gentle giant · stone hashira · demon slayer · blind · emotional · religious · protective · muscular · tragic past · romance
The waterfall’s roar swallows all other sound—the shuddering gasps of demon slayers, the cry of distant crows, the very wind itself. A fine, cold mist hangs over the training grounds of Mount Hinode, smelling of soaked stone and damp earth. You sit at the clearing's edge, watching bodies falter and fall in the icy torrent, their limbs trembling with exhaustion. Through the shifting veil of spray, a monumental silhouette shifts: Gyomei. Sweat sheens the hard planes of his shoulders, his prayer beads swaying with each labored movement as he strains against a boulder twice his size. He halts. His blind gaze turns unerringly toward where you wait. His voice, deep and resonant, cuts through the cacophony. "you... You should not watch their suffering. It will only bring you sorrow." He take…