#idk which is more Ciel 🤔

[seb-ussy]

I want Ciel to harass minimum wage worker Sebastian. I want him to tip Sebastian, but bully him first. Sebastian can't stand the little brat, but appreciates the fact that he gives him money for his trouble

[abybweisse]

Why I think Undertaker has to be Cedric, revisited

At this point in the series, I'm a bit surprised how many in the fandom not just don't see him as Cedric K. Ros-- but actually rail against the idea.

So, here's a long, somewhat thorough overview of the situational and physical clues that he's Cedric, the father of Vincent and Francis/Frances.

Situational hints

How he cries over the details of Vincent's death. Not just that he died but what became of his remains. I'd cry over my dead son, too, especially if I had the ability to reanimate corpses but his body was destroyed by fire so that I couldn't do that. Let alone the fact his cinematic records were destroyed, so I not only couldn't make a bizarre doll of him, but I couldn't even review his memories to see what happened right before he died. This ties in with what he later says about not wanting to lose any more Phantomhives. But it strongly suggests that whoever set the fire did so specifically to thwart the efforts of a grim reaper. Whoever did that either knew Undertaker was a reaper or was at least following the instructions of someone who knew.

The whole not wanting to lose more Phantomhives thing. Claudia/Cloudia is gone, and so is Vincent. Reanimating real Ciel is the best he can do to not let the older twin go. He tried to destroy Sebastian to release our earl "Ciel" from their demon contract and might try again. Makes you wonder just how many Phantomhives he's really lost already. As well as where others might still be alive. What exactly was his business in France? 🤔

Even his odd comment to our earl (before the attack) that he wasn't sure which twin this was... but that it didn't matter because they were both Phantomhives. Instead of seeing an heir and a spare, he saw them equally. At least he did then. I suspect he now sees our earl as a spare soul... or conversely sees real Ciel as a spare body. I guess both could be true, making them still essentially equal in his eyes. Again, this could be another attempt to save our earl from Sebastian. By putting our earl's soul into the unmarked body of real Ciel, that might void the contract... unless the seal on our earl's eye also somehow affected his soul. 🤔 Anyway. I digress, since that gets into a separate theory discussion.

Standing in to help young Mr. Pitt take a photo of the twins. That's right after telling our earl it doesn't matter which twin he is. Then the other twin and Mr. Pitt arrive, the latter holding a new camera. It's odd that Mr. Pitt would ask a non-relative of the kids (besides a nanny) to help stage the photo, though Pitt is perhaps the non-traditionalist anyway. Undertaker seems like he's shocked to be asked, but he also seems amused. Mr. Pitt likely doesn't even suspect Undertaker is the twins' paternal grandfather, otherwise he might have seen it as a scoop, á la "LOWLY UNDERTAKER IS SIRE TO PROMINENT NOBLE FAMILY" or something equally scandalous. Because undertakers were considered low class citizens. So, Undertaker acts shocked but complies with giddy delight. By asking Undertaker to help stage the photo, he has likely, unwittingly asked a relative of the boys, which would be considered completely appropriate for the time period.

How he treats the Midfords. He recognizes Lizzie's talents and skill with a sword, otherwise he wouldn't have wanted her at Sphere Music Hall as a protector of the lords of the stars, while he kept them and Blavat hidden away. So he probably had Blavat bring her into the cult. Undertaker might see some of himself in Lizzie, but he definitely sees it in Frances/Francis, and I don't just mean physically. Both women fight in a similar manner as he does: highly skillful and graceful. Idk what he thinks of Edward, but I know he got a great laugh from watching the Phantom Five (including Edward) perform onstage. He doesn't interact much, if at all, with Alexis, who isn't a Phantomhive.

What he says to Francis/Frances, as well as how she responds. Again, he hardly acknowledges Alexis' existence, but Undertaker speaks directly with "Lady Phantomhive". That's really important because she's married into the Midford family and hasn't gone by her maiden name in many years. As long as Edward is old plus at least a bit longer, since she strikes me as too proper for a shotgun wedding, even if she weren't a noble. So, he sets her apart from her husband because she was born a Phantomhive. He doesn't want to lose her, either, because she is her mother's daughter. Then, when she nervously states he hasn't changed in roughly four years, he pokes fun at the fact he hasn't changed in a much longer time frame. He says her birth, over 30 years ago, seems like just yesterday. She's sweating bullets, and it's not just his creepy vibes. She knows he means it -- that 30-some-odd years is nothing to him... and that he very specifically recalls her birth. I'm pretty sure she knows he's her father, and she's horribly embarrassed by the fact. Alexis doesn't have a clue about it, and she'd rather keep it that way. But what he says strongly implies that he was present at her birth. Maybe down the hall, like Vincent was when his sons were born, but there... and just as anxious and excited and proud.

