Hello Anon! Soooo recap time but Bravat is most likely a normal human…
who was told in advance (by the mastermind behind the blue sect, whoever they are) about both our!Ciel and Sebastian.
That’s how…
he knew about both the contract and Sebastian’s true nature. He wasn’t a true deviner at all, so all that he said to Ciel, Liz and Seb were things he was very probably told to say when he would meet them.
I can’t remember if anyone pointed this out (if so, I forgot to reblog it and I apologize) but Bravat is throwing so much shade at Ciel with just that one sentence: he definitely knows our!Ciel is not the real one since his Lord Sirius is. xDD
Sneaky Yana-sensei, sneaky.
That’s okay tho, Bravat’s going to get proved wrong very soon 😀
still on the matter of ch123 and shade…
I present my very real theory about Lizzie punching Bravat in the face (or just stabbing him with her sword works too), double proving him wrong about using her as a hostage/pawn and not taking her feelings for our!Ciel more seriously.
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I can’t remember if anyone pointed this out (if so, I forgot to reblog it and I apologize) but Bravat is throwing so much shade at Ciel with just that one sentence: he definitely knows our!Ciel is not the real one since his Lord Sirius is. xDD
Sneaky Yana-sensei, sneaky.
That’s okay tho, Bravat’s going to get proved wrong very soon 😀
Hi Anon and haha, I don’t think it’s supposed to be going that far, so no worries! :3
It’s something I’ve discussed before with @thedarkestcrow and we believe…
…that Lizzie was only authorized to see the twin when it was the evening, hence why she was shown wearing a nightgown, no shoe and no jewelry a few times.
Recheck ch112, 113, 114 and ch120, you’ll see that it’s always implied to be the evening or the night (through what our!Ciel is doing) when we see Lizzie in a nightgown. Not to say that she would spend the night with him or anything, but she would probably still spend a few moment by his sides (like in ch114, above).
That’s also why there would be such a strong difference with her outfit of ch116/117…
because these chapters happened during the day. :))
So don’t worry, I don’t think Bravat forced her to do anything that wasn’t proper for a girl of her age, except maybe taking her blood from time to time!
This is a post relevant to the whole manga so far, but even more particularly to the current arc, seeing as it is one of the major reasons it’s very hard to be sure of anything when it comes to future developments.
Anyway, I love Lizzie but she’s hella complex and in my opinion, Yana is totally playing on that, which is obviously not helpful. xD An example, before I explain:
Before the Campania arc, we didn’t know “the real Lizzie” because we had no hint that Lizzie even had the slightest idea what the Watchdog duty was. We didn’t have the slightest idea either that she was as badass as she is. Literally the first hint we got that something was up with her was when she reacted midly surprised to Ciel holding a gun to her face, more shocked that he’d point it at her than of the fact he was holding a gun in the first place.
This is what I mean by Lizzie’s ambivalence: her character can always be read in two completely opposite ways
and the reason for that is
because she was presented as having two radically different sides rather “late” in the story, compared to when she was first introduced.
The contrast between her naturally extremely cheerful personality (her love of cute things)…
and what she was taught by her mother (her badass side) was never foreshadowed until the Campania arc, but retrospectively, now that we know about it, it changes things. For example:
you can wonder if the attack on the manor during the circus arc really had Lizzie being clueless about the situation and not even wondering why a part of the manor had exploded during the night.
you could even use this contrast to explain why her parents let her go alone to any party, especially to one held by Druitt, a rather popular womanizer (and also human trafficker, not that her parents had to know).
This leads to one of the major differences between Ciel and Lizzie, narratively speaking: Ciel initially hardly knew anything about the Watchdog duty because Vincent died before he could teach him anything…
so he had to learn on his own, which is probably why everyone always notices when he fails to be a completely obedient doggy (even if what UT said about him being relatively different from his predecessors is probably another big reason).
Meanwhile Lizzie had her mom by her side from the beginning, her mom who trained her to be as strong as the Watchdog’s wife needed to be in order to survive. And Frances factors heavily in this difference with Ciel because she herself used to be a Phantomhive. In other words…
these are what makes Lizzie the badass girl she is and, more precisely, her mother’s lessons are creating the ambivalence of her character, because without Frances’ teachings, the Lizzie we know would simply be the girl we saw until the Campania arc.
