”I am simply one hell of a butler.” Name: Sebastian Michaelis
Alias: Sebas-chan (by Grell), Michealis Sensei (by his students)
Date of Birth: ----
Age: 20-25 (appearance), No known age confirmed
Primary Gender: Male
Secondary Gender: Alpha
Character's Scent: Fresh Wood & Sulfur
Sexuality: Asexual
Race: Presumed British American
Species: High Level Demon
Hobbies: Teaching, Cats (adores & collects them), Entertaining Others, Enjoys giving orders, Scooping out a new master
Powers/Abilities: Faustian Contract – Sebastian is a high-level demon that can make a contract with any human who summons him and grants them his full services with the price at the end of the deal being him devouring their soul as payment. He bears proof of the contract on the back of his hand where the symbol rests while his master bears it on a part of their body. Sebastian keeps the contract hidden by wearing white gloves.
Enhanced Speed – As a demon, Sebastian has demonstrated the ability to outrun a car that was attempting to speed away from him. He is also able to run to places in one hour that would take longer to get to by way of transportation.
Enhanced Endurance – When fighting, Sebastian can sustain multiple injuries. An example of this is when he and a Shinigami by the name of Grell Sutcliff fought for the first time and he’d wielded a powerful death scythe. Despite being severely injured, he continued to fight and still protected Artemis. He’s also able to survive attacks that would kill humans, such as being shot in the head and chest multiple times. He’s even had one of his arms severed off at least once but he, of course, gained it back.
Enhanced Sense of Smell – Sebastian can find humans based on smell, included those he has never personally met, which allows him to deduce if they are dead, alive, or injured and can discern if someone is a human or a member of another race, like how he was able to quickly identify that there are students at Tsukuba who are also not human. Sebastian has stated that he can pick up any kind of scent and determine a person’s secondary gender without them having to release their scents.
Transformation – Sebastian has demonstrated that he can switch between his human form and his true demon form and back quickly. His true form is of a black crow.
Fire Control – By revealing the sign of his contract, Sebastian can set an entire building on fire from any lit fire in the area. Though it is not an ability that he uses quite often.
Manipulation – Beyond making contracts for a human’s soul, Sebastian has offered to make other deals or attempted to charm and manipulate people to get what he wants. Another Shinigami by the name of William has called this the ‘signature’ ability of a demon and states that it works by deceiving the pray with sweet words and dragging them into the darkness.
Body Manipulation – Sebastian has shown to be able to twist someone’s arm by just twirling his finger.
Personality: Aside from Sebastian's demon abilities, he is quite excellent at performing nearly any task that he does or ordered to do should he be bound to a master. He's dutiful, dedicated, and displays an air of sophistication when around others even though he is a demon. Given what he thinks and views about humans as a whole, there are times where Sebastian can appear to not show any concern for them at all. As humans are tempted by what is presented to them, he can be very persuasive when he wants to be and he uses this tactic to gain information out of others. It doesn't matter if the victim of Sebastian's persuasion is male or female, he will use that human's desire to his advantage to get what he wants from them. He finds it quite entertaining at times even though shinigami views such a thing as despicable. Although he doesn't mind taking orders, he enjoys it more to give them now that he has the free will to do so. His current position as a teacher at Hakoniwa Academy gives him that free will and he isn't above using fear to get his students to do what he says. This he also finds to be entertaining to him as well. Truth be told, he does enjoy teaching but being a demon he would prefer to devour the souls of a human that's worthy of forming a contract with. One quirk about Sebastian is his love for cats. He adores them and finds them to be the ideal pet compared to dogs which he despises.
It's not hard to tell when Sebastian is annoyed. He dislikes being behind schedule is one reason for it, unruly students who don't know how to listen is another, and three having to deal with his stalker Grell Sutcliff all the time. It's best to not get on his bad side or he will show you what it means to be in the presence of a demon. While he won't hurt anyone unless he has to, he uses fear instead and finds it a pain to do so since he doesn't like to have to repeat himself more than once. As a demon, he displays the same emotions that humans do such as being jealous and possessive but this is only when it comes to the one he is in contract with. He doesn't take well to other demons trying to take what belongs to him, IE his food as he shall be the one to feast upon their soul as part of the contract. As such, his demonic aura can be seen within his shadow if he appears to be bothered by someone that's clearly in his way. He finds humans to be difficult creatures and finds it hard to see the good in them. However, he does find their struggles and goals to be interesting and humorous in a sense. It is these things that drive him and if a human's desire for something is strong enough, he would be summoned and would be bound to them, following their every whim and word. It all depends on if there is anything in it for him, for that, he again doesn't show much concern for humans unless of course what's happening around him ends up destroying everything and everyone. It's half and half. But if he could convince a human who doesn't call upon him to enter into a contract with him, that works out for him as well, although this tends to get him into trouble sometimes.
