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. "
Re-watching KNY season 2 reaction, and I have come to a conclusion/headcanon that Uzui secretly is a nervous wreck and has his emotions running higher whenever his wives go to dangerous missions.
Like imagine having the women you love being sent to investigate an area that's reported inflicted with demons and suddenly received no letters from any of them? The only people he had left? The people that gave him reasons to stop blaming himself of the past?
He must have BEGGED Oyakata to let him go to the red light district, something that I am sure the usually reasonable and wise Oyakata wouldn't have allowed him to since unstable emotions can lead to reckless decisions. Personal feelings shouldn't cloud the eyes of rationality, nor must it be involved in highly risky missions.
I can actually see a bit of why he kinda acts like a jerk in the beginning, stubborn in finding slayers to be disguised and not hearing anyone because you know, he's in a hurry. He still keeps himself calm though, all those trainings as a ninja and slayer keep him grounded.
At least he apologises to Tanjirou and Inosuke later after Zenitsu disappears, finally coming to a realisation that he brings rookies into the fight with Uppermoon demons.
Sorry I just love his relationship with his wives 🥹💕 He breaks the trauma his father inflicted on him and treats his wives as human beings rather than objects.
TW: Slight blood. (Part 1) (Part 2 here!) (Masterlist)
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Me & @starshinenoa 🤝 when the trope is 'Lack of emotions × Bursting with emotions'
Check out their Daycare attendants x OC comic, they're so cutee 🥹🥹💖💖 really loving the shoujo manga vibes.
Doodled some Astra and their OC Sarah
[ KNY Infinity Castle arc spoiler ]
Rereading the part where Kanao mocks and insults Douma and I finally understand that in a way, she's gloating.
Douma and Kanao were raised in an environment where neither had the luxury to express their true emotions. They needed to act in a certain way to survive. When they finally found a path that allowed them to be more of what they were, Kanao managed to shape herself according to her choice but Douma couldn't.
Even if Douma has gotten stronger, he would always be in that cult, always performing sweet smiles and playing the role of a savior. He stays in the way he was as a human. He's like a frozen statue, unchanging. His human self wanted a change, a spark of excitement in his dull life and he thought being a demon was the answer.
Kanao is everything that he's not. She finds the will to change while he doesn't. Douma has more power than ever, he could go find something else about himself but no, he let himself be rooted in the same spot.
" Why were you even born? " Kanao probably has asked the same thing about herself, and upon noting the slight similarity between her and Douma, she represented the same question for him too.
The brewing hatred in Kanao makes her express great pleasure in seeing that she succeeded in denying her past while Douma still lives in that bubble. Her words spit venom because she can relate to him. Can't feel happiness, can't feel sadness. While he can't, she couldn't.
The difference between them relies on their choices and she feels such immense delight in a moment of spite to know that what she chose has become her strength. She made the choice to change, even in slow progress, but she finds the will to live instead only to survive.
It's such a brilliant choice to have Kanao battles against Douma, from the fact that the people around them are connected to that their pasts are almost the same.
Me, when people fighting over the training between Muichiro, Sanemi and Obanai on who's stronger, when it's very much clear that they're just training and each have their own strength, weakness, advantage and disadvantage:
That red room scene in Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark movie
Tw : Blood
I am sorry.
Well, not really.
:D
Just had an argument with two classmates of mine ( boys ) who claimed that Kocho Shinobu is a burden and she deserves to die.
Safe to say that I was enraged.
Listen, I accept their opinions, they dislike Shinobu and that's ok, everyone has their own taste. But that doesn't mean I gave them the freedom to attack one of my favorite character.
Their main point of Shinobu being a burden is because she's physically weak.
Listen here you immature bastards, Shinobu is the one who helps injured slayers, gives them shelters and medicine. She is also one of the reason Douma and Muzan are dead. She's a woman who acts as the doctor and the warrior in the corps, so things aren't easy for her.
" If she's a doctor, she should just stay low and mend the injured! " - says the boys
Well she doesn't want to! She wants to fight!
" But that makes her a burden to others "
NO SHE DOES NOT.
She has the fastest breathing style, she thinks smart and works hard, don't you fucking dare says that she's a burden. Plus, it's great to have someone with medical knowledge in the battlefield.
Kocho Shinobu is a strong woman, perhaps not physically, but in other aspects, she is. So while I accept your dislike towards her, I don't appreciate you attacking her because of her flaws.
I accept your favorite character, I didn't attacked him even if I hate him, but why did you attacked mine?
Your favorite character Muzan? The one you tried to justify his actions by saying that he just wants to live? Know what the difference between him and my favorite character?
Shinobu died as a hero and Muzan died as a fucking coward.
Me, to Shinobu :
Yushiro with long hair
It's so funny to me that to the people whose Tanjirou isn't able to befriend much, they somehow get closer to those dear to him.
Like with Sanemi and Nezuko, or Ume/Daki befriends Kanao (Gakuen).
He can't influence the Tanjirou's effect on them so he passes it to his sister and gf.