#phantomhive ring

How many times has this ring witnessed the death of its master?

Grandfather... father... and then...

How many times has it heard the pain of death? When I close my eyes I can hear them.

Phantomhive fleurs-de-lis?

Though the fleur-de-lis (lily... or probably iris, based on shape and an origin story about yellow irises along the River Lys) design is best known for a connection to the French royalty, it's also in the British and Scottish Crown Jewels. In fact, it's a very popular design to use across Great Britain, Europe and elsewhere.

We could glance at the ring and say they're fleurs-de-lis and claim it's another clue that the Phantomhives have a strong connection to the French, along with having some French names, like Vincent, Frances/Francis, and Ciel. (Claudia is rare in France and actually Italian in origin.) There's also the fact they are "Phantomhives", not "Ghosthives". 😆 And then there's Undertaker's mysterious mention of having business in France; he says that to Diedrich, even though he didn't really need to mention it... unless he hoped Diedrich would pass that along for our earl and Sebastian to investigate. Too bad that investigation hasn't happened (yet).

Anyway, like I said above, it's also used in Great Britain. An interesting use of the fleur-de-lis in British heraldry is as a cadency mark to signify a sixth son. We could come up with some wild scenario where a sixth son was the head of the family when this ring was originally made, and it has passed down through the generations without further changes, despite the fact it would no longer match the family position of the bearer; they are not all 6th sons, and at least one has been a daughter. (The English do not strictly follow cadency rules like the Scottish do.) This is the sort of idea I'd expect to find in a fanfic, where the author thinks they are being particularly clever... while forgetting or not realizing what the ring actually depicts.

Because it's not a fleur-de-lis on that ring at all. In the center of the shield in their family crest, there's the same-looking thing. Part of the shield and key looks a bit like a bisected fleur-de-lis but turned on its side and dotted, like the corners of the shield. Isn't that what's really on each side of the ring... the family shield?

Yes, it's the shield with the key and crown... and so that's not really a fleur-de-lis because it wouldn't be correctly oriented as a heraldic flower. Also, the top three petals of a fleur-de-lis should be larger than the three below, and this design looks quite equal on each half of the shield.

Sorry, but there are no fleurs-de-lis on the Phantomhive ring, that I can see. The Phantomhive family ring is typical in that it depicts the family crest/shield, which does not include a fleur-de-lis.

They might still have strong French ties, though....

Bonus: Undertaker has a flower on each side of his ring, but it's a true lily, like the lilies used for funerals. His ring is another piece of mourning jewelry, not a family ring, as the design sheet even includes hair embedded in resin or underneath a transparent yellow stone... and points to both the ring and his lockets, calling them “memory jewelry (accessory with hair of the deceased)”. My money is on a yellowish resin molded to appear like a gem at first glance. I agree with others who think the ring's hair design looks a lot like the hair design in the locket for Alex B., whoever that turns out to be.

Most shitposts but go till down its worth it i actually came up with a whole Black butler theory 

Sebastian is left handed, that in the Victorian era was meant for the devil or the bad.

Sebastian likes cats (black cats), yeah we all know that. But we all also know that a black cat is meant for bad luck. When I was at school a day ago my teacher said that a black cat means Satan/Devil or smt like that so my otaku mind went straight to Sebastian. 

Undertaker has Claudia/Cloudia’s mourning locket in the shape of the Infinity symbol. In Greece (as long as I know might be in other countries as well) the infinity symbol means eternal love. We actually compare them to two rings or even the wedding wreaths. So yeah...😏

Undertaker’s ring looks a lot like the Phantomhive ring. That makes me wonder if the Blue ring is even the Phantomhive ring... ( jk.. unless-) 

Who collected Doll’s soul? I didn’t see any Reaper collecting that soul. Did Sebastian devoir it? Or did he/she get back to life by our fav French fry (Undertaker, Yeah now dis is ya true name) 

The Maid that I’ve posted about in a previous post looks a lot like Jane. Mentioning this, we have a butler blood lord that we have no idea who is... Could he be one of those Butlers in the Twin’s flashback? ( the one that o/Ciel stepped on)

Undertaker might be an Albino. That would explain the white/grey hair that they are probably not from age bc Othello doesn’t have them. It might have even been the reason Undertaker suicided...I would actually love to see this theory being canon and seeing him with red or blue/grey eyes. Actually Francis has purple eyes... *Google searches if Albino can have purple eyes* THEY CAN!!! I CALL IT FROM NOW GUYS HE IS INDEED AN ALBINO AND PASSED DOWN TO FRANCIS HIS PURPLE EYES!!!

OKAY THAT WAS MIND-BLOWING I NEED A BREAK NOW~

~Claudia P. A letter from Her Majesty~

With animation and background music

But here we have Rachel comforting him and at the end of it, Vincent also reassures him by giving him his ring.  We then have a nice little montage of the following year in the next panels.