#about kana's hairclip:

[bruhstation]

shout out to women’s day for real.... gotta be one of my favorite genders‼️‼️

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[colourstreakgryffin]

Shinobu × younger sister reader who likes muichiro...

Totally not hana- srsly no..

Still want ramen?

Ommmmggg, fuck yea. Doing this one cause it’s funny and I can imagine the chaos! Shinobu is resisting the urge to break all of Muichiro’s bones for our crush on him XD

And yes, I do! I’m just still handling my infection. It’s a bit tough to focus but I’m okay, I can do this! 

Kocho Shinobu- Longterm Infatuation

Shinobu is naturally overprotective over the only remaining sister she has left, aka you. She lost her big sister to a demon and she refuses to lose her little sister to a demon as well

Shinobu tries her best to be a good role model for you by over-exaggerating her Kanae persona and suppressing his temper ten times more then normal. She wants to make sure you will become a polite woman when you grow up and it’s her job to shape you, alongside Kanao, into that

Shinobu internally flips her shit when she catches you sparing lovestruck glances at Muichiro, her fellow Hashira and her overprotectiveness kicks in, making her drag you away from the boy and ask you about it. You won’t lie to her and your honesty makes Shinobu flinch

Shinobu may be against your crush on Muichiro but your happiness is important to her so she’ll let you try flirt with Muichiro and she’l comfort you everytime Muichiro doesn’t recuperate those affections. She is half-suspecting you to give up on the Mist Hashira

Shinobu is the type to brag about your beauty to everybody who hears her out, out of her pride over you but at the same time, she’d harshly threaten any young boy who shows interest in you, she’d threaten to break his bones if he hurts your feelings

Shinobu wouldn’t really be jealous for the fact you spend a lot of your time crushing on Muichiro, but it does get under her skin at one point. You don’t even notice her anymore, all you notice and talk about is him. She just wishes you’d talk to her like you use to before all of this

Whilst Kanao is called Shinobu’s Tsuguko, you’re actually Shinobu’s Tsuguko, being trained to use Insect Breathing. Shinobu is very excitable and eager to pass on her self-developed techniques onto you, rather she hates you fighting demons or not, she loves knowing that another person is like her

“Little sister, my dear. Your butterfly hairclip is coming undone, allow me to fix it. Ooh~! You want to give a gift to Tokito? I’d love to assist you with that, the best I can. May nee-san accompany you on this trip?”

[cinnamonbean]

So I recently read The Wasp's Nest by @demonslayedher, and as usual, began obsessing. I've been following the author here under my main blog for a while, and it's very easy to add onto or hyperfixate on their ideas. I genuinely can't find many blogs like theirs, but it's really cool; and I want to appreciate that.

Below the cut is going to be a simple collection of thoughts I had upon reading chapter one because,, oh my goodness; I have a lot?? For some reason? And I will probably never be able to use them myself.

Whether or not I make this a mini-series for every chapter or few chapters is. Up for debate. I have a lot going on in my personal life right now, so we'll see. This is just Mocha rambling about a cool fic instead of working on their own fics goodbye.

Please keep in mind I did not read chapter two.

Please read the following with only chapter one in mind. I had to force myself to avoid chapter two to ensure I would finish this post. And while I contemplating that art I wanted to post alongside the icons,, I concluded that would take too long. So. Later.

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• You probably can't see it through the ugly filters but I used the opposite color from Kobayashi-San's hairclip for Mita's eyes. Vice versa for Kobayashi-San's eyes too.

• I know it looks more like green flame but I was actually trying to use water lilies as the motif for Kobayashi-San's eyes! :) I couldn't think of anything cool for Mita's,, so I made it the same flower shape as Koyuki-San's in vain efforts of referencing it to those round-winged butterflies people make? ,,,

• I can't really use butterfly symbolism for the clips. I also improvised on the colors since I really deadass did not know what colors to use. 💀 I didn't use light blue for the border of Kobayashi-San's because they reminded me of the flowers on Makomo's mask,, and I had a Hashira au where she had those colors on her own hairclip,,, I don't mind changing it if it helps the accuracy of the fic! >:)

• Speaking of hair clips,, you gave me a really good headcanon idea for Kanae rereading one of your older posts, but I will probably post it on it's own as a separate post.

• I'm automatically taking everything Mita says with a grain of salt?? Like she seems nice, just. She runs her mouth too much. Is it to cope? Hmm. It'd be interesting to see if Ichijo-Senpai had a larger impact on everyone than we're made aware. Like. Is it really so black and white that Kanao began smiling because of Kanae and Shinobu? Maybe she's just so used to seeing people die because of those other students that she really doesn't think the people she made it past final selection with won't make much of a difference. (I'm salty they were the only five because of plot armor, but that's a story for another day.)

• Mainly because of my personal unrelated headcanons, but I really don't think of Ichijo-Sempai as mean? But if she is,, I can see her contributing to Mita's general moodiness. Bad influences amirite. But also the possibility of her being generally nice and having her parallel one if not both of Mita and Kobayashi-San as we read along makes me weak in the knees.

• I couldn't decide if I liked freckles or facial acne for Mita better, so I gave her both and gave her that emo pale skin. Assholes don't get to have pretty faces I don't make the rules 🙄 (/hj).

• Shinobu, because of your content of her and how she acted in the fic gives me vibes of a practical woman who doesn't care for detailed or pretty looking things. Or believes in doing things simply because you like them. Which makes that scene of her eating with Giyuu even funnier. Like. "You're smiling at your food? D i s g u s t i n g." (/j).

• I'm also. Very sorry. Like VERY SORRY. BECAUSE FOR THE LIFE OF ME I CAN'T DRAW BLACK HAIR IT'S JUST NOT POSSIBLE FOR ME... Ya start with a color you think is close enough to black without being back. Then you add colored accents, put in shading. The lighting. And then, only when it's too late, you realize it. You've given them completely different hair colors. I swear I'm colorblind. (/sarc).

• I was also just too lazy to make the mouths. So they're pitch black and ugly. You're welcome :')

Here's the icons without filters! I originally wanted to make them edited with like gif thingy backgrounds?? BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW,, and I'm not waiting until chapter ten or worse is posted while I'm trying to figure this stuff out.

Before anyone asks, these are free to use, edit, etc. with credit. But really. I'm already cringing at several things in these icons. Really, where are Mita's ears even. Fjsnfjsjf.

Thank you for reading and have a good... whatever time it is where you are. 🚶‍♀️and ty for reading this if you read all the way through.

[demoiselettes]

Hello there! Can i get a match up?

My name's Briar ! I consider myself a non - binary and demisexual :) I show my love by quality time and physical affection. Which means i love Spending time with people i love OR I WILL DIE IF SOMEONE GIVES ME ANY FORM OF AFFECTION -

Physical looks:

I will admit... i have black medium length hair i with short bangs i am considering dyeng ( i forgot how to spell... ) my hair tho.

Color of my is golden beige ( if you're not sure what that is search it up ^ ^ )

I usually dress casually but sometimes i dress for fun because... nvm

Color of my eyes is "hazel"

People say i am skinny but i dont i think i really am .

I am 5'5

:: About me

I am friendly and outgoing! But wild at the same time` I wil warn you i am very curious about things and most likely the most clumsiest in my household . If i'd describe myself i'd say im someone who has a child soul i mean by that im childish; . I have lots of crazy stories to tell to anyone i meet whether they believe it or not;] people say i have the most random habits like : ranking anything or anyone or everyhing, Comforting my stuff toys because they fell of the bed. And having the most random things in my pocket i once found a homework that was given weeks ago in my pocket-

Dislikes And Likes!

Likes : Stories, Drawing comics, Gardening And Clouds

Dislikes : Carrots ( i feel like turning this to a carrots hate essay. ) ANY VEGATABLES THAT ARE GREEN, People who disturb you for no reason at all and heights..

Hobbies;

I dont think i mentioned this but im great at riding horses! One of my hobbies are : cloudwatching, stargazing, styling people, and acting:>

Relationships

I'd say im a person that will want to stay close to someone if i get close to them! I'd do anything to he with them even just walking in the oark or something simple<3 i'd love to cherish moments like that^ ^ I tend to act motherly around the people i care for! I'd say i'd love a relationship where i talk while the person im with just contently listens with all their heart°

- . #favouritecolors

ill just list them to my likings if thats fine!

| Blue

Green~

White,

Thats it because id think it will be tiring for you to read more and also because i think a turned this to an essay about myself-

Anyways ty for reading:)

Have a happy kanao;

Eventide

I match you with Kanae Kocho!

•Kanae is also someone who loves to spend time with those she loves, alongside giving them gifts

•Although rare, she does show little signs of affection such as giving you headpats or hooking her pinkie to yours

•She’s always at your side, ready to listen and comfort as appropriate and she doesn’t mind intently listening to whatever you have to say for a long time, even taking notes!

•She appreciates your motherly side a lot

•It can get tiring being the oldest in the Butterfly Estate and having everyone look up to her even though she loves them dearly, so having you for help her is a blessing and she appreciates you to no end

•She’d definitely make you butterfly hairclips, maybe ones that’d match hers!

•Really loves how pretty your eyes are and she sometimes stare at them without trying to hide it because she wants you to know just how pretty your eyes are

•Though she rarely gets time off as a hashira, she does her best to try and make time to spend with you and the other girls residing at the estate

•Doesn’t mind you accompanying her to places except for missions, she’s scared you might get hurt

•In fact, she often plans trips to Asakusa with you and Shinobu!

•I think she’d be a little reluctant about you riding horses since she’s scared you might fall off even though you assure her you won’t, but she’ll be slightly hesitant of riding one herself

•Unfortunately for you, she will try to get you to eat carrots at times for your health. It won’t be often but you will have to eat a few a couple of times

•She prefers to take you to lovely spots to cloud-gaze rather than to stargaze since it’s safer to be out in the open during the day when demons are less likely to show themselves

•She likes watching you, Sumi, Naho and Kiyo (and sometimes Aoi) try to act out scenes from stories which she likes to read to you all, it’s really cute

•As for styling, i feel like she has a pretty good sense of fashion! I mean, did you look at that butterfly haori? That thing’s gorgeous

•So you’re definitely benefiting from amazing ideas from her behalf

•She’d love to model for you as well when she has free time!

•You’re also eating your vegetables.

•She won’t force you to eat them a lot, but she’ll pout at you until you relent and eat them at least every other day

•She just wants you to remain healthy :(

•Kanae is the flower hashira, so i’ll just assume she really loves flowers! I mean they do have a garden

•So one of her hobbies is tending to the flowers and other plants in the garden alongside you!

•It’s really all fun and games until the both of you come back muddy and get scolded by Shinobu-

•She likes giving you bouquets of flowers with each of them having a specific meaning

•She really loves your childish soul, it’s such a refreshing thing in the world they live in

•She does try to get you to not let your curiosity land you in trouble

•She scolds you lightly for being clumsy but that’s only because she’s worried you might get hurt

•She knows you can’t really control it however, so she tries her best to just be there for you in case you trip or something, she’s also assigned the triplets to follow you-

•She likes to give you kokeshi dolls for you to collect!

•Does her best to get you art supplies whenever she’s in town because she loves to look at your artworks! She has a few of them hanging along the corridors of the estate

•She often asks you to rank her among the people you’ve met so far and by how fond you are of her

•She doesn’t mind if she isn’t first, in fact she’d rather you speak the truth and not tell her she’s the best simply to please her, but she would feel slightly disappointed and would do her best to..well, be the best

•She’d like to give you suggestions on which color you should dye your hair! Please do heed her advice, they’re such nice choices-

•She’d contently braid your hair, if you let her do so

•Also, your butterfly hairpin is most likely white around the centre where the veins are traced, and green around the edges where the white spots are.. (i dunno, maybe i’m just imagining one for myself i’ve always wanted one of those hairpins they’re legit so pretty)

[klonoadreams]

infatuated with senjurou getting a monarch butterfly like clip at the butterfly estate. also just imagine sometime after genya latches onto gyomei, thus becoming kanaes little brother, he gets one too, purple and black basically reverse of shinobu's. hes too shy to refuse it lol

Senjurou with the monarch butterfly clip...👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

omg that's beautiful. Very pretty. Super precious!!!

ghvjkfhvkjfeb

GENYA.

