I can’t wait for next month too! This chapter gave me mixed feelings… Like those thorns symbolism around her heart meaning that they might have her back but the pain inside her heart won’t go away. It’s so sad =( That’s why I don’t understand people who say that Casca will go back to Griffith after all the pain, suffering and abuse he caused. Have a nice weekend as well. ^_^

Hi again 🙂 And don’t worry, I think it’s natural to have mixed feelings, I do too, namely about the impending Gutsca reunion. :3

I mean, we now know that the Skull Knight’s warning was about…

…Casca not wanting to come back when Guts really needed her to, so it’s possible that she will be angry and ungrateful about this at first (coping takes time).

At the same time (hence why I have mixed feelings xD)…

…the girls caught on that too, so it’s possible that they will be able to make Casca realize all that Guts and their group went through just for her sake.

Finally, as you said, while I think the pain in her heart will take a long time to be dealt with (understandably, considering what she went through, just like Guts), I think that finding a motivation to go through in life will help Casca with accepting it’s a good thing that she’s back.

This is exactly what happened to Guts: getting Casca back in his life helped him a lot with what he had become as the Black Swordsman, that’s why Flora said…

and

how he managed to get over his violent urges at the most critical times.

So the same will probably happen to Casca with…

…what seemed to be the most important for her ever since the Eclipse, especially since it’s extremely plot relevant considering that her baby is used by Femto + that…

it was always foreshadowed the original Band of the Hawk led by Casca would come back. :3

Honestly I just want Guts to get a break right now. I love my girl Casca and I don’t mind her getting all the time she needs to cope, but I hope she will at least let Guts feel happy that he didn’t do all of this for nothing.

It definitely was a selfish wish of him to get her back when she didn’t want to, but the guy went through a lot and he’s been clinging onto this single hope for a while now, so I don’t want the beast of darkness to overwhelm him again now.

He deserves to feel better about a few things, especially since he might find out really soon about what Griffith did to his kid and there’ll be plenty of time for anger again then.

As for the people who think Casca’s going to go back to Griffith… I mean, I see people saying that Femto will get redemption, that Guts and Casca were never in love and some people just coming to the realization that Femto’s “feelings” for Guts and Casca are only the demon infant’s…
So

I don’t know, sometimes people simply can’t read and that’s too bad for them, because they’re clearly missing out. xD

Ahhhh, I can’t wait for next monthhhhhhhh! >_< Thanks for passing by again and have a lovely week! ^3^

You are so cute in your interactions with others both us anons and other bloggers! Reading your messages and comments puts me in a good mood!

Ahhhhh, omg, this is so sweet Anon!! ❤

I kinda am… quite the chatterbox haha, so it’s a good thing that me interacting a lot with other bloggers on here doesn’t seem so annoying to at least someone else besides me. ^_^

Thank you for sending such adorable words and for making my day! I wish you a lovely day Anon ❤ ❤ ❤

excuse me!! I was re-reading Kuroshitsuji from the beginning and I stumbled on the speech that Grell gave when OC and Seb first met a shinigami. He said that shinigamis see the memories of a person and decide if they should die or not. Is it possible that RC is still alive because a shinigami decided to let him live? Or is there a darker reason behind RC appearance?

Hello! Okayyy, so, recap time. Here’s what being “alive” in Kuroshitsuji means:

and here’s what a Shinigami’s job is about:

So, considering that Seb ate the twin’s soul, it seems real!Ciel cannot have been “judged worthy to survive” since you cannot stay alive without a soul (at least that’s a logical conclusion based on the facts Yana introduced about Shinigamis, souls and cinematic records).

Besides, there is also what the current arc is about to consider:

because it seems blood transfusions are used to heal or (more likely) bring some people back from the dead, and the twin is definitely one them since he’s Lord Sirius.

In other words, it seems real!Ciel really died 4 years ago, because he was stabbed in the heart, then his soul was eaten by Seb and then maybe his body got completely burnt.
However, Bravat’s blue sect is apparently bringing him as well as some others back using namely blood collected from other people, but we just don’t know yet under whose orders and how exactly the process works.

For more detailed theories on the subject, please visit either my meta page or directly the kuroshitsuji theory or blue sect arc tags. :3

I hope it helps Anon, have a nice day!

hey but if Undertaker is Frances’s father I can’t begin to imagine how she must feel to have as a dad someone who killed so many people even if it wasn’t directly done by his hand. I hope for her she doesn’t know about him being her dad or something, because otherwise that totally sucks and I’d feel terrible if I was her.

