Kuroshitsuji Character Analysis

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In some ways, Sebastian seems to personify everything you'd imagine about the Faustian demon. He's handsome, charming, and sly, able to easily manipulate and lead people as he wishes. He's ruthless and quite clearly considers humans nothing more than something that exists for his amusement and meals. But at the same time... He's also a very odd demon. While he may be suave and charming, on the other hand, he's also a borderline neurotic perfectionist that takes the duties of a butler very seriously and loves cats enough to keep thirteen of them in a closet to save them from being outside. He may be a demon, but he's not exactly the cool, flawless being that he may seem to be on the surface.

But to give him credit, Sebastian is bound by a contract, and that contract is a big driving force for his activities. In Kuroshitsuji, if a human summons a demon, they're able to form a contract with the demon—the demon will serve the human to its full capacity and do anything the contractor wishes, but at a cost. The demon will eventually eat his human contractor's soul. In Sebastian's case, his contractor is a young nobleman named Ciel Phantomhive that made a contract both to save himself and out of a want for …show more content…

Indeed, in the series, we see Sebastian simply give away money and other goods, since he has no need for them, and yet he's willing to be grievously injured for the sake of protecting Ciel's life, though it's also be demonstrated a few times that Ciel's life is his priority, and his overall safety isn't as much of a concern, such as when Sebastian leaves Ciel to deal with many poisonous snakes (since he knew they wouldn't kill him, just hurt him) or even beginning to eat him to shock him out of a dramatic personality change, joking later that he was "only 90% serious" about eating

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