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narcasse320 words. G. Judeo-Christian references abound.
The reason for Sebastian’s dislike of dogs. Referencing ep 7 of the anime.
Hounds
Disclaimer: Black Butler belongs to Toboso Yana, G-Fantasy and others.
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“…but rather, I dislike dogs.”
Ciel’s response is to bark at him, being the Queen’s guard dog after all.
Of course it’s not so simple as that, as simple as human distaste and arbitrary preference. Because it isn’t the animal itself that disgusts him entirely, rather what its behaviour represents. If he had to draw comparisons Sebastian would liken demons to cats and angels to dogs. Dogs are loyal, ever faithful, willing to be collared and strangely glad of it as if without such submission they would be lost. Thus are not the Heavenly host merely the Almighty’s hounds? At least the ones who have not yet fallen?
Hounds are loyal. That is he supposes the natural order of things. Yet when the loyalist turned against his master and called upon a legion to follow... That led to destruction, an aberration in the natural order, the rise of an infernal legion against their master. It had been, will one day again be, glorious. Sebastian is of a vaunted enough station that he remembers it, that he remembers the ones who rode under his banner, under the greater standard of their own almighty lord. But they were not, at least in quite the same fashion, loyal. They were creatures who had chosen their own fall from grace, those who had chosen the darkness over the light. Those who no longer feared the dark, making it their own domain. The feline comparison is obvious.
Demons are not hounds. They walk to their own melody and answer their own clarion call to arms, when it so suits them. They do not bow their heads or accept their chains gladly. Nor, as a consequence, do they accept death blindly. All demons know the secret of independence, the lesson of self-preservation. It is not a lesson that hounds care to learn.
Ciel’s mocking bark echoes in his ears and Sebastian smiles. How willingly hounds die.
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This is tending towards a rather Judeo-Christian conception of demons though the underworld inhabitant I actually have in mind is actually from Greek myth.
Also:
Awakening (1543 words. PG.)
Radu’s Awakening.
The reason for Sebastian’s dislike of dogs. Referencing ep 7 of the anime.
Hounds
Disclaimer: Black Butler belongs to Toboso Yana, G-Fantasy and others.
++++++++++
“…but rather, I dislike dogs.”
Ciel’s response is to bark at him, being the Queen’s guard dog after all.
Of course it’s not so simple as that, as simple as human distaste and arbitrary preference. Because it isn’t the animal itself that disgusts him entirely, rather what its behaviour represents. If he had to draw comparisons Sebastian would liken demons to cats and angels to dogs. Dogs are loyal, ever faithful, willing to be collared and strangely glad of it as if without such submission they would be lost. Thus are not the Heavenly host merely the Almighty’s hounds? At least the ones who have not yet fallen?
Hounds are loyal. That is he supposes the natural order of things. Yet when the loyalist turned against his master and called upon a legion to follow... That led to destruction, an aberration in the natural order, the rise of an infernal legion against their master. It had been, will one day again be, glorious. Sebastian is of a vaunted enough station that he remembers it, that he remembers the ones who rode under his banner, under the greater standard of their own almighty lord. But they were not, at least in quite the same fashion, loyal. They were creatures who had chosen their own fall from grace, those who had chosen the darkness over the light. Those who no longer feared the dark, making it their own domain. The feline comparison is obvious.
Demons are not hounds. They walk to their own melody and answer their own clarion call to arms, when it so suits them. They do not bow their heads or accept their chains gladly. Nor, as a consequence, do they accept death blindly. All demons know the secret of independence, the lesson of self-preservation. It is not a lesson that hounds care to learn.
Ciel’s mocking bark echoes in his ears and Sebastian smiles. How willingly hounds die.
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This is tending towards a rather Judeo-Christian conception of demons though the underworld inhabitant I actually have in mind is actually from Greek myth.
Also:
Awakening (1543 words. PG.)
Radu’s Awakening.
