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sebastian's reaction to a teeny tiny needle prick on ciel vs his reaction to some guy slashing his wrist open right in front of him.

he only has eyes for his young master. <3

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This would be a truly remarkable ending... Angsty, but so dark and gothic. It suits them.

sebaciel focused follow up on up my sebastian form/memory theory...

if what i think is true then this gives kuro a chance for an extremely angsty ending especially if we think about the (non-canon) red valentine seiyuu event in 2010 where the VAs did a little possible end for kuro (with sebastian saying 'im a lonely demon')...

in that body, the only body that houses memories of o!ciel, all of the different sides of him, in the remains of that house, making that birthday cake he never got to eat. if he consumes o!ciel, he will likely forget him once he stops manifesting with this body. if my theory is true, his memories will fade with this body as the record will hit an 'end' and he wont have access to his memories of o!ciel unless he remains in this body and even if he stays in his "sebastian" body when he makes a new contract, his memories of o!ciel will become 'episodic' and fade away with only faint flashes remaining. will he tolerate the hunger and stay sebastian, in order to not forget him, for as long as possible until his next contract, trying to keep o!ciel's memory alive or will he waste away from starvation, clinging onto the remnants of his past?

i still think sebastian might die at the end of the story but maybe that's a more optimistic ending for him. if he lives, grieves and fears forgetting ciel for the rest of his existence, that'd be a brilliant ending too.

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For someone so vain, you could be quite blind

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Autor del meme

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I believe youre mentioning my dialogue with that user. Now I didn't have the time nor effort to write such a long post as you did, and it's brilliant and thanks a lot for writing it!

I can't find the original post, but someone - I think @ciel-phantomhives-world - made a post regarding the latest issue saying that (paraphrasing) 'Does anyone get the feeling that Yana's forgotten what to do with Sebastian and Ciel's relationship, it used to be the two of them and the villain of the week, now she's just throwing this new guy in there', and someone else in the notes (I think it may have been @localclownbaby , I'm so sorry if if wasn't and I've tagged you apropos of nothing) said something along the lines of this being an arc the overarching purpose of which is to explore Sebaciel, to which they were pretty snippy, and frankly, the whole thing bothered me enough to make this post

First off, I think the problem comes from approaching Kuro as solely an action story, which it isn't; the point of the narrative, and the specific purpose of the last few arcs especially, has been Sebastian and Ciel's relationship. How it transforms them both from how they started, metamorphoses their very natures, how they come to define themselves by the contract and mark each other up against the others' existence. That Sebastian has come to view Ciel as more than a meal - that the game itself has become more important than the goal, is the point made in BotA and GWA. With Ciel removed from the identity he's spent almost four years cultivating for himself - through Sebastian, who has given him the means to live, to reinvent himself (as isn't that so beautifully complicated by the fact that he's building up this identity so that he'll be able to die properly in the end); all the while cultivating Ciel's soul for his own tastes - there's been a mutual and mutually aware shaping of identity here.

Yet Sebastian's own identity has been shaped - he enjoys the butler persona, the game, he says this blatantly in GWA, and it's so clear that he has changed, his very nature has changed, from how we saw him at the beginning of the story. The current arc is now applying that loss of identity to Sebastian himself - first through undermining his role as Ciel's attendant through the services of the hotel: the apparent facade of their relationship, which has none the less become far more real and far more intertwined with the heart of them and their dynamic than either ever anticipated. And now the very core of their dynamic - Sebastian as a demon, a contractor, and the assured certain point around which Ciel's existence spins and will assuredly rest. Throughout, we've seen Ciel refuse to relinquish his identity as the true Earl Ciel Phantomhive, resurrected twin bedamned, and Sebastian has explicitly upheld him in this (again, it's become deeply personal for them both). I think we're going to see this played out with Sebastian now; Yana may have said Sebastian's past doesn't matter, but that's clearly what we're getting. Just as Ciel's has, it's come back to haunt him, to displace him - and for him to conquer and reshape himself from. They're facing parallel struggles, and essentially being shaped in the same way, at the same time. I think this new development is the perfect thing to illustrate that Yana does know what to do about Sebastian and Ciel's relationship; it's to examine and explore and deepen how tangled up in one another they are, how they've informed each others' identities. The new character is an element of that exploration.

And on the discussion that took place in the notes, essentially re. this being the Sebaciel arc, I think that it's plain to see that their relationship does go beyond 'just business'. That's the point. It wouldn't be an interesting story if it didn't. This isn't just an action story, but a narrative about how they've changed and will keep changing each other. And that is very clearly something being explored in this arc.

We are coming, I think, to the start of a crescendo in the story, whilst there are still many mysteries to be solved: this current one, obviously, but beyond that, whatever Undertaker and real Ciel's deal is, and the overarching eventual mystery of who was responsible (Victoria. Imo), and I doubt Kuro will be over for many years yet; there's none the less the impression, at least as I perceive it, that we're edging towards the beginning of the end. Sebastian and Ciel have been changing and redefining each other down to their very natures, now they are being forced to confront that, first individually, I expect later, to one another. That is sebaciel to me - I doubt it would be made canon in the sense of 'oh they've gotten together and it will be love and kisses and fluff forever', nor would I want it to be (nor do I think that was what the commentator was implying), but it is a twisted, tangling, tragic, inexorable personal relationship - two beings that change eachother, that simultaneously free and imprison eachother, that enable one another and that have become the certainty upon which the existence of the other changes (and as I said, I think the current arc is going to show that even when the conditions enabling that certainty are removed, the certainty (Ciel as who he is, as worthy of Sebastian's fascination and devotion - as a meal and also explicitly beyond that as an object of intrigue. And Sebastian as Ciel's dependability, the objective truth upon which he can depend, the ability through which he can enact himself) remains, as does its significance to the other), is important.

