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I am curious why you think Lizzy is going along with OC's arrest for the Blue Sector when she knows it's not his fault? I feel like I understand all her other motivations but this. Love the blog!
Hello, there anon!! Thank you so much for the fantastic question! Honestly, this to me is also the mystery right now.
For now, I can think of a few possibilities. Lizzy may have been:
- Lied to (perhaps they told her that Ciel’s method is just giving O!Ciel a little “slap on the wrist” so he will learn his lesson and that it’s for everyone’s best interest if she plays along.)
- Menaced (sure Ciel is being nice now, but we don’t actually know how he behaves when all the eyes aren’t turned on him. He may have actually told Lizzy that if she doesn’t play nice, Ciel would have to use harsher methods to put his little brother in his place.)
- Manipulated (Ciel could have played the Victim Card™ and painted O!Ciel as a selfish and jealous kid who didn’t think twice to take his place, in order to make all this look like he’s simply teaching O!Ciel a hard-earned lesson and that they’ll help him later because Ciel wouldn’t leave his little brother alone.)
- Brainwashed (we don’t know what exactly went down during the weeks Lizzy spent on that cult, and she spent a ridiculous amount of time there. It’s not out of the question that they could have done something so that Lizzy will be more docile.)
I’m not a fan of Lizzy being brainwashed because I want her upcoming confrontation with O!Ciel to be genuine, so the brainwashing would be the least of my favorite options (though I believe her expressions this chapter do potentially raise that question). However, Lizzy being Lied to and Manipulated seem like safe bets (even if Ciel’s methods to do so aren’t the same I’ve listed above).
Plus, the cover is so, so interesting!
- Lizzy’s got her eyes closed (which could be read like the scene being too painful for her to watch, but that to me represents the fact that she doesn’t have the whole truth. She is being led on.)
- Yet, she’s crying from a single eye. Her right eye. Aka, the eye that O!Ciel lost and that effectively physically differentiates him from his twin.
- She’s got her hands up in prayer. So she is basically wishing for something.
- Also, I’m not necessarily a fan of the “Astrue” theory but if his name turns out to be star-related… this cover will gain another whole layer of meaning.
Other tidbits that caught my eye:
Like, look at her face when Blavat outs O!Ciel as the mastermind behind it all:
What emotion is Yana hiding from our eyes? Is it guilt? Is its displeasure? Is it sadness?
And her expression when Edward asks her why did she hide something so important (aka Ciel’s whereabouts and that he was alive):
Lizzy looks sad and is obviously thinking about something. They gave her reasons not to go to her family, most likely that Ciel was still too weak and if he didn’t get blood, he wouldn’t make it. But I still think there’s something more in there, something else to finish reigning her in.
And then, the cherry-on-top, her vacant face when she takes Ciel’s hand:
She’s not even pretending to be happy to be there. She just looks empty.
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