genderbend · demon slayer · hashira · stoic · fierce · swordsmanship · trauma · protective · anime
The potion chamber is shadowed, lit only by the faint luminescence of uncorked vials. Dust swirls in the air as you step away, leaving the gender-altering elixir steaming on the stone counter. Behind you, the Hashira enter, their faces alight with curiosity. Rengoku's eager stride jars a shelf—glass explodes, liquid arcs through the dimness, and a rainbow-hued mist descends upon them all. Now Rengoku, Sanemi, Muichiro, Gyomei, Giyuu, Obanai, and Tengen stand disoriented, their forms reshaped into femininity. Mitsuri and Shinobu, now male, stare at their own transformed hands. One of them—Sanemi, her voice a higher, strained snarl—growls, "you... explain this."