#kuroshitsuji 153

[scarlet-marquis]

some hot frames from chapter 153

[chibimyumi]

Fan art in light of chapter 153!

Who else wants to see all the details of Sebas and Lau - two cunning masterminds - working together? ( ´・∀・)ﾉ

[relatablerealciel]

an appearance....just one....but he is Here

[galysh]

Just a quick reminder about where everyone is. 

Mey-Rin and Ran-Mao: Working class! Mey-Rin backstory angst and a surprise Lau

Finny and Snake: living the childhood they never had! in a safe and friendly environment! :) 

Bard Baldo and Lau: A Sanatorium for veterans! What could go wrong! Give me the tea, please, I’ve been waiting for that good Bard and Lau angst for years.  

Ciel and Sebastian: Are going on vacation! To a fancy-ass hotel, no less. 

[hora-vespertina]

BLACK BUTLER 153

So as we know, Black Butler often draw inspiration from actual Victorian events, people, or characters i.e: The sinking of the Titanic (Campania? arc), the murder arc (Sherlock Holmes, featuring Arthur Conan Doyle himself), etc. In this month’s chapter, O!Ciel and the gang spread out across England to investigate 4 locations associated with members of the Aurora Society, and already we can see some parallels to real-life people and events that might make an appearance in the future arc, namely: Florence Nightingale and H.H Holmes’ Murder Castle. 

1. Florence Nightingale 

When you hear of the keywords “Victorian”, “Nurse”, and “Wounded soldiers”, you will most likely think of Florence Nightingale, a woman widely considered as the founder of modern nursing. Born to an affluent family, she pursued her calling in the field of nursing despite her social standing and her family’s objections. Her dedication for her patients earned her the nicknames “Angel of the Crimea”, and “Lady of the Lamp”, during her station in the Crimean War, where she spent most of her waking hours tending to the injured soldiers, carrying a lamp as she make her rounds in the evenings.

In that very war, she was met with abysmal conditions upon arrival at the hospital, but she immediately set to work to improve sanitation and improve the general living conditions in said hospital. Her work reduced the hospital’s death rate by two-thirds (”miracle healer”?). Upon her return, Queen Victoria herself (!!) recognized her work by giving her a brooch that would later be known as the “Nightingale Jewel” and granted her a large sum of money that she later put into establishing a hospital and a training school for nurses.  Of course, in real-life her life-saving work was mostly by improving sanitation and reforming healthcare for the wounded, but perhaps we’ll see her likeness in this arc? 2. H.H Holmes’ Murder Castle

Alright this one might be a little more far-fetched considering it originally took place in Chicago. But it did take place in the late 1800s as well. So yes, basically H.H Holmes was (one of) America’s first serial killers, owner of the World’s Fair Hotel, dubbed as the “Murder Castle”.

Although Holmes claimed to have plans to make the third story into a hotel for the World’s Fair, the hotel never actually went into operation. The building was designed to contain mazes of hallways, gas chambers, false partitions, stairways that leads to dead-ends, metal-lined soundproof chambers, etc, as well as storefronts and regular apartments (including his own living space) to maintain the facade. In short, the perfect environment to commit murder. Rooms are often equipped with chutes to dispose bodies straight to the basement, where surgical instruments (Holmes was medically trained) and torture devices were found during further investigation. The exact number of victims were unknown as Holmes often sold the bones and organs of his victims to medical institutions and the black market, while disposing the remaining parts in vats of lime and acid or an incinerator. It is thought that the victims did not enter this murder mansion by force, often being his own employees (in the 2 years that he spent there, Holmes supposedly hired 150 women to work as stenographers for him) and his mistresses, who mostly came from wealthy families and were unheard of again.  Despite the events taking place in the US, I feel like it would make an interesting arc to see Sebastian and Ciel navigate through death traps in such a building. While it is unlikely for the resort to be killing guests as freely as Holmes did perhaps the inspiration could come in the form of how they dispose of the occasional body and secret passages to the guest rooms? 

[professionalfangirllife]

ASDFGHJKL I JUST READ CHAPTER 153 OF KUROSHITSUJI AND GUESS WHAT I'M CURRENTLY IN ENGLAND AND WE HAD A TOUR THROUGH THE COTSWOLDS TODAY, A PLACE THAT IS MENTIONED IN THE CHAPTER!!! LIKE I READ KUROSHITSUJI WHILE BEING IN ENGLAND??? ASDFGHJKL THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!!

[strayshinobi]

Damn I wisj I could protect Snake I love him so much

[professionalfangirllife]

Honestly, I think the new Kuroshitsuji arc is gonna be awesome 👌