Shadows House (Official Colored) - Ch. 187 - Suspicion

[MangaDex]

 

[TestAddress]

THANKS NEW CHAPTER!

It seems Doug will kill Douglas.

"If you want Shadows House that much, why don't you become the soot sack??" - Doug the cHad, probably.

 

[atropicalpenguin]

Shit, did Sara propose to Edward? That's creepy AF, the poor girl. Now she'll be tortured forever. She's a bitch, but it's sad to see her be used like that.

 

[Gu7]

This first panel of Doug's face was very bone-chilling

 

[Neuralhub]

literal gaslighting

 

[TestAddress]

Shit, did Sara propose to Edward? That's creepy AF, the poor girl. Now she'll be tortured forever. She's a bitch, but it's sad to see her be used like that.

I believe the sacrifice is only one student per turn. Until Barbara expires, Sara will not be a soot sacrifice.

 

[Bramia]

Shit, did Sara propose to Edward? That's creepy AF, the poor girl. Now she'll be tortured forever. She's a bitch, but it's sad to see her be used like that.

Remember they are brainwashed kids who had no parental figure aside from the "house's rules"

 

[TestAddress]

literal gaslighting

because it just works. In Charlotte, it was said that great courage is actually an ability. Reference episode 13.

 

[AsAnAsterisk]

It was mentioned earlier that Sara only cares about marriage as a means to elevate her status, she doesn't necessarily love Edward, just that he's in a higher position than she is.
Sara and Mia really interest me though, I reread some of the early chapters and I'd completely forgotten how friendly and helpful Mia was at first.

 

[fennec]

I love that Edward is unknowingly talking Douglas out of trusting him and telling him everything.

 

[Curetwinkle]

I think this may actually turn into a bigger plot point than it seems rn but it's all still personal speculation....

1. Before Barbara and Barbie were the currant soot producer (living battery) duo, how DID the manor meet the "essential soot output"? I think early on it's mentioned that Barbara produces so much that the adults don't need to contribute or something? (I'll look back later for the specific detail). But that just raises some questions: was there a previous soot battery duo? Or did the Shadows House originally TRY to streamline production to farm it from multiple shadows, but then came up with a process to create a "living battery" out of the children's wing to be more efficient? The way Edward is talking about Sara, how all he has to do is "fill her with negative emotions", and then she becomes Barbara 2.0. He specifically states he was "looking for a powerless," which implies that's a requirement for whatever process he's about to start with her. Makes me think of Anthony's "fragments of favor" and how he used it on the /powerless/ Margaret to jumpstart an insanely out of control soot power up. Anthony was watching her to make sure she would have the negative emotions to trigger the reaction. And of course, after a while the power up was actually quite painful for Margaret which is why she died. Meanwhile, we know Barbara's "seizures" are quite painful for her..... If the "fragment of favor" IS related to what Edward is going to do to Sara, then Anthony is missing a key component to the process since Barbara is definitely dying but it's been long drawn out. If true this all comes back to: why would Anthony, a human, need to be carrying around something that has the effect of significantly amplifying soot powers? He at least needs to trust whoever uses and needs it to last longer than Margaret if he's going to use the children as pawns to fight the adults. Personally, this makes me more skeptical of Anthony's claim to being (fully) human, and that it's all been an act to fool Kate (and the readers). Am I overthinking it, yes. But I'm having fun with this manga so it's fine.


2. More importantly tho, what DO they need the energy FOR? The Shadow House "runs" on soot power, but thinking more on it now what does that really mean? Up until this point they don't really go into the details for the mansion, they want the shadows and children to assume it's for like maintenance and utilities or something, right (and by proxy the readers). However, I'm gonna say I don't think they're using much of the soot that's being collected by Barbara to /maintain/ both the Children and Adult facilities. Think about the ridiculous amount of soot we've seen used on the WHOLE island itself that the towns get from the mansion shipped out via trains. It's literally marketed as a fuel efficient alternative to regular coal and made to seem like an infinite product when we know it's not and where it actually comes from. I don't think Barbara is single handedly supplying the whole island or anything either. But I suspect there's something else (most, if not all) of her soot is actually being used for. Like, really?, they're using Barbara as a living battery to make the UTILITIES in the mansion work every day? But they ship out the soot coal like they're never running out of the goddamn stuff? Idk, the more I think about this the more it keeps me up. Could there be something MORE messed up the Shadows House would use the "living battery" child soot production for? Knowing the cruelty and horrors of the Shadow's House so far, it's possible.

