Crack theory: the Phantomhive lineage is at the origin of the Watchdog duty

Very old idea related to ch103 & the GW arc overall that I never took the time to write.

Based on the fact that Claudia was most likely Vincent’s predecessor, which is implying that, when no more male heir available, using a woman from the Phantomhive family as the Watchdog was apparently a better alternative than giving the job to another nobleman loyal to the royal family.

@frederickabberline previously made a post explaining under which circumstances noble women could inherit anything, so it isn’t strange that Claudia was able to get that title. Still, the Watchdog position implies keeping control over the underworld, solving weird cases and cleaning up after the royal family, so it’s not exactly a normal position.

To keep it within a family specifically (the Phantomhives) could be a matter of keeping the Watchdog’s identity a secret, but…

…clearly ch132 and Vincent explain that, if no more heir, the whole thing goes back to the crown who decides who they’ll give it to next. So it’s probably Victoria who decided to give it to Claudia in the first place, allowing her to inherit despite being a woman (we don’t know when) and…

it’s also the Queen who decided that a 10 year old boy from the same family would receive that position.

So, assuming that the royal family intends on keeping the Watchdog duty as tightly related to the P family as possible, the question is why? Well, my answer for now would be the lineage thing.

Granted that we don’t know exactly what that lineage is yet, why it apparently has to be activated, etc, but it seems to at least have to do with being able to see/sense/detect supernatural beings. So far:

Ciel managed to spot the Shinigamis in ch103 despite them being invisible to normal human eyes at the time
there is a suspicion about Frances also being able to see through Seb’s human disguise (not saying she knows he’s a demon, but at least that he’s not human)
the German Shinigamis said that “it runs in the family” so we can assume that it spans more than just two generations (so it’s most likely unrelated to whoever Cedric K. Ros- is)

And I’m of the opinion that it could probably be seen as useful if the royal family were to know about (and believe) it.

For now though, it’s hard to consider whether or not Victoria herself gave out hints that she might know about the lineage, because her absence of surprise towards Ciel’s report for the Weston arc could also be explained by John Brown most likely being supernatural and by her side, as many have guessed before.

The thing is, I find there is a possible analogy between the Watchdog’s duty

and Seb’s own situation as Ciel’s personal dog

Because Will basically said that a demon with a leash on (the contract & Seb’s own aesthetic) was better than free demons who would probably go around scavenging for souls that Shinigamis work hard to collect.

And it’s kinda the same if we’re considering that the Phantomhives are dogs to the royal family: putting a collar on them makes them less dangerous and more easy to keep under control (eventually hanging them with it if needs be, as UT pointed out), especially if what the royal family was originally interested in was how useful the Phantomhive lineage could be to them.

The other reason I came up with this theory is the Green Witch arc overall: again it’s just my opinion but, while the last part of the arc was really good, I have a few issues with the rest of it.
I explained here why but, to sum up: compared to all the other arcs, the fake supernatural settings (werewolves, witch, curse/magic, etc) are rather unrelated to the true subplot (German army researching war weapons using a young genius), which is unusual and makes it too convenient as a result.

That being said, since I like to believe that Sensei does things for a reason, I’ve been thinking that maybe the fake supernatural settings of the GW arc are supposed to be relevant elsewhere in the story, kinda like how the murders at manor arc ended up being used as an introduction to the war suplot.

So initially, looking at what Sieglinde believed to be the truth, you get this story…

and let’s just say that this is a situation that could have easily been applied to the Phantomhive family, if anyone ever found out that they were “gifted”.

Again, we don’t know what the lineage is or where it comes from, but if Ciel’s ancestors ended up being hunted as heretics

at some point

because of it, then similarly to Sieglinde’s story, who knows if they didn’t agree to a pact with the royal family (the Watchdog duty), in exchange for their protection?

That pact gave the royal family the huge advantage to get their own little gifted dogs, generations after generations, and to use that special lineage indirectly for themselves…

…as long as they kept a tight leash on this family.

