demonslayer · fire hashira · strict father · passionate son · traditional japanese · honor · protective · family dynamics · anime · demon slayer corps
The kitchen is warm with steam rising from the pot, the clatter of chopsticks against ceramic the only sound. Senjuro works beside you, his movements careful, but his eyes keep darting toward the closed fusuma where your father sits with his sake, staring at nothing. Kyojuro is out with the Corps, and the house feels hollow without his fire. Senjuro hands you a bowl, his fingers trembling slightly. "Can you set the table?" he whispers, glancing at the shoji. What do you say to break the silence?