Breakcent

Breakcent is the slash ship between Xerxes Break and Vincent Nightray from the Pandora Hearts fandom.

Canon
Vincent and Break first met in the Will of the Abyss’ room. While Vincent was injured and nearly unconscious, it’s unclear if he remembers meeting Break. When seeing Vincent for the first time in the real world, it is clear that Break remembers him. Vincent notices Break’s eye and tells him that in the past children with red eyes were considered bad luck and it was lucky they were alive now. Soon Vincent was called to return to the Nightray manor. He called Break his “ill omened big brother” while leaving, showing that the young Vincent had no malice towards him.



After the ten year time skip, Vincent and Break clearly despise each other. With Break having the goal of uncovering the truth of Sablier and to fulfill his promise to the Will of the Abyss, Vincent is doing everything he can to stand in his way. He even goes so far as to kidnap and poison Sharon for bargaining. In doing so, he convinces Break to destroy the Cheshire’s bell which he had so long wanted to obtain.

Vincent’s main goal is to protect Gilbert. Break is a major obstacle in his completion of this. In order to protect Gilbert, Vincent believes he must keep all of Gilbert’s memories, including everything that happened in the Tragedy of Sablier, hidden from him. Even the slightest bit of truth coming out could ruin his plan. In addition, Break also has a close relationship with Gilbert that Vincent dislikes.

During the story, Vincent and Break refuse to use each other’s names. When speaking of Vincent, Break refers to him with the insult of the sewer rat. Vincent uses the name of his chain and only calls him “Hatter-san.” Despite this outward and very obvious hatred towards each other, they put on a façade of politeness when around others. This works best for their reputations, especially Break’s as a servant can’t be seen acting disrespectfully towards a noble.

Fanon
While VinceBreak doesn’t have much fanwork, the existing fanworks get a good amount of attention. There is a significant niche of VinceBreak content on Tumblr and AO3, counting an active base of fans creating content for the ship. Twitter has a small amount discussions as opposed to fanworks. Pinterest has a small section of fanwork but unfortunately it goes uncredited.

Breakcent doesn’t have much discussion going on in terms of opinions of the ship. It doesn’t seem to be a hated ship, rather than a ship most people don’t consider. VinceBreak is far beat out by ReimBreak in fanwork and popularity and at times garners less attention than the controversial pairing of GilVince in the grandscale. Those who do like it seem deeply invested the ship.

VinceBreak doees not tend to be a ship centered around romance. The fans indeed tend to focus on the complicated unhealthy dynamic between the two characters, highlighting themes of hatred and negative self recognition in the other. Unlike in ships like BreakReim, the characters' relationship is prefered as "toxic" and mostly sexual, as proven by how the most kudoed AO3 fanfictions of VinceBreak gather themes of physical and psychological violence, including non-con and "dead dove, don't eat" content.

When making VinceBreak content, or even in discussions, characters such as Gilbert or Reim can be considered interracting with the pairing. Normally Gilbert is used as an unfortunate onlooker to the situation due to his relationship with the two. Some fans may find it amusing to "torture" Gilbert with their relationship. Similar treatement can be given to Reim, although angst and multishipping can often be used in this case. VinceBreak is indeed a pairing that can coexist with other Vincent or Break ships within the fanworks. Polycule ships, strictly speaking, are nevertheless rare - mostly because of how in such content, Vincent does not even tend to be in an actual relationship with Break in the first place.

Fandom

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Trivia

 * Gilbert told Vincent he reminded him of something Break said, disgusting Vincent immediately.
 * Vincent indirectly caused Break's eye to be removed by torturing Cheshire.
 * Vincent and Break mutually appear in each other's "dislikes" in the Pandora Hearts Guidebooks.