head pat he gave jeanne on his way out is so telling

PLS WHY DID HE PAT HER HEAD LIKE THAT AKSJHDKAHJDAD that is so platonic of him oh my god

this page. is brilliant. she wasn't able to complete the plea for help before, even when it was just in her thoughts. but now that vanitas has assured her that he can carry the burden of her wish alongside her, she can finally speak the word. she can finally ask for help, for chloé but also for herself. who else could've gotten through to her like this besides vanitas? who else can carry the ugliness of that truth?