I’d have assumed he’s in his late 60s or early 70s, if it hadn’t been for the short story “With father!”.
The thing is that Vincent calls Tanaka “Jiiya“ (Engl: ‘old man’) which is the way small children of a noble family affectionately call their old male servant and Tanaka calls Vincent “Bocchan” which is the way servants affectionately call the young (small) son of their master. So… say Tanaka was in his 50s when Vincent was a child, this would mean that he’s in his 80s now.
80s.
80s…!!???? Σ(ﾟДﾟ)
Bonus info:
The order in which the servants joined the Phantomhives is
Hey, ahhh yes, I think I see what you’re talking about, thank you! 😉
Let’s see… Since we’re supposed to be getting more info on them later in the story (according to Yana) I don’t have a lot of things in mind… Here you have some for Tanaka though.
Both Finny and Bard got a small crush on Mey Rin when they met her, however since Mey Rin really finds Sebastian to be the most handsome and her loyalty goes to Ciel, they both soon realized it would never work out.
Both Finny and Bard entered Mey Rin’s room by mistake at least once as she was changing clothes, and they both almost died and got deaf.
When it comes to using rifles, Mey Rin is better than Bard. However Bard is more experienced when it comes to using
bigger fire weapons.
Finny once tried to make tea for everyone (including Ciel) by using herbs from the Garden. Obviously Sebastian punched him on the head as punishment but he also was thoroughly lectured on tea in general by Tanaka afterwards.
Bard still gets nightmares about battles he fought and comrades he lost from time to time. When it unintentionally wakes up Finny too, Finny makes sure to talk to him until he can get the nightmares out of his head before going back to sleep.
At first Bard snoring was really bothering Finny’s sleep (since they’re in the same room), so that’s why he generally drinks up an infusion made by Tanaka just before going to bed.
Since Mey Rin is Chinese, English was difficult for her at first, so Tanaka is the one who took time teaching her English, since himself had trouble with the language when he first arrived in England years ago.
Sometimes when Lau shows up (with Ran Mao) at the manor, he intentionally starts speaking Chinese with Mey Rin if he sees her, which annoys Bard greatly because he can’t understand a single word of it.
Just to get a revenge on Lau for Bard’s sake, one day when Lau showed up, Finny started speaking to him in German, but too bad for him, Lau speaks German too. xD
Hmmm, for a weird reason, Kuroshitsuji is the series I headcanon the most about, probably because the pace is slower than SnK and TG, and besides we constantly see the AruEreMika trio in the story, so I don’t have a lot of them (I use headcanons whenever I miss the characters, which is easier to do with Kuro as it focuses 80% of the time on just Seb and Ciel), but still, here you go 😉
Mikasa used to have terrible nightmares after the death of her parents for the first few months, and even if Eren wasn’t always the best at expressing comfort, there would be a lot of nights when he’d simply hold her hand as she cried.
The first time Armin met Mikasa, he was really excited to notice she was an Asian and, though his interest surprised her, it took some time for Mikasa to warm up to him at first. However, since he was always kind and understanding, in the end she came to trust him rather quickly.
During the two years between the fall of Wall Maria and our trio joining the Military, they were more or less living in the streets with other refugees and getting food could be hard, but they would always sleep next to each other every night to keep warm.
Back during training days, Armin really sucked at anything physical, including running long distances and fighting against guys like Reiner, so one day, because he was threatened to be expulsed, Mikasa started helping him so he would develop a better stamina. They didn’t tell Eren at first, but he soon found out and trained with them.
After Mikasa was injured during the fight against Reiner and Bertholdt (ending at ch50), Eren and Armin both stayed the whole time at her side until they joined the new Levi’s squad and left for that little house out of town.
Long ago Armin asked Mikasa to teach him a little bit of Japanese, seeing as her mother would sometimes speak to her in her native language, and Mikasa thinks he’s doing okay (during training days Sasha asked too but Mikasa thinks her accent is beyond terrible xD). Eren knows only the lyrics of one small song Mikasa would sing from time to time, when she and Carla were cooking.
Hi anon, thanks for the message! I always love it when people want to talk about Snake with me. =)
That’s a scenario that I’ve been worrying about since Snake joined Ciel’s staff. At first, I was thinking that he was bound to find out soon, and that it would definitely end in tragedy. He was hell-bent on revenge when he arrived at the manor, and I was sure that if he found out the truth about what happened to his circus family he would get right back on that track. Since there’s no way he can keep up with Sebastian in a fight, I think we all know how that would end.
Since it’s been such a long time though, I’m starting to reconsider my position on this. Snake’s attachment to Ciel was born from a pretty strong emotional time in his life, and I don’t think it’s a good attachment at all, but it is still there. It’s sort of the same as his attachment to his circus family, he loved them because they saved him and overlooked the fact that they were lying to him. He’s so loyal to Ciel now that I’m not sure if he would be able to reconcile wanting to avenge his circus people and wanting to help Ciel, you know?
The other thing is that he’s actually for the first time in his life got genuine friends now! He gets along very well with Finny and Bard (and I’m certain Mey-Rin as well, although we haven’t seen that). That’s just, like, SO IMPORTANT, you guys.
Not that I’m saying that the circus troupe didn’t like Snake, they obviously cared about him, but it’s important that he’s got friends now who can relate to him on equal footing. The other servants are not holding anything over his head, they probably don’t even know that the circus troupe they killed were Snake’s friends. Ciel’s lying to them all.
The really roundabout conclusion to this post is that as this point I think Snake has integrated into the Phantomhive staff well enough that I don’t think we need to worry about his past coming back to haunt them. Yana Toboso made a blog post a while back about how the “Idiot Trio” is slowly becoming an “Idiot Quartet” as Snake becomes more involved with the other three. (Not that I think any of them are idiots, really, but you get the idea.) They’re a unit now and probably won’t be separated so easily.
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