#vantases

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Kankri was given the last name “Vantas” when he was hatched, whether by jade record keepers or Feferi directly noticing the connection. Kankri knows very little about his ancestor, and that’s intentional. Beforan Karkat’s mutation was outed posthumously, against his will, and Kankri is a little mad that he knows even that much, because it compromises Karkat’s agency. He never thinks to drop the name, though, it just doesn’t occur to him.

Few people knew the Signless’s true name, many presuming quite reasonably that he had none. For years, I tended to write him as only going by “Kankri,” and either adopting Maryam as his last name or using no last name. There had to be a reason for that few people to know his hatchname, and I figured it was for safety, that knowing it meant that you had attained such a level of trust within the movement that it could serve as almost a password.

But if there was one name that the Signless stole from the universe before to be his, and I do like that headcanon, it’s way reasonable that the name he would See Kankri called all the time was

LATULA: grl, please. dont tell me youre going full vantas on me here. PORRIM: No, if I were getting my Vantas on, we'd only be getting warmed up. MEENAH: vantas what the actual fuck are you doing here

SIGNLESS: . . . KANKRI: . . . KARKAT: . . .FuCk. 

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