This is just thinking aloud, but if this demon wasn't Sebastian and it was some other character... I hope it's at least one we've seen before, and the visuals were HEAVILY tampered with. From the visual standpoint I'd be kind of disappointed to know demons looked so similar to one another to the point they may as well be clones to human eyes. It would also be... way, way more funny if Sebastian just forgot about all this because most contracts just don't mean much to him.
I'm sure the vast majority of us... if we were given a random specific date 6 months ago, couldn't remember exactly what we ate that day. I'm sure demons are not that different. I think it's fine if it really is just Sebastian, and the face and alias are censored for different reasons.
The 'false memory' narrative is really interesting though and has a lot of potential if well thought-out.
UT can extend cinematic records so that the dolls can go on living, and record new memories. Thus we haven't been given a reason why he couldn't cut-and-edit the past and very real, true memories if he wanted to do so. The concept is interesting (and terrifying) I'm just not sure if that's what is happening here, specifically or not.
Could it really have been a different culprit, not Sebastian, is UT is the best film editor of all time. It's an interesting idea.
Either way I think we're supposed to keep guessing right now but damn if this isn't locking me in. I'm afraid.... that I love it.
Very quietly .... It also begs the question IF that's possible, and introduced to the plot... if he's memory tampered with the bizarre doll that call's itself 'Ciel'. What's interesting (if that is happening) is that he can't take the actual-pain away, but he can twist the narrative, and shift the targets of that pain.
Also Modri. With a heavy heart. I can't stop thinking about him. At first I wasn't sure what the religious shit was about, or if his name came about for a different reason (as many kuro characters so often do) so I didn't want to assume where he came from or anything ... I tried to ignore him with the energy of a school child holding a folder at the side of their face to ignore someone, but now that we have more backstory...
So he's eastern orthodox... an old school Romanian Orthodox at that, and now all of the sudden this God-stuff and the piety make so much more sense, for those with eyes to see. It's all coming together (don't let eastern orthodoxy become a special interest if you're unaware) now and I can't ignore him. If he was a vampire that's the least of his damage. Shit.
I can not wait to see the rest...
I feel like people owe him flowers and sympathy cards for the amount of religious trauma that's been inflicted upon him and how easily it would have been to manipulate him into a cult, especially as a bizarre doll, he wouldn't have stood a chance. Honestly given bizarre dolls are just that... tortured, confused dolls made of a patchwork of this-and-that that have no business existing at all, there's something very sinister here about Modri now, he's going on just to be... a servant being forced to do actual-evil and be associated with such a harmful cult, when he tried to be so godly, grateful, and kind-hearted when he was actually-alive up until his personal tragedy. I'd be interested to see the rest, I want to find fault with him while he was human. Kind of hoping to, actually but that's just a personal hope, it would be better writing if he were actually-sweet all the way up to the point before death haha... it's just me, seeing as I've have a clenched fist about him for at least 48 hours.
In short I really like where this is all going, it's all very interesting, and I feel crazed but that's okay. I'm sure!
The bird and symbolism in the chapter on a personal level tugs at my heart a bit but that's neither here nor there.