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Chapter 132 and âthe spareâ comment
So people are flipping the fuck out over the fact that a) Frances called our!Ciel âthe spareâ and b) Vincent taking it all in stride, joking they may as well give up the Watchdog title should our!Ciel find himself at the Phantomhive helm. Was it particularly tasteful of them to address our!Ciel in such a blasĂ©, brusque fashion? No. Did they mean it maliciously? No, no they didnât. They donât have the gift of hindsight that we as readers do. To them our!Ciel was a young, sickly child who couldnât even go outside for fear of triggering an asthma attackâwho couldnât even have fencing lessons with Frances because of his weak constitution. (Please note I am NOT disparaging our!Ciel, but even the most devoted Kuro fan will have to recognize this actualityâour!Ciel is not the most robust child out there, as exemplified in canon by the Circus and Campania arcs.)
Furthermore, being the Queenâs Watchdog means executing orders that are both ruthless and necessary. We now know that our!Ciel can behave in such a fashion but back then when the twins were 7, 8 years old? Remember earlier in chapter 132 when Vincent took the twins to inspect the Phantomhive domain? The first thing real!Ciel says after Vincent finishes explaining the duty of a lord is that these tenants will need incentives to keep working the landâa hardline, pragmatic insight befitting a future earl. Yet our!Ciel, once he learns that a lord must âmaintain his estate so tenants can be free to devote themselves to their workâ worries about keeping everyone satisfied (granting their âwishesâ) before wondering how many tenants live on the land. There is a startling difference between the twins in terms of mindsetâreal!Ciel thinks like an efficient, practical man of business while our!Ciel shows more compassion and thoughtfulness.
A more empathic, gentle approach.
âŠBut these are the exact same sentiments that will get you killed if youâre the Queenâs Watchdog. To Vincent (and probably Frances, since she is Vincentâs sister and he has entrusted her with the training of his heir), our!Ciel probably seems far too softhearted and humane to ever fit the merciless, cutthroat role of Earl Phantomhive. I mean can you really blame Vincent? All his life (up until the fire) our!Ciel has been sweet, caring, obedient, and delicateâheâs shy around strangers, lacks the extroverted charm of his older brother, and his greatest dream is to open a toy shop so he can give joy to other young children.
Does this really sound like the type of kid who could one day kill with impunity, watch others bleed to death before him, and burn down an entire mansion filled with lobotomized children? Vincent and Frances are not trying to be spiteful, cruel, or demeaningâtheyâve simply observed the twins, recognized their strengths and weaknesses, and are now discussing the very real possibility of what would happen if real!Ciel were to die. Morbid? Yes. But this was 19th century, lifespans were short and Vincentâs occupation as the Queenâs Watchdog leaves no room for error.
And, in a strange, inconspicuous way, Vincent may also be trying to protect our!Ciel. We know Queen Victoria is a dangerous individual not prone to softer emotions of forgiveness or understanding (i.e. Murder arc) and Vincent, whoâs had direct contact with Victoria (thus giving him a chance to observe, catalogue, and analyze her in person), knows that the Phantomhives are disposable tools of the crown. If one of his sons were to mess up then theyâd be eradicated and mercyâthat odd, human conceptâwouldnât even be considered.
We as readers know our!Ciel is capableâprobably more so than real!Cielâbut three years ago, when happiness was still possible and the Phantomhive twins were devoted to one another? The wickedness of what will one day come to pass seems not only farfetched but cruelâfor why would you ever force a child like our!Ciel to abandon his innocence in favor of pitiless indifference and demonic power? We cannot fault Vincent and Frances for speaking of our!Ciel in those terms (âthe spareâ) because, in many ways, Vincent and Frances were also right. Undertaker explicitly says in the Weston arc that our!Ciel is different from his ancestorsâa fact that our!Ciel proved when he rescued Joanne Harcourt even though such a task was both unnecessary and foolish. He put his life on the line to rescue Lizzy even though it meant drowning in the cold Atlantic current. Heck he stared death in the face with Madam Red, in the throes of anger, grief, and insanity was ready to stab him to death and he ordered Sebastian not to hurt his aunt.
Even after going through hell and back, there is still compassion inside our eyepatch wearing protagonist, he is still capable of pity, sentiment, and warmth. Our!Ciel has elevated himself beyond the scope of what his father and aunt thought possible, he has achieved momentous triumphs and committed unspeakable acts of horror but we CANNOT judge Vincent and Francesâs commentsâmade more than 3+ years agoâas hateful or heartless. In their eyes, they were assessing the shy, soft-spoken younger twinânot the tenacious, sharp-tongued, unflinchingly clever Queenâs Watchdog we know and admire.
199 notes | 12:22am 22 Sep 2017 Tagged: #vincent phantomhive #frances midford #our!ciel#real!ciel #ciel phantomhive #sebastian michaelis #elizabeth midford #madam red #joanne harcourt #chapter 132 #spoilers #in defense of papa watchdog and our badass sword queen#please be kind guys #understand where they're coming from #THEY ARE NOT TRYING TO BE MALICIOUS VILE CRUEL OR HATEFUL #they don't have the gift of hindsight that we do#mod Nina
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your-lovers-and-drifters said: I really donât think âthe spareâ comment was meant to connote inferiority. Itâs just the way high society/nobility operated. To acknowledge oneâs second son as âthe spareâ wasnât seen as derogatoryâit was just a fact of aristocratic life. To us, it may look like Vincent and Frances were belittling our!Ciel but this appellation of birthright was just a product of patrician privilege. @asthmaticastreâ @fraternaltwin-andidiotsâ - mod Nina
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Unfortunately we just have to live with all this extra nonsense.
Okay, so first of all, let's just point and laugh at this blithering Morton who thinks that """" just cause they meant well makes it okay""" (read in the most snotty voice possible) and that "oh it was just a fact of life" and "its pokay, they didn't realize that he would grow up to be the way he is!!!"
Like, you stupid motherfucker! PH my god! The issue isn't did they mean to hurt him, or they meant well, or it was true, its that THEY SAID SOMETHING SO FUCKING HORRIBLE ABOUT A CHILD. A CHILD. at the risk of using some kinda logical galaxy, my mom doesn't "" mean"" to hurt me by insulting my friends and yet! Its still a shitty thing to do!! The issue! Isn't if they're right or not, they're still treating a child like shit! Holy FUCK