I'm gonna be honest, I don't see how anyone can hate Uma. Like, she eats up every single scene she's in, she delivers great lines, "What's My Name" is one of the best songs overall (any time she sings and dances I have to just watch her, she definitely embodies how captivating merfolk are) and I'm not arguing on that, her motives for wanting to take down the barrier wasn't even for her. She wanted to help the kids. Uma's whole character is just amazing!
Ask me who is the Queen of the Isle, it's her.
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Uma answers the phone, and it's the standard "We have your boyfriend!" ransom call.
For a second she just stands there with a thoughtful look, like she's doing mental math. "Uh-huh..."
"Now, if you ever want to see him again-"
"No, shut up for a second, I'm tryna think."
"You...What?"
She thinks for another second and then gives up. "Alright, you're gonna have to tell me who you have. If it was Ben, you'd have said you have the king; if it was Harry or Gil, I'd be impressed..."
"It's not me!" Gil calls out helpfully from another room. "And Jay's sitting on my lap."
"And it's not Jay," she adds. "So, who'd you catch?"
The voice on the other end of the phone grunts in annoyance. "You know, the blond guy."
"The blond guy's here; that's what I just said."
"No, the-! Cinderella's son. I forget his name; he hasn't been on the news in a while." There's an offended noise, ostensibly from a gagged prince of Cinderellasburg who didn't appreciate the comment on his diminishing spotlight.
"Oh my gods," Uma groans. "You got Chad? He's not even my boyfriend; he's my girlfriend's boyfriend. Did he say he's my boyfriend?"
"He said we should think twice about holding him for ransom because the queen of the sea was going to destroy us."
"Well, yeah, but only because it's the cool thing to do." Uma is putting on her sword belt and jacket at this point. "I mean, Audrey would be pissed if I just let him be kidnapped. Is there a reason you called me? He told you I'd destroy you, and you thought 'I have an idea, let's call her?' How'd you even get my number?"
"Listen closely! We took him because we thought the royals of Cinderellasburg would pay a hefty price for his return. But now that we know he's valuable to the queen of the sea as well, we'd like to make a deal. If you sink the ships of our enemies, we'll return the prince to you with all his fingers."
"Dude, I don't even know who your enemies are. Do you have nautical coordinates?"
"There are five ships we'd like you to sink. I'm sending you the first set of coordinates now, and if the ship is not destroyed within the hour, the prince loses two fingers."
"Got it," Uma muses, glancing across the room at Carlos, who gives her a thumbs up.
"And before you think about attacking us, you should know we're landlocked!"
"Yeah, for sure. I hear you." She's putting eyeliner on in the mirror.
"The first ship, now! When you're done, we'll send the next coordinates."
"Great, yeah. Okay."
The phone hangs up.
"That was long enough to get his location, right?" she asks over her shoulder.
"Yep, we got him," Carlos answers. He's in bed, but he pulled his laptop onto his lap as soon as the matter of hostages was mentioned.
"Cool. Guess I'll go get Chad and...I don't know, kill that guy?"
"No killing. Remedial Goodness."
"Oh, like the crown isn't responsible for-...Whatever. I'll just break his knees."
Another thumbs up. Jane, sitting next to Carlos, looks slightly bewildered, but she hops up to grab Uma's hat for her as she heads out the door.
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...okay, so I'm probably not the first person to notice this.
But gear's earing that he points towards when he says that he did the same ritual he wanted to help kuro with already on himself before:
actually looks pretty similar to the pieces of the necklace the count used to create the servamps:
The different pieces of the necklace seem to contain one demon each and the count used them to create the servamps.
So...did the count either learn this technique from the werewolves or is he possible even originally a werewolf himself? It would explain why he's immortal, that's why I'm wondering about this.
Gear says that the ritual is used to remove spirits, could it be that the count removed his own sins using the werewolf ritual and created the demons this way? But he went too far and removed too much unlike gear who only removed one part of himself? Him removing the sins from himself would also explain why he's so weird and doesn't understand other beings. As the sin demons say, they are a natural part of being a human and we have seen multiple times that denying their existence is harmful, removing them all from you would probably lead to you not being able to relate to other people anymore.
Maybe removing all these parts of himself is also why he has no appearance. Without his demons he's not a person anymore.
The count originally being a werewolf would also explain why he has magical abilities (gear can also use magic) before other magicians existed and why he's so anxious about certain people dying. Gear talks about how his immortality makes him sad because human friends do die, but unlike the count gear seems to accept death, grieves in a heathier way than the count and is able to move on and make new friends. Could also explain why his magic and creations are all strongly tied to the (full) moon.
Another similarity is that while werewolves apparently can't reproduce gear was able to have descendants by sharing his life force (it's mentioned in chapter 135 which isn't translated yet) with a woman and through her human children tsurugi is related to gear. Sigurd explained to nicco that the magicians came to be because the count let humans drink his blood, three survived, got magical ablities and became the ancestors of all human magicians:
Maybe the count is more of a werecat though. He and the sloth demon do seem to have a closer connection, even though the count's appearance changes depending on the person looking at him he does usually keep his tail and the tip looks exactly like the one of kuro's cat/lion form and similar to the the one of inner sloth's non-human form.
It was also stated multiple times that the sloth demon is the strongest. I wonder why that is. Servamp comments on the fact that being lazy is often actually a sign of depression/anxiety through kuro's arc, so maybe the count was depressed and that's why the sloth demon is the strongest? Basically the demons strength depends on how much the count suffered from the different sins? It would also explain why melancholy is so strong, I assume kuro refusing to see him no matter how many siblings he sent his way to tell him to come looking for the count made him extremely sad and probably even made him come up with the plan to have himself be killed and then put in the same body as kuro through the ritual.
I assume he was behind C3 ordering the servamps to kill him because he's the one who created the magicians and thus C3 and lily who is kind of working for him was probably the one who put the idea that the count needed to be killed into the head of his eve (aka a member of the alicein family who hold a lot of power in C3 basically since the beginning. I explained this in more detail in another post). The people from C3 even said that the count can only be killed if he wants to and yeah, kuro didn't truly kill him, but he did destroy his body and kuro seems to have met little resistance when he attacked the count. Which probably means the count wanted this to happen.
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*Uma, watching Harry from afar*
Gil: "Harry, don't look now, but I think Captain is checking you out."
Harry: "She better be. Why do ya think I've been bent over my car for so long?
Gil: "Because your car broke down...?"
Harry: "Nah, the car has been good to go for half an hour now."
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