So the fact there was another side of her from the beginning and that Yana kept it completely hidden for a while (no foreshadowing at all when we know Sensei loves foreshadowing) could be a narrative choice made to be completely relevant to Lizzie’s role in the story.
To get back on the initial subject and to explain what I meant regarding the current arc, when you see Frances (who’s the one who taught Lizzie everything), do you think she’d even buy Bravat’s fortune-telling?
Personally I don’t think she would.
Now, when it comes to Lizzie, what do you think? Because there is a difference between enjoying a little vibe of mystery (who doesn’t like a deviner trying to guess stuff) and completely buying the words of a total stranger, especially when they seem to know about your fiancé who coincidentally happens to be the Queen’s Watchdog and an important target of the Underworld.
And this is but one example of why the ambivalence of Lizzie’s character is such. a. pain. when it comes to the current arc, because you could argue that Lizzie’s reaction to Bravat’s “prediction” was genuine…
we know she’s been worrying about Ciel hiding something big ever since the Easter chapter, which was in April and Liz met with Bravat in August
she’s young and that’s the main difference with her mother who’s a grown adult and who experienced much more than her
…just like you could argue that Bravat’s words possibly frightened her because they were too accurate and, while Ed was yelling, she was busy wondering if Bravat was a possibly dangerous enemy (and in that case, the reason she went back to see him is because she wanted to evaluate just how much he knew about Ciel until, well, Bravat revealed something much more unexpected).
Another example would be:
Lizzie’s words to a sleeping real!Ciel in ch113. It’s something I remembered last week and that I shared with @thedarkestcrow because to this day we still can’t explain her words: What did she mean by “I can’t save you”? Why does she think that?? And save real!Ciel from whom or what???
There again, Yana making her character ambivalent is leading me to imagine two radically different possibilities:
she feels guilty about not being able to give him her blood to save his “radiance” => I’ve personally always found that idea so very stupid (and thus not like Lizzie) considering that she was born with her blood type and that it can’t be helped, buuut I guess the situation could be confusing and painful enough for her to be manipulated into thinking that she’s useless.
she’s actually implying that she wanted to save real!Ciel from the sect, but it’s proving to be much harder than she expected (hence why she cries) and so she stays by his side, watching the sect killing people while she can only imagine why they brought back the twin and what they intend to make him do once he’ll be “ready”. In that case, it’s also no wonder Paula said she’s been constantly crying.
See what I mean? Lizzie’s ambivalent character is proving to be a major pain for the current arc, because we know she was raised by a woman who wouldn’t have taken two shits coming from the blue sect, but Lizzie is not her mother as she’s younger and more inexperienced than Frances.
So what we saw of Lizzie’s actions so far in the arc gives us two big interpretations as to what her role is supposed to be:
was she manipulated by the blue sect to be an hostage to use against our!Ciel?
it is the most popular take on her role for this arc: the sect baited her with the twin and she’s choosing his side over our!Ciel’s for the moment because she’s confused and pained by the truth facing her.
hence Bravat’s words in ch123, taunting Ciel with Lizzie’s choosing the twin over him.
or was she trying to double-cross them from the beginning (both for real!Ciel’s and our!Ciel’s sakes)?
this part actually belongs to a bigger crack theory I discussed with @thedarkestcrow (with at least UT and Tanaka being involved in the same plan) but I’ll spare you otherwise this post will never end. xD
simply it would imply that, from the moment she learnt about the twin, no matter how confused and pained she was, she didn’t choose him over our!Ciel, it’s just that she wants to save him from the sect and has to pretend to be on their side in order to do so.
TL;DR ¯_(ツ)_/¯ we can thank Yana for creating such an ambivalent character because she’s extremely interesting that way and also it’s making things extra hard for us when trying to understand what’s going on in the current arc. xDD
I know this subject can lead to controversy because some readers might want to argue that I’m reading too much into things (which is definitely a possibility) or that Yana is not good enough to imply so much through only Liz’s character though, so I’m ready to discuss the subject if anyone wants to share their thoughts. :))
A/N: this is just a theory, please let me know if you think I forgot something or if there is a point that’s not clear. Very long post, heavy with spoilers.
First of all, I think we can all agree that, whoever the mastermind is, there isn’t any doubt that they are a supernatural character…
…And narratively speaking, after the Campania and Weston arcs, it’s indeed logical for both the readers and the characters to initially assume that the most likely suspect when the dead is brought back to life
(here: real!Ciel aka Lord Sirius, as well as maybe the other Lords)
is UT himself.
