Bezierballad - Oops My Hand Slipped

When you expect your new fanfic on Ao3 to blow up and it just doesn't for some reason:

neurotypicals will be like "you can't self diagnose" and then diagnose everyone they dislike as a narcissist

SOMETHING THAT HAUNTS ME FOREVER ABOUT BLACK BUTLER is the scene where Ciel finds out Agni is an angel.

He realises an angel came for Soma when no angels came to save him. We know he prayed and prayed to God, yet no angels came to save him, but here is an angel who came for Soma. It proves god is real, and that God didn't care that Ciel was being trafficked (I can't imagine many things worse than what he went through, it was like Yana really piled the trauma on, you would think it would be enough for god to care). God is real, and it left Ciel to die. God is real and its choices are completely arbitrary.

Ciel prayed to Satan in terror and despair, and Satan answered when god wouldn't, and now Ciel is cursed. You know the rules: he will be killed once he has gotten revenge, and he will also be killed if he feels happiness before then. Essentially he isn't allowed to feel joy, for as long as he is alive, ever again, because Satan answered his prayers and God didn't.

Ciel thought this was all he could get, just barely surviving his experience to live an empty life, and then he meets Soma and Agni and learns that he could have had something completely different but was denied it. And when Ciel realises this and looks to Sebastian, Sebastian smiles, because Sebastian got him, and it's too late now.

Ciel was genuinely abandoned by god.

So I’ve talked a bit about my Black Butler OCs, the Sinclair Inn Servants in the past, but I thought maybe I’d go a bit deeper into them.

Like Sebastian, Napoleon is the usual typical soul-eating contract-making demon we’ve seen in the Black Butler world. Unlike Sebastian, he couldn’t really give any less of a damn about this “fasting” nonsense. A demon’s gotta eat after all, otherwise they’ll basically go absolutely mad.

As for Tobias and Maria? They’re demons too, of course. But they’re wired a bit differently. A “subspecies”of demon, if you will.

Let me explain.

First and foremost, they don’t survive on human souls, but on human flesh and blood. I don’t exactly have a name for these kinds of demons, but for the sake of this post we’ll call them “flesh-eaters”. (And for soul-consuming demons like Sebastian, Hannah, Claude, etc. we’ll refer to them as “soul-eaters”.)

In Hell’s hierarchy (if that even exists in Black Butler) flesh-eaters are ranked lower than the soul-eaters, which leads to my next point.

When a soul-eater makes a contract with a human, the demon is considered a “servant”, obeying the human’s orders until the contract is complete, devouring the human’s soul as a reward.

These flesh-eating demons are considered “servants” to soul-eating ones. (Think like the demon triplets from Kuroshitsuji II, who were Hannah’s subordinates. In fact, I actually headcanon that they’re flesh-eaters.) 

The flesh-eater(s) accompanies the soul-eater demon (who “hires” them as subordinates) and often assist them in completing whatever contract the soul-eater makes with a human. They obey the soul-eater’s orders and are required to be at his or her side at almost all times.

As for their reward? Soul-eaters eat the human contractor’s souls (obviously) while flesh-eaters feed on the soulless bodies left over. So at the end of each completed contract, they both get a nice meal. (If they’re ordered to kill someone, they feast off the corpse of that too.)

Another difference between soul-eaters and flesh-eaters is that soul-eaters move onto another human to form a contract with. 

Flesh-eaters are required to always serve a soul-eater even after a contract is completed. (They get a lot more food this way.) The only way they can actually move onto someone else is if the soul-eater is killed by a reaper.

Also, quick thing about their physical appearances. Or rather, their “true demon” forms:

Soul-eaters are this constantly shifting black mist (we see this with Sebastian in the Blue Memory arc.)

Flesh-eaters are… well, more “human” but also kind of not?

Imagine something like the Rake; humanoid hairless creature with long appendages, extremely long sharp claws and teeth, and white eyes void of any pupils or irises. Their limbs and torso are also extremely thin and lanky. And they’re extremely tall. Like, at least a good few inches taller than the average adult human being.

Those are the true demon forms of flesh-eaters.

Of course, like soul-eaters, these guys can shapeshift into pretty much whatever form, and they can choose to take on a much more settling human form. (Sometimes their eyes or their teeth might slip out though. Sometimes.)

Honestly I can go on and on about this, but I think I’ve gone on long enough lmao. Hopefully that made sense.

If you guys have any questions about my OCs or their lore, feel free to send an ask! ^^

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