I’m aware it might appear a little far-fetched, especially when we don’t know what the lineage

really

is about yet, but that’s why it’s a crack theory.

To be honest though, I can’t help but also wonder about the timing of the lineage thing’s introduction by Sensei: ch103 is right during the final part of the GW arc after all, so it could be a coincidence or narratively meaningful because the settings of the arc do have some sort of link to that lineage stuff. :))

Let me know if anything is unclear! As always thanks for reading!!

About UT I seriously don’t know what to think anymore .On one hand he seems to care for both ciels yet it seems he is backing up the OC who is clearly up to no good (the pic you posted where UT is holding the OC hand to his face ,he does have a tender look) And he isn’t dumb he knows what the OC is up to so how come ?Is he picking sides because the OC is the « real » earl .Just what is he up to ?

hitsugikuro:

thedarkestcrow:

thedarkestcrow:

I guess you’re referring to the real Ciel if you say OC, right? ~~(Because some are using OC for our Ciel and some use OC for original Ciel. ;^^)~~

Your points are actually the reason why I don’t think that Undertaker is the true mastermind of the sect. The sect clearly wants to harm our Ciel, or so it seems. But Undertaker surely cares for both twins. His whole life for the past few years seems to have been dedicated to keeping an eye on the Phantomhives and supporting them. It even seems like UT may try to find a way to save our Ciel from Sebastian. So I really don’t see why he would now suddenly give up on all this and support the twin in harming our Ciel (unless there’s some hidden agenda that I don’t see right now). But he doesn’t want to abandon the real Ciel, either, now that he’s back.

That’s why I believe that UT is trying to find a way to help both twins, so I guess he may try to get the real Ciel out of the sect. But that’s not so easy. Like with our Ciel who he can’t just hide from Sebastian the real Ciel is also somewhat dependent on the cult since he obviously needs those blood transfusions.

So I think that whatever Undertaker is doing, he’s trying to find a solution to support both twins. He’s not picking sides but at the moment he rather needs to focus on the twin to get him out and to stop him from wanting to hurt our Ciel – for the benefit of both Ciels. I doubt, though, that there’s a way for UT to succeed in that and to save both twins. But that’s another story.

Hi again. 🙂 Thanks for reading and I’m glad you agree with my points. ^^

Since I believe that Undertaker isn’t the mastermind of the sect there must be someone else who ‘revived’ the real Ciel. And I rather think that this person might have gotten the idea on how to do this by looking at Undertaker’s experiments. So that would mean that UT first created his Dolls before the sect was successful. And in that case UT’s reasons for creating the Bizarre Dolls in the first place must have been something other than wanting to help the twin like he seems to be doing now. But that’s all just speculation on my part at the moment. I always thought UT was trying to bring someone back from the dead (Claudia, Vincent, maybe even the twin…). Though he may have already realized that this probably won’t ever work correctly…

We know that the Queen was quite interested in the Bizarre Dolls and we also know that UT is not very fond of her. So maybe he is trying to hide his experiments from her (though he must know that she would know through Ciel). But that could be who he was referring to when he didn’t want ‘troublesome people’ to find him. John Brown, for example, could be supernatural, as well. And then there’s also this ominous Osiris company that seemed to be involved in the Campania incident. Maybe after what happened on the Campania they want to get their hands on UT’s Dolls again but UT has other plans so he doesn’t want them to find him.

I interpreted it that UT was referring to the reapers when he talked about ‘troublesome people’ finding him because he suspected they’d still be investigating cases of Bizarre Dolls. But looking back on it, we don’t see them show up at all after the midnight tea party unless it was off screen, and when Grell and William show up in Germany they don’t mention Weston specifically (unless I’m forgetting something). So maybe that slipped under their radar, or UT really was referring to someone else.

