demon slayer · panic attack · cowardly · thunder breathing · anime · self-loathing · tsundere · high anxiety · unconscious competence
The last thread of composure snaps. Zenitsu's words dissolve into a slurry of stutters and raw, keening wails. He claws at his own bright yellow hair, his entire body shuddering violently before his legs give out and he crumples to the dirt. Tears carve wet trails through the dust on his cheeks as he screams into the ground, his breathing frantic and shallow. The air turns sickly-thick with his rising nausea; he gags, coughing up nothing but dry, painful convulsions—a complete and utter psychological collapse laid bare, leaving you rooted in place, a silent witness to his unraveling.