One part of chapter 141 that caught many readers attention was real!Ciel saying that our!Ciel was his only family.
This brought up a lot of questions. What about the Midfords – particularly Lizzie? They are his family too after all.
Interestingly, this reminded me of a conversation the twins had when they were young. Our!Ciel had said that he wanted to open a toy shop, which upset his brother. He said that our!Ciel was going to leave him all alone.
Our!Ciel told him that he wouldn’t be alone because he’d have Lizzie.
This, however, didn’t cheer up real!Ciel. He still thought he was being left all alone.
What makes this interesting is the conversation about the toy shop happened when they were much younger. To someone older, it might seem a bit irrational on real!Ciel’s part, but kids do think and feel different about things. While considering all this, I realized something.
Real!Ciel still has the mentality of a ten year old.
It might have only been three years, but the average person goes though a lot of maturation between ten and thirteen. Real!Ciel didn’t have a chance to mature. He died. No matter how good of a job Undertaker can do with his bizarre dolls, there’s no getting around the fact that real!Ciel did die. Even he accepts this fact.
Undertaker can make sure that real!Ciel’s physical growth is the same as his brother’s, and he can make sure that real!Ciel witnessed many of the major events in his twin’s life so he can vicariously have the same experiences, but that doesn’t change the fact that he died at a particular age. Mentally, it’s doubtful that he can go beyond that age.
This explains the mood swings and single mindedness. He may look the same as our!Ciel, but he’s really still the same as the little boy that was held by the cult three years earlier. His mind hasn’t grown. I doubt that it can.
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