Jesterfreak

I love crack ships I am all over the place never in one place at once everywhere but nowhere I analyze everything I can't help it Black Nerd

[stripedsocksjpeg]

Every once in a while, I'll draw a couple and not know who to make it as, and it'll somehow end up being keitor for at least a few minutes. It usually doesn't end as keitor, so have this and probably nothing else for while.

I blame Little Blade (not that I'm mad lmao). Even the little ear scar is inspired by the fanfic.

[i-am-the-jester]

Me when I was ten an my mom found diabolik lovers fanfiction on my phone

She read a whole chapter

And was like what is this

And i was sweating buckets

What a time

[vampyofmemes]

I don't know if you've ever posted anything about the Hunter Association here, but I figured I'd ask:

I got the feeling while reading VK that they were pretty underutilized and disorganized. I'm only reading Memories now (still on chapter twelve), and I still have the same impression: even though they accept ordinary humans into their cause, they somehow remain mostly... background characters.

I don't know, it feels like they simultaneously have a huge impact and no impact at all. Because in the end, it's always our protagonists who end up solving every major problem instead of a bunch of hunters who've been dealing with vampires for centuries.

For example, when the poor hooded woman finally passes on and the hunters lose the furnace, had they really never realized they needed a backup plan for killing vampires? Or why the hell didn't they spend more time investigating where each Pureblood was so they could prepare accordingly, like Batman or something?

Jokes aside, I really like VK. #teamzeroxhappiness🤗

Hi, anon, dear! :)

Honestly, I’m sure I’ve talked about the association in passing so I appreciate you bringing this topic up for its own for discussion. ^^

“Underutilized and disorganized—“ that’s probably the best way to describe half of Hino’s plot, too, lol. But yes, as an organization, there was barely any structure or explanation on how it technically worked.

We were only given that the association is comprised of descendants that drank the progenitor’s blood and there’s a president and everyone else are hunters.

… Sooooo… What’s the other ranking? What’s everyone’s full role? How do they get their intel? Are there field work operatives for that? Do they network with lower ranking vampires that are intel brokers? How does this organization get paid? What’s their association to the local gov’t? Are they disguised as a non-for-profit? What’s the salary, if there is one? What’s the life expectancy of hunters? Why is there only one hunter’s association? So many questions and many, many more!

You can’t tell me they could sustain their numbers only off of those that are direct descendants of Hunter blood.. It’s hard to believe hunters even have a chance to procreate if their job is so hazardous. (Birth rates for hunters should really be low, or I assume it would be.) Hino never gave them any other way to recruit besides them being born and just assimilating human participants (possibly). It’s shown more in VKM when Zero mentions how the association is in a transitioning period by aiding the human police force.

Now, on an external meta view, yeah, this just means that Hino gave two shits about explaining the hunters and never gave them a solid voice or a stable base of prominent characters because she didn’t care. Zero is mostly the face of it all in VKM. There’s no Kaito, no Yagari… because we needed to do a 50 year time skip after 10 chapters. And it’s hilarious how Hino never gave a female face from the association because if she did have a female hunteress in the story that gets close to Zero, this character would be the perfect contender against Yuuki and clearly we can’t have that, lol. (But, I digress—I don’t care for the shipping bits but man would I have loved to have seen a female huntress. I guess we get that in Ren eventually..)

I understand to an extent how the focus was still the “romance” aka relationship between Zero and Yuuki to explore (very lightly) on why they’re struggling externally to be together—the two polarizing sides don’t want them to be—it’s just not utilized right to explain why it’s such a problem, honestly. Nor are we given a good solution of resistance.. againnnn, I digress.

I do ultimately agree, though, that without having faces and voices in the association who either are for or against Zero, and to have those names, faces, and voices be given to characters we grow to care about and explore.. well, it just falls flat because we’re given nothing to work with—it’s a skeleton of a story. We see like once or twice Zero’s actual interactions with the people he works with (despite him being a workaholic, mind you) but they’re nobodies to the story and plot. It’s just odd storytelling in my opinion since for VKM Zero is a main character and we don’t see much of his life or compares, the rapport he formed in the association, or have any attachment to it narratively as the audience. It’s a shame, really.

Moving on to your other criticism—to be fair, why would any common hunter feel the need to believe the same method of killing vampires would ever fail them when it’s been working for 10,000 years? lol Nor do I think logistically they ever felt the need to evaluate the sturdiness of the furnace, and if they did know a pureblood heart resided within—why would anyone believe it would falter when those organs are undying and eternal? I don’t know, in this way, I’m willing to cut them a little slack. lol

Now, on a last note—we, as readers, are never presented with how many purebloods there actually are and that’s something Hino sure wasn’t bothered by to ever extrapolate on despite that being the focal point of the issues in the series. She creates this point that Purebloods are rare but somehow there are a plenty? Hilarious.