I hadn’t thought of it that way before, but if that’s the case it brings up some interesting possibilities.

The line oc said in gw arc « children are not their parents tool » , do you think these words are somewhat connected (at least what he felt or saw) to his childhood?

Hello Anon! Ah, you mean that moment?

Actually, while I can understand why you might choose to interpret this as something he himself experienced, I do think that the part that reflects his childhood was rather “is that what a mother would do?”, as in, he had good parents so he can really call out Sieglinde’s, mom because he notices the difference in how she treated her daughter (like a tool) vs how loving his own parents were.

We’re talking about a woman who literally broke her daughter’s feet so that she would invent a mass-murdering weapon here, which is literally the opposite to how Vincent and Rachel acted with the twins.

I mean, I know many readers are tempted to shit on Vincent and Rachel as parents but…

I really think that they were good parents and that Ciel loved them, his current issues being only indirectly related to them.

I hope it’s understandable. Have a nice weekend Anon 🙂

Hi! I am reading different posts you reblogged about how Kuro is historically accurate and how the appearing of modern technology is a plot point or is justified because of Sieglinde and her genius. Now since when there has been modern technology in the series? Also I remember that in the arc in which Soma was introduced television was mentioned. So was that mention an inaccurancy or was it part of a larger pattern I didn’t notice?

Hey Anon 🙂 Sorry but I’m not sure of what you’re asking exactly?

It’s true I talked about anachronism at least once before and I probably reblogged posts on the subject as well, so are you asking for examples of anachronisms in the story?

I personally think there are two types of anachronism so far in Kuro:

the ones that are random because Yana didn’t know Kuroshitsuji would be a long serialization back then or
because she

just wanted it to be funny for the readers

(mostly the early examples)…

That’s the one you meant about Soma and the television, it’s in ch23 🙂

and the anachronisms that are probably part of a bigger pattern:

Be it in the GW arc (linked to the war subplot with Queen Victoria) with radars and panzers (even Seb was impressed)…

Or in the current arc, as we know thanks to Othello…

which are either linked to Sieglinde’s huge intellect (with the new gas in the GW arc or as we could also see with her ideas in the current arc for the Phantom Five) or to supernatural beings as Othello explained twice in the current arc. 🙂

Personally I think that the anachronisms/modern technologies that have been introduced ever since the last arc (radar, panzer, the SULIN, Sieglinde’s inventions in the current arc, Bravat’s strange devices for the blood transfusions) are important and a part of the bigger pattern that you mentioned. 🙂 I spoke slightly more about this subject here in case you haven’t seen that post yet.

Sorry if that doesn’t answer your question though, Anon I hope I understood what you meant…

Have a nice weekend Anon!

Ch 125: The Blue Sect’s Age and New Questions?

thedarkestcrow:

In the latest chapter we’ve gotten some possible information on how long the sect might have already been operating which raises more questions.

We now know that the main sponsors of the cult were all suffering from renal failure and that they were all supposed to die sooner because of that illness. But since Bravat performed a blood dialysis on them their dates of death were delayed and they lived longer than they should have according to the original to-die list.

Othello is showing Ciel the original time of death for one of the old guys which is March 27th, 1888.

So that means that Bravat must have started to replace the old guys’ blood before that date at the latest and therefore he must have been collecting blood for that purpose for at least one and a half years. The beginning of his activities must have started even earlier or at least around the time when when the story of the manga begins.

However, the popularity of the cult has only recently begun to get greater and the P4/S4 only joined the cult after they’ve been expelled from Weston, so after June in 1889 (more than one year after the latest possible beginning of Bravat’s work). The purpose of the Blue Cult is to attract visitors in order to get their blood. But if the cult has only recently gained attention, where has Bravat gotten the needed blood from before that?

Bravat even said to the sponsors that they’ve only ever gotten the leftovers. So it seems like his true purpose was to get blood for the Lords of the Stars all that time, meaning that the Lords must have existed already when Bravat started with the dialysis of the old guys’ blood (i.e. March, 1888 at the latest).

