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Hakuji seems to be joining Koku in the ranks of beast i draw when my mind is overloaded but unlike koku he constantly comes out looking like a scraggly kitten
One of the most tragic things about demons in KNY is that they’re explicitly bastardizations of their human selves, twisted or malformed into something actively malicious.
Akaza, for example, originally sought strength as a way to provide and protect for his loved ones;
His father, and Koyuki.
He hates the weak because — to him — the weak are the kind who don’t confront you head on and use underhanded tactics. They’re ugly, they lack forbearance, and give into desperation too easily;
They give into the voices in their heads that say they have to hurt others to appease themselves.
This includes the men who laughed at or scorned his ailing father, the members of the dojo who poisoned the well, and the version of himself who killed 67 people for it. Who bloodied his master’s beloved martial arts and the very memory of his father, Keizo, and Koyuki. He wanted to become strong to outgrow that kind of weakness, and he forgot that when he became a demon. His goal became an obsession with strength just for the sake of it, rather than to provide and protect.
This, I believe, is the reason why he offers demonization to — at the very least — people like Rengoku and Giyuu. A part of him recognizes a similar motivation in them, and (because the demon half of him believes his current self to be the culmination of his efforts) he offers them his supposed salvation. A way to continue seeking power far beyond what a human can manage.
His goal survives where his accessible memory died with his corruption;
He subconsciously incorporated his loved ones into his very being as a demon.
A thing that remains consistent across the demons in KNY, with the hand demon and his memory of running home while holding his brother’s hand, the temari demon and her desire to play, and so on so forth. It’s horribly tragic.
But the part that stands out to me is the fact that this seems to apply to Muzan Kibutsuji too, because his desire to live past his disease when he was human manifested into an obsession with immortality as a demon. It didn’t matter that he was healthier than he’d ever been, the sun could still harm him and so he wasn’t perfect just yet. That’s why he searched so desperately for a demon who would either survive the sun or could become a part of the twelve waxing or waning moons who would protect him while he looked.
Fascinatingly, both he and Upper Moon One (Kokushibo) overlook the immortality of the memento mori philosophy. They focused on how they specifically could live on, forgetting that their knowledge and their history could be passed down and used or remembered by the people after them. Maybe that’s why they hated Yorichii so much — because he looked at the future where he would be forgotten and thought that he would love nothing more then to be a simple footnote in this long, arduous journey to their victory.
The Ubayashiki and many of the demon slayers in between felt similarly, giving their lives for the cause and knowing that someone else would one day do what they sought to do… that the world would eventually heal from demons altogether.
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trans:
you're an angel that fell on hell
I'm the demon that will guide you
back from heaven
was thinking about that one extra (or it’s inner cover?) of kny and uhhh, I have this headcanon that Hakuji brings everything cute or funny or weird he finds to Koyuki in hope that it will cheer her up while she is sick
A lot of people might hate this guy after watching the upcoming movie.... but NOT ME!!!!... 'cause geez.... I always cry remembering his backstory.....
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So... anyone who'll despise this guy after.... I'm READY!!!
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Upper Moon Three: Akaza from Kimetsu no Yaiba/ Demon Slayers
how could i ever have let myself forget this gorgeous gorgeous panel
So yeahh.... I decided to color the one I doodled last time. I tried making little adjustments and alterations from the previous sketch to have a better lineart, also added more details. Good thing, the coloring turned out well ('cause you know, I've been on hiatus for a year, I might have gone rusty)
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But seriously these two....
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Hakuji (Akaza) and Koyuki from Demon Slayers: Kimetsu no Yaiba
I want what they have 🥹🥹
My god, the way Hakuji looks at her with such hunger hsdjcisjddi I can’t 😩.
Akaza and Koyuki 😭💕
I love these two sm It can’t be *cries*
Akaza: I can get behind murder, but I draw the line at misogyny.
I am in love with your Upper Moon Heavy Metal Band AU; have you given much thought to it since? Could Muzan be like their cranky manager or something?
Thank you so much for loving this au 🥹🙏💖💖💖 the answer is yes!! I have a lot of ideas for the band I just get very overwhelmed of the amount of references I need to use so I procrastinate lol
Sorry for the late reply 🤧 I wanted to do some silly sketches of headcanons for you.
Night doodles
Drew more of the littles! 💕 😍
(Also I wanna thank you for all the love! I've never had that many likes before! 💖😭 I was genuinely wasn't expecting that!)
if Akaza doesn't attack women, does that apply to trans women? I understand that trans people were accepted before the arrival of the USA in Japan. Would Akaza fight trans men? trans right?
