Recap post: the āreal!Ciel mastermind theoryā
As proposed on Friday, hereās a recap post about my take on it, for the few who wanted it and in hope that it might help some others with the few misunderstandings Iāve seen going around. Let me know if anything is not clear!
First thing first, despite the name of the theory, real!Ciel isnāt exactly the mastermind or the real target of Cielās revenge for me, if just because he and our!Ciel wouldnāt have ended up with child traffickers and sold to the cult if there wasnāt another party involved (and wanting for them to suffer).Ā
So someone else definitely manipulated real!Ciel and his possible wishes, in order to get to the Phantomhive household. They sent someone, very probably a supernatural being considering how they appeared right behind our!Ciel, to kill almost everyone before making sure the boys would know Hell.
For simplicityās sake and this post, weāll assume the true mastermind is Queen Victoria (+ John Brown) and if there is a need for more explanations, please check these posts [x][x].
Moving on, in my take of the RCMT, there were only two attackers on December 14th:Ā
and while #1 is the supernatural being (Brown?), #2 is real!Ciel (see below).Ā
However, I know, why would a ten year old child ever wish doom on his own family?Ā
Well, first of all, things very probably didnāt go according to real!Cielās plan, way before the boys were even given to child traffickers: Iām of the opinion that initially all that real!Ciel ever wanted was for his father to die. And why? Because with Vincent dead, he was the next head of the Phantomhive family and as suchā¦
ā¦he might have a say into his little brotherās project to go to London and become a toymaker, leaving him behind.Ā
But things escalated from the twinās initial plan, very probably because of the real mastermind who used real!Cielās little wish to get his father out of the way to almost entirely annihilate the Phantomhive household, before getting rid of the twins in a much crueler way (possibly because real!Ciel was an accomplice).Ā
So overall was it a horrible, irrational and childish idea coming from real!Ciel? Well, yeah, but he was ten years old and, mostlyā¦
he apparently had (& still has as a bizarre doll) a rather pathological attachmentĀ to his little brother (bordering on obsession really) and that could be enough of a reason for him to truly fear the future separation.Ā
He might have even seen his parents as being unsupportive of him and his issue on the topic, because they clearly seemed to be okay with our!Cielās choice in ch133. Thus getting rid of at least Vincent to replace him and have his say on the matter was a minimal price to pay for not being separated from our!Ciel.Ā Ā
I disagree with fans labelling real!Ciel a psychopath in the past (itās possibly different now because of UT), however I do think something was wrong with him if his little brother was the only one who mattered above everyone else to him. And, again, I really think thatās the case becauseā¦
(ātogetherā asĀ ājust the two of usā)
ā¦Lizzie, the Midfords, Ann (before she died)? Well, he didnāt/still doesnāt seem to consider them at all. :// Our!Ciel does thoughā¦
and thatās from where I draw a comparison between whatās normal and what seems to be less so, because itās as if Sensei wanted to insist that theyāre very different on this point.Ā
So, looking at ch133/134, what happened?
First of all, itās very important to realize that there is a one and half year time skip between real!Ciel breaking down about our!Ciel leaving him behind (with Vincent and Rachel not taking his side) and December 14th, 1885.Ā
And itās important because that means that Sensei purposely hid what the twin did or even how he actedĀ between the incident and the actual massacre, after focusing for two chapters on real!Ciel being bothered by his brother leaving him.Ā
SoĀ āhe was a sweet kid, loved his parents and he would have never done thatā? Well no one can know that for sure, since itās not like we really saw anything about him betweenĀ āI have no choice but to become Earl Phantomhiveā and the attack on the manor. Besides, itās kind of very Sensei-like to do foreshadowing this way, just saying.
Moving on, Iām not going to expand on how/when/why real!Ciel could have ended up as an accomplice of the attack of December 14th because we have no clue of that yet (thatās all in that one and a half year missing from the flashback), however I think everyone pro or against RCMT realized by now that the outsider who killed almost everyone received help from inside the house.
