HMD | November 2012

[these_balls]

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Comments

[fairycircle]

Vanitas | Kingdom Hearts | shadowdive | personal HMD
Cheria | Tales of Graces f | fairycircle | personal HMD

[(Anonymous)]

I'm kind of concerned about Vanitas lately. He's definitely had loads of time to develop, and I know his romance with Karkat had a lot of buildup, but I kinda feel like it might be getting a little outta hand? I saw earlier that Vanitas kissed Karkat in a 'not very chaste way' on one of Ven's post and found that really awkward as an outside viewer. It's just... why would any character want to watch someone make out (because, let's face it, that's what it came across as)? Talking about being in a relationship is one thing. Pushing it in another character's face is something else entirely. Especially when he only switched to video in order to show off the kiss.

I understand if you're invested in your ship, but maybe you could tone it down a notch? Plus, even if Vanitas is the trolling type, it seems odd for him to do that in front of Ventus or at least unnecessary.

Please don't take this the wrong way. It just feels awkward and a little uncomfortable, having seen it before the comments got deleted. :/

The Homestuck cast is obviously important CR because he is with Karkat, but I've also noticed that he seems to interact with them more than his actual castmates. It comes across as strange to me, even if the KH cast is a heck of a lot smaller these days. I think HS chars are the ones I see him interact with the most, period. I'm not sure if this is intentional, but it does seem a little selective from an outside viewpoint.

[shadowdive]

That was removed because Ven's player expressed that it was uncomfortable, and I had realized a bit too late that I over stepped the funtimes I was having. That's the reason the comments were retconned; he wasn't doing it to push it in anyones face. He never really did tell Ven he was in a relationship, and kissing Karkat was the first thing that came to mind, albeit it shouldn't have been "not chaste". I admit that it wasn't my finest for shenanigans, but it was dealt with by removing it as soon as she said she was uncomfortable with it. I apologize for making it uncomfortable for you too, viewer.

He interacts with the Homestuck cast more simply because he doesn't exactly fit in with the KH cast? Sure, he knows Riku somewhat, and they butt heads, so that is an interesting relationship I have dropped the ball on. With Terra, he doesn't post as often, but I have hit both of the posts he's made; he's working on rebuilding a normal sort of relationship with him. Minnie, he never saw much interest in speaking to, but he did speak to her a few times when she was telling stories. Roxas, they butted heads a bit often when they first started talking, and after the fight that eventually led to the fight with Xion. Vanitas didn't want to bother with him or her anymore, because while he didn't make the same effort to know Roxas, he tried to walk away from a fight with Xion. She didn't exactly let him, and that's why they fought. I've tagged every Aqua we've had, I've tagged most of Sora's posts when they come up and it's something Vanitas would pay attention to, and the same goes for Kairi's posts.

It's not as though he doesn't want to befriend or interact with the same people from his universe, but the KH cast isn't extremely active. I'm not trying to be offensive with that, but they aren't. Vanitas has only really started to interact with the HS kids recently, since he only knew some of the trolls through Karkat. He hasn't met Equius, the current Nepeta (he met a past her, so her name is at least familiar), Aradia, Dave, or Jade, so he has a bit of a way to go with them? (I'm missing Bro too but Vanitas has no reason to talk to him either unless he sees a nicely done scuffle. It's not 'gotta collect all the homestucks for cr' over here.)

His posts are almost all open network, and some of the more recent ones have been very open questions; I can't help if some of those tags to his posts are HS people, because he will tag them back out of curiosity because they know someone important to him.

Uhhh I hope overall, that this made sense? Short version is that Vanitas has been interacting way more with other people than his own castmates because it's not like he really fit in with his castmates, on top of they're not super active.