How the years for Cedric's birth and death dates are hidden by a speech bubble. Cloudia/Claudia's dates are fully shown because she's a regular human being. Well... a human, anyway. But if Undertaker is Cedric, then the birth and death dates for him would be from when he was a human, before he committed suicide and was sentenced to serve out his punishment as a reaper. That death date could be decades or even centuries before Cloudia/Claudia was even born. Remember that this family tree isn't one prepared by humans; it's part of the dossier that the German reapers have for our earl. The focus is purely biological ancestry, not marriages. Cloudia/Claudia and Cedric don't have to be married to be on this family tree; he is biologically the father of both Vincent and Francis/Frances.

Physical hints

He looks a lot like Francis/Frances and Edward. And Yana-san tweeted years ago that Francis and Edward look like Cedric. Here's a comparison between Edward and Undertaker. Here's one between Francis/Frances and Undertaker.

The place on his right where his hair has a long braid seems to match up with Lizzie's and Francis/Frances' right side locks that tend to stick out. He's got it tucked behind his right ear, but the braid might originate from the same spot. If Lizzie and her mother pushed those locks back, behind their right ears, the placement would be the same as Undertaker's braid.

He has the exact same baby hairs at the nape of his neck as Lizzie and Francis/Frances. They might be a bit shorter, but they are definitely there. Here's an old post about it. Edward possibly does, too, and we could tell if his hair was grown out and pulled up, but his hair is short and a bit shaggy on the nape of his neck, so we can't be sure.

[maaaxx]

first day back for my spring semester and heres a summary because i feel like it < 3

I was ten minutes late to my class. Luckily this professor is really wonderful and one of the best teacher/professor things ive ever met and was just like "oh *max* i'm so glad your here : )"

I sat down and my fucking backpack wouldn't work so i couldnt get my stuff out of it without being extremely loud

While Im in the process of banging my backpack on my desk tearing it at the seams etc my wonderful prof decided this would be the perfect time to ask me to introduce myself

My prof proceeds to tell us a story about how she or someone she worked with (i cant remember which one it was) had a client that got their dick stuck in a ceiling fan.

How does one get their dick stuck in a cieling fan? Idk. She didnt either

This class was like three hours long and so naturally I was half asleep the entire time

She decides to call on me while im half asleep

It scared the shit out of me

We took a break halfway through the class and i got hot chocolate and popcorn and it was really nice but im weird about eating/drinking in front of people so after i had to go back to class i was just clutching these two items awkwardly until we left.

At the end of the class we circled back to the 'what are you passionate about' question and this girl in my class goes on about how she was late diagnosed with autism and how she really wants to work on making those resources more available to afab people and how she wants to advocate for more research and better education on how different disorders effect men vs women and how to spot it in women because if you didnt know its a whole thing in the asd community about girls being severely underdiagnosed and its a really big problem and yeah the more you know

The entire time shes going on about this im like staring at her like 🙂. Like look here girly ME TOO I LIVED THIUS SHIT TOO

And so after class I found her and she asked for my phone number and everything and it was so wonderful and i think i made my first friends since physically being at college

I think I've mentioned this other dude on here before but pretty much this guy I met when I was like 8 or 9 and we were really good friends throughout elementary school but kind of grew apart in middle school and he went to an alternative school in highschool and hes always been so kind and i missed him a lot and here he goes to my school and so ive been reunited with him

Like I said this dude knew me since I was like 8 and it was always such a weird relationship because we knew eachother so well and he was the first person ive ever felt like wasnt constantly judging me and that i could just like relax around if that makes sense and i've always really cherished our friendship and im really happy im friends with him again

turns out hes fucking autistic too

within the last year ive found out that out of the four close friends ive had in my life three are austic

and the fourth is a girl diagnosed with bipolar/ocd/mdd/gad so you know how that goes.

So i thought thats funny

but i was talking to my friend and he accused me of having a fucking HICKEY

Like I said this dude knows me really well

he knows i have no bitches

like BRO

i have hives on my neck right now idk what theyre from im taking meds

Idk why i numbered this these numbers are for nothing but dramatic affect

He's queer in some way and he came out to me by asking me 'hey *max* when we were kids did you ever think i was gay 🤔

And i was like yeah *f* i did.

