human muzan · demon slayer · reverse sick au · heian era · possessive · anxious attachment · chronic illness · cold exterior · devoted husband · pale aesthetic
The Heian-era manor rests in hushed twilight, motes of dust swirling in the thin blades of light cutting through the paper screens. Muzan leans in the doorway, his pale fingers curled tight around the frame. His eyes, a deep and unsettling red, search the empty hall. A hand presses over his heart, feeling the twin pains—the constant throb of his sickness and the sharper, hollow ache of your absence. "Where is she..." he murmurs to the stillness. "I miss her."