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HOLY FUCK MY FRIEND BOUGHT ME A LOBSTER PLUSH I HAVE NOW OBTAINED THE MYTHICAL SPINELESS LOBSTER

[abybweisse]

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Holy shit okay so I was going through my out of context notes and I finally found the quote that inspired this stupid stupid (affectionate) username that I have. Now you can all rest easy knowing the origin of my name

[abybweisse]

Can we talk about Viscount Debiuty? He is very intresting character. Created as a fool BUT. He studied medicine. stays somewhere in the background but he's still there. The master od survival (Campania arc 😉, srsly twoje shinigami,one demon and one earl try kill gim and he's still alive), saved by UT (!), And the JOKER on Kuro Card Pack (!!). What's your opinion about him and your vision about historia role based on Mother3Theory? Thx for an answer!

Thanks for the ask! :)

Mother3: Black Butler’s Viscount of Druitt

The Viscount of Druitt, aka Aleister Chamber, is a nuisance. At first, he’s relatively easy to deal with, but just like enemies in a game that tend to be stronger if they show up again on higher levels, every time we (the earl and Sebastian) encounter him, he’s more of a force to be reckoned with. In his case, he never personally becomes much stronger; no, in his case he just becomes more-strongly associated with much stronger foes. And, yeah, he has an interesting (and funny) parallel in Mother3. I’ve posted about it before (a few times), but here’s the big one, and I’ll discuss it here, too.

When we first meet him (Jack the Ripper arc), he’s this heartthrob, one of the most “eligible bachelors” (and apparently a great supporter of the arts). He’s obsessed with beauty in all forms, and particularly if it’s both beauty and youth. We find out he has a medical licence but doesn’t practice (at least he’s not known to, though he might do something privately). And then we find out he’s into human trafficking, auctioning people off to the highest bidders. Since he doesn’t know the earl is a boy in a dress, he obviously didn’t examine the kid before caging him and opening up the bids. No telling how long it took to usher the bidders into the auction room, but it must have been pretty fast. They might have even been waiting the whole time (since the party started or just before), knowing Druitt would bring someone along soon enough. In fact, this is probably why Druitt ends up approaching the earl before the earl can properly approach him… Druitt was on the hunt for someone to lure away from the party. He’s quickly defeated then; apparently he fainted before Sebastian could do anything to him. He’s got money, connections, and influence – he was quickly released from jail, even though human trafficking is a serious crime, and he was never exposed for what he had done.

We see him again, judging the curry contest (Curry arc or Yellow Butler arc). This is when we start to associate him with the blue lobsters that Harold West-Jebb has Agni use in his curry entry. The anime plays this up, even having Druitt show up in other scenes (other scenarios, even) wearing a blue lobster hat, as if it were the mascot of his favorite sports team. Again, it’s all about exquisite beauty and extravagance. However, I think there is something more to this. In Mother3, there is an enemy met in the tunnel between Nippolyte’s house and Osohe Castle, which is mostly a parallel to the Weston campus….), and then a stronger version is met out at sea. It’s a lobster. The weaker, earlier version is the Spineless Lobster, and that describes Druitt pretty well – spineless. It’s said (at least in the anime) that he can’t handle the sight of blood. Season two of the anime has him fainting when the earl and Alois fight. If this “fear of blood” is to be taken at all as canon, then that could be why he doesn’t practice medicine.

That said, he obviously has maintained strong ties to the medical community, as he’s then shown to be involved with the Karnstein Hospital. Before the earl even deals with the issues at Weston, Druitt has already introduced his judgement-impaired nephew to Rian Stoker and Undertaker. Stoker is bad enough, being the director of the hospital (and very gullible, too), but when you bring Undertaker into anything, the stakes become much higher. Of course, we don’t know about this yet, because first the earl has to deal with all the Bizarre Dolls during the Campania arc. We first think that Undertaker and Druitt perhaps haven’t known each other long at all; they might have even not really met until this ship set sail; it isn’t until the Weston arc that we find out differently. Truth is, Undertaker isn’t just saving Druitt’s life because he makes Undertaker laugh. After the Weston arc, we know that they have at least some prior history (with each other), at least recently within the medical community. Possibly longer. By the end of those two arcs, we also get the strong sense that Druitt is being used by Undertaker. Is it his medical knowledge? His money and influence in society? His gullibility? Yes. All of these reasons, and probably more.

The Akuma6 side story, that extra Chapter 107.5, where they meet at Druitt’s for a party celebrating his rank as 16th favorite character? It’s full of clues to the canon material. We learn that his narcissism is even worse than we once thought. The Campania arc already shows us that he’s delusional (comparing himself to Nero, etc.), and this extra chapter just expounds on it. He would like the series (LOL) to be about him instead of about the earl or Sebastian. He uses Vincent’s rosette to turn the chapter (for a brief moment) into a story about his childhood.

The second kind of lobster you meet in Mother3 is called the Rock Lobster (B-52′s reference is completely intentional here), and though it’s not blue… it is purple.

And, as a Hermit Crab warns Lucas, they are “punks”:

Rock Lobsters are slightly stronger than their spineless cousins, but they are still mere nuisances compared to certain other enemies. By the time you deal with them, though, Lucas and his pals are in the ocean, and the general situation has become much harder (the plot has thickened, etc.).

I have a strong feeling we haven’t seen the last of Druitt. Otherwise, Yana-san wouldn’t have Undertaker make such a big deal out of saving him from Grell on the Campania. I think both of them are deeply involved in the Blue Sect. I suspect that Undertaker (…and Lord Sirius) is using Druitt’s (probably quite flawed) medical knowledge in this business with blood collection and transfusions. I say “probably flawed” because – for one thing, Druitt really might not handle the sight of blood well, so he probably didn’t study it much on his own – and two, whoever is in charge of the blood research doesn’t seem to truly understand how the blood-type relates to who can receive whole blood from whom. We now know that AB is the universal recipient for whole blood, so Lord Sirius can accept blood from anyone (ignoring Rh-factor). Lord Canopus (type-B) can accept whole blood from type-B and type-O. It’s type-O that can only accept blood from other type-O’s. 

Maybe they haven’t figured this fact out just yet; perhaps it’s a discovery Sieglinde will make in her lab. Even if they (in the Blue Sect) know the truth of it, there seems to be a premium placed on AB blood, as if it’s somehow superior. This could be by the command of Lord Sirius, but I suspect it’s a flaw in the thinking of whoever is behind the “science” of it all. And it would make perfect sense for the Viscount of Druitt to make such an elitist mistake. If they both understood the science of it and didn’t treat types AB and B as if they were so damn special, Gregory Violet would never be asked to donate, Lizzie would also never need to donate (though the jury is out on whether she has donated yet), and no one would have to be bled to death just to keep Lord Sirius or Lord Canopus supplied.

Honestly, I don’t consider Druitt a master of survival, and he might really be a bit of a fool (in some ways). However, he’s one lucky fool (so far)…. I’d like to think that he (and his nephew) will learn some sort of life lesson from all this, but I seriously doubt it. Their luck and “second chances” could run out. And if Undertaker no longer has any use for them, it probably will.

[baynton]

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