Vampire Knight Chapter 54 Discussion
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GothicQueen said:
ah_18 said:
Btw, why does Sara (and Shizuka) have another lastname although she is a pureblood? Maybe it's a stupid question, but still, if anybody cares to explain?
There isn't only one Pureblood family^^
There are more, that's why they have different last names^^
I know there are several families yet.. Aren't purebloods meant to have intersibling marriages, 'cause even though Shiki has a pureblood father, he is considered only a noble. It just got me thinking why not all purebloods are Kurans, if the first vampire ever was a Kuran and then they had sibling marriages. Were more vampires created afterwards, without the first ancestor to bite them, but by own (some weird) means like it happened for the first one? Maybe we'll find out later.
Ok, so I looked into this and the ancestry of the vampire race is (vaguely) explained in chapter 28, page 13. The Purebloods are from the families that never mixed with humans, and as the vampire race grew, the Kuran family was chosen to rule as the monarchy. It never specifically said that the Kurans were the first family and that everyone is descended from them. The vampires probably started off not having family names, but as the number of vampires grew, they probably came to need them to distinguish themselves (same thing happened with humans, actually), hence why there are different Pureblood family names.
DrHouse said:
To be fair to Yuuki she has been learning etiquette and diplomacy from Aido for the past year. Half of this chapter was devoted to explaining why she needed to be able to appear capable to the vampire nobles. I was pleasantly surprised when she actually did not screw everything up at the ball as she has done almost 100% percent of the time in the past. I think she did very well considering how creepy they were being. She also managed to diffuse the potentially very dangerous situation between Zero and Sara even though Yori was the center of it and she probably wanted to side with Zero. All the nobles were watching and commenting on how she handled the situation so her siding with Zero would have been a very bad idea.
I think the new Yuki is an improvement except for the increase in angst. Actually I thought her overcheerfulness before clashed with the setting of VK too much but new Yuki is overcompensating. I'm also disappointed because Kaname still has not told her much at all about what his plan is and she still cannot protect herself despite being a pureblood. I'm hoping that Hino may choose to continue going towards changing that but it'll never happen if Zeki fans get their way.
True. I guess I have difficulty deciding which Yuuki I disliked more: the overly optimistic and cheery Yuuki, or the Yuuki who wears the same angsty facial expression all the time. I have a tendency to dislike both extremes =/
