Character analysis: Ronald Knox

I haven’t done one of these in a while, and they do take quite some time, but I feel like it’s going to be a shorter one for Ronald. His character is so easy-going and he always seems so sociable. Since, he’s a Shinigami, we can assume that he had a dark past and that he has committed suicide. Ronald has this interesting character design, (with dyed short hair and expensive watches), and if he lived in my country, he would be so popular. 

Could it be that he was named after Ronald Mcdonald? Anyway, I think that both with the Sutcliff and Spears names, his name is also related to the way he committed suicide. I’m not sure about this one, but if we’re going to be based on the name, he probably hanged himself?But, maybe, this shows us that he jumped from a high building?

Because, these shoes look like his shoes?

-I did say that he dyed his hair, but I want to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe this is not the case, since he’s not the first manga/anime character with natural hair like these. We do have people with really red hair and with white hair(young people). Just saying. Although, I do definitely think he dyed his hair. 

-When it comes to his suicide, I think that it’s more likely that he jumped from a high building in London. I just googled Knox and it seems that Knox is a Scottish surname(So, he’s Scottish.) and means small hill. So, I think that he jumped from a building(Which doesn’t have to be that high, does it?) in London.

-Ronald seem to have tons of friends, and even though there are people who find his sociable/flirty side annoying, I actually like it. He probably hides a lot inside, and I’ve seen many social people like him, who appear very outgoing and self-confident, but have very pessimistic and maybe even cynical out-view of life and other people. Like deep down, they don’t like others or trust them. They don’t open up intimately to others that much. 

-Okay, another thing I noticed is that Ronald is actually named after an English priest, a writer, and a BBC broadcaster named Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, and there’s also a Presbyterian  reformer named John Knox, who happened to be the founder of Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Do you think that Ronald was a priest or a very religious person in his former life? Maybe, he was devoted to religion so much that he didn’t have a romantic life or didn’t go out much. That’s why he’s like this nowadays. Being the complete opposite of who he was in his human life.

-And, finally, can you imagine if Ronald gets to rip OurCiel’s soul in the end, and that all the manga was the cinematic record of OurCiel? And, that Ronald talks about OurCiel life as if it’s a crime novel, calling it a good one because it broke all the rules of what was seen as a good crime novel. Rules written by the real Ronald Knox, who was a priest and a BBC spokeperson and a crime novel writer. 

 “1. The criminal must be mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to know. 2. All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course. 3. Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable. 4. No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end. 5. No Chinaman must figure in the story. 6. No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right. 7. The detective himself must not commit the crime. 8. The detective is bound to declare any clues which he may discover. 9. The "sidekick" of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal from the reader any thoughts which pass through his mind: his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader. 10. Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them.” ― Ronald A. Knox

And, another quote by him. What do you think?