Two Ciel Theory
Like many others that have stumbled across this nifty little theory, it has changed the entire game of Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler).
For this post, we’ll be going in order of the Chapters instead of by chronological order of events.
First off, in Chapter 2, when our Ciel first refers to himself, he puts quotes around his name, giving off the impression that it is not his real name.
When he thinks back to the people he’s lost in chapter 17 after Madame Red dies, we see a child that looks like our Ciel along with his mother, father, aunt, and dog.
In chapter 19, Ciel is sitting in his cage and says that no one will save “us”. It then shows someone who looks like our Ciel being killed and then Sebastian comes out and tells our Ciel that what he has sacrificed can not be returned.
In chapter 31, we can see our Ciel on Vincent’s left, but then Vincent put’s his right hand on a child’s head. It is more likely from the hand he uses, that Vincent puts his hand on the head of someone on his right rather than his left.
In chapter 32, the cheerful child has his hair parted on the opposite side of the shy one.
We can see from Ciel’s point of view in chapter 34, a boy similar to our Ciel being held down as our Ciel looks on through the bars of his cage.
In chapter 54, we can see a boy who looks like our Ciel being pulled away. Next, our Ciel reaches out for demon Sebastian while the boy who looks like our Ciel is stabbed.
Furthermore, in the same chapter, a picture of the other Ciel’s dead body is shown with the caption,
In chapter 58, under a speech bubble, you can see the feet of a child sitting opposite Elizabeth while the other Ciel practices fencing.
In the same chapter, when Ciel first comes back and meets Lizzy, he hesitates when she asks if it’s really him.
When our Ciel first escapes with Sebastian in chapter 62, Sebastian accuses him of being a liar when he says he is the head of house, Ciel.
In chapter 90, our Ciel is inside of a cage and when someone grabs his hand, he looks over and sees the other Ciel.
Also in chapter 90, when Meirin calls the blind young master, Ciel, he sounds confused.
Just a page after that, Ciel grabs onto Finny and says,
Though in other translations, it is more, “Ciel, I don’t want anymore pain!” Signifying that our Ciel has confused Finny, because of his smaller size, with the other Ciel.
In the chapter after the next, Chapter 92, our Ciel rejects Sebastian because of something he did to the other Ciel.
In chapter 93, we are shown the inside of our Ciel’s mind, where there is two Ciels.
This can of course be confused with our Ciel’s fractured mind, but in chapter 95, it becomes obvious that the other Ciel is more than just a piece of our Ciel’s mind. The other Ciel says that our Ciel didn’t need to get revenge with the power he got from sacrificing the other Ciel. He goes on to ask if our Ciel wants forgiveness for using him to gain power.
In chapter 68, our Ciel learns about what a fag is, but in chapter 99.5, we are shown that Vincent tells the other Ciel about it when he was younger.
In the same sidestory, the other Ciel cooks with Vincent then runs away to play, but then we see our Ciel, who is sick, clearly not the same person.
The other Ciel says he is going to go play chess, and we then see our Ciel coughing by a chess board. This can just mean that the one Ciel went to go play chess, but then the scene shows a platter containing the necessities for two people, telling us that there were two people in the playroom eating together and playing chess.
Finally, Tanaka tells our Ciel that he is glad to see him well because he was able to eat a plate of food, even though Tanaka had just seen the other Ciel cooking with his father.
And that’s not all, there are more reasons and proof and evidence to be found. But what really matters is: do you believe that our Ciel isn’t the real Ciel? And if so, what is Ciel’s real name?
