#campania arc

“We were robbed of the characters saying the silly gay word”

Ya’ll wanna know what we were really robbed of?

This.

^ Like coming to visit Ciel every now and then without telling her mom...

^ Or attending one of Druitt's parties all on her own (we don't see Paula at all), despite Frances canonically strongly disliking Druitt's type xD

The way I see this :

either Frances has to battle every now and then with her 14 year old teenage daughter who constantly leaves home on her own whenever she feels like it,

or Frances 100% trusts her girl and her fencing skills and doesn't care about where Lizzie goes, as long as Lizzie isn't arrested by Scotland Yard or something

Considering other examples like the Campania arc or the start of the Blue Sect arc, or even how Yana describes Lizzie seeing her mom as a role model, I'd strongly bet on the latter.

Last but not least, I think it's very funny that, before the Campania, whenever Ciel asks Liz 'does your mom even know you're here ?!', Liz answering 'nope' implies that 1) Frances doesn't know for sure where her daughter is but 2) is 100% ok when finding out that she is having a sleepover at Ciel's manor.

And also, it's even more hilarious to notice that, after the Campania, Ciel doesn't even bother anymore asking if Frances knows where Liz is (like in ch107), as if to say "yeah okay she can take care of herself, alright".

I titled this post as such because there's a continuity issue. The title page shows Sebastian having finished his food, as the empty plates are being taken away.

But then our earl says he's never seen Sebastian sit down to a meal before. Doesn't Sebastian have a meal on the train on their way to Brighton? Even if that was only tea for him on the train, he has definitely sat down to a meal (and drinks) at the circus, after he turns the hacked up potatoes into fried "chips" (French fries for us 'muricans). And hasn't our earl asked him before about how human foods taste to him? Definitely during the curry arc.... And we saw our earl watch Sebastian forced to eat overly sweet porridge or whatever while wearing a nightgown and sleeping bonnet (the extra chapter accompanying the Book of Atlantic movie, showing his day for recovery after being injured on the ship).

Anyway, it does serve as a reminder to readers how different Sebastian's senses of smell and taste are to those of a human. It also lets the demon tell us how he knows the food must be top notch: the ingredients are fresh, and the human contractor has eaten extra, showing he really enjoys it.

I'd also like to mention the Charlotte Russe that our ear has before him. The Charlotte first appeared in England, but a French chef upscaled it with the addition of lady fingers and Bavarian cream. Others liked to call this new version the Charlotte Russe, even though the French chef didn't name it that. Perhaps they liked to harken back to his time working for Czar Alexander I? I have a feeling that Yana-san has chosen that dessert and that name specifically because of the two Slavic (potentially Russian) characters we've recently been introduced to.

So, the smoking room isn't always ready, and people only have access to it once it's prepared in the evenings. Finally, they are allowed to attend.

And they are greeted by the two characters foreshadowed by that dessert: Modri Vladis and Irina Petrovna.

Like look at what this scene implies here. That Lizzy was grieving so much that she was stuck to the graves constantly until Ciel came back, like lifting off a curse. And she was still wearing black, which yes she should've been. I think it was odd that she didn't in the manga, but it was likely because she was told her fiance was back, so her mourning garbs weren't necessary.

Also I like how Ciel has to lean up to Lizzy here, showing her maturity/size is something he has to measure up to, so she makes sure to shorten that distance as much as possible.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elizabeth Midford/Ciel Phantomhive, Referenced Elizabeth Midford/Real Ciel Phantomhive Characters: Ciel Phantomhive, Elizabeth Midford, Edward Midford, Sebastian Michaelis, Grell Sutcliff Additional Tags: Luxury Liner | Campania Arc (Kuroshitsuji), POV Ciel Phantomhive, POV Second Person, Angst, Introspection, o!Cielizzy, Blood and Injury, Non-Graphic Violence, she is beauty she is grace she is strength, and he is a fool, POV O!Ciel Summary:

She's dancing as she's doing it.

Or: the boy who would be Ciel Phantomhive, watching his fiance fight the undead.

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