#zero kiryuu

Chapters: 15/? Fandom: Vampire Knight (Anime & Manga) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Kiryuu Zero/Kuran Kaname, Kiryuu Zero & Kuran Kaname Characters: Kiryuu Zero, Kuran Kaname Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst Summary:

Fragile solace and unexpected sanctuary - a blood bond can invert one's perceptions quite drastically. Kaname finds that the nuisance he must save can now see easily behind his mask, and is far more transcendent than the pureblood had ever realized.

I got the feeling while reading VK that they were pretty underutilized and disorganized. I'm only reading Memories now (still on chapter twelve), and I still have the same impression: even though they accept ordinary humans into their cause, they somehow remain mostly... background characters.

I don't know, it feels like they simultaneously have a huge impact and no impact at all. Because in the end, it's always our protagonists who end up solving every major problem instead of a bunch of hunters who've been dealing with vampires for centuries.

For example, when the poor hooded woman finally passes on and the hunters lose the furnace, had they really never realized they needed a backup plan for killing vampires? Or why the hell didn't they spend more time investigating where each Pureblood was so they could prepare accordingly, like Batman or something?

Jokes aside, I really like VK. #teamzeroxhappiness🤗

Hi, anon, dear! :)

Honestly, I’m sure I’ve talked about the association in passing so I appreciate you bringing this topic up for its own for discussion. ^^

“Underutilized and disorganized—“ that’s probably the best way to describe half of Hino’s plot, too, lol. But yes, as an organization, there was barely any structure or explanation on how it technically worked.

We were only given that the association is comprised of descendants that drank the progenitor’s blood and there’s a president and everyone else are hunters.

… Sooooo… What’s the other ranking? What’s everyone’s full role? How do they get their intel? Are there field work operatives for that? Do they network with lower ranking vampires that are intel brokers? How does this organization get paid? What’s their association to the local gov’t? Are they disguised as a non-for-profit? What’s the salary, if there is one? What’s the life expectancy of hunters? Why is there only one hunter’s association? So many questions and many, many more!

You can’t tell me they could sustain their numbers only off of those that are direct descendants of Hunter blood.. It’s hard to believe hunters even have a chance to procreate if their job is so hazardous. (Birth rates for hunters should really be low, or I assume it would be.) Hino never gave them any other way to recruit besides them being born and just assimilating human participants (possibly). It’s shown more in VKM when Zero mentions how the association is in a transitioning period by aiding the human police force.

Now, on an external meta view, yeah, this just means that Hino gave two shits about explaining the hunters and never gave them a solid voice or a stable base of prominent characters because she didn’t care. Zero is mostly the face of it all in VKM. There’s no Kaito, no Yagari… because we needed to do a 50 year time skip after 10 chapters. And it’s hilarious how Hino never gave a female face from the association because if she did have a female hunteress in the story that gets close to Zero, this character would be the perfect contender against Yuuki and clearly we can’t have that, lol. (But, I digress—I don’t care for the shipping bits but man would I have loved to have seen a female huntress. I guess we get that in Ren eventually..)

I understand to an extent how the focus was still the “romance” aka relationship between Zero and Yuuki to explore (very lightly) on why they’re struggling externally to be together—the two polarizing sides don’t want them to be—it’s just not utilized right to explain why it’s such a problem, honestly. Nor are we given a good solution of resistance.. againnnn, I digress.

I do ultimately agree, though, that without having faces and voices in the association who either are for or against Zero, and to have those names, faces, and voices be given to characters we grow to care about and explore.. well, it just falls flat because we’re given nothing to work with—it’s a skeleton of a story. We see like once or twice Zero’s actual interactions with the people he works with (despite him being a workaholic, mind you) but they’re nobodies to the story and plot. It’s just odd storytelling in my opinion since for VKM Zero is a main character and we don’t see much of his life or comrades, the rapport he formed in the association, or have any attachment to it narratively as the audience. It’s a shame, really.

Moving on to your other criticism—to be fair, why would any common hunter feel the need to believe the same method of killing vampires would ever fail them when it’s been working for 10,000 years? lol Nor do I think logistically they ever felt the need to evaluate the sturdiness of the furnace, and if they did know a pureblood heart resided within—why would anyone believe it would falter when those organs are undying and eternal? I don’t know, in this way, I’m willing to cut them a little slack. lol

Now, on a last note—we, as readers, are never presented with how many purebloods there actually are and that’s something Hino sure wasn’t bothered by to ever extrapolate on despite that being the focal point of the issues in the series. She creates this point that Purebloods are rare but somehow there are a plenty? Hilarious.

Anyway, thank you for dropping by, anon! I’m glad to see a fellow ZeroxHappiness shipper. ^^ I know, ultimately, that’s what every Zero fan is by nature. We just all ship him differently and that’s okay because we still have common ground for loving Zero. ;)

On a random cold and moonless night, i was staring at vk pics, cooing at my mommy Zero 😁 and holding back a puke from looking at.... it that shan't be named 🤫 and then....

Wtf?? Actually. Why? The fuck? U couldn't atleast do a fan art doodle of official material?? Fuck you you damn parasite! What the hell bro?? I may be beefing with the author of vampire knight, but if I find out which hell hole you're squatting in I'll actually fight u to death!

Was I naive for thinking vk was niche enough to not be affected by generative a.i? Like... ugh, i sincerely hope that this is a phase and it'll end soon, maybe when we look back at this A.I era we recoile in fear and double back in pure disgust.