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[the-mostdiabolik-of-lovers]

Hey hey Reiji!!

*gives you new tea and a poetry book*

Love ya you kinky mf

Reiji: A simple gift, or two? Hmm, perfeーー

Reiji: ーー!! I beg your pardon? What did you call me?

[cartyrs]

How do you feel as a CielDoll shipper with recent chapters

this just reminded me that a new chapter is out and i just read it and i'm in the brain dimension. throwing this ask under a readmore bc it got long but it basically just sums up my opinions on the series as a whole rn:

my feelings on kuroshit have been complicated the past few years ngl! more than anything i'm very frustrated with how the story's been paced since the twin reveal, and i've found it very hard to stay engaged as a fan with how slow things are progressing. but that's also not what you asked so i won't rant about that LOL

I have very mixed feelings on this current arc - it's what finally got me back into reading bc DOLL! MY FAVORITE CHARACTER EVER! IS HERE AND I WAS RIGHT THAT SHE'D BE RELEVANT AGAIN!!! I'd really, really like it if Doll lives past this arc and is able to confront Ciel again. I think I might actually drop the series entirely if she dies here because it feels very pointless to me after all these years to bring her back if her whole point was just to [207 spoilers]. I'm really interested to see Ciel's reaction to her rebirth, esp if after coming clean about his true identity that he's able to be honest about the guilt he harbors over killing her. (SINCE YANA PUT DOLL AND JOKER IN THE SAME PANEL AS MADAM RED, CIELS PARENTS, AND R!CIEL IN CH 100, OVER 70 CHAPTERS AFTER NOAHS CIRCUS, ID GO CRAZY IF IT DIDNT MEAN ANYTHING)

I've always seen Doll as being one of if not the most significant character into understanding Ciel - his sympathy for her in Noah's Arc shows that despite how emphatic he is that he's forgone his soul, he does still care about people underneath it all. I'm pretty sure Yana's even said that if circumstances had been different (plot wise and also wealth wise), they could have been really good friends. I think Doll as a foil for Ciel reveals a lot about him - the biggest being her double-identity and reveal, as well as her playful, childish side vs. her cold, killing side (which even then, Doll doesn't want to kill - she just has to. I think deep down, Ciel is the same way). Same with Doll discovering Ciel's brand and having that empathetic moment with him over it, they don't go too deeply on it but Doll's backstory prior to living on the street is that she was abused by her parents and they scarred her face. She knows better than anyone else in the story what that permanent mark of abuse means for Ciel, and that's why she's so sorry she accidentally exposed his brand.

I've never shipped Doll/Ciel in a "canon" sense (like it just wouldn't make that much sense post-doll's "death", she despises him for killing her family, and after knowing what the circus did, she's nothing but a child kidnapper to him, criminal scum that's not worth anything). Their dynamic to me is so much about the "what if things had gone differently?" - which I also apply to Ciel's other friendships, particularly with Soma, Lizzy, and Alois (though season 2 is it's whole own discussion LOL). So much of Ciel's characater arc is about how he was willing to throw his own life and soul away thinking he had nothing after his parent's and r!ciel's deaths, as well as his own disgrace, but kuroshitsuji has shown us time and time again that there are people who deeply love and care about ciel, and if things had been different, if he hadn't sold his soul to the literal devil, he could have lived for them. i love Doll for him in this regard, because she's someone who doesn't know what happened to him. I think a big crux to Ciel's relationship with Lizzy (ignoring the incest aspect because of the period accuracy, but also because of the incest aspect I obviously do not ship them in a romantic sense) is that she knows more than most people about what happened to Ciel and his family, and that humiliates him. Pity and vulnerability humiliate him. This is a huge reason why he can't be honest with Lizzy about what happened - he doesn't want her pity, it only makes his reality that much worse. When he meets Doll, she's a stranger. And despite knowing nothing about him, she worms her way in and tries at every angle to befriend him. Also, given that his betrothal to Lizzy was by force (esp with how he steals her actual fiancees identity lol), I think if Ciel had been able to choose his own partner, he might have chosen someone like Doll.

