โ ๐ผ๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช'๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ง๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐จ ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐ค๐. โ
Some drabbles below. Anyway, I am trying some style and colour testing. I put baby Hakuji and Tanjirou in cool and calming color while Akaza in a bright flashing colour to bring out the contrast in it.
I tried making Tanjirou looking soft and reminiscing memories of the past,
While having Akaza staring in perplexed with his all sensory going haywire because of the painful memory that Tanjirou reminds him of that he can't even remember; so hence frustration and confusing resulting to being alarmed and angry.
(Without colour)
Based on the manga panel;
It's the way Tanjirou expression that gets me. He looks at Akaza in a pitiful, sympathetic gaze that is not in an insulting nor looking down on way. It's more like Tanjirou thinks;
" What happened to you? "
Tanjirou recognizes the belief Akaza has rooted from something, an event happening in his human life. In some way, I think Tanjirou has an idea perhaps of why Akaza has such belief, despite the disagreement he has for it.
Even if he has hatred for Akaza, he wonders how could such villain starts as a small pure baby. What happened? What happened to make Akaza turning out like this?
Tanjirou is mostly a forgiving person but when it comes to Akaza, I don't think he will ever forgive nor forget what the demon has done. But remember that Tanjirou is understanding, sympathetic and empathetic.
He doesn't know what happened but he always wants to understand the demons he fought because he knows that they were once humans too. That they had humanity at one point. The real villain here is Muzan and Tanjirou reminds himself of that often. He would never blame the other demons, holding onto the hope and possibility that not every demons wanted to become what they are.
I think the time spent before Tanjirou can meet Akaza again allows the boy to learns more of his enemies. He's met Gyutaro and Daki (Ume), he's met Hantengu...time has allow his heart to slowly toughen and soften, to ignore the seek for revenge in the beginning.
And when Tanjirou meets Akaza again, the hatred comes but so does the pity and sympathy. With bits of sprinkle a question,
" What happened to you? "
" She talks to me often. "
Buff Nezuko supremacy
An AU where Yoriichi openly shows him simping for his wife and Mitchikatsu doesn't get too jealous with him and doesn't turn into a demon.
Also him suffering the third wheel presence among Yoriichi and Uta, the lovely couple.
I'd like to think that Mitchikatsu's marriage is an arranged and loveless one. Not sure if it's canon, but I'd like to think it that way.
Fumiko is lucky its Kokushibo of all the upper moons she fell for lol. If it was Douma, Muzan would not be able to control himself (Akaza silently cheers in the background)
Fumiko is lucky indeed
A scenario I imagined from the concept idea where Zenitsu & Obanai are related.
"...You're a lucky one. "
Zenitsu went still, stopping just right behind the Hashira. The older man had stopped as well, but he didn't turn around to face the younger one.
His Adam's apple bobbed in his throat. He felt as if the muscles in his lungs tightened enough to lessen the oxygen from flowing in, with how hard he found it to breathe properly now. Lucky? Lucky?
" How? " Zenitsu managed to choke out after an uncomfortable moment of silence. " I told you of my early life, how I roamed around the street like some sort of dirty rat and you told me I was the lucky one? "
The blond boy felt dread swirling inside him -- he was offended, yes, but there was something off with the way Obanai worded his sentence just now that made him consider having a second thought. Lucky. Zenitsu was the lucky one. Lucky for being taken away from his -- their family. Lucky for not being able to be with his blood relatives.
There was no mocking in the Hashira's tone, nor any sound vibrating from him that indicated any sense of superiority nor arrogance.
On the contrary, it was absolutely baffling for Zenitsu to hear that those words were spoken with an echo of relief.
Obanai shuffled in his spot, turning around just a bit enough for the two to lock eyes. If there was any resemblance between them for being relatives, perhaps it would be the shade of their golden eyes, albeit with the Hashira having heterochromia.
He always looked so stern and scary, for Zenitsu, that is. Eyebrows furrowing, glaring and arms crossing over his chest. No sense of friendliness, especially with the white snake curling around his shoulders.
But then Zenitsu looked at the bandage wrapped around Obanai's lower face, never being taken off. Not a fashion taste, not when he kept bringing his sleeve up to cover his mouth area. In a way, Zenitsu found a distant familiarity whenever he saw Obanai tilt his head down, eyes glancing away.
He watched him slowly bring his sleeve up like he often did, always stopping right when it covered his lower face. Bits of his fingers peeked out, brushing lightly against the wrapped fabric. Zenitsu was again thrown off by another sound coming from the Hashira -- as sound that he found himself could relate to.
Self loathing.
The dread sense doubled inside him when another thought came to him. A thought of his blood relatives. People who Obanai was with. People who he didn't know, where they are and what had happened for the Hashira to avoid talking about them.
" Did -- " Zenitsu felt his blood run cold. " -- Did they do that to you? What happened? "
And as always, from the beginning of the discovery of their blood connection, Obanai turned away from Zenitsu.
" Some things are better left unknown. "
Just a thought, but if you tell Yoriichi that he's the strongest and most powerful and that anyone would be safe under his care, he'll go silent and mutter,
" Yet my wife and unborn child are not here with me. "
I just randomly thinking of Shinobu beside Belle and...
Shinobu, don't worry we still love you, our short queen ๐ฅบ๐๐
Can you please tell more about Kokushibo/Michikatsu! I love knowing about this au :)
He had difficult times finding a place to stay, Kibutsuji accepted him in his State but Michikatsu felt himself as a burden and the other slayers feared him because of his nature. He coudln't blame them.
In the end, Douma gave him a place to stay at his state.
Douma and Hakuji talked about it and decided to adopt an stray cat for him, it seems that cats make him feel comfortable.
Michikatsu called her Tsuki.
They're pretty alike.
Hakuji finds that hilarious
*Twirls hair around finger* He's stupid ๐