~Sammy~

Shizuka Hio's Character & Personality

season 1 is even harder to watch now than before. a mess. the english dub is also shockingly bad.

shizuka hio the icon remains the most interesting part of s1 and this arc. i wish we had more with her.

no one is there emotionally for yuuki when she is struggling most of the time. her adopted dad is actually not a very cute dad, he is emotionally deadbeat 90% of the time.

yuuki has legit PTSD throughout the entire thing, start to finish. someone take this girl to therapy

season 2 yess now we are talking. finally yuuki's arc and less constant whining and brooding. finally yuuki is not only reduced to everyone's (zero's) therapist, Capri-sun and emotional labourer. this only gets better because the Lore!!! vampire society

now, yuuki's relationship to her parents is the most interesting thing here for me. and the vampire lore. i wish i had more of those interactions so badly. juuri & kaien, juri and yuuki

Juri why would you traumatize your 5-year-old in that way. come on

i understand zero more and symphatize with him so much more (in the anime), i also appreciate his bond to yuuki so much more. the rest of the manga is a different matter

kaname is more creepy. and i still sympathize with his character but damn. maybe it is his dub VA that just drives me up the wall. i actively cringe at some of his lines. (yes i have read the manga to the end i know everything). still ship it tho

side characters and background lore are so interesting, twilight syndrome

yuuki is supposedly trained in combat but got a metal rod to defend herself while Zero gets a gun. there is only one explanation for this. come onnn

In fact, it is shown multiple times in the anime and the manga that Yuuki only feels agape love towards Kiryu Zero. This continues until she recognizes that he is the better choice once she recognizes that her marriage to Kuran Kaname is abusive. At that point she has to choose between her existence itself (as a pureblood) and Zero's principles. Zero, as a degenerating hunter, is already too far gone because of his trauma-bond to Shizuka Hio (who deserves far more love than she gets). His own one-dimensional hatred of pureblood vampires precludes recognition that Yuuki didn't consent to being a vampire any more than he did.

Arguably this was forced upon her by Kaname Kuran in an escalation of Kaname's earlier manipulation. The abuse began by Kaname blackmailing Yuuki and using his memory of her past and identity to coerce her into a relationship she lacked sufficient information to be able to give meaningful consent to. In essence Yuuki is violated twice in mind and body by her arranged husband Kaname and is then blamed for this violation by a man for whom she feels mutual agape love.

Yuuki never had a choice in re-awakening to her pureblood lineage. Zero raises the question of whether she has a right to exist or not. Yuuki's true identity was withheld from her first by her mother and then by Kaname; rather than honoring Juuri's wishes his motivation to keep her origins a secret was to ensure she would never be empowered without being attached to him. After all, she would never claim her supernatural or political power as a vampire without him to awaken (and thus direct) it.

Zero was not an option by the start of her relationship with Kaname because she had not yet developed any romantic or sexual recognition of Zero as more than a brother, or a bond other than a trauma bond based on their childhood trauma. Perhaps she also had an intuitive awareness that their childhood trauma was one and the same before she consciously remembered Kuran Rido. Any such relationship they entered into, if it had begun before her awakening as a pureblood, would have been founded on falsehood and incompatible with her authentic self.

What do you think about Ichiru being killed off.

I personally think that Ichiru had a lot of potential and his death just served to put Zero trough more suffering.

I mean, while I don't want to excuse Ichiru 's actions, he was groomed by Shizuka one way or another.

hello, thank you for your question!! i love talking to other people about vk hihi.

it's funny because at first i hated him with a burning passion since he betrayed zero and willingly went with shizuka (and yes, i'm not excusing his actions either, but as we know everything had been manufactured by kaname anyway).

his death actually took me by surprise because by no means did i anticipate it. i think he is incredibly underused and the twins deserved to reconcile. while i understand that you needed to isolate zero to make him as miserable as possible during the 1 year time skip, i genuienly don't think it was a good choice. the entire kiryu family was wiped out and i think by adding ichiru and kaito, you finally had characters who were there for zero. if you think about it, in the second half of the story zero's entire character revolves around yuki because a) hino gave him a goal that he ultimately didn't pursue but gave to kaname instead (???) and b) there is simply no one else there. no one who is soley on zero's side except kaito and yagari, the latter only appearing every blue moon.

