Arthur Randall
Kanji	アーサー ランドール
Romanji	Aasā Randōru
Characteristics
Race	Human
Gender	Male
Professional Status
Occupation	Scotland Yard's police commissioner
Base of Operations	London
Personal Status
Status	Alive
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Volume 1, Chapter 3
Anime Debut	Episode 2
Voices
Japanese Voice	Yutaka Aoyama
English Voice	John Gremillion

Lord Arthur Randall (アーサー ランドール, Aasā Randōru) is the police commissioner of the Scotland Yard, and is frequently partnered with the officer, Fred Aberline.

Contents 1 Appearance 2 Personality 3 Manga's Synopsis 3.1 Kidnapping Arc 3.2 Curry Contest Arc 4 Anime's Synopsis 4.1 Conspiracy and Revenge Arc 5 Quotes 6 References 7 Navigation

Appearance

As commissioner for the Scotland Yard, Arthur presents himself very professionally, and dresses in sophisticated suits. He has dark-grey hair, a mustache, and sideburns. He possesses small brown eyes, and wears square glasses.

Personality

Arthur is a firm, mirthless, and businesslike individual. He has low tolerance for frivolous conduct and trifling matters. Strict and relatively critical of others, he has commented that although his subordinate Fred Aberline understands paintings, he is still only "half-trained as a detective."^[1] He holds Queen Victoria in high regard, taking her word as the absolute truth.^[2]

Furthermore, Arthur condemns and frowns upon the manner in which Ciel Phantomhive completes his various tasks for the Queen; he views it as despicably opposite of the Scotland Yard's work. He gets upset when he feels that Ciel has accomplished and received credit for a mission the Scotland Yard could have possibly figured out.^[3]

In the anime, Arthur is notably crueler, commenting that he would like to torture Ciel if Queen Victoria allows him to. Nonetheless, he is not above ordering the torture of Ciel's butler, Sebastian Michaelis.^[4]

Manga's Synopsis

Kidnapping Arc

Arthur engages in a meeting with Ciel Phantomhive, Clause, Lau, Angelina Durless, Azzurro Vanel, and the fat nobleman. Outside the room of manor, the Phantomhive servants cause a racket, and Arthur remarks that they are quite boisterous. They play pool as they discuss about a malicious "rat" and the necessity of it being eradicated, implying that a drug-dealer is among them.^[5] When Ciel declares that he will exterminate the rat in return for a compensation, Arthur calls him a vulture; however, Ciel sharply replies that Arthur is a "bloodhound that cannot even catch one rat," so he is not entitled to insult the Phantomhive family crest. Arthur then reluctantly informs Ciel that he will receive his compensation this evening. Ciel notifies Arthur that a carriage will come pick him up, and he would even be provided with slight accommodations. Provoked, Arthur states that greed will ultimately destroy Ciel.^[6]

Curry Contest Arc

Arthur crumples up the culprit's disparaging note, angered by the fact that it is the 20th case of the same incident where Anglo-Indians are assaulted, stripped, and hung upside down from the eaves of the Hindustani Coffee House in Portman Square. He yells at Scotland Yard officer Fred Aberline, for his failure of apprehending the culprit, and complains that the glory of catching Jack the Ripper was stolen from them by "the brat." When Ciel Phantomhive approaches them, sarcastically apologetic for being a brat, Arthur stops Fred in the midst of his outburst; in a more calm and businesslike manner, he asks the reason behind Ciel's appearance. Ciel implies that Arthur is incompetent, by calling him an "old, pathetic hunting dog," and takes the reviews of the Anglo-Indian case without their consent, much to Arthur's exasperation.^[7]

Arthur is silenced when Ciel shows him the Royal seal, which indicates that the Queen has specifically requested for his assistance in this matter. Arthur comments that most Anglo-Indians are "cowards" who indulge in extravagance. When Ciel inquires what the tongue in the note means, he furiously answers that the culprit is mocking the British and the Queen; he considers the culprit as a "vulgar Indian barbarian." Ciel remarks that the situation involves smugglers in East End, a dark street that the city Yards are largely clueless with. His butler returns the documents, having already memorized them, and he and Ciel take their leave.^[8]

Fred questions who Ciel is, and Arthur explains that Great Britain has a secret, executive agency which is directly controlled by the Queen and is strictly confidential. He elaborates upon the Phantomhive family (a.k.a. "The Queen's Watchdogs" or "The Evil Noblemen"), who have served Great Britain for generations; their principal job is to conceal all of the Royal Family's wrongdoings and eliminate every thread linking to them, no matter how dirty the method. The Phantomhive family are obliged to maintain the division between the underground and regular society.^[9] Subsequently, Fred says that, in other words, the Phantomhives are the opposite of the police, as they use evil powers to fulfill the Queen's wishes. Arthur agrees, describing Ciel as a "demon."^[10]

After the completion of the case, Arthur and Fred visit Ciel's manor.^[11] They sit down in the dining room for dinner, and Arthur says that it was never his intention to enter "this eerie doghouse," and hands Ciel the bribe money from the Queen because of his work as her Watchdog. They celebrate the closing of the Anglo-Indian case with champagne, despite the official capture of the culprit; Arthur tells Fred that since the Queen and Ciel declare that the case is over, it will be deemed as such, with no arguments.^[12]

Anime's Synopsis

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Quotes

• (To Fred Aberline, about the Jack the Ripper case) "Our country, the Great Britain, has a long and deep history. The more we have, the more entanglements there are that are part of the underground society that we must not touch upon. This case was judged to have been resolved through the laws of that underground society. If you want to find out, keep looking. However once you do, you'll regret it. It would have been better to have never known."^{[citation needed]}

• (To Fred Aberline, referring to Ciel Phantomhive) "We let Jack the Ripper slip through our fingers, and that bloody brat snatched away our glory."^[3]

• (To Fred Aberline) "Every country has a surface world but there is always an underworld also. Great Britain is no exception. The Phantomhive is a dark agency that conceals all of Royal Family's evildoing and eliminates every thread linking the British Royal Family's involvement, no matter how dirty the method. A 'phantom' is something a royal family normally shouldn't have."^[13]

• (Referring to the Phantomhive manor) "I do not wish to stay in this creepy doghouse forever."^[14]

• (To Fred Aberline) "If Her Majesty and Phantomhive say it's over, then the culprit no longer exists."^[2]

References

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