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Vampire Knight Redesign Yuki Cross

I might elaborate on this redesign later since i thought through a lot of little details but mainly I just wanted to post this since I'm pretty proud of it. My take on Yuki Cross from Vampire Knight.

The VKR Stuff from my Sketchbook! From oldest to newest!

Whole page I did I think on a plane or something. The drawing of Kaname and Zero holding each others’ faces is based on the chapter art for ch.98 of the OG series. And an old Headmistress Emi design.

A sadly looking off Part 2 Zero

Part 3 Zero sketches ft. The origin of this art

Wholeass Kaname drawing attempts page complete w Gee refs (I got a bit of a crush on Gee from using him as reference but tbh who hasn’t >~<)

Emi sketches ft. Post-series headmistress Emi based on Cybersix and Templar Armor/Citizen insane Emi. Mainly just my excuse to draw Emi covered in blood

And finally sketches I plan to turn digital, ft. A Kaname silhouette thing w his longcoat. Maybe best Kaname I’ve drawn so far prob lol

Some art of post-series Yuki/very dead ghost-ish reaper (we think) Yuki who is rightfully kind of bitchy about her life ending the way it did and people not grieving her much and no one saving her and

She appears in Emis dreams. Emi thinks she’s kinda hot tbh

Mainly just posting this cuz I thought it looked good

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

I mean Kaname x Zero is INCREDIBLY canon in my rewrite lol except Yuki is the big sister and it’s about two whole parts worth of slow burn + psychological thriller + coming of age + apocalyptic Christian thing + dying

genuinely pissing myself at the comments on LABY's new vk video

Vampire Knight Rewritten Tiiimeliiine baybeeee!!

1100:

Kaname is born in what will later be England.

1120:

Kaname is bitten and after committing a massacre of people, escapes to a ship and tries to sleep forever.

1637:

Kaname wakes up in Japan, eats the people who find him, walks into the sun to try and die. It does not work.

1643:

Kaname meets the “Hooded Lady”, Tani Kuran, a fellow vampire who wears a Japanese wedding dress half the time. She gives Kaname the name Kaname since Kaname forgot his original name (Cain I.) and he takes her surname, Kuran. They fall in love (very weird codependent love) and have a son named Christopher/“Krist” (he’s dead).

1646

After the Hooded Lady attempts to kill the current vampires in charge to stop infecting Japan and influenced Kaname to join. While Kaname is fighting with the leader, Tani steps in between the two to protect him. This allows Kaname to kill his opponent but, in doing so, he unintentionally impales Tani also. Tani tells him she might’ve done this on purpose.

Kaname burns the rest of the current council down but decides to seize control in their place before leaving Japan, thus leaving Vampires having no power there.

Though this is throughout time nearly all of Kaname’s descendants inbreed and die, except for Juri and Rido.

1761:

The dhampir and future revered vampire hunter Kaien Cross is born in a British colony (he’s Irish).

1779:

Kaien throws a rock at Kaname’s head in anger at the bourgeoise. This causes the two to meet.

2002:

Yuki Cross/Kuran is born.

2003:

Zero Kiryu is born.

2004:

Ichiru Kiryu is born.

2005:

Emi Yagari is born.

2007:

Juri Kuran-Tomita, Kazuya Tomita (Juri’s husband and Yuki’s father), and Rido Kuran are killed. Yuki is turned into an amnesiac pseudo-human and taken in by Kaname before being given to and adopted by Kaien.

2014:

Toga Yagari (33 years old) mercy kills his wife Babette after she’s bitten and turned, she begs him to kill her before she goes berserk.

Emi is nine when her father comes home and frustratedly says her mother isn’t ever coming back because she is dead.

Toga would later lose his left eye a few months later.

2015:

Ichiru is bitten and conceals this using illusions.

Zero and Ichiru’s parents are killed in an orchestrated killing by Ichiru and Shizuka Hio. Zero is bitten. They are taken in by Kaien after Kaien saves them from dying and kills Shizuka.

