#i don't think she's a vengeful person! she wouldn't want all the blacks dead at all even after b&c

[dreamedfyre-a]

i'm thinking so much about hel and her children today for some reason. how she was way too young to be a mother and quite frankly relied entirely on the servants and ladies and her mother at first, and how she would have struggled with not knowing how to be a mother when she wasn't even an adult, and how her sensory sensitivities (especially when it comes to sound and touch) would make it harder to deal with her children, and how easily overwhelmed she would be

but also how she loves and cares for them and keeps them close most of the time. she's with them so often even though strictly speaking she didn't have to be. but she loves them and she wants them close, whether they're playing indoors or she's taking them to dreamfyre (rip to anyone who tried to say 'but it's dangerous' she trusts dreamfyre with her life and with her children's lives too)

when her little prince is born, it's a lot easier. she's older (young, still, but even so) and she has experience, it's also one (1) baby instead of two. she's a little less terrified overall. he's the one she spends the most time with since he was very little

[lentendays]

Kuroshitsuji 209 Theory

Snake will be a bizarre doll.

Let me explain. I don't think Snake's role is over. Yana hasn't really been in the habit of fridging characters without payoff, and Snake's arc hasn't paid off yet.

When Snake reappeared at the end of the Murder Mystery arc, we established two things:

1) Snake wanted to kill "Smile" for doing something to his family, the circus troupe

2) Ciel employed Snake under the lie that they were going to find his family

These two things immediately foreshadow future conflict, where Snake will inevitably find out the Phantomhive household massacred the Noah's Ark circus. At the start of his employment, he wouldn't have hesitated to try to kill them for it. But we get to know Snake more - he's kind, insecure and shy, willing to give a job his all, and responds most to kindness from others. He gets treated well by Ciel and the servants; told that his looks don't matter, given an education and housing, and has saved Ciel on more than one occasion. We don't know who he would choose once the truth comes out, and that presents great conflict. With Doll showing up, we knew this reveal was going to come.

And it did, and it broke Snake, then he died saving a boy from Doll. But that doesn't seem to be the end.

The major deaths we've seen in Black Butler have all happened for a reason to drive the plot forward; Madame Red was discovered to be Jack the Ripper and her death served to introduce Grell and shinigami. Her story was over. Agni died at peace, protecting Soma, who has now turned into a vengeful possibly inhuman force. His story had little arc beyond protecting Soma and suspecting Sebastian, and it heartbreakingly concluded well. We are still picking at the mystery behind the Phantomhive parents' deaths.

Snake's death offered no new information and did not conclude his arc. He was still in denial and wondering what was happening in his last moments. If Yana wanted to kill off a major character for shock value, Bardroy could have died in the previous arc. We had his backstory and there was nothing new to share. But he didn't die.

For Snake - who has a lot more story to tell - to die for a child we just met, having been unable to process his love for the circus and the Phantomhives and what he's just learned about both or take any action, feels too abrupt for what's been set up. He *is* dead; the shinigami's presence and his reel proves that. But will he stay that way?

We still don't know how the bizarre dolls are made, only that they require a constant supply of blood. Snake's corpse is now in Doll's hands, and we know she definitely is a bizarre doll. We never got to see her actual death onscreen but it's extremely unlikely that Sebastian would miss a kill shot.

Hence: Snake will come back as a bizarre doll.

We do know that Bizarre dolls retain the memory and probably personalities of who they were before they died. Doll remembered everything and while she's more violent than she was in the past, that can be explained by the trauma she went through and her desire for vengeance. Same for R!Ciel and whatever he has planned.

Yes, there was a shinigami for Snake, but notice that this isn't anyone we've seen before. Why introduce a new shinigami when there are so many established ones?

One potential reason: because everyone we know is already investigating the Undertaker.

In the Campania arc, we know the prototype bizarre dolls were created by editing the reels. We don't know if this is still the case, but if it IS, and the Undertaker needed Snake's - it would be easier to get from a shinigami we don't know. We don't know their loyalties, or how strong they are, whether they've heard of the Undertaker situation. And if it comes down to it, we don't like them enough yet to feel any way if Undertaker ends up offing them for the reels he needs.

So it's not impossible that Snake comes back as a bizarre doll. And that would put his loyalties further into question. Does he side with R!Ciel and his friend Doll and the memory of his troupe, who were kidnapping and killing children for bone prosthetics - in addition to the fact that they would be the only faction capable of keeping him "alive" as a bizarre doll? Or does he help O!Ciel, who lies aside has treated him kindly and given him peace and an education, at what would be Snake's own "second life" as cost?

This would be a far more interesting story than him dying confused with little resolution.

Narratively, in a meta sense, there are a couple reasons this makes sense. We already have Soma vying for revenge; there doesn't need to be another similar story. We saw that it was possible for Lau to go back for Bard in the previous arc, despite having little reason to and not really knowing Bard in the first place. So why was Finny, who's always been shown as ride-or-die, the heart of the servants, who clearly cares about his colleagues and Snake, not allowed to do the same for Snake (in a narrative sense)? Because he needed to leave Snake behind to let a different story start.

Anyway that's my theory. Thoughts?

[evxnesco]

All the great love stories were full of it, and whenever you got to that part of any book you would always think that it was just a small obstacle before people could be happy.

barely started and we're already breaking the fourth wall

“With some additions,” you said before writing down the names of the flowers you wanted, then sprinkled sand on it.

please tell him to fuck off in flower language, please

Judging by how tormented Viscount Bridgerton looks, one can only assume he hopes the same but he must keep in mind, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

i'm waiting for vengeful cherie, give me anger, give me hatred, make his life a living hell!!

