Tragedy Is The Best Ending

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[ericcartmanmeh]

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Listen closely, there's the sound of a baby crying/talking right after Kaname's last words to Yuuki before they turn into ash:

Thank you for loving me, and for letting me love you, my beloved, Yuuki.

Baby Yuuki is responding with "waaah," "wah wah".

There was a time when I want to leave everything behind, to live freely, just as my heart desired, and staying with you forever, wherever we might go. ....Will you listen to what i have to say?

meaning that Kaname knows baby Yuuki is listening. He's talking directly to her. Even though she isn't able to speak anymore, she understands his words and does everything she can to respond to him with the little sounds she can make.

[ericcartmanmeh]

How blinded i was, i misread the title vampire night as knight this whole time. so hino never refers to zero as the knight in canon. and why would she title that chapter vampire night when it's basically begging readers to misread it as knight, why night, not knight though, the chapter doesn't even take place at night. so the only 2 times knight was mentioned, it's about kaname. why night hino.

[ericcartmanmeh]

The reason Kaname never woke up was because Yuuki was never able to gather all of his fragments. The final fragment had actually been inside Shizuku Toma all along.

To curse Shizuku Toma, who had once hurt Yuuki, Kaname embedded his own fragment into his body. Because of that, Yuuki could never find the last piece she needed to bring him back.

The more Kaname tried to do for Yuuki, the more his own actions prevented him from achieving what he wanted. This continues one of the main themes of the VK: Kaname’s arrogance and his belief, as a Pureblood, that he alone could control everything became the very thing that punished him.

As for why Kaname shed tears, it was because he had found his missing fragment, which had remained hidden beneath the land where Shizuku Toma’s body rested. That fragment carried the long history and sorrow of the land itself. When he felt Yuuki’s past contained within it, vague fragments of memories and emotions reached him, and for the first time, we witnessed Kaname’s tears.

[my-beautiful-wickedness]

The Castle of Chaythe. Soon we'll be able to see it: the home of Carmila, the Bloody Countess. You've heard of her. For five thousand years her rule of terror lasted, and then, that was that! Your father, the vampire king, grew angry. He was impatient with her vanity; offended by her bloodlust, her gluttony. He grew so tired that he killed her while she slept, impaling her on a sword, and that was it for her.

Except she haunts the place now with phantoms and demons, but you don't care about that, do you?

[qifrei]

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)

[divineandmajesticinone]

VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST (2000)

[ericcartmanmeh]

About HW and his guilt:

The HW remembers her parents were human, she's got a stable core, her own goals, and she sides with humans because of the love her parents gave her. Kaname, on the other hand, has no memories, no healthy upbringing to speak of, he spent so long hiding what he was, never letting himself form a single bond, that he eventually forgot his own name. She's the one who tracks down purebloods like him, the ones adrift with nowhere to belong. Functionally, she's his guide, that's her role in the story.

Kaname and the HW don't want the same thing, though. Kaname wants purebloods to disappear entirely, he hates himself and he hates what this bloodline has done to him, he's convinced it's a species that shouldn't exist. He doesn't want Yuuki carrying the weight of immortality and craving blood like an animal, he thinks she's still too young, too naive to understand that kind of pain. His guilt comes from breaking Juri's dying wish, from falling in love with his own descendant, from letting himself fantasize about running off with Yuuki to some corner of the world and living forever together, just the two of them, walking away from every responsibility he has. And on top of that, realizing his possession of Yuuki isn't any different from Rido's, that's what really makes him hate himself. Rido even reminds him in that dream that Yuuki will end up just like him. That's the real voice underneath everything he does. But as the progenitor, as the vampire king, he's betrayed both Juri's wish and everything he owes the HW. Yuuki's young enough to get to be selfish, he isn't. He's terrified she'll end up regretting it. That's where his guilt comes from.

Kaname:

In spite of everything I’ve done…

my hand still reaches for your wounds, longing to heal them.

The truth is…

what I truly want

is to take your hand

to flee somewhere far away with the one I cherish above all, the one I love most.

