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midnight-in-town‌:

That’s all it is: real!Ciel is using his pawns against his brother’s in a real lively chess game. I’m a bit iffy as to what the twin ultimately wants, but let’s save that for later.

It’s a chess game and our!Ciel stepped right up to it in ch129 when he came back to the manor…

and he definitely had a late start because of the shock and confusion when realizing that his older brother is back and Lord Sirius, the blue star of the blue sect, but…

I’m sure he’ll manage to recover. 🙂 Because Ciel has people he can use against his brother too. 

Without already mentioning that Abberline and probably Edward will end up on his side (Ed because he already accused Ciel wrongly in the Weston arc and came to regret it + he and Ciel investigated most of the arc together), Violet, Sieglinde and even Soma have several ways to yell bullshit about our!Ciel being the mastermind behind the sect:

• For Violet, it’s a question of motivation and wanting to pay Ciel back for helping him several times + saving his life in ch125. 
• For Soma, he’ll first need to hear about our!Ciel having a twin brother to connect the dots and realize that his friend didn’t kill Agni
• and for Sieglinde, it’s just about friendship, considering all that Ciel did for her in the past and how she’s the one who analyzed the blood samples for him. 

Obviously Lizzie knows on the truth on this matter too, she knows who the real Lord Sirius is, but her heart is being held hostage by real!Ciel’s side right now so she’s a major pawn to use against our!Ciel for the moment, 

but it could change because her love for our!Ciel makes her a wild card.

You only have to see how sad and empty she looks in the whole chapter: she’s not siding with real!Ciel out of a 100% heartfelt choice. 

The servants will side with our!Ciel, who is their master, out of devotion, but they have no idea as to what’s really going on unfortunately. Except for Tanaka, who probably saw it coming (’how’ is still the question) but who’s as tied as Lizzie I’d say, seeing how sad he also looks.  

So yep: chess game. Brother vs brother, Seb vs UT, Grell and Othello probably being confused af and Mama Midford hopefully still missing for a reason

(maybe Alexis telling her what happened will trigger something?). Can’t wait :))

Heyyyyy, you know who else is missing and could be considered a chess pawn for our!Ciel’s side? Lau. And Ran Mao additionally, I guess.

Not that Lau showed up in the arc so far, so the probability that he’ll play a role isn’t that high obviously, but still, Sensei said before that, even though Lau is busy running his own business while following the Watchdog’s rules, he’s mostly “interested in our!Ciel”. 

Undying Seb doesn’t seem to faze or interest him so much, so he’s…

…hanging around our!Ciel mostly for his own enjoyment of things.

So I’d say he’d (knowingly) rather play the part of the pawn to our!Ciel’s side of the chess game over real!Ciel’s anyday (if real!Ciel is to become the Watchdog for a short time after our!Ciel’s arrest), because he always bets on our!Ciel to provide him with a lot of amusement. 

Ran Mao will follow Lau, but she too seems to like Ciel a lot anyway…

…so that’s two more people that our!Ciel could use wisely against his brother. 

In fact, friendly reminder that Lau is the most mysterious character of the whole cast as of right now (and that’s really saying something), so having our!Ciel owing him could be rather interesting for a future arc focusing more on Lau. :))

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Whole post here, I cut it for the reblog to focus about Lau. 

Personal opinion but I still think that Lau and Ran Mao have no reason to side with real!Ciel. Actually one way to interpret the newest cliffhanger can be as them getting in Scotland Yard’s way, waiting to see if Ciel is going to ask for their help so that they can make him owe Lau.

Because that’s actually a much more dangerous development. 

From a narrative point of view, it makes a lot of sense to have our!Ciel owing Lau for helping him one way or another (for example, to help them go to France using the Kunlun company…

or wherever else they may go), since that’s how we can then get an actual build up to Lau maybe becoming a problem later.

Sensei also said in the guidebook that Lau was “probably the strongest character of the manga”, altho’ it was downplayed by her basically going “lol” afterwards, but all that to say that he remains extremely mysterious and that’s not to have him switch sides whenever it’s extremely convenient for him. 

Not when he finds Ciel way more interesting than Seb dying and then coming back to life + when he represents a whole point of Father Knox’s decalogue that Sensei so far seems to enjoy deconstructing. 

In my opinion, if he ever goes against Ciel (which I think is likely for a lot of reasons), it will be when the game is built to be way more interesting for him, not when Ciel is at his wit’s end. As always though no one has to agree with this!