#shinya called him dumb in like 3 different ways in this one chapter

[nayruwu]

guren: [manages against all odds to temporarily fight off an entirely unrestrained black demon trying to take over him to protect his classmate purely by willpower and unwavering kindness]

shinya: that's cringe bro.

[transsexualhamlet]

Opinion Time- The definition of alive and dead (in ons)

Ok this is just me going on a rant, it’s not really a theory or based on anything real, it’s just the way I like to think of things in my head.

Talking about

1. Yu as a,,, being

2. Mika and vampires in general

3. Shinya and the squad

Most of this is about the conversation back in chapter 71 or something.

Which is just the “are we alive” question. And I mean I think it’s bullshit altogether that Mika’s heart doesn’t beat, and I’ve decided in my own head that’s just not right, because well,,, anotomically that doesn’t make any sense. Example one, when Lest Karr took out Ferid’s heart and he nearly turned into a demon. Hearts are still super important to vampires, and if they were just sitting in there doing nothing what the fuck problem would there be taking it out. It must still conduct blood, even if the blood is stolen from a human.

Another point, I mean, vampires wouldn’t really bleed if their hearts weren’t functioning either. Because it wouldn’t be flowing through their veins, it wouldn’t move and it certainly wouldn’t be red. And uh well, they’ve clearly been shown bleeding.

So vampires hearts literally have to beat, I’d say, I’m not a scientist but hoy bowdy Kagami isn’t either.

And then the question is if they’re alive? Yu definitely is. Just because he’s not human doesn’t mean he’s fucking dead. He came back from the point of “he’s probably dead and his heart isn’t beating” that one time, but that hasn’t happened again, he clearly didn’t die for real, and even if definitionally he did die, he is,,, alive again.

(NOT CONSIDERING CHAPTER 90, I MEAN IN GENERAL) Mika isn’t dead either, though people like to argue that’s true, people like to say that he died when he turned into a vampire and he died again when he drank human blood and stopped aging.

Kagami can say whatever he likes, but... Mika never died. The novels Vampire Mikaela takes that point to an extreme with Crowley and describes it that way, but in my book that just doesn’t work, doesn’t make sense, and isn’t right.

What I’d say is that vampires are beings who should have died probably a thousand times over, but didn’t. It’s just definitional, but it matters to me I guess.

Mika was going to die. Krul came in and saved him, by turning him into a vampire. So that he didn’t die. Uh. Yeah. He’s not dead. There was no point in time where he was even as dead as Yu was in nagoya arc, and no one really is going aroud saying that Yu’s dead. The point is that he’s alive, he’s interacting with his surroundings and learning new things and changing, even though it’s not that much in Kagami’s book (which I think is bullshit anyway, and I’ve made the executive decision to ignore that and let him grow as a person because otherwise it’s just fucking boring.)

My third point is about Shinya, Mito, Goshi, Sayuri, and Shigure. Who died when they were sixteen and were then resurrected by Guren to cause the catastrophe. Some people say that “oh well they’ll disappear if they realize they’re dead” which,,, um. They were dead. They’ve been resurrected. They are,,, no longer dead.

They aren’t still the same people they were when they were sixteen, they’ve changed and grown and become different people, and that’s real obvious. I think it’s dumb to call them dead, because the simple thing is that they’re not. Not anymore.

I don’t really know why I’m nitpicking at this, it just makes me feel really weird when vampires or guren’s squad are referred to as dead, or Yu is treated as if he is like, so inhuman he’s clinically dead too, because that kind of just isolates them and makes it difficult to see them in a positive light, redeem them, fix them, or give them character development which is kind of essential to writing, Kagami. So yeah my point is if you call them dead, you make it impossible for a happy ending, or to be honest, anything satisfying. 

Vampires aren’t dead, Yu isn’t dead, and humans who have been resurrected are not in fact dead. So yeah :) Thank you for listening to my ted talk