"I don't know if we're friends or something less or more. I don't care. We wouldn't survive another attempt to make the X-blade anyway. That's out of reach, but maybe this will end up being even better in the end."
//OOC: There has actually been a lot of behind the scenes character development, plotting, and headcanons (this actually ties in with the two existing short comics and planned third comic on my main blog. Mun has also ended up in an unexpected predicament in which Vanitas is slowly developing feelings that are not hatred toward Ventus. Now that the other half of his heart has reached out, the foundation is shaking and a relationship is developing on the side. Ventus is quite possibly the one piece of the world he no longer hates.
In the present, his animosity toward Ventus has become something more like a rivalry. Dare I say a friendly rivalry.
Now I’m going to talk about shipping. Please bear with me, this is IMPORTANT:
A lot has happened. A lot has happened. There may be VanVen things specifically involving this setting and divergent continuity (well, it WILL be divergent eventually). Vanitas will continue to be secretive and private about them, because “it’s nobody’s fucking business” what he does in private and asks about anything adult will still be met with sass. But in light of this and how impossible it has been to avoid including relationship/character development, I am creating a tag which you can blacklist if you want to avoid anything VanVen on this ask blog:
#the vanven vector
(math joke. A vector is a line with direction, much like the thread of this relationship which is always moving forward and onward to uncharted territory. Also, it’s alliterative!).
Blacklist this tag if you do not want to see posts alluding to VanVen things specifically. I’ll try to remember to update my about page. There will be no other ships, though.
TL;DR: There be VanVen things on the horizon. Blacklist the above tag if you are bothered by that. THIS BLOG WILL REMAIN SAFE FOR WORK.
