grelleswife reblogged
2am delirious here but the new chapter really solidifies (... to me) how vnc presents memories as kind of an opposing force to death, with Vanitas and Noé designed as opposites, and with one embodying death, i.e. finiteness and destruction, and the other memory, i.e. preservation and continuation
And the narrative has told us from the very beginning that Vanitas is doomed, dead at Noé's hands - but this is conveyed explicitly via a memoir written by Noé... Though Vanitas's death is inevitable, Noé retains his "story"... and though he is the one to kill Vanitas, he will not let his life be lost for good