Oh God. It's just for me, right?
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dangermousieSeriously, you guys.
Vampire Knight.
It's like Buffy only more awesome.
Vampires. Manga. Sexy biting. I actually don't care about vampires one way or another, but this story is like all the fic I ever wanted, only better. I like Yuki, the cool, funny, laid-back heroine, who protects the school from vampires (who aren't the Buffy type monsters, but night students who sort tend to slip up now and then). And I like all the background stuff about human-vampire truce, and pureblood vamp powers and different vampire classes and hierarchies and what not. And the art is very pretty.
But.
But.
But.
That is not why I am slavering at the mouth. I have a 'she's got it bad for fictional character, the dummy' thing here. For Kiriyu Zero. And for Zero/Yuki. Yeah, my ship for this would be the equivalent of Buffy/Xander, but only if Xander was, you know, super hot, and with huge angst, and actually a vampire himself. The 'Angel' character in this one (pureblood vampire named Kaname who saved Yuki when she was little and who she is all about, breathless fangirl wise) I like OK, but doesn't grab me that much.
The thing that gets me so much is that Zero's family were vampire hunters who all got wiped out by a pure-blood vampire, Shizuka. And he's been taken in by the school headmaster and has been Yuki's best friend since and they patrol the school together. And he hates vampires more than anything. Every fibre of his being stuff. Except he knows he is slowly turning into one, because he's been bitten by Shizuka, during the massacre of his family, as the ultimate revenge. And he is fighting it as hard as he can, but he knows it's inevitable, and he knows eventually he'll really turn and soon after that he will snap and go mad and rabid and just attack everyone in sight.
And OMG, when he does turn, he actually bites Yuki, who is his best friend, and who he would totally die to protect, and then there is his trying to kill himself and her stopping him and his making her promise that when he does lose it entirely, she will kill him. And as time goes on, he totally can't be without drinking her blood (her blood is weirdly special, unexplained as of yet) and so she offers and he does it and he totally hates himself more and more for doing it every time but he hates even more that he is getting used to it, and it's the most awesome thing ever.
And it goes from there.
See? See?
And did I mention the sexy?
Did I?
Mmmmm, biting. Bite scene 1 (yeah, like all manga, right to left, top to bottom)::
Whoa Baby. Zero/Yuki bite scene 2:
Zero/Yuki bite scene 3:
Child Zero getting attacked by Shizuka:
Zero fighting off the creepy Shizuka. Redux:
Zero/Yuki angst:
More angst:
Awesome sig of Yuki cleaning all the blood that was on Zero when the Headmaster brought him home when Zero was a kid:
Another awesome sig:
"The Cast"
Shoujo Beat scans:
Yes, there are other bitey characters:
Color art:
Colorizations and sigs:
Vampire Knight.
It's like Buffy only more awesome.
Vampires. Manga. Sexy biting. I actually don't care about vampires one way or another, but this story is like all the fic I ever wanted, only better. I like Yuki, the cool, funny, laid-back heroine, who protects the school from vampires (who aren't the Buffy type monsters, but night students who sort tend to slip up now and then). And I like all the background stuff about human-vampire truce, and pureblood vamp powers and different vampire classes and hierarchies and what not. And the art is very pretty.
But.
But.
But.
That is not why I am slavering at the mouth. I have a 'she's got it bad for fictional character, the dummy' thing here. For Kiriyu Zero. And for Zero/Yuki. Yeah, my ship for this would be the equivalent of Buffy/Xander, but only if Xander was, you know, super hot, and with huge angst, and actually a vampire himself. The 'Angel' character in this one (pureblood vampire named Kaname who saved Yuki when she was little and who she is all about, breathless fangirl wise) I like OK, but doesn't grab me that much.
The thing that gets me so much is that Zero's family were vampire hunters who all got wiped out by a pure-blood vampire, Shizuka. And he's been taken in by the school headmaster and has been Yuki's best friend since and they patrol the school together. And he hates vampires more than anything. Every fibre of his being stuff. Except he knows he is slowly turning into one, because he's been bitten by Shizuka, during the massacre of his family, as the ultimate revenge. And he is fighting it as hard as he can, but he knows it's inevitable, and he knows eventually he'll really turn and soon after that he will snap and go mad and rabid and just attack everyone in sight.
And OMG, when he does turn, he actually bites Yuki, who is his best friend, and who he would totally die to protect, and then there is his trying to kill himself and her stopping him and his making her promise that when he does lose it entirely, she will kill him. And as time goes on, he totally can't be without drinking her blood (her blood is weirdly special, unexplained as of yet) and so she offers and he does it and he totally hates himself more and more for doing it every time but he hates even more that he is getting used to it, and it's the most awesome thing ever.
And it goes from there.
See? See?
And did I mention the sexy?
Did I?
Mmmmm, biting. Bite scene 1 (yeah, like all manga, right to left, top to bottom)::
Whoa Baby. Zero/Yuki bite scene 2:
Zero/Yuki bite scene 3:
Child Zero getting attacked by Shizuka:
Zero fighting off the creepy Shizuka. Redux:
Zero/Yuki angst:
More angst:
Awesome sig of Yuki cleaning all the blood that was on Zero when the Headmaster brought him home when Zero was a kid:
Another awesome sig:
"The Cast"
Shoujo Beat scans:
Yes, there are other bitey characters:
Color art:
Colorizations and sigs:
