Black Butler II/Characters
Alois Trancy
Voiced by Nana Mizuki (JP) and Luci Christian (ENG) |
"They should all die! All of them! Everything, completely annihilated!"
- Animal Motifs: Apparently the Trancy clan has been long associated with spiders, and Alois himself has had quite a few What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic scenes with spiders and webs. His contract mark even looks a bit like a spiderweb.
- Bodyguard Betrayal: He ends up murdered by Claude.
- Creepy Child: Much more so than Ciel.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His backstory contains life as a poor orphan, the death of his beloved little brother, and sex slavery. Then he met Claude.
- Dead Little Sister: Brother, actually, and the driving force behind Alois' autophobia.
- Deal with the Devil: With Claude.
- And again with Hannah.
- Desperately Craves Affection
- Dying Alone: Even more of a Tear Jerker due to the fact that it was Claude, the only person he seemed to care about, who killed him.
- Foil: For Ciel.
- Forgiveness: It's implied that he was able to forgive Claude that the latter killed him, as Hannah mentioned that she, Claude, Alois and Luca can all be together in nirvana.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: An evil variation.
- Leitmotif: The Slightly Chipped Full Moon and its variations.
- No Sense of Personal Space
- Nouveau Riche: He flaunts his money and doesn't rally seem to care, as seen by the first episode when he tosses bills and bills of money down to his "uncle".
- Please Don't Leave Me: Performed on Claude. Claude still killed him.
- Rags to Riches: His backstory.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Claude's Blue Oni. Can also be considered the Red Oni to Ciel's Blue Oni.
- Sex Slave: Used to be one to the late Earl Trancy.
- Together in Death: He, Luca, Claude, and Hannah. Somehow.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
- Who Wears Short Shorts?: His "Booty Shorts" have pretty much reached memetic status by now.
- Yandere: For Claude after Character Development.
- Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A.
Claude Faustus
Voiced by Takahiro Sakurai (JP) and Jason Douglas (ENG) |
"Passion to calm, hesitation to resolve, love to gravestones. That is the Trancy butler."
- Cheshire Cat Grin
- Cool Sword: The Demon Sword Laevatein, which he stores inside Hannah.
- Decoy Protagonist
- Demihuman: Like Sebastian, in his human form he has Cute Little Fangs. Also, his eyes are yellow/gold.
- Dragon with an Agenda: He doesn't care about fulfilling Alois's goals; he just wants Ciel's soul.
- Evil Brit: If he can count as one.
- Eyes of Gold
- Though sometimes they glow red.
- Fangs Are Evil
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul
- The Glasses Come Off
- Gratuitous English: "Yes, your highness."
- Hellish Pupils: Occasionally.
- Jackass Butler
- Taken Up to Eleven with his behavior towards Hannah in the Trancy OVA.
- Man of Wealth and Taste
- Mind Rape: After he killed Alois, Claude abducted Ciel, drugged him, practically drowned him, and overall completely screwed with his mental state to the point of semi-hypnotism to accomplish his goals.
- Meaningful Name: Claude Faustus.
- The Oathbreaker: Sorry, Alois.
- Real Men Wear Pink: He's got a real talent for crocheting, as episode 9 of the season 2 shows. Though that may be playing with the fact that he's a spider demon.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Alois's Red Oni.
- Stoic Spectacles
- The Un-Smile: He smiles at the beginning of episode 8, shocking and disgusting Alois.
- Those Two Bad Guys: When partnered with Alois.
Hannah Annafellows
Voiced by Aya Hirano (JP) and Caitlin Glass (ENG) |
- Absolute Cleavage
- Affably Evil
- Ambiguously Brown
- Bag of Holding/Hyperspace Arsenal : She IS one.
- Barehanded Blade Block: Against a freaking chainsaw, no less. Justified by the fact that she's a demon.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: one of the two reasons she becomes attached to Luka. Hannah notes that he was genuinely excited that she appeared to him to grant his wish and that, upon his death, he was the first soul to have ever expressed gratitude towards her for granting their wish. She was mournful in his death.
- Benevolent Boss: It is revealed in "Crossroads Butler" that the triplets actually serve Hannah when we see them groom her and assist her burning down Luka's and Alois' village in a flashback. In "Spider's Intentions", she is shown treating them gently, placing flowers in their hair, with the triplets seeming quite fond of her preferring her over Claude.
- Body Horror: In episode 10, she opens her mouth disgustingly wide to give Ciel a look at Alois' eye that she stole, which stares back at him from seemingly an abyss inside her.
- Butt Monkey
- Clothing Damage: A lot.
- Expy: Arguably, of Angela. Both have white hair, look vulnerable at first, are actually stronger than they look and very manipulative and have crossed the limits of their own species (one is a Fallen Angel and the other is a demon with feelings).
- Eye Scream: The unfortunate(?) victim.
- Then she redirects it by swallowing Alois's eye and keeping it in the back of her mouth so his soul can use it to take over Ciel's body.
- Fan Service: Although to some, with the amount of eroguro that she becomes involved with, it could be Fan Disservice.
- Girl with Psycho Weapon: Even worse than the giant gun she keeps hidden somewhere is the massive sword she keeps literally inside her.
- Go-Go Enslavement
- Love Martyr: It pays off in the end though.
- Mad Love: For Alois. No matter how much he hurts her, she wouldn't think of leaving him, since she absorbed Luca's love for him.
- Ninja Maid
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: While we were all busy feeling sorry for the poor girl with one eye, she went and Out-Gambitted everybody in the show by having Alois' soul take over Ciel's body. Then she took both Ciel's and Alois's souls, forcing Sebastian and Claude into a duel over the former's, before making Ciel into a demon so that they both lose anyway.
- The Reveal: Hannah was the one who made the contract that took Luca's soul, and she came to serve him alongside Claude because she and Luca both wanted to be near Alois.
- Spell My Name with an "S": Depending on the subs, it's either "Anafeloz" or "Annafellows".
- Tears From a Stone: Demons aren't exactly emotionless but you do not make one cry easily.
- Trouser Space: Where she seems to store a... rather large machine gun.
- What Is This Thing You Call Love?: Hannah was a typical, uncaring demon until she was summoned by Luca. His naivety and selfless reason for selling his soul shook her immensely, to the point where she became Alois's servant just to be close to him for Luca's soul.
- White-Haired Pretty Girl
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
- Your Soul Is Mine: In the end, SHE ends up with Luca AND Alois' souls. They're pleased.
Thompson, Timber, and Canterbury
Voiced by Kenichi Suzumura (JP) and Scott Freeman (ENG) |
"None of your business."
"My cowlick spins to the left."
"My cowlick spins to the right."
- Buxom Is Better: In their opinions, anyway.
- He Who Must Not Be Heard: Until the Spider's Intention OVA, where Alois demands that they speak up, we only see them whispering among themselves.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning
- Theme Naming: English writers, it seems.
Luca Macken
Voiced by Marina Inoue (JP) and Lindsay Seidel (ENG) |
"I made a contract with a demon!"
- Ambiguous Innocence: Between dead parents and needing to steal to live, Luca apparently never realized that, well... summoning demons to kill people is wrong.
- Big Brother Worship: He adores his brother Jim.
- Cheerful Child: Despite his situation.
- Deal with the Devil: He was the one who summoned Hannah.
- Go Out with a Smile: Hannah reminisces that he was the first person who had ever been genuinely HAPPY to see her.
- Meaningful Echo: "Yes, your highness."