Claudelois

"Claude… You are the one who caught my heart in your spider web. You will always be my Highness. I wanted your love."

- Alois's last words to Claude, before completing his contract with Hannah (211).

Claudelois is the slash ship between Claude Faustus and Alois Trancy from the Black Butler fandom.

Canon
When Alois - back then going yet by the name Jim Macken - landed in the Trancy household as one of the 'toys' for the Earl, he overheard one boy saying that "faeries exist" and that "if you make a promise with them, they will grant your wishes". Jim asked him "how do you do it?" and then followed his instructions. He found a spider web covered in morning dew and used it to conceal his face. "Hoheo Taralna, Rondero Tarel" - he said. And just when he thought it was just another stupid hoax, he landed in a big spider web and a demon in a spider form - Claude Faustus - appeared before him. However, Jim didn't have a wish. "When you have found your wish, we will make a contract" - declared Claude and vanished soon afterwards. From that time, Jim gained a reason for living - finding a wish.

Some time later, Jim Macken became Alois Trancy, the head of the Trancy household. He finally found his wish, after Claude told him about the other demon, Sebastian, who allegedly destroyed Jim's village, following the terms of his contract with a former master. Alois gave Faustus an order to bring the current Sebastian's contractee - Ciel Phantomhive to him. Since that moment, Claude became Trancy's demon/butler and Alois his contractee/master.

After the former Earl's death, Claude asked Alois, why did he request Ciel instead of wishing for Sebastian's death. "Just killing him is not enough.(…)I want to give him a pain more intense than death, and to do that, I will target his young master, Ciel, with whom he's so infatuated" - that was Trancy's answer. It was the first time, when Claude was truly impressed by his new contractee.

Once, Alois asked Faustus, "why does he listen to every single thing he says?". Claude looked him in the eyes and answered honestly "I want to greedily devour you to the very end, master".

Alois and Claude lived together for a long time. Faustus felt more and more respect for his master. Trancy became attached to a spider demon and started to subconsciously fall in love with him.

However, Claude's feelings for Alois changed after tasting Ciel Phantomhive's blood. He tried it out, out of curiosity, wanting to see why Sebastian cared about his soul so much. With one single taste, he started to understand Michaelis's attachment. He started to become obsessed with the thought of obtaining Ciel's soul and Alois's soul became less important to him.

Eventually Claude killed Alois, after Trancy confessed to him his love. Normally, he probably wouldn't do it, but at this point he was already too blinded with his desire for Phantomhive's soul. That's why he thought that his master's act was ridiculous.

After killing Alois, Claude placed his soul in his ring to later on mix Trancy's memories with Ciel's. Because of that, Alois' soul got inside Phantomhive's body. Hannah wanting to 'pay respect' to her master, Alois, built a maze which linked to the 'body's heart'. Claude and Sebastian needed to go through it to get through to Ciel/Alois.

Questions for Claude were about Trancy, and Faustus gave the correct answers to every one of these - what shows how much he knew his master. One of his tasks was to say "yes, your Highness" - the words Claude used as an answer to Alois' orders - three times. When he did it, Alois began to cry saying to Hannah "see? he's still my butler" and tried to assure himself that it meant the demon loved him and still loves him, after all.

The last question for him was "why did Claude kill Alois Trancy?". The 'correct' answer - what Alois wanted to hear - was that it's because Faustus loves him too, that he killed him, through his "burning feelings" for him. Claude's in the middle of giving the 'correct' answer, while he suddenly stopped and told the truth - "I killed him with the intention of using him as a tool to obtain Ciel Phantomhive".

Before Hannah takes Alois' soul, because of the contract they make, Trancy looks at Claude one last time and tells him his last words - "Claude… You are the one who caught my heart in your spider web. You will always be my Highness. I wanted your love".

At the point of death, when Sebastian tells Claude that he was controlled by Alois until the very end, Faustus owns that "if Alois Trancy could create a stir in this listless demonic life, then maybe his soul was worth piercing too". After all, one of Alois's last wishes was granted - Claude acknowledged him.

Alois and Claude end up being re-united after their deaths, along with Luka (Alois's brother) and Hannah.

Quotes
"Hoheo Taralna, Rondero Tarel."

- Alois's words, when he wants to give Claude an order.

"Yes, your Highness."

- Claude's answer for Alois's order.

"I want to greedily devour you to the very end."

- Claude to Alois.

"Hoheo Taralna, Rondero Tarel! Don't leave my side! Never, Claude! You… You are my Highness."

- Alois to Claude, before Faustus kills him (208).

"See? He's still my butler. I feel loved… so much… Claude loves me so much."

- Alois, when Claude repeated "yes, your highness" three times in a maze (211).

"Claude… You are the one who caught my heart in your spider web. You will always be my Highness. I wanted your love."

- Alois's last words to Claude, before completing his contract with Hannah (211).

"If Alois Trancy could create a stir in this listless demonic life, then maybe his soul was worth piercing too."

- Claude at the point of his death (212).

"Happiness has come. Master, Claude acknowledged you. With this, the contract with my master is complete."

- Hannah about Alois.

Fanon
Claudelois isn't that popular ship in the fandom, mostly because of the fact that Claude and Alois are characters created only for anime and don't show in the manga. Its also disliked/hated by some part of the fandom, because of Claude killing and using Alois.

However, fans of AloClaude usually ship it alongside with SebaCiel or - less often - Cielois.

The ship is also dislikes due to Alois backstory, which includes traumatic experiences with pedophiles. Alois is a minor and Claude is an adult.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Claude/Alois on FanFiction.Net

FAN ART
 * クロアロ tag on Pixiv

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