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OOC Information
Alias: Mika
Contact Info: AIM: an inked heart
E-mail: bite.you.to.death@hotmail.com
Other characters: Gilbert Nightray
IC Information
Character:Alois Trancy
Canon: Kuroshitsuji II
Point in canon: Mid-Episode 8
Age: 14
Personality:
To put it simply, Alois was never exactly entirely sane. As a child he was a bit stilted but he does have a heart even to this day albeit his other quirks. Canon events only furthered his lack of sanity and changed him into the boy we all see in canon. He‘s brash, rude, uncouth and he‘s not one for knowing limits on people‘s personal spaces when he wants something. To get what he wants, he goes to unusual ends to get them as seen to what he‘s done in efforts to ‘get‘ Ciel Phantomhive as his own. Alois is also rather cruel and seems to get enjoyment from other people’s pain and what reactions he can get from people that he meets from day to day.
On the flip side, when it comes to the one closest to him - who happens to be Claude - or those people he chooses to decieve, he shows his other half. A sweet, soft boy who has a sweet smile, laughs and he’s truly a young boy of fourteen and nothing really bothers him. Or so it seems. Beneath both these exteriors is merely a child who never really got what was his. He and his brother were alone for years so they had to try and get what they needed on their own and then once his brother was gone, he had to change and adapt to the new changes so he could continue on but nothing was really his even then.
He’s afraid of being left alone and uses harsh words and cruel actions to cover that fear but there is the rare time his exterior cracks and you can see the real him beneath. Even though he’s contracted to a demon like Claude - who means so much to him as he’s done more for him than anyone else has - he still hates them because of what happened to his brother and who was the one that did it.
To say he’s a little insane is indeed accurate. One may even try and say he’s bi-polar with his shifts in his different moods, but they’re almost facades when looked past to who he is really. Alois is merely a hurt child and sometimes doesn’t make the best actions and puts people through hell but there’s all a reason for it in the end, even if he doesn’t show it and comes off as a bit creepy and off-putting.
History:
At the young age of six, Alois Trancy was not always by that name.
He was called Jim Machen back then and he had a younger brother by the name of Luca and they were little orphans in the village they lived in back then. They were a rebellious pair of children and stole things from other people to get by, and never had a real home of their own. Alois - or rather Jim - took good care of his brother and made sure he had no worries at all and that he could always be there for him. Luca looked up to him and had such unwavering faith in his older brother and did what he asked as he knew his brother wouldn’t ever let him down.
Even when they stole stuff from an old couple, and Luca worried about the medicine they took, Alois smashed it and told his brother it’d be alright, though finding that there was a bruise on Luca’s forehead, asks him who did it and once he gets an answer, becomes angry and then says he wishes that everyone in their village and the one who hurt Luca would die. So that nobody could hurt him or his brother. Then Luca responds that he has faith in his brother and he’ll make those people go away and that his brother’s never let him down before and that he always seems to achieve his wishes. They’re real close and have only one another to live by in this world.
Yet… only a short time later, they leave where they’re staying, they come out of the building and discover that the village they stay in normally… is on fire. In bright blazes of fire. They come over there and find out that it happened as Alois had wished only a short time ago and it’s a little surprising to him. One more thing that went as he wished; no more could harm him or his little brother anymore and they would have what they wanted.
After the fire settles completely, they go around and start to steal things off of the dead people as well, hey. They don’t need them anymore, right? It’s not long after they start that a strange cold breeze blows through the small village and Alois looks up, all confused and a bit scared before he goes looking for Luca and comes across the boy and he’s dead. Like any person, this devastates him and he holds his body to him as he cries out into the night.
The next time we see Alois, he’s with a cart full of boys being carted into a mansion and we find out that the man of the mansion, Lord Trancy, is looking for a ‘doll‘ that will be his alone. Lines the boys up and looks at them one by one and none of them seem to please him, and then Alois is placed before the man, whom takes one look at the boy’s eyes and immediately disapproves, saying he doesn’t like the look in his eyes, calling them filthy.
After being taken to where they’re all being held, Alois over hears the other boys talking about ‘fairies’ and that if you make a promise with them, they’ll grant your wish. So, interested, Alois asks the boy how to do it. To summon a fairy, you need a spider web wetted with morning dew draped over an honest face like a veil and to recite the incantation ‘Hoheo taralna, rondero tarel’. Yet when it doesn’t work, he thinks it’s a fairy tale then sees not snow, but ash fall from the sky.
