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[necrowizard]

i am once again requesting coffee in bed

[darkspellmaster]

Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) Theory: We’re not dealing with Undertaker as the Main villain in this arc.

So on the forum I’m on there’s been a lot of bandying about on who is the main bad guy for the Blue Sect arc. Most are convinced it’s Undertaker, but I’m not.

See for me, from the start, this never felt like an Undertaker scheme. There is no joke at the end. Undertaker, much like the Joker from Batman, the Undertaker seems to have plans that have a sort of joke at the end. Look at the Bizarre Dolls for example.

The setup is who wins in a case of an equal number of zombies go on a ship with an equal number of humans? The delivery comes in the form of the whole ending with the fact that the humans do survive, and the punch line is pretty much that the Undertaker had a laugh again at the expense of his former reapers and Ciel and Sebastian. There’s a sick joke there, although to the readers it’s really not that funny. Same can be said for the whole situation with the school, the joke on Queen Victoria with her nephew, and the delivery with the zombies showing up for tea.

You can see how both these arcs are meant to be amusing in some twisted dark way that only someone like the Undertaker could find amusing. Yet the new Blue Cult arc doesn’t show any of those jokes. In fact its humor comes from the boy band music, and they, in turn, represent really a religious aspect that’s built into the arc. This is vastly different then Undertaker who doesn’t seem to equate anything to religion and seems, quiet happy, ignoring any sort of game that doesn’t automatically benefit him.

Now would the Blue Cult benefit him? I don’t think so, and that’s because it’s not going to help the dolls.

Let’s take a moment to look at the dolls. We know how they’re set up thanks to Undertaker:

1.      Bizarre Dolls have limited senses. Although we know the upgraded versions have the ability to act like normal humans for a small part as seen with Vice Principle.

2.      They need a soul. We have been told over and over that they need a soul over needing blood. So why then would they need to take that much blood?

3.      Under normal circumstances, save for the Atlantic Arc, there are usually not that many dolls as clearly it would take a lot of reapers to do what Undertaker did for the ship. It seemed like he probably was working overtime to create them, and clearly since Derek’s was a finer product that means that he took more care and a longer period to create him.

Now let’s look at the Blue Cult group:

1.      We know that they cater to all walks of life, but also that they split people based on blood types. (This isn’t the case with the dolls as it doesn’t seem to matter for them what their blood type is.)

2.      Music and smell seem to be a way to cause hypnosis and put people into a sleep state, causing others to rest so that their blood can be taken.

3.      We know that the blood is removed in a scientific manner that is very much similar to modern blood removal techniques.

4.      According to Othello this is stuff that normally only someone like a demon could conger up this sort of mechanism.

What’s interesting to me is that people assume that it’s Undertaker that’s causing the situation, but there’s enough hints dropped that, at least in this case, I don’t think it’s him causing the issue. For one thing we know that Undertaker likes to set things up as jokes, and there’s no joke here. There’s no punch-line period. This is quite different from Undertaker’s other games, like with Weston for example. Another interesting aspect is the use of the stars and such for their playing. Undertaker, as a Reaper, really wouldn’t see the use of this. His goals come from the dead, so the living, save for those he’s interested in, don’t really concern him as much. To add to this we’ve seen how Undertaker operates. While at Weston he let everything run normally, meaning that save for his little plans, he didn’t mess with much in the way the school was run.

On top of this, why would he need a machine to take the blood? This is someone who has supernatural powers, and we’ve seen that his scythe is powerful enough to cut into various things. We’ve also known that he already knows how to inter bodies as he did so with Madam Red. So why would he need blood removal, when he probably already has other ways of doing so that don’t require him to create machines? On top of that, we’ve already seen how he feels about said contraptions as he creates a false one for Stoker.

So, why would a guy like that set this whole Blue Sect up in the first place? I would say he wouldn’t. It doesn’t fit his MO. We know that his goal seems to be to create a perfected Bizarre doll to bring someone back to life (My money on Claudia), and how would taking all this blood be useful, since we know that the body had blood of its own, as we’ve seen with other Dolls when they’ve been attacked and they bleed. Undertaker has never said that he needed blood for them. Once their hearts start pumping and they get oxygen to their system they can move on their own.

Then the question becomes who needs this blood?

I keep going back to the image that Othello had behind him.

 While Undertaker certainly does have long finger nails as we’ve seen, they’re squared off, meaning that he rounds them rather than has them pointed. This is sort of important in regard to characteristics of hands. Nails that are rounded or squared tend to be less dangerous over all. You can certainly cut someone with them, but the main point is for them to be used for appearance. The idea of the nails being cut with a flatter edge is also to indicate that someone is not “dangerous” in a violent or “evil” manner.