However, are we really sure at this point that Yana will go for the same ploy for the third time? Well, obviously this theory is here to propose that Yana won’t play the predictable card after such a complex and long arc. 🙂 Onto the hints:
A different motus operandi…
Different “bizarre dolls”…
…Thus a different mastermind?
real!Ciel vs our!Ciel
UT in ch108 & ch120
Additional links
1) A different motus operandi…
…Which for now creates a plot hole if UT is the mastermind, because what we were shown of the blue sect’s method (= blood transfusions + ???) doesn’t fit with UT’s previous technique to bring back the dead
during the Campania (= editing cinematic records with fake memories) and Weston (= editing CRs with “episodes” aka yearning for the future) arcs.
One argument would be to say that he changed his method of editing cinematic records to base his project on blood transfusions (+ something else) instead after Weston, but…
…He seemed to find Ryan’s attempt of using science to bring back the dead laughable during the Campania arc, so for now it’s hard to think he would have ended up using science as well.
Another argument I’ve seen would be to say that the BDs we saw during the Campania/Weston arcs were from old experiments and that he actually changed his method a while back, but as brilliantly put by @thedarkestcrow [x]:
If he had known all along how to make a perfect Bizarre Doll, why did he wait so long? And why would he risk being found out and risk that the twin (if he really hid him) would be found by creating the failed Bizarre Dolls? No one suspected Undertaker of anything until the Campania arc so even if he did indeed hide the twin it may have been much easier if he had hidden his true identity and his experiments, too.
Besides, as pointed out by @hitsugikuro, assuming that Othello and UT do know each other (”50 years ago”)…
…it’s possible that Othello was speaking of UT in ch119 when he mentioned someone (a deserting Shinigami?) who wasn’t “very knowledgeable in this [science] field”, thus reminding us possibly once more of UT’s opinion about bringing back the dead through science and crossing him out of the suspect list.
Secondly, there is also the fact that the blue sect has been existing for at least a year and a half, because we know that Bravat was regularly transfusing old Lords from the Parliament until recently…
…which indicates a switch in the sect’s purpose
(researching about blood transfusion and helping the old Lords => bringing back the “star Lords”)
from the moment Bravat opened the Sphere Music Hall and used the ex-prefects to attract the masses & start massive blood collects during Summer 1889.
Of course, UT could have been a part of them but, again, he doesn’t seem to favor science that much and, even when he was “a part of” the Aurora society, he was pretty much working alone on his bizarre doll project.
Finally, there is a significant item to mention…
…because surely UT’s “treasure” has to be relevant and maybe even the primary reason he’s trying to bring back the dead. However, there is one interesting thing to notice: if we’re assuming that these lockets represent people UT was fond of, then Vincent and real!Ciel should be on this chain too and yet they’re not.
The explanation for this is rather simple
thanks to ch105
though, at least where Vincent is concerned:
So maybe it was the same for the twin:
UT didn’t think that his method could bring Vincent and the twin back as bizarre dolls (because the circumstances of their death damaged their bodies too much?), hence why he had no locket for either of them.
TL;DRif UT’s motus operandi in the Campania & Weston arcs is signficantly different from the mastermind’s motus operandi in this arc then it means…
2) Different “bizarre dolls”…
This part is assuming that Seb indeed never lied and that he was summoned through real!Ciel’s sacrifice (after a stab in the heart) and eating his soul, meaning that real!Ciel died at 10 years old and yet…
He definitely looks as if he never died and is going to turn 14 (?), like our!Ciel.
Again, the difference in methods is probably the reason real!Ciel looks/acts so normal (compared to even Agares, UT’s last masterpiece) and all grown up, when it shouldn’t be possible since there aren’t many doubts that he died and Seb ate his soul, 4 years ago (unless Seb was somehow fooled?).
Secondly, aside from real!Ciel, we probably only saw Lord Polaris so far (since Polaris is Sirius’ butler, real!Ciel is Lord Sirius and Agni’s killer used knives like Polaris)…
…and Agni, who was a very strong human himself, commented on his killer being unusually strong. So could Polaris’ abnormal strength be the result of these blood transfusions or, more generally, of how the blue sect brings the dead back?
In the first place, only demons should naturally and abnormally be stronger than humans in Kuro!Verse (Shinigamis aren’t). However we know that, just like science is apparently currently used to bring the dead back, it was also used before in the story to introduce abnormal strength for humans…
…when Ciel met Finny while on another (older) mission for the Queen in Germany.
