Kuroshitsuji II 08 - Jim McCain

This is one hell of an episode that reveals Alois' past. Beware, it's a long post ahead!!
*That's some sexy boots you have there!!*

OP:
Nope, no new op animation of music. It's just that instead of the Ciel & Alois OP, it shows the OP from the first episode featuring Alois, Claude and the Trancy's servants. Why? Continue reading and you'll understand.

Summary:

Hannah enters Alois' room to change his bandage, but Alois wants Claude to do it for him. So Claude does as he is ordered while Alois asks him does his blood stir him up as Ciel's did. To his surprise, Claude gives a rare smile and answers him 'yes'. Alois is shocked to see Claude smiling but thinks that it's disgusting after he's left alone in his own room.

Later on, he finds Hannah and rapes cries while ordering her to bring him to Ciel's place.

While Hannah leaves with Alois, Claude appears to be alone in his study reading something. The triplets then pop up behind him and whisper something to Claude one by one. Without a word, Claude starts folding the paper he was reading and folds it into an origami ring.

In the carriage, it is shown that Alois' wound is worsening.

As he looks out from the window and dozes off, he starts having flashback on his past.

Back here at the village, he's Jim McCain (It's confirmed that he's not a Trancy) and he has a very cute brother called Luca.

After his parents died, the two brothers are treated badly by the villagers.

Looking at Luca's bruise on his forehead caused by the evil baker who threw stone at him, Jim shows his hatred for everyone in the village.

Angered by the villagers who have no sympathy towards them, Jim curses and hopes that every villager would die.

At this point, Jim is shown to be somewhat psychopathic already to my dismay.

Luckily, he still has his little brother to make sure he's still sane in a way.
*Aaaaww, brother love is so sweet~*

However, it is clear that Luca has been infected by Jim's insanity and told him innocently that 'because it's you, your wish will definitely come true!'

Cheering up, Jim and Luca have fun together in the basement of their house. In the end, Jim tells Luca not to leave him alone and stay by his side.

Cute little Luca promises Jim and kneels down to him like a knight, answering 'Yes Your Highness' adorably.

Sometime later, Jim and Luca find some dead bodies floating along the river near their house and see the village ablaze. They go there and learn that everyone is dead. Knowing that those who used to bully them are dead for good, Jim smiles a lunatic smile and does a Victory sign.

With everyone dead, Jim instructs Luca in excitement to go and grab everything he wants from the dead villagers. They separate and have fun for some time until, Jim feels a chilling wind blowing at him and he gets worried for Luca.

He calls for Luca and looks everywhere around for him. Finally he sees Luca laying on the ground and rushes towards him. It was only when he hugs Luca did he realised that his little brother is dead as well.

Fearing of the dark and being alone, Jim cries in desperate asking Luca not to leave him alone in the dark.

*ok, even if he looks filthy, he's still pretty cute*
Probably a few years later, a carriage carrying a number of young boys is seen entering the Trancy household, which is said to be the house of Spider to the locals around the area.

The good news is, at least Jim's dad wasn't a pedobear, the bad news is, his new-found 'dad' is a big fat ugly one.

When it is Jim's turn to be checked out by his master, he stares at Lord Trancy with such hatred in his eyes that it pisses the fat man.

Angered by his hateful eyes, Lord Trancy beats Jim and calls him filthy.

In the room where the 'puppets' are being kept, Jim overhears a boy telling another boy about the legend of the fairy in the forest.

Mystery solved.
'Hoheotararuna Ronderotareu' is a spell to summon fairy, or demon to be exact.
Desperate, Jim goes to the forest and tries to summon the fairy to save him.

Jim is disappointed when no fairy appears before him. As he is about to leave the forest, it starts to 'snow'. Jim looks up and realises that it's actually falling ashes instead of snow.

Suddenly, Jim sees himself trapped by a spider web and a learns that the mysterious figures who speaks to him is a devil.

Despite that he managed to summon the devil, Jim didn't make any contract with 'Claude' as he didn't have any particular wish at that moment.

Back at his room where he sleeps with the other puppets, Jim wakes up and seems to have made up his mind on something.

Shock and horror.
Lord Trancy is horrified to find out that all his puppets (aka sex toys) are all sick except Alois.

He isn't willing to have Alois as he regards him as a filthy brat but changes his mind the moment he sees the poor kid.
*Urgh, disgusting pedoman needs to die in hell and suffer for eternity*

Alois appears before the old man in his geisha outfit looking delicious seductive.

And so the old man fell for him, literally.

Just as planned.
Jim smiles devilishly as he sees Lord Trancy falling before him and kissing his foot.

Fast forward a bit, Alois (Jim is officially reborn as Alois Trancy right now) is here at the Trancy household looking healthy (save for his mental) and having tea with Claude. Claude reveals that all Alois' fellow villagers' souls are eaten by Sebby .
*Why the colourful outfit Claude? You look like you're from the circus!!*

Even though Claude is wearing a ridiculous outfit, he changes into his butler suit within a sec when Alois commands him.

