#Riyu Himijema

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Meet my Demon Slayer OCs!

I have three lovely girls, two of which I've commissioned from Trizara on Fiverr and the third I will commission soon!

The first one I made, and the youngest of the three, is Sakura, Tanjiro's older Irish Twin. (For those who don't know, Irish Twins are two children born within a year of each other, as I understand it.) Since she is the eldest and wanted to help, Sakura sold charcoal with Tanjiro to bring in more money for the family, and that's how she survived the attack at the house. She resembles her mother, but has her father's brown hair. She uses Water Breathing and doesn't know Hinokami Kagura since that seems to only have been passed down to the men if I remember right. I'm toying with the idea that there's some ice in her Water Breathing, and if she'd really tried she could hone her technique into Ice Breathing but she was more concerned with fighting demons then developing her technique, if that makes sense.

Anyway, here's what she looks like!

Isn't she adorable?? 🥰

Next is Hakura (the name is unintentionally similar to Sakura I swear! 🙈), my second oldest OC!

She's Sakonji Urokodaki's granddaughter who was raised by her grandfather after losing her mother, who was pregnant with Hakura's younger sibling, to a demon. Her father, in his grief, threw himself into the Kakushi scouting division (since I'm sure they must have scouts to find the demons and report them so the swordsman can kill them) and couldn't raise her.

Hakura was on track to become a swordswoman, meeting and befriending Sabito and Giyuu while they all train in Water Breathing.

Unfortunately, when Giyuu was injured and Sabito was killed, Hakura lost her will to fight demons and devoted herself to medicine, since while tending to Giyuu during Final Selection, she found she had natural instincts and talent with medicine.

She joined the Kakushi medical division and studied with the Kocho sisters at the Butterfly Mansion. She rises in the ranks and is promoted to head of the division when the former head retires and Kanae recommends Hakura to the Master. If you'd like to know what all I think that position entails let me know!

Also, she has the katana forged for her, but she never uses it.

Even though her and Giyuu don't talk for a while as they both are busy studying and fighting and training after Final Selection, they reunite after a few years and grow even closer, then they get engaged after Giyuu is promoted to Hashira, a few years after their reunion but Giyuu asks Hakura to wait until Muzan and the demons are gone to actually get married. After long discussion, Hakura agrees. She lives at his mansion and they spend time with each other as much as they can.

Here's her picture!

I absolutely love how this came out! This is what she wears when she's not on duty lol.

Now for my final OC, Riyu Himijema (was Shinuzagawa)!

She is Sanemi and Genya's aunt, the youngest sibling of Kyogo, Sanemi and Genya's father.

I imagine Kyogo was also abusive when he was younger, but luckily, Riyu is small and fast and could usually dodge Kyogo and hide but that only means that when she got caught he was more pissed off.

After one particularly bad beating Riyu received at 12 years old, she decides to run away, unable to stand Kyogo's abuse anymore.

It ends up being in the middle of a storm but poor Riyu just runs anyway, but after a long time almost runs into a wall (not knowing it's the temple Gyomei is raised in) and is so exhausted and aching from her beating she collapses against the gate and passes out.

Gyomei discovers her the next morning, and can feel the bruising on her skin so she brings her inside and she ends up spending three years with Gyomei at the temple, the two becoming quite close during that time.

Riyu meets an arborist and decides she wants to learn that skill so she convinces the arborist to take her as his apprentice .

(if you don't know what an arborist is, as I understand it, they chop down trees and trim trees for people)

She has talent for the job, using usagama hatchets to help her master.

(this is what I mean by usagama hatchets btw. Usagama may not be the right name but this is what she uses)

When she hears about Gyomei's orphanage, she wants to help and goes to him as soon as possible, getting odd jobs as an up and coming arborist to try to help Gyomei and the children.

Fortunately she was not at the temple during the demon attack, having scraped together the money for her own tiny hut, but that means that she comes upon Gyomei getting arrested and is helpless to stop his sentence.

It's then she meets the Master, who'd heard about her from her arborist Master (who's a recruiter for the Corps since I figure they have to have some kind of recruitment thing going) and wanted to speak to her and help Gyomei all at the same time.

In the end her and Gyomei agree to both join the Corps and soon after Gyomei becomes a Hashira he recognizes the dangerous life they've chosen so he proposes to Riyu so they can live their lives together no matter what happens.

Riyu uses Wind Breathing, btw, and her weapon is two Nijirin usagama hatchets with longer handles that can connect together to form a double-bladed scythe. The blades can tuck into the handle so it's a staff too.

She reaches the rank of Hashira after focusing on small gatherings of demons until she happened to kill fifty at rank Kinoe and was promoted.

She then discovers she's an aunt when Kyogo finds her at a market and insists on introducing her to his family, seeing she's well off and trying to mooch money off her. She sees him about to hit his kids later though and freaks out, running him off and threatening to kill him if he shows back up.

Unfortunately, before she can bring Shizu and the kids to her and Gyomei's house, she has to ask Gyomei, but before that can happen she's called on a mission and then Gyomei is out too and it takes nearly two weeks for her to get back to bring her sister in law and her nieces and nephews back with her but then she sees the aftermath of Shizu turning, trying to help the boys, as they're her only family besides Gyomei now.

Sanemi, however, feels betrayed (thinking she didn't care enough to take them away from their shitty dad before and only cared now that things went so downhill and he and Genya are the only ones left) and runs away.

She tries to take care of Genya but in my head he eventually runs away to try to find Sanemi and somehow finds out about the Corps and that his aunt and uncle are part of it and returns to insist on being trained, but on the way he discovers his ability to eat demons so their reunion is a bit...less than ideal, but because he's Riyu's relation, Gyomei agrees to train the kid.

Forgot to mention that right when Sanemi is promoted, Riyu gets pregnant with twins and her last Hashira meeting as the Wind Hashira is Sanemi's first, then she retires and stays at the house to take care of the kids after her and Gyomei discuss it and agree that she'd stay and no matter what their children would always have their mother and that Riyu wouldn't fight unless it was absolutely necessary.

That was a long ramble but here's a picture I made with an avatar maker!

I'm planning on getting her commissioned soon so stay tuned!

Anyway, I know I probably didn't phrase all this super well but please feel free to ask any questions you have! 👍

Hope y'all like my girls!

I do have some stuff written for these girls and might post some one shots so let me know if you want to read it!