TL;DR if UT is not the mastermind but someone else is: what if real!Ciel and the other star Lords came back as some sort of perfect equivalent to UT’s original bizarre dolls, because different scientific methods were put together to achieve such a “perfect” result?
Of course, this only works if, instead of UT, the mastermind is…
3) …Thus a different mastermind?
At this point, there is only one possibility amongst the characters we already know, because there is only one person who showed interest in UT’s bizarre dolls…
…when Ciel told her about it, in June 1889, after the Weston arc. Of course, Victoria most likely isn’t a supernatural being, so she was surely helped by her loyal John Brown who would do anything for her (remember that his eyes are always conveniently hidden => there is a good chance he could be supernatural).
The mastermind behind the sect being supernatural!Brown and following Victoria’s wishes works in regards to the whole timeline too:
Bravat’s blue sect was originally used to experiment about blood transfusion until summer 1889…
“if this method can be made to work, it will be a ‘miracle cure’ that can bring the mortally wounded back from the brink of death. I’ve heard that the army is actively conducting experiments to discover just what is necessary to make it a success” => Wolfram, ch114.
…until Victoria and Brown learnt about UT’s bizarre doll from Ciel himsef in June 1889.
Brown then started to experiment by himself, not knowing about UT’s own method, giving the “star Lords” to Bravat’s sect and switching its purpose to using blood transfusion (+???) in order to bring them back from death:
that’s why the Sphere music hall was apparently opened during Summer 1889 and why the massive blood collects only started then
+ knowing about the incident at Weston would also be how Brown tricked the ex prefects and had Bravat using them to attract the masses.
Secondly, Othello said that the technology used by the sect was very advanced (and proof of supernatural involvement)…
and as @hitsugikuro pointed out before, it does look similar to Sieglinde’s own “lab” given to her by Queen Victoria and we know that war against Germany is the reason Victoria was so looking forward to Sieglinde working for “England’s future”.
War against Germany is probably also the reason Ciel was sent two years ago in Germany to take care of those researchers who were experimenting about artificially enhanced strength, which is when he met and saved Finny, by the way.
We don’t know what happened then, but maybe our!Ciel brought back the formula for this “abnormal strength” to the Queen, or maybe England developed their own, which might explain why Agni described his killer (Polaris) as abnormally strong, if this technique was used on the “star Lords” as well.
Finally…
there might be a political aspect to the plan with the blue sect, which is to say that Bravat might have also gotten rid of those lords from the Parliament (ch125) so that it would be more difficult for the Parliament to refuse Victoria’s plans for war. Remember…
…the Queen might not rule but…
…she has some loyal helpers.
TL;DR the whole point to keep in mind is that Victoria is getting ready for war: that’s why she wanted Sieglinde and her SuLIN, why she sent Ciel to destroy that German lab where Finny was experimented on, why she wants zombie war weapons through bringing back the dead and why she might have assassinated parlimentarians who stood in her way.
The blue sect is simply here to get her what she wants through first mastering the blood transfusion technique (to lose less soldiers), and then a way to experiment about bringing the dead back (to eventually turn more of them into war weapons).
4) real!Ciel vs our!Ciel
Or why Brown and Victoria
would
bring back the twin now, in order to antagonize the current Watchdog. There again, there is a possibility for an answer, but first of all, let me insist on why this part
for now
also makes no sense if UT is the mastermind.
To this day, I do not think that real!Ciel’s actions are particularly predictable to anyone (please check this post by @akumadeenglish). Seeing the latest chapters before the flashback, it’s evident that he’s not exactly in his right mind and there are many possibilities as to why that is, but for now he’s definitely supposed to be antagonistic.
Meanwhile, UT is literally one of the few characters who has no reason to wish harm on our!Ciel: it always was noticeable in the way he used to give him advice, to watch over him, to imply that he wouldn’t let Seb have his way with his soul, because of UT’s long attachment to the Phantomhive family.
And since UT probably feels/felt the same attachment towards the twin (and doesn’t favor him, by his own words), it doesn’t make a lot of sense to think that he was hoping for real!Ciel and our!Ciel to fight against each other, or for our!Ciel to be isolated from anyone but Sebastian (since the sect took Lizzie away and real!Ciel almost took Soma away).