Omg that's a very pretty color for him!!!

Genya just wearing it, very shy about it, but likely gets used to it.

Sanemi: What the fuck is this???

Kanae: I made that for him! :) :) :)

Sanemi, you will learn to accept your baby bro again, if these butterfly hairclips are the last thing you'll see before Kanae smacks some sense into you. :V

meanwhile Andou is at the side, fixing Genya's butterfly hairpin while Senjurou talks with the twins, like Kanae ISN'T instilling some fear in Sanemi. :V

[cinnamonbean]

This isnt related to anything

But I thought of this somewhere around two am when I had a headache and couldn't sleep.

Kobayashi; Kanao, what's wrong?

Mita; she lost her coin yesterday. She's been acting like this ever since.

Yes, its messy. I know Kobayashi wouldn't call Kanao by first name, at least I think, but posting this was an impulse I didn't look through the again for. I'm also probably not finishing this,, but I might draw in the picture of Kanao at the top left as a separate thing.

Below the cut is some more sketches, and headcanons. And if you haven't read the Wasp's Nest........

Go do that.

So. Clears throat. So anyways.

The premise of that was Kanao losing her coin. The one Kanae gave her, which might have as much personal significance as her hairclip depending how you look at it. Kobayashi asks if she's okay,, and Mita explains to her how miss perfect uses a coin to decide for her things she wants to do. (Not sure if she should know Kanae was the one who gave Kanao the coin, but it could go either way.) Mita doesnt even like Kanae, and that's canon to the fic. So. Why the fxck should it matter if she loses a simple coin? She'll earn much more during her time as a demon slayer.

This is. Obviously unhealthy? So when Kobayashi finds the coin, she decides to hide it from Kanao, and try to push her into making choices for herself. You know, the small kinds. Along with the illusion of actually helping her. (Though in Kobayashi's mind, she probably thinks it is helping Kanao.)

Mita catches on, steals the coin, and returns it to Kanao. Mainly with the excuse of. "Well, I got tired of being a dick to Kanao, so it's your turn." It probably genuinely bothered Mita, too. Because tricking someone for the sake of "helping" them is bullshit, and it's canon she's felt that way about Kanae in the past.

But it might be ooc for them anyways.

Alternatively, can you imagine Mita stealing the coin and deciding to watch the chaos Kobayashi would be so panicked. Where could she have possibly put the coin? Where could it have possibly gone? She couldn't have. No. Dont tell her.. did she actually spend such a sentimental belonging?? This could be either comedic or actually extremely angsty depending who's writing it.

Moving on! I said I would make a different post for stuff about Kanae I thought of as a result of op's fic,, this is that post.

First though, I wanted to take another look at Ichijo. All we really know is that she was Shinobu's tsuguko before Mita, and that she trained using Water Breathing as opposed to Flower Breathing or Insect breathing.

I found this very strange.

Because on one hand, it might have been set before Giyuu became a Hashira, or maybe she just felt more comfortable seeking guidance from a female Hashira, having heard rumors of Water Pillar-Sama being cold and unapproachable.

On the other hand; could you imagine if Ichijo was just flat out rejected by Giyuu? It would make sense. He probably didn't think he was responsible enough to care for another swordsman, and at least he wouldve been responsible enough to figure he couldnt care properly for himself let alone someone else.

I doubt Ichijo would see it that way, though. In her opinion, she was just rejected, without being given a chance. Maybe that's when Shinobu steps in? Maybe in Mita's eyes, Ichijo was ungrateful of Koucho-Shihan's hospitality?

