kaname stans are the MOST insufferable bitches ever. just cuz you’re okay with incest doesn’t mean everyone else is. there’s no argument against that, you cannot win as a kaname stan BECAUSE that’s the whole story. “oh well zero isn’t better” zero doesn’t manipulate yuki to get what he wants. “yeah well he pushes her away and duh duh duh” zero was traumatized at the age of 12 seeing his parents die infront of him and seeing his brother chose the person that killed his parents. for 5 years he’s under the impression that his brother is dead because they haven’t seen eachother since the kiryu family massacre. THEN he’s taken in by kaien cross BECAUSE he knows full well everything bound to happen with zero. he’s well informed of the life zero is going to live as a vampire AND as a vampire hunter. kaien wants to be a father towards yuki and zero. yuki barely accepts it because she’s lost trying to figure herself out for YEARS. zero does NOT accept it because he had a family he wasn’t young enough to move on and forget his family. he knew no one was going to take the place of his parents. no one did and the closest thing zero had to a father was yagari. yk the guy that was around since the twins were born. the guy that helped them train to be vampire hunters, the guy that lost an eye protecting zero. kaien cared for zero and yuki physically but he was also in charge of a school the whole time. they were left alone more often than not. they were together and protected eachother but zero was ALWAYS extremely distant. yukis first complaint is how distant zero is. he never lets her close enough for them to feel like anything other than a friend. zero is still trying to go through the trauma of losing the most important people in his life when vampires—the things that took his family away and almost killed him MULTIPLE times— are on school grounds. they start as students at the academy when zero is like 15-16 before he starts falling to a level-e. zero NEVER ever gets a chance to be around yuki and act like adopted siblings because of everything. after the vampires are on campus zero slowly starts his fall to a level-e putting him in excruciating pain. he’s turned into the one thing he was BORN to kill. considering the hunters mostly take out level-e vampires zero is next. at his young age he quickly becomes protective over yuki BECAUSE she’s often around vampires. zero knows the painful traumatizing experiences that come with vampires and as a way to protect her he tries to keep her away from them. so everything on top of everything that he goes thru in his early years, he starts to hate himself when the transition begins. from someone that was already closed off and distant that distance only grows between him and yuki. even with that distance he attempts to help her as best as he can. dude does NOT want to get close to anyone now because he knows the violent nature of former human vampires. he knows what’s to come and what he is capable of. zero has feelings for yuki very very early in their relationship because she takes care of him but that doesn’t stop him from putting up that wall and pushing her away when she gets too close. he’s well aware of her feelings for kaname aswell. the older they get the more they try to reject and ignore how they feel about eachother because by the time yuki is 15-16 she loves both zero and kaname. zero does everything in his power to protect and care for yuki while not letting his feelings get in the way. it works for a long time he’s able to make yuki believe he only drank her blood because it helped him. she’s unaware for a while of what his feelings are. literally up until she’s regained her memories from her childhood she just thinks that zeros never gonna change and that it was always how he made it out to be. it takes her vampire awakening to make her understand it was ALWAYS more than just protecting her.