Even if that place were hell itself…

But…

even if we could be together,

I could never bear to watch you consumed by its flames.

⸻

Yuki:

The way you look at me…

it’s as though you’re counting every sin you believe you’ve committed.

If that’s the expression you wear one filled with nothing but remorse

then tell me what you truly feel.

You already know…

I made peace long ago with being consumed by those flames together with you.

Kaname…

are you afraid?

"I want to fall with you, no matter where it leads."

[ericcartmanmeh]

To Kaname, she is not so much an object of romantic love or affection, but rather a parent-like figure who gave him a new name, a companion with whom he shared and tended each other's wounds, and someone toward whom he holds a feeling of comradeship.

This is an official clarification made by the author herself in 2015, correcting fans who interpreted their close relationship as romantic love.

You can find this information in the last volume (Volume 10) of the following editions: - Vampire Knight Bunko Edition by Hakusensha (JP) - Vampire Knight "Pearls" by Carlsen (DE) - Vampire Knight 愛藏版 by 長鴻出版社 (CN) - Vampire Knight "Édition Double" by Panini (FR)

[eternalpassions]

Kaname was never in love with the hooded woman

[sonitavalentine]

Wow, lol

Hino: shows Kaname kissing HW RIGHT ON FUCKING LIPS

Fans: interpret it romantic (bc the context claimed there should've been a woman who started the Kuran line together with Kaname)

Hino: oh no, don't interpret it as romantic, it was parental hihi

Rrrright bc I kiss my parents on the lips every damn day, of course.

I'm not necessarily pro-Kaname/HW, but I'm against bullshit. You can't just show something like that, put it into absolutely tragically romantic circumstances (yeah, I will fight to death that it is, I am a writer myself and have a thesis in literature. God damn it) and then say this. Nobody claims Kaname belongs to HW, we know that Yuuki was his true and eternal love, but 1) it's nothing bad if Kaname had some romantic affairs before Yuuki, it's normal and healthy, 2) it won't make Yume's love less great and deep, 3) it simply sounds stupid.

I think I'm just done with Hino at this point, she's totally unserious.

[ericcartmanmeh]

I'm not against Kaname having an ex-lover/wife, but he hasn't or it wasnt hooded woman and the dialogue in the manga also states it that way. Kaname did depend on the hooded woman, he was about to develop some sort of feeling for her, but she was already gone.

This is the wording in the manga: By the time he developed a faint attachment to her, she was already gone.

Meaning he hadn't even developed romantic feelings for her before she was already gone.

They worked side by side for maybe hundreds, even thousands of years, and that's what he calls it: a faint attachment. (Yes, the kiss means they're married, they're in love, they have Kuran together, but they're just faint attachment before she is gone.)

Forget centuries. Just a decades of being together is enough for anyone to develop dependency on someone, to get used to that person's company. Not to mention she was the elder who guided him back to his own group when he was at his most lonely and helpless state.

That kiss was a farewell. Part of the reason she cared for him was because she hoped Kaname would inherit her will and carry on her work in her place. "Good boy." "Work hard for me." She had no interest in any romantic relationship whatsoever. She also knew that he battled suicidal tendencies, which is why she stepped in and took the sacrifice meant for him. She wanted him to keep living. She treated him like a fucking child.

Kaname had suicidal tendencies all along. The anti-vampire weapon was his research, and he wanted to end his own life with it. But she got there first and took his place. Guilt kept him from following through afterward, so he honored her wishes and kept working. But he still couldn't help himself, running off to sleep out of "loneliness" and other reasons.

And later, hooded woman comes back to punish Kaname for slaughtering the purebloods, because he went against her original wishes and the words she left him with. Her line: "I will punish the purebloods who brought everything into darkness." This was directed at both Kaname and Sara, and sara was executed on the spot. That chapter's title: "The Arrogant King, The Arrogant Queen." Because for purebloods, arrogance itself is a sin.

The monologue here also implies that they only started breeding after the HW's death. And yes, breeding is the word he used when describing how Rido came to exist.

