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something I've always really appreciated about sebastian and ciel's dynamic is how good sebastian is at calming him down, actually showing a surprising amount of emotional intelligence.

In this scene, he reacts by grabbing Ciel's arm to stop him from hitting Elizabeth. Ciel typically seems to react negatively to being touched when he's emotionally heightened, but Sebastian's touch seems to be grounding:

Sebastian then moves in front of Ciel while he talks to Lizzy, effectively hiding Ciel and giving him space to calm down.

In the Jack the Ripper arc, he covers Ciel's eyes to stop him from seeing the corpse, and again, Ciel doesn't react at all negatively:

Again, he doesn't attempt to talk to Ciel himself to try and calm him down. He just takes over the situation and talks to Grelle, letting Ciel calm down in his own time. When Ciel is ready, he pushes Sebastian's hand away, and Sebastian lets him:

In both examples, Sebastian deals with it by effectively giving Ciel a temporary break from the situation and stepping in until he's ready.

I think it's something that works uniquely well for their dynamic. Sebastian knows that he couldn't comfort Ciel with words. Even when Ciel had a nightmare and didn't want to be touched, he was still comforted by Sebastian's presence. He didn't want him to say anything, just to stand there:

I also find it cute that Sebastian immediately agrees to stay and doesn't question it or make fun of him.

When making the contract, they agreed that Ciel's orders are only binding if he explicitly calls it an 'order' or a 'command':

Sometimes, Sebastian doesn't do what Ciel tells him unless he explicitly gives it as an order. In chapter 1, Ciel asked him to make him a cake and Sebastian refused. In the Circus Arc, Sebastian didn't immediately burn the manor, Ciel had to yell at him and state it was an order, and Sebastian then had no choice.

So in the scene where Ciel has a nightmare, Sebastian wasn't compelled to a) not touch him and b) stay in the room. He could easily have been cruel about it and mocked Ciel, or made him give it as an order first.

Similarly, I always found it interesting that in the Emerald Witch Arc, Sebastian says 'if the young master commands me not to touch him, then I cannot touch him'. Because at no point in this scene did Ciel 'command' Sebastian not to touch him:

But Sebastian treats it as a command anyway, because he can see how distressed Ciel is. Touch is his way of calming Ciel down, and that includes not touching him when he doesn't want it.

I think that's why, in these scenes, Sebastian's words are quite mocking but at the same time, he's caressing Ciel's face and refusing to put him down:

This ended up being way longer than I intended it to be, but basically my point is that it's interesting that while Ciel knows Sebastian can't lie to him, it's physical reassurance rather than words of comfort which play the biggest role in their dynamic. Because Ciel knows Sebastian doesn't really have his best interests at heart so he doesn't trust his words, but Sebastian's touch is safe and grounding to him, at least subconsciously.

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Im sorry but am I the only person that’s going to point out that this is NOT TRUE

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When I say this just pissed me tf off so much

Mood going into tonight's episode

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i feel very strongly about this.

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I say with conviction that Cielinde will become the most popular kuroshitsuji ship involving Ciel today, now that we are going to have the Green Witch arc animated. For those who don't like comship/darkship like Sebaciel and Ciellizzy or don't see chemistry in these ships, Cielinde will be extremely viable, not to mention that Ciel can be himself around Sullivan without worrying about pretending to be R!Ciel because she's never met R!Ciel, Sullivan knows he has a contract with a demon, she's a child who was forced to mature quickly and suffered physical and mental abuse which makes them identify and understand each other's pain, she's extremely intelligent so the two could have conversations outside of the banality about deeper and more strategic things, she owes her life to him so she would never betray him or leave him behind (like a certain blonde) and aesthetically speaking the two complement each other as a Victorian gothic couple, it's beautiful to see the two together and she would be extremely useful as Countess Phantomhive, socially speaking and also in terms of strength. Socially because Queen Victoria is extremely close to her, and strength because Sullivan is so intelligent that she can defend Ciel using her investigations as well as help him unravel the cases of the queen's guard dog, something she did in the manga in the blood collection arc.

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Ecomoda cap. 35

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I swear every time I see someone post an opinion piece about a clear gag in a fandom/media, it kills one of my brain cells

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After 10 years the pissy fans can rip the delusion out of my cold dead body

kuro will end with the ciel twins being best friends and sebastian becomes a human and learns to love. everything is sunshine and rainbows in mynhead idk about you guys

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Is it insane? How much I don't want anyone else to know you like I do...

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Dude I tried a different art style/technique and waow… uuuuuu I love komahina soooo much they’re in my brainnnnn. The boys of ronpa

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hi. insane again

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three hearts that beat as one | old hollywood throuples anyone???

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When u eat ur son’s soul and then instantly regret it 😬

Og painting below the cut (and proship dni )

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Hedgehogs... Just some doodles of mine and my friend's AU versions <:]

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images to look at to help you fall asleep i think

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the first rule of shipping is get aromantic with it. the second rule is that gender and sexuality are what i want them to be. the third rule is have fun and be yourself