My Vampire Heart

I'm back! :) Several days late... but that's another story entirely... :P My inbox is crammed and I am seriously behind on everything both work and life related, but I had a great vacation. :D

I am going to try to start responding to the many lovely messages and emails that I have, but be patient with me, it's probably going to take me a bit to catch up. *hugs everyone for good measure*

BUT I did have to quick share the lovely news that the Vampire Knight Chapter 64 raws have hit the net!! :) Thank you love332 for letting me know and Isilen for the link!

See the VK Chapter 64 Raws

The link goes to Baidu, that Chinese site that often has the raws. As usual, I don't know who to credit for the scans since I can't read a word of anything, but thank you to whoever scanned them! :) There is another site that has them, called mangahead, but it tried to give me a virus when I went there, so I don't recommend it, the Baidu link is safer.

POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD

The chapter looks very interesting! I can't begin to figure out what's happening most of the time, although I have my suspicions, but we get to see lots of yummy, angsty looking Kaname as well as some more Zero and Aido interaction. LOL I'm such a sap, even without understanding a word, I had tears in my eyes when it transitions from the sad past to young!Kaname with baby!Yuki holding his finger. The look on little Kaname's face right before he pulls her into his arms and holds her so tightly and the memory doors slam shut... I swear, it honestly almost made me cry. *dabs her eyes*

I liked the visuals in the beginning when Kaname's doing whatever he's doing with all the old fashioned lab type stuff, it pleases the pseudo-sciency side of me that likes to show itself in my stories sometimes.

Oh and here... great pic. Seriously great... Kaname looking angsty with Zero's gun... :D Well, okay, the Bloody Rose wasn't Zero's yet and Zero wouldn't even be born for thousands of years yet, but hey... I can pretend. :D That is the Bloody Rose Kaname's holding, btw, even if the pic quality makes it a little hard to tell when it's shrunk down like this. Actually, the pic is tall and skinny and looks weird by itself, so I added the pic of little Kaname hugging baby Yuki on the other side, just cause it fit, even though they're totally unrelated, LOL. Sorry they look kind of crappy, I don't have time to try and clean them properly.



*wants to hug Kaname so badly right now*

Looking forward to being able to read this!! :D ...and to catching up with everything I have to get done, if and when THAT ever happens...

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Posted by Blackened Wing at 7:47 PM | Permalink | Comments

Okay, I'm running around trying to get a ton of things done before I take off later today (was supposed to leave yesterday but there was a delay). BUT!! I just had to quick post about this. :D

Jeza.red did an awwwwesome picture of the Zero and Aido scene from my last chapter of "Secrets in the Dark". And an awesome one of Aido from the moments right after his attacker died too! *bounces and hugs her so much*

They're lovely, so I just had to post about them! Click on the little thumbnails below to go and view the full size pictures and leave her lots of comments and favs :D. (if the links don't work, go to the yaoi.y-gallery.net homepage first, login, then try them again and they should work. The site acts wonky if you're not logged in sometimes.)



They're so cool, thanks for drawing them!!

Okay, well this is probably it for me until I return week after next. You all take care and I'll catch you when I return. :) *hugs all around*

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Posted by Blackened Wing at 10:33 AM | Permalink | Comments

Alrighty! Really had to push for this one *yawns - didn't sleep much last night from staying up writing* but I got the next chapter of my fic done! I'm going to be away over the next few weeks, so I really wanted to get this out before I left. It's at least not quite as evil as the last cliffie. :)

Secrets in the Dark (Zero x Kaname) by Blackened Wing
Chapter 28: "Unexpected Revelations"

Review Responses for Chapter 27

I was a little rushed because of trying to get it out before I leave, hopefully it doesn't show too much. :S *keeps her fingers crossed* We don't move along too far in the timeline, but we do get a few more answers and another little twist. :)


Listen, I know I'm always apologizing for this, but truly, I'm sorry to everyone who is still waiting for a response to me, sometimes on things that are over a month old. On both a personal and professional level, my life lately has been crap. There have been a lot of things draining my time, and a lot of problems draining my emotional energy and focus. I'm sorry, thank you all for hanging in there with me. If I haven't responded to you on something, please know it's nothing to do with you and everything to do with my crappy life. :S

On a happier and less whiny note, on with the other wonderful fic updates...! :)


Updated Stories:
Unholy Matrimony - Penguita38
A Place For Us - Lightpathetic
The Stranger - Lightpathetic
In Silence - YenGirl
His Eyes - ScarletMist
Salvation: Legend of Silver Fangs - kanshou87

