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Kuropost Directory:

#chapters is a tag for my higher quality versions of the English translation with the occasional translation edit, they may be moved to another blog in the coming future. #Stream of consciousness is a tag for the more brief observations or unorganized rambles and theories, that more or less inform the longer/organized metaposts. As do the posts in #anime discussion, and #flowers.

Meta Posts/Character Analysis/Theorizing:

Ciel, Out of Reach | part two in progress

Black Butler: Color , Light , The Stars, The Moon, and The Night (WIP)

What Causes a Grim Reaper to get Overtime?

Ciel’s determination, Sebastians’s Admiration

Sebastian’s Lies (could he ever lie?)

Sebastian and Ciel’s Misunderstanding

Sebastian burning the school photo (+ Sebastian’s feelings towards Ciel’s duplicitousness)

Green Witch Arc, post-resurrection (aka ciel is a cat)

What’s your read on Sebastian and Ciel’s relationship? -> Babytrapped Ciel

The Blue Cult

Sebastian and Vincent

To be rewritten:

Sebastian’s Delima -> Sebastian’s cognitive dissonance -> I’m not like other beasts.

The Hope Daimond

Beauty and Stomach , Desire as Hunger , Miscellaneous

About Me

the ‘Sebastian is polaris in chapter 169’ theory. Does anyone have extended thoughts on it?

#Because it has crossed my mind too #kuroshitsuji #black butler #For this one I’ll even tag #sebaciel #but full disclosure I’m not exactly a shipper and I want NO hornyposting in my askbox #And I’m only interested in theorizing about canon

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Imagine he complains about how much prettier men used to be able to dress. it would be fun if he and ciel disguised themselves again and he went with this prince look

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #sebastian michaelis #my edit #delete later #Probably

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if nothing else, at the very least, I was correct in saying that Ciel “broke bread” with the servants as if Yana intended it that way (given Modri has now said it) So, for my next trick. . .

Mister Van Hellsing will offer Modri immortality through blood, saying “drink from my cup”.

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would be very cool if it was Sebastian’s blood they drank…

#Nectar?

hello! i’ve learned chinese before, but i’m still far from perfect, so please correct me if i’m wrong!

畢了 [bì le] i’d interpret it as something closer to “completed,” “finished,” or “brought to its conclusion.”

it’s not a very common everyday expression in modern mandarin i guess and feels somewhat literary. depending on the context, it could refer to a task, duty, promise, process, or even a fate that has finally been fulfilled or concluded. and yeah, you’re right! because of that, as a chapter title, i’d read it more as “completion” or “conclusion” rather than “fulfilling” in the english sense

I have this post in my drafts about the word Sebastian used that got translated into “wed” (結ば), because, for a long time now, I’ve been thinking it would come up. I’ve been saying “tie the knot” in reference to it, lol. It has the thread radical like covenant/contract does and is used alongside it in the Bible. However, when I googled the Japanese equivalent of 畢了, it suggested these…

I still don’t know the first thing about reading Japanese myself, so repeat this at your own risk, but I wonder if Yana was deliberately avoiding using 結 at all? Because Sebastian doesn’t use either of these words when he speaks of completing a contract.

#lost in translation #I didn’t check the pronunciation of it tho sometimes Yana attributes different pronunciations to words

Do you think doll is the best well written female in this manga , cause of how we can understand her feeling through the strory and how we relate to her in a way , being abused and then living in the dirt of london street while she have a burn mark caused by her parent , adooted by a crazy guy who abusing her as well and forced her to wear as the boy he saught before in the party , then blackmailed her to kidnapp children or else her siblings will die despite her still being kind, cheerful and innocent toward any kid (ciel,snake) for example and then saving ociel who think she'll betray him meanwhile she didn't and just took care of him cause of how sad his life must be as she thinking , going to her brother snd then the tragedy happen

I think somewhere along the way you forgot this was supposed to be a question lol

foreign anon, help! The last chapter was titled “畢了” in Japanese, but I understand this might be a Chinese word? In English it was titled “fulfilling” which was very odd to me, I wouldn’t have thought Yana would waste that title on a chapter like this. Therefore, it seems like her use of this word as the title instead was a way to avoid using the standard Japanese equivalents to “fulfilling”. In what contexts would you use “畢了”?