we never really see him interact with the people at the association, or people at the school. yori is yuki's best friend, kaien is yuki's adoptive father. aido, kain, ichijou, sara, ruka, even rido, all circle around kaname and/or yuki, which makes zero as a character so very isolated to the point it feels unnatural. it is why the first half of the series works much better in my opinion because all characters feel better woven into the story, and it is one of my biggest critiques of hino's work.

yes, he is supposed to be a loner and very sad and miserable, but like you said, it feels like suffering for the sake of suffering rather than adding to his character development. so yes, i think by keeping ichiru, you would have had a much better base for character development. it would have been nice to see him being surrounded by people who know and love him, and still going off the rails and not being satisfied with drinking level-e blood, starved for yuki's blood because he loves her so much. in my opinion, that would have made the point clearer and hit much harder.

edit: on the other hand, since it was stated from the beginning how the brothers wished to have been born as one, it is very poetic to have them merge at last. i do like that, but i think ichiru should have talked to zero from inside more.

Ehhhh u ppl stress me out, why fight over them wittle boys in the night class? Here are the MEN 🥵 of Vampire Knight. The Dilfs scheming, A grandfather bothering his grandson, childhood friend, sensei Yagari 😩 and motherfucking Rido?!?

Its a buffet by how diverse this is we got us some vampire daddies and hunter baddies 💯 yall sleeping on these men. But thats ok, they belong to me 😏 1 night, behind a hotel, in an dingey alleyway, im talking abt those alleyways with puddles after the rain type shiiitt, dark as a motherfuxker. We starting clockwise, then tag teams, a triple threat and in 4's. When we done Asato isn't gonna bother Takuma anymore. No siirrr, he's gonna be stuck im telling yall. Rido's crazy ass gonna forget all about... whatever the hell he wants 😏 i got Aidou's dad in there, both Senri's dad and uncle too, My mommy Zero's childhood friend Kaito, their sensei Yagari Touga, and that guy Jinmu, the one who DARED to call Zero "tamed". Like how dare he?? The fuck? But leave it to me, I'll make sure these men are not bothering NOBODY anymore. I even put Asato there twice for good measure. 😌

1100:

Kaname is born in what will later be England.

1120:

Kaname is bitten and after committing a massacre of people, escapes to a ship and tries to sleep forever.

1637:

Kaname wakes up in Japan, eats the people who find him, walks into the sun to try and die. It does not work.

1643:

Kaname meets the “Hooded Lady”, Tani Kuran, a fellow vampire and an oiran. She gives Kaname the name Kaname since Kaname forgot his original name (Cain I.) and he takes her surname, Kuran. They fall in love (very weird codependent love) and have a son named Christopher/“Krist” (he’s dead).

1646

After the Hooded Lady attempts to kill the current vampires in charge to stop infecting Japan and influenced Kaname to join. While Kaname is fighting with the leader, Tani steps in between the two to protect him. This allows Kaname to kill his opponent but, in doing so, he unintentionally impales Tani also. Tani tells him she might’ve done this on purpose.

Kaname burns the rest of the current council down but decides to seize control in their place before leaving Japan, thus leaving Vampires having no power there.

Though this is throughout time nearly all of Kaname’s descendants inbreed and die, except for Juri and Rido.

1761:

The dhampir and future revered vampire hunter Kaien Cross is born in a British colony (he’s Irish).

1779:

Kaien throws a rock at Kaname’s head in anger at the bourgeoise. This causes the two to meet.

2002:

Yuki Cross/Kuran is born.

2003:

Zero Kiryu is born.

2004:

Ichiru Kiryu is born.

2005:

Emi Yagari is born.