New or Newly Added Stories:
Catalyst - Penguita38
Two Heartbeats and the Red Sin - KahneCrescent
Cold Roses - KahneCrescent
Forever Yours - KahneCrescent
Marked - LeaNicolaie


As usual, they're all over on my Vampire Knight Fanfiction page. :)

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Posted by Blackened Wing at 9:34 PM | Permalink | Comments

I'm sorry for not posting a new chapter this weekend. The end of the month is always super busy for me at work and the chapter is coming along slowly, so it just isn't done yet. :S

But I am working away on it as fast as I can, and will post as soon as it is done. Thanks for bearing with me. :)

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Posted by Blackened Wing at 10:41 PM | Permalink | Comments

Yay! Sagakure completed the English scanlation, so Vampire Knight 63 is here!

Such an interesting chapter, and so many awesomely drool worthy pictures of Kaname, Zero and even Aido. heheh ♥♥

Unfortunately I can't ramble, I am in a rush, but I wanted to quick post the link up for anybody who hasn't seen it yet. :)

Also, sorry to everyone who is STILL waiting for responses and replies from me... *sighs and struggles to move under the mountain of unfinished things she has to take care of* I'm trying!

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Posted by Blackened Wing at 8:52 PM | Permalink | Comments

w00t! Vampire Knight Chapter 63 Summary This way... (Thank you SGK!! :D)

Wow, okay, having a little info about the chapter makes me want to know more SO much now! I like that we're finally finding so much out, even if (or perhaps especially because? lol) it only seems to open up more and more questions.

I like the way Ms. Hino uses the juxtaposition of scenes between what's happening with Kaname and Yuki and what's happening with Zero and Aido. It's a good way to fill us readers in on different parts of the past at the same time, while keeping a foot firmly rooted in the present so we don't forget what's happening now-a-days and get to see some of our favorite chars in the same chapter. :)

SPOILERS AND MIND NUMBING RAMBLING AHEAD

I'm very interested to find out more about the hooded woman in the past, especially as it relates to Kaname's past and the creation of the hunters. I also want a name so I can stop calling her 'the hooded woman' LOL but I'm sure that will come in time. You know, I wonder... a while ago, Ms. Hino said that there was a new female character in the second half of the arc. There are several people that could apply to, but I wonder if she meant the hooded woman? I don't know, maybe not since she's actually in the past and not the present, but it seems like the hooded woman (THW from here on out lol) had a huge impact over the state of the world today anyway, what with her influence on Kaname and the creation of the hunters and all, so I can't help wondering.

Character-wise we haven't seen enough of her yet for me to really form an impression, although there's a lot of interesting potential for her to go many different ways. From the little bit we have seen of her thus far, she reminds a tiny of Juri. I'm certain they're quite different in actuality, but I just mean on the level of having a strong personality and her own very definite set of plans and goals that she's both willing to sort of use others to accomplish (like Juri and Cross / THW and Kaname) and go to extreme personal lengths obtain (THW using her own heart to create whatever hunter related things she created and Juri dying to seal Yuki). And of course lol, picking up with a man who is pretty much willing to follow her around and do whatever she wants him to. ;) Anyway, that's just what struck me on the surface until we know more about THW and all that. I wonder if we'll get to find out more from the past or if the flashbacks are ending? I hope not, because there's still so much we don't know, but I guess we'll see.

It's interesting about how Vampires came to be, and the idea that they were actually evolutionary anomalies born from human parents, but not at all human themselves. Kind of makes me think of the spontaneous proliferation of the mutant gene in the X-Men world. Perhaps the sudden climate change they keep referencing might have caused or in some way facilitated or exacerbated the mutation/anomaly to cause so many of this new race to be born over the years following whatever happened? That would kind of make sense, and explain why humans aren't still popping up with pureblood babies today. Unless they are and we just don't know it LOL but since there's so few purebloods now, I doubt it. Seems like it was a limited time deal. All the vampires and hunters alive today seem to be descended from those early generations, meaning that for whatever reason, the evolution ceased instead of spreading, which further fuels the mutation-caused-by-external-factors theory. Unless of course, whatever happened in the wars that followed is what changed things and somehow destroyed the ability for any more pureblood to evolve somehow. It doesn't really matter of course, and Ms. Hino may have completely different ideas about it, but I'm a sci-fi fan so I can't help puzzling over all those little pseudo-science-y type details. :)

