Great mission. I've never heard of Black Butler before. But if it's got Inspector Abbeline in it, I'll have to check it out.

One small nitpicking point... When the CAD said "Earl Ciel Phantomhive", that was wrong. The correct name for an Earl would be "Earl of Phantomhive", "Lord of Phantomhive", or just "Lord Phantomhive". That's assuming Phantomhive is the name of his Earldom. If it's his personal surname, you can call him something like "Ciel, Earl Phantomhive of [wherever]" but that's a bit of a mouthful so don't bother!

Anwyay, the important thing is, never get the name of his Earldom mixed up with his personal names.

But apart from that, it was a brilliant story. Loved the cats, and the idea the POVs are minis. And you made the setting clear enough that I could follow everything without knowing anything about the canon.

... although I don’t know anything about "Black Butler".

Alas, I found one typo:
Seriously, my home fic had better transitions that that!
Should be "better transitions than that".

I liked how you handled the minis.

HG

Some thoughts:

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"Do you know how many non-working-class Black people lived in London back then?"

Yes. Not many. However, there were a LOT of black servants around, generally freed slaves or their descendants. Which means Miguel could quite easily be wearing a suit, if a slightly lower-quality one. Makes him look like the help for Vi and Chris.

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"Also, the royal palace looked off, probably because the Sue had called it a castle."

I assume that's Buck House you're talking about? Because there's quite a lot of royal palaces in London, and none of them look like castles. Indeed, there's a perfectly serviceable fortress in there. It's got a big ol' tower in it and it's in London. Hm. If only I could remember the blasted name... =]

(EDIT: Yes it is.)

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Hayato POV

POVs are about half as big again as their lowercase counterpart, the pov. Instead of going "snrf?" they go "Grnf." Additionally, rather than using the pov's method of scuttling up a character's back to perch on their head, the POV inflates itself with a lighter-than-air gas, presumably helium, and floats onto the character's head. Its frequent squeaky Grnfs are as a result of the gas leaking out, and its scuttly bits flail wildly in order to steer it in mid-air.

I am not a biologist.

I don't care.

Gimme the POV.

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"The cat—Ciel POV—looked Chris in the eye and swished his tail once."

So POVs are just minis?



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"She got her eye replaced! That’s definitely something I’d want to look at right away!"

For one thing, you're not supposed to keep glass eyes in at night.

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"A fourth Continuity Cat, this one with a scar over its right eye and shorter fur, appeared and ran from Ciel’s side to investigate/play with the other cats."

Violet Greenfield: crazy Continuity Cat lady. =]

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"The Words took her literally, and the Sue suddenly looked like a human-shaped blob of opaque reddish jelly in a dress."

Would you like a jelly baby?

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"Did they know about heart attacks in Victorian England?"

Yes. Yes they did.

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On the whole, I rather enjoyed that despite not being at all familiar with the canon.

But no POVs for Scapegrace.

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