Every Ciel Needs His Lizzy

characters who are undead. characters who die in the end and so they've been dead from the start. characters who are chased by death. characters that chase death. characters who died and came back to life. characters that die again and again and again. characters who consider their past self dead. characters who were born in someone else's corpse. characters that claw their way out of the grave. characters whose deaths leave such a gaping wound that even their absence is still a presence. characters who are emissaries of death. characters who are alive but consider themselves dead. characters whose deaths are ambiguous. characters whose existences are defined by death.

Ok, I really want to talk about this scene in particular, and how the different phrases in English bring out certain nuances:

The unofficial manga translation is the most accurate, as @akumadeenglish went over in their post. While in Tango on the Campania, the line used in this scene became "I promise I'll protect you, at any cost!" Now, translations can't be 1:1 all the time, so long as they get across a similar intention from the original language they're good. But I want to emphasize the difference between "protect you at least," and "at any cost," and what they imply.

"Protect you at least," can be taken as foreshadowing, as we find out later Ciel had a brother that he lost. So the words "protect you at least," implies that now, out out everyone alive, it has to be Lizzy that survives. It makes sense, as Ciel naturally sees her apart of his family when he remembers his happy past, almost like a set (even more frequently than Madam Red surprisingly).

However, "at any cost," is far more foreboding. Because it's what Ciel told Sebastian, at any cost he wanted "more power than anyone else". That's why I assumed Sebastian laughed when he heard him. Would Ciel really do it for any cost? Even if it's at the cost of his revenge? When I first read it, I assumed it implied that Ciel would be tested by those words and genuinely got worried that Lizzy really would die to the bizarre dolls. Even now I'm still concerned what price will be paid in the future...

05.13.25. Happy Birthday Francis 🥳🥳

My relatable queen... I love Francis so much (and her complex relationship with her father, if that wasn't made clear from the art I commissioned from the wonderful & talented lacediap).

While we don't know Francis' canonical birthday, I believe she was born on May 13, 1853 - yet another significant Friday the 13th in the Phantomhives' lives, a pattern that seems to have begun with Vincent's birth on Friday June 13, 1851... Or did it?

When this panel is animated I will ascend.

If you assume a gestational period of exactly nine months, Vincent would have also been conceived on a Friday the 13th - September 13, 1850. And I crunched the numbers, pulled out the old Victorian calendar - and if Francis was born on Friday May 13, 1853, she would have been conceived on Friday August 13, 1852.

Evidently Undertaker and Grandma P really liked getting freaky on Friday the 13ths 😏

Another odd coincidence are the ages at which Claudia and Cedric died - Claudia died at the age of 36, in 1866, and I believe Cedric (Undertaker) was born on March 25th, 1331 (a significant date in a year which has the number '13' forwards and backwards) and that he died on January 28, 1366 (corresponding with his reaper serial number, 136649). This would mean he killed himself when he was 34 - the same age his son Vincent would be when murdered in 1885.

Meanwhile Claudia is confirmed to have died at the age of 36, on Friday July 13, 1866. And if Francis was born on May 13 1853, that means that in the current setting of the manga, December 1889, she is 36 years old...

Happy Birthday Girl 🥲 although this idea that Cedric/Undertaker 'cursed' the family with his involvement might be kind of nuts... After all...

Ekuoto shitpost season part ?/? Idk

They’re genuinely so funny to me

I was listening to White Night from HSR and thinking about how well it could do as op for the current arcs (everything since Boy band arc) in Black Butler

And now I can't stop thinking how if we get final season it would be so cool for last opening to be fully in English

or at least ending in English (like Fly me to the moon or Come, sweet death from NGE)

art dump - the silhouette method is amazing

u can clearly tell i got no ideas rn💔💔grell7uhjhdj

oh sonetto!?!

Wouldn't it be crazy if somehow Claudia's death counted as suicide and she became a Grim Reaper?

UT has been a deserter for decades so it's highly unlikely he knows everything that's going on in Grim Reaper HQ and even if he does cooperate with someone from there I doubt he would talk about her with just anyone. Her coming back in the last arc would cause so much chaos, there's so much potential for drama!!

All this to say THERE IS A CHANCE CLAUDIA CAN COME BACK IN MANGA TRUST ME IT MAKES SENSE

is there already an AU for this scenario? has anyone written fanfic on this?

Hello everyone ! I open commission#2 a new one is

✨Short Comic Commission (2–3 Panels)✨

commissions for short comics like the example style below.

📩 Feel free to Messages/Inbox me if you're interested or have any questions!😊💖

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also commission#1 still open too!(I will put detail commission#1 link below this blog)

3 slots open✨