The last part of my Deaged!Shouto comic! I hope you’ll enjoy it!
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It was a lot of fun to work on it and I am so glad so many of you enjoyed it!!!
So while I’ve seen a thousand jokes about this scene and Noé slapping a snapchat filter over the rat bastard in his memories, I do think it’s worth analyzing what goes on here, because it’s just a really well-executed example of how memories change with time and fondness.
Most of the posts I’ve seen have contrasted this shot of Vanitas to this one from chapter 1:
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and that makes sense! They’re both similar shots of him standing at the top of the steps in front of the windows, and they’re also the faces that make for the biggest contrast between the two versions of the scene.
However! If you look at the actual dialogue, this super-romanticized shot of Vani isn’t entirely from Noé’s memory of Vanitas’s speech on the podium. It’s more complicated than that. Just like what often happens with real memories, when Noé recollects Vanitas’s request to use his strength, he blends it with other memories of the same scene.
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