Character Info
IC Information:
Name: Sebastian Michaelis
Fandom: Kuroshitsuji
Point in Canon/Timeline: After Chapter 35, before returning to the mansion. Completion of the Circus Ark
Age: 100+
AppearanceSebastian has short black hair and demon red eyes. He's rather tall, towering over his young master. He dresses always to perfection in a London style butler outfit; black and white. This includes a small bow at the neck, white gloves, coat tails, and black shoes. Sebastian is never seen out of these clothes, except for once when playing as Ciel's teacher in disguise. This appearance somewhat resembles Ciel's father. Sebastian also has a true form, seen barely only once of sharp teeth, pointy and dangerous, feathers, long nails, longer hair, and high heeled boots.
Personality: Sebastian- The Butler: Prompt and on time, Sebastian always heeds his master's call. To Ciel, he is respectful, not moving without an order. Though he will generally tease, often once or twice, concerning his master's laziness. He wishes to voke a suitable and entertaining reaction out of him. Able to demonstrate and do whatever is requested, he will not sway from his master's side, showing his extreme loyalty. An example of this is shown when offered money to join another side. Even when the price became higher than Ciel's own life, Sebastian did not waver. A price of a valuable soul can not be bought. As a butler, he is there to serve, only to obtain Ciel's soul, and nothing more. His inward hate towards Ciel is masked through his usually seen false smile.
While on duty, he is humble, found to be denying any praise he is given for his service, or his delightful sweets. Loyal, he is a butler to the core, serving Ciel with any desire, from morning to evening, even after he is asleep when protection is needed. Polite, he stiffens when touched, allowing them to do so when grabbed or held, or pinned. Inwardly anti social, he isn't afraid to step into someones personal space, as with examining Beast's Hallmark without permission, despite it's personal area. He is seen as kind, even though he is not. Though the servants of the household highly admire him for his quick and taskful work, he can seem off or slightly scary. In truth Sebastian only hired them for their able tasks, and not their household work. He even portrays them as servants of the household, when they are really there for their defensive measures in protecting the Phantomhive household. Sebastian will scold if need be for their disastrous work of
the household.
~Side note: Sebastian also has an unearthly obsession for cats, those with soft paws and elongated hair. He humanizes them in a way, touching their paws and feeds them. Certainly a cat person in nature, he will seem crude towards dogs. As seen during the circus ark, he volunteers almost immediately to move into the center ring with a tiger, grabbing its paw and feeling it. He presses that it was his own rudeness that got him harmed when bitten. He finds them much more acceptable than the pets of the demon world.
~Sebastian- The Demon~
A man of many talents, this side of Sebastian is not the mask he wears. Cold, heartless, calculative, and resourceful, he is far different from his butler form. When given an order, it is carried out to perfection, even if that very order puts him into harms way, as seen with the venomous snakes in the top tier circus snakes, completing an order down to the letter by releasing them once the members returned, even though Ciel was still within the tent. He does not hesitate to inform Ciel that it was his own order that would've gotten him killed or harm. He only follows orders. He doesn't care of the well being nor can assure Ciel's well being if the order is flawed.
When touched, he lashes out with violence, striking people often with devastating blows. In this form he neither hesitates showing disgust, or voicing his opinions on a matter, being down right degrading or insulting towards his opponents and even to Ciel, his very master. Cruel and uninviting, Sebastian also does not hesitate to kill. When Grell Sutcliffe begs for his life, Sebastian neither cares, nor wastes any time in trying to go for that final blow. Even towards Ciel's aunt, he was willing to kill her in order to fulfill an order. He neither cared for Ciel's feelings towards his aunt, when she was one of the two halves of Jack the Ripper that was meant to be killed.
While out of butler form, Sebastian remains loyal to Ciel, taking blows to the body, putting himself in danger, even losing an arm, and suffering damages/punctures to the body. This is not out of adoration for the boy, nor caring. It is only his job, as he will state often, and cruelly. He will use every trick in the book to obtain what he wants, even seducing and tempting other human souls. Even resulting to carnal favors such as sex to obtain information is not out of his league, as seen with Beast within the circus. Without his butler mask, he remains deceptively cruel, using the inner ambitions and faults of the human heart. As starved as he is, he remains loyal to Ciel's soul, waiting for the completion of the contract for his soul and his alone.
History of the Character: Sebastian has no past noticeable before Ciel. As seen when he was ripped into by Grell's scythe/chainsaw, his only memories and past was of Ciel. Sebastian first appeared in his true form shortly after the fire of the Phantomhive Mansion and Ciel's slavery. Ciel then made a Faustian contract with the crow demon, in order to find out who killed his parents in exchange for Ciel's soul when the mission completes itself. With this seal, found in Ciel's eye and Sebastian's left hand, he must abide to Ciel's will and complete any task given to him, which he does to perfection, despite his hate and resentment of the boy. He returns to the mansion with Ciel as the Phantomhive butler along with the role of Ciel's bodyguard.
Sebastian is given his name by Ciel, once belonging to the Phantomhive family dog, and looks very similar to Ciel's father.
One of the first scenes to Sebastian's skill is his ability to make up for the other servants lacking qualities. When dinner is ruined, the tea is ruined, and the scenery and tablecloths is ruined, Sebastian displays his quick thinking, making up for the loss of dinner with an outdoor themed dinner set, entertaining a guest with a task that would normally be completed in five hours, in just fewer than two. He manages to put on a stunning performance, impressing the man despite the Earl of the Phantomhive house being a small boy.