Back to the present, it's fun to find out that Aido actually has been 'arrested'. :D Tsk, tsk, Yuki kind of got/left him in trouble again, poor Aido. XD I should be more worried perhaps, but I can't help being amused and inspired by the situation instead. I'm very interested to see what's going to happen with Zero and Aido now that Aido's in the Association's hands. Honestly, I rather expect that nothing much of anything will happen and Zero was just sweating Aido because he knows how Aido will react, but we'll see, I could be pleasantly surprised. ;) LOL *ducks* not that I want anything to happen to Aido mind you... well, nothing life threatening anyway... 0:D If you've read my stories, you know how I am and I'm sure my innocent act is useless ;)

I personally just really can't imagine Zero being involved in anything that went much beyond your typical police-style wear them down type interrogation and/or detainment/imprisonment (maybe drugs of the truth serum-ish variety if the need was great enough, but not much farther). At least, not with someone who hasn't presented any kind of immediate threat to anyone else and not unless there was a desperately urgent reason. I'm sure Ms. Hino is skilled enough to prove me wrong and make me understand how it could happen, but at this point I just really can't imagine it, so I'm not terribly concerned.

Although I can imagine lots of interesting and unfortunately highly unlikely scenarios where Zero doesn't realize exactly what the other hunters do intend to do to Aido, so bad stuff happens and he only finds out afterwards and then has to struggle with conflicting feelings of hunter loyalty, prejudice, guilt, responsibility, his own innately good nature and the ethics of it all, etc. and he eventually ends up helping Aido instead... which would be extra fun if say, Kaname had been trying hard to spring Aido through official channels (because the current political situation made it impossible for him to place too much direct pressure on the HA), so when Zero helps a weakened and scared Aido escape, he takes him to the only place he'll be safe, which naturally is with the Kurans... *stops before she works herself into a full blown fic bunny* Hahah okay, see, give me even a hint of an inch and my twisted little brain will instantly cook up drama, angst and whump. *rolls eyes* Sadly, I doubt anything that interesting will happen, although as I said, I could always be wrong. 'twould make a great fic though, ne?

OMG it's almost lunch time and I have a crap load of work to get done. O_O I seriously need to quit playing around and get to it, so I shall drag myself off. Hope you all are having a great Friday! :)

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Posted by Blackened Wing at 11:32 AM | Permalink | Comments

I ought to be working. Of course I'm posting instead. LOL *keeps glancing over her shoulder for bosses who walk more silently than vampires* ;D

I was just commenting on a pic on SGK's blog (instead of working *cough* oops...) and I saw in the comments that somebody posted a link to the VK 63 raws, so of course I had to check it out at once and of course I had to rush over here and bounce and ramble about it. ;D

Here's the linkie: Vampire Knight 63 Raws
The site's all in Chinese (I think), but just click on the pics and it's not hard to navigate.

Please note that these are not my scans and full credit and thanks should go to whoever did scan them. Not sure who that is since I can't read the site, but in any case it's not me. Only thing I'm doing is posting a link to it so that other people can enjoy it too and I have an excuse to ramble about it unforgivably and find further reasons to continue not working. 0:)


POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD

Um... so as usual these aren't really spoilers for what happens at this point so much as spoilers for what I think might be happening since I can't read the raws. LOL.

Looks like we get a lot of Zero and Aido interaction in this chapter, which should be fun! :D I like those two together and am very much looking forward to finding out what they're saying. It looks like Aido is more or less in Zero's custody at the moment, although I'm not sure in what capacity or for what exact reason. LOL given some of Aido's (over)reactions and the look on Zero's face it should be an interesting conversation.

Yuki is still inside Kaname's memories it seems, even though it looks like she's not drinking his blood anymore. Actually, unless I'm misinterperating the pictures, it looks like she's sort of living his memories as if she was him, although she's obviously still herself, seeing them through his eyes. If that is indeed what is happening then I just have to giggle and grin stupidly because of course that's the exact same kind of senario I had Kaname and Zero go through a few chapters back in my fic "Secrets in the Dark" when Zero was living through Kaname's painful memories from the past (albeit, a very different past, naturally since my fics are AU). I adore the fact that the ability to do that is now more or less canon in at least some way. :D ♥♥♥

I have a harder time figuring out exactly what's happening in the memories without being able to read the text, so I look forward to finding that out eventually, but there's some very touching and tender-ish moments between the hooded person and Kaname that make me go awww... and feel all soft and sad for Kaname's air of lost lonliness in those memories. I think Yuki might have felt similarly, since she was crying... *wants to hug everybody very much now*

Anyway, looks like it will be a very interesting chapter and I look forward to when we can read it! :)

SERIOUSLY has to get back to work now. Eep. :S

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Posted by Blackened Wing at 11:05 AM | Permalink | Comments