Sofie’s Reviews > The Case Study of Vanitas, Vol. 10 > Status Update

okay so what i’m seeing is that vanitas and noé BOTH get clingy when they’re drunk mmhmm yes this is pertinent information for fic writers everywhere

…..he’s making him tarte tatin……from scratch……as an apology and peace offering……right after a flashback showing us how vanitas used to do the cooking for mikhail and luna and used it as a way to show his love for them in a subtle, practical way cause that’s safer for him than being openly expressive. cool cool cool yeah i feel fine this is fine

oh my god it’s all completely new content from here on out and i am BUZZING
if we start getting more mikhail, vanitas, and luna memories now that the dam has broken i’m gonna lose it. of COURSE vanitas was a good brother and put multiple feves in the cake so mikhail was guaranteed to win my heart is SOARING.
and another reminder that luna knew vanitas’ real name…..i’m thinking thoughts

THE LOOKS ON THEIR FACES???? they are so in love this is basically a proposal in my eyes
and the last raindrops falling in slow motion around them bc the moment is so monumental??? noé reaching out to vanitas like he’s done time and time again, but this time, vanitas reaches back and with no barrier between their fingertips??? no gloves, no false nails, no facades. it’s a new beginning and the sun is shining

if noé was compared to the sunrise before in the bell tower scene, he’s now compared to the sun breaking through the clouds after a long and hard rain and that is. so gorgeous. he looks STUNNING and that’s exactly how vanitas sees him!!!!!! all the warmth that luna said would melt his heart???? THERE IT IS, reaching out a hand to help him up

the growth is so fantastic i can’t believe it took us 10 volumes to get here but i wouldn’t have had it any other way. every bit of the slow burn was worth it for this apology and admission right here. vanitas has officially given up on trying to push noé away
and of course noé giggles and kicks his feet in response cause DUH ME TOO

so not only is this a parallel to the bell tower scene but also the leaning on each other scene from the end of the moreau arc????? my favorite panel???????
this time, it’s noé leaning on vanitas bc he knows vanitas will shoulder the weight (even if he complains about it) AND bc he needs him to know how affected he is by what vanitas said. he needs him to literally feel the weight of it

goddamnit i really do love mikhail and hope against all odds that he has some version of a happy ending. i know he’s doomed but if he could at least die peacefully and feeling loved, i’d be happy. he’s just a traumatized kid like vanitas, but while vanitas has found people to drag him out of the depths of that pain, mikhail has only been encouraged to fall deeper. it’s so tragic

what the fuck am i supposed to say to this
vanitas has been used and abused and objectified and defiled and all of the choices about his very BEING have been made for him. the only choice he has left regarding his life is how it will end, and he chooses noé. he knows he probably won’t be in his right mind when it comes and so he trusts noé and noé alone to grant his wish. the way that noé could not with louis

“revenge” now in quotation marks and spoken so gently bc we all know for sure now that that’s not exactly what it is. he’ll never forgive luna and yet he searches for traces of the person who brought about their death (and his own). he sacrificed what was left of his humanity to make sure they didn’t become a mindless monster as part of someone’s larger scheme to create strife and chaos