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[shinimout]

holiday doodle with the vnc cast

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[illyasfeel]

Jeanne & Luca

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[elia-de-silentio]

TENTATIVE ANALYSES: THE CASE STUDY OF VANITAS

Mémoire 4: Femme Fatale

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

This chapter is on a very high-tension note for most of its pages. A lot of things happen in it. First Vanitas made a little speech to Jeanne, about him having powers transmitted by Vanitas of the Blue Moon who once drank from him; then it turns out that it was all a ploy to distract her, waiting for the cursebearer to wake up and attack her. At this point, he heals the cursebearer, and in the meanwhile he has sent Noé to fetch Luca under the pretense of keeping him safe. To Jeanne, he instead threatens to snap the child's neck, and this is what makes her surrender. Vanitas reacts to this by taking advantage of the situation to be an absolute creep towards Jeanne, to the point of forcefully kissing her. Luca is enraged by this and the two retreat; while Vanitas laughs this off, the former cursebearer tries to run away, but a mysterious figure kills him, before wondering whose name take next.

NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES

The difference between what Vanitas tells Noé to do with Luca and what he says he's doing to Jeanne is explained with a flashback set just after the explaination to Jeanne, just the time for the reader to be confused about Noé's uncharacteristic behavior before getting an explaination.

There is an interesting way of framing things. For example, Vanitas' forceful kiss to Jeanne, which gets flowers and glitters in the background like in a classic shojo manga, except that the situation is not romantic at all and comes quite out of nowhere (on a first impact, more on that in a moment).

Then there is the way Vanitas of the Blue Moon is depicted, a distorted shadowy figure with white eyes, extremely similar to the one that appears at the end of the chapter; while there is no confirm that they are the same being, the parallelism is drawn.

CHARACTERS

The dhampirs are more or less a greek chorus in this chapter, commenting on the events and providing an unaffiliated perspective. From which they deem Vanitas to be a jerk. Anyway, this establishes them as a close-knit bunch who cares about each other and whose morals, while existing, are not strict enough to prevent them from working with someone they find reprehensible.

Someone's gotta be the mature adult of the situation

Luca reconfirms his characterization a very mature child, but a child all the same. Unlike the adults, who are disgusted by Vanitas' behaviour towards Jeanne but too tied up in their own interests to do anything to stop it, he is absolutely furious at the sight and tries to roast Vanitas on the spot with his magic. His behaviour is shown as a mixture of jealousy due to a childish crush on his bodyguard and actual revulsion for what he recognizes as a moral wrong, without any ifs or buts.

Jeanne. Oh, Jeanne. In this chapter, both her strengths and weaknesses are put on full display. She's crazy strong, this is never put in discussion; the only way the heroes can even put a finger on her is by using a rapid fire of underhanded methods, first tricking her so that the Cursebearer would have done the job and then exploiting Luca against her. But personality-wise, at the moment she's quite weak, and this isn't something sudden, this was well established in the previous chapter, where she never acted on her own will and instead went by a combination of ingrained habits and orders from a superior. She never had any actual motivation to go against the heroes, and as soon as Luca was threatened, she folded down immediately. The perspective of any harm coming to Luca is not just a professional concern because he's her charge, it's all emotional: she cares the world for that child, the perspective of any harm coming to him terrifies her, and she would do anything to protect him. This means that Vanitas' manipulation as it is already scares her; then he throws sexual harassment into the mix. He belittles her for feeling affection, something that makes her 'weak', while sporting this serene and balanced expressions:

wouldn't you want him in the vicinity of a child?

then he starts talking about how weakness makes her more beautiful, does something to her that drains her physical strength (the thing she relies on the most) and forcefully kisses her. This would be extremely upsetting to anyone, no matter how well she can beat people up; it's implied that it's also the first time she comes upon a similar situation, unlike a battlefield where she just had to mow down enemies charging with traditional attacks. This puts down some interesting details about her character that will receive a more thorough explaination later.