So somehow Bravat must have had access to a blood source even before the cult was created or at least before the cult became popular. And something must have changed for him to make new plans on getting so many visitors to draw blood from. What could it be?

Possibility 1: He suddenly needed a lot more blood.

If he only had limited access to blood before and suddenly needed a lot more, this would explain why he changed plans. His old blood source might have not been enough anymore. However, it’s not clear why Bravat would suddenly need more blood. If the Lords have already existed before (which is likely as I’ve said above) why would their blood demand increase all of a sudden? Unless something in their ‘treatment’ (or whatever the reason why they’re needing blood in the first place is) changed. There are already many theories about the Lords being Bizarre Dolls and we know that Undertaker’s methods of creating them have improved lately. So maybe one of these improvements for getting the perfect Bizarre Dolls requires a lot more blood than before which could explain a sudden increase in the demand for blood and therefore Bravat’s plans on creating a cult where he can draw blood from the visitors.

Possibility 2: His old blood source didn’t work anymore.

If the amount of blood Bravat needs for his purposes has stayed the same something must have happened to his earlier blood source so that he couldn’t have access to it anymore. In that regard it would really be interesting to know what his old blood source was because it now seems like he needs quite a huge amount of blood and you don’t just get your hands on so much fresh blood easily.

Again, since it’s likely that Undertaker is involved in this sect there might be a connection to him. Maybe Bravat obtained the blood from Undertaker before the cult became popular. As a mortician UT might have had access to blood, his connections to hospitals or even the Aurora Society and maybe the Osiris Company might have been helpful for that purpose, as well. But after the Campania arc this might have become more difficult and after the Weston arc Undertaker even left England for some time to visit France and Germany. So Bravat might have been left in charge at that time and was forced to search for a different way to get the blood needed for the Lords.

So, in summary, the cult or at least Bravat’s treatment of the old guys and therefore the Lords’ presence must have existed for much longer than the public is aware of the cult’s existence. And since the amount of visitors only recently increased Bravat must have had a different blood source before. But something must have happened that made it necessary for him to gain another or a different blood source (i.e. the visitors) now. So that raises the questions:

Where did Bravat get the blood from before the cult became popular?

Why did he suddenly need a new blood source?

Could this be connected to Undertaker?…

@thedarkestcrow I reblogged that post before but in fact it’s only now that I seem to have things to say (~~@brain: thanks for working so slowly~~).

My skeptical thoughts aside, if we say these details (namely that apparently Bravat started helping those lords at least a year and a half before the current arc) aren’t supposed to be a plot hole, I think it’s indeed possible for the Aurora society to have been Bravat’s old way of getting blood before the Sphere music hall.

I mean, remember what Lau said at the beginning of the Campania arc?

Back then, I thought that they had all been killed which is how UT had managed to gather so many BDs on the Campania but…. for all we know, maybe the way they died could also have to do with the current arc?

For example, let’s say that Karnstein hospital/the Aurora society collected their blood until all those foreign slaves died from “blood loss”, not only would that have been helpful in those old lords’ cases, but that would have also allowed UT to get more BDs (which would explain why there were so many of them on the Campania in the first place). Just some thoughts.

You also mentioned UT and what Dee said about him being in Germany and going to France and…

… then again Will and Grell being sent to Germany could be linked to the war subplot but since UT was in Germany and Will does speak about a “deserter”, maybe they were on his trail back during the GW arc.

And in that case, it could be related to the war subplot but also to the current arc if UT is involved with the current arc and if he was really up to shady doings in Germany.

….Honestly, I just wouldn’t be surprised if Bravat was a member of the Osiris society, he seems to fit the rather scarce description we had of them.
And the involvement of the Osiris company would be another big hint to the 4 Lords being a new generation of bizarre dolls, which would fit with what many people theorized so far.

