#vanitas (vnc)
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diversity win! he hates everyone equally and is nobody's ally!
#vanitas vnc#vanitas no carte#case study of vanitas#the case study of vanitas#les memoires de vanitas#vnc
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copper sulfate 🩵
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#hope im not too late to this trend...#vanitas no carte#vnc#vanoe#vanitas#noe archiviste#noé archiviste#noé#the case study of vanitas#vanitas vnc#vanitas x noe#do u like stars?#moxie draws
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Looking back, I wonder how much of Vanitas's choice in this scene is tied to the fact that he was given a choice in the first place.
So much of Vanitas's character is centered around the theme of self-determination (and the lack thereof). He is absolutely deprived of any control over his body and/or destiny at many of the key points in his life, and nowadays he's always desperately grasping at what few shards of self-determination he does have. This is why he freaks out when Roland talks about him being "under the vampires' power" in mémoire 15. It's why he's hung up on the idea of freedom as isolation from others' influence. It's why his main response to being triggered is to do something crazy and cause a scene; it puts him in control of the situation.
All that to say, when Luna destroys Moreau's lab and agrees to take Misha away, Vanitas must be desperate to feel some form of in-control, but I do not think he expects to be given any choice in what happens to him next. He's been conditioned not to expect that despite how much he wants it.
Vanitas certainly doesn't have much agency in how he lives his life as a child, as no kid gets to pick their parents or circumstances, and Vani has it especially rough with the death of his mother hanging over his head. Then his father dies protecting him, and he dies in a situation in which Vanitas is utterly powerless. Horror erupts into his life out of nowhere, and his dad throws himself in front of some fangs, and there's nothing Vanitas can do but watch it happen.
Next there's Vanitas's brief time training as a chasseur, which is one part of his history we know little about, so it's hard for me to say how free his choice was. He may have been pressured into joining, as we know the Chassuers aren't above pushy/manipulative recruitment of children (Astolfo), but I could also see his choice to hunt vampires made as a trauma response to the powerlessness of the vampire attack he survived. "I was powerless, so I'll claim the power to enact violence and make sure they can't hurt me or others again."
Then Vanitas is abducted by Doctor Moreau, which strips him of his agency just about as awfully as anything possibly could.
Vanitas the test subject has no bodily autonomy. He is poked and prodded and experimented on, because his body is an object of science to Moreau, not the vessel of a person with rights or self-determination. His only big active choices during his captivity are the choice to not run away for fear of somebody else suffering and the choice to volunteer in Mikhail's place. The only choices he can make are the choices to stay and throw himself even deeper into his own violation. Even his relationship with Misha is something that just kind of Happens to him. The kid is a force of nature that Moreau dumps on him without his say.
(This isn't Mikhail's fault, as Misha is just a child that wants affection, but having a needy, vulnerable little brother figure suddenly dropped on him in the midst of all that horror couldn't have made Vanitas feel less out of control).
Then Vanitas's torment by Moreau hits its climax, and Vanitas is told that not only has his body been violated by way of pain and torture—even his basic humanity has been and will be stripped from him. He now feels the disgust of having the blood of something he hates inside of him without his consent. And he's about to be killed, turned into a mindless husk of a "living key" instead of a person.
And that's when Luna shows up. This mysterious, incredibly powerful being appears and wreaks havoc on Moreau's lab like an avenging angel, and it agrees to Mikhail's request to take "us" along with it. Everything in Vanitas's life so far has taught him that he is powerless in the face of others' great power. Horrible shit just keeps happening to him forever, and this monstrous person sounds like they've just agreed to carry him off on Mikhail's request without a word of input from him. Of course he doesn't expect to be given a choice.
But he is.
Luna scoops up Mikhail, then they turn to Vanitas and ask if he would like to come along with them as well. After months or years of absolutely all of his autonomy and power being stripped away from him, the most powerful being Vanitas has ever encountered stops and gives him a choice about what he'd like to do next. They give him the option to go off on his own and decide his own fate rather than go along with them. And that's why Vanitas doesn't run away.
These are the images that flash through Vanitas's head right before he gets up and runs to Luna:
These moments are what inform Vanitas's choice. The memories of his father's death and Moreau's final experiment on him—his two most awful moments of abject helplessness.
When Vanitas runs to Luna and accepts their offer, these moments are what he's running from. He's fleeing from his inability to do anything or control his fate. He's running from a life of stolen agency. He's running toward the one adult who actually stopped and gave him a choice about what he'd like to do next.
Vanitas chooses Luna because they, despite having the power to kill or subdue him, give him the freedom to choose to accompany them in the first place. He's drawn to them not for protection, but as an escape to a life where he gets to keep making choices and grasp some agency.
Luna is the savior that gives Vanitas his freedom and autonomy back after it's stolen by Moreau. That's why it's so tragic that Vanitas carries their Mark in the present day. It's undeniable proof that, in their right mind or not, some version of Luna violated the fundamental trust and gift of autonomy that brought Vanitas into their family in the first place.
