Mother3 theory; Easter special
In Mother3, Lucas, Duster, and others are at Osohe Castle looking for the Hummingbird Egg or Egg of Light. Some of the people searching for it are antagonists. Duster loses his memories when he finds and touches the egg. He hides the egg somewhere. He then wanders around (forgetting about Lucas and the others because his memories are gone) and joins a band called DCMC (Desperado Crush Mambo Combo), but having forgotten his name, he gets renamed Lucky. There are now five members: OJ, Magic, Baccio, Lucky, and Shimmy Zmizz. They play at a music hall called Club Titiboo. After Lucas wins a game (rock/paper/scissors) against the other four members of DCMC, Lucky/Duster is released from DCMC and rejoins Lucasās team, but his memories havenāt returned, so he asks Lucas (and his team) to help him find the egg again. When they finally find the egg again, itās inside a Clay Golem that seems broken, but it springs back to ālifeā and runs away. They have to chase it, and when they finally catch up with it again, itās truly broken down in a trash heap. Reclaiming the egg, Dusterās memories are restored. Which isnāt all good, since that meant all the bad memories, too.
Mother3 also has Fassad (parallel to Undertaker deserting the reaper organization and his later role with the Blue Sect) selling something called Happy Boxes to villagers. The Happy Boxes make villagers obedient to King Porky, and the music of DCMC helps break that trance by creating a trance of its ownā¦ sort of.
Thereāre also a couple things Iād like to briefly bring up about Mother2 (aka EarthBound in the US, the second installment in the game series) here:
There is a band called Runaway Five, (even though it has six members). Ness (main protagonist) saves them from their manager at a theater, actually he does this for them twice, at two different theaters where they worked. First time, they repay him with a ride to another town. Second time, they assist him with defeating an enemy.
Thereās this religious cult called Happy Happyism. Their members include the Insane Cultists and most of the Happy Happy villagers. Their main intention is to turn the entire world blue, even if that means literally painting everything blue. Their leader is called Carpainter (a pun on carpenter).
There are already two major parallels to the Hummingbird Egg situation in Black Butler. The first appears in the Easter egg hunt of Ch66, āFrenzyā.
In ch66, thereās a late celebration of Easter (due to the whole Campania thing), and Lizzie shows up with painted eggs for a hunt. Queen Victoriaās butlers (antagonists) show up with painted eggs, too. But the hunt begins when Lizzie hides the egg she painted herself (her father painted the rest of the ones she brought). She tests āCielāsā memory by suggesting that they used to do this every Easter (before the attack), and he fails by pretending he knew that. Truth is, this is the first time sheās ever painted one of the eggs, so sheās never had āCielā search for a particular egg before. Then the hunt begins, and the antagonists are there, as well as Edward, Soma and Agni, and of course the Phantomhive household. All competing to find and claim Lizzieās egg first. We know what happens in ch66, so I wonāt rehash all the details, but itās important to note that, afterwards, Lizzie asks herself what has happened to āCielāsā memories.
The second major parallel occurs much later, in the blue sect arc.
This time itās not about actual eggs because Lizzieās egg has now been replaced by Lizzie herself. Sheās gone missing after refusing to return home from Sphere Music Hall. Sheās essentially hiding herself. Edward asks our earl to help him find his sister, who is basically the whole world to him. When Sebastian is sent in to investigate the place and hopefully find Lizzie, he succeeds, but she fights him. He knocks her out and brings her back to the townhouse, but she wakes up, escapes, and runs away.
With Lizzie in hiding again and being uncooperative, itās time for our earl to do something more drastic (and imaginative) than just sending his butler back to the music hall. But the only reason I see for it to be āstart a rival bandā and āput Edward in itā is because of Mother3ās DCMC and Duster/Lucky.
With the name Phantom Five, it evokes the Runaway Five from Mother2. But itās closer in casting to the five members of DCMC in Mother3. Somewhere, Iāve got an old post where I show how the members of DCMC and Phantom Five match up. Oh, here it is, from November 2016! š Anyway, Edward doesnāt change his name, but his stage persona is nothing like his regular personality. Much like when Duster becomes Lucky. And heās doing it all because he hopes it makes Lizzie return. When Lizzy finally returns (but to Phantomhive Manor), she feels emotionally broken, much like whatās left of that Clay Golem.
I can also see the Runaway Five of Mother2 as a parallel to the Starlight Four, since our earl helps the Prefect Four deal with issues at Weston, and then he later releases them, as Starlight Four, from having to perform anymore at Sphere Music Hall (though Gregory Violet is captured, and the other three go into hiding). Also, we havenāt likely seen the last of them, so who knows what else they will need saving fromā¦ before this series is over?
Soā¦. In Black Butler, we have the Blue Sect, instead of Mother2ās Happy Happyism. We have the Starlight Four instead of Mother3ās Happy Boxes and, to a lesser degree, Mother2ās Runaway Five. We have Phantom Five instead of Mother3ās DCMC (and to some extent Mother2ās Runaway Five). We have Edward mostly as Duster, Lizzie as an aspect of Duster but mostly as the Hummingbird Egg (and as Dusterās most powerful weapon). And, of course, we have our earl instead of Mother3ās Lucas (and to a lesser degree, Mother2ās Ness. Finny also strikes me as a parallel to Ness).
Kind of complicated and a bit convoluted, so feel free to ask questions about this in comments, etc., and Iāll try to answer in some more understandable way.
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