Ch 197 : Send in the Clones
This is a short chapter. Finny and Snake are led from the outside by Susan, one of the young staff members, who teases/flirts with Snake about his relationship with Doll before introducing them to the Collie class. They made bath salts the day before and today are making pound cake with orange marmalade, instructed by an older woman staff member.
While we’re here, we meet a few more of the children at the orphanage, and more parallels begin to emerge.
We’ve already met Theo, the “Ciel” clone, and Jenny, one of the kids from the outdoorsy Corgi class in chapter 196, so now we get to meet three more, who parallel the other servants: Sebastian, Mey Rin, and Bard.
Oliver (オリバー), Mey Rin’s Doppleganger, Collie Class
It’s possible Oliver is a boy, but it isn’t explained. (Oliver does use 僕, boku, the same first-person pronoun Our Ciel does, and a common one for young boys.) Oliver is also very shy and tends to stutter when they speak, like Mey. Oliver has a strong aptitude for domestic tasks like embroidery, and seems very close/clingy with Daniel, the Bard clone, and always seems to be apologizing.
Artie (アーティ), Sebastian’s Doppleganger, Mastiff Class
Artie is the oldest in his class and impresses Finny and Snake with elegant manners and speech, just like a high-ranking servant like a butler. He keeps some of the other kids in line (like the Bard clone Daniel), and also seems to know more than he initially lets on about “fledgling day” (the day that the kids leave the orphanage, supposedly). He also uses the same pronoun as Sebastian, 私, Watashi.
Daniel (ダニエル), Bard’s Doppleganger, Collie Class
Daniel is definitely a boy (or he sees himself as one, anyway), as he complains about having to dress like a girl and do “woman’s work,” in much the same way that Bard complained to Seb when he first joined the servants. And like then, he’s given a stern talking to about cooking and other domestic tasks not being the sole domain of women. (He even uses the same pronoun, オレ/俺, ore, as Bard.)
I can’t say yet what the significance of these parallels are yet, but they’re definitely one of the most important aspects of this chapter. The other one has to do with a term that’s repeated over and over this arc—
「巣立ちの日」, literally “leaving the nest day,” or what I’m calling “Fledgling Day.”
It’s the day that the eldest in each class “ages out” of the orphanage and presumably goes on to the world to work as a servant in their area of expertise, and is a day of celebration. When Artie first talks about it in this chapter, it’s while lecturing Daniel about needing to be prepared with skills when he leaves the orphanage one day.
However, only a few pages later, Susan, one of the staff, announces that Jenny, the girl we met last chapter who was afraid of horses, is having her “Fledgling Day.”
This is sudden and surprising news that almost everyone seems excited about—except for Artie and Oliver. The latter is so shocked that they forget to tend the marmalade they’re making and it begins to boil and burn—and I wonder if that juxtaposition is intentionally ominous as to why they’re so concerned about this news.
On the last page of the chapter, Artie murmurs about how this can’t be, it’s too sudden, genuinely horrified. Does he know that “failures” are disposed of? It’s giving me even stronger Promised Neverland vibes now…
Another interesting element is that Snake seems oblivious to their different reaction, but not Finny. Could it be because of his own experience as a test subject that he can recognize what it means to have failures “disposed of”?
I wonder if Oliver and Artie may become allies to Finny and Snake, and if we may be horrorfied (ala the bone prosthesis in the circus arc) once we learn more about what Undertaker is doing with all these kids…
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@bluejeanbaby
“Damn, I knew that I shouldn’t have taken shots at the reception,” Jenni said, dragging the other down the hallway and away from where they had been hiding. It had definitely been her own personal mistake starting out where she did during this cursed game of hide and seek. She had at least managed to stay on the grounds of the mega mansion when she lost consciousness. But she’d woken up in a good enough time. Although she had been hoping to avoid having them stick around long enough to pick a card. Maybe they wouldn’t have listened if she tried to lay that down on them before now though, even if nothing had happened that she could tell.
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@purelybilateral || josh washington
jenny sat at one of the many cafes in washington, this one a favourite of hers as it was smaller and often than not nearly empty but always without much loud noise. this day was however one of the rare ones where it was nearly full and no table seemed to be left open. currently she was reading through notes on her ipad, casually adding to and deleting from it, her coffee next to her on the table. noticing somebody nearby she glanced up, considering for a moment whether or not she should offer the open seat opposite her. for one she couldn't be much bothered with having to converse with a stranger, but on the other hand he didn't seem to be the type to be unnecessarily bothersome to strangers, even though there was also something oddly intriguing about him. "the seats open, if you need somewhere to sit."
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