Luna's bite, both the physical violation and the transformation into inhumanity that it brings, is yet another way that Vanitas is stripped of all control of his body and fate.
#This also ties back into why I'm such a big Vanitas dies truther#better a death he chooses than an inhuman life that was forced on him#anyway. it's sad about the blue moon family hours#Luna was so very very good to him. right up until they weren't#vnc#vanitas no carte#the case study of vanitas#vanitas my beloved#luna#the vampire of the blue moon#vanitas vnc#vanitas#ID in alt text#english major hours
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
#I LOVE THIS#vanitas and domi relationship development????#finally#its so funny#these two are finally realising they've got a lot in common#even if for now its just their shared grievances about noé#vnc#the case study of vanitas#dominique vnc#domi vnc#vanitas vnc#vanitas no carte#vanitas no carte chapter 60
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jappe jappe
#i think the french barking really adds to the overal piece#vnc#vanitas no carte#case study of vanitas#vanitas vnc#noé archiviste#vanoé#vnc fanart#fanart#my art#iiiii been reading a bunch lately & just caught up to this manga so !! sketches !! queer people !! yyyyippppieeeee#vnc didnt give me vanoé neckbiting so i gave me vanoé neckbiting#idk. feral.
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Today's dj Pics are from The Case Study of Vanitas!
Noe: I'm really glad I met you.
Vantitas: Haha! You're the strangest person I've ever met...
Djs Name: La reponse est dans la bouche fermee (Noe x Vanitas) / Progressive
#doujinshi#yaoi bl#the case study of vanitas#vanitas x noe#noe vanitas no carte#vanitas no carte#vanitas#noe vnc#noe archiviste#noe and vanitas#vanoé#vanoe#noe x vanitas#vnc vanitas#vanitas vnc
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sorry for the poor quality. I needed to get the brain worm out
I wish art took less time, I spent like twoish hours on this but that's really not that bad.
Based of of this: https://x.com/sweepswoop_/status/1813707550493483334?s=61
so special thanks to original poster! you are so smart and funny
#vnc#vnc fanart#vnc vanitas#vnc noé#noe archiviste#vanitas no carte#the book of vanitas#vanoe#the case study of vanitas#art meme#dungeon meshi meme#twitter meme#twitter post#delicious in dungeon#vanitas vnc
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#oficial art#pandora hearts#vanitas#vanitas no carte#the case study of vanitas#jun mochizuki#ヴァニタスの手記#パンヴァニカフェ#pop up shop#vnc vanitas#oz vessalius#noe archiviste#dominique de sade#jeanne vnc#sharon rainsworth#gilbert nightray#alice baskerville#leo#elliot nightray#xerxes break#vanitas vnc
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Can someone explain to me why these two mf are starting to look more and more alike?
They act like idiots, dress so similar and wear bandages wtf!? Hope I'm not the only one who noticed this...
#anime#manga#vanitas no carte#bungou stray dogs#dazai osamu#vanitas no carte vanitas#dazai bsd#dazai dark era#the case study of vanitas#vnc#vnc manga#vanitas vnc
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trying to get my motivation back, i did a lil sketch :]
#vanitas no carte#the case study of vanitas#vanitas vnc#les memoires de vanitas#sketch#doodle#he's so precious#so handsome#i love this bitch
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Gay people
#clip studio paint#digital art#illustration#my art#vanitas fanart#noe vanitas no carte#vanitas vnc#vnc#vanitas no carte#case study of vanitas
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Happy Pride from Noé and Vanitas~ 🎩💜💙⌛️
#vanitas no carte#the case study of vanitas#vanitas no shuki#vanoe#noe x vanitas#noe archiviste#vanitas vnc#noe vnc#my art#It's kind of hot to draw but I managed this#And I hope my cute friend likes it~
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Noé Archivitste/Vanitas (Vanitas no Carte)
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#vanitas no carte#vnc vanitas#the case study of vanitas#les memoires de vanitas#noé archiviste#noe archiviste#noe x vanitas#vanitas x noe#vanoé#vnc#vanitas#vnc noé#vnc noe#vanoe#vanitas vnc#noe vnc#noe vanitas no carte#anime poll#shipping poll#tumblr polls
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Something soothing to have with him, you say?
#doesn't have the coat but at least he has the guy#using Noé as a coping mechanism#I guess???#like what else could this sequence of panels even be implying lmao#vnc#the case study of vanitas#vanitas no carte#vanoé#the vanoé agenda#vanitas#vanitas vnc#ID in alt text
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Vanitas no Carte characters from the Mochijun 20th anniversary illustration!
All credits go to @/PH15th_Cafe, @/PH15th and Mochijun on twitter :)
#vanitas no carte#vnc#the case study of vanitas#olivier vnc#roland fortis#jeanne vnc#dominique de sade#noe archiviste#vanitas vnc#astolfo granatum
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