ERROR 404: SANITY.EXE NOT FOUND

Noé is more of a spectator in this chapter, and he really hasn't undestood much of the show. Vanitas quite easily tricks him into play the part of the menacing brute ready to snap Luca's neck, but he had to get him out of earshot to not jeopardize the plan with his protests. He saw Vanitas say something to Jeanne, then kiss her, and then collapse into laughing when their enemies take their leave. Noé, so proactive until last chapter, can't do anything but look on in helpless puzzlement.

And this was likely Vanitas' intention all along. In this chapter, he was surprisingly despicable. Insofar, he had been portrayed as cocky, trollish and uncaring of society's lines, but still an unambiguously good character, who gallivanted around saving people from curses and taking care for them even after his job was done. Here he starts the chapter by tricking Jeanne into getting herself attacked by a cursebearer to get her out of his case, and nothing too weird insofar, classical Guile Hero behaviour against an opponent so much physically stronger than him. Then he tricks her into thinking that Noé will kill Luca and Noé into thinking he just has to keep Luca quiet while they parlay; it's a tad more sketchy, but he had to get himself out of a really dire situation. And then he actually molests Jeanne, belittling her and her against her consent - something absolutely uncalled for, he already had her waving white flag at the threats at Luca. No, this last part, I think, was more of a show for Noé's benefit for which Jeanne was the unwilling co-star. This is why I drew attention to his expression last chalter: combined with what we see in this chapter, it's our first clue that Vanitas actually doesn't like to be seen as good; he has no problem pestering people that will not like him, but if someone thinks of him as righteous, he is going to show them just how mistaken they are.

THEMES

As said in the title itself: Love is the main theme here. But it's not presented in a particularly positive light: the love Vanitas professes for Jeanne is clearly fake, a part of his emotional manipulation, while the one example of actual love - the platonic one Jeanne has for Luca - is used as a tool against her, and Vanitas declares it as being the thing that turns her weak, the thing that allowed him to manipulate and harass her. This scene also shows this theme in relation to Vanitas himself, in ways that will be better understood in a few chapters.

SYMBOLISM

• Jeanne's Gauntlet: it represents her strength and her control over the situation. When attacking Noé and Vanitas with it, the two can barely dodge her strikes; but when Vanitas gain the upper hand through manipulation, he also does something that saps Jeanne's strength, and the gauntlet spontaneously falls off. The worst of Vanitas' harassment comes after that point.

REFERENCES

• Loup Garou, the Malnomen of the episode, means 'werewolf' in French (name coming from the corruption of Ancient French leus-warus, 'wolf-man').

• Bucolicous, the True Name, means 'from the country'. The link to the composition of idylls come from the fact that this kind of poetry revolves around the dream of an idealized country life.

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[theory-basket]

Luca sweetheart, are you fucking good? Why do you exist baby. What horrible things are planned for you.

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[favficbirthdays]

Happy Birthday

Luca Oriflamme (31st July)

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[pivoletov]

Tiny!

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[skyrr]

I was bored

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[briebysabs]

My hc on the Luca/Domi/Jeanne dynamic is Jeanne being the sweetest bean to both. Domi and Luca are willing to die for her but Luca is constantly conflicted whether Domi is his treasured ally or another rival he must trample for Jeanne’s affection.

Jeanne is blissfully unaware. Domi and Luca are friends 70% of the time but Domi starts hitting those flirty comments and winking at Jeanne and Luca hits her with the coldest glare.

He’s getting a headache from squinting so hard and Domi’s sweating fucking bullets and Jeanne wants more strawberry cake.

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Stage play event in Japan drawing by Jun

The characters:

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[jazzumbra]

Vanitas no Carte in Autumn Attire! 🍂 🍁

Last week, it finally began to feel like Autumn in Texas. So, to celebrate, I decided to draw the cast in some cozy Autumn clothes! 😄

My favorite outfits are Vanitas and Domi's! Which ones are your favorites?