With his mind made up, Alois commences with his plan and has his 'father' dead. He then appears on the funeral crying before everyone. His acting skill is so awesome that no one suspects him except 'uncle Arnold'.
*Alois you sure your tailor didn't ran out of material when he/she did your short???*

After the funeral, Claude wants to discuss about the inheritance with Alois but Alois wants him to focus on his revenge instead. Alois then explains that by making Ciel his, it would be the best punishment for Sebby since Sebby is insanely obsessed with Ciel's soul.
*Someone please tell me Alois is not wearing a mini skirt!!!*

When Alois wakes up from his flashback, he sees Greil sitting in front of him reading a book titled 'JM' (probably stands for Jim McCain). While reading it, Greil comments that Jim McCain is an unexciting name and Alois is boring. Then he tells Alois that he's there to collect Alois' soul. Just then, Hannah interrupts them by wrecking the roof top of the carriage and Alois quickly commands her to get rid of Greil while he gets away.

Alois gets away from the fighting scene with much difficulty due to his wound and he remembers an incident that happened long ago when Claude replied Alois with 'Yes, Your Highness'.

Initially Alois couldn't accept that since it reminds him of his adorable dead brother painfully.

But after thinking about it again, Alois realised that he's dependant on Claude and he instructs Claude to repeat the sentence.

Later on, he recalls another incident where Claude's action frustrated him so much that he slapped him in the face.

Still crawling....
At this point, Kalafina's Kagayaku Sora no Sijima ni wa starts playing in the bg, making me almost crying at the lovely song that fits the emotion of the scene perfectly.
*Pffft. This pose is so similar to Ciel's pose in the ED animation, except that one is clearly in pain while the other one is in peace*

When Alois questions Claude why did he disobey his orders, Claude simply answers that all he wants is to satisfy his hunger for Alois' soul. Out of desperate, Alois screams that he wants Claude to look at him with a longing gaze unlike those disgustingly lustful look he'd seen from his 'father's' eyes or the disgusted look the villagers gave him and Luca.

Finally, after a long and tiring journey, Alois reaches the big tree.

Saying that he knows Claude is just hungry for his soul, Alois seems to give up on everything as he rests beneath the tree.

Alois knows that he won't last for long and doesn't even bother calling Claude to save him when a hungry wolf approaches him.

Meanwhile, Hannah is stabbed by Greil with his crazy chain saw.
*look at the blood dripping!!! It's like Hannah's blood is made of jelly.... lol*

Claude appears to rescue Alois from the fate of ending up in the wolf's stomach!!

Alois is more than happy to see Claude coming for him and he quickly drags himself to Claude's side and hugs his leg saying that all he has is Claude.

Finally Claude shows his devilish smile and asks why is Alois is so attached to a mere butler like him.

*gasp blooooooood ;___;*
Perhaps it was his wounds and perhaps it was Claude, Alois vomits chunks of blood suddenly and falls to the ground. Claude takes off the Trancy's ring from Alois' (seemingly dead already...) finger and says that Alois is tasteless and he has no use for him anymore.

Greil than appears covered in Hannah's blood. It is implied that Claude didn't bother to eat Alois' soul as Greil is shown looking happy stating that there's no problem in collecting Alois' soul thus he can go back home and have his beauty sleep.

After the ED sequence, Alois' body is seen laying where he crawled over to hug Claude.

Hannah approaches Alois' dead body and mutters 'Danna-sama, your wish...' as she pokes her finger through his eye on the very same side which Alois gouged hers.

She lowers her head until she 'kisses' Alois' eye and the wind starts blowing. However, whatever happens between Hannah and her dead master is unknown and we'll probably find out in the later episode...

New ED animation and song:
Dedicated to Alois and his tragic past, this ED animation and music made me teary.

Kalafina's song and the new ED animation really complements each other.

Now tell me, how can you still you hate Alois/Jim when he's looking so heart-breakingly lonely and lost.

One emo Alois coming up.

More emo scene.

Afterall, he's still a kid, Trancy or McCain doesn't matter, all he wants is recognition and love from those around him.

Daaaaaaw. Don't you feel like hugging him????

Baaaaaaw. ;__; So sweet...

Thoughts:
Definitely one of the most interesting episodes, this episode focuses on Alois and explains his past. I'm not really sure what to think about it. Even though I'm pretty glad that Alois' real father isn't a pedophile, that still doesn't change Alois' unfortunate past where he lost all his family and got mentally/physically/sexually-abused by that gross pedoman.

Certainly I can somehow see that how his personality got so twisted. We also get to understand Alois' obsession in making Ciel his and his desire to make Sebastien suffer. Sadly, something doesn't click. I want to feel sad for Alois and yes I know he is so darn unfortunate, but somehow his actions seem so shallow that I can't really feel his emotions behind them.

What Alois is trying to do, to revenge Luca? If he treasures Luca so much, why didn't he mention him more often? Even the 'Yes, Your Highness' part made it sound like Alois is more concerned for his love for Claude rather than he's in pain as it reminds him of Luca... Or maybe Alois just hates Sebby because he is the one that caused him to be isolated in the dark? Certainly this doesn't make Alois look any better since he's doing it for himself...

Next, we have Claude being a total bastard devil in this episode. He's selfish and greedy, but he doesn't show it on the surface. Urgh Claude, I don't care it's Sakurai voicing you or not I'm starting to hate you already... You murdered my shota!!!!

Lastly, what was Hannah doing to Alois' eye/dead body? I don't think it's possible that she formed a contract with him seeing that Alois is dead for good with his soul gone. Or perhaps she's referring to Alois' wish to be loved and she's fulfilling it in someway...

Ok I need to rest, my brain just got overheated.