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Given the highly positive response to my last question: [Who stole my
candy?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/40466/who-stole-my-
candy/40764#40764), there seems to be a lot of speculation around this "Twin
Ciel" theory or the idea of there being 2 Ciels.

So with that in mind, I am posting a follow-up question to that to ask for the
full explanation of the theory and what this means for the series.

Can anyone shed some light, links, etc?


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What is the "Twin Ciel" theory?


So the twin Ciel theory has been floating around the fandom for a few years
but has recently gained much more evidence in the last few chapters.

["The Double-Ciel Theory: A Kuroshitsuji Mystery" on
Blogspot](http://theofficialdoublecieltheorist.blogspot.com/) is the most in-
depth explanation I could find, though it doesn't contain any recent evidence.
To sum up the theory, some believe that Ciel

> is not the actual Ciel Phantomhive, but the younger more sickly twin of the
> real Ciel who was sacrificed.

In addition to the evidenced in that blog post, the most recent chapters show

> Agni looking at pictures of Ciel's family and saying "It can't be," then
> running off to protect Soma. He finds Soma with a gun at his head, and the
> person fires but misses and shoots Soma's hand. Soma then says "Why?" Now
> flash forward and "twin" Ciel and Sebastian come home to find the scene
> before them. Soma sees "twin" Ciel and hits him. Ciel also sees a bit of the
> picture Agni was looking at and says "it can't be," and then asks Sebastian
> "you wouldn't lie to me would you?" Which brings up the fact that Sebastian
> has never called "twin" Ciel, "Ciel"; only "young master".

These are by far the most compelling evidence so far the author has pushed
towards supporting the twin theory.


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Ok, so I will be referring to the boys as the following: Lord Ciel (LC), and
Young Master (YM, our Ciel).

So let me start from the beginning with all of this until when the fire was
happening. After discovering his parents' dead body, YM rushes to find help.
He finds Tanaka, and Tanaka seems quite shocked. So in the scene where Tanaka
is telling YM to escape, the translation from Japanese to English is "Please
escape, Ciel sir it's too risky for you." However, in the Japanese, it reads
"Please escape young master! Something has happened to lord Ciel."

So there's that, after YM and LC are taken an auctioned off. Whilst paying for
YM and LC, the man says "This is worth more than two people" This could
suggest either YM is rare because he's a noble, or both YM and LC are noble so
they're worth more than two people together!

If we go ahead to the next visual, we had the prison which would be when they
were in Germany and YM was cursed and poisoned. If I remember correctly, he
imagines a scene where he is in the cage, holding his brother's (LC) hand,
speaking in past tense saying "I still had you." Eventually, we see LC being
dragged to the altar for sacrifice, as YM calls out "Ciel" proving the boy who
was killed is the real Ciel Phantomhive. YM is still in the cage, watching
distressed! After witnessing his brother's death, YM knows he has nothing
left. This completes the two terms for summoning a demon; a person willing to
give up their soul for a wish (YM) and the price to cross the river (LC), thus
Sebastian appears.

The only reason this was successful, was because the cultists weren't prepared
to sacrifice their own souls; only the souls of children. As Sebastian states,
if you cannot sacrifice your soul, you cannot summon a demon. Sebastian takes
LC's soul that was given to him so he could appear. This is why Sebastian gave
YM the choice of the contract because Sebastian had already been paid. As
expected, YM sacrifices his own soul for power. After all the killing of the
children (classic _Kuroshitsuji_ scene), Sebastian asks YM what his name is.
YM pauses for a second looking at LC's dead body, with which he replies; Ciel
Phantomhive.

The next one isn't easy to explain, but I'm going to try because it really
proves my point.

![Ciel's bruise under the eye](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y4DOjl.jpg)

So remember this boy that was addressed as Ciel. Notice the bruise underneath
his eye. If you look through the flashbacks, you will notice this is a
constant detail for the altar boy, but the boy who made the contract does not
have a bruise under his eye and never did have. That is the only reason we
know that YM is not Ciel. Once YM tells Sebastian he is Ciel, Sebastian gives
a slight laugh while saying "very well", therefore proving he knew YM was
lying. Time skip to a bit later, Sebastian calls YM out saying, "You told me
not to lie, but you seem to be quite the liar yourself." YM glares at
Sebastian saying "Shut up, you have no right to bring that up," so the
flashback ends here

So in conclusion,

  1. LC is killed, used as the price to summon a demon 
  2. With YM also willing to sacrifice his own soul, a demon appears. 
  3. YM is offered a choice because the demon was already paid.

But that leaves one issue, why would YM take the name "Ciel Phantomhive"?
Well, it's important to note, YM was the youngest twin, not the heir to the
Phantomhive name, LC was. YM was also sick as a child whilst LC was outgoing
and healthy, but that alone isn't the reason. LC seemed to get more attention
than YM, Lizzy even states "Madam Red loved Ciel the most out of all of us"
(the online version isn't translated correctly), which is a major blow to
anyone's confidence, so the ideas of why YM took the name "Ciel" are:

  1. YM was the son who would never really get anything
  2. Nobody seems to like him as much as his outgoing healthy brother. Madam Red, Lizzy, Baron Kelvin
  3. So perhaps he takes his brother's name so people will not see him as weak, and respect him more. 
  4. Or the guilt he feels that his brother deserved to live, not him. YM feels it would have been better if LC came back instead of him.

There are too many reasons to nail one down right now, we don't have enough
information, but YM does seem to have survivor's guilt:

![YM lamenting](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pKKYVl.jpg)

Frustratingly, YM is interrupted before we know who he is speaking of, but
it's most likely LC. In chapter 25, in YM's dream, he states he doesn't want
the dead (LC) to forgive him. It shows he _believes_ LC's death is on his
hands.

That's all I have right now.


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