[sonitavalentine]

Hi,

With all due respect, a lot of what you're saying about HW is just kind of wishful interpretation of whacky narration. We know absolutely nothing about Hooded Woman, what and who she is, if she's younger or older, what she believes in and what her intentions are, she's just that - a plot device. Not a character, she doesn't have a name, even the Hooded Woman wording is something the fans came up with to somehow describe her in fandom analyses. So to me it's a bit weird to discuss her wishes and views because it's never clear.

What I'm tryin to convey is that we shouldn't look at HW or Kaname's actions and thoughts but Hino's. She's absolutely insecure as a writer, she created this situation, made Kaname more ancient than the pyramids, said he was the progenitor, and then...stepped back. Saying that this creature didn't form ANY kind of attachment, that he went into slumber because of total loneliness when the narration requires him to have a wife and children (he was declared to be the ancestor, for hell's sake), all of this imply high level of stupidity from the writer to me. Or insecurity, okay.

All Hino had to do, or NOT do is not declare Kaname the ancestor. He could've been a brother who failed to save, idk, his younger brother??? And kids of those brother formed a Kuran lineage and those heirs hated Kaname bc he failed to save their father, or that he turned them into first vampires bc he was afraid to lose last family members, but they turned their backs on him, which caused his total loneliness. Voi la! No woman in sight, no unclear kisses, loneliness explained. I made up thjs shit within a couple of minutes right now, Hino had a decade to come up with something much better, but instead she presented us a pre-story of the very important character in such a way that up to this day people argue what that means. Why? What for? Unclear. And stupid. She just didn't want to and didn't care. So to me it makes no sense to argue what those characters made in the past when they aren't really fleshed out.

[ericcartmanmeh]

Hi, I don't think it's fair to write this off as vagueness or laziness on Hino's part. This is a hallmark of East Asian storytelling, where a lot of things simply don't need to be spelled out, and that's tied to the tradition of indirect expression in kanji-using cultures. It's also why so much of the mood/subtext doesn't survive translation into English.

What I'm trying to get at is that VK's worldbuilding, and its central doomed romance, draws straight from Vampire Hunter D. It's a story where a half-vampire, half-human hunter belongs nowhere, crushed by the isolation of immortality, rejected by humans and never at peace with the vampire side of himself either. Kaname isn't a dhampir, but he's the one who founded the anti-vampire weapons in the first place, and his situation takes the same shape: a pureblood who's been around for centuries and never come to terms with his own identity. To pass himself off as human and fit into human society, he never let himself bond with anyone, and over time he forgot his own name, because no one was ever there to say it. He refused to feed with his fangs, but couldn't outrun what he was, ended up back with the race he despised.

And this isn't just me reading too much into it either. In a 2008 interview [1], Hino herself flat-out recommended this exact novel, describing it as "living precariously, teetering on the knife's edge between human and beast." That line pretty much sums up Yuuki, Kaname, Zero, and even Kaien in one go, none of them fully human, none of them able to fully own their vampire side either, all four caught between two worlds and never quite landing on either side.

Kaname mirrors the strongest Vampire in Vampire Hunter D pretty closely too. Hino writes his deep weariness toward an endless lifespan, and his fixation on turning Yuuki human is arrogant, basically the Vampire's line to his beloved: "You don't understand the pain of having to live forever, I don't want you to experience that pain," met with his beloveds response, "That's only what you believe,"[2] which is close to what Yuuki throws back at Kaname. Yuuki had already decided to follow him anywhere, even to hell. In the end of this tv series it's implied the woman dies and the vampire follows her in death. Whether they actually die is never explicitly confirmed, I think that's just how East Asian storytelling rolls.

This also lines up with what Hino's said about VK's origins, her initial concept was an extremely tragic short story, not a school shoujo romance. Her editor at LaLa rejected that pitch and pushed for a school setting with a bunch of hot guys instead, leading to an opening arc that reads like such a generic school romance and pulled in a fanbase that wasn't really there for a dark story, so it backfired on her later.[3]

So no, I don't think this is Hino not knowing what she was doing. She was clearly trying to draw from the Vampire Hunter D concept of an extreme tragic romance, even within the constraints the school setting imposed on her. Yume was arguably doomed to a bad ending from the very start, and the actual ending of VK Memories is Hino's mercy.

