Kiryu Zero - Blog Posts

Petpet generator part 2: i wanted your pets to save me

Kaname, Zero, and Emi getting petted really hard

Bonus plush Emi design

She yearns for the death of the bourgeoise

(This was a design before I gave her the weird white padded catsuit she’s usually in but I’ll prob still use it)

HERE WE HAVE A CIRCLE.

SMOOTH AND INOFFENSIVE.

THIS WILL BE THE BASIS,

FOR YOUR REVOLUTION.

GRAVITY IS CRUCIAL—

GEOMAGNETISM,

WITH SOME CALCULATION

WE WILL FIND YOUR LOGO.

One day ill actually draw something other than Emi being crazy and zero being Lazarus 2

Took a spray painting course

[ID: A spray-painted wall. The background is teal, covered in purple flowers and wisteria, with petals scattered around. Written on it in red and pink letters is “KANAME ❤️ ZER0 6EVA” with the heart meant to be bleeding and red, outlined by purple. On the very right side is meant to be the logo of VKR part 2, a circle with a plus sign/cross inside, but the rest of the painting overshadows it.)

The VKR Stuff from my Sketchbook! From oldest to newest!

Whole page I did I think on a plane or something. The drawing of Kaname and Zero holding each others’ faces is based on the chapter art for ch.98 of the OG series. And an old Headmistress Emi design.

A sadly looking off Part 2 Zero

Part 3 Zero sketches ft. The origin of this art

Wholeass Kaname drawing attempts page complete w Gee refs (I got a bit of a crush on Gee from using him as reference but tbh who hasn’t >~<)

Emi sketches ft. Post-series headmistress Emi based on Cybersix and Templar Armor/Citizen insane Emi. Mainly just my excuse to draw Emi covered in blood

And finally sketches I plan to turn digital, ft. A Kaname silhouette thing w his longcoat. Maybe best Kaname I’ve drawn so far prob lol

I made some character comparison charts/basic differences of OG VS Rewritten as well as more detailed peeks of rewritten Kaname and Zero’s personalities. I hope this doesn’t seem biased cuz I like the OG series (hell I wouldn’t rewrite this if I didn’t) I’m just trying to show off how I write these two.

​me, when I go on about my writing: ENTIRE ESSAY

I’ll prob do Yuki + Emi (as a joke because she’s a canon foreigner/character original to the rewrite).

(I couldn’t summarize OG Zero’s personality well so I used charactour which, ironically when I took the quiz he showed up in the first page of characters I was like! So I find that crazy and cool XD)

Also bonus meme

I mean Kaname x Zero is INCREDIBLY canon in my rewrite lol except Yuki is the big sister and it’s about two whole parts worth of slow burn + psychological thriller + coming of age + apocalyptic Christian thing + dying

genuinely pissing myself at the comments on LABY's new vk video

Professional Hater

Original quote by @7dmom

Vampire Knight Rewritten Tiiimeliiine baybeeee!!

1100:

Kaname is born in what will later be England.

1120:

Kaname is bitten and after committing a massacre of people, escapes to a ship and tries to sleep forever.

1637:

Kaname wakes up in Japan, eats the people who find him, walks into the sun to try and die. It does not work.

1643:

Kaname meets the “Hooded Lady”, Tani Kuran, a fellow vampire who wears a Japanese wedding dress half the time. She gives Kaname the name Kaname since Kaname forgot his original name (Cain I.) and he takes her surname, Kuran. They fall in love (very weird codependent love) and have a son named Christopher/“Krist” (he’s dead).

1646

After the Hooded Lady attempts to kill the current vampires in charge to stop infecting Japan and influenced Kaname to join. While Kaname is fighting with the leader, Tani steps in between the two to protect him. This allows Kaname to kill his opponent but, in doing so, he unintentionally impales Tani also. Tani tells him she might’ve done this on purpose.

Kaname burns the rest of the current council down but decides to seize control in their place before leaving Japan, thus leaving Vampires having no power there.

Though this is throughout time nearly all of Kaname’s descendants inbreed and die, except for Juri and Rido.

1761:

The dhampir and future revered vampire hunter Kaien Cross is born in a British colony (he’s Irish).

1779:

Kaien throws a rock at Kaname’s head in anger at the bourgeoise. This causes the two to meet.

2002:

Yuki Cross/Kuran is born.

2003:

Zero Kiryu is born.

2004:

Ichiru Kiryu is born.

2005:

Emi Yagari is born.

2007:

Juri Kuran-Tomita, Kazuya Tomita (Juri’s husband and Yuki’s father), and Rido Kuran are killed. Yuki is turned into an amnesiac pseudo-human and taken in by Kaname before being given to and adopted by Kaien.

2014:

Toga Yagari (33 years old) mercy kills his wife Babette after she’s bitten and turned, she begs him to kill her before she goes berserk.

Emi is nine when her father comes home and frustratedly says her mother isn’t ever coming back because she is dead.

Toga would later lose his left eye a few months later.

2015:

Ichiru is bitten and conceals this using illusions.

Zero and Ichiru’s parents are killed in an orchestrated killing by Ichiru and Shizuka Hio. Zero is bitten. They are taken in by Kaien after Kaien saves them from dying and kills Shizuka.

