VaniDan

"This Guy Is Dante. He's an information broker I use frequently... or rather, he's a Jack-Of-All-Trades who'll do practically anything as long as you pay him."

- Vanitas about Dante.

VaniDan is the slash ship between Vanitas and Dante from The Case Study of Vanitas fandom.

Canon
Vanitas and Dante have been partners in news buying and selling for a very long time. Their relationship is worry-free and doesn't cross the line.

Parisian Excursion Arc
Vanitas initially pursues the "nine murderers" case to capture a man named Thomas Berneux who turns cursed and kills nine vampires. Although Thomas Berneux attracted the attention of Vanitas, he failed to cure the cursed. Before Vanitas received a letter from "Amelia Ruth", it was written that she wanted Vanitas to help diagnose her illness as an expert on cursed vampires, so Vanitas decided to say yes, and invites Dante to go together to find the whereabouts of the patient he must treat But instead there are many problems.

Because while Vanitas finds Amelia's whereabouts on the airship According to the information Dante has given, He decided to sneak in and jump through the window. But Dante stops it and asks if it will be okay, and try to remind his friends not to be in too much of a hurry because it will cause problems later, but Vanitas doesn't care and confidently tells Dante not to worry. He then jumps off the airship from the window and clashes with Noé in order to steal Amelia Ruth. Dante keeps an eye on his friend from the window. by using a sling to hold it, and wondered to Noé, who had fought Vanitas, asking "What's that guy like?" With a feeling of interest in the strength of Noé who fought close to Vanitas.

Dante cheered and tried to cheer for Vanitas to win Noé. However, Vanitas is defeated by Noé and "Amelia Ruth" is taken away. Dante felt happy in vain, but secretly very shocked. Dante hurries downstairs and asks Vanitas worriedly. But Vanitas got up and laughed with pleasure and having fun. It lets Vanitas and Dante know that Noé is a vampire.

After successfully treating Amelia Vanitas and Dante are caught sneaking aboard an airship. He and Vanitas discussed what they should do. because when they are caught by those who have arrested them, Vanitas would send a signal to Dante and began to perform plays to intimidate those who arrested them. But Vanitas made a mistake. Instead, he was struck in the head by a stone. causing him to fall to the bottom. Dante attempts to capture Vanitas. but was cut off by Noé and prevented Vanitas from being saved in time.

After that, Vanitas comes to Dante. and grumbling in frustration that he abandoned Amelia and fled alone. But Dante said that protection was not in the contract, Vanitas had a fight with Dante for a while. Later, Vanitas introduced Dante to Noé saying, "This Guy Is Dante. He's an information broker I use frequently... or rather, he's a Jack-Of-All-Trades who'll do practically anything as long as you pay him," and to not waste money plus a shield that is stronger than him, but Dante argues back and says he was never a shield for Vanitas.

While Vanitas and Dante argue, He comes to the conclusion and says that if he wants money. he should go find someone else, but Dante threatens Vanitas. “I've found out about the nine killers for you." "Oh, what a pity”, says Vanitas. "Master Dante, I love you," like a flattering thank you. But Dante said he already knew and that Vanitas can stop acting like a fool.

And Dante has collected a very expensive news fee. until the money in Vanitas's pockets no longer remained. So he complained that Dante was charging too much for the news. Dante tells his friends that news of old orlok is not easy to find.

Before Vanitas is taken away by Noé, Johan (a fellow colleague) comes to Dante and compliments Vanitas for being cute and tells him the news of "Lord's Borreau is in Paris right now." Johan said Dante's friend Vanitas might die. This made him feel shocked and worried about Vanitas. Dante joins him and watches Vanitas fight Jeanne. with concern Even though he was skeptical that Vanitas had beaten the Nine Murders. Dante is shocked to see Vanitas kiss Jeanne. and suddenly confessed his love to her for no reason, causing Dante to scold Vanitas that he was crazy, and mixed with his friend's curse plant together with Riche Johan, on the grounds that he disagreed with Vanitas's plan to harm women.

In that church arc, Vanitas has trouble with Ruthven over the Queen. and was fired However, Vanitas and Noé heard from orlok that there was a case of a cursed person. They intend to investigate the case. When walking out, he finds Dante offering Vanitas to buy news from him. And Vanitas saw that Dante was hurt and asked him out of curiosity.

Dante said he was after a mysterious man on a case to investigate. And Riche hurriedly jumped at will. Causing him to get hurt and mess up. Dante then shares the news with Vanitas. Until letting his friend know information about the case and Dante offers them to investigate the case in the sights of Paris. That's the Paris Catacombs. In the end, Vanitas and Dante find nothing. But he still enjoys seeing Dante act fun and hilarious.

They argued and fought again. Before Dante separated from Vanitas He had given him a single button that had been taken from the mysterious man him following, the button he took It is expected to belong to Chasseurs. Vanitas contemplated it before stuttering and then they dispersed.

Vanitas later argues with Noé over his disagreement with a terrible plan of Vanitas's doing to others because it's too intense especially with Jeanne, and that he knew about Vanitas's map using him. And Vanitas stole Jeanne's kiss from Dante, causing Vanitas to know that Dante sold his story to Noé. Vanitas was not upset and cursing Dante It ends with a good story and Dante is not mentioned.