 On the other hand, pointed nails are a different story. Pointed nails tend to be used for villains or “evil” types of characters. These are used to show that the person is intending to harm others with their nails.  In most cases. The sharper the nail the more likely that those nails will cut you. Harm can be brought to you with sharp nails, and normally villains with supernatural powers tend to have sharp nails.

Why am I going on about this? Well if you look previously at Sebastian’s hands, they have sharp nails when he was in demon form. When we look at the hand that is holding the gears and clock pieces, the nails are very much in the same vain as Sebastian’s.  So that leaves us the question of, is it a demon? Othello seems to hint as much and we know from Sebastian’s own implications that time has no connection to a demon. So it’s pretty easy to at least infer that we’re going to be dealing with a demon here.

But what does that mean for the Blue Sect arc as a whole? There are a few things we can deduce from the events so far in the Blue Sect arc.

To start with we have to look at what’s happening from the beginning to see exactly what the Blue Sect’s Stars and Blavat gets out of all of this.

In chapter 1 we’re given a hint of a religious feel to this location. Edward notices that the Blue Sphere music hall offers up free food, help with education, and the intermingling among all patrons. This is very much in regard to certain aspects in connection to religious cults or orders getting people to join. You see this when people talk about joining cults and are invited to meet and greet parties that are of a similar vein to the Blue Cult’s events.

We know then that Blavat and the Stars are getting a large number of people coming into the events. Not all will continue to come in, but some will become part of the cult.

Secondly, we know that the Stars are getting blood, a lot of it, and when we look at the order of the Stars and the blood that they get it seems a bit telling about their conditions, in various ways.  

Room 1, Sirius: Yes we’ve said before that there are similarities to Ciel’s room, but that doesn’t mean that it’s supposed to be his room. In all likely hood the room was designed to seem affluent, and because we’ve only seen Ciel’s room fully and Lizzy’s, we only have his to compare things too. What’s interesting about the room and the silence that comes from it is that there are jars on the side. At least one jar is a mason jar used for preservatives. The likely hood is that this Lord is suffering from a vascular disease since we saw how his veins are popping out.

Room 2 Canopus: Given the bloody bandages and the limited amount of items in the room. To me it seems this person is probably dealing with Hemophilia at the very least, at the worst it’s something to do with anemia.  

Room 3 Vega: Vega is a hard one to figure since it’s clearly a girl’s room and it appears there are twins there. We have very limited info on that other than female. This could also be a case of anemia given the fact that one could bleed a lot though their menstruation.

Room 4 Polaris: Now this one is hard. It could be that the blood is being used as a means of dealing with some form of mental disorder. Although I honestly think that the bed headboard has a name scratched into it. At least one Katakana is visible on the headboard and can be read as Ha, and the one next to it seems to be I and the last one is either Ta or Ya if you read it right to left. (So the name could probably be either Heath or Hiatt –meaning from the high gate.)

What’s also interesting is the fact that Sirius has the least amount of blood meaning that the issue with his probable vascular disease needs the most blood followed by Canopus who probably has the issues of hemophilia. While the other two have lesser version s of their condition as Polaris doesn’t seem to be using as much blood. Since the best blood is given to Sirius it’s clear that those that were receiving the rest were slowly depleting the supply, although they were killed off by being drained.

Thirdly, we also know that whoever is running this group clearly has a connection to a demon. Othello pretty much made that clear when he mentions it. It’s point blank in the text on the page that a demon would have to be the one helping with this.

So who would be the great inventor? Undertaker? Again, not his style also given his dislike of Sebastian, he, like the other reapers, don’t want to have a connection to them all that much. If you go back to the Murder mystery arc, you can see that he isn’t always happy with Sebastian and will, more than often, prefer the company of Ciel. So why would a Reaper work at all with a demon? Why would he need to? I really don’t think he would.

So that leaves the group that we see and Blavat as the connector to all of it.

So with these in mind what can we make out of the whole plan that’s been laid before us?

Chapter 112 Tells us what sort of person Lord Sirius really is: he or she is a genius of a person, a prodigy no less, but also someone who is versatile (a do anything, go anywhere sort of person) who also is two faced. Why is this important? Well this paints an interesting picture. This is a person who can con people, much like…oh Blavat. So the likely hood is that Blavat learned from Lord Sirius.

So what does a person like this do when they’re faced with something that they can’t cure? Why, go the occult route, and bring a demon into existence.

Well let’s start with the whole Plan that Blavat mentions in Chapter 124. He says that the songs explain everything, and this is pretty much true to the point that each song that the S4 sings defines the fact that the blood, or “shine” is being given to the four lords. We also know that from the start the idea was to give blood to the Lords and the pale Blue star.