Back to the Queen and Brown though, they’re the ones who actually have a few reasons to be crossed with our!Ciel, since:
After the curry arc, he more or less sheltered Agni (one of the culprits) despite his crimes
During the circus arc, he burnt those children, which led to him lying to the Queen about his report
but the Queen found out and organized a murder party as a punishment (@ thanks Grey)
After the green witch arc, he made sure that Sieglinde wouldn’t give or produce for the Queen anything like the SuLIN gas
but the Queen and Brown weren’t fooled, which led to Brown comparing his efficiency to Vincent’s, who is dead.
So for all we know, the current arc might partially be the result of Victoria seeing through his lies about the SuLIN gas in ch108 and being fed up with him for not being a very obedient doggy. Thus why…
real!Ciel came back as an absolutely similarcopy of the Queen’s current watchdog (same age (?), same height,
no change of identity, same earrings), so that she would replace the bad doggy with a more obedient one (who might be dependent on those blood transfusions and thus more loyal to her), without having to explain what happened to the previous one since the twins are now exactly similar.
TL;DR UT would have no reason to create a feud amongst his beloved Phantomhive family, considering he’s always been more of an ally to them than anything else, which leads to the final part of the explanation…
5) UT in ch108 & ch120
Or, if this theory is accurate, the red herrings that Yana showed to make us think UT was initially behind it all for the third time, since UT was with the twin in these two chapters. However, first please consider the settings of both meetings:
it’s at night
UT is creeping around, as if he wants to be undetected.
Instead of being the mastermind of the sect and supporting it I could rather see him trying to prevent or delay the sect’s success. The one time we saw him he gave one of the Ciels (and it was probably the twin) some liquid and remember his words? (see above)
When he visited the twin/Sirius that night the twin’s condition seemed quite well. Afterwards, however, we saw him having these arms (see above).
So UT may have intentionally worsened the twin’s state. Not with the intention to kill him, of course, but he may have tried to delay his full awakening in order to get time to maybe solve this situation in order to help both twins, not just one.
An idea which would in turn explain why he was checking the twin’s wrist (as if looking for any needle mark, to assess what was going on, maybe?) …
…as well as that single panel from ch120 that showed him as very affectionate.
Because remember what I said about UT’s “treasure”? If real!Ciel and Vincent didn’t have a locket, it might be because UT’s own method of bringing back the dead (through editing the cinematic records) didn’t make it possible for them to come back (too damaged bodies?). So seeing the twin “alive” again must have felt like a shock to UT who cares a lot about the P family (hence the affectionate gesture of ch120), even if he probably tampered with the twin’s “well being” anyway…
because he wanted to stall for time
because he couldn’t bear the idea that the twin too was used as another of the Queen’s pawns (since he dislikes her a lot).
6) Additional links
This part is just an addendum for me to add several links to posts that belong with this theory but that I didn’t particularly include in the explanation (otherwise I would have died):
Please feel free to ask if anything is unclear, I’m so sorry that this was so long to read but I really believe that, if this arc is taking so long to be finished, it’s because it ties with older arcs/different subplots (besides the 2CT that’s taking a large place of the arc, obviously), hence the gigantic theory. xD
Oh hey, John Anon! xD Prison was alright, thank you! Actually I was allowed to get out way sooner than expected, because I was rather accurate on the matter of UT not favoring one twin over the other (as far as we know), so I’m free again!
it’s likely that Lizzie is at the manor or will be soon.
Finally, since Real!Ciel is the blue star and that Bravat serves him, I suppose that he shouldn’t be too far behind, same for the Lords Canopus and Vegas.
Also, Seb didn’t sense real!Ciel from before entering so he might not sense Bravat or the other lords either. 🙂
I hope it answers your question? Have a nice weekend John Anon!
I’m pretty sure that I haven’t written that much for Kuroshitsuji in a while and I reblogged a lot of great posts too, so here is an organized list of theories about what’s going on with the current arc in my opinion.
Please keep in mind that I (we) could be wrong and that every theory (mine especially) is only valid until we get more canon content next month. This recap post is mainly for people who have trouble keeping up with the amount of different Kuro theories on my blog ever since last week:
Again, these are just theories and I consider mine in particular to always have a one month validity (renewable sometimes haha), so always keep in mind that there is a good possibility some of them might not be accurate. Also please try to check this post before asking about the subjects listed above. :3
I might edit this post and add more links in case it makes it easier to search for subjects you want to read about!
