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Me when i got so many aesthetic crushes but when i think of meeting them i jump out a window in every. single. hypothetical.
Having a crush while being aro-ace is soooo funny because I'm literally just like. I wanna go to the grocery store with you
I’m shy about posting my other projects cus I don’t have much art for certain ones but I also obviously don’t wanna just be known for VKR. One day I well care less and post them but until then >~<!!
I made some character comparison charts/basic differences of OG VS Rewritten as well as more detailed peeks of rewritten Kaname and Zero’s personalities. I hope this doesn’t seem biased cuz I like the OG series (hell I wouldn’t rewrite this if I didn’t) I’m just trying to show off how I write these two.
me, when I go on about my writing: ENTIRE ESSAY
I’ll prob do Yuki + Emi (as a joke because she’s a canon foreigner/character original to the rewrite).
(I couldn’t summarize OG Zero’s personality well so I used charactour which, ironically when I took the quiz he showed up in the first page of characters I was like! So I find that crazy and cool XD)
Also bonus meme
Some part 2 Yukis. Rambling about OG Yuki and Rewrite Yuki under the cut.
I’d planned to make her a tragic antagonist ever since I began writing the rewrite, due to the hatred of her character. However I realized I never really had a problem with the original Yuki, other than any time she had an opportunity to be a badass that’d instantly be negated. Later on I’d realized the OG Yuki Cross was in fact a victim that came into her own, who’d she’d never asked for anything but to be with her family and weird brother grandpa husband ew.
I aimed to make Yuki in the rewrite much more competent a character, and strictly regulated to Zero’s adoptive sister and Kaname’s final descent/granddaughter. With writing her she went to default happy character that turned evil because if brainwashing to a woman relegated to simply being a teacher by her adopted father and caretaker of her two adopted brothers, while also having her actual past kept from her at every moment. I constantly have “YUKI IS DEFINITELY OKAY” jokes when you know that’d very much be the opposite.
I actually have grown to really love writing her as the one much more mature sibling out of the Cross-Kiryu children, and it’s very clear this woman knows a lot more than everyone assumes. Plus the plot actually allows her to shank people with her scythe (renamed Artemisia).
While she loves her family deep down she aims to get an actual job and find her past no matter how much Kaname attempts to keep stuff from her. Which pisses her off. Eventually she’s stuck believes Zero murdered her own adoptive father and half a school when that was in fact Ichiru, and were leave part 1 at that.
I’d say in Part 2 and times between Ichiru brainwashed/groomed (non sexually Ichiru’s awful but even he’s disgusted by the idea of that) her into becoming reliant on him—by doing sets like holding the fact Kaname never told her anything above her head. Not just because of that but the fact he was capable of telling her say any time but didn’t, and cut off, killed or imprisoned anyone that could help Yuki. But there’s also an element of Yuki letting this happen.
Deep down she knows Ichiru is off. But for the first time in her life she gets illusions of control of her life and other things, and she’ll seize it. Even if it is a lie. And then there’s parts where it’s possible she’s even aware of what’s going on, and is spiting everyone by covertly goading on how they could have saved her.
Why’d she kill Zero in the end? She didn’t mean to. Cycle of revenge, tragic reoccurrence, all that. But in the end, because of that, Kaname breaks after witnessing someone he grew to love, Ichiru in some fashion wins because Zero dies knowing his own adoptive sister killed him, when all he wanted was her to confide in.
Even if she isn’t there anymore.
I wanted your touch to save me
Some art of Ichiru from a good while ago cuz I have a lot of art for this series. I think I drew him here cuz I didn’t have enough art for him at the time. Rambling about VKR Ichiru below.
