Haha oh Anon :3 Actually, I think Yana-sensei is busy with this thing they call an adaptation of the Campania arc, so between that and last month’s chapter for the 10th year anniversary, that probably explains why the chapter is so short.
In any case, I guess I am one of the luckiest in the fandom, because since I really liked the Weston arc, I actually only mind the slow pace (and by that I mean a majority of chapters with 20 pages when the serialization is monthly).
I might not be the S4′s biggest fan out there (especially in Greenhill’s case, even if the others are alright and Violet is a cutie) but I actually really like the F5 so… I just am annoyed that we’re not advancing that quickly in the story since it’s been a year since the beginning of the arc.
Hopefully the pace should pick up again in November (even if I
just don’t want to assume too much right now): I believe Yana really needed to introduce a chapter with recap seeing as last month’s chapter wasn’t exactly about the current arc.
Stay strong Anon :3 even if I know it’s hard :)))
Sooo, let’s see…
About the S4 and F5:
Well I just don’t think Violet is going to die (at least not right away), but when it comes to solving drama, you’re right we will probably have a confrontation between the S4 and the F5 at some point (although I kind of see Edward following Ciel in order to get Lizzie back, since she’s ten times more important than Greenhill).
And I think you’re right: as it generally goes in the other arcs, Ciel & Seb and the Shinigamis will be against UT if he’s behind all this (and Bravat) while the Weston boys will sort things out somewhere else :3
It depends on that I think, so I really don’t know for now. If they’re new BDs it would make sense for them not to survive, but if somehow they’re not just BDs but 4 of the people represented by the lockets… If they’re UT’s cherished people, in that case he might try to protect them and escape with them rather than letting them die after everything he went through to bring them back.
Bravat was betrayed by UT:
50:50 for me. 🙂 It really depends on who the 4 star Lords are.
If they’re random dudes/BDs only important for the current experiment, then maybe he could be another Ryan Stoker, but since it’s possible UT (in the theory that he’s behind the current arc) told him about Lizzie, Ciel & Seb, maybe Bravat really knows everything that’s going on with UT’s plan and in that case, he might not be just another pawn.
Since Bravat knows about what the S4 did at Weston though, I think he and UT might share on secrets more than UT did with Stoker, but that isn’t enough of a guarantee to say UT won’t betray him.
I think it also depends on if Bravat is also some kind of supernatural being/more than a simple human or not, so personally I don’t know for now :3
Lizzie committed suicide to become a Shinigami and escaped with UT:
OMG, this had been a crack headcanon/possibility of mine ever since ch110 or so (but I think I only told @dorkshadows about it, since I thought it would be too crazy to write that publicly, haha)!
Like, I really somehow want such a development (even if I personally see her trying more than succeeding) but I am not sure Yana would go down such a path. I wish she would! But I have the hardest time picturing it happening for real when I see the development of the story so far (and by that I include all the arcs).
I am a bit… afraid that, if Lizzie’s sadness really is because she was told about the contract, she will somehow sort everything out during this arc with Ciel and will go back to her cheerful self by the end of the arc. Because if she learnt about the contract, I doubt she would be able to accept it and forgive Sebastian, so having her leaving with UT (in case he also wants to save Ciel from the contract) would make more sense than having her somehow accepting the situation and pretending like nothing ever happened.
It’s been too long since she started wondering about all this…
So if she really learned about the contract, I really hope she won’t accept it and resign herself.
We’ve known since the campania arc that she was in fact a fighter so I would rather have her doing the unthinkable and following UT’s crazy plan over going back home and not trying hard to change things.
Whew… Well, we shall see in a few chapters if that is accurate then, hm? 🙂 Thank you for sharing Madam Red Anon, I hope you’ll have a nice day ^^
Why are people complaining about the F5 existing anyways? They’re not exactly irrelevant to the plot, under all that leather and glamour they do actually have ties to this situation. Remember the Weston Arc? Remember how the prefects showed absolutely no remorse for murdering Derrick? Remember how their fags felt, knowing the people they looked up to could have slaughtered them without a second thought if they even slightly screwed up? Of course they’re going to fight back, and if the only way that they can do it is by forming a band I say just go with it. You have to look from their point of view, being on stage is fun, they NEED that. Remember how utterly depressed Edward, Cheslock and Clayton looked when they became prefects? That sort of thing is a big deal in Weston but the looks on their faces were anything but happy, unlike the new Scarlet Fox prefect (who isn’t Joanne, he’s 14-15 he can’t become a prefect yet) who had the biggest smile because he didn’t see the horrors that they did. This band is bringing smiles onto people’s faces and that’s got to brighten up their lives even a little, don’t complain about them when they’re trying to have fun to temporarily forget about the things they’ve seen.
So yeah, F5 aren’t moving us away from the actual plot, they’ve already built it. You’ve been betrayed, and if throwing on some fingerless gloves and breaking into song is how you wanna get revenge, all I have to say is knock them dead.
Couldn’t agree with all this more! I just wanted to quickly add something in regards to the F5′s feelings.
Along with the idea that the prefects could and would have murdered any one of them if the prefects thought them a threat to the school/unworthy of being prefect, there’s the notion that, had they not learned otherwise, the fags could have followed in the bloody footsteps of their mentors.
Edward expresses his fear directly.
(Chap. 83, pg. 30)
(pg. 31)
While Edward is the only one who communicated this fear verbally, who’s to say the other fags don’t share it?
The band they have formed, therefore, can be a way for them to cope with that fear. They can confront their mentors directly and show them, and the rest of London, and beyond, that they are not the people whom they once admired. They may be a band also, but their manners and behaviour and persons are entirely different.
In a way, the F5 are reminding their mentors of their bloody past, reminding them that they cannot brush their sins under the carpet and find atonement in a lie. They are reminding the S4 that they have found comfort in a lie, just as they found comfort in the lie that Derrick had been justly disposed of back in the Weston Arc. They are reminding the S4 that they are frauds, peddling a lie, just like when they continued to act the part of virtuous prefects after getting blood on their hands.
Kuroshitsuji: Starlight Four vs Funtom Five
Shining boys in white garbs or bad boys clad in black?
Cheslock: I’ll do it to show up those punks HA!
Clayton: I’ll do it for our lawless society.
Edward: I’ll do it to save my beloved sister!
Soma: I’ll do it to help my lil’ bro, Ciel!
Joanne: Professor Michaelis, I love you and have longed to see your face again. You were the light of my life. Ask anything of me and I will do it. I would do anything for you. I WOULD DIE FOR YOU.
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