#tho im sitting here rereading what i wrote maybe foil wasnt quite the correct word to use? feel free to correct me i just default to it

[lion-buddy]

!! that's the first ive heard it being said that nezuko and genya are foils !, (granted i havent read much kny meta but) is it lik.e. bc they are both the younger sibling to an older sibling trying to protect them . but while nezuko gets to live on as human genya dies a demon ? or ? if you dont mind elaborating : ) ... (i just. Neat Thoughts. New Character Organisation Method i want to tuck away for my own writings)

oh yeah! i am. also not a expert on later chapters of kny and certainly not the Shinazugawa siblings, but i can try and explain!

tbh u basically got what i was getting at. especially in that ending bit. i always saw the kamados and Shinazugawas as foils, and im sure im not the first to point it out. (i feel like i read a post abt somewhere?? its been to long and i Dont Remember lol <:3) but the way i see it is that they both come from very similar backgrounds, having lost their entire families and being left with only each other. tanjiro and sanemi also have a similar pattern of wanting to keep their younger siblings out of battle. but they definitely go about it in different ways. to put it lightly

sanemi does not want genya to become a demon slayer and actively pushes him away despite genya's insistence. tanjiro considers keeping nezuko with tamayo and yushiro to keep her safe but accepts nezuko's choice to stay with him. different but the same if u get where im coming from.

i also thought it was interesting how the older brothers reacted to their siblings dying. now nezuko didnt end up dying, but tanjiro certainly thought she did. and nezuko probably also thought she would die, thats why it was a powerful sacrifice for her to make. and genya died fighting kokushibo and was a huge help during that fight, yet died in the end despite his efforts. its a “they won, but as what cost” kinda situation, which a frequent theme in kny. as anyone would be, the older brothers were fulled by their anger over this to keep going and destroy what needs to be destroyed, tho they show it in different ways since tanjiro and sanemi have very different personalities. tanjiro has a more quiet grief as opposed to sanemi being Very Loud abt it. totally valid on both ends. and both the younger siblings sacrificing themselves for the cause of destroying demons, despite the cost of their own lives and both older siblings just trying to put them back together and failing. one pair definitely got out luckier than the other :’). i just think its a neat comparison. maybe not intentional, but neat

but yeah! you could go deeper with that with what a relationship between nezuko and genya would be like but that turns into speculations and headcannons soooo, thats all i can really think of off the top of my head!! older brother demon slayers protecting their younger demon (and sometimes demon) siblings from the world of demons. they are both. not so good at that but they try :)