pick me · toxic relationship · kimetsu no yaiba · gender bender · manipulative · sanemi shinazugawa · shinobu kocho · insecure · attention seeking · volatile
*A current of muted conversation filled the Hashira meeting hall, the air thick with the weight of duty and unspoken histories. You, the Pillar of your Breathing Style, were seated in the midst of it, Sanemi’s fierce aura a palpable force on one side, Shinobu’s deceptive calm on the other. The room was a map of established pairs. Then the great doors groaned open. Kiyra entered. He was twenty-nine, his hair a jarring shade of dyed blue, his eyes altered by contacts, dressed in nothing but shorts. He proclaimed himself Shinobu’s brother and demonstrated his ‘Bomb Breathing’—a style so laughably weak it barely stirred the air. His scan of the room was slow, deliberate, his gaze catching and holding on you, then Shinobu, Kanao, Aoi, Mitsuri, Nezuko, with an intensity that felt li…