About an eventual Edward & Soma team up for more investigation

I discussed this privately with a few friends but I actually love the idea a lot so I’m sharing with everyone. 😀

So far in this very long arc, there were a few occasions the focus drifted away from Ciel & Seb. The first major time was at the very beginning of this arc

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with Ed being the reason Lizzie went to the Sphere music hall in the first place and the second major time…

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led to very unfortunate circumstances. T_T

So I was saying to my friends that I’d love to get some more chapters not focusing on Ciel and Seb, especially now that they’ve been put in a rather awkward position…

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and might need the help of others to clear their names if they’re really arrested. And since Soma is hurt, more Ed-centric chapters could be more likely and I’d personally love that. 

First of all, it’s hard to believe that Ed won’t question if real!Ciel truly isn’t involved with the Sphere music hall considering that Lizzie is with him and that she left the house for the Sphere music hall over two months ago.

Secondly, Ed is currently the only one who was also there at Weston when UT explained about his latest BDs to Ciel

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so, should he recognize UT (even if we know Ed can’t see anyone else when Lizzie is here), he might be able to suspect that something is up with real!Ciel. 

As for a team up with Soma, the reasons I find this idea so cool are because Edward and Soma both are characters who are very close to our!Ciel + at the time of ch143, what they know about the current arc is complementary, meaning that if they were to assemble their information, they would both easily realize that our!Ciel was framed.

To explain: what Soma knows and believes is that…

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someone who looks exactly like our!Ciel attacked him and Agni, leading to Agni’s murder. So now he’s pissed at our!Ciel because he doesn’t know about the existence of the twin (since our!Ciel never mentioned anything about it). 

Meanwhile, Ed just found out that the twin is back… 

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and that our!Ciel is believed to be behind the blue sect arc for different reasons. 

So should Ed see Soma and find out about this…

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If Soma tries to argue that our!Ciel did this even if this doesn’t sound like him, then Ed will at least be able to tell Soma that “wait, he actually has a twin brother who just came back???”, which could make Soma realize that his friend is innocent and Ed that the twin is up to no good (especially if he remembers about Weston previously to finding out about the attack on Soma and Agni).

Add Sieglinde…

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who heard this, who can confirm that Ciel and Seb are the ones who brought Soma to her and who researched about the blood samples Seb found in the Sphere music hall + Nina…

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who helped Ciel and Seb with getting into the Sphere music hall that one time, they will barely need Violet’s confirmation to understand that “Lord Sirius” is in fact the twin (even though I think Violet’ll confirm it either way, because our!Ciel helped him and his friends). 

Violet (and also Lizzie) is more likely to be necessary in order to convince the other people involved in this arc that our!Ciel is not Lord Sirius: like the Double Charles (who may end up accusing Ciel of the Parliamentarians’ murders next), Randall (because Abberline won’t be able to convince him on his own I guess) and maybe even Alexis. 

TL;DR Ed investigating some more as Ciel is possibly arrested and meeting with Soma could surely be one way for the entire truth to be revealed + also for Soma to stop believing that his best friend attacked him. 

I just hope Ed does realize, one way or another, that there is definitely something not right about the twins and Lizzie.

Helllo <3 love your blogg, actually is one of my favorites. I was thinking in the recent development of the Blue Sect Arc and after scotland yard got mix up i wonder.. how the plot will moved forward, i mean i dont get the point of the threat of jail for OCiel :/ Yes of course he needs in one point reveal that all was a lie but i feel its been to rushed. idk i would like to hear your thoughts ! And what would you think will happen next.

Hi Anon and aww, thank you very much! ❤ 

To answer you, personally no I don’t feel that this is rushed at all. In fact I’d say the pace is rather slow (I mean the twin was introduced in the 26th volume) and I had expected our!Ciel to be framed for a while now. 

