#arshad Satyendra Iyer

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Happy Birthday

Agni (24th August 1858)

Black Butler

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Agni's real name is Arshad Satyendra Iyer? I'm not sure how to interpret Arshad since it's not a Hindu name. Maybe he has a mixed origin anyway he's a Brahmin. Despite being an Indian, and a Black Butler fan I didn't know until I read this chapter today! I knew what's going on in general but this is big news to me. I feel ashamed not knowing earlier. Thanks Grell my queen 👑

And they've even rightly given the caste hierarchy in India. Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, shudra 🥹 omg

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Technically, Soma and Agni already had Bitter Rabbit designs, but they were alot more simple

I'd like to think of these as the keychain-size versions, and my rabbits as the bigger 'Black Label since 1888' type :)

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Can't help but wonder what Agni, when he was Arshad, thought when Soma approached him with a knife to cut his hair.

"Is he going to chop my head off?"

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He’d celebrate his birthday soon, 24th August.

agni from black butler

[blackbutlercharacterpoll2023]

Nice to focus on something more pleasant after all that beloathing. Now just remember, this isn't the final standing for best characters. These are, instead, the characters who are

The Most Beloved awards go to characters who received the most "Love" votes total. 10th-7th place can start us off!

10th place - Elizabeth Midford / Lizzy (210 votes) 9th place - Sebastian Michaelis (241 votes) 8th place - Agni / Arshad Satyendra Iyer (245 votes) 7th place - Soma Asman Kadar (252 votes)

6th place - Mey-Rin (273 votes) 5th place - Finnian / Finny (278 votes) 4th place - Bitter Rabbit (280 votes)

3rd place - "Her" (352 votes)

2nd place - "Ciel" Phantomhive / O!Ciel (376 votes)

And this may just come as no surprise but...

1st place - Grelle Sutcliff (436 votes)

Grelle has always presented as quite the Tumblr icon, and this just proves it, as her love votes blew everyone else out of the water. Congrats, Grelle, you have a place in our hearts 😌

There is more than one way to measure votes, however, and that's the percentage of votes that were love votes. If I were calculating medals that way, the first prize would actually go to...

... the cats Sebastian rescued from the rain, with 85.04% votes in the love category!

The main reason that I mention that is because the next ceremony will be for Most Controversial character, which is measured by the ratio of Love/Like votes to Dislike/Hate. See you in an hour for more!

[chai-en-kaadhale]

Havent Read Black Butler But Brown Man Hath Funky Name And I Have A Conspiracy Theory About His Baba

i was trying to figure out the deal with his name and i came to Conclusions (@smartass-hoot pspsps)

tl;dr Agni's Father was a Tamil Iyer, probably named Satyendra; his family moved to Bengal several generations ago. His mother was Bengali and Muslim, and they had a forbidden affair kinda deal, and probably loved each other a lot. You could argue that she died and that death pushed Satyendra Iyer to become materialistic and shit and seeing that turned Agni into an asshole until Soma saved him etc etc stuff from the fandom wiki

OK SO THIS GUY

what is this guy bro

supposedly his name was Arshad Satyendra Iyer, changed to Agni

which is funky to me (i mean ig you cant expect full cultural accuracy to another culture from a foreign manga but-)

bc its a little all over the place

arshad - a muslim name

satyendra - a hindu name, sounds north indian

iyer - a hindu caste name, iyer is a tamil brahmin caste

according to the wiki, he serves a bengali prince and is a brahmin with a devout belief in Kali (which is super based i love Kali) and he's definitely hindu so the question of why he's named arshad is... a question

that we're benching for the moment

MOVING ON

supposedly he has an attack called marma adi, which is 100% tamil and sounds funny as a tamil speaker but that's besides the point and that + the iyer thing pretty much gives him away as being tamil

so why is his middle name satyendra

hear me out right

traditionally, south indians or at least tamil people put their father's name. somewhere in there; so there's a high chance his father's name was satyendra

his father was also definitely the tamil one, because agni would have his father's caste passed onto him, and the iyer caste is specially tamil

because that is a VERY north or east indian sounding name- you could even tweak it to make it satyendran and that would be passable.

I won't say that means he's mixed per se, since there are no Iyers who are also Bengali and intercaste marriage is still stigmatized to this DAY in some parts of india (🫠), but there are a lot of cases of families adopting names from the state they moved to (the case in point wrote this) so I'm assuming that's what happened

that means agni's family has lived in Bengal for at least a few generations; also, it would make more sense for prince soma to have stopped his execution if he was within his own kingdom

So Basically - Agni's father was named Satyendra, was a Tamil Iyer, and his family probably immigrated from what is now Tamil Nadu (Pandya Dynasty I would guess?) at some point

So cycling back to his name being "Arshad," his muslim side (because its highly unlikely that a hindu family would name their kid an arab name) was probably maternal; and his father must have loved her a LOT to warrant naming his child Arshad given his background (WHICH JS SO SWEET HELLO)

i mean this was probably INCREDIBLY controversial, since not only was interfaith marriage at the time stigmatized, but Agni's father was brahmin

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NOW WHY WOULD HE BE SO MATERIALISTIC TO THE POINT OF MAKING HIS SON ATHEIST

((this one's kindda a stretch its practically fanfiction))

given that the wiki says nothing about a mother, I say she died at some point, probably early enough that she couldn't say anything about Agni's actions. grieving the loss of his wife, Satyendra Iyer looked to overconsumption as a coping mechanism, and this was the side of his father that Agni saw and was thereby influenced by it

If his mother were alive he would have probably been alright chat

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Happy Birthday

Agni (24th August 1858)

Black Butler

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[thegayosborn]

Sebastian: I'm a demon. I kill people. I literally murder people. I'm literally created by sin. I am everything your morals stand against of. I could kill you if I so pleased.

Agni: So true bestie!!

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Agni - Commissioned by @velvetmeridian <3

Thank you so much bb!! I’m so glad I got another chance to draw this beautiful beby aah. It surely won’t be the last time, tho!

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aLL I EVER WANTED IS FOR SOMA AND AGNI TO STAY HAPPY LIKE THIS

ALSO SOMA PETTING CIEL AND AGNI JUST STANDING AND SMILING AT THEM IS THE MOST PRECIOUS THING EVER

WHY YANA WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO THEM 😭😭😭

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Agni / Arshad Satyendra Iyer

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Who is crazy enough to make a plush of their newest fictional boyfriend?? Why me, of course!!! I present to you all a huggable version of Agni from Kuroshitsuji/ Black Butler.

I am thinking about making a second one to sell in my etsy shop if there is any Interest in him at all.

In any case, Agni, you are safe now. No one can harm you now! 😘

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Turning Pages - Sleeping At Last

My bones remember you.