Daily old(ish) piece 194 (replacing a shitpost I deleted)!

Gender(literal)fluid, probably the silliest Kuro art I’ve done.

From 2024

Daily old piece 189!

'Nother one to redraw.

From 2021

Kuro AU where little OCiel is so sick that he probably won’t have another birthday. In their desperation and after running out of options, Vincent and Rachel turn to forbidden practices and try to summon an ancient demon in hopes that it will save their child. However, they end up summoning a demon that is very battered and weak themself after a previous encounter with another powerful demon. They can’t do much for the child in this state so they offer the parents a deal: instead of accepting a sacrifice, they’ll possess the child and lend him their supernatural powers to strenghten his body and keep him healthy, and in turn the child will provide them a vessel to help them rest and recover. But they will be bound permanently, meaning that even when they recover they can’t stay too far away from each other.

Vincent and Rachel accept and so demon’s and child’s fates are sealed.
The demon thinks this isn’t exactly an ideal situation but it could be worse, they just didn’t want to die. The child is ok, after the initial freak out he slowly gets used to having a horror beyond comprehension inhabiting his body, even starts to curiously experiment will all the things he can do with his new strenght. He directly addresses the demon, more and more often, does this child have any idea who he’s talking to? And why does he talk to them like they are best friends? The audacity! What do you mean? Of course the demon starts to look after him only because they are bound by contract and nothing else! No, they do NOT find similarities between him and a kitten.

Little Ciel recovers and grows up into a healthy young boy, then into a fine gentleman. People who have gotten to know him personally share rumors about the strange aura surroundig him, how he’s so smart, talented and successful but also uncanny, as if he wasn’t entirely human, even getting the feeling that when he talks, they could swear they hear two people talking at once.

Daily old piece 168!

That butler, the fashionist. Will redraw at some point.

From 2021

Btw y’all can bet there’s gonna be sebagni in my dadbastian AU. Not the usual way people write it tho. I write this as a world where some demon species have no concept of romance, sexuality or intimate affection and their reproduction is a bizarre demonic version of cell division. However some of them, mainly those who have lived in the human world enough, might find humans (or other sentient creatures tbh) that they develop a special bond with and become close to, tho it’s a kind of bond that can’t be described with human language. So Sebastian just meets Agni and is like “he’s the one”, I call it a queerplatonic relationship because it’s the closest human term for it but if Seb tried to explain it we wouldn’t understand a word lol. But still sebagni nonetheless 😌

Tl; dr:

Had another thought for my AU: the day of the sacrifice and subsequent killing of the cultists by Sebas, the smell of suffering and death attracts some opportunistic minor demons who gobble up the cultists’ souls. They then start fighting each other over the soul of the child who’s dying in the cage, so Sebas quickly snatches him like “B̷̜́̀͠A̷͇͇͗́C̴̢̘͌̈́̉̽K̸̛̠͕̬̬̐̐ ̴̜̩̌̍́O̶̘̱̱̿F̴̪̺̟͑̂̄F̴̻̒̋͗͐ ̸̝̩̳̂͗̔H̵̼͂̍E̶͓͍̿̔̚'̸͙̪̜̃́͑̕S̶̘̳̔͒̕̚ ̵̖̲͉̿̀͗͝M̸̻̙͖͘I̵͖͕͆̎͂N̶̫̾̉̎̈́E̵̱̤̬͑.” He sees great potential in the kid and at first is pretty possessive of him because he doesn’t want those lesser demons who aren’t worthy of him to have him (he’s disgusted that they ate the souls of those people), but over time he starts feeling protective of him for reasons other than his precious soul. Poor Ciel becomes a demon magnet even after he grows up so Sebas has to be on guard dog mode often.

Daily old piece 133!

From a fandom event back on Tumblr, one of the older pieces I'm proudest of :D
(NOT ship art).

From 2023

Some people say Dadbastian makes no sense and it’s delusional because Sebastian’s a demon who just wants to eat Ciel’s soul and views humans in general as livestock. Well, people in real life can and often do find cows/pigs/chickens/etc cute while still being meat eaters. Meat farmers often care a lot about their animals and even are affectionate towards them. I myself raise insects as feeders for my frogs and said insects are my precious adorable babies and I give them the best life untill the end. These concepts can perfectly coexist.
Also those people are mean and I don’t like them.