Hello :3 Yeah, I definitely agree with you Anon and that’s why I really doubt that UT ever was daddy of the year, if the theory that he is Cedric is correct of course (or well, if he was, then it’s hard to believe right now).

In fact, it doesn’t even matter if he’s Cedric or not, because it’s selfish of him anyway to bring some members of our!Ciel’ and Frances’ family back from the dead, when it’s for sure going to make them feel horrible if he succeeds.

Look at the twin, we don’t even know yet if UT holds any responsibility for the current arc, although it’s very possible he does, but Lizzie felt constantly miserable for at least two months already…

and it’s probably going to be our!Ciel’s turn very soon.

Let’s just say that it’s UT’s duality as a character, his devotion and selfishness completely clash, so I sure wouldn’t want to be in our!Ciel’s and Frances’ shoes either if he ever manages to bring back more than just the twin (which I hope he won’t, really).

But anyway, I have no idea what Frances knows or doesn’t know about UT in the first place, I just doubt that they’d get along even if he wasn’t trying to bring back the dead. xD Don’t worry though, I think Frances had a good parental figure in her life…

so I’m sure she’ll manage if she’s to ever confront UT about what he’s doing.

Thanks for passing by Anon and have a nice day. 🙂

I would like to use your blog (I don’t really know where to turn) to ask all black butler fanart people to pretty please draw Sebastian Michaelis in a passionate dab ❤

Hi Anon and um sure, why not? But no offense I’m not really certain that so many fan artists particularly follow my blog? So… maybe post this in the tags or ask one or several other blogs fully dedicated to the series maybe?

All I’m saying it that it will probably lead to more results. :3 Anyway, I hope someone sees this, then!

Have a nice day!

OMG BERSERK NEW CHAPTER, I GOT CHILLS !

This was me at the end of the chapter…

Okay it’s only been 22 years, but still…

we’ve come such a long way…

and now…

she’s back. ❤ ❤ ❤

I’m so happy! And I just know I’m going to cry next month when she finally speaks again (~~if Sensei changes to Falconia or Rickert and the Kushians tho I’ll just… akzjhbkezbjbrzek~~).

Have a nice day Anon, I can’t wait for next month! ^3^~~

When we’re back to present, do you think our!Ciel will order Sebastian to kill real!Ciel after his imminent mental breakdown?

Hi Anon! Okay so, seeing how Ciel totally blames himself for what happened to his brother…

I don’t think he will be able to face him at first, so I doubt he’ll be able to order Seb to take care of his twin either.

In fact, I hope that Seb will be absolutely irrelevant to how this confrontation will turn out for our!Ciel, because we know he’s not particularly good at being sensitive and helpful whenever our!Ciel faces his trauma (ch95 anyone? -_-).

It’s as I wrote here, I think this arc is supposed to help our!Ciel with confronting most of his issues surrounding his trauma and what happened with his brother, so I don’t see how Seb is supposed to be the means to an end here (unlike all the previous arcs before), not when he’s the one who ate the twin’s soul in the first place.

No, in my opinion, if the twin is to die before this arc ends, then I think it’d make a lot of sense for him to be stopped by anyone but Seb.

Obviously, right now the most symbolic ending for the twin would be to be stopped by our!Ciel himself, since that’d also imply that our!Ciel found enough strength within himself to face his brother despite how much he was blaming himself for his death, and a catalyst to such an ending could be Lizzie herself.

I mean, if the twin hurts/allows someone to hurt Lizzie (which I think is likely to happen) then…

…in my opinion it could be shocking and despairing enough that our!Ciel would realize he has to stop his brother.

Other candidates for the same job would be Soma (since the twin attacked him and Agni), Lizzie herself (since she realized a while ago in ch113 that she “couldn’t save the twin”), Ed possibly (if he’s angry enough should Lizzie be hurt) or Tanaka (since surely he’d notice that the twin hardly is the boy he used to be).

So nope, Seb killing the twin again would just… not help our!Ciel with the fact he’s constantly blaming himself for what happened to his brother.
Seb can go face the other star Lords (like Polaris, who’s real!Ciel’s butler and who apparently was strong enough to kill Agni), or the mastermind behind the arc (UT? someone else?), but the twin isn’t going to be his call in my opinion.

I hope it answers your question, have a nice day Anon!