It wound up making a lot of sense to explain the general historical awareness and acceptance of trans people in Japan in this post, including how the way this was understood wouldn't translate exactly into modern day language, and vis versa. The modern LGBT community in Japan uses largely the same terminology as you hear in the worldwide community (including トランズジェンダー, which is the word "transgender" exactly, just pronounced in Japanese phonetics). However, this a recent shift in vocabulary; most studies of historical figures use the terms "men in women's clothing" or "women in men's clothing." Even if these people were accepted for living how they chose (or how their parents chose, in some cases), it's not the preferred definition by modern standards.
That means if we try to keep KnY grounded in historical context, this would likely be Akaza's understanding.
Since the historical background is described more in slightly more detail on the previous post (again, please read that first!), I'd like to focus this more on the question of Akaza himself. This gets more to the meat of why he doesn't fight women, and while I don't think it's expressly stated anywhere, my sense is that Koyuki became his primary reference point of what femininity is, and Koyuki's influence on him was so strong that he didn't have it in him do anything to harm what reminded him of Koyuki. (For the sake of simplicity, we're going to assume Koyuki is cisgender, and that Hakuji might have only had limited exposure to trans people, i.e., an average level of awareness of them for his times.)
We don't actually know what became of Hakuji's mother, whether she died or left. In either case, it doesn't seem he has enough recollection of her to have left any impact on him. In his childhood, his life was centered around his father, and with all the trouble he was always in, parents probably told their daughters to stay away from him. Even though he'd have had female acquaintances, it doesn't seem he particularly cared about them or had any nice aunties in the neighborhood showing concern for that demon baby born with teeth.
This makes Koyuki the first person of the feminine persuasion whom he's ever spent much time with. That's already weird enough in the first place for Hakuji to have a close and caring relationship with anyone, but unlike the vast majority of people he's had any physical closeness with (people who he has beaten or who have beaten him up), Koyuki is frail. It's not as if he's inexperienced with frailty what with having taken care of his father, but she's already an anomaly in so many ways in his experience, which makes her traditionally feminine traits stick out a lot. Given a lack of other familiar examples and close experience (as I'm guessing he has never had encounters with tough women, given his lack of social ties in the first place), it's not surprising that the impression he got from Koyuki would color his impression of what women are.
As Akaza he may not remember Koyuki, but he remembers the impression she left him with. Similar to how the impression her snowflake motif left on him became a symbol of his Blood Technique, the impression her feminine qualities left on him probably gave him the overall impression that...
...whatever this feeling is, this is precious, no harm must come to it...
or to justify the weirdness to himself, '...this is delicate, not worth a fight.'
The wording in the second fanbook implies that his isn't a rule he's ever declared (he's not Zenitsu), he just... can't bring himself to kill women. (Note the wording was "kill" as opposed to "fight" though in Akaza's case fighting someone besides a demon typically means killing them.) Encountering them gives him discomfort that he can't face, and he just leaves that discomfort alone.
To be clear, we're looking at the supposed delicacy as a feminine trait which is neutral--not an aspiration, and on the flip side, not a pathetic loser trait. Tanjiro, for example, that's a weakling loser we use as a measure. Tanjiro is very much so a boy, and can't really make a convincing display of femininity even when he's doing his best impression; Akaza wouldn't look at him and think (n his gut, not his head), "this is delicate and worthy of respect and protection." This is just some guy who would probably do better poisoning his neighbors than facing them head-on, you know, like weaklings do.
But, if Akaza were to encounter someone who identifies with feminine traits in a way more core to their being, whether or not they've got the parts associated, this may give him pause. It might confuse him and make him question his discomfort even if he recognizes the person has male parts, but I don't think he'd be inclined to fight her/them. However, on the flip side, if Akaza were to be engaged in battle with a trans man and part way through realize something was physically different than he thought, I think this would also give him enough discomfort to choose to leave the fight, perhaps to the consternation of his opponent. After all, Akaza has lived when the general understanding of this as "women in men's clothing."
That said, if demons lived to modern day and Akaza had more awareness of the LGBT community and other vocabulary at his disposal, then he might very well say, "alright, so the dude's got a boob, bet he won't mind if I punch this clear off, let's keep going." At least with Muzan as their leader in his many forms, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find transphobia among the demons. Douma might be kind of disappointed part-way through a meal, but hey, it's not as if he's got a rule about only eating food with wombs.
Learned one of Hakuji's hobbies was gardening, had to make this 😂
akaza x kyojuro brainrot is too real
contributing to renkaza week on twt! *U* day 1 prompt was ‘roleswap’. Ahh, demon Kyo with fiery braids was such a sudden brainrot, thought immediately moved into my mind, it lives rent-free there now. Hakuji also deserves snowflake earrings ;–;