I find it really funny that I turned Ichiru into the main villain of the series since in the OG he was kind of just some ungrateful sick kid with a thing for older women and basically Vergle DMC but less…power (literally)
And then in VKR he’s one of the worst siblings in fiction and probably one of the most evil characters I’ve ever written because the guy is a legit sadistic psychopath not taught right and wrong at the right time which leads to a domino effect of him going “I’m gonna let my parents die so Zero feels sad” to “I’m going to kill my own adoptive father, half a school, help the council nuke the US and Japan, and brainwash my own older adoptive sister just so Zero can be even angrier when he comes back and even before that I’m going to taunt him on BreenCasts, because the only thing that brings me happiness is making my older brother suffer for something that never happened”.
God I love him he’s so awful
Also fun fact the reason I gave Ichiru an eyepatch + diff hair parting in the first place was to differentiate him and Zero’s appearances!
Kaname occasionally calls Zero “coney” because that means “rabbit” in old/middle English. Zero is called a rabbit half the time and a dog the other half but he tolerates rabbit and has no clue what Kaname means so he just lets it happen
Random VKR facts both writing-wise and character-wise
Zero is named Zero because his mother originally intended to name him Rei but kept memorizing it as Zero. Eventually, she wrote it down on his birth certificate without hiragana or anything, and it stuck.
Yuki is definitely okay with the fact Kaien basically boxed her in to be nothing but a teacher and taking care of her younger brothers and definitely OK with the fact she realizes she has no ambitions beyond possibly attending college or what job she’d wanted to do yes siree.
In part 2 and the years before part 2, Ichiru keeps wanting to play chess with Kanane but because he’s disgusted by him and because symbolic reasons, Kaname refuses until Ichiru traps him into doing it
Zero's hair in Part 2 is meant to be agrown-out buzzcut because well. He went through some really shit times between part 1 and 2 on account of witnessing Kaien die to Ichiru and being accused of murder and
Emi is a professional hater of Kaname. She has some reasons to dislike him, but in general, she’s just a professional hater
Kaname has dimples because I commissioned an artist to draw him, and they gave him dimples, so he has them.
Kaname is the hardest character to draw for me in the fact he’s based on a real person who’s kinda hard to draw.
I based Zero's look (MAINLY PART 2) off Dante DMC because I heard from tv tropes that DMC may have inspired Vampire Knight. Funny enough VK also helped me get into DMC
Yuki's skin is darker cuz I made her hair black. Then I went "oh if she were tan it'd look nice-oh shes half-Indian now"
I shipped Aido x Yuki the whole time
The Night Class is primarily European and uses Japanese pseudonyms, the same with Kaien
P1 Zero listened to music on Sony MDR7506s, and it’s either because they’re Kaien’s or because he’s a purist hipster. He claims it is the second, but it’s the first.
I have entire ass fan casts for hypothetical movies and OVAs and stuff you don’t know how long I have been writing this
Kaname really likes Zero's hair and how white it is. Seriously, whenever I write post-series them, it’s “Kaname gripping that white hair he'd realized he'd wanted to touch a while.” You get crumbs. CRUMBS
Emi just came out of nowhere. I didn’t even intend to create her. She just came up and you more what that fits her. Originally she was the “shy to badass” archetype but then after I inspired her off Lady (DMC) she slowly became more and more unhinged until I decided I wanted a female character who was just plain crazy and not pitied or sexualized or glorified for it
Kaname's real name (The one he forgor for a few centuries) is Cain I. No relation to actual biblical Cain, it's just his mom didn't want a child but had to have one (1100s royalty), so she named her son after the biblical murderer. Kaname does not care lol
Emi and Zero I’d say are the easiest to draw
Emi has smile lines.
a funny thing is if VKR ever had an English dub, technically, it could be canon because somehow, nearly every character is bilingual and speaks English in some form despite most of them being Japanese in some form.
in Kaname's case he's a polyglot because my guy is from 1100s England, and was a royal so he already knows Latin, French, and Middle English and then he travels to Japan on accident, knows both old and current Japanese, and when he speaks English he has no accent because he's spoken so many languages every single one cancels out the other so he sounds American
and the funniest thing is, that is actually feasible