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WAIT I KNOW, maybe the actual confrontation with feral Sebastian is when Ciel gets the contract mark on his eye. Maybe while Agni uses Kali’s power to hold the demon back, Ciel uses the binding spell he has been secretly practicing (since technically any human can summon or even trap a demon if they have access to the ancient knowledge). At the exact moment Sebas breaks free from Kali’s restraint, charges at Ciel and extends a pitch black tendril over him, the boy completes the spell. When Sebas comes to his senses the first thing he sees is his child Ciel kneeling on the floor with a hand over a bleeding eye, and has a “What have I done?” moment.

(All I’m saying is that I’m tempted to go full fantasy AU and make Ciel a mage lmao).

Familiar AU angst hours: I know I said that hunger makes demons weak and vulnerable, but what if it makes them revert back to a mindless state? The longer they go without consuming a soul the closer they are to becoming the feral monsters that they so look down on.

And ever since he became Ciel’s guardian Sebastian hasn’t made a contract with anyone, what with all the time consuming work that comes with caring for a young child. Of course, since demons are immortal they can go years without really starving, but the thing is Sebas had already been a bit hungry when he first found the child. Sure the prospect of raising a little human and gaining his trust so that he’d later decide to make a contract with him sounded fun, but years go by and the Phantomhive boy still doesn’t mention it.

Conflicted, strange feelings start swirling around inside Sebas. While he does care for the kid and even feels protective of him (in his own demon way), he has never stopped viewing him as a potential meal. But if the kid never offers him his soul, does that mean he should just leave? If Ciel grows up and doesn’t need help and guidance anymore, why stay? Saving him and keeping him alive was just an experiment, right? Right?

To make matters worse, he starts to worry when he finds himself often fantasizing about the flavor that the past trauma has added to the young soul. He’s always been a patient calm demon, so what’s going on? Demons can also smell souls, and Ciel’s is mouth watering, oh how he’d love to open up his jaws like a giant wolf and swallow him whole.

Oh no.

He’s losing his mind. He hasn’t even gone looking for souls of dying people all this time, as that goes against his aesthetic. And of course the idiot bastard hasn’t talked to anyone about this. Which is why he doesn’t know Ciel has been studying demonology behind his back, knows everything about demons and contracts and actually plans to make a contract, but what he wants is for Sebas to be his familiar, which means he’ll be bound to him until he dies of old age (the little shit does view him as a parental figure but also wouldn’t mind having a demon by his side to help him gain power and smite his enemies, boys amirite?).

I haven’t fully decided how the story goes from here, but maybe it gets to a point where hunger overcomes Sebas for a while and Ciel has no choice but to confront him and forcefully bind him with the knowledge he has acquired, maybe also with Agni’s help (they have met Soma and Agni by now, more or less at the same point in time as in canon). After Sebas has calmed down, Ciel makes a promise: if he stays with him all his life and becomes his sword and shield, he can have his soul in the end, effectively making him a familiar demon; and in the meantime he can take the souls of any enemies they may kill whenever he gets hungry.

Tl; dr: Scrawny Victorian orphan catches demon like a pokémon.

Daily old piece 127 (part A)!

My AU finally has a name 🤪

From 2023

Daily old piece 125!

Happy Seb Saturday! This was one of my first attempts at drawing this bastard ☺️

From 2020

Maybe I’ll draw this one day, but imagine Sebastian carrying little Ciel (who’s fast asleep in the demon’s arms after a long play session) to his bedroom, while thinking to himself “I had never observed human younglings in such close proximity and for such long periods of time before, but I have to admit they do have an appeal. Of course, I assume this is an evolutionary development with the purpose of preservation of the species, as people are generally hardwired by nature to find young mammals adorable and thus are driven to protect and nurture them”.

He tucks the child under the blankets and, before assuming his borzoi form and jumping on the bed (something that has become a habit by now) he watches him for a while with curiosity. Still fast asleep, Ciel rolls on his side and curls up into a ball. Sebastian puts a hand over his mouth to muffle a chuckle.

“My goodness, he really is like a kitten”.

Gonna dump a bunch of notes about my Black Butler AU I wrote back in 2023, just to have a backup:

-Like a lot of canon-divergent Kuro ideas I have, this is set in an alternate reality where all kinds of supernatural creatures coexist with humans.

-One of them is demons, there are different subspecies and not all of them eat souls. There was a time where all demons were feared and any human who was suspected of being in good terms with one became the target of a witch hunt. By the late 18th century, however, things have changed a lot.

