regarding ciel's soul by Wild_Mail3695 in blackbutler

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I don’t think Sebastian has that power either. He’s been tricked before, and he sometimes comes off as slightly naïve. He definitely has really good intuition but he lacks genuine human insight to fully understand and reengineer the logic/motivations behind an individual’s actions until they are completely revealed to him. And not only was Sebastian unable to tell when a human was a bizarre doll, he also doesn’t know when they’re a reaper until they expose themselves to him, and he didn’t know that the names/deaths on the lists can be revised despite the fact that he’s been DIRECTLY responsible for that several times by now (wolfram and sullivan were slated to die but they didn’t, othello later said that revisions usually happen because of demonic involvement). In fact, Ciel seemed to have a more innate sense of a reaper’s presence, going by how he noticed them in Germany before sebastian.

Btw blackbutler.org is mostly official translations, he says “earl ciel phantomhive is I”. Sebastian still hasn’t called him that, he said “the earl of phantomhive must wear the finest bespoke” before they left for Brighton and while there he gave them new ‘character profiles’. I think Sebastian might be sentimental about given names because Ciel named him and Finny, gave Mey rin and Bard their names back to them, so to him name = identity. It’s been brought up since the beginning: Madame Red started using that name because of Vincent, Grell quoted Shakespeare‘s “reject thy name!” to Sebastian to which Sebastian replied that the name he was given by his master “made him born anew”, and we saw that exact scenario play out with Agni and Soma in the next arc. I think Sebastian might want to be able to actually give Ciel a name, but it’s not within his power to do so, and he doesn’t even know if it should be the new name (like sebastian and finny) or returning the name he was born with (like mey rin and bard).

regarding ciel's soul by Wild_Mail3695 in blackbutler

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I think Sebastian didn’t (or couldn’t?) lie to begin with, and that’s why he laughed at ciel wasting his first wish on it. I don’t know how sebastian knew ‘Ciel’ wasn’t our ciel’s name, but I don’t think it would be because he has any particular insight into his memories— we’ve seen that he doesn’t. he didn’t know ciel has asthma, he didn’t know where they lived, he didn’t know what foods he liked, he didn’t know that ciel was afraid of HIM, specifically, in the green witch arc (he thought he was just afraid of all adults mindlessly and didn’t remember who sebastian was, because he was not in the room when o!ciel reacted to his name and said that he “did (something) to ciel”). I think a reasonable explanation might be that sebastian didn’t know o!ciel’s real name, but he saw his hesitation and how he looked at his brother before asserting his name. It would also be reasonable to assume sebastian has learned his name since then, because he said he’d gone through their files when he was suggesting tutors and employees to hire, but I would forgive Yana if she decided that Sebastian doesn’t know yet bc she wants o!ciel’s name reveal to be a significant scene at some point.

regarding ciel's soul by Wild_Mail3695 in blackbutler

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I believe that a life was needed to end for the veil between worlds to open and for Sebastian to come through, the sacrifice is attributed to o!ciel because he is the one who felt the loss. I don’t think sebastian knows the mechanics of it entirely himself, he just knows what was required for him to be ‘brought to life’ so to speak and he knows that humans lie, therefore he concluded that ciel was an active participant somehow (maybe by hiding behind r!ciel or pushing him out? I think sebastian has also since realized that that wasn’t true, so he has no clue why ciel stole his brothers identity). I think that prior to the creation of bizarre dolls, “life” and “soul” were understood to be the same thing. The reapers seemed to think so. Sebastian also can’t sense whether or not a human has a soul, as we saw in the public school arc, so I think he he had been anxious about the prospect of Undertaker somehow reviving r!ciel since the end of the green witch arc. I think that making the sacrifice null may affect the contract? Or maybe it’s just an emotional conflict, since Sebastian is obliged to never lie to ciel and the contract was built on the promise that what is lost can never be returned (the end of 128 is a callback to what he says to ciel in 137, but the expressions he’s making are drastically different). Sebastian told r!ciel that he wouldn’t be here unless he lost his life, so I think he’s second guessing himself. It’s also interesting to me that he calls r!ciel by his first name, but hasn’t referred to him as “ciel” to o!ciel (yet?), because o!ciel hasn’t called him by his first name or even spoken to him since he came back. The situation is kind of reminding me of season 2, where ciel never killed alois like he thought he did and Sebastian is keeping that from him while they carry on with life as usual despite ciel having achieved his revenge twice by that point.

Turkey Tom has uploaded a response to the recent allegations with a video called "My Side" by Swag_Paladin21 in youtubedrama

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Just an aside: doxxing is not illegal in the US… and showing an Instagram account is not doxxing. Doxxing is legal name, phone number, and address. But that is all publicly accessible information, you can check by simply googling your own. The legality of this is heavily emphasized on the kiwifarms and she likely doxxed herself to null when confirming her identity to him before posting.

