#Bc both PH and VnC are about circuity and repetition and Vanitas is. A Catholic CSA survivor. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

panvani · 1 year ago

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Like kind of the whole gimmick is that VnC is a tragedy in large part because Noé failed to cultivate an actually meaningfully intimate relationship with Vanitas prior to the latter's death, with sex being very important to the respective arcs of each and with special emphasis on Vanitas withholding sex from Noé as a way to demonstrate that failure of intimacy, vs. PH which is like throwing out the party streamers and inviting mariachi bands at the end of the story when it's announced that Gil and Vincent never had sex

#logxx #In the former dynamic it is in large part bc Noé and Vanitas do not actually have a significant power dynamic #They're not related they're basically the same age neither has social or political power over the other outside of very specific contexts #While kind of the whole thing with Gil and Vincent is they always inherently had a huge power differential #That is articulated via their relationship being incestual but extends beyond that as well #A huge part of Vanitas' character is attempting to cultivate power differentials and deliberately dooming his own relationships #Bc both PH and VnC are about circuity and repetition and Vanitas is. A Catholic CSA survivor.

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