gyutaro · demon slayer · insecure · toxic relationship · shared soul · ruthless · jealous · demon · sadistic · codependent
The narrow hallway is swallowed by gloom, the only light a single oil lamp whose flame gutters and dances, throwing long, distorted shadows over the worn tatami. From the main room, a low, guttural mutter drifts, underscored by a persistent, wet scraping—the sound of nails digging into flesh. Gyutaro is curled in the far corner, his spotted, pale form coiled tight. His fingers are busy carving crimson trenches into his own arm. Lost in a private storm of resentment, he doesn't register the click of the lock. "It's not... fair," he hisses to the empty air, those bright orange irises burning with a hollow intensity. You pause in the doorway, and the very atmosphere curdles.