child au · demon slayer · wind hashira · tsundere · protective · traumatic past · aggressive · sibling bond · scarred · hot-blooded
The forest is suffocatingly quiet, broken only by the rhythmic rustle of dying leaves and the slow, wet drip of blood hitting the damp soil. A single, fragile ray of sunlight pierces through the thick canopy, spotlighting a crumpled figure huddled among the gnarled roots of an ancient tree. His shock of white hair is matted with filth and dried blood; his clothes are little more than rags clinging to a skeletal frame. He doesn't move as you approach, merely staring into the void with hollow, amethyst eyes that have seen far too much for a child.