#experiment 66

Experiment 66: Vanitas is dead. Rei (Repliku) knows this. And yet that stranger from the Shinra labs looks identical to his best friend. It's unfair. He can't talk to him like he's Vanitas, because he's not. And he knows it's unfair to V-66 to treat him like he is Vanitas. But he can't help it for when he calls out his name "Vani", it's not V-66 he's reaching for.

World Eater (Vanitas' perspective): Your friend has been dead for six years now. In an attempt to get closer, you merge your body with his sword, giving yourself a new form. It's killing you slowly but you can't afford to let go, not now. Suddenly, while trapped in a world you can't escape, there he is. He's alive and well, thriving even, and he forgot you up until now. He's pristine, and you're a decaying corpse within a shell. If he forgot you, it's only fair you forget him too.

World Eater (Rei's perspective): You've been saved. Your friend has not. So you live for six years grieving him, believing that he's no longer coming back. When you go to solve a world ending disaster, who do you find but your friend. He doesn't remember you at first, but when he does, he's angry. You can't speak to him. You can't talk him out of his destruction. And now his anger at you is directed at the world and everything in it. You can't help but feel this is your fault.

Moonwalkers: Vanitas gets rescued by someone who is essentially his friend's killer and slowly starts to fall in love with him. Is he being disingenuous? Or are these feelings legit?

Can you tell I love the unrequited love trope?

Can you tell I also really love platonic Vanpliku as much as I love romantic Vanpliku?

"Oh-- Ah-- Vanitas, I did have something to ask but-- Angeal, can you--"

(for Experiment 66 of course! :D)

The lizard is glaring at the interaction from the two. He stands in the doorway to the kitchen, mako blue eyes darkened with jealousy. He had no words.

Masterlist

Because he needs more love 

He's an old soul

Drinks a silly amount of coffee

It's either black or mostly cream and sugar, depends how he's feeling.

Rarely uses his mobile phone

Most of the tech that the hero association has given him is left unopened or given to child emperor

He prefers to scribble any Intel in a little black book, which has it's own pocket inside his trench coat

He writes in cursive

He says because it's quicker, but their are very few people apart from him who can actually read his short hand scribbles

In his spare time he reads a lot 

Mostly crime thrillers 

When he left the house of evolution, he smuggled his corresponding animal experimentation with him

It was a cat who he named sixer, so that neither of them would forget where they came from, why they left and how far they have come.

When he comes home from patrolling as the sun is just peaking through the skyscrapers, he'll collapse onto the sofa after kicking his muddy boots off at the door. Sixer will hop up onto his chest and snuggle in for a nap until it’s time for breakfast.

Experiment 66 (Vanitas) and Genesis shenanigans

Yes, Vanitas can fully turn into an Iguana

I call him Iguanitas

Reference image below the cut

Art of my Hojo Experiment Vanitas au, an alternate universe where Genesis takes in Experiment #66 (aka Vanitas) and kind of raises him as his own son.

After being separated after the events of Crisis Core, Vanitas escapes with Aerith during FF7 and joins Avalanche, using that pole/spear (not drawn to size) as a weapon.