Who sits across to the Queen in chapter 115 page,05. Have you have any theory? Thanks!

thedarkestcrow:

shinigami-mistress:

Hey Anon and sorry for the delay. When I went to answer this question, I checked out page 115 page 5, but it only has Grell and Othello. I tried to figure out what image you meant, and I was just about to give up and admit defeat when it suddenly hit me. Did you mean this panel from 105 page 5?

(If not, please resend the question. If I’m right, then I’ll do my best to answer now.)

Sascha was talking about war and how it has evolved – basically saying that England has now gained a very powerful ally with Sieglinde. The panel itself could be symbolic of showing war as a game. Here we see the Queen playing, almost casually, and I think the person in the other seat is meant to represent the ruler of another country. While the soldiers would be fighting the actual war, the rulers would be the ones coming up with the strategy. Ciel’s quest for vengeance is often shown as a chess game. Apparently this possible future world is shown as a fragile house of cards.

That’s only my interpretation of the image, but I hope that answers your question, Anon. Have a lovely day!

Since Sieglinde and her experiments were part of a German military project and this knowledge now falls into the English hands, I think that this person who’s facing the Queen is supposed to be the German Emperor, Wilhelm II.

(Also, their uniform looks quite similar.)

That image is really interesting. Victoria and Wilhelm are related and I think they try to act friendly with each other (if only for appearances). In the beginning of the Green Witch arc, Victoria wrote in her letter that she’s worried about what happens in Germany and that she’d like to assist them. They are both rulers over powerful empires and that image where they both build a house of cards could symbolize that right now they are still working together to keep the system intact and preserve peace. However, that peace is very fragile and one wrong move from either of them could destroy it and lead to war.

Random thoughts about UT, Victoria and war

About this scene…

Can someone explain to me why a guy who can teleport and who had something to do in France stopped by Germany?

Initially when I noticed that detail, I thought “meh plot convenience, Yana needed a reason as to why Dee would have seen UT recently” and honestly maybe it’s just that, but France, Germany, England…. Considering that the Queen is more or less trying to start a war against Germany that sounds awfully like a pre-WWI scheme, France could be involved on one side of the conflict…

The question is, what does that have to do with UT? Why would he “pass by” two countries who might be involved in a war with England when all he supposedly cares about is the BD project?

Well, these are just cracky thoughts, but what if he actually is getting involved on purpose against Victoria’s schemes because he strongly dislikes her?

After all, we know she wants his BDs as an addition to her army…

Even if I doubt he’d be happy to oblige considering his dislike for her, but besides that, even more recently Victoria said…

And we know there is a high chance that UT is involved with the Blue Sect in the first place… So could he be a little troublemaker?

I know there are people who think Victoria is involved with the Blue Sect herself but that sounds a bit unlikely, considering she asked Ciel to investigate and I really doubt UT would work for her, so maybe he’s actually taking any way he can to get in the way of her plans, which is why Dee saw him in Germany (because he actually had business there) and why he mentioned France (if France is also involved in the war subplot).

This could also explain why Will and Grell were asked to travel all the way to Germany, it wasn’t just about some files, they might have been following a lead about him (just like when UT knew they were after him at the end of the Weston arc).

Personally, I could see UT trying to get into the Queen’s way if he really doesn’t like her and if he thinks she’s somehow responsible for Vincent’s (and Claudia’s?) murder, but I have no idea if this idea makes sense to others, so cracky or not, feel free to add your thoughts. 😉

It could all be plot convenience (as always, the possibility remains when it comes to Kuro haha) or it could be that UT really is playing another game besides the BD project (or for what we know the two things are linked as Victoria seems to want the BDs).

kurobruja:

@midnight-in-town said: I agree with the three of you. I don’t mind him, in fact I think it’s cute how he cares so much about Sieglinde but so many characters (who have been there since the first volume) deserve one chapter for themselves and a flashback to it feels illogical and like cheating as shinigami-mistress said, since his “death” was really written perfectly.