ANYWAY - that's why I'll be really disappointed if they don't reunite at some point. I have some vague hope, since this is the last of the servant's arcs, maybe we'll get back to Ciel soon and Doll will get the confrontation she deserves. I actually really wasn't expecting [207 spoiler], that changes a lot for the character dynamics in this arc. I unfortunately haven't been a huge fan of Doll's actions in this arc, it feels horrifically out of character for me to believe that after her moral values are laid explicitly clear in circus arc (she feels guilty for kidnapping children and doesnt want to do it, but fears her older siblings retribution and fears Kelvin and feels an obligation to keep her family safe above all else), that she'd be willing to both make connections with the children at this orphanage as well as let them be used to keep her body alive... for what? To kill Ciel? Obviously she was brought back by Undertaker, but I doubt that Undertaker's true intentions are to kill Ciel, given how important the Phantomhives are to him (I think he's probably way more after Sebastian, but that's another thing entirely). So, why did Undertaker bring her back at all? Why is it Snake and Finny that find her, and not Ciel? Her personality once Snake and Finny discover the truth too is just all over the place, I don't particularly buy it.

I've felt that Yana's writing has seemed rushed and lazy since the twin reveal, whether it's her shifting her focus onto TWST, or that she's just trying to wrap up the series as fast as she can, while also still attempting to churn out monthly chapters (if you compare recent kuroshit volumes to old ones, old volumes had maybe 4-5 chapters, while new ones fit about 10 chapters at the same pagecount, so it's also waaay shorter chapters each month that don't quite move the story along). It's obvious to me that now that R!Ciel is out of the bag, the servant chapters have been a way for Yana to finally write plotpoints that she's had on the backburner since early on in the series (Meyrin, Bard, and Snake's backstories) - but IMO, terribly integrated. Finnys backstory in witch-arc is still some of my favorite parts of the series - because the arc itself is incredibly written, and Finny being highlighted fit in so well. It feels like with these mini arcs that Yana's just like oh shit what kind of plot should X servant's backstory come up in, and none of the newer plots/characters have felt deserved (i.e. the maids in meyrin/ran mao's story). Same thing goes for the characters in this arc, the children dressed like the phantomhive servants are just so weird and out of place to me. Why is this a thing??? An orphanage dedicated to making children act like ciel and sebastian and others and then sacrificing them as blood for Doll????? Why???? The whole scenario is weak and far-fetched IMO, I would've rather Doll's reentry (as well as Meyrin/Bard/Snakes backstories) been introduced in a more natural way, it genuinely feels like Yana is throwing all her cards on the table to wrap the series up without any loose strings.

SO, I don't have like, a TON of hope for Ciel and Doll's story to be wrapped up in a way I personally find satisfying for their character arcs, I'm vaguely hopeful that they'll at least just meet again, but as you can read I've had very mixed feelings on the direction that the series has taken for years now (servant backstory arc has been going on since MARCH 2019 LMAO..), so I'm sorry that your very simple question turned into a rant HAHA but this is like, the crux of my relationship with Kuroshitsuji atm.

Kuroshit has had its fair share of problems, many of which I'll be the first person to go out of my way to critique. I've been able to rationalize being a fan by touting just how good the manga's story is. Nowadays, really not so sure I can stand by that opinion! However, Doll's also like... is The character of all time for me. I've even been contemplating getting her tattooed lately LOL. So, regardless of the direction the series takes, even if it just absolutely tanks, she'll always remain incredibly special to me, as will Ciel and all the characters I've loved over the years.

[prompts-and-stuff]

Hi there, I'm a writer/artist/all around shipper, and can I ask a request? Request being a male/female or male/male or female/female dangerous criminal and cop/detective lines prompts? If you that I mean

Sorry for the delay- I sorta forgot this blog exists ^^; That being said, I hope these can help c: A=criminal, B=cop/detective

also this first one isn't between the two, but rather a superior of B and B.

"You said that you'd have A by now." "Yeah well that was before they blew up the entire building for the theatrics. Now I need to call in a bomb squad. And the CIA."

"Catch me if you can," A teased as they swung a leg over the fence and sprinted away. B would follow, except for the fact that chasing them on foot wouldn't help. Somehow, A was always five steps ahead.