That helper is real!Ciel for me: heās the one who muzzled Seb the dog and locked him in, so that he wouldnāt warn anyone/attack the intruder, but also maybe so that he wouldnāt be killed.
As I said above, I doubt that real!Ciel considered that anyone besides his dadĀ had to die for him to get what he wanted and both the dog and servants could still be useful to him as the next Earl anyway (in order to keep the exact same household, except for Vincent himself).Ā
As for Rachel, well, from the wayĀ she and Vincent died, embracing each otherā¦
ā¦I think she tried to shield Vincent and was killed first. ;_;Ā
However, had his initial plan gone perfectly, Iām not sure either that real!Ciel thought it necessary for his mother to die (just like the dog and servants).Ā Either because he imagined that, once heād be Earl, a woman would have no way to stop his decisions (I mean, look at what he said to Lizzie, I know he was a kid but ://), or because he thought she could understand after what she said about her and Ann in ch133.
There again, real!Cielās plan definitely didnāt go as expected, since the real target of our!Cielās revenge ordered her assassin to annihilate the whole household instead (the twins awaiting another horrible fate), whichā¦
is
whatĀ
tookĀ
place.Ā Well, almost because someone survived.
Before I get to this part though, I have to say: I donāt think real!Ciel is the one who killed his parents. He wanted his father dead, yes, but heās not the one whoĀ stabbed them, or Seb the dog, or even most of the household.Ā
Just look at ch134, all the dead people our!Ciel came across had a lot of blood pooling around the bodies, a lot of blood on the walls or furnitures around too, which in my opinion signs the work of a real skilled killer (that supernatural being, attacker #1).Ā
So I doubt the twin would have been able of that, not at ten years old and not when he seemed to suck at fencing. What he did do however is at least muzzle and lock the dog, take the Phantomhive ring from his fatherās hand (the ring that proved he could inherit the position after his father)ā¦
and possibly stab Tanaka at least once (making him attacker #2).Ā
The reason I think the twin is the one who stabbed Tanaka is the opposite as to why I think a real pro took down everyone else: Tanaka was stabbed twiceĀ
meaning that the first time wasnāt enough to kill him, so:
either he held his own against a supernatural being because he was strong enoughĀ
or real!Ciel is the one who wasnāt skilled enough to kill him on the first try.Ā
Also, the second time Tanaka was stabbed was precisely as he attempted to warn our!Ciel of something about real!Cielā¦
And if real!Ciel was in on the plan about December 14th, frankly I doubt heād want his little brother to know that he was an accomplice in the massacre that took place.Ā
The last chapter even implied that servants arenāt exactly people real!Ciel tends to care about anywayā¦
ā¦so who knows if even Tanaka wouldnāt become disposable from the moment he caught on about real!Ciel being an accomplice? ://
So basically, real!Ciel is the one who stabbed Tanaka in the back, just as Tanaka tried to warn our!Ciel, but then the supernatural attacker showed up and took our!Ciel away before he could see who was the one with the knife.Ā
I know Tanaka is still considered as a suspect by some fans, but honestly I just canāt see how or why. And when it comes to how Tanaka managed to survive his wounds and the fire that destroyed the whole manor, since thatās one point making him suspicious, I discussed it a little hereĀ for those interested.
Additional hints & details for the RCMT
To tie with the more recent chapters, since UT brought back the twin, but not mandatory when it comes to understanding the theory, so under read more:Ā
Keep reading
This is basically my thoughts on the RCMT as well. Regarding Undertaker watching the night of the attack in Real Cielās Cinematic Record; I think he wouldnāt have been able to help but watch it, so I think he knows (if RCMT is canon) about Real Cielās involvement, and simply has chosen to disregard it because of his obsession with the Phantomhives and bringing them back.
That being the case, Real Cielās obsession with his little brother combined with Undertakerās obsession with the Phantomhives is a deadly combination. All the blood loss victims in the Blue Sect and Agni are proof of that. And there may be still more casualties to come as a result of Real Cielās return.
