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For my darling Gargoyle. Here is the Unny long promised and finally delivered. Fallen on any notably solid craniums of late? I think of you often and warmly and hoe your little corner of the world is quiet and trouble-free.

Yana has always told us Undertaker is the real looker in her manga--and i suppose she should know, if anyone. So I went out of my way to give him a beatful face. (Those lips seem particularly kissable, don't you think?)

I am having trouble with Tumblr tonight I wanted to repost a little discussion between @bapydemonprincess @warmmilk-n-honey and @cangrellesteponme's Tumblr blogs but it's not letting me do both so here's my thoughts w/o the texts that inspired it.

For context I'll say that the princess started it by posting (and I can't say I entirely disagree) the following:

"People now in the end of 2022 on this platform in the kuro fandom: Sebastian Michaelis is the bad guy. The worst, the most evil, unshippable character. "

Then the others gave their ideas and in the end I wanted to add a couple thoughts, to wit:

I am one who enjoys the butler and sees enough character development to keep me interested —though I do know what you meant @bapydemonprincess— I'd just like to add and suggest that perhaps this would be a better way to interpret Sebastian and his 'evil'.

So is he? Evil, I mean. Is he really?

Isn't he more like an intelligent, very hungry tiger who just happens to walk on two legs and to whom you can speak? By that I mean to ask you, do you call all meat-eating creatures evil because they must violently kill cute little furry things in order to stay alive? Don't we normally view wolves, big cats, badgers, bears, fluffy fishers, hyenas and such as frightening, yes, but also noble and elegant, and find their prowess in hunting rather thrilling and beautiful to watch?

When you see such documentaries who do you root for, the lion or the antelope? (well I was practically raised by cats so my answer'll be obvious.)

Or do you perhaps feel more like medieval people once did, that wild beasts and domestic any who kill humans deserve to be hauled into court, tried and ultimately publicly executed, hung until dead for having the audacity to kill a human being?(There is an argument to be made for that, but this is neither the time nor the place.)

Isn't it rather foolish and ultimately a waste of time to fight against realty? Against your own inborn nature, against what you are made to be?

Could your housecat really swear off meat and join PETA?

You know she wouldn't want to even if she could. She loves being a cat and catching mice is the best kind of fun... and I'm certain that represents Sebastian's opinion on the matter as well.

Reality in Ciel and Sebastian's world is demons must devour human souls to live. It is the price Sebastian pays to continue to live. He even goes about it in a quite honorable manner (well. MOST of the time. It’s hard to resist being a little ‘slippery’ when you can run rings around the other person’s intellect isn’t it.) And since when is it evil to do and be exactly what you were born/made/whatever to do and be? It would hardly be fair to ask him to adopt a human view of right and wrong, would it? Just like us he cannot rail against his nature any more than we can throw a fit and insist we can live without drinking water. Be dead in three days if we tried that nonsense wouldn't we?!

Dunno what would happen to Sebastian if he tried going 'vegetarian,' but I'll bet he has no interest whatever in finding out!

I don't feel like I can condemn him for following his very natural desire to continue to live. We all want that. Thus, the lion must eat the cute little antelope. We don't call ‘the king of beast’ evil for that, do we -- well, I hope we don't. Antelope's quite tasty after all !

@pain-in-the-butler, @anewp0tat0 and @goblins-riddles-or-frocks have been discussing how Bard was hired to a different standard than the other servants. I found that an interesting subject, so I looked into it too. Regarding hiring Bard, and the other servants, Sebastian expresses slightly different reasons for hiring him. (in fact the standards Sebastian expresses to Mey Rin seemed to me to bear little to no resemblance to the real reasons they were actually hired, so I had been chalking up his ‘standards’ speech as just so much bullshit on his part.  

However, as for Bard, in addition to his talents for survival, both Finny and Mey Rin are very young. Sebastian says Bard's maturity is meant to help stabilise them, he's meant to teach  them important things to pay attention to and to be a manager of sorts to them.

When you read his hiring process Sebastian expresses all this in his description of why Bard was wanted. However (and I have to confess I’m using an amateur translation from online here, and so some of this might be faulty. Just keep that in mind.) Sebastian contradicts himself right within his own ‘you’re hired’ speech to Bard (in one place he says Bard has no fear:

and in another he says he’s the only one in the house with normal healthy fear of death and that’s why he hired him???)

So the .bmp was the issue. Here comes my try.