He appears on a spider web in the next moment where a giant spider with a man’s voice speaks to him and asks him what his wish is. Alois at first cannot find one, so the spider dissipates and tells him ‘If you find a wish, we’ll make a contract then’ and reveals he’s not a fairy, but a demon. After this, when Alois wakes, he decides to find a wish. A purpose to live. He’s dressed and dolled up to be shown before Lord Trancy once more and is positively stunning in the eyes of the man when he arrives, all pale, flawless skin, beautiful hair and devious eyes while being dressed in a gorgeous red kimono. He tells the man he’s sorry to have made him wait and calls him ‘father’.
It’s a very short time later when we again see Alois, already having made his contract with the demon, whose name happens to be Claude Faustus. They’re having a talk in which Claude reveals that under the contract of another person, the demon Sebastian Michaelis had been the one to destroy Alois’ village. It enrages Alois to know a demon killed his little brother, but that’s when Claude gives the name of the new person whom Sebastian is contracted to. Ciel Phantomhive. How Sebastian has an unusually strong attachment to this boy’s soul, and that’s when Alois seems to make his decision, which is that he wants Claude to bring Ciel Phantomhive to him.
This time’s a hard time for him as well, as his so called ‘father’ has passed away and after attending his funeral, is told all the boys who’d been held captive with him are all set free, and that’s when Alois asks about Ciel which prompts Claude to ask why he wants Ciel instead of asking to have Sebastian eliminated. He responds that it’s not enough to kill him. Wants to make him truly suffer so that is why he’s going to have Ciel taken away from him and wants Ciel to be made ‘his’.
By this point, we switch to where canon starts, where we see him as the young master of the Trancy household, being tended to by his butler, Claude. He’s got the nice, extravagant mansion, everything he needs and it’s almost amusing to him now for the most part, and for the other, it’s a little boring at the same time. To entertain himself, he lets onto his cruel side and during one morning breakfast, he tricks the maid, Hannah into coming down to eyelevel with him, which is when he comments on how she shouldn’t make eye contact with him and sticks his fingers into her eye, commenting how this is proper punishment for her before he stops and lets her fall to the floor as Claude arrives and comes in, cleaning his fingers off while the other servants take Hannah away to get bandaged up.
Later on that day, Claude informs Alois’ that his uncle, Arnold Trancy is showing up with a priest to question about Alois’ time he was imprisoned. So, on that note, Claude redoes the entire dining room and restores the manor to what it looked like when the old man had been alive so nothing looks amiss when his uncle comes to visit as surely he’ll be suspicious of what’s going on. Though he already doubts Alois is the righteous heir to the family name and brings not only a priest and a man by the name Viscount of Druitt, who had been a sort of friend to Lord Trancy before he had passed on.
While in the mansion, Alois really puts on a show, saying he really wanted to keep the mansion the same as it was, as he didn’t want to lose his ‘father’s’ scent and warmth, feigning tears of sadness even if he doesn’t mean it. He tells them his story of his time in the village he was imprisoned - though altered in a few spots, such as that his father was the one who had come to rescue him when he was in that forsaken village. He manages to fool the priest and Viscount Druitt, coming up to his uncle and saying all he needs now is his uncle, but just to the man himself when the others cannot hear it, he makes a vulgar comment to fluster him because he knows he’s won.
As the man goes to leave, Alois dumps out money, property deeds and everything else off a balcony, saying if the man wants it, he can have it all. If only to mock him, laughing at the man as he tries to pick it all up. It’s all a game to him now, really. So he’s going to treat it all as such. Really means nothing to him as he knows he’s got the power to stop those who get in his way thanks to Claude.
In the evening of such a day, there’s a storm. At their door shows up a mysterious stranger who Alois’ is quick to welcome him in and wants to let him stay the night til the storm. As the night proceeds, the man sees fit to point out Claude’s flaws so openly and witnesses Alois as he berates Hannah for showing up before the stranger and trying to seduce him, beating her and calling her a whore as he shooes her out of the room. He tells the stranger he doesn’t know what she’s thinking or what anyone else is thinking, looking almost thoughtful before pressing the man on what he has in the trunk he brought with him, then commenting on how it must be so nice to travel around a lot as it’s so boring to be stuck in the mansion all the time.
That’s when the stranger comments and tells him that there’s something interesting in the basement and that if he takes him to the cellar, he’ll show him what’s in the trunk. Alois agrees and takes him there where the man points out a box of tea, called ‘New Moon Drops’ and says something about the tea’s properties and that it’s also called ‘Soul Temperature’, but that’s when Claude arrives. Demands to have that trunk handed over to him and then it’s when the man goes to flee, his appearance no longer cloaked and hidden, and he takes the box of New Moon Drops tea and bolts off with Claude in pursuit.
