#kuro108

[midnight-in-town]

I just noticed...

Whenever Ciel met with Queen Victoria for a private audience...

she was always with just the Double Charles...

John Brown was nowhere to be seen...

even though he might generally show up after the audience was over with...

But you know, it makes sense since he’s described as her aide, maybe he supposedly doesn’t have his place whenever the Queen meets with her watchdog, which is why only her butlers stay.

EXCEPT...

...in ch108, because it went the other way around when the Queen met with Sieglinde and they discussed possibilities for war weapons. This time the Double Charles didn’t stay but John Brown did and assisted to the meeting with Sieglinde. 

It’s also at the same time that he said this...

...after Ciel tried to double cross them and to hide from the Queen the true nature of Sieglinde’s latest invention. 

Conclusion? Nothing new, but just to add on the theory that Brown is probably not just a simple “aide” to Victoria, but rather one of the main reasons...

...she’s so powerful and shady herself.

EDIT: !!!

[midnight-in-town]

Ch14 & ch108: parallels?

As a follow up to this post about what the family lineage might be.

I definitely spoke about this before, when ch108 came out and for an old analysis I did of Frances’ character, but it’s been over two years since then and lately I was wondering once more...

...if what awoke within Ciel during the arc in Germany, allowing him to see the Shinigamis, was activated only from time to time or became permanent.

Thus here’s a reminder of the parallel between Frances and Ciel both staring at Seb’s face for no particular reason (Ciel more than Frances, since he literally said it was nothing when Frances called Seb names afterwards), when they both share the Phantomhive lineage.

I can’t be sure whether it was made on purpose or not (I do agree it sounds super random though), but I personally always took that part (above) from ch108 as a possible hint that the lineage thing somehow activated in ch103 and is now permanent, meaning that Ciel’s eyes can see things that he couldn’t before: 

like shinigamis even when they’re supposedly hiding themselves from humans

and possibly even through Seb’s human disguise as well.

TL;DR what runs for generations in the Phantomhive family may be the ability to spot either just Shinigamis or supernatural beings in general, and: 

this could be how Claudia met UT

and what the guy who spoke to Kelvin was implying when he emphasized on “that Phantomhive family”

Feel free to share your thoughts!