“Well,” you murmured, “Black dahlias symbolize betrayal, you see. Yellow carnations are for rejection and disappointment, foxglove for insincerity, abatinas for fickleness and geraniums for foolishness.”

said and done, she's a queen, you're and idiot and a liar and your short temper will be the death of you, we expected better but it comes with no surprised that we ended up disappointed so fuck off with your half-assed apology, or at least that's my very loose translation

Right above the monogram of his name, now it read “To the most irreformable rake in Britain” in your own handwriting, stitched in black.

i love this, yes make fun of him!!! drag his pride into the ground!!

“You’ve done your part, and that’s finished. I would’ve still been friends with Cecily even if you two separated, it shouldn’t be any different for you and Viscount Bridgerton.”

look at her being the bigger person!!! he does not deserve it, but i'm so proud

“Furious, even. You, Cece, the whole ton, even Lady Whistledown with that hell hath no fury comment but I’m not angry, I’m just sad.”

okay no excuse me, i will be offended if we don't get a destroyer level moment, like the one that happened with miriam, with anthony, i will not rest!!! this will bother me for the rest of my days, i will be tossing and turning on my grave!!!

“I will not say anything to anyone good or bad, mother taught me that much. All you need to know is that you cannot let whatever happened between me and him affect the friendship you have with him. I’m not looking for revenge and you’re not allowed to get it for me.”

i'm proud that she's being the bigger person, i really and truly am, but i live for the drama!! i need the fighting, the anger, the rivalry!! it fuels me, it makes me feel alive, i need it!!

“Even better, I will deliver them myself,” he said and grabbed the bouquet, careful with the handkerchief inside it.

i need this scene in details

You padded your way into the kitchen but as soon as you entered, you stopped dead in your tracks upon seeing the Duke filling himself a glass of water.

this is the second time, i wonder if he's there every night, just lurking in the kitchen at 3am waiting for one of his children to walk in so he can give them advice

“Press it over your eyes, it will help with the swollenness.”

the endless possibilities of why he would know this...

“Your aunt Lavinia, my sister. She killed a man for her love.”

such a lighthearted topic to be thrown in conversation wouldn't you agree??

“You move on, he does not,” he muttered. “Trust me, Y/N. Anthony Bridgerton has shackled himself with his own hands two weeks ago and threw the key at you, and you’re holding it way out of his reach now.”

wow i wonder who's he talking about, it's almost as if it's from experience, what a mystery i have no ideia

i love how he drew that parallel between him and anthony, like he sympathizes with him, maybe sympathize is not the right word, understand him i guess, like i didn't expect him to give this little olive branch to anthony

“They look beautiful,” you said, taking a look at the card in it and ran a hand over your face but before you could even say anything else, the butler announced Lady Danbury’s name, making your head shoot up.

okay wait, shit is gonna get serious

“I don’t think love is for me.”

i find it really interesting the different perspective between the pain from heartbreak, and the pain from grief. and idk, but like, i don't think that when her mother died, she wished she hadn't loved her, or gave up loving or caring altogether. so i find it really interesting that romantic love has this condition, because, and maybe i'm just going off because i'm sleep deprived, i don't think i would exchange experiencing love, in any form, so that i could not feel the pain it's capable of inflicting, you know?

“My dear child,” she murmured. “It is for you, that’s why it hurts you so much.”

lady danbury making my point in 3 words or less

“His gifts are neither wanted nor needed, and quite frankly they’re a waste of my time just like he is. I think it will be better if he and I don’t acknowledge each other’s presence from now on.”

there we go!!! i knew she would deliver!!!!

Then you threw the box into the fireplace.

NO WAIT NO WHEN I SAID TO BURN HIS LETTERS I DIDN'T MEAN THIS!! THEY DIDN'T HOLD ANY EMOTIONAL VALUE!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING????

you know that scene from brave when merida's mom throws her bow into the fireplace? yeah, i feel the exact same way that i felt watching that scene. anger makes people dumb. this is an example of it. you will regret this cherie!!! i understand the statement you were trying to make, but that was a very questionable way to go about it.

“Goodbye Anthony,” you murmured, blinking back the tears. “May you burn in the very same hell you’ve put me through and stay shackled there. Forever.”

oh my gosh, okay so we're not getting vengeful cherie, we're getting detached cherie, and i don't know how i feel about this...

Enamored [22] - Flames

A.N: Thank you so much for your amazing feedback my loves, you’re amazing!❤ I hope you’ll like this chapter as well, and please let me know what you think, thank you! ❤ And as always, thank you @theskytraveler​ for helping me with the chapter and the story!❤

Summary: Love is rich with both honey and venom.

Warnings: Regency era society and social rules, angst

Word Count: 6000

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You had read about heartbreak.

Everyone read about heartbreak. All the great love stories were full of it, and whenever you got to that part of any book you would always think that it was just a small obstacle before people could be happy.

You had thought it was a small price to pay for love, but this?

Nothing could ever prepare you for this.

You had spent the first week locked in your room, in your bed. You had cried so much that you were quite certain there were no more tears left in you only to wake up from your sleep sobbing until you couldn’t breathe. Even your dreams were full of him, which made your heart grow heavier and heavier, especially after—

After he had ripped your heart out.

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