He's all grumpy because Sebastian made him pose for a photo or something.
Familiar AU Sebastian upon finding Ciel:
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.
Your regular reminder that suffering isn’t noble, take the painkillers 💙
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.
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).
Daily old piece 128 (part B)!
Part of an art trade I did with @/nullb1rdbones on Tumblr! This piece is set on their Black Butler AU called The Dead, The Damned and the Devil, I'm not sure if it'll be finished because they haven't been active lately but it's still a great story, you can chek it out here!
From 2023
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.
Cosmic Lion🎨📷🔞