2007:

Juri Kuran-Tomita, Kazuya Tomita (Juri’s husband and Yuki’s father), and Rido Kuran are killed. Yuki is turned into an amnesiac pseudo-human and taken in by Kaname before being given to and adopted by Kaien.

2014:

Toga Yagari (33 years old) mercy kills his wife Babette after she’s bitten and turned, she begs him to kill her before she goes berserk.

Emi is nine when her father comes home and frustratedly says her mother isn’t ever coming back because she is dead.

Toga would later lose his left eye a few months later.

2015:

Ichiru is bitten and conceals this using illusions.

Zero and Ichiru’s parents are killed in an orchestrated killing by Ichiru and Shizuka Hio. Zero is bitten. They are taken in by Kaien after Kaien saves them from dying and kills Shizuka.

2021:

Part one begins.

Late 2021:

Ichiru Kiryuu kills Kaien Cross. Vampires are exposed to humanity.

Zero gives up half his humanity to evade execution with the help of Kaname.

2022:

Society collapses. The world goes to shit after vampires are revealed, The Council only does stuff that will get them more power. America and Russia nuke each other, Japan closes itself off, groups of humans live in city zones like Half Life, the sky is permanently grey so vampires aren’t affected by the sun. The Japanese military splits off and joins either the Hunters or the Catholic faction known as the Templars, the only successful human colonies outside of the City Zones.

Zero fights Kaito Takamiya and leaves Kaito behind with a magazine of silvers. (A Light Novel I planned)

2023:

Part 2 begins.

Zero saves Emi from a club in which she is a sacrifice. Though Emi kills the other half of the club.

Zero, Emi Yagari, Toga Yagari, Kaname Kuran, Hanabusa Aido, Ruka + Akatsuki Souen, and the hunter army kill the council and dismantle the council’s reign.

Zero and Ichiru fight each other while Kaname kills any remaining councilmen. Ichiru dies. Immediately after, Zero is speared by Yuki out of spite and Kaname sees Zero’s body before killing Yuki, his final descendant, in vengeance.

Kaname blows up Cross Academy, and he almost dies. Albeit Kaname is given Yuki’s heart so he is comatose.

Emi Yagari resurrects Zero Kiryu with help of Toga Yagari by getting his metabolic processes back on with magic, which takes weeks.

A day or a few hours after Emi Yagari resurrects Zero with help from her father, The Templars nearly kill her for this as this would make her equal to or above God/Jesus. Aido quickly diverts their attention to “other pressing matters”. Emi resurrects Zero in hiding.

Yuki Cross is dead. Ichiru Kiryu is dead.

2024

Part 3/Post-Series

5 months after, Zero wakes up.

Emi has become Cross Academy’s headmistress, though she’s more of a “Mockingjay” situation.

Cross Academy is rebuilding. Zero isn’t given any credit by the government due to a lot being done and is given an apartment in one of the city zones as well as his charges dropped. Zero goes back to being a hunter, but this proves repetitive because not much happens, and he can’t exactly be used to nothing happening being good. Everyone is kind of annoyed at Zero reasonably not being as nice as he is.

Zero wakes Kaname Kuran up out of boredom due to his repetitive life.

Kaname attempts to starve himself for a week out of just wanting his life over. Zero finds him.

Kaname’s pissed off zero brought him back but then Zero isn’t taking his shit. They almost bang and then they do (Zero instigated it), so now they’re a weird casual relationship where Kanamr loves Zero but Zero doesn’t care if he leads Kaname on, not that Kaname cares.

Waking Kaname up results in what remains of the civil coming to get Kaname, and now Kaname and Zero are in a deeper rabbit hole than they afforded.

2040

Emi has her son Mei. The father is unknown.

20?? (A few years after Emi has a child, but now I don’t know when because their relationship is a lot more complicated now when I write it)

We got:

Suicide victim #1 (pushed to suicide via being ignored and gaslit by The Rabbit)

Suicide victim #2 (pushed to suicide via being isolated by The Rabbit and gaslit when she tried to confront her. All because she told them that she killed her mom)

Nonbinary person who tries to call out the abuser but always gets shut down, and is barely allowed to have any scenes to aerself, and mostly just exists for the development of an ironically also ignored character. The finale has them exclusively speak like an AI therapist.

