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[Happy Birthday Jeanne - 21/04/2022]

Vanitas, Noe, Killing & Love

currently thinking about the relationship between the act of killing someone and love in the case study of vanitas. vanitas says he will kill jeanne as an act of love, but then says he wants noe to be the one to kill him, and vanitas was the one who killed luna, and the noe couldn’t be the one to actually kill louis. so like, maybe part of this thing for noe and vanitas is that vanitas see himself as capable of loving others (i.e killing someone if the situation calls for it), but he couldn’t really see anyone until noe loving him (ie killing him)?

which is a warped way of thinking about love for sure (romantic, familial, or platonic) but then looking at noe too, who loves people just as deeply but doesn’t have that same connection to death/killing that vanitas does (as we see him struggle to fight vanitas who has no self preservation and goes for the kill), then get placed with the responsibility to kill his new best friend