Aleister Chamber

## Media

**Aleister Chamber** is a bisexual character from *Black Butler*.

## Biography

Aleister Chamber is a wealthy man known for hosting lavish parties. When he first appears in the series, he is a suspect in the Jack The Ripper case. When Ciel Phantomhive and his butler, Sebastian, investigate him at one of his parties, they discover that he is innocent, but runs an unrelated human trafficking ring. He is arrested for human trafficking, but not sentenced. A month later, he is able to appear in public as one of the judges at a cooking contest.

When he reappears later in the story, he has become involved with the Aurora Society, who are trying to revive the dead.

## Appearance

Aleister is a thin young man with light skin, pale blond hair, and lavender eyes. He wears elegant clothing consisting of a suit, a pocket square, and an ascot tie, along with accessories such a brooch and white gloves.

## Personality

Aleister likes the finer things in life. He is described as "a lover of art, beauty, and food" and makes frequent comments on his own and other people’s attractiveness. He compares a lobster he samples to a beautiful woman he met at a ball, and a curry bun to a "sweet girl I met at an evening soirée." He is flamboyant and fashionable. He can speak French, and has a medical license.

Aleister has a more sinister side as well, and attempts to kidnap Ciel to sell him into slavery. After he is arrested, Ciel suspects he bribes the police to let him off the hook. He can be extremely cruel, and in a scene in the 2010 musical, "The Most Beautiful DEATH in the World", he kidnaps and tortures two women.

## Sexuality

Aleister is a bisexual man. According to Madame Red, "the Viscount of Druitt supposedly loves women of all ages." When Ciel attends one of Aleister’s parties to determine if he is Jack the Ripper, he disguises himself as a young girl to tempt Aleister, but Aleister is also attracted to Ciel when he isn’t disguised, describing him as a "beautiful boy" while gazing into his eyes, which creeps Ciel out. Aleister points out the attractiveness of several other male characters including Alois Trancy, Edward Milford, and Joanne Harcourt. In a bonus chapter, he attempts to kiss Harcourt. In a 2010 seiyuu event, he flirts with Grell Sutcliffe. In an OVA of the anime, "Welcome to the Phantomhive's," he kidnaps and attempts to seduce the audience insert character, who is female.

### Reaction

Aleister has been criticized as a negative representation of a bisexual man because his characterization invokes tropes of bisexual men as hypersexual or evil. In response to a letter from a fan, the manga’s author, Yana Toboso, criticizes her character’s advances on Ciel, calling him "extremely perverted."

## Relationships

### Ciel Phantomhive

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Aleister has flirted with Ciel, both when he is disguised as a girl and not.

### Grell Sutcliffe

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Aleister flirts with Grell in a noncanonical seiyuu event, but is not usually attracted to her.

### Joanne Harcourt

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## Tropes

* Depraved Bisexual - Aleister’s hobbies include human trafficking, black magic, and illicit experiments on corpses.

## References

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3. ↑ [3] The original post was on yanatoboso.tuna.be and was never archived, so only an English fan translation on Tumblr remains.