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[shizukais]

#anime #manga #vanitas no carte #vnc #the case study of vanitas #lord ruthven #august ruthven #hear me out ! ruthven is one of the most intriguing characters to me #despite being portrayed as an antagonist i can't really see him completely fitting into that role / ruthven's actions are ambiguous #yea yeah he's a manipulative mf and is doing bad things now but i don't think that's what it's all about #i believe ruthven is being controlled by something (?) through his right eye and has no much choice in that matter #in the scene where ruthven tried to put a curse on chloe he looks almost shocked when he realizes what he was doing #he also spoke to someone who wasn't there and it seemed to be an act of desperation / even though the war was already over (?) by that time #the eye shows him terrible things ever since the war (and the betrayal that i'm not sure if really happened or was staged to trick him) #i think the continuous trauma the eye causes on him shaped him to be a colder and more cruel person #the opposite of what his original self showed to be (someone more like noe in beliefs and world view) #i guess he truly believes he's doing this for the sake of vampires / that idea of “sacrifices will be necessary for the greater good” #this could explain the alliance w charlatan who seeks to find a way to create more vampires (moreau's research) & rewrite the world formula #also it's clear that ruthven has a distorted view of vampire's malnomen (what caused that? what he saw in the war?) #both for his speech referring to luca's brother “salvation takes many forms (...)” and for the way he uses his own curse on others #until now we know he cursed queen faustina / jeanne / noe (i doubt he would betray the queen without a reason) #maybe his right eye is a malnomen he considers now as a form of freedom / or maybe that allowed him to finally see the “truth” #and yet i think his character is constantly questioning himself about it (in a very sutil way) #(e.g. when he listens noe talk about his ideals / when he sees jeanne dressed like a normal girl after her date) #in these moments we can see him falter a little bit and his expression changes to something more soft and genuine / introspective and sad #the curse he put on noe i think it has more than 1 purpose: 1)trump card against teacher 2)to not kill noe as monsieur spider had demanded #at first i thought it might be for naenia get noe's true name but if that were the case she would have done it by now #and in that moment naenia regained her form for a brief moment in d'apchier mansion and everyone felt her presence #ruthven looked equally surprised so he must not know naenia's true identity either (is he being used?) #lol i could write an essay about vnc... so many tags... lol sry i got carried away!

[elia-de-silentio]

TENTATIVE ANALYSIS: THE CASE STUDY OF VANITAS

Mémoire 3: Jeanne The Hellfire Witch

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

Just like the previous chapters, we have a three-act structure.

1. Introduction: Noé and Vanitas meet Dante, Vanitas' informant who was with him on La Baleine; he tells them that he found out the cursebearer responsible for all the murders, and one of his colleagues is currently stalking him. A lovely little messanger bat will lead Noé and Vanitas to them.

1. Rising action: the pair finds the cursebearer, just in the nick of time to save Dante's colleague, and Vanitas demonstrates that his Book can also be used as a stun gun. But before he can operate on the Malnomen, the two characters of last chapter's stinger show up. One is Luca, who demands that Vanitas gives him the Book. He believes that that particular object is what is spreading the curse around, and that if he'll destroy it, his older brother, a cursebearer, will be healed. Vanitas of course refuses and Jeanne, Luca's bodyguard, takes charge and attacks the two.

1. Jeanne nearly demolishes the protagonists. The two are forced to run and hide, and find a moment of respite in a deserted warehouse. They have a short confrontation, in which Noè expresses that, even if he doesn't like Vanitas personally, he thinks that what he's doing curing cursebearing is 'extremely right', and wants to support that. Vanitas seems taken aback, but then returns to his buffoonish attitude and reveals that he has a plan, just one, to beat Jeanne.

NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES

Important/reoccurring characters are introduced with single panels with single-word balloons or no balloons at all; see Dante, the arrival of Luca and Jeanne, and the revelation of Jeanne's face. This creates a small pause in reading, so that we focus exclusively on them.

Single panels are also used to underline Vanitas' ... odd reactions to being accused of being the one to spread around the malnomen curse, or of being controlled by some occult power in the Book. He exitates, makes a ... weird, kinda-nervous-but-not-surprised face, and twitches slightly. So either he isn't that much of an actor, or that particular topic sets him on edge, hinting that there might be some truth to Luca's accusations. Ditto for his dull reaction at Noé's claims of the righteousness of what he his doing, a pretty big hint that he doesn't share in the feeling.