the relationship between yuki and zero is extremely delicate and complicated but to sit there and say “well they’re adopted so it’s basically as bad as yuki and kaname” is just a blatant misunderstanding of everything. you can live in close proximity to anyone and never see them as family. it becomes difficult to see someone as family when they act the way zero does. when it comes to legality, yuki and zero are NOT siblings. kaien is legally yukis father while legally being zero’s guardian. guardian and parent is NOT the same thing. it’s a similar role yes and there isn’t a lot distinguishing them but the acceptance of that guardian as a parent. because zero never accepted kaiens parental role, zero and yuki don’t have a pseudo-incest relationship. due to zero’s traumatic ass childhood he NEVER EVER seen yuki as a sister. she was always a friend in his head it was a friendship-lover relationship. they literally spend at the max 3-4 years together before she runs off with kaname. it was NEVER a sibling love EVER. they’re drawn looking younger but zero is 13 when his family is killed. story starts when he’s 16-17. if you yourself can consider someone a sibling that early if they act like zero that’s a you thing. ON THE OTHER HAND you get kaname. he’s 10,000 years old and when he’s found. he’s a literal ancestor of yuki and her parents. he is one of the very FIRST pure blood vampires ever. he’s one of the first and founders of the kuran bloodline. he goes into a very long sleep (10,000 years) and is awoken by his descendants juri and haruka yk yukis parents. the kuran family is the most incest filled families of the 7 pure blood families. rido is probably the first of the kurans to actually develop a relationship with another pure blood family. this is AFTER his obsession with his sister juri is forced to ‘end’ because she mates with her other brother haruka. rido chooses shizuka but never marries her. he has a kid with an aristocrat vampire and yeah that happens. i ain’t explaining. anyways juri and haruka have a son that they name after their ancestor kaname, after they get married. when rido finds out he takes that baby and uses his blood to resurrect a young looking 10,000 year old ancestor the original kaname kuran. with everything kanames body isn’t complete so to keep her son alive basically, the body is kind of reset into a baby. she takes care of kaname as if he were her son. again he is NOT the son of juri and haruka their son is dead. but she does the same thing she did with yuki, and seals away kanames memories of the last 10,000 years. unlike yukis memory seal or wtv, kanames is much much weaker. by the time yuki is born he’s starting to gain back his memories. and because rido is a fucking freak, juri tries to protect yuki by making her existence unknown to everyone. and the story goes from there if rido finding out and trying to take yuki and yeah. that’s that. so obviously by the time of the first episode kaname is almost completely aware of his relationship to yuki. he knows he’s one of the first of the kuran bloodline, he knows what juri and haruka did and that he was there just so they can feel like their son didn’t die. and he knows yuki was never aware of his actual relationship to her. he leaves her to kaien because he was friends with kaien when he was still a hunter. he knows what kaien is capable of doing as well as his wants. and for the years following kaname proceeds to in a way groom yuki back into her vampire self for years. because he’s insane. this comes with a lot of manipulation and ‘shielding’ when he was only meant to protect her from ridos weird ass.
the main issue i have with kanames story is that he knows everything like he knows everything about yuki and keeps it from her. yuki and zero grow together. their manipulation is very very different. one uses his manipulation to get what he wants from yuki while the other manipulates himself and her into pushing them away from eachother. zero really does protect yuki. okay yeah yuki should’ve had that choice but her story literally would not make sense or allow that to happen. yeah it’s wrong yes i hate it but i’d truly rather be with someone that doesn’t manipulate me with an ulterior motive. which was exactly what kaname did. he did it for his own benefit. zero wanted to fucking die for years and did manipulate yuki so that when he did die she would be able to move on with her life. at the end of the story that’s exactly what the fuck happens. zero dies for her and she lives 1000 years before resurrecting kaname and dying for him. zero worries about her fully her well being her future like everything and kaname is selfish. it’s for his personal gain and he disguises it as “for yuki” when it’s not for her. could the story have been done without incest yes obviously but it came out in 2008. i don’t know if you know anything about vampires in 08 but the story would’ve seemed like a copy of twilight. i mean you read/watch twilight and it is almost exactly alike minus the incest. vampire knight is almost exactly like twilight but has more reason backing why one of the love interest makes sense and is better than the other. so when it comes down to it.
zero kiryu/jacob black>>> kaname kuran/edward cullen.
i can make a lot of excuses abt why they’re the better option for yuki and bella but it mostly comes down to what drives them to do the shit they do. and for the 2 it is almost always a selfish reason and idk bro that doesn’t sit right with me. shit goes hand in hand honestly and if you chose kaname or edward. you’re wrong 💗
honest to god this is what i mean by i can write anything as long as im passionate about it
edit- proper grammar and paragraphs were messed up during my time writing i don’t know why i would hope my writing is decent enough to read though. most of my rants make me seem illiterate but im not. some of it is intentional but again a lot of my writing was messed up midway through don’t know why but tumblr seems to hate me. anyways this wasn’t meant to pick at anyone its just me calling out how dumb the argument of which is better for her when there’s obvious a reason for them both being interests
