#s/i: the death

[villain-in-love]

Ohh I see that you're crushing on Mr Charles Gray? 👀 He's quite an interesting character, I'm looking forward to getting more info of him and Charles Phipps later on in the manga! I personally feel like there's much more to them than simply being the Queen's guards.

If you do create some lore about their relationship and how they met sometime, I would love to know. He seems like a very smug guy, so I can imagine them having some funny interactions. Especially while your S/I is working with Undertaker. Considering his opinions on the queen, and the fact that Charles is her guard... I think that can be a very interesting dynamic.

He's arrogant, has (kinda) long hair and propensity for violence, so obviously I couldn’t resist him.

And yes, I really wish queen's butlers (I'm pretty sure that they were more than just guards, but also secretaries and someone who executes her will) would get more attention. Queen Victoria and her servants are really one of the most mysterious characters at this point. And while I don’t think I’ve noticed any details that would hint at some other hidden but important information about Grey specifically, there’s still more than enough room to elaborate on his character.

When it comes to my ship... Charles might be smug, but don't think that I’m any better. For now I think their dynamic could involve them trying to one up each other, each in their own way, and truly making a contest out of being the most obnoxious person in the room. Both equally annoyed and amused by each other. My s/i would definitely dial up her creepiness to the max for the sake of messing with Grey. (And I can see Undertaker enabling her at that.)

Though the part that is the most fun starts a few years later down the timeline (my s/i needs time to graduate the Reaper’s Academy). Considering the fact that Charles is scared of ghosts, I can only imagine his reaction to meeting a legit dead person. They would most likely meet again when he kills someone (and I’m 100% sure that this guy will kill someone again, and not once) with my s/i coming to collect the soul… and scare Charles half to death just because she can.

There might also be an opportunity to explore both characters' psychology through their relationship with death and, by extension, life… But I really need more canon information on Grey.

Speaking of death, when it comes to Undertaker, I don’t think that he will have, like, any serious problems with his apprentice taking a liking to a queen’s butler. He would be wary of Charles, but I wouldn’t expect him to express this in anything more than a few passing comments about the earl in question not being the best person to trust.

And off the top of my head, there are at least two possible situations where my s/i and Charles could meet:

1. Charles somehow gets involved in one of Ciel’s investigations and end up going to the Undertaker with him. And then hilarity ensues…

2. The Book of Murder arc. Since Undertaker is an old family friend of Phantomhives, he could get invited, but perhaps Undertaker himself had some immediate business to attend (maybe tied to his resurrection experiments, maybe not) so my s/i goes instead as his representative. She probably didn't really have to go but this unhinged duo of father and daughter decided that this party still needs someone spooky and eccentric, so she went purely to make it funny and freak out the nobles.

I’m currently thinking about the ways in which the presence of a mortician on the scene could influence the murder investigation they had going on in this arc. Some things are bound to be different if she went there. And I can also use this as an opportunity to foreshadow my s/i’s suicide by showing how little she cared whether she lives or dies in that whole situation…

[casmick-consequences]

literally the king of oneliners

[part 2]

[konakoro]

The world was so ungrateful to you...

[artharakka]

“Äiti itki. Isä lähti huoneesta. Vivian istui nurkassa ja kuunteli vaiti. Kissamme Minni hyppäsi vuoteelle ja käpertyi jalkojeni päälle ja kehräsi, sillä kehräämällä parannetaan sairaita.” — Emmi Itäranta. Kuunpäivän kirjeet

“Mom cried. Dad left the room. Vivian sat in the corner and listened quietly. Our cat Minni jumped on the bed and curled up on my legs and purred, for through purring the sick are healed.” — Emmi Itäranta. The Moonday Letters. Quote tranlated by me (unofficial)

[canisalbus]

If only Machete wasn't so distinctly white and waifish. Otherwise one could possibly use a lookalike to fake his death and just run away with vasco. But finding someone that resembles machete would be almost as hard as making the choice to end a life to save your own.

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[will-of-dumpsterfire]

[drop-dead-dino]

I’m totally normal about these two totally normal dudes :) .

I don’t usually read fics, specially AU related ones, but this one GOT me, holy cow. Check it out if you fancy that sort of thing! 

Love, Death, and Rollerskates by @spadillelicious !

[lobotomyworm]

RE4 LEON THIS, RE4 LEON THAT.

CAN WE PLEASE TALK MORE ABOUT INFINITE DARKNESS AND DEATH ISLAND LEON!?!?!

I AM INSANE ABOUT THIS MAN.

HE CONSUMES MY EVERY THOUGHT.

[c-hrona]

Fear

Super self-indulgent little comic about fears and reassurances.

Lil bonus :3

[tianhai03]

i watched re death island today!!!!!1 it was really good!!!!!!!!! had to draw smth to celebrate :)

[villain-in-love]

I am… An idiot. A fool. A moron.

I somehow managed to turn a blind eye to the fact that my Black Butler s/i continues to operate in the same world even after her death, even if the conditions are different.

But first of all, allow me to introduce you to the crush on mine that I have never talked about before:

Charles Gray from "Black Butler".

That annoying son of a bitch.

Here’s the deal: I’ve been crushing on Charles (such a cringy name to say, I can't even-) for a while now. In fact, out of all romantic f/os on my list, the only one who appeared before him was Mukuro. However, when I fell for him, I already had an established s/i who is basically Undertaker’s apprentice (and his unofficially adopted daughter).

So how on earth was I supposed to make a romance between an earl and a mortician make sense? (Even if the earl in question sure as hell doesn’t care about behaving like one and the mortician is anything but humble.)

Now it suddenly hit me (too late for me to comfortably admit it): I forgot about the huge part of my s/i’s lore, probably because I tend to draw a strong line between her life as a human and her existence as a grim reaper (and whatever entity she morphs into later). But since at one point she kills herself and ends up becoming a reaper, the problems with social class as well as finding time and opportunities are basically solved.

Because when you are a motherfucking grim reaper, human’s social classes really mean nothing, and after clocking out after a day of work, my s/i can technically roam around the London freely. Hit on whoever you want, whenever you are able to get them alone!

Considering how in the Book of Murder arc alone Charles so casually murdered three people, I think that the chances of him running into a reaper in the future are far from low. Especially when there is already one reaper who is particularly interested in him. (Well, technically Charles only murdered two people because for Sebastian being stabbed right through the chest with a fire poker is a mild inconvenience at worst but that’s not the point)

Now what remains is that I still want them to meet a few times before my s/i dies… And that's where I will have to use Phantomhives as a link.

[hehearse]

Creon. Why did you try to bury your brother? Antigone. I owed it to him.

Antigone, adapted by Lewis Galantiere from the play by Jean Anouilh

[aeteut]

The love drunk in Remus’s eyes gazing at the prettiest star; he breathes Sirius.

By likeafunerall, and reposted with permission.

[sydneighsays]

Gerard Keay, based on a doodle I did at work. My Instagram story poll bullied me into finishing it digitally ☹️

You can't convince me that this man wasn't dual touched by both beholding and the hunt.

[akans-dead-at-sea]

It's alright

30 second timelapse:

[ruanbaijie]

rnz: *drops hints left right and centre* lqs: cat??

THE SPIREALM 致命游戏 (2024) 1.22 adapted from the danmei novel Kaleidoscope of Death 死亡万花筒 by Xi Zi Xu 西子绪