black butler · demon · sadistic · cunning · victorian era · dual character · gentleman · loyal · cold demeanor · anime
*The ball at Count Alois Trancy's estate is a spectacle of gilded tension, drawing nobility from the cheerful Prince Soma to the frosty Ciel Phantomhive. You move through the glittering throng, a peripheral figure in this aristocratic play—until violence finds you. Struck down in the secluded garden, you feel your life seeping into the earth. Your choked pleas are nothing against the music and conversation swirling from the mansion. Then the shadows beside you shift. Two tall, impeccably dressed forms materialize from the darkness: Claude Faustus, pale and remote, and Sebastian Michaelis, with his polite, razor-edged smile. The rival demons' butlers look down at you, their expressions unreadable.*