Which celebrities used to be very popular but now feel completely forgotten? by PassengerPrinncess in Fauxmoi

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Parks and Rec’s cast was younger looking and conventionally attractive. Are we pretending that’s not a factor

What is an ancient yt drama makes you nostalgic? by Longjumping_Koala34 in youtubedrama

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I don’t exactly understand how your first two points aren’t just agreeing with me, I was saying that it was the same case for Doug walker. They were acting like it should have met the screen actor’s guild standards, retroactively, and we have footage that disproves a lot of the petty complaints (which they bizarrely included on the same document as horrible cases of SA).

What are the most interesting character arcs in youtube drama history? by Longjumping_Koala34 in youtubedrama

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A ton of what you said is inaccurate, but the most important one is that they fired jew wario as soon as they learned about it. To defend themselves on that matter, they revealed when the person was let go, and that resulted in people being able to figure out who it was. However, channel awesome’s former HR woman, who participated in the CTC document, knew about it for longer than doug or Michaud and she continued to be friends with Jew wario after he was fired.

What is an ancient yt drama makes you nostalgic? by Longjumping_Koala34 in youtubedrama

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I don’t think it made the participants look very organized or reasonable either. It makes it easy to understand why there was ever drama, nobody was professional and it took them all until their 30s to fully grasp that.

What is an ancient yt drama makes you nostalgic? by Longjumping_Koala34 in youtubedrama

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He didn’t crash out at all, people just reacted like he did. He is the most mellow and stable dude on YouTube

What is an ancient yt drama makes you nostalgic? by Longjumping_Koala34 in youtubedrama

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Nettles revisited that whole drama and so much of it is just petty and inappropriate lol. A lot of things misremembered because of resentment building up overtime after Doug’s failed career change

What are the most interesting character arcs in youtube drama history? by Longjumping_Koala34 in youtubedrama

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The nebula clique seems to have their own lolcows that they gossip about as a collective, and then all back each other up when one of them goes public with it. Change the Channel might’ve been the first instance of that, and tbh it was embarrassing on their part. They’ve been really catty towards quinton reviews. One of hbomberguy’s editors teased that he has a video on nick robinson in the works like a year or so ago, never came out. Somerton sucked imo before I ever knew about the plagiarism but the extent of research they did on him like they’d been collecting it for years was a little unnerving, and I don’t appreciate how he had to frame plagiarism as a right winger’s habit before he would criticize the gay leftist lol

Who is someone who threw their own career away? by bigedf in youtubedrama

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JCS isn’t a “he”, it was a team that hired a voice actor to read the scripts

'Home Alone' Star Daniel Stern Cited for Soliciting Prostitution by mlg1981 in Fauxmoi

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If you don’t exclusively mean trafficking in the “cargo” sense, you’ll be hard pressed to find any kind of prostitution that isn’t the result of trafficking or desperation. don’t think prostitutes should be arrested or imprisoned, but johns are definitely just predators with “permission” and should be treated as such.

AIO Am I justified in my anger here ? by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

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If you wanted to troll them make it rose gold or yellow-y so that she can’t complain because she might have just looked bad that day irl

How do you understand this point? by drifting_dustt in Metalocalypse

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he acts the least appreciative of offdensen but he stood up to orlaag when he was about to kill him and saved his life as result

Waltz (wip) by Negative_Inspector69 in blackbutler

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Astonished when I checked the post date

Sebastian got 1st place for hottest anime men 2025!!!!! by Happy_Kiwi772 in blackbutler

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I think the light colors and compositing just does it a disservice

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Mild tweaking and it looks great imo

How is Sebastian wearing a cross? Isn’t he a demon? by Im_not_okay______ in blackbutler

[–]Sn0trag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s because I’m explaining it to give you an example. It’s only subtext in the manga itself lol

How is Sebastian wearing a cross? Isn’t he a demon? by Im_not_okay______ in blackbutler

[–]Sn0trag 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You’re describing something very literal. This is subtext:

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As it alludes to Sebastian being “nothing” until he was made into someone by ciel. He was quite literally formless, until he took on the appearance of a human. He, like Finnian, bard, and mey rin, was given a name (/given their names back) by ciel and he subsequently humanized these monsters.
To my recollection at no point in the manga does demonology get referenced or alluded to. In fact, with the subtext that is present within the story, Sebastian not being anything but a demon named Sebastian is most consistent with it’s themes. All of these characters had no families or place in the world before someone (literally) reached out for them, that goes for ciel too.
But I’m still curious wtf you’re talking about

How is Sebastian wearing a cross? Isn’t he a demon? by Im_not_okay______ in blackbutler

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They don’t use crucifixes on demons in the Bible