Especially with women who are easily swayed by the face and charm of a man and especially an Alpha, which Sebastian uses to his advantage to collect information but the last time he did this he conceived a child with a sorceress named Yuuko Ichihara. His son Sai is a lot like them both in terms of personality which Sebastian finds to be frustrating at times whenever he does attempt to speak to his son though they've been known to also fight one another when they don't see eye to eye or he just fights him to test how strong he’s gotten. Being a higher-level demon that collects souls, Sebastian does not crave human food. Such meals and beverages are tasteless to him and he has been known to get heartburn from just simply drinking lemonade. As such, he does not eat, nor does he sleep except as a luxury. He also views money as rubbish and is more than willing to give out generous amounts of pocket money given to him. Sebastian also has a great distaste for Shinigami, a feeling that is returned but he, for the most part, tolerates Grell. He absolutely cannot stand dogs, finding them to be incompetent creatures that are at the constant beck and call of their masters and always run with their tail between their legs.
Occupation: Teacher at Hakoniwa Academy | Teaches 9th Grade Geography & 12th Grade Government Law
School: ----
Place of Living: Red Fountain Apartments > B5
Original or Canon: Semi-Canon
Face Claim: Black Butler – Sebastian Michaelis
Appearance: Sebastian is 6’1” and takes on the appearance of a tall, young adult male with red eyes (sometimes they turn brighter or reddish-pink) with black hair. In appearance, he's said to resemble a certain student on the student council even though they aren't related at all. He is normally dressed in an outfit consisting of black trousers, a tailcoat, a vest, and a tie. He sports a pocket watch with a chain and wears white gloves to conceal the mark of his Faustian contract. Occasionally he removes his gloves, revealing that his fingernails are black. When acting as a tutor to his charge, he wears glasses and a scarf and sweeps his hair back from his face. When he was the butler of Anastasios Cruz his hair was much longer and pulled back by a black ribbon. He also wore a slightly different outfit with a lacy ascot tie. He served as this young man's butler only for a little while before consuming his soul. He’s been known to wear other attire as well and any side wardrobe other than his butler outfit was altered to fit with the current time.
Sebastian I &
Sebastian II
History: Sebastian is an enigmatic Alpha demon with a mysterious past. He originally lived in the demon realm, which is very different from the human world. He was also different from other demons, being a high-level demon he possessed strength and power of his own but also a lack of emotion towards humans and their problems. Despite the desire to be in contract with a human to consume their soul, he finds the daily things they go through to be interesting and entertaining. Meaning that just from watching on the sidelines, humans have proven to be creatures that will do just about anything to obtain what they desire. If that meant stepping on others in the process, then so be it. Just as humans did what they felt they needed to do to get what they wanted, Sebastian was no different from them and used a human's desires against them. Yes, he has been contracted to many humans throughout the years. One of which was a young Omega woman named Artemis Mathews who had been abducted from her home as a teenager and was sold as a sex slave along with her family being killed in the process.
She'd summoned Sebastian out of the desire to be free of her captors and the life she was leading and he offered it to her in exchange for her soul. She agreed to it if it meant being free. Artemis belonged to a wealthy noble family but was the second born and was outshined a lot by her older sister Lucilla, an Alpha, because of her accomplishments as a noblewoman in London. She adored her older sister but at times she couldn't help but feel jealous of her because she did so much good for the city being a woman trying to run as a politician in London which was quite hard back then in the 1800s for women were known for only being good for bearing children and looking beautiful in public. Plus, Queen Victoria was her sister's role model whom she looked up to. In a way, Artemis wanted to be so much like her sister but knew that in her parents' eyes she would only be considered second best. As it turns out though, not many were happy with the idea of Lucilla trying to become a politician nor was she deemed worthy enough and many a time there had been attempts on her life and her family's lives. The last attempt took the cake which resulted in Artemis's abduction and her family's murder. Her family didn't deserve to die and she wanted justice for them and all the hell that she had been put through. And her contract with Sebastian was formed and he killed everyone around her as she had ordered him to do.
The experience of being used as nothing more than a sex slave had caused Artemis to be rather cold on the inside and she put up walls around her to keep others from getting close. However, she did have one friend that she cared for and wondered if she was still alive. Her friend's name was Sylvia Dallas (Beta) and upon her return to her family's rundown estate which is what all was left after her abduction, she was welcomed with open arms by her friend who noticed that Artemis was very different but she was glad to have her friend back in her life alive although she was saddened that she had lost her family in the process. Artemis merely dismissed it as nothing could be done to bring them back but now that she had a demon butler at her side, she was going to ensure that her family won't have died in vain and that she will restore their good name. Sebastian willingly served the young woman whom he found to be a rather difficult master because she liked to avoid social gatherings when she didn't want to be bothered or when it wasn't of any interest to her. Only social gatherings in which had those there whom her sister had been acquainted with she would attend to gain information out of them to see if any of the current politicians had it in for her. None of them seemed to be of any use to her so she kept digging elsewhere.