Anyway, thank you for dropping by, anon! I’m glad to see a fellow ZeroxHappiness shipper. ^^ I know, ultimately, that’s what ever Zero fan is by nature. We just all ship him differently and that’s okay because we still have common ground for loving Zero. ;)

You’re always welcome to grace my inbox anytime, anon! Have a good one. ^^

[i-am-the-jester]

That's what I'm saying. The Hunters Association barely does anything, and they are so weak, which makes no sense seeing as they are supposed to be the ones keeping vampires in check.

They are at a severe disadvantage that doesn't make sense

[i-am-the-jester]

Sigh the grind never stops

[i-am-the-jester]

And if I said these gacha packing videos with the beads are illiciting gambling in children

Would I be wrong

[i-am-the-jester]

Im strict when it comes to shipping dynamics if I immediately filter out switching

And the opposite tag of my preferences

But when someone doesnt tag it and i read the fic and I realize I get so missed cus its feels like I wasted my time and I dont want to put the dynamic i like include in the tagging system because im not looking for smut

I just dont want to see that dynamic if thier is a possibility for it.

And yes let people do what they want but tag it right please. So I can filter it out.

Im tired

[i-am-the-jester]

Sometimes you read a fic so hood you gotta dig your nails in to the wall

[i-am-the-jester]

When i ever i see someone go :oh I only ship the character with therapy and accountability."

All I can think is shut the fuck you dont have the moral high ground here

I bet your so fun at parties if you even get invited to them with how much of a wet wipe you are

Id say Your the kind of person to remind the teacher that their was homework

But that would be too easy

your the kind of person to call the police to make noise complaint for a birthday party you weren't invited to

Nobody asked your mental assessment

Go crawl in a corner and think before commenting.

[saffron-seraphim]

*Cough cough* Ssoooo ....keith x Lotor ...yummy

[i-am-the-jester]

I low-key think this widespread hate of Bloom is kind of misogynistic.

I'm seeing people hate on her for typical teenage girl mistakes.

Just the way they talk about her is honestly disgusting.

I am a firm believer in hating female charters for an actual reasons not just becasue they make typical teenage girl mistakes or are just annoying

The girl is a victim of mass genocide and grooming and people hate her about being conflicted in who she is and making bad decisions.

[jjjjjjjjoey]

When ur mutuals w/ some cool ass people rb if u agree

[i-am-the-jester]

One thing I hate is when the ship I'm looking for is tagged not as the main ship—oh no, that could never happen for me

but as a side ship, and that's not the worst part.

Its as the abusive past relationship

Sometimes you get lucky with it as the main ship but still abusive if not used as non con or cuckholding.

Sighhhh

Its hell

[i-am-the-jester]

Why would you do that

Ugly

[i-am-the-jester]

Songs that remind me of some Vampire Knight characters

Zero - Aizo by King Gnu, it's the twin motif.

Ichiru- abnormality dancing girl by guchiry, the want for reconition to the point of slef mutlation and need to be better or be the better one the better twin.

Sara- Bacterial contamination by calciu_bot it just fits

Kaname- Rule 34 by fish in a birdcage, just listen to the song man

Yuki - again by Crusher: Yuki's conflict with picking a side, essentially her indecision pulling her apart.

Ruka-Nightshift by lucy Dacus spefically ealry ruka very longing yet never having .

Aidou- in the Navy by the village people jes just silly like that

Kain- stuff is way by they might be gaints, hes very noncholant gives of i care but i dont but im not going against the norm.

Shizuka - tongues and teeth by the crane wives she just gives off toxic.

Thats all i got

[i-am-the-jester]

Controvershal opinion

I still think that miraculous ladybug is a copy of Shugo chara

And i think its a bad one.

You cannot change my mind

[i-am-the-jester]

I was beginning to think i was alone in this

Cus everyone is just like oh its just magical girl concept

But im like id agree if it wasnt almost band for band in how they did it

Main character had an interest in fashion has the special abilty to purify evil

Has a black cat love interest whose ability is to destroy

Has a group of heros that are also her firends

The black cat love interest father is a evil mastermind that attempts control the black cats life.

Both main evils are after the special artifacts they have in order to get a wish granted

Both black cat love interst are experiemnts to thier father

The only difference is os that shugo chara does it better

[i-am-the-jester]

I hate when im reading a fic about enemies to lovers

And they make the person who won in canon lose in the fic just for smut

Like what you need to keep their canon strength in the fic just make em horny for smut purposes

But dont make em lose that pisses me off

Espcially if they were from a video game and i know i beat the shit out of em.

I just take it as offense to my own gaming abilities when i read that.

And i know its not about me its just irritaing when people dumb down charcters for smut

[i-am-the-jester]

This is the second time i cuaght you doing this

Im beggining to think you miss your mind reading abilities

What a gossip