2021:

Part one begins.

Late 2021:

Ichiru Kiryuu kills Kaien Cross. Vampires are exposed to humanity.

Zero gives up half his humanity to evade execution with the help of Kaname.

2022:

Society collapses. The world goes to shit after vampires are revealed, The Council only does stuff that will get them more power. America and Russia nuke each other, Japan closes itself off, groups of humans live in underground colonies, the sky is permanently grey so vampires aren’t affected by the sun. The Japanese military splits off and joins either the Hunters or the Catholic faction known as the Templars.

Zero fights Kaito Takamiya and leaves Kaito behind with a magazine of silvers. (A Light Novel I planned)

2023:

Part 2 begins.

Zero saves Emi from a club in which she is a sacrifice. Though Emi kills the other half of the club.

Zero, Emi Yagari, Toga Yagari, Kaname Kuran, Hanabusa Aido, Ruka + Akatsuki Souen, and the hunter army kill the council and dismantle the council’s reign.

Zero and Ichiru fight each other while Kaname kills any remaining councilmen. Ichiru dies. Immediately after, Zero is speared by Yuki and Kaname sees Zero’s body before killing Yuki, his final descendant, in vengeance.

Kaname blows up Cross Academy, and he almost dies. Albeit Kaname is given Yuki’s heart so he is comatose.

Emi Yagari resurrects Zero Kiryu with help of Toga Yagari by getting his metabolic processes back on with magic, which takes weeks.

A day or a few hours after Emi Yagari resurrects Zero with help from her father, The Templars nearly kill her for this as this would make her equal to or above God/Jesus. Aido quickly diverts their attention to “other pressing matters”.

Kaname wakes a week later without his memory.

Yuki Cross is dead. Ichiru Kiryu is dead.

2024

Part 3/Post-Series

5 months after, Zero wakes up.

Emi has become Cross Academy’s headmistress, though she’s more of a “Mockingjay” situation.

Cross Academy is rebuilding.

Kaname Kuran’s memories are brought back by Zero Kiryu.

Kaname attempts to starve himself for a week out of just wanting his life over. Zero finds him.

Kaname and Zero get together after a whole deal of Kaname being pissed off zero brought him back but then Zero isn’t taking his shit and then they have say gex in the abandoned apartment and dam now they are boyfriends and the series goes on as weird slices of life.

Also some American soldiers come in lol wonder what’ll happen there (a lot)

2040

Emi has her son Mei. The father is unknown.

2046

Kaname and Zero get married.

Meme time

Vampire Knight Rewrite Characters embodied by SONIC HIGH SCHOOL quotes

Zero (Part 1): “No, I am over her. I am different now. I have learened about the world and I am not so stupid and happy like I used to be. I am black(emo) now." Sonic said to Tails, sounding still angry even though he was talking to Tails.”

Zero (Part 2): “You are right. Why do people do this like this? I hate it." said Rouge to Rouge's baby. Rouge had become a different person since she had a baby. She used to be only sexy, but now Rouge was sexy and matronly.

"Yes. Fuck this evil world!"

Zero (Part 3): “Shit I don't know," said Amy still all worked up. "Give me a day. Right now let's get things right.”

Kaname (Part 1): “I'm so bad," said Knuckles, laughing because he sat where two people could sit. Knuckles did this every day and no one bothered him, but they all knew it was against the rules of both man and God.”

Kaname (Part 2): “He did not want to see him anymore, because that was all about him being ruined by other people, even when he was the nicest to everyone.”

Kaname (Part 3): “Charmy could not control his gay urges like everyone else and used all the colors in every picture, where like Sonic just used blue and Amy just used pink and other people were also normal like that.”

Emi: “Charmy looked at Jesus (Knuckles) really close and then reached into his clothing with the hand that was not holding him and pulled out a knife. "Time to get murdered," said Charmy as he started to kill Knuckles.”

