Space Drifter's Travels

let’s organize the facts and sebastian’s words:

"and in exchange for this poor sacrifice earned the right to have your heart's desire granted"

"the price you have paid to summon me is your elder brother's soul"

"until the day your silly wish is granted and i can claim your soul"

despite the translator using “your,” in the original it is “that soul,” which makes more sense considering that ciel is later surprised that sebastian wants his soul. and on top of that, he says it in front of r!ciel’s body, which suggests to ciel that he is actually referring to his brother's soul.

"i would not be here had the fare for the crossing not been paid"

"and the sacrifice that has been made will never return"

"the fare for crossing has already been well paid"

"i shall claim your soul as my reward"

sebastian does not directly refer to having eaten r!ciel’s soul. it’s possible that his soul was used for the very act of crossing over, as a kind of payment for passage. something like: “a demon cannot materialize in the human world unless a soul is paid as a fee.” however, this is contradicted by sebastian’s words when he says that the willingness to offer your soul is a necessary condition for summoning a demon (and not someone else’s), but some demons come on a whim. so logically, a demon doesn’t need a soul to be sacrificed at all in order to appear.

this leads me to my theory that r!ciel’s soul was taken as a form of down payment. when sebastian fulfills the conditions of the contract binding him to ciel and returns to hell, he will receive the “deferred payment” in the form of r!ciel’s soul (assuming o!ciel’s soul has already been consumed).

why did sebastian say that r!ciel’s soul is irretrievable? he could have meant that the soul is simply waiting for him until he returns to consume it. after all, he neither plans to die nor to give it back to ciel, so it would not be a lie on his part.

so there’s a possibility that if undertaker kills sebastian, he’ll recover r!ciel’s soul — because there won’t be anyone to eat it.

[for r!ciel to get a soul at this point, it would have to either be taken back, grown, or harvested from another individual] The soul would have to be grown somehow, not harvested.

Undertaker is talking about the bizarre dolls’ need to attempt to replace what they lack, by ripping open the bodies of their living victims. “Even though it’s impossible to make another’s soul one’s own…” Ch. 60, Campania arc

I think FOL is the equivalent of attemting to match antigen markers for a transplant or large scale transfusion. In a weird black box kabuki theatre way, since these folks barely understand major bloodtypes.

Much less all the small matches that in an emergency are all swept under the rug by using O-. And even that can cause a reaction if the recipient is unlucky (watched it happen while the intern was saying “that can’t happen” and nearly killed the patient).

reblog if you believe anon is wrong and writers are writers, no matter what they write about. no matter how they portray these taboo topics.

reblog if you believe art can be about topics that are controversial, taboo or outright disturbing, and artists who create controversial, taboo or outright disturbing art are as valid as artists who create art of conservative values.

“Never Forget” until the new target is those that they disagree with.

Going down the columns to “drug metaphor”: some of my first serious art I showed got the frequent reaction “Have you ever done LSD?” And that was years before I ever tried acid.

Slipping through his fingers.

Grasping for what remains out of reach.

Sound familiar yet? Like every bigot chasing after that black/queer/jew/trans/asian/crip out there, because if they’ve seen one they seen them all and they’re all alike anyway. Hatred makes one blind and stupid. And crazed, in this case.

Okay. We were on. We went down to the quarry after midnight and drew out a pentacle with a very thin line of thermite. Then we put a candle holder on each point. Light the whole thing off and don’t look while it burns off. Finish it off by spray painting some ominous latin around it. Add black candles to the now welded in place holders.

His face is turned away and upward enough that any scars would indeed be hidden under his hair, where they could be seen at all.

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