Bubble canonicaly likes scaring children and semi-canonically would say slurs if he was allowed! Isn't that funny? Isn't that funny? Isn't that funny? Isn't that

The Rabbit (serial abuser who pushed two people to suicide, almost pushed two MORE people to suicide [Ragatha and Gangle], harasses non-men for fun, fantasizes about killing and sexually harassing people, and doesn't get any repercussions until she commits suicide. Though even then she feels no guilt towards abusing anyone other than her friends, plus potentially killing her mom)

Main character that we somehow know next to nothing about (except that she likes Jax) (she'd do anything for Jax) (she tolerates the others but she'd DIIIIIEEEE for Jax)

Plural system in which the host lobotomizes himself to remove his traumatized (because he ate them/forced them to fuse) misanthropic sibling. The sibling gets no personality besides being misanthropic and isn't allowed to say anything once the host forces them out.

Silly Old Guy that has memory issues and possibly Fantasy Dementia but who cares, he's a Silly Old Guy! Except for when he's useful, of course. It's really nice when he's useful, otherwise the only good he does is be funny.

Abuse victim that was forced into a vow of silence by The Rabbit and thus not allowed to grieve a person she cared about. She was also abused by her mother but that's only relevant because The Rabbit was ALSO abused by HIS mother. Also don't let her get mad at The Rabbit it's not allowed

Fish

Abuse victim that gets very little help from the people around her that actively witness her abuse. The best she gets is a relationship with the extremely underdeveloped non-binary person. To be fair, they're a good partner, albeit still weirdly passive about the abuser that keeps harassing xyr girlfriend for the most part. Also she's bipolar coded but who cares about that, right?

Suicide victim #3 (technically #4 thanks to The Rabbit). We know nothing about her except that she's an entomologist and the Silly Old Man's dead(n't) wife.

The only unproblematic man in the entire show. He debuts and dies in episode 2, gets brought back in episode 4 with questionable amnesia, then is dropped. He deals with a lot of existentialism but we're not gonna think about that too hard because that's BOOOORINGG

A/N: This is me speculating what kind of Tumblr blog each character would have.

Yuki - A cooking blog where she saves and shares recipes, roasts those of her father and gives in-depth reviews of the local restuarants.

Zero - A roasting blog where he vents his hatred for Kaname, who he never refers to by name but by things like 'a leech that should be bleeched' and vampires in media. Most of his followers are Twilight haters.

Takuma - A writing blog specializing in detectives and fanfiction (which often has his favorite manga turnt into a detective AU)

Rima - A fashion blog where she, from the sweet comfort of anonomity, talks honestly about the designers she has posed for. Like, which actually serve cheap quality that you might as well buy from Wish, etc. Not everyone in the fasion industry is happy with the popularity her blog has gained, but because they don't know which model is behind it, Rima's job remains safe.

Hanabusa - A scientific blog where he explains complex theories in an easy language so that most can grasp what he is trying to explain. Being a teenager, he knows how to break down these subjects for people his age in a way most teachers can't. Most of the Day Class girls managed to find out that he runs a blog. Some actually stuck around as they enjoy being 'tutored' by him.

Ichiru - A meme blog where he both posts his own created memes and reblogs the ones he likes. Made at least two memes out of photos of Zero.

Ruka - A 'business' blog. She is surprisigly good at sewing rag dolls and sells them as a side-hustle to her school activities. Her blog is where she advertizes her cute creations.

Headmaster Cross - A photography blog where he mostly reblogs photos others have taken. Because his 'cute children' don't want to be posted online, any photos he uploads of his own are cats he meets along the way of grocery shopping. Which is why a lot of his followers are catlovers.

Senri - A 'crack' blog. He loves crackhead humor and collects jokes through reblogs whenever he's bored.

Ahh !!! but his kids never appreciate him