perspective comes from experience and reaction to the stimulation from the world that has been analyzed and internalised. the machine cannot live, cannot have "experience". the amount of people that humanise AI is genuinely scary to me

IT DOESN'T CARE! THAT'S NOT A PERSON!

This is one of those crack ideas you get late at night. I’m trying to write it out coherently. So what if Aunt Francis was the Kuroverse version of the Slayer or Chosen One/Magical Girl/etc? The Phantomhive lineage exists to root out evil. With evil. “Setting a snake to catch a snake” as the saying goes. That explains the offspring that hold the title for head of the family, but other siblings? What if one female out of the lineage has to be the Chosen one to fight evil through the might of her swords and fist? It’d explain relatively weak Vincent snd overpowered Francis, as well as Elizabeth the swords genius.

So Francis knows her nephew got the dirty job, but she also senses something about Sebastian and feels a need to bully him mercilessly every time she sees him.

This maybe explains Francis’ hostility towards Sebastian? She finds his face objectionable. Plus Sebastian seems to actually feel fear of her.

Again, using the excuse that Sebastian looks diissipated. But looking at the other house masters…

I mean, the Red House master looks like quite the libertine himself. And the Violet House master is a wreck. The worst one could accuse Sebastian of in this crowd is being young, unmarried (remember CoE vicars marry), and pretty.

Then we have Elizabeth’s reaction to him, once she decides he’s a threat

La Vache Enragée (The Mad Cow), Numéro Spécial du Comité de 1897

Lithograph; Designer: Auguste Roedel; Printer: Imprimerie Chaix; 1897.