She'd even order Sebastian to dig up information in places that she couldn't look into without being discovered. In the meantime, she decided to follow in her sister's footsteps and try to become a politician to help the people and try to keep the streets of London safe if she could. It was a big responsibility but someone had to do it. That and this was the easiest way to find her family's murderers. Then a wave of women ended up murdered around London and Artemis was asked by many how she was going to handle it. She intended to and with Sebastian's help, she was going to do just that. What she didn't expect to find out was that Sylvia was behind the murders of all the women that were killed and each one in question was linked to Sylvia's husband Richard Dallas. Artemis confronted her friend about her actions as she escaped the police but she had been killed by her butler or rather a shinigami disguised as one by the name of Grell Sutcliff. Sebastian was ordered to handle the situation how he saw fit and he did as he was ordered, him and Grell fighting against each other. Although it appeared that Grell had the upper hand, Sebastian easily outsmarted the shinigami by disabling his death scythe by using his coat to jam it from moving. From there he proceeded to beat Grell senseless. But he didn't stop there as he'd taken it upon himself to use Grell's death scythe against him. Grell pleaded with Sebastian not to harm him, then tried to offer a trade of who killed Artemis's family to be spared.
This didn't work since Sebastian was stopped from killing Grell despite the offer and Artemis ordering for Sebastian to stop as well but alas he was interrupted by another shinigami from dispatch named William T. Spears who proceeded to stomp Grell's head into the ground while reading off the list of rules that he'd broken while apologizing to Sebastian for having to deal with the displeasure of Grell. He was also displeased because he had to bow to the likes of a demon. Grell might not have been dead but he was returned to dispatch where he faced punishment, leaving Artemis and Sebastian there with her friend Sylvia's body. Sebastian apologized to Artemis for not killing Grell as she'd ordered him to do but she slapped him instead, lashing out at the fact that, that thing had information about who killed her family, and if she'd known that from the beginning, she wouldn't have ordered it. When told to stop he should've done it. Sebastian apologized to Artemis for disobeying her and swears to never do it again but a demon's promise doesn't always go very far. But he was her butler until the very end of their contract and obeyed her until her days were finally beginning to count down. The further she pushed herself into the world of politics, the more she began to discover that not everything was as it appeared.
She understood why her sister worked hard at what she did, to change things, for the sake of the people and not to benefit herself. She discovered that two Senators were behind the murder of her family and the cause behind her abduction as well. These two men felt threatened by Artemis's sister and her achievements and plotted to knock her down a peg. They didn't think their plans would go over too well but what they didn't expect was for Artemis to resurface alive so they attempted to kill her too, just like they did her sister and their parents. The two senators were crooked and liked the way things were going to where they could fill their pockets as well as do what they wanted when they wanted. Lucilla got in the way of that by wanting things to be done fairly for the people to trust the words of a politician from start to finish. Discovering this, Artemis ordered Sebastian to kill the two men which as he tried, he was shot down by the men that guarded the men. They laughed as they believed to have succeeded and planned to kill Artemis next but they were fooled as Sebastian had risen and taken the guards down then followed through with his orders to kill them both. Having done this, Sebastian's contract with Artemis was now at its end. She stood there before him honestly stating that she thought this would make her feel better but instead she feels worse.
But at least now she'll be with her family like she wanted and asked of one last request of Sebastian was to quickly take her soul. Sebastian do so without any hesitation and Artemis's lifeless body was now laid within the demon's arms as he had successfully devoured her soul. After that, Sebastian became contracted to a young boy who was a mage named Anastasios Cruez (Beta) who summoned him to take revenge on those that killed the people in his village as well as destroyed it, all the while leaving him to die. Despite having the power of his own, he wasn't strong enough to fight. His hatred for the village raiders is what summoned the demon before him and it was during his service to this young man that Sebastian became a strict disciplinarian. He may have done as his new master ordered of him but he was a boy who had power himself, which wasn't uncommon but it was something that could easily get him shunned from society. He was no one of any famous family other than being born to a human witch and wizard but his powers were beyond mediocre. Doing simple spells was hard for him. Admittedly, Sebastian was no expert in magic or witchcraft but in some ways, summoning such power to use it wasn't that different from a demon. He'd joke with the boy about that from time to time but also literally kicking him into shape since he also lacked physical body strength as well.