 

[Corvinus13]

He specifically states he was "looking for a powerless," which implies that's a requirement for whatever process he's about to start with her.

Or it might just be that he doesn't want to make a shadow with powers too powerful.

It seems like the process requires unrequited love - Barbara had unrequited love for Christopher, Margaret for Patrick, and Sara for Edward.

 

[TestAddress]

Or it might just be that he doesn't want to make a shadow with powers too powerful.

It seems like the process requires unrequited love - Barbara had unrequited love for Christopher, Margaret for Patrick, and Sara for Edward.

In other words building 👷‍♀️ 🙌 up of emotions.


As long as the emotion is not expressed or resolved, they become soot stacks. Look at Douglas currently and at Kate from season 1 of anime.

What is weird is grandfather who has stored a lot of skeletons in the closet is not emitting a bleep of smoke in the room.

 

[AAA1]

Heh

 

[TestAddress]

I think this may actually turn into a bigger plot point than it seems rn but it's all still personal speculation....

1. Before Barbara and Barbie were the currant soot producer (living battery) duo, how DID the manor meet the "essential soot output"? I think early on it's mentioned that Barbara produces so much that the adults don't need to contribute or something? (I'll look back later for the specific detail). But that just raises some questions: was there a previous soot battery duo? Or did the Shadows House originally TRY to streamline production to farm it from multiple shadows, but then came up with a process to create a "living battery" out of the children's wing to be more efficient? The way Edward is talking about Sara, how all he has to do is "fill her with negative emotions", and then she becomes Barbara 2.0. He specifically states he was "looking for a powerless," which implies that's a requirement for whatever process he's about to start with her. Makes me think of Anthony's "fragments of favor" and how he used it on the /powerless/ Margaret to jumpstart an insanely out of control soot power up. Anthony was watching her to make sure she would have the negative emotions to trigger the reaction. And of course, after a while the power up was actually quite painful for Margaret which is why she died. Meanwhile, we know Barbara's "seizures" are quite painful for her..... If the "fragment of favor" IS related to what Edward is going to do to Sara, then Anthony is missing a key component to the process since Barbara is definitely dying but it's been long drawn out. If true this all comes back to: why would Anthony, a human, need to be carrying around something that has the effect of significantly amplifying soot powers? He at least needs to trust whoever uses and needs it to last longer than Margaret if he's going to use the children as pawns to fight the adults. Personally, this makes me more skeptical of Anthony's claim to being (fully) human, and that it's all been an act to fool Kate (and the readers). Am I overthinking it, yes. But I'm having fun with this manga so it's fine.


2. More importantly tho, what DO they need the energy FOR? The Shadow House "runs" on soot power, but thinking more on it now what does that really mean? Up until this point they don't really go into the details for the mansion, they want the shadows and children to assume it's for like maintenance and utilities or something, right (and by proxy the readers). However, I'm gonna say I don't think they're using much of the soot that's being collected by Barbara to /maintain/ both the Children and Adult facilities. Think about the ridiculous amount of soot we've seen used on the WHOLE island itself that the towns get from the mansion shipped out via trains. It's literally marketed as a fuel efficient alternative to regular coal and made to seem like an infinite product when we know it's not and where it actually comes from. I don't think Barbara is single handedly supplying the whole island or anything either. But I suspect there's something else (most, if not all) of her soot is actually being used for. Like, really?, they're using Barbara as a living battery to make the UTILITIES in the mansion work every day? But they ship out the soot coal like they're never running out of the goddamn stuff? Idk, the more I think about this the more it keeps me up. Could there be something MORE messed up the Shadows House would use the "living battery" child soot production for? Knowing the cruelty and horrors of the Shadow's House so far, it's possible.

My guess is CHRISTOPHER.

 

[TestAddress]

It was mentioned earlier that Sara only cares about marriage as a means to elevate her status, she doesn't necessarily love Edward, just that he's in a higher position than she is.
Sara and Mia really interest me though, I reread some of the early chapters and I'd completely forgotten how friendly and helpful Mia was at first.

Mia is completely manipulated when Sara produced huge amounts of soot. It seems that if Mia cannot clean them all, it enters her and makes her controlled. Much like the coffee.

 

[Justking14]

Honestly, it’d be incredibly impressive if these two could actually break their own brainwashing like that. We haven’t really seen that happen before so it’d definitely signify Just how strong they really are

 

[fgsfdss]

how DID the manor meet the "essential soot output"?

Coal.

 

[H4CK3R]

Ayooo...is doug sinister smiling because douglas brainwashing is coming undone or is doug part of only humans should live faction?

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.