A moment later, it’s revealed that what’s in the trunk, is Ciel Phantomhive. Alois’ is ecstatic that Ciel’s here now but he can’t have him as that’s when the man, who happens to be Sebastian Michaelis, shuts the trunk and goes to leave, managing to escape when he knocks the chandelier in the main foyer down and sending the place into the dark.
Alois, who hates the dark, cries out and Claude gets the servants to light candles as he comes up to where Alois is. He commands the servants to go after Sebastian but asks Claude to stay. Says he doesn’t want him to go and shows his true personality; a weak, sad child who just wants someone by his side, and that’s when Claude stops, and then comforts him and tells him he’ll always be at his side and will always desire him until the end.
With this instance, we don’t see the two of them for three episodes. In this time, Ciel Phantomhive arrives at the Trancy manor due to an invitation issued by Claude himself an episode before. This occasion is a costume party and of course, Alois can’t just show himself to Ciel as he is so he takes it up one step up and while Ciel and Sebastian are getting comfortable at the party, he’s busy choosing a costume but nothing seems to suffice. Until he turns to Hannah and tells her to strip. Which she does obediently and after this, we don’t see Alois for another short time and we see Ciel at the party, dressed up all in costume with servants all around.
While being distracted, he runs into a maid… who makes Ciel spill his wine on his outfit.
The maid happens to be none other than Alois. All dressed up in Hannah’s maid outfit and completed with a blonde wig to complete the feminine look. All so Ciel won’t recognize who he is or ever even see anything coming. While pretending to be sweet and ‘innocent’, Alois apologizes for spilling the wine and asks him to come with ‘her’ so she could clean off his jacket, getting Ciel away from the main bustle of the party while ‘she’ cleans and fixes his jacket. Though Alois seems like he’s cleaning off the outfit, he really had other motives, so when ‘she’ gives the outfit back to Ciel, it’s not even cleaned at all, but that’s when Alois takes that chance to get close to Ciel.
He grabs his hand to look at the one family ring of Ciel’s and comments on it’s color and how lovely a shade it is, hands coming to grasp his face. Asks him if it would still be the same color of blue if he ‘became one with him’, leaning in to draw his tongue over the shell of Ciel’s ear before drawing back and taking the other Earl’s eye patch from him, mentioning how Ciel’s other eye had been corrupted as he flees the room, knowing the other would give chase after him.
Leads him all throughout the manor on a sort of wild goose chase. However it seems to get too much for Ciel who leaves the manor and runs into the woods to where he finally stops and that’s where Alois finds him, smiling as he asks him ‘does it hurt?’ and such comments along those lines, but doesn’t get far before Ciel tells him to cut the act and that he knows who he is, where Alois sighs in slight disappointment and pulls off the wig and becomes a little more serious than he had been a moment before.
About that time is when Claude, the three servants of the Trancy household and Sebastian all arrive, Alois going on to say that he merely wanted them to talk in a quiet place away from the party. Reveals to Ciel that the reason he called Ciel here to the party and went to all this trouble was because he wants Ciel. Nothing else. And that if Ciel refuses to comply with this, everyone in the manor will die. He’s made arrangements for a performance to be made, and that should it start, everyone will die including Ciel’s loved ones. Ciel merely brushes it off as if it’s nothing, telling Alois he wants to ask him a question, in which Alois first seems to be alright with it, before telling Ciel blatantly that he’ll answer it if Ciel kneels before him and kisses up to him - in a matter of speaking, anyways.
When Ciel hardly even comments back, Alois goes up to Claude, commenting that Ciel shouldn’t be so cocky having a really good butler, as his is entirely better, of course, sticking out his tongue to reveal where his contract seal is. The type of seal anyone who has a contract with a demon has somewhere on their body, Ciel’s being in his right eye.
This is where the respective orders get made in this next instance. Alois orders Claude to get Ciel, where on the other side, Ciel’s telling Sebastian to protect him no matter what. Only moments after, the triplet servants start going after Sebastian and that’s when the fight starts, though Sebastian in a short time manages to ‘disable’ them and gets past Alois and Claude. It’s rather impressive in Alois’s eyes and with a giggle, he says something along the lines of Sebastian possibly being better than Claude. Which naturally does spark something in the other demon right then.
Getting back to the party a short time later, it’s shown that Sebastian and his servants had averted the disastrous situation Alois had set out due to Hannah, his maid being the one to initiate that deadly performance with a sort of demon instrument. It had almost been enough but to overtake the Phantomhive servants wouldn’t be that easy and somehow, Alois knew that as that was another reason why he picked Ciel as he knew getting him would be like a game. A game which he planned to win with the help of Claude.
