Is it just me, or did Hino try to put that Yuuki is HW's reincarnation? There's the strange comment fr Kaname that he will protect her (Yuuki) this time, why say this time if you're not saying in a way Yuuki is the current HW? If that's the case, it doesn't make sense, since Hino seems to go out of the way to show similarities between HW and Zero (both have similar features, both ride white horses, both powers are some sort of vines), out of irony or her own fantasy (she doesn't mind KanaZero).
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Um i don’t think that she was at all. yuki is no way like the hooded woman in the slightest and i dont think Hino means to refer her to that at all. I think Kaname’s comment is about the past. He could be talking about how he couldn’t protect her when Zero bit her, maybe when she was a child he couldn’t protect her, or it could be from Rido. Also he originally wanted her to stay human so it could have been that too.
Yes, i always wondered why the hooded woman always resembled Zero so much. I wonder if thats why we never learned HW’s name. Also i wonder if somehow she is an ancestor of Zero’s, which could be possible who knows, that that is why the Kiryu’s were so infamous with their skills. Also, in a way the HW was kinda like a knight, wouldn’t you say?

Like i said, Hino certainly leaves more questions than answers.
*btw i still have your other aks, digging through chapters now*
Thanks for the question ~