You brought up a great point that even though the entire series revolves around O!Ciel's revenge, he hasn't taken many steps to find out who the killers of his family are. There are a few obvious reasons, such as his obligation to fulfill watchdog duties and the Undertaker getting in his way. However, Sebastian doesn't seem to be rushing O!Ciel towards revenge. I wonder if Sebastian's lack of "revenge push" could be him trying to further cultivate O!Ciel's flavour, or if perhaps this is G Fantasy elongating the series. What are your thoughts? Thank you!
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Ah, I am very happy to see that I’m not the only one who finds it peculiar!
I personally really do think G Fantasy plays a role in there being such profound lack of active investigation towards the revenge. Though I don’t think it’s 100% their fault; Yana isn’t “innocent” either. In a long running series of 15 years, she could have shown more investigation. Especially earlier, before she became indispensable to the magazine. An initiated investigation with sporadic information is much easier to “drag out” than just... not address it.
The only time I think we’ve seen any active investigation was in chapter 85 (correct me if I’m wrong.) And that initiative was taken by Sebas; his master didn’t even know why Sebas wanted to go to the Somerset House at first. This shows it can’t be Sebas who is delaying the revenge, and that it was not Yana’s “active” choice to forestall the progress in-story through him.
On O!Ciel’s part, he can’t diegetically be stalling either. Yana has established very clearly that the moment O!Ciel even so much as considers “actual life”, he is raw food. If simply replying: “that’s not a bad idea either...” as an answer to “status, wealth and a beautiful fiancée” was enough to make Sebas attempt eating his master prematurely, I don’t see how “obligation to fulfill watchdog duties” would not be enough. That boils down to the same thing; just phrased a little less indulgently.
We must remember that Sebas is not the patient type when it comes to human “indecision”. Yes, he has a lot of time and is a bored soul, but he’s also impatient. So far we have already had two instances that showed that Sebas would rather eat a snotty egg than ones that were overcooked or left stale.
Sebas will “shoot for the moon”, so to say. But if the trip is so awful it doesn’t make the moon worthwhile, he doesn’t mind “landing on the stars” either. Had O!Ciel at the expense of his timely revenge decided on being a dutiful watchdog, he’d become an under-grilled hotdog 🌭 first.
It is also not the case that in the past Sebas was different than he is now. In a much later chapter when O!Ciel was CLEARLY in delirium and only therefore expressed his defeatism, Sebas also didn’t hesitate much to make a pounce for O!Ciel’s miserable little soul.
In short, neither Sebas nor O!Ciel are delaying the investigations for any in-story reason.
I also have fair confidence in saying O!Ciel’s lack of action/progress was not influenced by Undertaker.
For 6 whole Arcs Undertaker hadn’t even revealed himself as anything antagonistic towards O!Ciel. Then he did a “tadaa, I’m a mass-murdering maniac”, but that didn’t have anything directly to do with O!Ciel’s revenge or his actions towards it.
Otherwise UT also has not actively done anything to hinder O!Ciel in carrying out any investigation. If O!Ciel DID try to investigate, then UT might or might not interfere. But O!Ciel hasn’t even initiated any investigation for UT to interfere even if he wanted to.
In short......... I think Yana just kinda shelved the active revenge for her two protagonists, and G Fantasy isn’t helping either. They be like: “Our cash-cow hasn’t written any active revenging for more than a decade; why rush her now?”
To me personally the series is captivating enough to keep me very invested. Though the series is designed to revolve around the Phantomhive revenge... it’s basically a “slice-of-miserable-and-cunning-life” now. I love Kuro, my blog exists because of my love for Yana’s work. But DAYUMNNNN... Yanaaaa, Sebas not having grown impatient at all regarding this revenge is leaning DANGEROUSLY close to plot-hole now.
Yana... I love you. (ಠ_ಠ)
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