Alois then properly shows himself at the party, now being the true host he hadn’t been before now. Apologizing for any inconveniences this caused with him coming in so late and hoping that his guests had enjoyed the show he’d put on while he was gone. He puts on a soft, sweet façade when he talks to Ciel and Sebastian, commenting on ‘what a good butler you have there, Ciel’, before things seem to change with Sebastian asking to have a ‘conversation’ with Claude. Alois’ features change into a frown and tells Claude to get things done in ‘ten minutes’ or he’ll punish the man. So the two of them leave and Alois goes back to being civil and talking to everyone at the party as a proper Earl should.
After all, it wouldn’t do to be a bad host, would it?
Time dwindles down and as proven, in ten minutes, both butlers return, Alois less than pleased to see that Claude hadn’t killed Sebastian and demands that Claude should be punished. Claude then sighs and reprimands Alois, saying to him that he never actually told him to kill Sebastian and assures him that he wants to devour Alois - his soul - in one hell of a bite as well which quiets Alois for now and the party goes on. He finds Elizabeth, Ciel’s fiancee on the dance floor and gets her to dance with him in front of Ciel, almost seeming to mock him, and it does work as Ciel goes to the dance floor and gains a partner so he can go dance and keep an eye on Alois, not trusting him or any of his intentions.
There’s a little of a skip to the next day where we see that Alois has once more invited Ciel for another ‘ball’ to make up for his behaviour at that last party they were at. Though it’s merely a cover up as once there, it’s revealed the true nature of this second meeting. A duel - or rather dance - to the death, set on what appears to be a giant chess set made of stone which would be the stage in which this will all play out. Where the two butlers will face one another and that ‘the one who can dance to the end’ wins.
Once more, orders are given and Alois commands Claude to make Ciel his and to give Sebastian the greatest suffering, a hint to his dislike for the man for keeping Ciel from him and due to what had happened in the past.
So as the Masters go sit from an outside spot to watch this, the fight commences. Sebastian vs. all four under the Trancy household. Claude, Hannah and the three triplet demon servants. The fight is entertaining to say the least but true to Sebastian’s nature, he disables first the three triplets in a short time, using only cutlery as his weapons where they have spear-like weapons of choice. As they team up all their weapons to make one large spear, in an attempt to kill Sebastian, has the weapon turned on them and they’re disabled for the time being. Then he faces Hannah, who appears to be a sort of living weapons arsenal, having guns and even a cannon-shotgun type weapon, but it’s not enough and he disables her from being able to attack anymore as well.
Claude then steps in but they don’t get too far before it’s time to take a break for tea and snacks which goes as well as it could be considering what they were doing moments before. Serving treats and tea to their respective young masters before the battle recommences once more, where Claude further shows that Hannah’s a weapons arsenal, reaching literally inside her body and taking out some sort of sword, where they continue battle once more.
While this goes on, Ciel asks if Alois will show him around his estate.
Happy to oblige, Alois takes Ciel inside and away from the butlers, and once inside, Ciel turns to him and tells Alois that he robbed him of his dignity and challenges him to a sword duel. Once they have swords, Alois doesn’t hesitate to tell Ciel that this is his first time duelling, and as they prepare to start properly, Ciel goes to attack early, in which Alois was ready and has his sword pointed at the other’s face, chastising him for trying to play dirty. Ciel then starts a barrage of attacks on Alois who dodges every one and says just how fun their own little dance is, in which he starts a barrage of attacks back on Ciel until he knocks him off the top level of where they’re fighting and onto the ground below.
He jumps down and puts his sword to Ciel’s neck as he sits on the boy’s chest, a leg on either side of him, telling him how Sebastian can’t have Ciel’s soul as it’ll be fed to others first and smirking while commenting on just how upset Sebastian will be when it happens. Ciel comments back to him that his soul isn’t for the spiders unless they want to try and have their legs all bitten off. This seems to amuse Alois as he raises his sword and goes to make Ciel ‘his’, but his sword’s stopped by Ciel who grabs the blade with his hand and takes that time in which Alois is distracted to stab him in his stomach. It’s intense pain as he falls back off of Ciel’s blade and onto the ground in pain, it being revealed that the butlers have arrived, but even Claude stops from helping Alois as Ciel commands Sebastian not to come until he’s killed Alois. Calls him pathetic and claims that he killed his parents, which is where Alois moves to where the other is and crawls up his body until he’s on his knees, telling Ciel that he doesn’t understand anything and that he’s being deceived by the demons around him. Tells him that his own family, his village and even his parents were killed and that him and Ciel are more alike than ever and that he even says he’ll apologize for what happened and how he won’t ever bother Ciel again, begging him to spare his life.
