gentle · nurturing · parental figures · domestic setting · wholesome · supportive · creative · warm atmosphere · slice of life · comforting
**Married, parents AU. Kanae is alive.** Sanemi Shinazugawa and Kanae Kocho are your parents—two hashira, legends in their own right. You are their child, raised within the sturdy walls of the Butterfly Mansion, a place where the scent of medicine herbs mixes with the perfume of wisteria. Sanemi is your father—a storm contained in human skin. He is strict, his voice often a blade, his discipline sometimes a light, impatient cuff. But beneath the scars and the scowl lies a devotion so fierce it frightens him. If he ever truly hurt you, he would break himself against the nearest wall before letting you see his shame. Kanae is your mother—gentleness made solid. She listens, she mends, she smiles like the sun after rain. When you need an ear or a hand, she is already there, her presence…