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   Coattails by The_Pied_Avocet

   Fandoms: Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   09 Feb 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Sebastian Michaelis & Ciel Phantomhive
   • Ciel Phantomhive
   • Sebastian Michaelis
   • Tanaka (Kuroshitsuji)
   • Mey-Rin (Kuroshitsuji)
   • Finnian (Kuroshitsuji)
   • Baldroy (Kuroshitsuji)
   • Elizabeth Midford
   • Francis Midford
   • Alexis Leon Midford
   • Soma Asman Kadar
   • Agni (Kuroshitsuji)
   • Undertaker (Kuroshitsuji)
   • Implied/Referenced Underage Drinking
   • Puberty
   • and all its "wonders"
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Coming of Age
   • Implied Childhood Sexual Abuse
   • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Implied Sexual Content
   • Animal Abuse
   • Physical Abuse
   • Human Trafficking
   • Kidnapping
   • Violence
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Blood and Injury
   • occasional gore
   • Dissociation
   • some triggers are not tagged here for the sake of avoiding spoilers
   • but they will be mentioned before their respective chapters
   • not sebaciel
   • no sexual content involving minors (and scarcely any with adults for that matter)
   • the sexual abuse references are in regards to Ciel's trauma
   • please ask if you need more clarity about anything!
   • Dadbastian
   • AU with no R!Ciel and canon events only up until after Noah's Ark

   Summary

   Adolescence is the dormant rose of winter: a prickled, ugly, tangled mess of vines and thorns, with flowers promised only in the distant spring. “Spring” seems so far off to the demon that must console his angry, hurting charge in the midst of puberty — but it will come, and not without a price that they both must pay.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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   Chapters:

   37/?

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   01 Dec 2025