2021:

Part one begins.

Late 2021:

Ichiru Kiryuu kills Kaien Cross. Vampires are exposed to humanity.

Zero gives up half his humanity to evade execution with the help of Kaname.

2022:

Society collapses. The world goes to shit after vampires are revealed, The Council only does stuff that will get them more power. America and Russia nuke each other, Japan closes itself off, groups of humans live in underground colonies, the sky is permanently grey so vampires aren’t affected by the sun. The Japanese military splits off and joins either the Hunters or the Catholic faction known as the Templars.

Zero fights Kaito Takamiya and leaves Kaito behind with a magazine of silvers. (A Light Novel I planned)

2023:

Part 2 begins.

Zero saves Emi from a club in which she is a sacrifice. Though Emi kills the other half of the club.

Zero, Emi Yagari, Toga Yagari, Kaname Kuran, Hanabusa Aido, Ruka + Akatsuki Souen, and the hunter army kill the council and dismantle the council’s reign.

Zero and Ichiru fight each other while Kaname kills any remaining councilmen. Ichiru dies. Immediately after, Zero is speared by Yuki and Kaname sees Zero’s body before killing Yuki, his final descendant, in vengeance.

Kaname blows up Cross Academy, and he almost dies. Albeit Kaname is given Yuki’s heart so he is comatose.

Emi Yagari resurrects Zero Kiryu with help of Toga Yagari by getting his metabolic processes back on with magic, which takes weeks.

A day or a few hours after Emi Yagari resurrects Zero with help from her father, The Templars nearly kill her for this as this would make her equal to or above God/Jesus. Aido quickly diverts their attention to “other pressing matters”.

Kaname wakes a week later without his memory.

Yuki Cross is dead. Ichiru Kiryu is dead.

2024

Part 3/Post-Series

5 months after, Zero wakes up.

Emi has become Cross Academy’s headmistress, though she’s more of a “Mockingjay” situation.

Cross Academy is rebuilding.

Kaname Kuran’s memories are brought back by Zero Kiryu.

Kaname attempts to starve himself for a week out of just wanting his life over. Zero finds him.

Kaname and Zero get together after a whole deal of Kaname being pissed off zero brought him back but then Zero isn’t taking his shit and then they have say gex in the abandoned apartment and dam now they are boyfriends and the series goes on as weird slices of life.

Also some American soldiers come in lol wonder what’ll happen there (a lot)

2040

Emi has her son Mei. The father is unknown.

2046

Kaname and Zero get married.

Tw blood//fake body

Here lies everything

The world I wanted at my feet

+++

Kaname has a shitty…I’d guess this would take place at 2 AM tbh. Either way he’s finally breaking after 923 years of seeing everyone he loves and his family die.

There was an attempt at anantomy

Anyway Kaname and Zero’s body types. I didn’t want either to be easily twinkifiable/feminizable/chickifiable, so I tried to set body types that were muscular and different enough to not be considered lithe.

I also got the ✨courage✨ to give them body hair bc realistically they wouldn’t be hairless, they’re men permanently in their 20s in a weird apocalypse and they’re men so.

For Kaname I see him as some kinda stocky fencer-type—though fencers don’t have a specified body type you get it because fencers=weird ominous gracefulness and high society, all that.

Zero in part 1 I’d say is kind of scrawny but then part 2 because he acts feral/like a dog half the time he runs on all fours and thus has very strong arms. But that’s paired with the fact he doesn’t drink much blood not cuz of a sense of honor, but because even when he swears not to wallow in self-pity anymore he’s still self-flagellating.

Tw blood/fake body/stitches

No matter what happens, I will always be here to put you back together, over and over and over

and over and over

and over again and again, because I love you.

Is love meant to pierce me?

Emi stitching Zero’s dead ass up so she can resurrect him.

Emi is so funny to me because for half the series she’s basically a very calculated, unhinged female Trevor Philips, who's also Zero's first friend in years. And then Zero dies, and she becomes Jesus and resurrects him with magic just because, God damn it, she wants to hang out with her brother figure. And Toga’s like, “You know? I accept helping you if it means I get a chance at being a decent father again”

Sketches of part 2 and part 3 Zero I did in Kleki. I am slowly becoming da master of Kleki until I see some art and I go “THEY DID THAT IN KLEKI?!” oh boy

Art that I digitized of Zero (post series specifically) a good while ago

Alignment charts because that’s one of my many mini hyperfixations of sorting characters

(My friend Kate drew Aido + Souen twins + part 1 Ichiru sketch I miss her)

The funniest part is Kaname’s a 20 year old Anglo-Saxon born in 1100 and somehow he towers over everyone

I didn’t even intend for the height difference between him and Zero I picture them as nearly the same height until I remember oh yeah

If you are wondering how deep in the sauce I am about my rewrite I have plushies of these two now they can kiss in plush

Tw blood and sewerslidal intention

Well, if anyone was gonna find out about my vampire knight rewrite or I was gonna start out telling people about it, I thought an oc lore done poorly would work.

This is only the context behind the series and part 1 btw this isn’t how it happens chronologically obv

edit: now with added music