During the fight scenes, an interesting thing is that we don't see much of the moves of the characters: the panels are more full of lines, to indicate the ridiculous speed of Jeanne's attacks, so much that the heroes barely see them coming.

CHARACTERS

The dhampirs (Dante and his colleagues) don't have much characterization insofar, besides a couple of lines that mark them as neutral and only interested in making money.

Luca is ... a child. He's poised and mature for his age, don't get me wrong, as seen in his attempts to parlay with Vanitas and obtain the Book peacefully. But there is a lot of naïveté in the way he acts: he firmly believes the story of the Curse of Vanitas (through to his credit, so do many adult vampires) and thinks destroying the Book will result in the curse disappearing; a pretty simplistic mindset, but it's unknown wheter he formed it himself going from what he deemed 'logic' or someone fed him that story. And still, he insists that Jeanne doesn't kill Vanitas and Noé, showing a very simple and clear moral basis: murder is wrong, no matter what. So, Luca's character is quite solid: a mature kid, but a kid nonetheless.

Jeanne is Luca's faithful servant and weapon. Seriously, she barely talks except for asking for orders; what little initiative she takes, is to first suggest and then go for the offensive, attacking the heroes to take the Book away from them. This last part is explained by Vanitas' comment: before becoming Luca's servant, she was a Bourreau, one of the vampire executioners; she alone was powerful enough to wipe away a group of vampires who had sided with the humans in the war that keeps being mentioned. It can be inferred that she is used to violent orders, to go all out on her enemies, and Luca's request to not kill is a complete novelty for her.

Noé is, at this point, much more interested in the Book of Vanitas than in Vanitas the person. He has no problems throwing him around, even to the point of launching him from buildings like a projectile, and would have let Luca and Jeanne do anything to him as long as they didn't kill (because Killing Is Bad); but he insists that the Book stays untouched, because it has the power to heal vampires. Even when talking with Vanitas later, his burst of enthusiasm is calling what he did in healing Amelia 'overwhelmingly right': Vanitas' whole value as a person, for him, stays in his ability to save cursebearers.

Vanitas has a very interesting behavior around Luca and his accusations - of the Book spreading the curse, of being controlled by a cursed artifact - he doesn't explicitly denies them, all he refutes are the ideas that it's him that's stealing people's names and that destroying the Book will put an end to the curses. So, we can suspect that he might be, in fact, at least somehow influenced by the Book?

Anyway, two other details that emerge about his character, is that he's more 'wordly' than Noé, better informed on vampire history and culture than the vampire himself, and that he has actual medical skills, not just magic; see how he wanted to fix Noé's injured leg.

But I think one of the most important panels in this chapter regarding him is this:

It's the face he makes after Noé praises his actions as incredibly rightful. He doesn't look happy at all of such a compliment, but he isn't visibly angry or sad either. He looks more ... weary? Anyway, remember this scene next chapter, I'll think it'll be important.

THEMES

This chapter is more action-paced, but there are two themes in the background: 'discrimination' and 'salvation'.

The first is expressed chiefly in what Vanitas mentions about the treatment he usually gets from vampires, fear and opposition due to the reputation of his Book; to the point that he avoids introducing himself when healing someone and is surprised that Noé acted differently. But in this chapter there is also the introduction of other characters who are subjects to discrimination: the dhampires and Jeanne. There will be more about that in the chapters to follow.

But, going back to what Noé doing so differently from the other vampires, that is being positive towards the Book of Vanitas. He has seen it as an instrument of 'salvation', the thing to heal Amelia and return her to herself; he is absolutely enthusiastic, he describes it as one of the most wonderful things he has ever seen. But Vanitas doesn't show agreement to these words; he looks weary, and this is the first clue that his idea of 'saving' is very different from a simple physical healing.

SYMBOLISM

Nothing that wouldn't be better to examine in further chapters.

REFERENCES

• Oriflamme, Luca's last name, means the flag of the kings of France.

• Jeanne, as mentioned in-chapter, owes her name to St. Joan of Arc, the girl who fought the English purportedly for divine inspiration.

And that was all for Mémoire 3. Thanks for reading 'til the end!

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