“	I have let the forbidden acts pass... Everything was done for this day.	”
	— Kaname Kuran, Vampire Knight Official Fanbook

Kaname Kuran
Characteristics
Race	Pureblood Human
Gender	Male
Age	10,000+
Height	184 cm
Weight	62 kg
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Red-Brown
Professional Status
Occupation	Head of Vampire Society Former Moon Dormitory President
Personal Status
Status	Alive
Relative(s)	Haruka Kuran (Descendant/ Father) † Juri Kuran (Descendant/ Mother) † Yuki Kuran (Descendant/ Sister/ Fiancée)† Rido Kuran (Descendant/ Uncle) † Senri Shiki (Descendant/ Cousin) Unnamed Child (Descendant/ Daughter) Unnamed Child (Descendant/ Nephew)
Weapons
Weapons	Anti-Vampire Sword
Debuts
Manga Debut	Chapter: 1st Night – Cross Academy Night Class
Anime Debut	Episode 1: Night of the Vampires
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Daisuke Kishio
English Voice	Ethan Murray
Image Gallery

Kaname Kuran (玖蘭 枢 Kuran Kaname) is a Pureblood vampire and Head of the Kuran family, one of the seven remaining Pureblood families. He is also one of the progenitors of the Vampires and the first Kuran, making his estimated age over 10,000 years old.

Contents 1 Personality 2 History 2.1 Revived Kaname 3 Plot 4 Powers and Abilities 5 Weapon 6 Relationships 6.1 The Hooded Woman 6.2 Zero Kiryu 6.3 Hanabusa Aido 6.4 Takuma Ichijo 6.5 Ruka Souen 7 Quotes 8 References 9 Navigation

PersonalityEdit

Kaname is generally a calm, elegant, stoic and authoritative individual. However, he becomes a completely different person with Yuki; to her, Kaname is very gentle and warm.

This disposition bothers the Night Class vampires, who initially do not understand his favoritism towards her. Yuki herself feels confused about how Kaname lovingly cares for her.

Kaname expresses occasional jealousy towards Zero Kiryu because of Yuki's connection to him, and is not afraid to show this to Yuki.

He is very strict and often imposes discipline in a fierce way as the Dorm President, yet he is indulgent and kinder towards Yuki. Kaname has acknowledged to Rido that he has a contradictory nature, which leads him to both desiring to lock Yuki up and keep her to himself, but alternatively to watch her protectively while encouraging her to be herself. Kaname never hides thefact that he is not interested in anything else but Yuki's welfare. Every action he makes  is towards one goal, and that is Yuki's safety; his greatest fear is losing her. 

He is very determined to have Yuki live for all of eternity by his side and not only deeply fears losing her because of the ten years she spent as a human, but because of the mysterious loss in his past. His solitary nature makes him rather secretive. Kaname has the Pureblood power of controlling vampires, but he chooses not to exercise this power, thus earning the respect of the Noble vampires, as mentioned by Takuma Ichijo and Akatsuki Kain. Sometimes when he is with other vampires he acts particularly cold and domineering, but he usually seems to treat them with detached politeness.

HistoryEdit

Kaname the Ancestor

Kaname Kuran is the ancestor of the Kuran clan, one of the founder of the vampire race. He lived alongside with another mysterious ancestor known to be the Hooded Woman. This woman tossed her heart into the blazing furnace to create weapons made from her heart, forged to kill vampires. Artemis, the bloody rose and all the other weapons in the Hunters association were born from her sacrifice. Soon after doing so, her body cracked and turns into ashes. After having to witness this, Kaname put himself into an eternal slumber as he had no more reason to live for except until a few thousand years later, he will be awakened to become the new parent. But he was reawakened by Rido Kuran, his descendant that sacrificed the life of a innocent baby who is Yuki Kuran's actual brother to awaken him.

Revived KanameEdit

Due to his weakened state after reviving, Kaname transformed his body into that of a baby and suppressed his memories, entrusting his life in the hands of Haruka and Juri, who raised Kaname in place of the son that Rido had taken and killed. As children, Kaname and Yuki shared a very close relationship even to the point of promising they will marry and live a life like their parents. Though Kaname was not especially outgoing around like other children his own age. He first met Hanabusa, Akastsuki, and Ruka as children, but they did not form bonds until several years later, after the deaths of Haruka and Juri. Kaname previously had no reason to live for except to become the next parent as he originally planned, but because of Yuki's existence. Kaname was willing to forgo his original plans in order to live with her for all eternity. Kaname severely wounds Rido by tearing him apart into pieces which required ten years for Rido's body to regenerate. During the attack on the Kurans, after he found he was unable to kill Rido, as he was technically his master from having

revived Kaname from his slumber. After temporarily dispatching Rido, Kaname took the now-human Yuki to Kaien Cross's house. Kaname himself was taken in by Takuma's grandfather, a man whom he distrusted. During her childhood, Kaname frequently visited Yuki and remained a steady presence in her life. After Kaien Cross built the Academy, he agreed to let Kaname decide everything that involved the school's vampires so that he could stay near Yuuki and protect her from afar.