Toga: “I was going to give it back to you, but you were not there at the competition like you should have been, even though I am such a good friend to you. Even now, when I could have been reaching my moment of genius, I was doing a thing for you because I want you to be happy." Tails said to Sonic with a voice of emotion.”

Yuki: “But then where is Charmy, and where is the guy who made the robot? And so many other things! High School Drama is just so crazy to be a part of…”

Yuki (Part 2): “Sonic just grinned at her with an evil look and just as she started to open her eyes and see his white eyes above her, he punched her right in the face. Amy was now in a lot of pain but still confused and surprised and maybe thought she was nightmaring. But no, it was real, and new Black Sonic on drugs was about to beat all of her shit out of her.”

Ichiru: “I am going to kill my parents," said Shadow. See this is how Shadow is worse than Knuckles, he did serious bad things. At least at the end of the day Knuckles could sleep. Shadow was too dark for that.”

Kaien: “Rouge grabbed her two babies and had them both eat from her terrific boobs. She smiled and felt like a mother”

Hanabusa Aido: “Tails secretly had a crush on Cream and wanted to feel the body of his sexy friend (…)”

Ruka Souen: “Amy and Rouge talked and they looked at Sonic some times and laughed and Sonic thought Amy was telling her about how awesome Sonic kissed her but it was not. Rouge was telling Amy about Sonic's gay ball problems”

Akatsuki Souen: “Sonic smiled so wide like The King Of Fire finding out he burned down New York City with only his fire powers.”

I will explain if you ask

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

Artbreeders i made of Yuki and Emi a long while before i did those edited portraits of the characters. I still like Meisa Kuroki as Yuki but honestly I love the artbreeder a lot more.

Here is the link to the Vampire Knight Rewritten Pinterest board!

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I also have miraculous ocs I might share eventually :)

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.

Realistic portraits but I edited the hell out of pictures for tha cast. (This is for the rewritten cast I picture the OG cast much differently)

Zero (Part 1. Used Kento Yamazaki)

Ichiru (Part 1, used Tatsuya Fujiwara. The photo got all pixel-y when I tried to skin paler cuz albino so it’s all weird and smoothed over. Or maybe the uncanniness adds to Ichiru’s whole thing?)

Kaname (Used Gerard Way)(if that wasn’t obvio-)(I feel like how vampires’ red eyes would look realistically like either: the 28 days later rage zombies or like when a camera flash is in your eyes and they get all red)

Yuki (Part 1, used Meisa Kuroki)

Emi (used Tina Tamashiro. I honestly don’t see Emi looking too conventionally attractive but Tamashiro is closest to what I picture. Besides Bjork, but Bjork isn’t Asian. Though I suppose Emi would look good since for Toga I picture Tony Thornburg and for Babette/Emi’s mom it’s Charlize Theron)

Part 2 of OC Lore baybeee and Part 2 of VKR but really really really fast so the writing looks kinda bad :P

I’m sorry some parts are really fast this was intended for TikTok but I lost here and there

Semi-sloppy sketch of the Cross-Kiryu siblings being siblings

Alignment charts because that’s one of my many mini hyperfixations of sorting characters

(My friend Kate drew Aido + Souen twins + part 1 Ichiru sketch I miss her)

The funniest part is Kaname’s a 20 year old Anglo-Saxon born in 1100 and somehow he towers over everyone

I didn’t even intend for the height difference between him and Zero I picture them as nearly the same height until I remember oh yeah

To the few people that liked my Lore video for Part 1 of my Vampire Knight Rewrite, until the EXTREMELY ABRIDGED lore for Part 2 comes out here is some voice claims!!

Tw blood and sewerslidal intention

Well, if anyone was gonna find out about my vampire knight rewrite or I was gonna start out telling people about it, I thought an oc lore done poorly would work.

This is only the context behind the series and part 1 btw this isn’t how it happens chronologically obv

edit: now with added music