More on Alois Trancy (if you care)

Who is Alois Trancy?

Alois Trancy is a primary character in the anime series Black Butler II. He (like Ciel and Sebastian the main characters of the first series) has a demon/butler who he's promised his soul to when his wish is granted. It is shown in the first episode that he knows who Ciel is and that his butler Claude is familiar with Sebastian. Alois also seems to antagonize Ciel (as in episode 5) and might possibly be a new enemy or a new ally. Alois is unpredictable and spratic like a small child (one minute calm, then happy, then angry, then lonely).

Maybe Alois's mood swings, and behavior are not just his personality?

     I stated in my earlier post I enjoy Alois's narcisisim and sadistic streak and that's true. I enjoy watching the charactistic of each mental disease be played out perfectly. Why? Am I crazy as well? Nope! (well maybe but all the best people are ;]) I want to be a psychologist (more on that later) and I enjoy watching and predicting Alois's (seemingly unpredicable) actions as a way to gloat my knowlage of psychology. But even the best psychologists can't predict his mood swings.
      First when he wakes up and his (demon) butler Claude is dressing him, Claude is almost done buttoning his shirt when Alois unbuttons the top two buttons and asks "Did I annoy you?" to which Claude replies "No" and countinues dressing, this shows signs of narcisisim (feeling supior, and lack of empathy).
     And then we see Alois at breakfast, playing with his eggs and talking to his maid Hannah about how pathetic they are, and then suddenly Alois smirks and knocks over a glass of wine to which Hannah rushes forward to clean, while she begins to clean Alois screams as though he's hurt and she looks up at him and his smirk widens and he scolds he for looking directly at him and his then proceeds to stick his fingers in her eye socket (which we thankfully can't see) and thick blood oozes out and he laughs. This shows signs of sadism (purposefully causing harm to a fellow human and enjoying it) and narcissism (lack of empathy)

  Of course he may also have more mental disorders.

     As in the scene in the first episode where Claude is trying to redecorate the manor Alois lives in to how it was before Alois father died, so Alois's uncle (and the precher and viscount he brought with him) would think Alois missed his father (which he really, really doesn't if the first scene of the episode is any indication). After Claude is done Alois plucks a rose from a vase and sticks it in his mouth, doing a few playful tango moves in frount of a stonic Claude, before moving up close to the camera and his angelic faces darks suddenly and he says coldly, "Eat shit" to the camera and then it cuts to the next scene. It leaves you thinking: WTF?! he has to have some bipolor disorder.

It's easy to see why he might have these disorders though

If you paid attention in the very first scene before the opening (which I love the picture of Alois licking the chess set his golden seal and blue eyes standing out) it shows Alois getting out of a golden bed, naked and covered in bruises, and next to an old, naked, unharmed man. It was kinda obvious he may/may not have gotten raped by (possibly) his father. After Alois gets out of bed he walks over to the window and has this conversation with a black and yellow spider, (who's web is spun in a corner above the bed where Alois and the unknown man was sleeping, eating a blue butterfly) and strikes a contract with him, when Alois's mouth is open on the last word you can see the spider sitting on his tongue, and then when the contract is stuck, the spider vanishs and there's a golden star on Alois's tongue. Completing Alois's "deal with the devil".

In Conclution

     Well whatever Alois turns out to be (a friend, ally or enemy) to the main characters Ciel and Sebastian, he'll always be an interesting character. I'd also like to learn why Claude and Sebastian are so hostile towards another, and why does Alois want to "pocess" Ciel? I guess I've have to wait till all the episodes are out to really know.