(Wingless) Caduceus. The Mercury/Hermes staff, who was the communicator between mortals and Gods— like angels are. A symbol of healing adopted by hospitals. I never noticed it becomes the shape of a heart at the top, too. Two of Cups (The Lovers)

Room key (appears to be wings?) and the Dial on the Wheel of Fortune

~become entwined~ had an old post where I just threw stuff together for my own reference. I’ve been eyeing how the hotel and Modri have Fleur de Lis ornaments everywhere. Though, admittedly, that’s also common pretty much everywhere as we headed towards the art nouveau movement

#kuroshitsuji #black butler #kuroshitsuji meta

if nothing else, at the very least, I was correct in saying that Ciel “broke bread” with the servants as if Yana intended it that way (given Modri has now said it) So, for my next trick. . .

Mister Van Hellsing will offer Modri immortality through blood, saying “drink from my cup”.

#Through this I atone #kuroshitsuji #modri vladis #stream of consciousness #black butler

Lazy mobile edit w no polish just liquify tool

Not even gonna bother making a gif lol

#delete later #Probably #kuroshitsuji #black butler #sebastian michaelis #ciel phantomhive

This is going to be a ‘delete-later post’ because it belongs to a longer post, but @abybweisse you noted the mouth on his stomach as odd, and I didn’t pay much mind to it because we already knew he had mouths and his body is fluid. However, I thought about something now which I don’t know what to make of. Under my “Sebastian’s preferences” retranslations, I was telling you how words that usually translate to “eat” are actually words that usually only mean taking something into the mouth, and there seems to be some distinction between that and “in the stomach”. Such as

Maybe there is something to it? Can’t think of what the implications might be though (like, what difference it would make to put his mouth on stomach, thematically or otherwise). Maybe there’s a possibility that Mr. Van Hellsing frees the souls by blasting it . idk

#Like the musical #black butler #kuroshitsuji #sebastian michaelis

Random thought, but I remembered reading this on Yana’s blog

Because whenever I hear “Amaranth” I think of this metal song, looking at the lyrics now I wonder if she’s ever heard it too lol. I have this version of it saved from soo long ago

Purple is something, isn’t it? With how Sebastian described violets. The reason the globe amaranths have that meaning attributed to them in my post from before is because they grow in all types of weather

#flowers

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Another high res

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more on flowers and symbolism:

This is a moon gate, a gate between the spiritual world and our own. Sebastian stands on one side and Ciel is on the other, perched on the edge between.

The flowers are globe amaranths. As per the site I use, the meaning is: unfading love (色あせぬ愛) and immortality (不死、不滅)。

#Flowers

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it just bugs me that we had this like 40 page chapter negotiating the contract but we don’t know why ciel thinks demons eat souls to begin with. Who was the first person to tell him? It wasn’t sebastian because he never told him that.

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I did get an answer to this eventually, lol. Yana used a play on words. In the Japanese version, “I receive your soul” is itadakimasu, what is said like a blessing before meals.

So it is a logical on Ciel’s part for him to assume Sebastian used it as a euphemism for eating his soul. In my personal opinion, however, that almost seems deceptive on Sebastian or Yana’s part, given it’s only implied through a common phrase as opposed to a literal statement after he has promised never to lie to Ciel.

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I know it’s going to sound like I’m just in denial (and who know, could be) but it’s genuinely more of an OCD thing lol. Why didn’t eating souls come up? Why didn’t souls or eating by themselves individually even ever come up??? This is the SECOND TIME now. I have whole post about snake and Sebastian in my drafts (only strengthened now by Modri referring to him as “serpent” and it continues to have me wondering if demons even eat souls in the first place