Soma is such a cinnamon roll <3. Do you think he is going to forgive our Ciel? Will he stay caring and naive after the loss of Agni or he'll keep a more mature, serious nature/behavior?

Hi Anon! Okay, so I’m so sorry for the delay but Soma is one of these characters for whom I’m currently really uncertain about what will happen to him.

Personally, here’s what I want him to do…

…which means that he’d learn about the 2CT and realize that our!Ciel had nothing to do with Agni’s death, that he’d stay by our!Ciel’s side despite everything that happened… because Soma is one of the few characters who really understand Ciel, despite Ciel keeping a lot of things to himself and sometimes acting harshly.

In other words, Soma becoming the Diedrich to Ciel’s Vincent would be amazing, because Ciel needs more people like him and Lizzie in his life.
Of course Sieglinde and Edward are other characters who are slowly becoming closer to Ciel, but neither share the proximity that Soma has with Ciel in my opinion (Lizzie being yet on another level).

The problem (and the reason I’m not really certain of anything) is that Agni died. So, while I do think that Soma will most likely find out about the 2CT (thanks to Sieglinde and/or Ed probably), the question remains whether he’ll stay in England afterwards or not.

It’s a problem I initially had with Sieglinde back in the GW arc before Ciel made sure to save Wolfram, because how is Soma going to do on his own, without his khansama? Where will he live, what will he do?
That’s why I can’t exclude the idea that Sensei maybe intends on leading him back to India until the final arc or something… ://

Of course, it’d be a development that I currently am not fond of, because I want Ciel and Soma to bond even more, I want Soma to tell Ciel what he really thinks and I want him to stay, but if Soma stays now that Agni is dead and that it really shook him…

it will possibly lead to Soma slowly becoming one of Ciel’s new Evil Nobles (so acting more serious indeed) and this might clash with what Agni wanted for his master.

Agni wasn’t very happy when he realized how Soma was used in Ciel’s plan to take the Sphere Music Hall down so, if Soma still decides to become Ciel’s Agni after everything that happened, it will most likely lead to more schemes like this, which is also why I’m not certain of what Sensei wants to do with Soma.

In my opinion, there are two big possibilities once the twin is dead/this arc is over:

Soma will stay and decide to become Ciel’s Agni at the end of this arc
Soma will realize that Ciel didn’t kill Agni but he won’t be able to stay in England after Agni’s death and so we will say goodbye to him until at least the final arc.

For now I’m really hoping for #1, because I love Soma and I think that everything he said in ch126 is relevant + would be helpful to Ciel’s character (especially since him and Ciel do parallel each other), but Agni’s death is creating a lot of uncertainty. ://

Mainly it depends on what Sensei wants to do with Ciel’s character. I mean, if Soma stays because he’ll still want to be Ciel’s Agni, then it implies more positive development for Ciel. If Soma attacks Ciel or if Soma finds out about the truth but still decides to leave however, then Ciel will blame himself even more…

and clearly this isn’t what he needs right now. ://

Sorry that this seems so confusing, Anon. I just… don’t know what’s more likely at this point. Hopefully Soma will stay, I truly hope he will for many reasons, but the master/servant dynamic is such a pattern in Kuro that, after being deprived of his, it kinda throws Soma’s character off-balance…

That’s why we’ll have to see what he does in this arc first, about the twin and about his anger.

Have a nice day Anon!

What are your thoughts on our Ciel self-esteem (both past & present)? I don’t think it’s that bad as everyone claims to be, because what he stated in the latest chapter was not enterely wrong and our Ciel now is a pretty confident person (even though he still has to work on it) so I’d like to hear your thoughts on it!

Hello Anon! I don’t know though, you tell me…

Because when I read this, I think our!Ciel’s self-esteem was rather very low, which would be why we’ve been talking about him having an inferiority complex as well as survivor’s guilt?

As for currently…

He does sound like he still has a rather crappy vision of himself, so I’m afraid it’s as bad as everyone claims it to be.

The thing is, I think it’s very important not to confuse our!Ciel’s “self-esteem” with his “resolve” based on his duality about initially wanting to make it all about his brother, except that it became mostly about him over the years:

Our!Ciel’s low self-esteem implies that he thinks he’s a horrible human being mainly because “he sacrificed his brother” (when Seb more or less put this idea in his head because that’s not what happened), which means that he probably sees the contract as a fitting punishment for “the horrible person he is”.

This also implies, as Soma pointed out in ch126, that he’s terrified of being happy because he didn’t come back for that and he thinks he “doesn’t deserve it” anyway.

