I think ‘Julius’ never really existed in a way. I think he was a soul created by Lucius in order to conceal himself during this plan.
Yes, I think Lucius has Soul Magic, to finish up the picture Body, Blood & Bones do with a… well body. The other option would be Mind Magic, but somehow that doesn’t seem to go as well.
But I also think he was a honest and good (somewhat, I still have issues with SOME of his decisions, although that might have been Lucius’ influence) person, who, if he’s still alive somehow (doubtful, but Tabata has thrown curveballs at us before) is probably horrified of what’s about to happen.
It feels… sad that he was probably created to help bring about chaos onto a Kingdom he was willing to give his life to save A bit pityfull really.
So one evening I was talking with my sister and friends. I don’t remember why exactly but my sister had brought up carrying around lucky charms. Among the lucky charms she brought up four-leaf clovers and I jokingly went “you probably shouldn’t.” I had kinda forgotten that no on besides me in the group was into Black Clover.
Either way, my sister asked why four-leaf clovers weren’t lucky. I quickly explained the lore of grimoires and clovers in BC then gave brief overviews of each wielder of a four-leaf grimoire.
Licht lost his entire tribe of people and had to turn himself into a giant demon to stop a devil from taking over his body. And when he’s resurrected, he has to fight the same devil.
Lumiere had to fight and kill his best friend (Licht). He probably didn’t know if his sister lived or died the day of that tragedy. Then his body turned to dust as he died.
Patry died as a child before he could get grimoire and when he came back, it was all part of the devil’s plan. He got turned into a raging, mindless dark elf and permanently lost his grimoire.
Yuno lost his parents and kingdom as a baby. He grew up in poverty for most of his life. If Asta hadn’t come along, he would’ve had his grimoire stolen the day he got it. After becoming a Magic Knight, he’s bullied and harassed by his co-workers (Alecdora and Langris being the most prominent examples). Then when he learns of his royal origins, that same day his boss is kidnapped and half of his co-workers are killed.
And I didn’t bring this one up with my sister and friends but the elf soul that Yuno’s first grimoire actually belongs to is so unlucky that they didn’t even get out of the womb. Yikes.
Regardless, five-for-five, four-leaf grimoire wielders are met with misfortune.
But why would that be when four-leaf clovers are famous symbols of luck?
Well, maybe because Tabata is a Japanese man. Japanese and Western symbols of good luck aren’t the same. If you are the least but familiar with Japanese language, homophones, and superstitions the. You know where I’m going with this. In Japanese, the number “four” can be pronounced the same way as the word for “death.” Thus, four is unlucky.
Thus, we have our unlucky clovers.
I know what some people might be thinking. “But they’re all blessed by mana.” “Yuno is a prodigy.” “Patry was turned back to normal.”
Being blessed by mana didn’t make people agree with Licht and Lumiere’s vision of humans and elves living in harmony. The elves accepted Lumiere and Tetia but no other humans. They cursed the humans in their dying breaths.
Lumiere’s invention, which was meant to bring elven power and human ingenuity together, was used to massacre the elves. He watched his friend Secre curse herself with Weg to preserve his life.
Patry learned that he was being manipulated and that he hurt many innocents for nothing. He went against the beliefs of the one he admired for nothing. He believed he was meant for greatness because of his four-leaf but that was actually his downfall as his grimoire became Zagred’s five-leaf grimoire.
Yuno is put under so much pressure and is always on his own. He alone was the “hope of the church.” He was entrusted with responsibility even when Asta proclaimed his desire to help. Mimosa and Klaus are with with him often but it always feels like they’re associating with him because they’re Asta’s friends, not Yuno’s. He was the only person able to solo a Dark Disciple and face Zenon for even a moment. And in the final battle against Zenon, Finral and Langris couldn’t be there to support him and Yuno had to face Zenon alone. No, the elf soul and Bell do not count because, let’s be real, both are little more than talking power-ups. All the pressure on Yuno is patially due to being “blessed” with the four-leaf grimoire.
Yuno being a prodigy, being vice captain at 17, and getting two grimoires are snazzy things but I chalk that up to him being Tabata’s most special and favorite child more than anything else./hj
When you really look at Licht, Lumiere, Patry, and Yuno, their lives are unfortunate. Triumphant moments and incredible power do not make up for the more personal misfortunes in their lives.
All of them had high expectations put upon them and all of them have been met with tragedy and failure. Patry and Yuno are alive and able to fight for a happy end but they’re in no way blessed. None of them are.
The four-leaf grimoire is not an omen of luck. It is an omen of death and despair for those who have one.
Ok first of all, my mom is now simping for Julius and Morikawa’s voice hehehehe
Second of all, she is highkey feeding my theory that Julius is not human
So first, there’s a lot of foreshadowing in the patry vs julius fight particularly. Patry says, “is he even human” which first of all, sets off a lot of alarm bells in my head. I was like what are yall setting up for??
And then as he dies, he says, “I am glad to see so many humans(ningen).” There is a clear difference between “people” and “humans” in japanese. Now, the elves constantly say ningen, ningen, ningen over and over again(like a slur really asjhdask) and it makes a clear distinction that they are human and elves are not. So when there is another species, and there is a they vs them in every aspect of their behavior including language, why would tabata make Julius say “ningen”(which is the most used word when meaning humans)?
Also, we see Julius use spatial magic sometimes? Like he teleports from the midnight sun hideout to the tower where everyone else is in an instant and you cant tell me that he slowed down time around him and travelled(theoretically walked) to the tower. Like no, that man was not winded by the time he was back. And we also see him change the trajectory of objects like in his fight against patry, he returns patry’s sword, and in one instance, he also throws debris at patry in a completely new direction. But at least time and space are somewhat related, but what about his transformation magic? like that’s not related in any way TvT
And another strange thing is, why is Julius specifically 13 and not 14? My mom was the one who pointed it out in the first place. Like 6 months had already gone by so there’s one and a half year before Julius receives his full grimoire and gets his powers back and ages up but why this long? What’s going to happen in one and half years?
If he was 14, he would receive his grimoire way sooner and story would go as it is with Julius as clover kingdom’s greatest(rather negligent) protector again.
I’ve kept these thoughts to myself but my mom had been feeding them. She and I think more species are going to be revealed at when Julius gets his grimoire.
Right after the spade arc, I’m sure there would be an arc dedicated to the aftermath and possibly an arc in the Diamond kingdom bc that’s very overdue. Then I believe the map expands and new species like dwarves and maybe even angels would be revealed. Bc Spade kingdom is the gateway to the rest of the continent and right now, the story is just stuck on the increasingly small peninsula.
At this point, it’s all really speculation but I’m just putting it out there
Additionally, when I was rewatching the Patry vs Julius fight, I realized that majority of the fight was considerably slowed down for our viewing pleasure but there was this one shot where Clover citizens watch the clashing lights at the castle(Julius and Patry fighting) and my mom pointed out that Julius can go lightspeed. In irl physics, the factor you cannot control is time and so when you go lightspeed, time dilates, but Julius can control time and whenever we see him moving impossibly fast, it’s just him dilating time itself, so relative to everyone else, he is moving super fast. So with this in mind, he can dilate time so much that he moves at lightspeed but when fighting patry, when they are both moving at lightspeeds, it would just seem like they are both moving at the same speed to each other(only). It’s not really related to my theory that Julius is not human but it shows the extent of his abnormal powers
