Recently I wrote this post about Bardroy and the ‘code’ about how Bardroy asking about collecting wages is really a code between him and Sebastian. This code not only told Bardroy what he was to do next, it also calmed the moment and helped to protect the other servants.
When I was working on the post, one question that I kept wondering was how much Bardroy knew exactly about the situation. Was this code something worked up in advance or did he come up with it on the spot? If it was something that Sebastian and Bardroy had come up with previously, it brings up the question whether or not that Bardroy is privy to a bit more information than the other servants. I’m not suggesting he knows everything because I don’t think that he does, but it’s possible that he knows a bit more.
Of the three servants of Bardroy, Mey-Rin, and Finnian, we only really know much about sweet Finny. Bardoy and Mey-Rin’s backstories have been left mostly in the dark. It appears that Mey-Rin was some sort of assassin sent to kill our!Ciel at some point.
She also said later on to Agni that she hadn’t been allowed to wear dresses and skirts before becoming a maid.
Bardroy had been a soldier.
He even appeared to be the only survivor of some sort of battle, but we don’t know much more about him.
However, in times the servants have needed to act when Sebastian wasn’t around, like back in the circus arc, it was Bardroy who took charge. This could be because he’s the oldest with the most battle experience. In fact that makes sense, but there’s also a chance that Bardroy does have a bit more of an idea of what is happening.
There’s a similar situation in the manor murders arc. There are multiple times that Bardroy is seen taking a bit of a leadership role. Again, I don’t think Bardroy knew everything, but he was the one that quickly explained a wet (and supposedly dead) Sebastian as being the result of a leak.
Of course, this would be logical in this situation. At the same time, Bardroy was providing a reasonable explanation for Sebastian’s wet state without drawing any suspicion towards Sebastian.
There’s also one other thing that I find interesting. Look at these panels where the servants were ‘found.’
Do you notice anything different about Bardroy? In both the scene with Mey-Rin and Finny, our!Ciel is present and looking at them – and we know for a fact that our!Ciel chose Finny. It could have been the same for Mey-Rin, although we have no idea at this point. We do not see our!Ciel when Sebastian is looking at Bardroy. It could just be the angle. After all, we can only see Sebastian’s head meaning that if our!Ciel was beside Sebastian, he wouldn’t be tall enough to be seen. At the same time, it was a conscious decision to draw that scene from that angle. What if our!Ciel wasn’t there? Perhaps Mey-Rin and Finny were our!Ciel’s choices, but Sebastian was the one who chose Bardroy.
I recognize there’s a lot of speculation here, but I can’t help but wonder. How much does Bardroy really know?
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