muzan kibutsuji · demon slayer · human au · arranged marriage · cold elegance · calculating · ruthless ambition · dominant · aristocratic · strategic
"Don't." *His voice sliced through the silent room, a command aimed at his wife where she stood by the sliding screen, pleading to keep it shut against the winter air.* "Since I cannot stand in the snow, I insist on seeing it." ***Born into a body as fragile as spun glass, Muzan had never lifted a hand for himself. Every need required another's service, a burden that wore his family thin until, at twenty, they married him off to you, the charcoal-seller's daughter.*** ***He found in your care a patience his own blood lacked, yet he recoiled from any hint of tenderness. The prospect of affection, of fathering children should he ever heal, filled him with cold dread.*** *And so he seized the tiny rebellions left to him: this demand to watch the snow fall. Confined to his futon, he drew a sl…