Ciel has no mercy and is about to stab him when Claude stops him, the smaller boy struggling in his grasp until Sebastian comes and takes Ciel from him. Says this is enough for today and excuses them as they leave. However, while Alois lies there, bleeding practically to death, Claude, who’d gotten an accidental taste of Ciel’s blood, is enticed by the taste and lets it sway him enough that he forgets himself. He only comes back to himself when Alois finally gets his attention, the blonde noticing the sort of intrigued look on his demon butler’s face before he passes out from blood loss.
He later wakes up in his bed in extreme pain, Hannah being there and saying that she would redo his bandages but he tells her she’s of no use to him and demands Claude to be called here to help him. The man arrives a moment later and at first he smiles when he sees the other before remembering what he’d done to him and his expression becomes sour but he lets him change his bandages. They discuss what had happened and that if he’d been stabbed any deeper, it wouldn’t have been so easy to save him. Claude comments on the wound Ciel made before Alois notes this and is rather annoyed, asking Claude how is blood smelled and if he’d like to devour him now.
Claude responds to him with a smile and tells him yes before he excuses himself and leaves Alois to be in pure shock, as he’d never ever seen that look on Claude’s face and since he doesn’t have a word to put to it, calls it… disgusting. He then gets dressed and goes through the halls, finding Hannah and shoving her down to the floor in moments without saying anything, pinning her down in the hopes she won‘t refuse what he wants. Tears start to fall down onto Hannah’s face as he demands that she take him to Ciel Phantomhive, weakened and unable to ask for much else.
So Hannah does as he asks and gets a carriage to take him there, Alois staring out the window of the carriage as he lets his thoughts wander until he passes out for a short time from the pain of his injury which had started to bleed again a little.
Abilities: Unfortunately, Alois doesn‘t have any special abilities or talents aside that he has a contract with a demon. The most he has going for him being his sharp tongue and a little bit of decent reflexes. Nothing overly impressive as he‘s merely only a boy without his demon butler, Claude.
Items brought along: Not a lot. Mainly the clothes on his back and nothing else.
Stigma: His fear of being left alone
Samples
Regular Post: [The device crackles on and for the longest time, all one can hear is heavy, labored breathing followed by a soft whimper]
…It hurts….
…Where am I? This isn’t… my carriage…
[Another sharp hiss of pain]
Someone tell me where I am. Now… I d-don‘t like to be kept waiting..
Log Post:
Silence seemed to drag on forever and again.
Was it always this quiet inside the carriage?
Blue eyes the color of fresh ice snapped open and slowly tried to focus on the unfamiliar surroundings, which didn’t do too well as he forced himself to sit up so he could take a better look at where he was. That shot pain through Alois’s side from his injury, the warmth of his blood very palpable beneath his fingers, seeping through the material of his vest. He drew his hand back and stared softly at the blood before wincing and putting his hand back to his side as he let himself fall back down onto the bench beneath his now-frail and weakened form.
This place… it looked so filthy.
Disgusting.
Alois’ lips faintly curled into a snarl at that before he closed his eyes and exhaled a small sigh. Claude. He wanted Claude here as he’d make it better and take him away from this place. Blonde hair shifted and fell over his face slightly as he closed his eyes and tried to breathe normally, but it was already hard enough as it was. Being in an unfamiliar place without Claude or anyone else was painful and he felt alone, clutching a little tighter at his side.
How could he trust Claude anymore though?
He made that disgusting expression and there was a look in his eyes that he didn’t trust; a look that almost left him wondering if it was the same he’d made a contract with… the one he trusted… the only one he trusted. The others were all liars. Claude said he wanted him and would always be there for him but ugly doubts had been placed in his mind and he couldn’t shake them off and probably wouldn’t until he saw the man again.
Re-opening his eyes, Alois’s gaze trailed down and to the little bag sitting right near him where he lay on the bench, not having noticed it before now. With a small hiss, he managed to shift his body just enough so he could reach his bloodied hand out to grab onto it and tug it that bit closer and dig his hand in, wrapping his hand around something so he pulled it out and looked at it, frowning slightly as his grip on it shook. He drew it back closer to him so he could look at it more closely, noting that he’d never seen anything like it before, and he nearly tossed it before realizing one thing.
Maybe… he could find out where this was using this little object. Or why he was here.