barfy:

I have NEVER seen fans hate a character with such passion as Berserk fans hate Griffith. It’s actually astounding like every single picture of Griffith on the hellsite has at least one person in the replies like “FUCK YOU, GRIFFITH, PIECE OF SHIT” and its so fucking funny

they’re right by the way

hitsugikuro:

shinigami-mistress:

Random Musing: Is our!Ciel really the black king in this supposed chess game? After all, his entire point was to put himself into danger so he could find the culprits, but it is against the rules of the game to purposely maneuver the king to a place where it is attacked by enemy piece. Even he is the king, he should know that he cannot directly face his brother since a king cannot put another king in check.  Keeping with the chess analogy, both brothers can only rely on their knights and pawns in this game.

This is why I think his chess allusion only goes so far.  It sounds better on paper than it actually is in practice.  We know now that much of our!Ciel’s big talk was just because he was attempting to copy his older brother.  And while I do think that he’s aware of the rules of chess, much of his bravado and over-confidence is probably just a mask that he had to don to make himself ‘believable’ in his eyes, if not in the eyes of others around him.