#shinobu be slaying 💅

[iexistinmanyforms-blog]

Okay, so this is how I think how things would go if Kocho Shinobu was chosen as the human representative in the exchange program in Devildom. This has been a reoccurring thing in my head for a while now and I wanted to type this down since I didn't want to end up forgetting it.

When Shinobu first appears in the Devildom, she was moments away from dying because of her fight with Douma. Her injuries magically disappear but the shock of her actually surviving all that just immobilises her for a good minute or two. When she comes to her senses, she wishes she had died instead.

Diavolo introduces himself as the demon prince of Hell ("Devildom", as he liked to call it), and Shinobu doesn't hesitate to either fight or flight because she can tell that he wasn't joking. She's a Hashira, one who has more than enough experience in her belt to be able to discern a demon's strength just by one look alone. And right now? Every demon in the room could kill her in an instant and she wouldn't be none the wiser.

If she chooses to fight, which is highly unlikely, I think Shinobu would go after the weakest first... which would be Beelzebub. Her speed and action shocks them briefly, but it doesn't take long for them to incapacitate her and take her nichirin sword away—she ends up injuring Beelzebub, which is an even bigger shock, and although it wouldn't really leave a mark it still kinda hurt. Emotionally, anyway.

If she chooses to flight, then she will only be able to run fast enough to reach the door. In which Beelzebub would be the one to catch her, but just barely...

In both outcomes, Shinobu is forced back in her original spot and gets reprimanded, in a way. Because while Diavolo, Lucifer, and Barbatos expected that kind of reaction from her, being a highly-skilled demon slayer and all, it didn't really register that she'd be able to cause any sort of harm. In my scenarios, this was the first sign she was greatly underestimated, and even looked down on, in Devildom.

Diavolo, Lucifer, and Barbatos knew about her... occupation. None of the applicants can get through the system without being debriefed by them. Lucifer was against the idea of her being an exchange student in the first place, for obvious reasons ("She's a demon slayer, Lord Diavolo, a very high-ranking one at that.")

Diavolo believes that she wouldn't be able to cause much harm (the fool), and her being in the exchange program might even help in its early stages. It made just enough sense for her to end up being accepted.

As that was happening, Satan is by the sidelines observing Shinobu very closely. He can sense her hatred, her wrath, and it either amuses him, or makes him immensely curious. Both, in the worst case scenario.

Asmodoeus is intrigued and maybe even thinks that she's adorable—with her height and all. He, along with the rest, puts his guard up a bit more but otherwise sticks to just observing Shinobu and her actions.

Beelzebub thinks she's tiny and a tiny bit menacing—also fast. The fastest human he's ever met, actually. His strong sense of smell detects the poison coursing through her veins, and any thought of devouring her goes flying out the window since he thinks that she would taste like Solomon's cooking. Unless...?

They explain the situation to her, as calmly as possible as to not set her off again, and Shinobu's mind begins to run a million different thoughts all at once.

(She's alive, but not for long, she's not safe here;

she might not survive long enough to finish the exchange program and go back home;

said exchange program is stupid—and stupidly underplanned;

there's a possibility that Douma is here and she does not like that one bit;

there are demons here infinitely stronger and older than muzan;

and they can walk under the sun;

how can she flip this situation around to her and the corps' advantage?)

After the clarification, Shinobu becomes quiet and... attentive, is one way to put it. Satan immediately notices that something is different but says nothing—and with how everything went down him, Asmodeus, and Beelzebub don't get properly introduced until much later.

(This thing has been in my drafts for MONTHS and I just had to post it now to get rid of my guilt. Unfinished work be damned. Though if people take interest in it, I guess... I'll continue it??? lol)