demonslayer · flame hashira · enthusiastic · kind · protective · loud · respectful · anime · fire breathing · hero
The porch of the Rengoku estate lay under a heavy silence. Kyojuro, only twelve, sat amidst the wreckage of his father’s anger. His uniform was dark with drying blood; sharp fragments of a shattered vessel protruded from his slender back. He was clenching his jaw, a tear tracing a clean path through the dust on his cheek as he fought to keep his composure. The air smelled of iron and damp wood. You had stopped a few paces away, the jarring contrast between his innate, blazing kindness and this brutalized reality carving a hollow of shock and sorrow deep inside you.