Although Dante disapproves of Vanitas's use of drastic methods, when he saw Vanitas going on a date with Jeanne, he encouraged his friends to have good love. Even though it was a fake date that Domi and Jeanne set up to drive Vanitas away. But at the same time, Dante is sick of secretly stalking his friend along with Domi. He must have seen Vanitas Corny with Jeanne, making him feel cheesy and thinks it's just a normal date, so Dante gets bored and wants to go home because he doesn't want to see people flirting with each other.

At the end of Jeanne's arc, a date Dante sees that Domi cares too much for Jeanne, unnecessarily, and comforts Domi. and supported that if Vanitas and Jeanne are together it would be good for her, wouldn't it? Dante then goes to Vanitas and sends news of the Gévaudan Wolf case, and he is caught by Vanitas who secretly followed him and Domi to spy on Vanitas's date with Jeanne. Dante talks to Vanitas about the case, but when Noé spoke about asking for the blood of Vanitas causing a quarrel and ending up in a bad atmosphere, Dante looks at Vanitas up in the window with the shocked and scared eyes of his friend.

The Beast of Gévaudan Arc
In the Gévaudan arc, Dante and Johan accompany Vanitas. Although Vanitas didn't want Dante's group to follow. But because he saw that Dante wanted some information. therefore, he could not disobey his faith and let it follow. and Vanitas was troubled to ask for information from the village. But no one was willing to give information to Vanitas. He had to use information from Dante to lead the way.

Along the way, Dante teases Vanitas and Noé that, "At first I saw the atmosphere at that time was not good. Until I thought that the master would part ways with the master. but still together But Vanitas once again argued with Dante that I was deliberately parting ways with him." But he intervened himself, Dante teases Vanitas without stopping until they argue. Then Noé gets lost and chaos after chaos occurs, causing Vanitas and Dante to split up in different directions.

Dante is reunited with Vanitas. He is interrogated by Vanitas and distrusts Dante's information. Vanitas got angry and threatened to kill them. until arguing with Johan and Daite came to stop Vanitas and said that he would share all the information before Dante complains that Vanitas is a tsundere who isn't honest with himself, even though he's worried about Noé.

Dante tells the story of the man who hired him: Machina. Mixed blood parents to Vanitas and enters the Battle of Gévaudan. Dante hallucinates and recalls his first encounter with Vanitas. Originally Dante was Dampire. (half-human, half vampire) who are neither human nor vampire. It caused Dante to have a knot and to be shunned by others. Only Vanitas didn't mind Dante. And sees that, "humans, vampires, Dampy have both good and evil. So I would hate them, there wouldn't be much difference," for that reason Dante had been dealing with Vanitas for a long time. before he told the story of the Abyssal Flame Witch after Vanitas worked with Dante for a year without compensation, Vanitas asks Dante to help him find a book. He did not hesitate and assisted Vanitas to the fullest, without saying much.

After finishing the arc, Gévaudan Dante arranges another meeting with Vanitas. He ordered oysters. which was something Vanitas liked. Before the Mikhail incident Vanitas freaks out, steals the gun and the Chasseurs drug found in Dante's Gévaudan, injuring him. But even then he was worried about Vanitas. and try to understand even if friends do bad things to him.

At the end of Arc Mikhail, things calmed down. and Dante greets Vanitas with his group of journalists.

 Bonus Manga CD 

In bonus Blu-ray vol.5, Vanitas disguises himself as a woman to investigate. At first, Vanitas didn't want to dress up as a woman, but because Vanitas was the most feminine among the people in the group, Dante and Johan offer Vanitas to dress up as a woman. (Even though this was to play him off.) Finally, Vanitas agreed to dress up as a woman. which when he wore a dress It gives Vanitas a very beautiful and feminine look. Then Vanitas teased Dante once by pretending to ask Dante if he as beautiful as his mother, along with curling hair for fun, This makes Dante feel embarrassed and frustrated with Vanitas before the story turns around to be funny again.

Fanon
VaniDan is highly overshadowed by Vanoè, VaniJeanne with Noénique and DomiJeanne which is the most popular in fandoms and it's also a ship that has been obscured by other ships such as Louinoé and NoèJeanne, almost not being talked about. But there is still a small minority who enjoy their dynamics. Although Dante and Vanitas often clashed with each other. But with Dante's concern for Vanitas and they often tease each other. It also has a habit that Tsundere. (Mouth doesn't match the heart) makes some vnc fans ship them.But there are some vnc fans who, in general, prefer their relationship as friends rather than romantic. Sometimes in vanitas no carte fan art and fanfics, Dante is portrayed as a matchmaker and Vanitas looks cheesy with other characters like Noé and Jeanne. Whether they like VaniDan as a friend or as a romantic. But there's no denying that their dynamics are just as interesting and fun as they are with other popular ships in the fandom.

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Trivia

 * Jun Mochizuki stated on Twitter that she liked the carefree side of Vanitas and Dante's relationship, but at the same time she liked their relationship that didn't step on each other. Or the implication is not to intrude on each other's personal affairs until more than necessary.