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Okay so basically,

It’s revealed that Ciel had a twin, I’m not sure if you got to the backstory of those two, so I’ll just explain it again anyways.

R!Ciel = Real Ciel

O!Ciel= Our Ciel

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It’s O!Ciel, and R!Ciel’s birthday, and they notice somethings off, the mansion is awfully quiet and R!Ciel goes to check it out. After a couple minutes O!Ciel goes to check and see if everything okay. Spoiler alert, everything is not okay. A bunch of people broke into the house, killed all the servants, killed their parents, and decided to kidnap the two twins to sell them off. They get selled off, and at first they get treated decently, until the guy who bought them off brings them to a weird place. These people sought to “unpurify” the two kids to try to summon a demon. Now it never outrightly says it, but it’s HEAVILY implied that the two twins were brutally SA’d and kept in cages at the time by this weird cult thing.

Anyways, the time comes to kill the two twins to finally summon the demon, the person who gets selected first is R!Ciel, leading O!Ciel to watch his brother die. This summons Sebastian, and O!Ciel makes a deal with him instead of the adults who wanted to make a deal with him. O!Ciel decides that since his brother is dead (his brother was the heir, not him btw), he’s gonna to impersonate him and take his place as heir of the manor. He does this and yada yada, this leads us up to the big Reveal of O!Ciel’s twin.

Edit: He impersonates R!Ciel because of resources and shit, his ultimate goal is to extracte revenge on the OG people who broke into the manor.

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R!Ciel exposes him for being an imposter after being kept alive by undertaker (now personally, I didn’t pay much attention here so my explanation may be a bit botched) and it’s revealed that R!Ciel is being kept alive by other peoples blood, tbh I forgot abt the pervious arc, but not only does O!Ciel get revealed for being an imposter, he gets framed for starting a cult that he didn’t start.

Lizzy has a mental breakdown on how she didn’t even realize that O!Ciel wasn’t R!Ciel (who she was originally engaged to, NOT O!Ciel) because she always thought she “loved him”

Ceil and Sebastian get arrested, along with the blue haired bitch (I forgot his name) and halfway through the carriage ride, the people driving the carriage get attacked. It turns out the servants didn’t want to stay in the manor where R!Ciel is, because O!Ciel is the one they were loyal to in the first place.

They run away, and go to hide at “Lark photogenic Store” Now if I rember correctly, the guy who works there is considered like, “a friend” of the phantomhive’s, so he helps them escape to the sewers. Barely missing the group of police (or guards idfk) looking for O!Ciel.

There they meet Lau. I’m not exactly sure where their located next, but it’s some place where Lau is. Everyone’s eating now, and Ciel is pissed.

Meanwhile Soma is in his “Villian” arc, and it’s also pissed as hell.

Ciel and co. work up a plan to interfere with the source that’s going providing R!Ciel with blood. First we see Ran Mau, and Mey Rin posing as sister to infiltrate one of the places. Now there’s this whole subplot about one of the maids catching onto who Mey Rin and Mau are, but it’s to long for me to explain. Basically they fight at the end though. Turns out the guy running the thing is sleeping with maids, and afterwords like, taking their blood or some shit like that. Mey Rin and Mau were badass as hell though.

Also in that arc we get Mey Rin’s backstory. It’s chapters 156-165.

Okay, so enter in Bard and Lau infiltrate some other place. It’s a hospital, and they’re posing at patients. They figure out like, the source of the blood here, and Lau and Bard disagree with how they should go about it.

Bard confronts the person behind it, and woahh, flashbacks, we get Bard’s backstory. Now there was some controversy about his backstory, because Yana decided to put in some elements of American History in the chapter. Some say it’s realistic, others say it’s insensitive.

Chapters 175-184 is where you can read it.

So we’ve just now got out of Bards backstory (finally), and the recent chapter is Bard letting the person behind it go, and trying to resolve it in a different manner than Lau had in mind. Recent chapter ends with Lau expressing his disappointment in Bard.

…And that’s where Black Butler is at now! Tbh it seems like it’s still gonna be a while till the end of it.

On the topic of old fandoms I used to be in/dabble in what happened in Black Butler, what’s happening? Last thing I knew Ciel had a twin?