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skk on the job

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after 7 years of waiting...are we getting a dham arc??

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Just a human and a vampire finding common ground over their boyfriend's/brother's antics

(sorry, the quality is shitty)

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my silly babygirl scrunkly meow meow (extremely traumatized grown man)

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〖Femme fatale ―Love―〗

It feels good to finish a sketch from months ago in a day. Still ignoring background tho

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Noodle Murr

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redraw of one of my absolute favorite shots in the whole show (original under the cut)

he just looks so soft and vulnerable here, and i didn't expect it my first time watching it. this whole scene makes me feral

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"Les yeux sont la fenêtre de l'âme"

So, regarding the last chapter.

We know that Vampires have one regular eye color and that when they are thirsty for blood or attack their eyes turn red right ?

Regarding the Dhamps now.

Johan as purplish/blue eyes

Riche are turquoise

Dante are brown

However, the chapter revealed that like Vampires, their eyes can glow of a special color : golden

Now, according to Nox and Manet, their eyes turning gloden is something they cannot control, which I think is why Riche and Johan wears glasses. In order to hide their eyes.

However, Dante doesn't wear glasses. Was it always the case though ?

Right. It wasn't.

You can also see that his mother wears a veil hiding her face. Who else his identity and is linked to the Dhampir ?

Somehow all of the people closely or not related to Dhampir hides their faces or their eyes...

except Dante.

Unlike them, Dante is revealing his actual nature to the face of the world. If eyes are indicating of one's soul, while the other Dhampirs are hiding it, Dante is showing them regardless of the risk of being exposed.

How does Dante react to Noé pointing out how no one wants to acknowldege the Dhamps as invidividual ?

However, the same Dante has a complete different reaction when Vanitas told him straight up that he hates everyone equally.

His relationship with Vanitas is actually a relationship where both will call each other "Quack" or "Baldie" and act as though they don't get along but in reality they are pretty complicit

Now, does Dante have that with Noé ? No. While Noé does point out the problem, he seems to be not noticing what it means that they refuse to call them by their name. Domi realized it. Noé ? He did not. Hence Dante's reaction.

Dante is the only one not wearing glasses because unlike Riche and Johan who "accepted" that they had to reject their identity to survive, he refuses. He doesn't want to hide who he is because he is born that way and cannot help it.

Vanitas reaction was explicit enough : he hates everyone equally having seen the worst aspect of both side, therefore he will treat him equally which is the bare minimun that Dante could ever hope, even if it comes to a feeling such as hatred to which he is used to.

What he isn't used to however, it's someone openly taking his defense, for him or the other dhamps and Noé's reaction creates an ambiguity hence why Dante ask him : is it on purpose ? Or is he just showing the extent of his naivete and ignorance ?

Dante stand out as being the only Dhamps not wearing glasses and exposing his identity to the world. What people try to hide by wearing glasses, a veil, a mask, he wants to expose it, a truth people are willing to ignore, to pretend not to see. They say indifference is worse then hatred. Well, in the Dhamps case, worse then hatred, they are being robbed off their identity. Hence he doesn't try to hide unlike when he was young, he gave up on the glasses. As a way to affirm that he, as a Dhamps, exist. That unlike what society does to him and others, he doesn't want to give them the satisifaction of feeling ashamed by his birth by trying to hide it as a mean to survive. He wants to be acknowledged.

So his relationship with Vanitas is in reality the one and only time he can feel that.

Noé however, openly points out how the refusal to name the Dhamps by their name is a refusal to see them as whom they are before they are Dhamps. That's the thing though.

Dante exposing himself as a Dhamps means that he wants to be seen as that. It's not going beyond the fact he is a Dhamp like Noé may do. It's the fact that he is both an individual with a name and dhamp.

While it's as discriminatory from Nox and Manet to refuse to call them by their name, reducing them as a group labeled with negative conotation, not acknowledging that they are Dhamps is going back to wearing glasses to hide the "ugly" truth that vampires ignores.

It's also worth poiting out that Noé says "Dante and the others" thus poiting at Dante in particular and that out of Johan and Riche, he always acted as the most hard boiled of the lot. So the fact that he in particular feels calls out by Noé's remark is clearly highlighted.

VNC as this theme of "name = true self" right ? On one side, refusing to call the Dhamps by their name is robbing them off their identity, but saying thigs such as "going beyond the fact that they are dhamps" is just as alienating for them. That is the kind of sentence you say about someone who committed a crime or a mistake and is making up for that or made a choice of life you disapprouve of, not people who are literaly born. The Dhamps cannot change that and they are stigmatized for that, being half-breed.

So the idea that Noé might be saying that lightly and not realizing the full extent of the situation would obviously upset Dante, as someone who doesn't want to be denied as who he is, a dhampir.

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and a compilation of other vanoe sketches i’ve done!

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🤝

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Everybody remembers this gem, right?

So I recently bought the magazine, and turns out this was the original draft??

Not saying we were robbed but damn.

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heal

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More Outfit Analysis

During recovery after the amusement park, Vanitas and Noé are both wearing light colored clothing.

Usually both have more black. But when they’re both vulnerable, Noé is in all light colors, and Vanitas tries to keep some darkness with his coat, but it doesn’t hide his change in appearance beneath.

They’re making up after a fight. They’re having a good domestic time. Domi’s in on it too, wearing a dress and shawl to match Noé’s softness.

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Their temporary costume changes are even more interesting. Domi emphasizes that clothing is a performance, putting on Amelia’s clothes and wondering aloud if she’d look like that as a normal person.

She’s playing a little pretend in the same way she does with Louis, but for once it’s her exploring her own identity. Who would she be if she didn’t have to worry about courtly politics?

Vanitas, meanwhile, is unexpected to a degree. He chooses to wear very respectable clothing in all black, with a coat over his shoulders echoing his usual one. The strangest part to me?

No bows. Not anywhere that I can see. They’re replaced aesthetically by ropes and a tie.

I’d let it slide for any other series, but Vanitas and his love of bows have been clearly established in-universe. What this implies depends on how you interpret the ribbons in his regular outfit. Let’s define it as a hint to his femininity for this one.

In his new performative outfit overall, he’s dark and mysterious and completely masculine, dressed like you might expect an actual doctor to be on any random off-day. There is no Luna. He isn’t wearing any blue at all.

Both characters choose to perform their gender roles more intensely than usual, because if it weren’t for the influence of their families (Louis and Luna), they wouldn’t have explored their gender expressions like they have.

This is an alternate reality where Dominique is just a common maiden, and Vanitas is just a common doctor. They both want that on some level. To not have gone through what they have, and to release the weight on their shoulders.

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When you put Vanitas in his new outfit next to Noé in his little pajamas, which he has not changed since he doesn’t perform much of anything, it’s clearly intentional. All light and all dark. But Vanitas seems to be accepting the light, so that’s at least good.

Would be great if it didn’t look like he was dead though

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Bonus Analysis:

Jeanne wears no black at all, but the coffin casing for Carpe Diem is black. Her darkness traces back to all the lives she took in the war.

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He really has grown, hasn't he? Or maybe just opened up. In the beginning of the series I would have never in a million years imagined him apologizing sincerely to Amelia like this.

On the other hand he was very kind to her when he first cured her malnomen but some of that felt like part of his charming facade? Or maybe we just focused so much on what a gremlin he turned out to be that we forgot he's shown that level of care.

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rewatched the whole series over christmas and i missed him