Lastly, and to be clear, the narrative logic never required him to have a wife, just a bloodline heir, and that's why the manga keeps hammering words like "breeding" and "beast". VK constantly reminds you that purebloods don't pair off for love, they pair off to keep the bloodline going. Rido has a child and never married. (and the manga also makes Rido a mirror for both Kaname and Yuuki) So why not just make Kaname the uncle, with the Kuran bloodline coming from his brother, because Hino was writing incest on purpose, an ancestor falling for his own descendant, a gothic, dark relationship. There's even a line in the manga that says she inherited his most concentrated blood, that's the effect Hino was going for. Without that taboo, the whole story loses its point.

[1][3] ぱふ 2008年 08月号 雑誌 "巻頭特集: 魅惑のヴァンパイア 「ヴァンパイア騎士」

In the year 12,090 AD, the world has become the domain of vampires known as the "Nobility." Though showing signs of racial decadence and decline, the Nobility still threaten humanity with their overwhelming power. Among the hunters who specialize in hunting them is a young man renowned for his exceptional skill and striking beauty. His name is "D." He is a Dunpeal — born between a vampire and a human… The series has also been adapted into other media, including OVA anime films, and remains a hugely popular series by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

[2] Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)

[ericcartmanmeh]

To Kaname, she is not so much an object of romantic love or affection, but rather a parent-like figure who gave him a new name, a companion with whom he shared and tended each other's wounds, and someone toward whom he holds a feeling of comradeship.

This is an official clarification made by the author herself in 2015, correcting fans who interpreted their close relationship as romantic love.

You can find this information in the last volume (Volume 10) of the following editions: - Vampire Knight Bunko Edition by Hakusensha (JP) - Vampire Knight "Pearls" by Carlsen (DE) - Vampire Knight 愛藏版 by 長鴻出版社 (CN) - Vampire Knight "Édition Double" by Panini (FR)

[eternalpassions]

Kaname was never in love with the hooded woman

[sonitavalentine]

Wow, lol

Hino: shows Kaname kissing HW RIGHT ON FUCKING LIPS

Fans: interpret it romantic (bc the context claimed there should've been a woman who started the Kuran line together with Kaname)

Hino: oh no, don't interpret it as romantic, it was parental hihi

Rrrright bc I kiss my parents on the lips every damn day, of course.

I'm not necessarily pro-Kaname/HW, but I'm against bullshit. You can't just show something like that, put it into absolutely tragically romantic circumstances (yeah, I will fight to death that it is, I am a writer myself and have a thesis in literature. God damn it) and then say this. Nobody claims Kaname belongs to HW, we know that Yuuki was his true and eternal love, but 1) it's nothing bad if Kaname had some romantic affairs before Yuuki, it's normal and healthy, 2) it won't make Yume's love less great and deep, 3) it simply sounds stupid.

I think I'm just done with Hino at this point, she's totally unserious.

[ericcartmanmeh]

I'm not against Kaname having an ex-lover/wife, but he hasn't or it wasnt hooded woman and the dialogue in the manga also states it that way. Kaname did depend on the hooded woman, he was about to develop some sort of feeling for her, but she was already gone.

This is the wording in the manga: By the time he developed a faint attachment to her, she was already gone.

Meaning he hadn't even developed romantic feelings for her before she was already gone.

They worked side by side for maybe hundreds, even thousands of years, and that's what he calls it: a faint attachment. (Yes, the kiss means they're married, they're in love, they have Kuran together, but they're just faint attachment before she is gone.)

Forget centuries. Just a decades of being together is enough for anyone to develop dependency on someone, to get used to that person's company. Not to mention she was the elder who guided him back to his own group when he was at his most lonely and helpless state.