When Ciel is captured by a group of thugs, Sebastian easily obtains him back, using tactical precision in throwing silverware, running in abnormal speed after a speeding car, taking out nearly a lobby full of guards, twisting a man's arm without even touching him, and catching a bullet before it hits Ciel. Though Ciel is severely beaten, he neither apologizes for being late, or taking his time in killing all the guards.
Ciel is the "queen's watch dog" and in turn is given tasks by the queen to investigate, which Sebastian follows and helps him complete. During the Jack the Ripper case, Sebastian is ordered to obtain information on everyone in town that has any doctor or medical backgrounds. He astounds all those around him by already having the information present upon Ciel's arrival. The Viscount of Druitt is named the prime suspect and he disguises Ciel as a female in order to draw out the real culprit. He acts as Ciel's teacher, which he is in a manner of ways and even teaches him how to dance, both at a ball and the black market congregation. When the Viscount is found not to be he killer, Sebastian turns elsewhere.
After finding out that Ciel's own Aunt, nicknamed Madame Red, is one of two people of the persona Jack the Ripper, he is ordered to kill them, along with Grell, a shinigami, or death god. When Grell turns on Madam Red and kills her, Sebastian engages Grell. He is able to keep on par with the flamboyant shinigami- even though he becomes overwhelmed by his modified death scythe that can cut through anything- using his wit to jam Grell's scythe with his own well made coat. In a fist fight after the weapon is disabled, Sebastian easily defeats Grell, pinning him to the ground and carries out the order to kill Grell.
Grell begs for mercy, asking Sebastian not to kill him. Sebastian coolly responds with a cheerful smile, "I don't want to.", or wishes to "see him suffer" in some translations of the manga. He is interrupted from killing Grell with his own weapon by William T. Spears, another shinigami, and supervisor of the head of death affairs. Grell is carted away half alive.
Shortly after, Ciel is visited by Marchioness Frances Middleford -Ciel's other aunt- and her daughter Elizabeth, his fiancee. The Marchioness demands a hunting expedition, and when both parties are attacked by a bear, Sebastian steps in and kills the bear, seemingly making it as if the Marchioness killed it herself. The Marchioness calls him on it in private. He merely states that it was his job and nothing more. Ciel in a way needed to be challenged and upheld, and hence why he hadn't intervened until then.
Sebastian is next requested to investigate a group of killings where people who return from India are hung dead outside pubs only belonging to Indian pubs. They meet Prince Soma and Agni, his butler/servant, who is looking for a childhood friend Meena. When Agni is learned to be under a British man's control as blackmail for a secret he doesn't want Soma to know, in order to gain a Royal Warrent for their company, Ciel orders Sebastian to make the finest curry in order to win the Royal Warrent for his own company.
Sebastian is warned that Agni makes the best curry and has no chance of winning the competition. He manages to make a curry that is similar to Agni's after a few couple dozen batches of experimental ones. Sebastian before knew nothing of curry. During the competition, Sebastian manages to tie with Agni in making something he had no experience in, even though Sebastain's curry is claimed the winner by the Queen who makes a short visit.
The Queen sends another task, giving them two tickets to a circus. After being bit by a tiger, when he approaches it after volunteering, he is sent to a medical tent. All the circus people have fake limbs, and he notices the hallmark, after lifting Beast's leg and examining her closely, without asking, being blunt in asking.
They both end up joining the circus, even helping Ciel painfully enter from the side lines. Using rocks as a means to keep Ciel balanced even though each hit causes his master to feel pain. Sebastian follows every order from Ciel, even when he is told to release a group of dangerous snakes when the tenants of the circus return. Ciel did not remove himself in time, almost being bitten by one of those snakes until Doll intervened, and when asked why he was put in danger, Sebastian makes it clear he follows every order, even if the order is flawed. Sebastian would not move to save Ciel without an order, if another order is already in place. It is merely his job, and not his willingness to comply.
William is another circus "new entry" portraying himself as a man within the crowd. While he lacks the human interaction and deceptiveness that Sebastian has obtained over the years, he scolds William that further speaking of demons and shinigami --which the circus performers consider jokes-- would further compromise their mission. Despite the shinigami following him around and hindering almost every action, he ends up becoming the stiff shinigami's team mate. William forbids Sebastian from moving around, being that demons are wild and unpredictable. Sebastian exclaims that he is not your average demon. He doesn't not wildly feast on every soul in the vicinity. He awaits the perfect soul, one worth working for.
When Sebastian and Ciel learn that the tenants "Father" is the one responsible for all the missing children, Ciel hunts down the man responsible, a Baron that took in the tenants as children. The Baron is cruel, ordering the untrained abducted children to put on a performance, getting several of them killed brutally. Sebastian does not move in to save any of them, until Ciel in a disgusted panic orders him to. Ciel shoots him in the end, after seeing his past being rebuilt and relived around him, ordering Sebastian to burn down everything, even though it goes against the Queen's order to investigate and report, but not kill or take action on his own. Sebastian
obeys.
Magical Powers/Skills: Sebastian is able to create illusions, over power someone in strength, leap great distances, and has blinding speed, able to chase a car at full speed. As a demon, he is able to manipulate the weak minds of humans, boding and beckoning them to his will, manipulating them to do almost anything.
He's an excellent cook. Ciel even exclaims that he has never tasted nor desired anyone elses sweets/desserts after tasting Sebastians. Sebastian is able to complete any order once given, going to extreme measures to do so. His healing abilities par on that of a shinigami, growing limbs back when cut off.
Overall Info Rating: G - NC17.
Death: Discuss beforehand please
Smut: Only with a plot, though I doubt Sebastian would do so.
Yaoi - Het - Yuri: Don't mind any, but ICly, most likely not.