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[loveanimehatereality]

Black Butler Translation Notes #57 - Agni (Just like to take this moment to point out the fact that Agni’s name was foreshadowing!) - Yana Toboso ~ LoveAnimeHateReality

[animegirl6755]

This is how you know he’s mad! ~ Loveanimehatereality

[namisiaa]

Prince and his khansama

Lineart and coloring: Nami (namisiaa.deviantart.com) Original art: Toboso Yana, kuroshitsuji: sketches

[kickaz]

SPOILER ALERT! KUROSHITSUJI 127

Just kill me already! I thought 2017 would be better😭😭😭

Child of the sun, burning brightly until the end...thy name is Agni.

[abybweisse]

Khansama Kitty?

@shinigami-mistress and I had been discussing all the religious overtones in ch127, how Agni is treated as a Christ figure. Then we got to joking about Agni coming back three chapters later, perhaps as a Bizarre Doll. (NO, we don’t think it’ll happen. It’s only a joke.)

About the same time, @eglentyne-mcqueen was typing up quite a post on the same topic (Christian symbolism). I reblogged to add my two cents and mentioned my discussions (including the jokes) with shinigami-mistress. One thing I didn’t mention is her concern about whether Agni’s soul has been collected yet. In the Kuroverse, the soul is collected at the time of death, so I assumed his soul had already been taken away.

But then I looked into Hindu funeral customs. Hindu beliefs vary from sect to sect, of course, but they tend to hold an open-casket wake then cremate the body and scatter the ashes (usually over a body of water). White is traditionally worn by funeral attendees and other mourners, and black is considered inappropriate. Ten days after the death (or is it ten days after the funeral?), friends gather to release the soul for its ascent to Heaven. Visitors are expected to bring fruit. Hindus believe in karmic reincarnation, so a person’s soul can return in another form. The form taken depends on the karma of the soul, and a truly enlightened soul can reach Nirvāna (being “blown out”, LIKE A LAMP), which for a Hindu means finding liberation (moksha) in the realization that the true self (Ātman, soul) is identical to the transcendent self (Brahman, the physical world and ultimate blissful reality). Once Nirvāna is attained, THEN the cycle of birth, life, and death ends for that soul.

Do reapers in Kuroshitsuji treat the souls differently, based on the religion or spiritual faith of the deceased?

So, has Agni reached Nirvāna? Or could he yet be reborn? Considering his faith in Soma and his worldview, I think he has become truly enlightened, so I believe he’s attained moksha….

That’s good for Agni, surely, but I would have been tickled pink to see Sebastian come across a kitten with white fur and a little blaze mark on its forehead. He’d adore its unusual markings and soft coat, and he’d name it Khansama… or simply refer to it as “Him”.

(I’m atheist, but damn. Now I’m getting all teary-eyed anyway… over the crack idea of the demon finding a reincarnated Agni in kitten form. Wtf?)

Let the fanfics of an AU where Sebastian has Khansama Kitty be written….

[pheonixshadow]

Kuroshitsuji chapter 127 thoughts

I bet that shitty person who so cruelly and indefinitely stabbed Agni is none other than Bravat :@ 😡 😡 oh you'll get the same end i tell ya :@😡 😡

[loveanimehatereality]

Black Butler #131 - Awesome! ~ LoveAnimeHateReality

[abybweisse]

Well, the thing is that, Agni was a Brahmin (I can't believe I'm referring to him the past tense now *sob*)- which means that he's at the highest level of Karmanic reincarnation already, higher than Soma, in fact, as Brahmin is higher than Kshatriya (Soma's class). So if Agni's soul is pure (because he fucking is), he'd attain Moksha, so he wouldn't be re-birthed.... (*I'll going to sobbing loudly now for a year, according to tradition for loved one. I suspect Soma will be mourning for longer)

Ah, yes. He was born into that varna.

No Khansama Kitty for Sebastian, then…. 😿