Speaking of Giyuu. And speaking of Koucho sisters. The masks. The butterfly hairpins. The [former] Water Pillar and the Insect/Flower Hashiras were the only pillars who gave special accessories to their students. I'm surprised nobody's talked about it, or maybe I just havent found anything yet, but what if there was a stigma of bad luck against girls with butterfly hairpins as well? Similarly to how demon slayers with fox masks always die in final selection,, something like girls with butterfly hairpins always die off easily.

I'm going to dig in a little deeper to this.

See, I had a hypothetical a while ago where Kagaya, while he still did final selection; likely did Giyuu and Sabito's. Noticed that one of the fox masked kids who survived didn't have his mask, and insisted on looking for it. Years later around the time he becomes a pillar, Giyuu is summoned to Kagaya's and receives his mask, because, along the help of some Kakushi and demon slayers at the time, the group were eventually able to find the pieces of Giyuu's mask.

And if asked why Tomioka got that kind of special treatment, Kagaya probably would've gotten confused and explained that he wouldve done that for anyone. Regardless of what it was. Because he wanted to help people; that's the kind of person he was. Probably when he hands it back to Giyuu probably with a message or two of how he should remember and cherish his roots; it's easy to forget those things when becoming a demon slayer. This touches Giyuu because he went through the trouble of finding it and holding onto it for Giyuu, in fear of it breaking in his crow's claws.

I do feel upset that a lot of the pillars just already had that level of respect for the master, and how it's never really expanded on savs for Gyoumei's life being saved and the public apology he made to Sanemi during a pillar meeting.. even if not all of them had something to push forward that level of respect,, I still feel like it's not expanded on in depth enough?

But I'm getting off topic again.

Point was, Giyuu later takes Kanae on as a tsuguko, and she eventually spots the mask, and is possibly told the story of how he got it? Maybe it stays at the back of her mind, and later during her time as a pillar, she sees a stand of butterfly hairclips. Buys the entire small stock for Shinobu. She's been known to make pointless, grand purchases, with or without reason, according to op. Shinobu probably figures out a way to use all of them; she can distribute them to her future tsuguko, when she finally becomes a pillar.

It would be so sad for her to be somewhat annoyed she has to share her collection with Onee-Chan and Kanao at the start, recieves the hairpin back, and gets sad, deciding that from then on decides to share them with her own tsuguko/friends by her own discretion. Which makes her very depressed whenever her box fills up with hairclips again (from students dying and the like).

Rest in peace, you two.

[klonoadreams]

Love kanaes response to her dad bringing home a new baby sister, also foreshadowing of the butterfly hairclip for andou

Kanae is just: Ohhh, a baby!!! :) *already thinking about how she'll look with a butterfly hairclip*

while her little sister is seconds away from throwing hands with Giyuu.

Now that Himejima has accepted fatherhood, he'll likely realize that, "ahh, daughters." when he looks at Kanae, Shinobu, and by extension, Aoi and Kanao. And then the three little caterpillars that join in.

So many daughters...

Not a single son until Uzui shows up with his wives. And then it's just Uzui with his MANY little sisters. Ahahhaha.

One big happy family. :V

[klonoadreams]

Kanae, distracted mentally picking out Andou's hairclip trying decide whether it be blue to match her earring or light purple to match her kimono, in the background Shinobu is teaching her new baby sister about poisons and how to inject large amounts of them into demons.

yeah, looking at the timeline, and how old Himejima is here (19), I'm definitely going for 9 and 12 year old Shinobu and Kanae for this. (meaning they've been around for a year already before Andou shows up)

(Himejima took two months to become Hashira - he's already on missions, honestly, it being one of the first few missions he takes on would make it all the meaningful, since he still has a lot to deal with after the temple massacre)

(my city now anyways)

ANYWAYS, Shinobu;s just this innocent looking 10 year old, talking about the most horrifying stuff you could tell a child, and instead of scaring of Andou, you got her listening in like, "TELL ME MORE."

While Kanae is figuring stuff out with Andou's hairclip. She is probably the one who comforts Andou when the realization hits that she outgrew her kimono and has to get a new one.

Himejima patting Andou's head while Kanae holds up one kimono and then another.

"This one?"

*shakes head*

"How about this one?"

What a happy family...