#ferid

Yandere Ferid Bathory x reader

Summary: A story where Ferid falls in love for the first time in his entire existence and he does everything he can to keep it together.

Chapter: 1/15

Chapter name: Caught

Warning : there are yandere themes and there is one 18+ scene in it which some of you might not like so please avoid in that case.

Even though i liked all the extended cast in SOTE, i believe killing them off is one of the best choices Kagami could've made at that point in the manga tbh. I wish to ramble about why:

He started this manga with a small story of 2 boys trapped at the end of the world. Then he wanted to expand on how that world ended. He had always planned for it to be a story about angels. (seraph of the end)

He made many loveable characters along the way exploring the biblical ways family, greed, lust, desperation etc drive people. The corruption and the hurt that can coincide with the desperation to live.

The Angel's selfish desires and the humans selfish desires are no different.

Angels, humans and vampires are all motivated by different forms of desire then become demons who eat desire itself.

We are in the final arc of the manga now/approaching it. Theres so little of the world left and even the characters the audience have come to know are dropping like flies.

Shinoa doesnt want to continue the cycle of ressurecting the dead anymore. She has lived her entire life with a guarded heart and there is nothing to look back upon. So she is not motivated by that sort of nostalgic yearning desire in the way other characters are.

"Squad policy, family looks out for family" -Shinoa chapter 23

She is still protecting her family, but is grounded to the present and those living around her.  She really was the most perfect character to explore this direction.

Kagami writes things that i think annoy readers as a story released monthly, because info is drip-fed but long term it does actually flow.

The one fault in Kagami's writing is not the concepts themselves but the amount of characters that have been introduced to explore them.

Hes a good character writer which is why there are fans of all the random side characters in the first place, but they all distract from the main plotline really. All part of the chaos of the end of the world that they've been dropped in. Searching for meaning and purpose in their lives.

The story started with Mika, yuu, the end of the world and the Angel's actions that led them there. Perhaps that is what we might end with.

We'll see.

It also might end with the cycle finally being ended for good.

"What about Narumi?"

As for fans that ask "Wheres Narumi!!!?!!" Narumi was brought along temporarily as a nice moment to show comradeship. But also to have a character less familiar with the shinoa squads concept of family+yuuichiro to question Mikas humanity. There isnt much to do with him outside of that. Nothing that wouldnt have been distracting and a waste of time anyway, so he was lost in the chaos of war. I dont think he was anyone's favourite character nor do i think it was bad writing that he is now gone.He couldve been killed off but that wouldve taken more pages. He was there to have conflict. Thats all.

Ferid remembers his previous lives, which is what made him go insane. In a way, it's as if he has lived as a vampire all his life (he wasn't immortal, but his memory was, which can bring a relatively similar trauma, except vampires' emotions fade away while Ferid's insanity grew as a human)

We have seen memories of his 'last' life, when he is called Ferid, a noble with a seemingly perfect life who killed his parents, brother, became a roman vice-commander and finally got turned into a vampire.

This crazy behavior as a child already comes from previous trauma, so I would have loved to see snippets of his previous lives, and how the cycle eventually broke him, because clearly his past lives weren't as comfortable as him being nearly a prince.

(Most ons vampires' pasts have something to do with slavery and abuse, it wouldn't surprise me if they went there with Ferid as well, or maybe it's just an amalgamation of too many experiences)

Ngl, Kanato as a yandere kinda reminds me of Torvald Helmer from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.

@onehellofashadynerd

Kanato is here

Yandere Ferid Bathory

You don't like Ferid.

You met when he offered you some luxuries in exchange for your blood.

And you refused the offer and said you don't need it or him.

This would be the reason why Ferid would fall in love with you.

He would find you really entertaining.

At first, he thinks nothing of you other than that you're entertaining.

That's why Ferid would keep you close.

Like it or not.

Humans wouldn't have much say in a world ruled by vampires.

And the more time Ferid spends with you, the more he starts to like you.

He wouldn't care how independent you were.

Ferid should that if you didn't rely on him you would be punished.

And if you did… you would also be punished.

Ferid is a sadist -_-

Yes, life with him would be difficult.

However, Ferid does not want to break you with punishments.

-ferid understands body horror all too well: his transformed body was experimented on for 40 years right in front of him. He then had to witness that his body not work anymore once Saito abandoned it. He then had to regrows a new vessel. His new vessel was however no the same like it was for most vampires. Most vampires are able to keep their human body and don't have to regrow it.

So how does that come back to ferid knowing body horror? Vampires are predators and in fiction they are presented as sadistic killers, torturing their victims until they crack (think of Nosferatu- he set out a plague to get his hands on Ellie and killed her friends). Vampires in Owari no seraph are sadistic by nature yes, but ferid knows how to take control away. By breaking down the boundaries of Crowley and Mika, by breaking them psychologically. He understands better than anyone else how you rip a human away from their humanity. By taking away any form of control, secrecy and comfort out of their vessel.

. How did he break Mika? He played a lot into their classist dynamics and made Mika enslave himself to ferids bloodlust. He purposefully manipulated Mika into a state where Mika thought he knew vampires enough to escape. And then, ferid does the Nosferatu move by murdering Mikas entire family. That broke Mika's understanding. See it as an iceberg ferid broke the first level of the depravity of vampires. Then when he sat up after Mika thought he killed him. Even if it wasn't on purpose it made Mika feel powerless, his understanding of what it takes to neutralise a vampire was again broken. Ferid afterall was alive and well. In that moment Mika realised just how monstrous vampires are. They can survive a gun shot, they are sadistic for the fun of it and then the Queen of them comes to morph you into that monster. Like.. that is horror. You can't even do anything to keep your humanity.

And that in itself is selfish, depraved and most importantly it is what a vampire is. In any form of media where vampires are actually vampires, this is their main purpose.

But let's also not forget how vampires physiology works. Technically speaking, in myths they are seen as dead corpses who latch onto the living. They are described as demons and creatures made by the devil. Kagami however wrote vampires so that drives the horror home: he made vampires look human. While they live underground some mingle with humans (think of ferid in the light novel). There's nothing more horrifying then not knowing that a murderous being could strike you at any moment. And ferid being beautiful, showing himself as fragile to lure his prey into false security, is exactly what the vampires do, present as the perfect human from a vampires perspective.

Vampires in modern media also represent sin: noseferatu (2024) is a representation of the cardinal desire that the main protagonist has. Vampires in OnS aren't much different. They however use their allure to capture their prey. Their looks are what makes people feel safe cause again, vampires cover their distinct features. Crowley didn't even notice Ferid's physical attributes only his behaviour like being tired in the sun. So quite literally, ferid presenting himself as fragile, forgetful and beautiful yet perverted/ seductive is the entire thing of a modern vampire. Until he shows himself to be ruthless, sadistic etc. he is This he ultimate vampire: down from his body, to his presence in society and his understanding of what makes humans tick HE IS THE VAMPIRESTY VAMPIRE.

“Look, tell me the killer’s name at least.”

“If I said it was me, what would you do?”

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I’VE FINISHED IT

Istg that novel is SO GOOD (not like the last chapters of the manga) like- YES give me more of that Sherlock/Watson kind of dynamic accompanied of religious guilt and lost of faith in the form of vampirism (and the most homoerotic situationship ever btw)

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