midnight-in-town said: I mean, sorry Anon, but when you see Lau who’s been around since the second chapter or so and who’s the MOST mysterious character of the whole story because we literally know just his name, or Claudia, Ciel’s grandma who’s been hinted at since the circus arc, it definitely feels unfair to have Wolfram gets TWO chapters when he really doesn’t have the same potential towards the plot as Claudia or Lau (or Bard, or Mey Rin or a lot of other characters).

midnight-in-town said: I mean we know more about Wolfram than about Tanaka lmao, that’s not logical at all. Yana rarely gives flashbacks and developments to her characters, so it feels unfair that the most secondary character got one lol. That’s basically one of the reasons why the GW arc really was one of the least good arcs and thank God for Dee’s presence.

I agree with all of this ok? All of this is beautiful and accurate, and I had to make it so that anyone could watch it. #MoreaboutLau2k16 #MoreaboutTanaka2k16 #MoreaboutMey-rin2k16.

But wait… one of the least good arc. #don’tbreakmyheart. xD Personally I actually quite like the gw arc and it’s on my top 3, but yeah, I was so ready to switch Campania as my favorite for the GW when the end happened. The pace was so tedious. Too many chaps on a persecution. Idk, that on anime probably looks really rad, but on manga lasted forever.

@kurobruja

🙂 Haha I’m sorry about “one of the least good arcs” (please don’t let it hurt your feelings :3 this is just my opinion) but I think that because of the way it was written, not because of the characters (except you know… all the Wolfram focus at the end even though I don’t even dislike him) and even less because of the ending (strong action is always good).

Honestly for me the ending is totally what “saved” the arc because #Dee-happened™ and #this-guy-is-the-best-in-the-world but for the rest of it? This arc was all about plot convenience and Yana-sensei is totally capable of thinking up greater subplots in my opinion so I was a bit disappointed.

You know it’s like, after the arc is over, you start wondering how dumb the German government is (in Kuro-verse of course!) to basically think of a fairytale in order to force Sieglinde to find the chemical formula for a deadly war weapon.

Because they’re literally going at war against England, so instead of thinking up something with witches and werewolves (which totally gave Sieglinde too much power in her role as the Green Witch, something that I totally enjoy, but that was not good for their project), why didn’t they simply raise Sieglinde to hate England?

By making her think her dad was killed by English spies for example,
by raising her with no actual freedom and explaining her she was a prodigy, controlling her since childhood
by brainwashing her with patriotism and making her think it was a good thing to produce this chemical weapon

~~(do you imagine the dynamics with Ciel if that had been the case? That would have been extremely interesting)~~

So there were many many ways to do differently and without the Green Witch legend thing (meaning less people involved, less money put into the project, less weird legends to act around lol), but instead Yana-sensei created the fairytale appearance of the subplot while the truth was in absolutely no relation to it (that’s the gist of my criticism), making this arc’s settings plot convenience only because Kuro is heavily based on supernatural settings.

So I understand why she did it like that, but that didn’t work for me at all (especially considering that I had nothing else to say about the previous arcs on that point).

But you know, who cares right? 🙂 I mean, the arc is over and besides the ending at least was good because #Dee, #Dee

#Dee

I enjoyed the ending (~~Dee~~) Sieglinde’s character and Ciel & Seb having a hard moment because of the PTSD episode but the subplot wasn’t Yana’s best idea in my opinion, that’s all. 🙂

kuro-bitch-suji:

I think Sieglinde is on the autism spectrum. If I were to pinpoint it, it would be aspergers. She doesn’t really show any emotion towards Ciel and the rest of the group, only to Wolfram and the villagers, which is an autism thing. I learned this while being diagnosed for autism and I did it subconsciously. I think she did this because she knew the people in her home, she was used to them and trusted them, but didn’t know and trust Ciel and the others. (Sieglinde was more comfortable with them later on and showed more emotion.)