PlotEdit

Main article: Plot Summary for Kaname Kuran

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Like all Pureblood vampires, Kaname has immortality and the ability to heal from anything excluding anti-vampire weapon wounds to the heart or head. Like all vampires, he can absorb the powers from vampires whose blood he drinks. Kaname's powers have been listed as immeasurable.^[1] However in the manga, he has stated that when his mind wanders he "loses control," as seen when he accidentally burns a hole in the wall (in the manga) and a tree (in the anime), both barely missing Takuma, and also shatters a window. Like all vampires, he also has enchanced strength and super speed. Kaname has demonstrated the following abilities:

• Telekinesis.

• Erasing memories.^[2]

• Creation of a familiar in any form he chooses, such as a bat able to convey messages^[3] and a wolf ^[4] from which he can receive information instantly, and used to watch over Yuki when she left the Kuran Mansion. His familiar is also strong enough to carry another person^[5] and wields his telekinetic powers.^[6]

• Transformation of his body into a weapon.^[7]
• Controlling Bloody Rose through his voice.

• Control of multiple vampires by his command against their will.^[8]

• Changing the physicality of his body^[9] i.e. changing his body into an infant.
• Manipulate another pureblood (hiding Touma inside his familiar).
• Changing a Pureblood vampire into a human like all purebloods can do.

WeaponEdit

Kaname wields an anti-vampire sword and was the original wielder of the Bloody Rose and Artemis.

RelationshipsEdit

Main article: Yuki & Kaname

Yuki

and Kaname have a complicated past that goes back to when they were children. Kaname loves Yuki very much, though he oftens treats her like a child and is very overprotective of her. When she was awakened as a vampire, she refuses to hunt for a prey and stubbornly rejects her vampire self for the past six months of living together. Her actions leaves Kaname worried and wonder alot. He has also tried to make her call him just Kaname than Onii-sama or Kaname-Senpai. Kaname then takes a gamble and decides to reveal the truth of her real brother and also about his history. After learning the truth, Yuki begins to see Kaname as someone more than just a brother and admired savior, but as her fiancé. Yuki wishes to start over with Kaname after she knows his secret and Kaname agrees.

Kaname respects Yuki's decisions and puts her feelings as his top priority even before his own. She was his only exception to everything. However, Kaname knows that a half of her heart is still with Zero, but despite this, she still chose to be with him which is clear to him that she truly loves him with her heart. Kaname then reminds her that, because of her feelings for Zero, she might have to suffer forever. Kaname originally did not mind waiting until her heart changes for him but it grew on him to think if the path of a vampire was right for her. During this time, Kaname works ridiculously hard to establish laws to maintain peace between the vampires and the  hunters, in order to give Yuki the freedom to roam freely around in the outside world without putting her life in any danger. However with the reappearance of Zero, Yuki's heart wavered. Kaname then, decides to take a step back and puts them through a test. Kaname told her to wait at the Kuran mansion for him until he returns to start anew together. However, Yuki defies him and it resulted to him to begin executing the original plan of an ancestress to eliminate all purebloods. He begun doing the things that will make Yuki hurt and doubt him even though he cherishes and loves her more than anything in the world. After Yuki has unfold the truth behind the series of events and has successfully caught Kaname and confronts him once again, the two of them makes up after he assures that he will not leave her, the both of them makes love in Night 89 page 41 At the end of the manga, Kaname words greatly hinted that he never wanted her to revert back to a vampire. He just wanted to watch over her until the time came for him to depart from her. But she who has lived as a human has became a radiant existence to him that gave him hope to keep living this timeless eternity with her. It was revealed that Yuki had a daughter with him. The daughter resembled much more of Yuki rather than Kaname.

