#witch arc

Q: Whos your favorite Kuro kid last place: Mcmillian - 1.8% 5th place: Doll - 5.3% 4th place: Sieglinde Sullivan - 10.6% 3rd place: Alois Trancy - 13.3% 2nd place: Elizabeth Midford - 15% 1ST place: Ciel Phantomhive - 54% EVIDENCE ::

Finny’s backstory?

I think we will, since we only got glimpses of it earlier, and he’s just as important of a Phantomhive servant as Baldo and Mey-Rin.

So far, all we know about Finny is he was a test subject for drugs apparently meant to create a special group of warriors, kind of like berserkers, considering the sort of trance-like state he sometimes seems to enter when there is a threat. It’s not just his strength that’s increased; it’s also speed, endurance, and certain other abilities. We see just how powerful, fast, and durable he is during the witch arc. He’s carrying all that extra weight, but it doesn’t seem to slow him down, and when he makes that huge jump off a cliff, all he complains about is “tingling” in his legs. The enemies expected him to die upon impact with the ground far below, but nope. Not even close.

We have a hint that the research facility might have been in Germany, since Finny says he understands some German. We aren’t quite sure what his first language is, and it’s interesting that our earl and Sebastian seemed a bit surprised to learn about his German language skills. If the facility was in a German speaking country, then they shouldn’t be surprised if a test subject picks up a bit of their captor’s language. The only explanation I can think of for this surprise is that the facility wasn’t German, but German could have been Finny’s first language, and he’s recalling bits and pieces he managed to retain. I am really curious why our earl and Sebastian even crashed that facility; was it a German military base, kind of like the “witch’s village”? Was it our earl’s first real assignment as watchdog? When our earl and Sebastian first saw S-012, Sebastian was going to kill him, but our earl told him to stop. So, they were not there to scout out servants for the manor. Nor does the research facility seem to have anything to do with fulfilling the demon contract. So… why were they bothering to deal with the place?

Another thing we don’t know is how Finny became a test subject to begin with. I have my own theory about that… as I’ve posted a few times… that I have reason to think one of the researchers was his own father. The one sent to shoot all the test subjects — he shot the test subjects on either side of Finny/S-012, but he paused when it was Finny’s turn, and that gave Finny a chance to put his new abilities to use and then escape. Let’s not forget that Sieglinde’s own mother essentially donated her to the German military, and I think something similar might have happened with Finny, in fact all of those test subjects could have been the children of researchers at the facility where he was being kept. But, unlike Sieglinde’s mother, this guy isn’t going to kill off his own child so easily.

Besides, ch44 shows flashbacks of the three servants about to be offered jobs, and it shows Mey-Rin, then Bard, then Finny.

That’s not the order they were hired in, but it’s the order we are seeing their current assignments in, so I expect this order to continue for them giving their backstories. In an older post about this, I suggested that Finny might have given us all we will ever get back during the witch arc. However, we’ve literally only seen flashes of his story, while Yana-san has given us many entire chapters focused on Mey-Rin and then Baldo, so now I think Finny will get a chance to go over in more detail what actually happened at that facility. Maybe even something from before it all. I’d love to get a bunch of answers to my questions regarding him.

We didn’t get anything on Ran-Mao, and idk if we will get much on Lau. If not, then chances are slim we will ever get too much on Snake, despite the fact he’s a Phantomhive servant. At least not during these three assignments. The chances of backstory on Snake increase later, if he has to face the reality of what happened to the other first tier circus members. Kind of like how we see Joker’s POV leading up to his and Kelvin’s deaths.

Black butler the witch arc.

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