This inherently complex, tragic, indefinable relationship and it is one illustrated through a dialect of eroticism - to dismiss that aspect of it as merely fanservice I think belies a misunderstanding of their relationship, besides being insulting to the author portraying their dynamic is a highly intentional manner (and also just condescending to the fans themselves). Yes, an element is obviously popular appeal, but its more than something that shallow and I think it's disingenuous regarding the story Yana Toboso is telling to refuse to consider otherwise - it's so ingrained in their relationship as to be part of it - we've heard time and time again how Sebastian is a devourer, a creature of hunger and desire, etc (and again, he finds the butler aesthetic more interesting than simply biting down. The interplay and tension between nature and facade and the blurring of both has been a key point in the story for some time now), and it has a fascinating interaction with Ciel's past. It's inherent to their dynamic.

And that dynamic is what is being explored in this arc - whilst I sincerely doubt it will be the 'sebaciel love confession honeymoon arc' - in such explicit and surface level terms - it very much is the 'Sebastian and Ciel coming to terms with how they have influenced each others' identities and come to be defined by and depend upon the other arc', and could well be the 'prevailing over all of this together arc, and being forced to confront this mutual change arc'. It's Yana very clearly exploring and heightening that relationship - carnal elements and all. This is Sebastian and Ciel. We know how it's going to end. It's going to be a glorious tragedy between two beings who changed each other and were able to do so because one of them was always going to consume the other and this was always borrowed time. The loss will shatter whoever's left because who they are was created by the one who's gone - who's died into them - and it only could have happened because it was always going to end this way afterall. It will be an immense, irrevocable tragedy, of something great and infernally brilliant and inexplicable, all lost and washed away in the Victorian rain.

And it will be that way because they have a complex and protean relationship, presently being explicitly explored in the current arc. That being the point.

Anyway, ugh, stupidly long post, but got off this my chest lmao. Going to go read Sebaciel fanfiction right now, lol.

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I seriously can't go into the main Kuro tag anymore. I mean, of course, they made 215 about that thing... The parent thing.

HOW STUPID MINDBLEACHED CAN PEOPLE FUCKING BE? UUUUUGH...

OK, OK... Calm down... Breathe. Some people are just brainless and no amount of gay innuendo can change that.

Keeping this post low-key off the main tag, cuz it's safer this easy...

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Omg! This animation is SO FUCKING AWESOME!

sound on !

anyway, hi, if you wanted to know whats the sfkr song to me, its this one, ok bye now :D

Alice Cooper - Poison

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Someone commented this on the response I made to a threat I got from an anti in my ask box... I could not agree more!

Dear Antis: Please DO NOT report lolicons and shotacons to the FBI. It is WASTING RESOURCES.

REAL pedos are EVIL because it HURTS REAL PEOPLE

Loli/Shota/Kodocons are NOT EVIL because there is NO VICTIM. IT HURTS NOBODY.

You are not saving anybody by reporting these types of things to authorities, you are wasting their time and resources because YOU couldn't handle the drawing that some 15 year old posted on TikTok.

Daily reminder to antis that the FICTIONAL CHARACTERS DON'T MATEER. THE REAL PEOPLE DO. Please use your energy to advocate for and support REAL VICTIMS.

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будет кроссовер с Леоном. мб, позже удалю

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leon the professional crossover wip. might delete later

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The amount of romantic tropes used for these two, I mean, I stopped counting...

"you changed me baby" type shit

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Today I sat in the train and suddenly this panel struck me again.

The "... You robbed me of everything that night!" makes me think about Sebastian seducing a Priest (because of his clothes). Taking away the innocence and the abstinence he vowed to god.

"And dragged me into the depths of hell!" if this guy was something like a Monk, priest, whatever, it is commonly known, that his soul would be lead to hell, as soon as he will dies.

There is a Gothic example

The Monk by Matthew G. Lewis

It's about a Priest whose soul is damned because of his sexual sins.

In my mind there would be nothing better to describe something like that, than by Dantes inferno. It's so Gothic and fits so well to kuro.

Imagine Modris soul getting dragged into one of the circles.

8th Circle – Fraud / Hypocrites (Malebolge, 6th Bolgia) Hypocrites are condemned to walk eternally in gilded cloaks that are lined with heavy lead. The outer gold symbolizes false holiness and purity, while the crushing weight within represents the burden of their deceitful, sinful souls. This punishment reflects their life of pretense: they appeared righteous on the outside, but were spiritually corrupt within. The lead slows their movement, forcing them into an eternal, burdensome march a fitting metaphor for the lies they upheld in life. This circle is specifically reserved for those who used their position - religious, political, or moral for manipulation, false virtue, or hidden vice.

It doesn't looks very nice.

What do you think so far?

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Seb hiding a situationship is wild

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"Every one of your former contactors has been devoured already...correct?"" "I do not lie. I truly do not remember him."

You didn't answer the question, Sebastian!!!

EDIT this is the conversation in Japanese featuring loose translations from me (a non-native speaker)

Ciel: 「僕以前の契約者はすでに全員お前の腹の中にいる…と」 "You've already consumed all the people you made a contract with before me...right?" Sebastian: 「私は嘘は付きません。本当に覚えていないのです。」 "I won't lie. I really don't remember."

Whilst it isn't wrong to imply a specific reference to Modri in Sebastian's reply; the implication I take at face-value is that Sebastian is saying he doesn't remember if he has, in fact, devoured every soul he has made a contract with

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Ciel: "Sebastian, you can assure me that you have already eaten every one of your past contractors, yes?"

Sebastian: "I am being honest with you, young master. I truly do not remember him."

That...

That doesn't answer the question, Sebastian.

That's not the same thing.