…and there is a difference between what a character does and what their situation really is, especially when said character has been depressed and crying for the last 3 months in canon. Besides, you might not want to say that Lizzie’s staying away “by her own choice”. It’s a conflict of duty vs heart in Lizzie’s case for this whole arc, so it’s not like she’s 100% certain of the choice she made.
Anyway, considering that I’ve been rambling on the subject for the last 6 months, I’ll leave you some links to read. Hopefully it can answer your question and help you in your misunderstanding of Lizzie’s situation :
Lizzie not being happy with choosing the twin’s side: [1] [2]
Have a nice day Anon.
There is absolutely no problem Anon! You’re free to disagree as much as you want 🙂 And I should have delved a little more into the explanation anyway, so it’s my bad and I apologize.
In one of the posts I linked, I did add that Bravat’s words were absolutely not threatening back in ch123 and you’re right when you say that Lizzie has freedom + also that she decided to go back on her own to the sect after ch117.
However, Lizzie was manipulated from the beginning so that she would make that choice which is why she still has “freedom” per say, because for now Bravat’s side is certain that she wouldn’t leave them. I just call her a hostage because Bravat’s words in ch123 are implying that they knew from the beginning of who she was and how precious she is to Ciel so, the way I see it, I’m pretty sure that the twin doesn’t care at all about her and just wants to use her to hurt Ciel, like he did with Soma and Agni.
our!Ciel lied to her and Real!Ciel, her true fiancé then, is “alive” so her place is next to the twin; it’s her duty as his fiancée-> this is what I call manipulation by Bravat’s side who told her about the twin in the first place and by keeping her on their side, she represents leverage against our!Ciel since Bravat’s side knows that she’s very important to him.
So I call her an hostage, even though she has freedom, because she was manipulated and because I think the twin will use her to make his brother suffer some more. However, you could also call her a bait, or a mean to provocation by Bravat’s side, and you’d still be right: the point is, Bravat’s side knows that she’s the most important to Ciel…
…and I believe they already played on that and intend to continue.
Does this make more sense? You can still disagree of course and I apologize that I didn’t go into more details yesterday morning.
Have a nice weekend Anon and thanks for passing by again. 🙂
Hello Anon! And for the moment, I think Ciel doesn’t have romantic feelings for anyone, namely because he’s still “young”, he has other things on his mind 90% of the time (his job, revenge) and mostly…
…because Soma is right, he’s terrified of being happy, which means that he’s constantly pushing people away, for their sake in his opinion but also for his sake, though he’s less aware of that.
That being said, it’s important to understand that, because of his trauma and everything that goes with it (revenge, the fear of being happy….), all of Ciel’s relationships should be seen through a careful eye, as in, there is difference between what Ciel says, what he feels and the significance of each relationship to him.
For example, Ciel might pretend that he doesn’t care at all about Soma but…
that’s not true, even if he won’t admit it, because Soma became a constant part of his life over the last year, which is why the “friendship”, as strange as it is, grew on Ciel. Similarly, if he didn’t really care about Lizzie and she was just his annoying cousin, then this case wouldn’t be so tiring on him and Bravat wouldn’t be using Lizzie as a hostage against him…
By the way, this panel is precisely what makes me think that attracting Lizzie to the sphere music hall has nothing to do with Real!Ciel longing for her or caring about her. She’s just useful because she is “the closest to our!Ciel” so, while Ciel probably doesn’t have romantic feelings for her and is terrified of admitting that he even cares, everyone knows that she’s the person he cares about the most.
So honestly, I wonder if romantic feelings are mandatory, whenever Ciel is concerned, to show that his relationship to Lizzie is particularly significant to him. What I mean is, Ciel might never fall in love, because he might never live to grow old and because he’s still dealing with his trauma, but even without any romantic feelings, it’s obvious to basically everyone that Lizzie is the most important person to him. Remember Anon: love doesn’t always have to be the strongest feeling to show that a relationship is particularly significant to a character, because Ciel isn’t in love with anyone and yet Lizzie is obviously the one he cares about the most.
As for future developments, only time will tell, I honestly can’t be sure: for example, we will have to see how the current arc will change them and their relationship before we can guess more about Ciel’s eventual feelings for Lizzie. Lizzie is definitely in love with him though.
Sorry if that doesn’t make any sense Anon, but thanks for passing by and I wish you a great day as well! 🙂
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