The Hooded WomanEdit

Main article: Kaname and the Hooded woman

The Hooded Woman also known as the Ancestress, is a progenitor from Kaname's ancient past and was the leader of a 

resistance. She is also the very first significant person in Kaname's life who gave him an identity and has ever felt attachment towards. It was mentioned in Kaname's point of view - through Yuuki that, she was a very important person to him and that he regrets losing her. (Although he mentioned he never intended to have feelings or be involved with anyone.) The two shared a really unique and special relationship. In most of Kaname's past, she was his reason to keep on living after getting driven out of the village he used to live in, the villagers sees him as a monster after realizing that despite, many generations and decades has passed, he never aged. The hooded woman was the one who gave him a name (with the same spelling of her hometown) and an purpose- to eradicate all purebloods who harbours the intent of turning humans into submissive slaves. She shared her past and ideals with Kaname, telling him that she really likes humans. It was also shown in his memories that he was a scientist for a period of time as he researched for a way to kill purebloods like themselves. In those memories, it was revealed that she had some kind of authority over Kaname, as he allowed her to push him around to get jobs done. She became the first parent of the anti-vampire weapons after she threw her heart into the furnace. Her death devastated Kaname silently, as he intended to be the sacrifice for the weapons. In her name, Kaname fought the purebloods for decades, slowly losing his will to live and emotions as he felt that the weapons only desired to kill more vampires. When the battles ceased, he decided to enter a slumber that he had no intention of ever awakening from.

Zero KiryuEdit

Main article: Kaname & Zero

Kaname and Zero have disliked each other since their first meeting. One could say that they are arch- nemesis of one another due to different perspectives and methods. They both show very strong feelings towards Yuki and envies each other from time to time. Due to this, they also share a limited amount of tolerance to one another when Yuki's safety is concerned. From the beginning, Kaname planned on Zero being one of the cursed twins and devouring his brother, Ichiru, so he could become a vampire killing machine. But then in night 93, he entrusted Yuuki in Zero's hands and said that he wants Yuuki and Zero to be together. 

Hanabusa AidoEdit

Main article: Kaname & Hanabusa

Hanabusa is Kaname's loyal friend and right-hand man. Their relationship is quite comedic and purely adoration on Aido's perspective. However, this relationship was shattered when Kaname murdered Hanabusa's father Nagamichi Aido in front of him. After this act, Hanabusa remained at his sister Yuki's side as her guard and tutor, eventually renouncing Kaname as his leader when he sent Ruka and Akatsuki to suppress the Day Class. Hanabusa stated that he wouldn't let the Pureblood do as he wish and take advantage of Yuki's kind-hearted nature.But later in the manga it shows that Kaname never killed his father and he only whent into a slumber.Hanabusa reconnected with his father and came back to Kaname's side after he understood Kaname's true intentions

Takuma IchijoEdit

Main article: Kaname and Takuma

Kaname lived with Takuma after his parents’ death; they have become good friends since then. It would seem that Kaname trusts Takuma to a certain extent and seems not to worry about him, despite Takuma's affiliation with Sara. After Kanam is entrapped with ice, takuma watches over his tomb for 1000 years

Ruka SouenEdit

Ruka both loves and admires Kaname however, he does not return her affections. Despite this, Kaname trusts and respects her. Ruka and Akatsuki are the two Night Class vampires who Kaname chose to keep at his side and help with his plans after the death of Nagamichi Aido. It is also implied that Kaname and Akatsuki had a deal that when the time comes, Kaname would have Ruka leave his side, by force if necessary.

QuotesEdit

• "Some things are better forgotten." (To Takuma)
• "You're so scary... Mr. Disciplinary Committee." (To Zero)
• "I've always been alone. The only one that can bring warmth into my life... is you." (To Yuki)
• "You could never betray her because you are under her obligation. You are being allowed to live because of that, Zero. By me." (To Zero)
• "Aido, I think I would like to discuss our dorm's rules with you again." (To Aido)
• "Yuki, the safest place is beside me." (To Yuki)
• "No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why...farewells are always difficult." (To Yuki)
• "Return to the world filled with light, Yuki. Even if you forget about me I will still continue to remember you... You're more suited to be under the sunlight."
• "Yuki... I'll say it once again.. It's not that I did not recieve any happiness, It's because there is light at the end of the journey"
• "I've been squinting my eyes at the light of the radience that's why I have come to understand... You two should be together... I want you two to be together."

ReferencesEdit

NavigationEdit

Characters
Main Characters
Yuki Kuran | Kaname Kuran | Zero Kiryu
Vampires
Purebloods
Haruka Kuran | Juri Kuran | Kaname Kuran | Yuki Kuran | Rido Kuran | Shizuka Hio | Ouri | Sara Shirabuki | Isaya Shoto | Toma (Lord)
Aristocrats
Hanabusa Aido | Tsukiko Aido | Asato Ichijo | Takuma Ichijo | Akatsuki Kain | Maria Kurenai | Seiren | Senri Shiki | Ruka Souen | Rima Toya
Humans
Vampire Hunter's Association
Zero Kiryu | Ichiru Kiryu | Kaito Takamiya | Toga Yagari | Kaien Cross | Jinmu | Momoyama
Day Class
Yuki Cross | Nadashiko Shindo | Sayori Wakaba | Kaseumi Kageyama | Ichiru Kiryu