your crown adorned with despair

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[demon-ciel-apologist]

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This is a Kuroshitsuji focused sideblog!

I'm a multishipper and meta/analysis enthusiast. Additionally, I am primarily a Manga fan and I will likely post gratuitous spoilers, so keep that in mind.

Worth noting, I do not tolerate antis and otherwise aggressive fans who want to police fiction and fan content. You are free block me if you take issues with any ships or content posted here.

[alicerush]

I've had enough running away.

Here’s what happens when you rewatch both Kuroshitsuji and Howl’s Moving Castle over the holidays…

Rant under the cut～

Shout out to the Kuroshitsuji fandom! I haven’t been active here in over ten years, but apparently once that post-gothic phantasmagoria gets under your skin, it never truly leaves.

I was catching up on the latest seasons and the feelings hit me like a freight train. Naturally, I spiraled and rewatched everything from season one and somehow forgot just how delicious the atmosphere was?!! This was the anime that first had me by the throat, the one that inspired me to draw more back then and, somehow, it’s done it again after a long break.

I could've never imagined the paths it would lead me down, like learning the language, moving to Japan, making friends, living whole lives I didn’t even know were possible. Apparently my spirit guides speak to me through fandoms because nothing gets me moving quite like a good hyperfixation...

If you made it this far, thank you for reading. I hope this piece delights you even half as much as I enjoyed making it through blood, sweat, and tears. I have so many Kuroshitsuji ideas, and I hope to slowly bring more of them to life. If nothing else, as an offering to the fandom, and to the endless well of beauty and inspiration this story continues to be.

[icantdothistodaybruh]

The BoM side story won't let go of me

[blackpepperrrr]

I really want to analyse this artwork by Yana-san.

BELOW !

This is obviously from the end of s2, when Ciel is turned into a demon by Hannah. I think there’s a lot to unpack in this picture just by facial expressions and body language alone.

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In the first picture, Ciel is walking very confidently. Knowing he is protected by his contract with Sebastian, and the pace he’s walking at shows he feels more confident in his surroundings or simply with Sebastian in this state. He also appears very determined like we see from him a lot, walking vigorously towards his goal and his revenge, his fate he knows is coming to him.

In the second picture, he is looking back at his human counterpart, almost enviously, as if he was wishing it were still him. He is very monotonous, as if his emotions and empathy have been drained from his transformation into something not human. He also looks slightly lost. Unlike in the first picture, he knows what he’s walking towards, he knows what he wants. In the second, he’s looking back, unsure about what is coming for him now that everything he expected is flipped on its head.

For Sebastian, this goes even deeper.

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Unlike Ciel, Sebastian is gazing back at himself in both pictures. The first shows him as we know, he is confident in himself and knows he is awaiting his meal, and for the contract to be complete. He seems proud with his current state and is almost looking at his future self with a “look how good I have it” expression. But he also looks almost ignorant, like he isn’t truly seeing what is behind him, it’s strange he would be looking so bitchy towards himself if he knew what he was actually looking at.

The second picture of Sebastian speaks volume, like, seriously. He’s gazing back with a longing at what he once had, his posture is less pronounced and he simply looks way more miserable. He knows he is trapped in an everlasting contract. But based on what we know about him, you would think Sebastian would appear more angry at his situation, and would be gazing back with a more vicious and envious expression like Ciel. But he isn’t, he just looks regretful, grieving and almost accepting of his situation.

My personal take on this artwork and what it represents is two things: one is that this is showing s2 as an alternate ending/fate as to what Ciel and Sebastian had in canon. It’s showing the different paths they went down and how it affected them. Second is that I feel this shows a representation of Ciel losing his humanity after his transformation, and Sebastian gaining his, as we’ve seen in canon material.

What do you guys think?

[ventilatore73]

I feel healed by this new official art 🤲

[funeralroseparade]

Much of the Kuro fandom needs to be understood not only as self-righteous people preoccupied with performative morality, but as actually illiterate and disrespectful of Yana's work. When they trash Sebaciel, Yana's intensely transgressive yet beautifully restrained gothic romantic pairing, they are trashing her carefully crafted main characters and their story, which she has spent the last two decades unfolding. This series is not for willfully illiterate puritans, but they are arrogant and delusional enough to keep trying to make this their territory, while insisting that those who actually appreciate dark fiction are the problematic ones who should leave

[softslip]

kuro really just asks "what if a thirteen year old had a glock and a negotiated bdsm contract" and i love that

[questtneo]

Cant hold back from my fantasy roots for too long

[gaddd4040]

[saintcapybara]

[milkoosagi]

[descriptionofhellas]

[gothberrytart]

souls entwined

[icantdothistodaybruh]

[icantdothistodaybruh]

"You are my own starfall"

[icantdothistodaybruh]

🎄Happy New Year!⭐

close ups under the cut!

[kiraayano]