That kiss was a farewell. Part of the reason she cared for him was because she hoped Kaname would inherit her will and carry on her work in her place. "Good boy." "Work hard for me." She had no interest in any romantic relationship whatsoever. She also knew that he battled suicidal tendencies, which is why she stepped in and took the sacrifice meant for him. She wanted him to keep living. She treated him like a fucking child.

Kaname had suicidal tendencies all along. The anti-vampire weapon was his research, and he wanted to end his own life with it. But she got there first and took his place. Guilt kept him from following through afterward, so he honored her wishes and kept working. But he still couldn't help himself, running off to sleep out of "loneliness" and other reasons.

And later, hooded woman comes back to punish Kaname for slaughtering the purebloods, because he went against her original wishes and the words she left him with. Her line: "I will punish the purebloods who brought everything into darkness." This was directed at both Kaname and Sara, and sara was executed on the spot. That chapter's title: "The Arrogant King, The Arrogant Queen." Because for purebloods, arrogance itself is a sin.

The monologue here also implies that they only started breeding after the HW's death. And yes, breeding is the word he used when describing how Rido came to exist.

[ericcartmanmeh]

Fans don't need to be "corrected" as they are not dumb. They know what a kiss on the lips means.

the author had to come out and explain because the fans were too dumb, their brains got rot from reading too much shoujo manga. all that's left in their heads is romance. a man and a woman can't possibly have any relationship other than love, even though they are not human and doesn't have human mindset. two handsome guys standing together, they must be gay.

[ericcartmanmeh]

To Kaname, she is not so much an object of romantic love or affection, but rather a parent-like figure who gave him a new name, a companion with whom he shared and tended each other's wounds, and someone toward whom he holds a feeling of comradeship.

This is an official clarification made by the author herself in 2015, correcting fans who interpreted their close relationship as romantic love.

You can find this information in the last volume (Volume 10) of the following editions: - Vampire Knight Bunko Edition by Hakusensha (JP) - Vampire Knight "Pearls" by Carlsen (DE) - Vampire Knight 愛藏版 by 長鴻出版社 (CN) - Vampire Knight "Édition Double" by Panini (FR)

[worldcupwinner]

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[worldcupwinner]

✨ argentina are through to the quarter-finals! ✨

❝Argentina are alive once again. They have come roaring back. It’s still on for Argentina in a game that had everything.❞

[eternalpassions]

Hello, I wanted to ask if you could explaining why Kaname is the Vampire Knight and not Zero. What are the reasons? And if you have any official sources about it, I’d really appreciate those too. Thank you so much!!

Well see, I’m a believer in Kaname being the core of the story. The most important character. The driver of the story etc but I don’t really feel comfortable characterizing him as a Knight either.

I think people’s whole thing about drooling at the thought of characters being a knight is overrated. What doesn’t knight do? Support? And I feel Kaname did way more than that.

People think that their favorite character has to be the knight because that’s what this story is called and that must mean that’s the most important character but I think the whole thing is misplaced. I think the story is called Vampire Knight as a play on words with Night because the story is about vampires and it takes place a lot of time in the night. And a lot of characters not just Zero are knights for example the night class lol. Even Yuuki was a knight at one point bc she was a part in Kaname’s chess board.

So I wouldn’t call Kaname a knight because it doesn’t suit him and I don’t think that role accurately characterizes his role as the master of this story.

I do think Kaname is the most important character but I wouldn’t think do him as a knight either bc he deserves better. Let Zero have that role bc he did nothing else in this story (lol)

I could make a separate this on how he’s the most important character but yea he’s way better than a knight lol

[ericcartmanmeh]

Hino has never actually confirmed who the Knight is supposed to be.

The only time Zero is explicitly framed as the Knight is in Ch.43, titled Vampire Knight. (My god, i just realize it is Vampire Night, NOT Knight)Then, in the 2013 official novel, Hino ironically had Rido commit suicide in that very chapter, and gave Kaname the chapter title Proof of Knight. The final chapter wraps up with the Japanese title 「ヴァンパイア騎士」, and we all know what Kaname did in the ending.

