#phantomhive brothers

[cielphantomhive321]

Overprotective brother.

Original artist: https://x.com/yikemeiguow?mx=2

[blondeaxolotl]

Happy birthday to these creatures

[anxiteyandsleep]

How about one with Ciel and the reader who is his younger brother?

This is so cute wahh😭 thank you for the request🙏

° you're one of the only people Ciel refuses to have as a pawn in his games. He cherishes you deeply even if he doesn't show it very often.

° you're also the only one who makes him genuinely smile anymore

° he made it very clear to Sebastian, you're to be kept safe and anyway from danger at all times. He doesn't want you to end up like him. Ciel doesn't let you know that he's sold his soul, the truth about Sebastian, or the dirty work he has to do.

° Ciel is often busy so you don't spend as much time together as you'd both like. When he does have free time, he makes sure to play a few games with you and sometimes he'll let you have a 'sleepover' in his room.

° sometimes he'll tuck you into bed and read to you instead of Sebastian doing it. He's a bit awkward when reading childish stories and be doesn't act them out as much as Sebastian might.

° he sometimes can be a bit harsh, if you're crying over something he doesn't think is worth it, he'll be snarky about it. However if Ciel ever does something that makes you cry, he tries his best to apologize and make you feel better

° if you steal Ciels clothes and dress up as him??? he finds it adorable and laughs about it a little. Sometimes he'll play along, bowing or telling Sebastian to follow your orders for a few moments. "Sebastian, the young earl asked for sweets before dinner, you must obey, he's your master after all"

° the servants take care of you the most, Ciel knows they'll keep you safe if needed, even if they're not the best influence on you. He caught Baldroy letting you play with a flamethrower once and nearly had heart attack.

° Ciel will absolutely force Sebastian to play silly games with you, the more embarrassing it is for Sebastian, the better. He'll even whisper ideas to you on how you can make Sebastians job as a butler even harder.

[sut4tcliff]

Stares directly into the camera

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Choose your fighter. Sebastian Michaelis or Undertaker. The demon versus the reaper.

It is uncanny, but seeing the way Undertaker holds the vulnerable, almost lifeless body of Ciel’s older twin brother reminds me of Kuroshitsuji II.

People don’t want to be reminded of it, but somehow we are seeing hints.

Sebastian and Ciel from “Kuroshitsuji II.”

Or Yana just loves this dramatic holding of the twins from their adult protectors.

[deevotee]

I've been thinking about it, and madam red definitely knew ciel wasnt his brother, and ciel knew she knew this

so i find it kind of interesting when she says there must have been another way for ciel to live, and even specifies her older sister when shes talking about his mom, it just sounds more obvious now that she probably meant to be a bit patronizing about how he wasnt trained to the watchdog like his brother but came back as it anyways, and ciel insisting he doesnt want to depend on anyone could be him responding also to the expectation that he'd be the useless spare forever

[lithth]

doomed sibling relationships oh how you wound me.

[yami-in-leather]

hehe I got all of them! went to four different familymarts even though I found one that still had them all bc I didn’t wanna look like a crazy person buying eight ice creams at once lol

I had an entire bag full of coolish and pino by the end of my little adventure~

[nullbutler]

Null now I'm curious what other new anime bb characters would think of season 1 version, like New Ciel verses season 1 Ciel lmao

while the sebastains aggressively make out, the Ciels are huddling up crying like wet kittens

[falling-star-cygnus]

i don’t plan on ever officially finishing or starting or making content for Black Butler bc frankly- the fandom scares me {which is saying something bc fairy tail, sailor moon and mha were my first animes}

BUT LOOK AT THIS LITTLE CUTIE -> look at Ciel's face and his instinctual hold at Soma's arm

he’s such an asshole {for good reason all things considered} but he is my favorite character

[anawkwardlady]

OCiel : you're the worst.

RCiel : oh? if that so, I am sorry, should I maybe kill myself ? 😊

OCiel : *sigh* please don't... you're going to come back even wronger...

[blondeaxolotl]

Omg!!! Vincent and Rachel are so cute in your art style! I've got to see more of those cuties in your AU 💝

Kissing the twink husband before you go teach your youngest son how to kick ass in fencing/sword fighting!!!

[abybweisse]

After the real Ciel returns as a doll, I don't understand his feelings for our ciel. After all, does he love him or is he looking for competition and is angry with him?

He claimed that he was not angry with our Earl. He said he likes to see his development . Defended Earl's lie about his identity to Francis. He told Undertaker that he just wanted to spend time with his brother.

But he also left the blood in the basement of the mansion and called the police to accuse his brother. And he asked Tanaka to burn the rabbit dolls and he doesn't want to see them again. I also feel that he killed Agni personally. just for make our Earl and Soma enemy.

because he was jealous that someone getting close to his brother.

I understand that his brain probably hasn't developed since he was 10 years old and is childish. But still seem contradictory.

Real Ciel's emotions

I've touched on this subject before, but I always find it a bit difficult to read this character.

We don't know too much about him from before, but he seems to have always been a little bit fickle minded. One minute he's happy and wanting to know about his brother's life goals, but when it means his brother might move away, he tries to change his brother's mind and control his decisions. Then he's all of a sudden against being the heir, if it means not getting to do as he pleases and being with his brother all the time.

And elitist; when Vincent tells them about keeping the workers on their land happy and productive, our earl ponders how hard it must be to keep everyone happy... while real Ciel compares them to sheep who must be provided with the basics to keep them from going astray.