About our!Ciel’s resolve now though, it’s definitely one of his strong points as a character compared to his self-esteem, which is possibly what you meant by “self-confidence”:

Because considering what he went through, it’s really impressive that he decided to take on whatever he had to in order to make things right for his family (ch137) and then also for himself (since I don’t think he lied about that specific part in ch95), when a big part of himself probably just wanted to hide and never face the world again (as we could see during his PTSD episode of the Green Witch arc).

Obviously though, his low self-esteem and his strong resolve are linked, which is why he’s such an interesting character in the first place, since it’s because he has such a crappy vision of himself that he believes he has to make things right using all that he can, until the day his punishment finally comes in the form of Seb taking his soul too.

TL;DR 4 years ago, our!Ciel convinced himself that he was a useless person who sacrificed his brother and that, both for his remaining family’s sake as well as real!Ciel’s, he should dedicate his life to becoming his brother and taking revenge for his sake (that’s the low self-esteem part).

However, the strength he found within himself to do all of that…

always always always was his from the very first day onward and that’s his resolve.

So Anon, in the newest chapter, our!Ciel was wrong because he didn’t sacrifice his brother and his family would have

obviously

welcomed him back very happily. That he convinced himself otherwise is all about having an extremely low self-esteem due to survivor’s guilt, or so I think for now. :3

I hope it answers your question, sorry for rambling and you have every right not to agree as always. Have a nice day!

I can’t help but wonder how much truth there is in the “you sacrificed your brother” statement. Like, undeniably, OC was the one who summoned Seb. Even if he didn’t kill him. It was an accident, right? So does that count as a lie or just twisting the truth? OC has been asking Seb if he lied about something a lot lately. What is it that he refers to? That RC could never come back, or OC sacrificed him? The order to never lie was presumably after. Both the “can never come back” and ->

Hello Anon. 🙂 Soooo, to address your different remarks:

Sacrifice vs Accident

To quote you, “it’s an accidental summoning any way you look at it” in my opinion as well!

@cielsama14 explained it well enough as well here, so all I’m going to say is that our!Ciel definitely is the one who turned his back on God and called for Seb, which is why his brother’s soul was used to pay for Seb’s summoning.
However, considering that he said…

I can’t call that a sacrifice, seeing as it’s not something he did consciously or willingly.

After reading the chapter, I also don’t think Seb lied, because he definitely heard our!Ciel calling and the fare for crossing was paid, so his interpretation that it was a sacrifice, especially considering the settings he found our!Ciel in, makes sense (even if we readers know that it’s not exactly what happened).

However, manipulation from Seb’s part is also rather obvious where I’m concerned, because he definitely decided to show up for a reason…

And his way to try and play it chill isn’t exactly fooling anyone…

…since our!Ciel didn’t really have any other option besides making that contract to survive the cult.

So in the end, it’s as William said…

About Frances

Frankly, whether she knew or not about which twin our!Ciel was, I don’t think it really matters nor that it will trigger such a huge reaction out of her in case she didn’t anyway. x) Besides, sorry but she clearly wasn’t wrong in ch132, I mean…

she never said that our!Ciel wasn’t clever enough for the job, more like he was too physically weak and we’ve had enough occasions to see for ourselves that, without Seb, Ciel would have indeed died many times in the past.

I mean, no worries, I can understand wanting Seb to mess with her a little, since she’s always keeping such a perfect composure, but I actually enjoy the fact that she, as well as Nina and UT, can give a demon cold sweat even though they’ll never be as strong as him. Besides…

this is Frances “tricked” by Seb in ch14, so I think she’s more level-headed than maybe you give her credit for (not that I can blame you for that, seeing how Yana uses her for comic relief most of the time xD).

Anyway, as I explained when ch132 came out, my opinion is that Frances doesn’t care about the Phantomhive family being successful or well-seen or anything, she just cares about its survival because she cares about her family. So the only moments we might see her falter…

…will probably always have to do with if/when she feels powerless about helping her family and maybe only our!Ciel (and not Seb) will ever have an influence on her in that aspect.

We have time before anything like that happens though, haha, so as always feel free to disagree. 🙂

Thanks for passing by Anon! I do agree that the Seb/Ciel dynamic is very interesting especially, since the more we advance, the more I see hints that they might end up clashing at some point, and that even though UT is counting on Seb to protect Ciel for now indeed. :))

Have a nice day!