#cielposting

[9reydau]

[marichild]

happy birthday to my darling beloved phantomhive twins . my late birthday present is a wip I started 2 months ago and am desperately chipping at in the form of 2 words per week

I blame sebastian. anyway it's their actual birthday in-manga soon do we predict something horrible happens to o!ciel or nah

[dante-redgravee]

*me staring at Sebastian’s permanent fangs*

COVER THEM UP SLUT

[marichild]

ciel phantomhive is a study on growing up so fast you never grew up at all and living with ghost of your parents and the brother whose soul you sacrificed (unwittingly, unknowingly; why would you ever ever do that to him) under your skin and one foot in the grave knowing and accepting but not actively thinking about how when you succeed in your vengeance quest you'll be swallowed whole by the very hand who protects you + sees you for exactly what you are. and yet. where's the regret in having sold your soul.

[marichild]

ciel for the character ask game!!

OMG ANON HI. THANK YOU FOR THIS AAAA I CAN TALK ABT MY BABY.... ask game

CIEL PHANTOMHIVE

favorite thing about them: he’s my babyyyy <3 three apples tall and they’re all laced with cyanide. he’s a baby who turns to arson and is impossibly kind and tries his very best to be cruel and heartless but he cares. he wants to be an adult but he’s a child who needs essential growing-up experiences and wants them no matter what he says.

least favorite thing about them: literally nothing could make me hate him. ever

favorite line: i have two actually—

“There are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who steal, and those who are stolen from. And today, I steal your futures. That’s all there is to it.” there’s something about the way he says it so coldly, especially knowing he wasn’t thinking rationally at the time; especially knowing that this night will come to be one of his greatest regrets. he sincerely believes what he says, but. does that make any of what he’s doing any easier to digest? does it help him any?

“I’m a hopelessly self-centered and righteous person. That’s why I took your hand to repay the disgraces against me. Not for anyone else’s sake, but for myself!” oh god. first of all the first time I read this scene (and the entire arc in general) I was crashing the fuck out. second of all what I think about this scene is that he isn’t lying, but that he does want revenge for his brother and parents. he isn’t half as self-centered and self-righteous as he believes he is; those things may be true, but at the same time: he’s so hopelessly kind. he cares so much. he cannot be like his brother as much as he tries and he’s buckling under the weight of his trauma. god. my baby.

brOTP: tbh. as much as ciel & sebastian compels me. all of the servants and soma and also sieglinde. cannot pick one over other. the thing is ciel phantomhive is literally a friendship is magic bitch and he’s just in denial about it.

OTP: cielizzie ❤️ this is less in a romance way and more of a weird fucked up fell-for-the-facade way + partnership built on odd trust way. also they are in love. don’t ask me to elaborate I’ll pull up with a whole essay on ciel’s relationships

nOTP: ehhhh nothing I would not read if it was done in an interesting way tbh

random headcanon: I saw a post abt this a few weeks ago!!! but!!! ciel needs his walking stick not just for decorative / status purposes but also because he genuinely needs it, since his body still isn’t as strong as it should be with a combination of his chronic illness and his still being underweight and low-stamina after spending so long in that cage. he has chronic pain, too, probably, in addition to an off depth perception that he has since adjusted to. yes the cricket match was hell for him. (<- now you may ask. mari if he’s your baby why are you doing this to him. idk man the logical chain of events says this is most likely to happen despite him being thirteen years old.)

unpopular opinion: okay I’m going to cheat a bit but since r!ciel is ciel phantomhive also. r!ciel is not a little bitch and I do not trust you if you purposefully hate on him ❤️ that is a child under the influence of a grown adult immortal man and has been through exactly what his brother has been through and suffered something his brother will never understand. also does a child being a nightmare not delight you. come on

song i associate with them: oh god. um. mukanjyo by survive said the prophet is one I associate with him sometimes. uhh. what else. blue & grey by bts I suppose. wiege from alien stage because it was brought up in the hunting dogs server one time and I cannot get the image of the phantomhive twins in place of hyuluka (as siblings ofcs do not shoot me please).

favorite picture of them

I have two again <3 LOOK HOW ADORABLE HE IS IN THE FIRST ONE IN HIS HALLOWEEN DEMON OUTFIT. something abt the startled expression because those kids pushed a candy basket into his hands 🥺🥺

second of all I’m specifically insane about this one because: once upon a time you would have folded into your the shadow your brother casts but no longer. you’re made of something sharper and more jagged now; who you have become wants the parts of the world you were once happy to relinquish. you are no longer going to sit and be heartbroken about being the sickly spare because you are not anymore. you spent years molding yourself into something you are not and succeeded halfway and sacrificed so much for the brother who just comes back and plucks it out of your hands with the kind of effortless heartless joy and sadism that you could never replicate. who said you’re just going to sit around and let it happen?

[marichild]

the reason we havent seen ciel have a breakdown abt r!ciel yet is because yana is saving it for me. btw. shes waiting for the most opportune moment where it would take me off guard and kill me deader than dead because hey hey heyy what if you were exposed for taking your dead brother's identity and place in life but it's for duty it's for love it's for atonement. and ☝️ what if the dead brother in question comes back wrong and tries to Ruin Your Life so now you're essentially fighting against the very person you did all of this for. and to top it off the terms of the fuckass demon contract STILL hasnt been fulfilled on account of more important things happening. like the dead brother you sold your soul for trying to basically kill you. if i were ciel phantomhive i too would master the art of repression until i have a second mental break from reality so severe even my demon butler is gonna be like wtf is happening

[marichild]

personally i think ciel should be stuck in a series of successive repetitive dreams formatted something like a survival game except the game setting is the phantomhive manor that grows more and more twisted in ways that specifically freak him out more and more. and the ghost chasing him hunting him down looking dead and broken and ten years old should be r!ciel, of course

[marichild]

stares at the ceiling I've been thinking about how much of a child ciel is and how it's evident in every single action and word of his

this may be like the single most obvious thing in kuro ever. doesn't mean I'm not picking that fact apart like a bird pecking at birdseed