so i have another self insert cuz my friend got me into demon slayer ooouuff fearfearfear ,, his name is Gula. bros a girl, but he uses primarily masculine terms and prefers to be regarded as male despite his appearance. hes deeply afraid of being seen or recognised but he enjoys making jewellery and sets up shop at night to sell his stock ( which does pretty well !)
im not entirely sure whether i want him to be a demon of Lady Tamayo's creation or one who ends up with Muzan's blood and thus has to sever his connection on his own, but I do know that I want him alongside Lady Tamayo and Yushiro, since he does regard Yushiro as a little brother ( despite yushiro being older than gula chronologically )
Either way his backstory remains relatively the same. His family decides that for Gula's 18th birthday, they would visit Japan and so he spends his last week being 17 in Japan exploring the towns, fashions and nightlife. His lungs were bad as a result of attempting to bind to lessen his feelings of gender dysphoria, but nothing helped and eventually he ended up with pneumonia at 16ish and it caused this talk about him needing to indulge in femininity without guilt , which he already did . In Japan , his brother takes advantage of him and it causes Gula to dissociate and become miserable. When he finally confides in his father a few days later , his family talks it over and decides to leave Gula in Japan to die in order to save his brother's reputation, since he was going to be the one to pass the family name . Not Gula .
The split is here . Either Gula is enraged and offended at such a thing and with Muzan in the area, he decides to twist this rage and Gula kills his family and manages to get away it it ( eventually, when the rage dies down he feels intense guilt, realising he played god in a way that is completely irredeemable and from then on tries to repent for his sins, doing everything in his power to sever his connection and eventually comes into contact with Lady Tamayo, who offers him refuge and a safe space and they develop a familial relationship )
or, in so much peril, Gula does absolutely nothing and is frozen in his own head, withering into nothing in the streets of Asakusa, being found by Tamayo and being offered a chance to keep living in exchange for his personhood. So they develop this mother-daughter-esque bond.
In both, Gula is completely devoted to Lady Tamayo and would lay down his life to protect her. What I'm more than likely to do is just keep one as an AU for Douma, but worry not about that.
three doodles of me trying to figure out dynamics. Gula's family is rather wealthy and Gula was also rather intelligent for an assumed lady at his time. thus most of his attempts at love failed quickly and his family was under the assumption he would never marry or bear children. He was often disregarded for the bright future his brother held as a result.
modern au stuff. is g*yuu is a PE teacher.. gula can be an etsy seller for quirky jewellery who also works at a physical shop in the downtown area. he likes looser clothes but still wears ruffled clothes at times for the aesthetics.
proper fullbody work of gula. he has an anklet with leaf charms and a small capped bottle holding a thick yellow fluid ( likely honey ). On his head, he wears a black sunhat with a flat top decorated with 3 ruffled flowers that look to be red carnations and leaves on vines that extend off the hat, and a white ribbon. His hair is styled from a straight bob to a curled updo with loose curls framing his face. His skin is tan, a darker peachy-orange shade. His eyes are a pomegranate red that fade to a pink colour and his pupils are slitted as are other demons' eyes. Hes wearing a ruffled cream top with a large black ribbon around his collar that extends down to his abdoment which is where the long skirt's hem begins. It's a sort of outer corset looking garment that extends down to the skirt itself which is flat and not pleated. on his right arm he wears a fuzzy glove that extends up to his elbow. the glove resembles an exaggeratedly large cat's paw with claws made of felt. his left arm wears no such thing, and it can be seen the fingernails are sharp as a demon's are. The left hand holds a dangling hook earring of a small jar of honey and a small decorative glass leaf on it. gula isnt wearing shoes which reveals the sharp claws on his toenails as well.
the ship with the water hashira is called SwampRabbit
Despite Yushiro being older than Gula, Gula still regards him as a baby due to his appearance. Gula is best represented by a rabbit, despite wanting to seem catlike.