Crying I Love This - Blog Posts

They really did a good job slowly building Aladdin and Hamelin up after all these years of teasing the ship 🤔Given the romantic undertones in the newest arc, I can't help but wonder if they're falling for each other (doubt x copium yeah yeah) I do feel like there might be alot of stuff unsaid between them and I hope we can atleast get a scene of them talking about how painful it was for them to become nightmares and do what they did during a moment of physical affection. They were one of the only ones who accepted each other as is, after all.

On the orders of their respective masters, Sebastian and Claude perform the song "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better." Sebastian throws himself into his part; Claude merely states his lines with all the excitement one might use while reading the telephone book.

Sebastian busts out an embroidered silk waistcoat, sparkly eyeliner, and his high-heeled eldritch boots for the occasion. He’d never turn down an opportunity to bask in the spotlight, and he hasn’t had this much fun since performing for the Noah’s Ark circus! For “I can sing anything higher than you,” he hits a note so far up in the stratosphere that he shatters a tower of wine glasses, before elegantly reassembling them, and his dulcet tones on “I can sing anything sweeter than you” bring birds flocking to the manor to listen to the demon’s mellifluous voice. Meanwhile, Claude’s recitation is delivered in a monotone that makes William T. Spears seem chipper by comparison. The spider demon is mightily annoyed at being dragged into this because he was busy knitting a cozy new blanket for His Highness when the boys insisted on this idiotic competition, and now he has to watch Michaelis showing off. 😒 The things he does for his smol human ward. *sigh*

Although Alois berates Claude for his lack of enthusiasm, the Trancy boy is delighted by the little production, clapping and cheering throughout (he’s a musical theatre kid at heart), especially when Claude finally caves and does his tap dance routine at the end. O!Ciel rolls his eyes at Sebastian’s antics, though he might be a tiny bit proud of his dad for representing the Phantomhive household well (shhh…don’t tell Sebastian, though. He’s insufferable enough already).

(Later on, Claude finishes that blanket, which is covered in a pattern of pretty blue butterflies, and smiles when Alois exclaims that he loves it. There are some things only a Trancy butler can do. 🕷)