So now that we know that Undertaker really is the one who brought R!Ciel back from the dead and has confirmed his (probably unhealthy) attachment to the Phantomhives, whatever reasoning that might be, it made me think of a real-life phenomenon that I heard about a few years ago. I have to wonder if Yana is also aware of it and drawing a bit of inspiration from it.
Basically, it officially started around the 1940′s but could have been happening earlier, but some doll makers called ‘reborners’ began to cater specifically to parents who had lost children due to tragedy and still do today. They replicate newborns and infants with very carefully crafted material to make them look as life-like as possible. Some people collect them as hobbies, but some people also have them commissioned for upwards of thousands of dollars as a sort of mememto mori of their own child. These can assist with coping with death, but some people also take things a bit too far and there have been cases of parents emotionally bonding so deeply with the doll that they continue to treat it as if it were their real child. Psychologists have actually begun to study it and caution against buying a ‘reborn doll’ in certain situations. It’s a very tragic and heart-breaking phenomenon.
But it also fits as a good parallel for Undertaker, I think, who is quite literally turning his dead loved ones into ‘dolls’ because he’s unable to cope with their loss. These are just my ‘shower thoughts’ of the day.
Oh yes, I didn’t mean to say they weren’t! I know someone who’s a doll hobbyist and has a few they got second hand. But yeah, it’s also been going on for quite a while.
A very odd thought occurred to me last night just before I fell asleep. It had mostly to do with Undertaker saying he didn’t want to lose another Phantomhive.
I was thinking about how technically, both boys are lost. Real!Ciel lost his soul, and our!Ciel is bound in a demonic contract. While I suppose Undertaker could be planning to kill Sebastian to real our!Ciel, that doesn’t help real!Ciel. He still doesn’t have a soul, and Undertaker has made it very clear that a body cannot accept a soul that not its own. That’s when, just before I fell asleep, a peculiar question came to my mind.
What if the way to save both the boys is to make them one?
It’s odd, but hear me out on this. First, the twins have been described as both mirror images and two halves of a whole. Personality wise, they have differing traits which could compliment each other.
When Undertaker first appears on the scene, what’s the very first thing we see?
Of course, this is an anatomical figure that would have been used in fields such as medicine at the time, but look past its purpose. It also shows a bisected man – a man that looks like part one thing (his insides) and part another.
Imagine if there was a way that Undertaker things he could do this. Our!Ciel posses a soul. His brother possess a body without a demon seal. If somehow you could put those two together – maybe in a Dr. Frankenstein sort of way. It could possibly be a way to save both.
It sounds twisted, but Undertaker has done some twisted things in pursuit of his research – such as causing all those deaths on Campania with his bizarre dolls. He’s very focused on his end game here, and his goal has always been to save at least one of the boys…maybe both.
Thoughts?
This is an interesting theory. It reminds me of the first anime season but there have been other parallels before so maybe it’s the same with this.
Maybe that’s even the whole point in UT’s resurrection attempts (which probably have started after real Ciel had died and our Ciel had made the contract). What if Undertaker is aware that it’s not really possible to bring back the dead? And when he said that he couldn’t lose another Phantomhive maybe he wasn’t referring to real Ciel but to our Ciel.
UT may realize that real Ciel can’t ever be truly come back to life, without a soul and all. He may already count him among those he has lost. But if there’s still a chance to save our Ciel from Sebastian maybe that’s how he’s trying to do it.
count olaf: unhygienic, can’t act, is a moldy crouton
also count olaf: dated kit snicket, dr. orwell, esmé squalor, possibly ??? jacquelyn, has more game than anyone in the entire series combined
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