"Once I catch you, you will receive due punishment for everything you've done." "Oh, Officer. That assumes you can catch me."

[chintadraws]

Here me out. . . a Reverse AU but with Paulina being the hero but still the popular girl, has a crush on a nerdy outcast named Danny Fenton who in turn secretly is a guy named Dan Phantom working with Vlad Plasmius but this bad boy villain in training has a crush on Paulina's hero form. Both not aware they understand each other along the way

Ooooh, that sounds like a fun idea! Danny would be a very bad villain who gets too easily distracted by Paulina though, hehehe.

[thir13enghosts]

Okay, Royce-

Our Star Baseball playing prince from the 50s, died at just 17 by a Greaser named Johnny cutting his breaks like a Carrie Underwood song. But possibly something else about him?

I can't find the OG post regarding the picture but it came up in the same AU RP I mentioned before, but if you look at Royce's jacket closely you see that his jacket may not even BE HIS! Every jacket in the 50s had stitching on them and usually this is for Greasers as jocks got Letterman jackets or special coats with their name and team number and school on them, so he should've had that right unless we're suppose to get a picture of him moonlighting as a Greaser??? But WHO'S name is stitched on the jacket?

Seems to be Johnny's! Now we're suppose to get the implication in his backstory he and Johnny weren't really close, I mean Johnny did cut his breaks and got him to do a drag race, so why is he wearing a jacket with his name on it?

Unless somehow Johnny's his dad's or coach's name it feels...very illumining to something with a Greaser and Jock in the 1950's

So in the rp I mentioned we're going between the different ghosts talking about their pasts and talking about trauma, in which btw we recently had Ryan give a meltdown with a HUGE imply his mother was killed in front of him just before he went into puberty thus starting his spree and we did a whole changed a bit version of Our Word from the show 36 Questions with Susan and her family dynamic which I'll leave the song here to give a listen to and get the vibe:

But we went to Royce and did a little story of him and Johnny having a secret romance that got toxic and controlling on Johnny's part so Royce broke up with him, but Johnny was a lot like Chet of "if I can't have you no one can" so he cut the breaks and made Royce go on a drag race for "old time memories when you leave for collage" We took a pause when Royce revealed his final memory of life was him crawling out his firey car while Jonny pulled up and just watched him die coldly

So ye what are you thoughts on why there's the name Johnny on Royce's jacket?

tbh a part of me wonders if the actual Actual reason is bc royce's name was gonna be johnny at first, but at some point during production they changed it to match the irl baseball player named royce clayton and they just. never caught that. i mean i'm already pretty certain there wasn't much cooperation amongst whoever wrote the backstories and the film production so it wouldn't surprise me

as for a canon explanation, genuinely the only conclusions i can come to are either a.) like you said, someone else close to royce was supposed to be named johnny (probably his father? and the jacket would've been like a hand-me-down), or b.) royce & johnny were once close in some way (but as like just friends, bc this was 2001). hell, maybe royce & johnny were supposed to be brothers at some point, who knows.

and as for My royce: the jacket is royce's (see the large letter 'c' on the left side. also the jacket seems to be made of cloth, not leather). the patch (bc it looks like a patch stitched onto the jacket to me) is johnny's, and it was something royce stitched into his jacket bc yes i absolutely agree that royce & johnny Had Something Going On.

(however, my version of royce/johnny was more like "extremely close homoerotic friendship that ended in this really dramatic and emotionally fraught way" but instead of having a massive blowout fight and then never speaking to each other again, they got into a drag race to settle some petty argument they had and one of them accidentally crashed and Fucking Died.)

[auideas]

I don't know if you're doing requests, if so hi and if not this can stay here or be deleted, I don't mind, but the request would be a school vacation of sorts?

Like some ship moments of two and poly (biggest being 5-6) but also some platonic/fun moments of a school vacation to a beautiful resort and beach during the summer?

Hey, don’t worry, we’d love to help! Here are some ideas for some poly fun in the sun (a.k.a. beach episode vibes):

You’ll find cliques in any school, but nowhere is that more clear than when a class is put outside their comfort zone somewhere new. At the beach, two different cliques compete for the best room at their resort.