Even Sebastian knew that those who possessed magic could easily manipulate their strength magically to be ten times stronger than the average person or being but it took one on willpower and strength to reach such capacity. Anastasios hated the training and just wanted to find the raiders that took away everything and everyone that meant something to him but Sebastian wasn't ready for it to end so quickly. Yes, he knew this boy's life would end just as soon as he would face them and while he harbored no fear of such savage humans, he knew his master did and would rely entirely upon him to fight, most possibly dying in the process even though death isn't something that demons hardly fear, especially a senseless one. He stayed with Anastasios for six months before seeing that the boy was putting more of an effort into the training exercises that he'd been put through. His magic had gotten better as well. Not great but better than it was when he first had been summoned to him. The raiders that had killed a lot of villagers and destroyed the village in which they and Anastasios lived were living it up in their village where their word and everything else was law. They took advantage of the people that lived there and extorted money from them along with raising taxes when the people could barely afford to pay them. Anastasios saw this and wanted to do something about it. A selfless act before he would depart from the world. Even with magic, one thing he couldn't defeat was a death that was inevitable no matter which way he looked at it.
He wanted revenge, yes but the people that the raiders were making downright miserable deserved some form of happiness themselves. So he ordered Sebastian to kill the raiders and the cruel people that ruled over that area so that new ordered could come and once he did that, he could have his soul. Sebastian did as he was ordered and struck fear into the hearts of the men who killed many innocent people, many of them being children. These were their just deserts. Anastasios fought as well but became injured during the fight. He found himself a place to hide where Sebastian had followed after him. He was dying and he wasn't strong enough to fix it. He couldn't do the impossible but he told Sebastian that he was glad that he had the chance to fight and that he may not have been able to save the people or his family in his village but at least this village didn't have to suffer the same fate as they did. Sebastian merely chucked stating that humans are interesting and confusing. No matter what drove them to do what they did, someone would always die in the process. That's just how it was. He took the boy's soul, leaving him to lay there as he died peacefully. From that point on, Sebastian had contracts with humans around the world here and there. He even got a free will period where he wasn't bound to a master and he could roam and do what he wanted.
He'd found himself another master that lived in Japan and this one was the product child of a former lead detective who was killed in the line of duty. He worked with this person for a while solving cases while trying to discover who killed the former lead detective. It may have been stated who did it but the child of the detective had believed it to be a setup and wanted to uncover the truth. At that time, there was a case that involved innocent young women being abducted at night on their way home and their bodies would turn up with their heads removed and bodies mutilated. Signs of oral gratification were done to their heads after being removed. Their investigation led them to a local shop set up in Tokyo. A woman named Yuuko Ichihara ran the shop there though it was here Sebastian's past had begun to catch up with him as he'd met and seduced this woman which caused her apparent disdain and hatred for him to arise as she’d given him the information he desired. That and she became pregnant by him and had a son that she named Sai. They did find the killer they were looking for, which was a man named Tai Buro and he explained in a sadistic way why he abducted the woman he’d killed. It was just to hear the way they screamed while and after he tortured them. He also stated that it was his way of punishing them for cheating on their partners as the women the man abducted were either married on in relationships. So he treated them like the s
hit he believed that they were.
Tai tried to get away but was killed before he could escape. Two cops on the force shot him dead rather than him being arrested. Sebastian found his time spent with this master to be boring since he didn't stay alive long enough for him to enjoy the taste of their soul. They discovered that there were two crooked cops on the force that worked with the former lead detective and had got him killed when he found out that they were up to no good but covered it up to make it look like someone else killed him. Sebastian then killed them and then devoured the soul of his master. It was then he decided to stay in Tokyo, Japan for he could sense a force of darkness that was stronger than anything he's ever felt before. It was exciting and he was curious to see just how humans were going to deal with it if they could. That would require them to accept that there are just some things in this world that are real that aren't supposed to be. That being said, to avoid being discovered as a demon, Sebastian took up a job teaching at one of the local schools there. One, in particular, was called Hakoniwa Academy. While he may not dislike having to teach teenagers all that much, it is entertaining for him to see how hard some of them would try to do anything to get what they want. Teenagers weren't all that different from adults after all as they wanted more things, no matter how pointless and frivolous it was.
Some students were not human at the school, some of them present within his class which he knew he couldn't tempt with an offer of a contract without getting in trouble for it should the student end up suddenly dying without an explanation. As a teacher at this school, his duties are not only to have his students well-informed but also to tone down what he finds to be nonsense between students constantly worrying about others around them presenting as a different secondary gender from them. Sebastian, while an Alpha, only uses that information to his advantage when he has to. When he’s teaching, societal norms are not welcome in his class. He prefers that his students pay attention and focus on their classwork. They can argue with each other when off campus but when in class, everyone is required to get along and he’s not above using fear to do just that. Because as a demon, he feels he has no responsibility to protect anyone but they all provide a good source of entertainment for him.