The thing is, a knight can be anyone. Every member of the Night Class is, in a sense, Kaname’s knight, they all exist to protect and serve him, with Takuma even guarding Kaname’s coffin for a lifetime. In Vampire Knight Memories, Yuuki also becomes Kaname’s knight.

Knight only appears as a title three times in the series. Once is in Zero and Yuuki’s joint act of killing Rido, and the final two appearances are in the last two chapters, where Kaname throws his heart into the furnace, ending with Yuuki and Kaname calling each other’s names.

And then comes the final chapter, tying everything back to the title itself ヴァンパイア騎士.

[ericcartmanmeh]

I hope I'm not the only one believing they had sex the first night they returned to Kuran Mansion.

Kaname believed his hands were stained with too much sin to ever deserve touching Yuuki and yet, Yuuki was the one who asked him to use those very hands to corrupt her alongside him.

"Taint me with your hands, Oni-sama."

Make me yours, even with hands like yours.

Kaname froze for a moment, then desire slowly crept into his eyes.

Yuuki looked up at him with that dangerously innocent expression, and he murmured:

"Yuuki, do you know, the way you're looking at me right now is how you'd tempt a vampire."

Following his inner monologue:

"After tens of thousands of nights, I have finally claimed the girl I love."

He lifted her into his arms and carried her toward the bedroom. The panel fades to near black, the words rendered in large bold text across the darkness:

"If neither of us knows the way, let’s just drift together."

Neither knowing where this leads, but choosing to step into the unknown side by side.

In Chapter 89, titled "The Night After Thousands of Nights,"

there is a similar exchange: Kaname believing he is unworthy, and Yuuki still chooses him.

"If you don't know where your heart belongs, let me show you, Yuuki…

If you can still want someone like me…"

And immediately following, Chapter 90's bed scene carries the title

"Falling With You"

[eternalpassions]

Now this adds a lot more context.

I have this scene in HD printed in my room lol. The fact that Hino chose this as one of the scenes for her exhibition shows it’s a much more important scene than is led on.

Why? Because it could be the first time they made love!

The only thing that kind of makes me wonder about this interpretation is when Yuuki just finished hearing Kaname’s past. And she thinks to herself I’m sorry I haven’t done anything but I’m too preoccupied with myself I need to get my bearings. I’m too lazy to look through the manga to search for panels but maybe this could mean they only had sex once and then they didn’t have it again until the final night. Yuuki only had sex with him once because she was too preoccupied with all the other stuff she was worried about so she’s sad she couldn’t give herself more to him. Maybe she was referring to not doing more to be his equal yet.

Also… the way she got pregnant from Ai from one night of sex never made sense to me lol. So it would make sense if the reason she got pregnant was because they had sex before or were already fucking like rabbits lol!

Night 91 symbolizes the time when their love making wasn’t just about physical chemistry but about two people finally being on the same page as equals and making love for the last time. Ugh so intense and romantic

Like this panel where he correctly assumes Yuuki wants to make love. I think he tells he he’ll teach her because this is their first time truly making love and he wants to teach her to express her love through sex. Before their sex was mainly physical now it’s love making and spiritual

I love them

[ericcartmanmeh]

When Yuuki awakened as a pureblood she was practically sleepwalking through it all, and a year later she reflected: "What I always wanted was actually mine, it still feels like a dream I can't quite adjust to." She blamed herself for being so preoccupied with her own feelings, stuck on the idea of whether Kaname really loved her, why he would love her at all, and have someone to stay with her through this long, lonely eternity, instead of "actively" loving him, because Koi at its core is selfish. (only after learning Kaname's past did she stop asking why, stop needing the answer. She had made her decision, to love him actively, on her own terms, even if she was just a piece in his game.) During the academy arc and when she first returned to the mansion her feelings for Kaname weren't entirely love yet, she was fascinated, obsessed even, 恋してた is probably the right word for it, which also explains why the girl gets a nosebleed just by looking at him.

