pandatails

[crowleiii]

[ /chinhands tell me about Kro's blood family, what's the deal with grandpa, Krory? ]

OOC -  alright so i’m going to take it as a question to hijack, because I seriously have quite the amount of feels, thoughts, and abundant yelling done about Krory’s family ( but if anyone feels like asking the poor guy directly about said family, go for it. i hc it as a very, very sore subject, tho ). So I’ll make these into separate points because then it’s easier to argue about just one. I’m gonna limit myself to three here, because… I could write so much…( fun little disclaimer: idk if they’re meant to be theories or just rambling )

          1.  Krory’s the third in line. He was brought up by his grandfather, with neither mother nor father in sight. Now, considering the era, it’s perfectly possible his mom died giving birth, or that his father died of illness or something along those lines, or they were killed off by an Akuma, or you know, any natural cause of death. All of these could be, but then it’s kind of fishy we never hear of Crowley the Second. Or well, I believe? Call me paranoid, but this is d-gray.man and I will worry about where that second guy went unless he’s proven dead.          1.5.  I could also worry about his mom, but she was given no name nor presence at all, and I honestly find it much weirder to introduce three generations of men from a family, and entirely skip one.

            2.  I know it’s heavy on hc that Krory’s real name is still Aleister Crowley, because no one in this manga seems to have a name that makes sense, but Aleister itself isn’t really a name, as it should technically be Alister / Alasdair ( fun fact that krory’s name’s literally alexander ). Alister is a Scottish name, Crowley is a Gaelic / Irish name, so even taking into account the name Arystar Krory in its entirety and as some weird re-writing of another name, these names aren’t Romanian in the slightest. It could just have been overlooked, but most of the other characters do have names that can be tied to their origins. Hell, even Eliade is a Romanian name. What are the odds grandpa Crowley received these lands in Transylvania? He was said to have traveled a lot, and he did have a noble title.            2.5  This is probably also reading too much into this, but what else is a Scottish and Gaelic name in origins? Campbell.

              3.  Sometimes I forget about it, but then I have super nice friends who remind me of it, so I’ll make it the third point: Cross did go out of his way to give the flower to Krory, stating he knew his grandfather. That brings a lot of questions such as, how did Cross know Krory would be an Accommodator? Why, how, when did he encounter Crowley senior? What links did they have? Were they just acquaintances? But then, why would Cross, who clearly has better things to do than remember some old man in a castle in the faraway land of Transylvania, took the time to not only care ( or have Allen care ) for the plant and then bring it back to the surviving grandson? Feed Innocence to the plant, at that? Let it bite a random lad ( that he yeah, somehow guessed would be a good host, since he did warn the village’s mayor about it ) before fucking off in the distance without telling the Order about the fact he had found an Accommodator? I mean, yeah, alright, it’s Cross, maybe it’s normal, every day behavior from him.  It sounds unlikely Cross would have lied about knowing Crowley Senior tho, tbh, unless he just wanted money the easy way, but then you can also tie the second point with this one if you feel like it.              3.5  Or you can tie into in a Krory is the heart theory.