In the end what will happen to Undertaker? As a shinigami it seems that he can't die again, at least until he will be forgiven for his suicide. His plans with RCiel can't be successful so... maybe will he be punished by the grim reaper dispatch? Or will he fight with Sebastian for OCiel and be defeated? (Like Claude in S2) Or will he continue to live as a deserter, forever grieving the loss of all his dear Phantomhives?
If he’s meant to be a strong parallel to Fassad/Locria of Mother3, then I would expect him to die... or at least to leave the human realm and never return again. Locria is the Magypsy who defies the others, changes their name to Fassad, gets manipulated by King Porky, and ends up being destroyed. Magypsies typically “die” by fading away, and it’s believed they might just leave that plane of existence for another one; they don’t really know what lies ahead for them, if anything does, they just know their time on Earth is over. In Locria/Fassad’s case, they slip on a banana peel (Fassad loves bananas) and fall off the top of the Lightning Tower. That’s “death” number one. Later, Fassad becomes a Fascinating Chimera of some sort, “upgraded” with musical instruments (horns, mostly). Before finally confronting King Porky face to face, Lucas confronts Fassad one last time; Fassad has an interpreter at this point, since they can now only “speak” in musical notes. Lucas and his pals fight Fassad until Fassad apparently cannot fight anymore. Fassad is tired of the struggles and is just thoroughly done with everything, then Fassad just sort of malfunctions and plummets into the underground sewer... never to be seen again. Undertaker could end up paralleling this by failing to “perfect” his bizarre doll of real Ciel... or by losing control of real Ciel. Whatever the exact details of his failure, he’d be angry, and he might finally give up, deciding that his actions in the human realm have become futile. There’s a chance he gets captured by the reaper association and taken back to their realm... and there’s also the chance he gets killed. Remember that a death scythe can cut through anything (except another death scythe). This could be carried out by a reaper or by Sebastian; recall how Eric told Sebastian to kill him with Alan’s death scythe in The Most Beautiful Death in the World. The other Magypsies simply faded away, as I mentioned above, so the other reapers might simply return to the reaper realm and leave the storyline. As much as it pains me, I have to admit that it would be fitting if Undertaker is destroyed... or at least captured, taken away, and punished — possibly destroyed — in the reaper realm.
If Undertaker’s “end” in the storyline is like his other Mother3 parallels, then he would get to live. Dr. Andonuts is the inventor of the Fascinating Chimera, and he lives... though his other big Black Butler parallel is Sieglinde. And Sieglinde might be the one who ends up paralleling Dr. Andonuts’ little victory over King Porky. So, she might also be the one who parallels Dr. Andonuts in surviving. Dr. Andonuts is also known for eating an donuts (donuts with red bean paste), and he offers them to Lucas. Just like how Undertaker likes to eat bone-shaped biscuits out of an urn, and he offers them to our earl. Also, if you go to Wikipedia and look up Ankou (a reaper from folklore), the first thing that pops up in the entry is this:
Then, if you click “red bean paste”, you get this...
...because another name for it is “anko”. I know this is slightly tangential, and I have older posts about it... but it makes me smile! 😃
Undertaker’s other major parallel in Mother3 is Nippolyte, the eccentric gravedigger and old friend of Lucas’ family. He’s the one who hands Lucas the Badge of Courage (aka the Franklin Badge), saying it belongs to Lucas’ father (Flint)... that it’s an heirloom that Flint has always “treasured”... and he entrusts Nippolyte to pass it over to Lucas. (Keep in mind that the mother, Hinawa, is dead. Flint is alive, but he is too distraught to do much of anything; he’s become a largely absentee father.) Nippolyte is a very odd fellow. When he holds Hinawa’s funeral, he makes the odd comment to Flint that it’s a double grave, so he’s already prepared a place for Flint. There’s a label on his shovel saying it’s top of the line; it says, “True connoisseurs know that this is the ultimate shovel of the highest quality." His house (in the cemetery) keeps getting burned down (like... 14 times?), so finally he puts a sign outside the boarded up ruins of his house that says “No visitors”. He takes care of a hidden garden at Osohe Castle, where he raises strange crops, like omelettes and ramen noodles. Oh, and Nippolyte has to destroy zombies that pop up in his graveyard from time to time.
Undertaker lets our earl hold onto his chain of mourning lockets, and he calls them his “treasure”; they include at least one mourning locket that would be considered a Phantomhive heirloom. The other parallels here are really funny. We’ve got Undertaker joking (or NOT joking) about getting our earl into one of his custom coffins. Keep in mind there are already graves for both of the twins, but neither one is buried there. Instead of a shovel, Undertaker has a scythe, but all of the reapers have gardening tools, and their death scythes are typically not actual scythes. The label on that shovel reminds me of how reapers like to boast that death scythes can cut through anything (though that’s not exactly true). We don’t know if any of Undertaker’s holdings have been burned down or anything (yet), but we know he eventually boarded up his funeral parlor. Also, Osohe Castle is the Mother3 parallel to Weston, and we know that Undertaker held a Midnight Tea Party in the private garden. Instead of unlikely crops of ramen noodles and omelettes... Undertaker had bizarre dolls pop out of the ground. Instead of having to destroy random zombies that pop up, Undertaker is creating them....
Well... Nippolyte survives, too.
So, what do I really think will happen to Undertaker? I think his chances of surviving are slim... but there is still a chance. If he lives, it would likely be for him to accept defeat... but also perhaps find some small victory to cling to.