The sex scene appears at the very end for a reason. When Yuuki first returned to the Kuran mansion, her feelings for Kaname were still unresolved, and drawing that scene then would have carried none of the weight it does at the finale. Just as you said, Ch.90 is where their love reaches its peak, a final indulgence before the death of both, emotion they couldn't put into words poured into sex, and the "you want to express your love" interpretation makes more sense than my "If you don't know where your heart wants to go" reading.

Why I don't think their year in the mansion was ever platonic. That first night back, when Kaname told her he wouldn't touch her and intended to keep his distance, it unsettled her deeply. She had already given up her human life, her friends, everything, and his distance terrified her, so the fear of being alone combined with her own longing for him pushed her to say: "Taint me with your hands."

Kaname described her expression as "you're tempting a vampire." Then, as he drank her blood(engage in foreplay), his inner monologue: After tens of thousands of nights, I have finally claimed the girl I love.

The deliberate choice of "nights" over "years". The deliberate choice of "claimed". What exactly did he claim? Why nights? Ch.89's title is also "The Night After Thousands of Nights."

That panel is saturated in black, with smoke-like wisps of white space, a visual language for hidden desire, for sensory surrender. The scene could have ended with them on the couch. Instead, the panel shows Kaname carrying Yuuki somewhere, accompanied by: Since neither of us knows the way, let's get lost together. This line echoes what Kaname says before their last sex in Ch.89: "If you don't know where your heart wants to go, let me show you. If you still want someone like me."

Ch.90 is titled "Falling With You." From "getting lost together" to "falling together," the phrasing runs parallel, lets just hope it implies what I think it implies. Personally it feels very much like Hino's signature way of leaving things unsaid, and you know how much Hino loves parallel...

And there's also the day Kaname left the mansion, Yuuki wrapped her arms around his neck and refused to let him go. "Please don't go today." "Let's cuddle and drink each other's blood." "You've been looking at me like you want my blood this whole time." The way she looked at him, tender and lingering, her whole body language clingy and charged with implication, nothing remotely platonic about it. She knew it worked on him. She had done it before.

In Night 89, she does it again, holding onto him tight, refusing to let go, using herself to make him stay. When Kaname asks what's wrong, she can't bring herself to say it directly. Just "……" And Kaname got the implication.

[ericcartmanmeh]

I hope I'm not the only one believing they had sex the first night they returned to Kuran Mansion.

Kaname believed his hands were stained with too much sin to ever deserve touching Yuuki and yet, Yuuki was the one who asked him to use those very hands to corrupt her alongside him.

"Taint me with your hands, Oni-sama."

Make me yours, even with hands like yours.

Kaname froze for a moment, then desire slowly crept into his eyes.

Yuuki looked up at him with that dangerously innocent expression, and he murmured:

"Yuuki, do you know, the way you're looking at me right now is how you'd tempt a vampire."

Following his inner monologue:

"After tens of thousands of nights, I have finally claimed the girl I love."

He lifted her into his arms and carried her toward the bedroom. The panel fades to near black, the words rendered in large bold text across the darkness:

"If neither of us knows the way, let’s just drift together."

Neither knowing where this leads, but choosing to step into the unknown side by side.

In Chapter 89, titled "The Night After Thousands of Nights,"

there is a similar exchange: Kaname believing he is unworthy, and Yuuki still chooses him.

"If you don't know where your heart belongs, let me show you, Yuuki…

If you can still want someone like me…"

And immediately following, Chapter 90's bed scene carries the title

"Falling With You"

[ericcartmanmeh]

Yuuki really moved on fast, 0 died and the next day she was already back to normal. It just feels harsh, considering everything he gave her.

Imagining this is Kaname’s coat… she probably kept it for herself, probably stored together with that underwear box.

Yuuki seriously kept this unwashed underwear for 1,000 years. The underwear joke first appears in the 2005 drama CD, where Yuuki calls herself a pervert after sneaking off with Kaname's photo and even getting nosebleeds from how beautiful he is, wondering if something is wrong with her. Hino also mentioned in an interview that both Kaname and Yuuki have Hentai trait, and that same trait is reflected in their daughter’s characterization.