Funny thing about this, Sirius is a two faced star, which should be a giveaway that the person is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Not only that but then there’s the fact that it’s not a blue star. This is kind of important. Sirius is a normal star with a dwarf star beside it (thus the two faced aspect like a Gemini). This becomes interesting when you consider that there is a pale blue star in the dog constellation. It’s not directly inside of Canis Major, but it is south of it, and it’s a giant Blue star.

So going back to the Demon and the connections here:

We know that Blavat Sky is very interested in keeping things up for the sake of the Blue Star and to help them out.

So that would mean that Blavat has a keen interest in the Blue Star as well as the Lords that run this show.

Given that Othello believes this to be the work of a demon, and we know that outside of Grell, the Reapers have been pretty honest (even Grell herself/himself), so I’m taking Othello at his word here, we can assume that a demon is behind things.

Since that is the case we can then assume that the Lords probably set up a deal with the demon, or at least one of them did.

Or Blavat made the deal with the Demon and his helping the Lords is part of it.

In either case, we can then assume that the deal with the demon was probably made at an earlier age for these people. If it was then we can assume that they are trying to prolong their lives for the express purpose of not having to finalize the deal they made.

Keep in mind that demons are loyal only due to the contract. As such said demon is probably waiting on the chance to eat the souls of these four.

On the other hand, if Blavat is the one that made the deal, then we can assume that eating the souls of the four Lords might be a part of it. Then again, maybe Blavat is trying to keep the people alive.

Whatever the case is I think the Pale Blue Star and Lord Sirius are two different people.

However, I think that the demon is probably connected between these two without at least one of them knowing it.

My guess on this, and again I’m trying to reason things out as to why there would be a second demon is pretty simple. We know quite a bit about the Reapers. Who they are, and mostly how they function (within the context of the important aspects of the trio we’ve met, and Othello’s bringing new stuff in) as a group. Who we don’t know about is the demons. We only have Sebastian and he’s, as per Will and the others, a weirdo. He’s a picky eater who seems to be unlike the others. Or so we’ve been told via his own words.

What we don’t have is the comparisons. We don’t know at all about those that he contradicts, other then what he’s told us, and for the most part he’s a bit of an unreliable narrator. So what better way to learn about the demon world then, well, by a new demon? We may have already seen her in the form of a drawing that Yana-sensei has put out recently.

If this drawing is the demon in question, then what reason would she have to stick around? Well, again, we were told that we’d get some answers here, and what if that demon was the one that was set out to kill Ciel’s father? Remember not all Contracts have to end in a soul being eaten. On top of that, we don’t know if there’s rules in regard to taking more than one contract at a time. We’ve only seen Sebastian, and again, he’s the odd one. So there is a chance that the demon may be working with someone who is still alive.

This would rule out undertaker as he’s dead and I don’t think he can just offer up his soul since he was in the Reapers. So that means it’s someone who still has a soul to give. This opens up a lot of possibilities here and probably will have ties into the Osiris Company.

My guess also is that this female demon may have been the one that convinced Elizabeth to not go back to Sebastian. If she has no idea that this woman is a demon, and given the fact that she’s been brainwashed, then she’s probably given Lizzy a song and dance routine to make her believe that Ciel is in danger from Sebastian. Either though giving her info about him being a demon, or possibly just indicating that Sebastian may have had something to do with actions that Ciel took. We also can point to the fact that way back in the Halloween picture of Lizzy and Ciel with Undertaker, Sebastian was holding up a plate with a lid up and we saw two eyes peering from the darkness.

Please also note that she has black pointed finger tips, very much like the hand we see with the gears. My guess, this demon’s going to get away for now.

This got me thinking about the strange female shadow we see hovering around Ciel in Chapter 113. A demon’s magic could easily explain the brainwashing too. We know that Lizzy is, for the most part, someone that wants to protect Ciel.

So that’s my guess:

A female demon is pretty much controlling the show right now.

She managed to brainwash Lizzy into thinking that Sebastian is evil.

Blavat is either the one contracted or he’s working for the Contractor.

This demon may have been the one that destroyed or helped to destroy the house.

I know this is all over the place, but it’s hard to put everything in order without the pictures that I would use for proof.

Note: Added the pictures. Hope they help make sense of my ramblings. 

PS: The Blue Star that’s in Canis is  UW Canis Majoris (circle marked NGC 2362) and it has an interesting line onto Sirius. It’s also a Blue Super Giant which means it’s blue and white rather then just white like Sirius. So that’s what has me wondering if this is the Blue Star (or if not this one, then a similar Blue giant or super giant) that Blavat is referencing.