Is Finnian connected to the Grim Reapers? UPDATE AT END!
While watching Kuroshitsuji: Emerald Witch Arc, I noticed a significant change in Finnian's eyes.
Since the beginning, his eyes had been a tealish green, only to grow greener as the show progressed. This was obviously due to an increase in budget and some slight alterations made to his character as the series progressed. It's a common enough thing in some shows.
What I noticed, however, was that in the current Emerald Witch Arc we are given more of his back story. He was a "prototype" for a potential super human experiment, only to end up having the scientists attempt to kill him upon being discovered by Ceil and Sebastian. While the other two "prototypes" were destroyed, Finnian managed to overpower the scientist and escape.
His escape, however... was not what you would deem human - either super or otherwise.
[I tried to get an image of the escape from the anime but couldn't, so imagine the manga in full bloody colour.]
The way he crawled his way up the walls by his hands is almost demonic in a way, almost indicating that there was something supernatural involved in the experimentation. What's more, out of the "prototypes", he's the only one that seems to have green eyes. The other experiments have what is most likely blue or some other pale colour rather than the green that we know Finnian possesses - that or his eyes are suppose to be a dominating feature.
On top of that, whenever he gets in a "defense mode", his pupils dilate to the point that they resemble rings. Also, as the series has progressed and the budget increased, we see that they literally glow an eery green when in said "defense mode".
Specifically, they glow a bright green with faded rings.
Now who else do we know that has "phosphorescent, chartreuse-green eyes" that possess a glowing like appearance and even has some of the same teal in them?
Grim Reapers.
Now I'm not saying that Finnian is a flat out grim reaper, but Finnain WAS injected with a lot of chemicals and other things when being experimented on.
Hear me out. What if the scientists got ahold of Grim Reaper blood - possibly even supplied by the Undertaker (you know he'd be curious what the humans would do with it) - and in doing so gave Finnian some of the powers and strength of a Grim Reaper?
Another similarity is that all Grim Reaper's have garden themed scythes. Lawn mowers, chainsaws, hedge clippers - even the traditional Scythe was a form of harvesting/gardening tool.
Maybe I'm way off the mark, but I think this would be an interesting character development for him, as well as an interesting comparison between him and Undertaker.
Both would be connected to grim reapers, both would be determined to try and give life - Finnian as a way to counter his destructive tendencies and Undertaker out of sheer curiosity- and both would have a Phantomhive heir who they are willing to protect no matter what. Real!Ciel with the Undertaker, and Our!Ciel with Finnian.
Anyways, what do you think?
EDIT:
I was looking through the manga again and it just occurred to me that on top of everything I mentioned above, in Chapter 129 it's shown that Finny was the only one who noticed that the Ceil who returned home wasn't his master.
According to him, the Ceil who returned home "didn't FEEL right".
What if he is able to sense souls in a way that he doesn't realize and just passes it off as intuition? What if he knew right away something wasn't right about Real!Ceil because his soul wasn't quite there, or it was corrupted from Undertaker's tinkering?
When he first sees Real!Ceil, his eyes almost look like they're starting to go "defense mode" which COULD indicate that his eyes were reacting to the fact that this was technically a dead body with a tampered soul.
Again, this is only a theory, but one I think has some merit.
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