-There has been an agreement or “code of honor” between soul-eating demons (commonly called Voids) and humans for centuries. Voids need human souls to survive, they cannot sustain themselves with anything else (it’s very rare for a demon to starve to death but they do become weak and vulnerable). Some of them are opportunists who roam in search of dying humans whose souls they can snatch before a reaper arrives. While others are more patient and prefer to cultivate a soul by forming a contract with someone who wishes to. Having your soul eaten is not the horrifying fate you may think it is: there’s no eternal torment, no hell, nothing. Just going to sleep never to wake up and becoming one with the demon. People accept this as another aspect of life. However, there’s one thing that’s unacceptable and it’s demons (unjustifiably) killing humans just for their souls, any demon who does this is considered a feral beast and will be hunted down (there are some methods to kill a demon for good). Even other demons look down on these individuals.

-The longer a human lives the more “nutritious” their soul is. Some Voids will form a contract with a human and serve them through all their life, and when it’s their time to go the person will willingly feed themself to the demon. Other demons even become familiars and stay in the same family for generations, swearing loyalty to the next person in line after they have absorbed their relative’s soul. People consider this an honor.

-Sebastian is a very refined demon who only consumes the highest quality souls after fulfilling a contract. The day RCiel is sacrificed is the first time someone actively summons him, as all this time he met all his contractees by chance. He eats the human sacrifice’s soul because why not, there’s a first time for everything. However, when he takes a look at all the cultists gathered excitedly looking at him he feels nothing but contempt and disgust, and slaughters them without second thought and without bothering to take their souls. They have the distinctive stench of someone who has done unspeakable things to an individual of their own species, especially to a youngling, and not even demons find these souls appetizing. So nobody would dare to judge him for disposing of them. After the fun bloodbath he senses a tiny presence nearby, and locates it in a cage in the center of the room. A small, frail human lays there, apparently dead, though he still feels their soul flickering inside. Upon closer inspection he notices it’s a young child that looks exactly like the owner of the soul he just devoured. “Ah, twins. How sad”. It doesn’t seem like this child will make it, but waiting until he finally dies goes against his aesthetic, and for some reason he can’t bring himself to either end his misery or leave him there. So he takes the unconscious child out of there, craddling him in his very demon essence, and just keeps him, like a person who has found a wet, dirty, barely alive tiny animal on the side of the road. Besides, if he manages to save the child and he goes on to live, they might make a contract and then he can claim his soul in the end. It could be a fun experiment right?

-From OCiel’s POV, the story starts off very similar to in canon: he still gets horribly tortured and abused. But since in this AU it all happens when he’s younger, his small body can’t take much and eventually he gets so sick and weak that he can’t even stand, and the cultists just leave him to die in the cage while they focus on the stronger RCiel. The day of the sacrifice he keeps slipping in and out of consciousness and can’t fully register or process what’s going on. Unable to tell dreams from reality, he suddenly feels a warm, almost velvety cloak that surrounds him. It’s very comforting and he clings to it with the little strength he has left.

Daily old piece 121!

Step 1: Eat the sacrifice soul.
Step 2: Kill the cultists.
Step 3: Adopt the sacrifice’s twin on a whim.
Step 4: ?
Maybe the demon didn’t think this through…

From 2022

Trying so hard to resist the Dadbastian temptation HHHHNNNNNNHGGGGG but what if… Kuro AU where the whole cult kidnapping and torturing and sacrificing happens some years earlier so when Seb’s summoned he sees a traumatized 5/6 years old Ciel crying in the cage (or maybe too broken to even shed a tear anymore) and he doesn’t know exactly what he feels but it’s like if a human found a pathetic tiny wet animal and felt bad for it, so he takes him out of there and little Ciel clings to this weird ass creature because it’s the first thing in a long time that doesn’t want to hurt him. And Seb doesn’t really know what to do with this little human but something drives him to stay with him and try to keep him alive. And 5/6 years old Ciel is maybe still too young to process all this and can’t think about revenge now, he just wants bad things to stop happening to him so once he’s 100% sure he’s safe around the demon he sticks to him like a little duckling. And maybe Seb stills views all humans as cattle/potential food but honestly? Ppl irl can and often do find cattle/meat animals cute and are protective and nurturing towards them even if they’re gonna be eaten, and even keep certain individuals as pets all their lives so I don’t think that’d be too unrealistic.
(Granted that maybe a younger child wouldn’t have survived all that, but let’s imagine he miraculously did).

Daily old piece 81!

Another piece I plan to finish.

From 2020

Daily old piece 60!

Another silly doodle I'm planning to polish/redraw 💙

From 2019

Another not-my-art-thing from my Tumblr, from 2020 :)