#so i could write some uhhh. well. lets just say. haha. sebwolf debauchery

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hi okay continuation of my dadbastian spiel because i was rereading EW and needed to add thoughts.

originally i was working off sebastian's actions in later chapters to justify his discomposure during EW in a like "well shit hit the fan and now he's cranking up what i Believe to be dad vibes" way but i didn't have a lot of evidence from the arc itself to back up that specific correlation.

turns out i'm an idiot because look. come here. we get a couple of master-servant parallels to sebastian and ciel (angi/soma, claude/alois if you count the anime) but do you know. Do You Know what parallel we get in EW, the arc in which sebastian finally acknowledges the flaws in his current mode of manipulation?

oh yeah for sure. just a soldier, who was trained to be a ruthless killer and in no way expected to end up raising a child, coming to love that child so dearly he abandons his directive. the literal. father-daughter duo of the century.

look me in the eye. the chapter in which sieglinde forgives wolfram, aka the source of the latter panel's embrace, is literally. Titled. "That Butler, Listening Intently." go read the chapter for yourself and tell me exactly what the fuck sebastian was Listening Intently to if not the sickening display of parental adoration going down a few rooms over. learning from it so he might begin to adopt the persona for himself.

wait i'm not done. smack in the middle of the arc is a chapter 99.5, a mini story wherein sebastian tends to a recovering ciel in the aftermath of BOC. except! the soup he brings ciel is of the very same recipe once prepared by vincent for rachel, who had fallen ill, with the help of what we now know was r!ciel, inspiring o!ciel to VOLUNTARILY tell the story.

yana's deceptive framing makes this slightly hard to follow But, given the knowledge we have now, it's safe to say o!ciel was also sick in this memory. so. so tell me what the purpose of randomly throwing a blatant parallel between vincent, his FATHERRRR, and sebastian, wherein they both tended to his illness, both made him the same FUCKING meal, right into the beginning of EW's climax. interrupting the action to say "hey! remember that time sebastian accidentally cooked this kid the soup of fatherly love and fond memories? that was crazy. anyways"

i'm gonna be sick. also honorable mention for EW being one of the few arcs in which sebastian bathes ciel and endearingly pokes fun at his height. which could mean nothing.