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Sebastian as the Personification of Ciel's Trauma
Sebastian was never meant to represent evil. He represents what the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung feared most: an autonomous Shadow so powerful that the ego mistakes it for a loyal servant while slowly becoming its servant instead.
On the surface, Ciel is the one in charge. Sebastian does what he is told, calls him "my lord" and spends his days serving him. But psychologically it is the reverse. Every choice Ciel makes – vengeance over mourning, control over vulnerability, efficiency over healing – reinforces the power he thinks he controls.
What is unconscious, Jung argued, does not disappear but becomes autonomous. Sebastian is the epitome of that autonomy. He continually draws Ciel back to the identity that sustains their contract: the Earl, the Watchdog, the avenger. Whenever the frightened child begins to surface, Sebastian restores the mask.
The Green Witch arc is a perfect illustration of this. Under the hallucinogenic gas, Ciel faces the terrified child he has repressed for years. Instead of letting that encounter become a moment of integration, Sebastian reminds him of the contract. The vulnerable child is gone and the Earl is back. This is not healing in Jungian terms, but repression reasserting itself.
That’s the real horror of Sebastian. He is an inhuman psychology, slowly colonizing a traumatized child. He has no interest in warmth, friendship, forgiveness, healing. People are useful or entertaining to him. Or they are disposable. And slowly, Ciel starts to see the world in the same way.
A scene from the Book of Circus opening is actually a great example of this.. because opening songs always carry more symbolic imagery rather than literal one. The image of Ciel reaching toward Doll while Sebastian steps between them can be read as more than protection. Doll represents one of the few people who genuinely understands what it means to survive exploitation as a child. There is a possibility—however small—of recognition, empathy, even connection between the two children.
For a brief second, Ciel reaches toward another human being. And then Sebastian steps between them. That image isn't just about him protecting his master. It's about mediation. After the ritual, Ciel almost never encounters another human being directly. He encounters them through Sebastian. Sebastian becomes the lens through which Ciel experiences the world. Every relationship is translated into usefulness. Every stranger is a suspect. Turn every ally into an asset. Every victim into collateral. Every emotional decision becomes a strategic one.
The opening visualizes that perfectly. Ciel reaches for another wounded child.. Sebastian (i.e. Ciel’s trauma) becomes the space between them. Not because he physically prevents contact— but because he has become the psychological distance between Ciel and everyone else. By that point, Sebastian doesn't have to pull Ciel away from warmth. Ciel does it himself. And that's far more frightening than any command a demon could issue.
This is why I don't think Sebastian merely follows Ciel's darkness—he shapes it. Not through force, but because trauma makes inhumanity feel safer than hope. Sebastian never tells Ciel to become a monster. He simply makes being human seem inefficient... unnecessary.
Finny (and the servant) repeatedly display their unshakable loyalty toward Ciel. Soma offers uncomplicated and non-transactional friendship, something Ciel consistently struggles to accept. Elizabeth never stops loving the boy beneath the Earl.
Sebastian never outright forbids these relationships. He doesn't have to. He is the psychological distance between Ciel and genuine human connection. Not through lies, but through constructing a worldview in which affection becomes weakness, empathy becomes inefficiency, and people become pieces on a board.
The most unsettling possibility is that, by the current point in the manga, Ciel often sounds less like himself and more like Sebastian. If Sebastian is read as Ciel's externalized Shadow, then the real horror isn't that a demon is following him—it's that Ciel is slowly internalizing the demon's way of being human. That's a very Jungian tragedy: the ego doesn't notice it's being possessed because it mistakes the Shadow's voice for its own.
Endless cycle
Rido chibi ♥️
I should strive to draw the other characters too and not just the same 4……..
black butler unironically has one of the most fun and complex relationship dynamics ive seen between two characters in shonen and honestly im happy the shota bait scared an audience away. if u cant handle them at their weird ass sexual corset scene u dont deserve them at their book of the atlantic
what's wrong with them
when they are torn between wanting to ask if he feels alright or were he up to something for eating so little 🥤
you’re a spark in the dark, and my clothes all caught aflame
pussyyyy all nighttttt
Why Giyuu spared Nezuko:
Please I’m actually so devastated after making this… and it’s 4am.
Twins!!
(Tomioka siblings)
How I wish we got more content of them 🫠🫠
Lucky ass eel.
His greed sickens me.
I practically speedran this portrait, but I really wanted to draw Vil! :D
Um pls ignore his lack of clothing lol… I promise I didn’t have freaky intentions. I just got too lazy to add his uniform, and ultimately decided to give up on this one.
(I should start adding actual backgrounds to my art… maybe)
How it feels to imagine a female character's voice as deep when you read the source and then watch an adaptation that gives her some Elmo ass voice
How it feels to imagine a female character's voice as deep when you read the source and then watch an adaptation that gives her some Elmo ass voice
"You're sexualizing my trauma"
Dude who the hell are you
Shoutout to anyone who's openly proship on TikTok 😭😭😭 I know y'all get the WORST comments in existence
