#zeroxyuki

Vampire Knight (1/?):

The only time Zero tried to speak some sense into Yuki, only for him to immediately drop it (which, to be honest, is something Hino loved doing: introducing potentially bombshell questions or conflicts that we as readers, wanted resolved, then never following through, usually by having something interrupt the scene. It’s her convenient way to keep plausible deniability.)

Anyway, I feel like that moment was Hino’s ridiculous attempt to show us ''see I'm pointing out the elephant in the room, namely, that Kaname had an innocent child’s family massacred, had the child endure a brutal, excruciating transformation into a vampire, and set him on a path that would inevitably end in his execution(level E), all to use him as a pawn.'' And yet, Hino lets that elephant sit there untouched, never properly addressing it again.

I think this is part of why I don’t like Yuki. She has the appearance of someone with strong convictions, someone who stands up for what’s right, but when it comes time to challenge her moral beliefs or make tough choices, she either bails or the author conveniently reshapes the situation so she never has to make a decision. There are numerous examples of this.

She’s more afraid of upsetting someone she cares about than she is of facing hard truths. Maybe that comes from her abandonment issues. Honestly, if the same night she slept with Kaname, Zero had shown up wanting to sleep with her too, I feel like she would’ve let him hit it just to avoid hurting him. It’s like she doesn’t have a will of her own anymore.

I don’t think she was portrayed that way at the beginning of the manga, but Hino definitely pushed her character in that direction as the story progressed.