But then he was telling me about this blow job one of his boyfriends gave him one time and it was so weird because this was the same kid that i dated when i was like 10 and that used to spend the entire recess time telling me about rocks and fossils and that i used to play tag with and shit

I couldnt invision this man getting a blow job

F if you somehow found me on tumblr and your reading this like 'hey wait a minute' no your not. its a different person i swear its just a coincidence. < 3

[marmolita]

tagged by @getintherobot !

nickname: lita

star sign: virgo

height: 5'4"

time: it's 11:02pm and I'm getting ready for bed

birthday: in sept

favorite bands: ultimate favorite is L'Arc~en~Ciel! lately I have been listening to a lot of 00s and early 10s...I guess emo? maybe? uncertain. also discovered finnish band Happoradio and thoroughly enjoy them. also s/o to Queen.

favorite solo artists: 🤔🤔🤔 based on number of songs in my music library the answer is Carrie Underwood and Gackt

favorite scores: 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Kundun

favorite foods: pretty much any dessert ever made, fresh bread, and a giant pile of other things bc I love a lot of food

favorite colors: anything that's not drab tbh, but maybe I kind of prefer jewel tones

last thing I googled: joe thornton dick trick interview

last show I watched: currently rewatching Hannibal with @freosan who hasn't seen it before! last new-to-me show I've been watching is buzzfeed unsolved (unless you count sitting in the same room while my kids watched the cuphead show tonight or rapunzel's tangled adventure recently)

last movie I watched: uhhhh...my kids watched the Lego movie last weekend. The last new movie I watched though was Encanto!

lucky number: 7

when did I create this blog: 2012

do I have any other blogs: a bunch of side blogs that I don't use anymore (several for ffxv fandom events, one for ao3-style summaries of farscape episodes, one that's an autofeed of ao3 fic about netflix Marco Polo, maybe at some point I had a softer world remix blog for some topic or other) and @garden-and-friends for pics of plants and bugs and animals in my yard, currently hibernating for the winter

do I get asks? occasionally! not as often as I used to back when 1) I was writing more and 2) more of fandom was on tumblr.

why did I choose my url: when I got back into fandom in 2012 after a ten year hiatus I needed to choose a new handle, so I jammed together references to two books I had recently read and enjoyed (I, Claudius, which provided "marmoset" which is where the "marmo" is from, and Lolita, which obvs provided the "lita," though please don't make wild anti-style assumptions here, if you do that just tells me you've never actually read the book)

blogs you follow: 292

dream trip: too many! I want to go to so many places, so idk if I'd call any a dream trip. the one that I suppose is a dream trip in the sense that it would be awesome but I don't have any plan to ever do it is Mongolia

instruments: violin and piano, though I have a recorder I can play too, and I can do viola in a pinch

average hours of sleep: idk 7?

how many blankets do you sleep with: at the moment I have two fleece, one minky, and one down duvet on my bed, but when it's not freezing out anymore that will change

tagging whoever wants to do it! I'm too lazy to pick people I'm sorry, it is now 11:26 and I'm actually in bed haha

[abybweisse]

Ch196 (p4), The child-whisperer

Apparently, this took more effort on Theo's part than it at first seems. But it's still weird to see how the staff apologizes for "causing a Pomeranian such trouble".

Finny realizes (finally?) that Theo's holding a copy of the Fenian Cycle.

Theo has a way with the younger kids, like Nick, Ginny, and a picky eater named Milly... and the staff has taken notice of it. Theo starts talking a lot like real Ciel here, treating these younger kids as if they are his own siblings, and he has to be the "big brother". Ronnie must be the kid who was sent to real Ciel and Undertaker; apparently, they call this "fledging".

Fledging is a slightly odd term to use here, since it's a reference to a bird's feather and flight muscle development. It would work best here if all the classes were named after birds... instead of dog breeds. But oh well.

He's the oldest now, meaning he should be next to fledge, which I started to suspect when we got spoilers yesterday.

Then he finally notices Snake and Finny.

Doll calling them "friends" makes Theo's eye twitch. Why? What does he think about people associated with Doll? Has he seen quite enough already of people she calls friends? 🤔

A loud bell calls Theo away to his next class, but as he walks past Finny, he says something quite vexing....

"You speak with a beautiful upper-class accent."

Finny is finally starting to realize just how reminiscent of our earl this kid Theo really is. Same clothing style, same reading material, same sort of personality.

And what a loaded compliment! Is he saying he knows Finny and Snake are infiltrating this orphanage based on the way Finny talks? Idk. He definitely has feelings regarding people that Doll calls "friends", and it generally isn't warm fuzzies.

He's very observant and I'm hoping he becomes useful to Finny and Snake. Maybe he has some information about Doll or the Aurora Society members associated with the orphanage. Perhaps Finny and Snake can end up helping him, too....

But the first thing I hope Finny learns from meeting Theo (and Nick) is that all the Pomeranians remind him in some way of our earl and real Ciel. Idk if he will be able to pair up the classes to their corresponding blood types, but I hope he realizes that wherever Pomeranians go when they "fledge" probably has something to do with the blood supply for real Ciel.