As for what’s the point, it’s a chess game and UT & real!Ciel are the ones who initiated it from the moment they revealed themselves to Ciel. I agree they’re not the simplest characters to understand though, but I theorized about what they could be after here and here respectively! 🙂  

Overall, I think the most important to keep in mind about this arc and the latest developments is that our!Ciel is supposed to be confronting all that he never did until now (in order to gain character development), which is something mainly illustrated by the return of his undead brother.

Rewinding the story

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a little, try to remember why Ciel took on his brother’s identity in the first place and maybe it will make more sense. From the moment his bro died, our!Ciel became Vincent’s successor and the next Earl Phantomhive, so he had no real need to take his brother’s identity.

The reason he did it anyway is because…

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he felt extremely guilty about not being the twin who died. It’s a condition called survivor’s guilt, because of the trauma induced by the horrible experience he lived through. 

As such, he hates himself for having survived, even more after Seb made him believe that he had willingly sacrificed his brother’s soul into summoning him (which isn’t true, he never wanted any of this, it was an accident)… 

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and it’s all of this that led to his decision to take on his brother’s identity: because he wanted to make it as if real!Ciel was the one who had survived, both for himself and for what was left of his family (because

he saw himself as inferior to his twin brother and guilty, so he didn’t want to disappoint them).

This led onto the contract with Seb itself and -this is what may interest you about the latest development of the current arc- onto the fact that Ciel is looking at the contract as his own punishment for not having died instead of his brother:

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And this, this mentality right here -that he is guilty and that Seb eating his soul will be his punishment for not having died instead of his brother- is what I believe needs to change for our!Ciel. 

Hence the current arc and this face-off between brothers because, if there is any time when Ciel can reflect about his brother’s death from 4 years ago, especially when Lizzie and Soma (who are the closest to him) are also involved, it’s now with the current arc. 

Basically, what I’d personally love to get from this arc is for our!Ciel to finally realize that people are happy he’s the one who came back (Lizzie, Ed), that they are happy to have met him during these 4 years (Soma, Sieglinde) and that’s he’s certainly not worthless compared to his brother.

Because, if our!Ciel gets this kind of positive development about himself, then later he may end up starting to question whether or not the terms of the contract are still something he agrees to. 

And personally I’d love to see this type of conflict eventually happening between Seb and Ciel, because it’s just way more interesting narratively speaking than their highly functioning duo that exists ever since vol1, especially if Seb is truly supposed to be Kuroshitsuji’s main character (because main characters need to be challenged and to develop, be it in a good or bad way).

There you go Anon! I hope this makes sense? Honestly ever since this…

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I’ve been waiting for a build up to an eventual conflict about the contract between Seb and Ciel. If it happens it will be way later though, if just because Ciel needs to get a better view of himself first if he’s to ever reflect back on the covenant he made with his butler. 

That’s why Ciel having to confront what he decided 4 years ago and most of his behavior towards people who care about him is important right now. For me that’s mostly what the current arc is all about, with possibly some answers about the Phantomhive family and UT’s personal issues with them. 

Sorry for rambling, as with everything it’s just my take on the subject but I hope this wasn’t too hard to understand. Thank you again for the kind words and have a lovely day ahead Anon! :3

jojotier:

another thing ive yet to see explored in any depth: Will the other characters truly forgive Ogata? what many people tend to forget is that, for a redemption arc to be a true redemption and for the redeemed to join the main cast, the main protagonists have to forgive the redeemed. 

and yet, whenever i read these posts about how asirpa will ‘help ogata see the light’- i never see any mention about what her real reaction would be to learning about ogata killing her father and maiming her best friend/brother figure, leaving him with a life long traumatic brain injury. if anything, a whole lot of the ogata redemption analyses that i see completely disregard asirpa’s character entirely, or else strip her to a ‘naive innocent child’ trope meant only to save ad glorify ogata

so where exactly does it fall in line with asirpa’s character to instantly forgive the person who killed her father and tried to kill sugimoto ? where’s her outrage at having been used as a tool for ogatas gain, even if its revealed to be a good reason later on? 

Asirpa isn’t a literal jesus- she’s still only human, after all. treat her like it.