With a big helping of "big brother syndrome", where he thinks he knows what's best and feels a need to be the protector all the time. And to be right all the time, like telling our earl the truth about Santa and where the presents really come from. Oh, and being competitive -- typically the winner -- like at chess. It's a little condescending when he says our earl and their dad are the only ones who can even present a challenge for him. Getting kidnapped and sold to the cult gave him a serious reality check, but it doesn't seem to have stuck too well.

Like I've said before, the process of turning him into an advanced bizarre doll (using all his life goals as "episodes") seems to have brought his negative traits to the forefront.

We see that when he confronts our earl, Sebastian, and the rest of the household. Even Tanaka winces when real Ciel puts Sebastian in his place as a servant. Then there's the whole blood transfusion thing: he could accept any whole blood donation (since Rh factor doesn't seem to be a thing in the Kuroverse), and Blavat apparently knows this. So, why does he only use Sirius blood? Does he not also know... or is he simply refusing any other blood type, with the belief it's too inferior for him? 🤔

There's a strong dichotomy to his thinking. On the one hand, he wants to be with his twin, just like before, but he also wants to punish him for taking the ring and pretending to be him. He calls our earl a liar but then says he'll have nothing to do with anyone who says the same thing... then doesn't seem to care when Lizzie almost immediately points her finger, doing exactly what real Ciel said others shouldn't do. He quickly learns to appreciate and even admire what our earl has managed to accomplish in the past nearly four years, but he has no personal interest in the same things, like the toy and confectionery company. He would have invested in the railway system or something. It seems likely that he was invested in Blue Star Line, so he's way more into transportation and infrastructure than he is into providing the simple joys of toys and sweets. Like he'd rather be an industrial tycoon. It's really sad to me that he basically tells Tanaka to get rid of those toys because he is still upset with our earl for wanting to pursue such a career. Like he doesn't think it's a particularly serious occupation. Maybe he truly thinks it's not worthy or proper for a member of a noble family to do that sort of work. He even says something like that in ch132.

Real Ciel has, since that moment (if not before), wanted his little brother to be dependent on him. Forever.

So, yeah, at the point where he's had the blood planted at the manor and is calling his younger twin by "Lord Sirius", he's perfectly willing to have him arrested and detained for questioning. Things would have played out quite differently if Sebastian and our earl hadn't gotten away from the Yard. After a few days of letting our earl think about what he's done, sitting in some jail cell, he might have gone down to the station and dropped the charges -- making who knows what excuse about the blood and the deaths -- on the condition that his younger twin would return to the manor and stay there, doing whatever real Ciel wants him to do. Maybe he would pin the entire thing on Blavat and let him rot there. Considering how Druitt keeps getting out of situations with the law, I'm sure real Ciel could talk or bribe his brother's way out of legal trouble.

Since real Ciel now runs entirely on his personal goals and desires, what we see now is a much more selfish version of himself. So selfish and elitist that he'll:

Have Lord Polaris kill Agni to turn Soma against his younger twin

Have his brother locked up just to physically contain him

Destroy what his brother has built for the estate and Funtom, despite recognizing the effort it took

Belittle the servants that his brother showed compassion and leniency to

Use his fiancée as a bodyguard but otherwise barely speak to her

Drain people dry to accept only Sirius (AB) blood when he could accept any type

I'm sure there are things I've left out that I intended to include, but this seems pretty thorough to me... for now.

He does love his brother, but as a soulless bizarre doll, it's a cold sort of love. The self-centered aspects of it remain. Not what he can truly do for his younger twin but what his younger twin can do for him. And he is angry... and still competitive.

ETA: Real Ciel's lies to Francis/Frances aren't really to protect our earl; the excuses he makes, etc. are to help cover up the dark truths about himself. Just imagine him trying to explain it truthfully and in relatively good detail. It wouldn't go over well at all.

[killjoy-laserbeam]

The more I look back on this arc the more I can’t be mad at Real!ciel…That boy is VALID. Everything he is doing is JUSTIFIED. I will defend him while helping his felon brother but…

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Fledging describes a bird developing wings. But on this context the act of flying for the first time cannot be realised. So what hinders the young birds to fly?

Theo, perched on top of a gardening ladder, looks far away surrounded with balls of mistletoe, which earned a bad rep because of its characteristic as a parasitic plant. (Like other poisonous plants, poison ivy for example that is used against coughing, European mistletoe has traditional medicinal values.) I am now unsure if he’s the one who might betray the group. But one of them could be. Someone who is too weak to resist the powers that be.

I don’t blame the others if they find the latest arc reminiscent of “The Promised Neverland.” We have here a group of intelligent children who have an idea that there’s something amiss in the orphanage. The only difference is the point of view we are getting. Instead of the children’s we are seeing it from the outside POV of Finnian and Snake who are about to uncover the irregularities inside the institution and are about to save the others if they could. Maybe this is Yana’s way of paying an homage or fixing it. We’ll never know for sure.

Snake is not on this chapter. But I doubt that all his snakes are sleeping. At least, Emily, the coral snake, and Webster, the copperhead, are active at night.

Anyway, during the Campania arc his snakes discerned the bizarre dolls’ difference from humans. Not only they reeked, but Webster’s venom couldn’t penetrate their bodies. Doll must have been so evolved the only time they’d probably have an idea that she is different is when she needs blood.

Volume 12

[thefakeearlhasafancyeye]

Would people read a canon divergence fic about real Ciel snitching on our Ciel about his contract to Francis tho…just curious