The beach is fun, but also can be dangerous, especially if you’re not careful where you swim. Characters A & B (fun-loving rivals) see which of them can swim out from shore the furthest. Characters C, D, & E panic as soon as they notice the other two missing and run around trying to make a boat so they can “save them” (of course, this goes poorly).

It’s easy to forget the essentials when you’re packing excitedly, and that can’t be more true for our motley crew. They each forget some vital items (sunscreen, sunglasses, towels, etc.) resulting in them having to share (god forbid) or maybe procure them through other...creative means.

Yeah, the beach isn’t really something our group finds interesting. Finding the blind spots in the hotel’s security cameras to avoid the teachers and running an illegal gambling ring for their classmates’ supplies? Now THAT sounds like fun.

Some people don’t like the beach because it just isn’t their thing, but for Character A, the texture of sand is sensory hell and they avoid it whenever possible. For the first half of the trip, they’re distant from their group because of this, but once they’re honest about their sensory issues, the rest of the group does everything in their power to ensure Character A can still have fun at the beach, even with sand appearing seemingly everywhere.

Long days feed into long nights on school trips, but what fun is there in sleeping in your room with only one other person? To make sure they can get the most fun out of this trip possible, Characters A, B, C, & D pile into Character E’s single room for an unplanned but much-needed sleep over.

Swimming? Nah. Volleyball? Uh uh. Sandcastles? PuhLEASE. Taming a flock of seagulls through purposeful training to bend them to the groups’ will? Uh...YES?!?!

As you see with every beach episode, there’s always a final sunset heart to heart (to heart to heart, in some cases); it’s important to recognize that trope and address it in some way, even if it’s in a parody format.

- Admin M  x

[alto-tenure]

Hi! It's me from the other account. I'mma just copy paste here: I've recently fell in love with lukadrigaminette (or what the ship name is actually) and I was wondering, got any headcanons/prompts I could use to write/draw of them?

some headcanons of mine:

future:

After Butterfly user defeat, the four move out to the suburbs of Paris to get away a bit.

They end up adopting a metric heckton of pets, but they never get a dog or bird because of Luka and Adrien's allergies, respectively.

Marinette gets a job in the fashion industry. Luka works as a studio musician. Adrien stays at home. Kagami works as a personal trainer.

They have three kids eventually still, but they're not the kids Marinette fantasized of as Adrinette kids.

some more Present Time headcanons:

It takes them an embarrassingly long time to get together. Like, seriously. Approximately Too Many awkward double dates.

Kagami and Adrien both put their whole hearts into it and Luka goes "NO this isn't healthy get better coping mechanisms"

Pre-reveal Chat flirts with Luka and Kagami and Marinette a lot, forgetting that he's transformed

Marinette just blushes and says she already is dating

Luka Knows™ and just kind of rolls his eyes (but is a little flustered underneath)

Kagami doesn't know what an Affection is so she's a little starry-eyed at first

Luka and Kagami are Good Friends, they say. Adrien and Marinette roll eyes at each other.

Adrien is the only one really surprised by the reveal. Kagami fakes it and Luka doesn't even pretend he didn't know

Coming out goes relatively well, but neither Adrien or Kagami are ready to come out to the world (happens somewhere between moving out of Paris and kids)

They're happy. Because they deserve to be happy.

[twistedwonderlandwiki]

I saw on the wiki there's talk of the lands, but there's either a name but no information or no way to find a way to search the lands/worlds. How can I research on the worlds? (I'm a worldbuilding nerd and tend to want to see EVERY detail in a fandom world)

Hello, thank you for your ask!

At the moment, we have a large backlog of pages on the wiki that need to be cleared. Since we don't have nearly as much lore given to us as we do general story content, we chose to prioritize translations first and foremost.

Regardless, we are working on world building pages! But it's unfortunately been a slow process and we are just extremely understaffed. (But jsyk, we're always accepting new wiki editors!)

If you want to research on your own, lore will often drop unexpectedly in random stories. The wiki, of course, has tons of translations available for you to go through. We also highly reccomend @twstarchives as a resource, they have many organized lists regarding TWST's settings and characters. It'll definitely be a good starting ground!