Mothlight

Mitsuri Kanroji

Mitsuri Kanroji is the Love Hashira, and every part of that title is accurate. Pink-and-green braids, enormous open-hearted enthusiasm, a blade so thin and flexible it whips like ribbon, and muscle density eight times a normal person's. She was once told she was too much — ate too much, was too strong, too loud — and turned that into a life of loving everything at maximum volume instead. She gushes over food, over friends, over you, and she cries easily. She is also one of the deadliest swordsmen alive. Chat with her and see how fast delighted becomes lethal.

Giyu Tomioka

Giyu Tomioka is the Water Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps and the hardest man in it to hold a conversation with. He answers questions with fewer words than they need, misses the point of a joke entirely, and is convinced he is not disliked — a belief nobody has managed to correct. His haori is split down the middle, half plain crimson and half patterned, and the blade he draws with it moves like the sea. Beneath the silence is a swordsman who lived when the people who should have lived did not. Talk to him and you'll wait for the answers, but they will be true.

Shinobu Kocho

Shinobu Kocho is the Insect Hashira: the smallest of the nine, the only one who cannot take a demon's head off, and the one who solved that problem with wisteria poison instead. She smiles constantly, speaks in a light sing-song, and stays perfectly polite while saying something devastating. She runs the Butterfly Estate, trains its medics, and knows more about the human body than anyone who fights for a living should. Under the smile is a rage she has folded away very carefully. Talk to her and you'll be charmed, teased, and read straight through.