Magic at my fingertips

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. --Leopold Stokowski [[ Independant, selective Cheslock RP blog ]]

[erebus-cheslock]

Hiatus.

I’m sorry for being silent so long. The last year and a bit has been tough. I go into more detail here, but the long and short of it is that I don’t feel the same enthusiasm and drive for this blog or indeed the Kuro series as a whole as I once did.

I’ve been putting it off for a while, but I realise that’s not fair to my roleplay partners or friends of mine in this fandom that I interact with. I can’t just brood over it and let it lie. I’m not dropping this blog, and I’m not ruling out coming back to it at some point - as I did in the past after a hiatus - but for now I will be taking an indefinite hiatus, popping on now and again to check up on things or perhaps rant a bit about how the series is going. You guys know I like to rant XP

Also to let you all know that I’m doing alright, in spite of some buggery inner demons that I’m still grappling with, but getting on with a nice new job and so on. No need to worry or anything like that! Best to everybody, and apologies for all the trouble and inconvenience. 

Cheers, Cheslock Mun.

[erebus-cheslock]

Cheslockkkk where are you?? We miss you. çuç [Hope you're doing fine, mun!!]

Sorry for the absence. Things have been tricky this past year, and now I’ve finally gotten a full time job so I only really have free time on weekends and evenings. 

And I haven’t really been feeling into writing Cheslock for a while now. My enthusiasm for the Kuro series in general has kind of taken a dive as well, though I haven’t wanted to admit it on here. I suppose seeing one of the few characters you were hanging on to the series get used as fodder for pointless, if entertaining, filler and then discarded doesn’t help. And I think that the bad stuff that happened last year, especially the latter half of it, tainted to some degree the things I was enjoying up until that point - Kuro included. It brings back bad memories for me, at least at the moment.

I’m not dropping this blog or anything, I haven’t the heart to do that but I will take a hiatus from roleplaying on here for a while. I’m sorry to disappoint my partners, but I don’t want to force myself to write when the enthusiasm isn’t there. And I don’t want to leave anybody hanging anymore. It’s so easy to get wrapped up in other things and forget. It’s just bad stuff has been on my mind since then, so to me openly talking about it here didn’t even occur to me because it was almost always present in my head.

Other than that, enjoying new job and liking new colleagues. Getting into the swing of things. Sorry to make you worry! I’m getting on with it, as my dad likes to say ;) Onwards and upwards!

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[ChesEd Sketch + In a Heartbeat Vers.]

[problematickuroboxes]

[This user just wants Cheslock to be happy.]

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[Valse]

[imviotrash]

OH MY GOD JESUS CRIST

[erebus-cheslock]

The Fourth Of June by A.H. Wardlow, 1879.

[Came across this little gem in an old Victorian magazine today and had to share it. This also came in postcard form from what I see on the internet. Lovely colours still after all this time!]

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[Cheslock x Edward]

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Practice sketch!

[followthechick]

People: when will you stop doodling Cheslock?? Me: N E V E R (Apparently I am very bored today at work)

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Siren Cheslock 😍😍😍😍

❤❤

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Internal pic of volumen 25

Credits for @kuro_shitsu_ji on twitter!

[erebus-cheslock]

Real!Ciel: The true Earl Ciel Phantomhive is ME.

*DUN DUN DUUUUUN music*

*Cheslock comes up behind the twin and brings a violin down on his head. Twin falls down dead.*

Cheslock: Now Phantomhive is the earl again. There. Problem solved. Let's not do this shit alright? Alright. You're welcome.

*strides away*

[shinigami-mistress]

So now Lizzie will be forced to choose.

Her heart or her duty?

[erebus-cheslock]

Yeah I don't think her position will be any easier because our!Ciel lied to her. She won't fling herself into the arms of her real fiance after so many years of caring for and nurturing our!Ciel. The fact that she didn't exact revenge or react in anything but sorrow while she encountered a sleeping and defenceless Ciel in the Sphere Music Hall is evidence of this I think.

However her torment makes so much sense now.

Really I think the servants have it much easier in terms of which Ciel they'll get behind. Whether he is or is not the rightful Phantomhive heir, it was still our!Ciel who rescued them from their respective hellish lives. They owe this new 'real' Ciel nothing.

[erebus-cheslock]

Sorry for the long absence! I’m back(ish) and holy hell those spoilers!! Things escalated bloody quick! Looking at them reminded me of a scene in the side story with Vincent, Diederich and Ciel were making a meal for a sick Rachel.

The ominous line “I don’t need fake brothers” from who may actually have been real!Ciel and not our Ciel. The context around it would also explain why our!Ciel doesn’t know about fags in the Weston Arc. He wasn’t the one having that conversation with his father.

But back to that line. Many people have talked about why such a line was said in such a dark and ominous manner. If the flashbacks and our!Ciel’s guilt is anything to go by, he loved his older/twin brother.

Or did he?

Was this a line evidence of a mutual hatred between the boys simmering beneath the surface? Or was it the words of a bitter older/twin heir whose parents doted upon and spoiled their younger sickly child? Is it the words of a younger/twin brother who, like Maurice Cole, would never inherit the title of the older child? Did the two boys switch places even up to that fateful day when one was sacrificed? Or were they forced to switch places by their parents?

Hmm….

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[Cello]

[g-urvana]

[Ok but imagine these two together]

[erebus-cheslock]

UT: Hee hee, here, boy, I have an idea! I thought it would be fun to put chili powder in the Earl’s tea. What do you say?

Cheslock: I think it’s an immoral and thoroughly immature little trick.

Cheslock:

Cheslock: Let’s do it!

[thevillainousnoble-deactivated2]

Joanne Harcourt is so sweet and lovable. Too pure and out of this world. I honestly believe that he isn’t getting enough attention in the fandom.

[erebus-cheslock]

Probably has something to do with the fact that his entire character can be explained in TV tropes and you aren’t missing anything extra. He’s a little brother everyone wants to protect. He’s cute, looks like a little girl. That’s it. He’s easy to fawn over, easy to pity, but actually care about? Like, really care? Not so much.