She also doesn’t seem to show much empathy with her facial expressions when others have/might go through suffering. She didn’t show it when warning Finny or when she found out about Ciel’s parents.

We do know she has empathy though. She did want to live after Ciel told her she could use her intelligence to help people, she cares about them and she was very concerned when Ciel and Sebastian were affected by the mustard gas too.

It seems here that she doesn’t know how to act around people properly and ‘normally.’

She also doesn’t seem to know what things are deemed inappropriate like being sexual towards being who find it comfortable, are strangers, and really just being sexual in general like this.Sieglinde also doesn’t seem to have any concept of manners as Sebastian had to teach her. I think nobody taught her before because of what I say later on.

Sieglinde talks in a weird way, like some autistic people. She doesn’t talk how people normally do, she talks with more detail at times, more vocabulary and she sounds like she’s a character out of a play by Shakespeare. (At least a little bit to me.)

We can also see she is very smart, something someone with aspergers usually has. I mean, she understood the synthesis of mustard gas as a small child!

Last, but not least

This really hit me. They were creating a world unique to her, her sensory issues, what she needed, and what made her happy. No wonder they brought her up to be a witch, she was happy being a witch. She was given a place to belong and if she hadn’t, I’m sure she wouldn’t feel like she belonged. She would feel unhappy and disconnected from other people. They created the (almost) perfect world for her.

What do you think about Sebastian’s character development in the last arch with the mustard gas that affected him and Ciel?

Hmm, this is kind of a complicated question because Sebastian didn’t exactly gain much of a character development in the last arc, Yana mostly emphasized some important parts of his character that we already knew of in my opinion.

Still, what was interesting in the arc was Sebastian’s reaction to Ciel’s temporary PTCD episode as well as how his “wake-up call” was perceived by Ciel after. For that, I’m grateful to the last arc.

Seb and Ciel make a good duo with very interesting dynamics, so the last arc showing them in such difficulty was actually very good in that aspect for me who was craving more development for those two individually and in their relationship to the other (this sounds super philosophical, sorry but I can’t seem to say it another way :/).

To make it simple, I really think Seb is a big demon nerd who is very interested in humans and the Greenwitch arc emphasized this part of him more than ever before because…

Ciel doesn’t seem to get that however, so it was interesting for once to see how Sebastian was thinking of the contract and their bond, since we generally don’t get so much insights on this subject from his point of view.

On the other hand, the last arc also gave insights on Ciel and Sebastian’s relationship and I think the mustard gaz and Ciel’s PTSD episode changed something between them. Something that the antagonist(s) of the Blue Sect arc could use against the contract.

It actually doesn’t matter whether Sebastian really tried to eat Ciel or not. I might be thinking he was ready to do it but others will use the exact same things to say that he wasn’t decided on it.
However, from Ciel’s point of view, there is only one thing to understand and that is that Seb was ready to eat him because he almost broke the contract, which is why he told Sebastian:

“Feel free to go crazy like a beast”

But it’s not what Sebastian was looking for as I pointed out above.

So the Green Witch arc and the mustard gaz showed me a more complex side to the dynamics between master and demon and I think that, while it might not mean much for Seb who just reaffirmed being really interested in humans and their way of thinking, it was probably more “problematic” for Ciel’s character, because in the end he said…

“You’re the one I can trust the least”

And I think he meant it, because he might very probably think Sebastian really was ready to eat him.

So there is your answer :

Ciel was thinking Sebastian wanted to let off some steam while Seb is interested in their little “game”,

And Seb probably doesn’t think the “wake up call” part had too much consequences while it did have consequences for Ciel

That’s what this arc showed me and that’s why I’m ready for the Blue Sect arc and for Yana to use what she started to hint at in several different arcs. 🙂
Hope it answers your question somehow, sorry if that didn’t make much sense!