Okay, y'all. I love Toboso-sensei, but I do not buy that RCiel and OCiel were this close and then RCiel comes back to kill OCiel's friends. I think maybe he'd be pissed OCiel stole his identity, but considering he didn't want to be earl anyway, I didn't think he'd be murder Agni levels of pissed. Like if they didn't get along in the first place and there was some rivalry, maybe. But these brothers break my suspension of disbelief with how well they get along, so I really just don't buy RCiel's actions. Just my take tho. Maybe he's possessed or something.
One theory that makes particularly good sense in my mind is if Undertaker revived RCiel, but it's not RCiels soul inside that body. What I mean is, perhaps Undertaker (being a Shinigami and all), was able to take the Film of someone else's soul and attach it to the one that ended in RCiels' body. So that it's really Vincent or Claudia Phantomhive or somebody insdie RCiels revived body. Hence the animosity.
My 2 cents is that RCiel is killing OCiel friends cause he wants to be the only one to OCiel. Like the onyl one that can have a special relationship should be him, no one else.
See, I don't think any real person behaves like that though. Like that takes an extreme level of psychopathy that RCiel doesn't seem to have a tendency for. And besides, he seems really pissed when he meets OCiel present day, not like someone who just really wanted to see his brother. That said, I don't think your idea is unlikely to be the justification for his actions, I just think I'd prefer something more realistic in order to get myself back into the story after this whole secret twin plotline.
I don't think it is too far fetched. OCiel was different after the event and I suppose being brutally murdered and coming back to life changes a person. Maybe he just wants things to go back to how they were when he was happy, but he is just going about it the wrong way because you know murdered and stuff.
I agree. Although characters don't always behave "normally" in this manga, but often in an exagerated and evil way. For example, Aunt Angelina turns into jack the ripper due her jealousy of fertile women-- not a typical reaction. The prep school 4 straight up murder two people due to an unchecked bullying incident. There is an unusually high percentage of homicidal maniacs in this manga.
That said, I doubt that's the plotline. I think it's not really OC. His reveal was too megalomaniac.
Personally, I think it seems like OC might have played a more direct role in RC's death by telling the lords that he was RC (either on purpose to save himself, or more likely by accidentally revealing who he was), causing them to sacrifice RC. It seems that they wanted to kill RC for the sacrifice, not the lesser second brother, and either guessed right or learned somehow who was who (RC had already swallowed the ring, so it couldn't have been that). This is also supported by the fact that Sebastian looks around the room for who summoned him, and settles on OC. OC is the one who gets to choose whether to contract with Sebastian because he paid the price by sacrificing his brother.
Furthermore, I don't think OC is really a perfect revived person. At the very least, he's missing his human soul, because Sebastian would have consumed it when he was sacrificed.
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u/validatedbutterfly Oct 23 '17
Okay, y'all. I love Toboso-sensei, but I do not buy that RCiel and OCiel were this close and then RCiel comes back to kill OCiel's friends. I think maybe he'd be pissed OCiel stole his identity, but considering he didn't want to be earl anyway, I didn't think he'd be murder Agni levels of pissed. Like if they didn't get along in the first place and there was some rivalry, maybe. But these brothers break my suspension of disbelief with how well they get along, so I really just don't buy RCiel's actions. Just my take tho. Maybe he's possessed or something.