#victory egg

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Based on Mother3 theory, or just gut feeling? Though Mother3 is pretty dark enough, Black Butler is darker in many ways. For example, I don’t recall anyone threatening to sell Lucas off to be a drugged sex slave… (though he does at one point eat hallucinogenic mushrooms 🍄 and has the most horrid visions. The only member of his team to avoid the 🍄 is Boney, since the dog can tell it’s bad, even though it has healing properties in the game).

Anyway…. Mother3 doesn’t really suggest much about the other servants, except for Tanaka… and a couple possibilities for Snake.

Tanaka’s parallel is Leder, the town bell ringer who keeps the big secret of Tazmily Village and Nowhere Islands: the people had arrived in a huge boat after the rest of the world had been basically destroyed by war (human folly). They used the Egg of Light (or Hummingbird Egg) to remove their memories of the past, so that they could start over. This was before the twins were born, apparently. It was Leder’s job to finally speak up when it was time for the person who could fulfill the prophecy (to wake the Dark Dragon) to know – when the person was ready. I still think Tanaka is keeping silent about the attack on the Phantomhives until he thinks the earl (and Sebastian) is ready to hear it. Leder lives, so hopefully Tanaka will, too.

With Snake it’s harder. There are enemy snakes and helpful snakes. The Oh-So-Snake is a huge enemy that reminds me of Snake’s snakes 🐍 turning into the giant serpent in ch107.5. But then Lucas and his pals are sometimes helped by Rope Snakes, which can get Lucas and others into places they otherwise couldn’t reach. Kind of like how Sebastian has Snake send scouts into Sieglinde’s underground chamber, etc. The Oh-So-Snake wasn’t killed, that I recall, but it was defeated. The Rope Snakes sometimes show up later asking why they’ve been forgotten… like “are we forgotten now that we are no longer needed?” They survive, too. Snake and his snakes have a good chance of survival.