#vnc chapter 62

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The LGBT de Sade household (in that order)

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No but I’m so happy mochijun is writing the queer manga she wants. Because there’s a bunch in Pandora Hearts you can tell she was eager but wasn’t allowed to do. And here she can have several canonically queer important characters.

That’s not even touching the subtext.

Like these aren’t background characters. This isn’t a one and done thing. Luna is one of the most important figures in the story. This is another Archiviste which is already a big deal, now quite possibly sapphic now. Johann and I consider the dhams part of the main cast. If you want you could see Teacher genderfluid and Domi is heavily implied to be bi. I don’t give a damn if vanoé don’t kiss on-screen, queerness is entwined with this manga and no one can convince me otherwise.

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Noda from twitter said that Johann is the Judas of VnC and sent me down a spiral. Because one of Jesus’ missions was to convert sinners and spread the good news. You can interpret that as Vanitas’ whole healing curse-bearers thing. Assume then that Vanitas is Jesus. Bear with me pls. We can also assume Johann spider reveal will be the first turning point before everything goes to shit. Tipping the chain of events that’ll lead to Vanitas dying. What I mean by this is Judas betrays the squad. What’s funny is that Monsieur Spider is working with Ruthven and the extremist chasseurs aka the Church. Now, Judas betrayed Jesus mainly for greed. And it’s possible Johann, if spider, is being paid by Ruthven.

Btw when Judas goes to betray Jesus it’s described as “Satan entered him”. This could like the times we’ve seen Johann’s mask slip and he shows his crueler side. But it’s also a large belief that Judas was trying to scam the chief priests and get back at the Roman government. Judas very much believed in the coming of a mighty Messiah to free them from the Romans but Jesus was being too weak. He thought Jesus needed a little push in the right direction. So he betrayed him, expecting Jesus to perform a miracle and disappear like he always does. That didn’t happen and Jesus got condemned to death. Some ppl think that’s why he returned the 30 pieces of silver. This isn’t explicitly stated in the bible but simply popular theories people have.

Because this wasn’t the plan. Johann could be doing all this to get back at a society who’ve shunned dhams, his family. Initially I said Dante is Jesus but that’s saying he’s betraying Dante. Which I don’t think that’s the case but Dante will get wrapped up into it. So I guess you could still make an argument. He could kiss Dante as an apology , I could see him blowing a kiss at Vanitas to be a bitch. He’s made it very clear he isn’t a fan of him. But now it’s...what comes next?

Because Judas commits sui@ide. I don’t think it’s beyond Mochijun to write smth like that. If Dante or Richie or both die because of his involvement in all this, it’s not impossible. In PH, Alice did technically off herself to protect Oz and Alyss. And we did come back from hiatus to a flashback of Astolfo attempting so I cannot say it’s beyond her. Finally the traitors’ names begin with a J. Imma leave it at that.

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So here’s some stuff we need to sit on. Firstly, Lady Archiviste is likely Teacher’s former pupil. I’m assuming it was during the time Faustina was alive and Teacher was her right hand man. Could explain that look she gave Noé as in “oh…my replacement.”

Now, how many people know? Because this is a big deal and I don’t think someone like Ruthven knows. Does Antoine know? Veronica? If she knows, that’s also pretty wild bc Lady might’ve told her. Speaking of which, I am so curious about their relationship. Are they in kahoots? Is this just a fling, friends with benefits? Are they fucking dating? I wanna know how genuine their relationship is. Bc if Veronica is lowkey in love with her that’s major given her character. Idk maybe it’ll make her open her heart a little.