#compassneedle

[shcrdcdlifc]

Surprise giftart sketch for @compassneedle / @rabbitprose of Upper Moon Three Akaza from the anime/manga Demon Slayer! 🩸

Hope you all enjoy this first time drawing of the character and stay wonderful my friend! ;0; Shall outline this and color soon! Sorry if anatomy looks weird, I struggle with drawing limbs. ;u;

[collossvs]

@compassneedle

she isn't one for mirth or pride, that were true. such things held little interest to her--something foreign, something she didn't know how to hold.

but perhaps this is the closest nakime allows herself: to push and pull upper three throughout the fortress as if she were showing off the sheer scale, until with a twang he's unceremoniously deposited before her through a door suddenly flipped horizontal.

nakime doesn't yet speak, evidently expecting some reaction.

[ningyotabetai]

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hinako growls. "i have no choice!" she really doesn't; shiori insists on 'protecting' her like this, by giving hinako her flesh to make her stronger. she swears she can hear that demon's voice in her head.

tightly gripping the hilt of her sword, shakily preparing to remove it from its sheath, hinako hisses: "don't push your luck, upper rank."

[ethyrael-a]

@compassneedle . . . continuing this ask !

& it's with a heavy heart that they bear witness the scene laid before them, that smile of theirs sunken & dripping with something visceral & heavy. they saunter over to a crumbled building & to the body of a desperate young woman who had tried just to escape the collapsed structure, still somehow clinging to life at one point. but it was all in vain.

❝ . . . do you find preying on the weak to be commendable ? ❞ they finally speak after a burdening, stifling silence. head was sulked low, the tears wanted to come freely, but dante would keep them beneath the surface. ❝ knowing that these people didn't even stand a chance, & you killed them all anyway. does that alone constitute the right to run your mouth ? ❞ the tail end of their sentence was bitten with a foreign malice, a slip up on their part.

❝ ah, well . . . what's done is done. ❞ as they tut their own shortcomings, hands cross over either hip & draw either blade, one greater, one lesser. ❝ suppose this means fighting was always destined when it comes to these things. it's sad. ❞ they finally turn to face him, looking burdened with untold heaviness. ❝ i almost want to believe that you never knew what it was like to be human. to have friends or a family. maybe you were born forsaken, but . . . ❞ hands flourish either blade patiently, prowling as they sauntered, circled. ❝ if you had anything worth living for in your human life, maybe you wouldn't be here now, doing these horrible things to people you don't even know. ❞

[shcrdcdlifc]

Continued from: x

Kohaku watched as the other’s anger was rising, his eyes remained the same as he watched them getting in his face as he replies.

“You’re right but Akaza, didn’t you say to me before that I was nothing but fuel for the demons? Why are you acting this way towards me? What, are you telling me to suddenly live?! To fight for my life?!”

He asked as he looked straight into their eyes, his own not showing fear. He was talking to an upper moon, yes, it seemed idiotic for him to raise his voice but he didn’t care.

He wanted to know.

[shcrdcdlifc]

Continued from: x

“I understand Akaza, you don’t want kindness as you already lost it long ago right? I also understand that you’re not made of fluffy clouds, we all carry hate as well as sorrow inside ourselves.

You say that this frustrates me but actually, I understand your pain as you see, not everyone is pure or innocent. We all carry within us many emotions and sometimes, those emotions we don’t want to show will in time reveal themselves no matter how much we keep them away. I’m not here to argue with you, just speaking is all.”

Kohaku replied as he bowed his head to the other, showing that he wasn’t afraid to speak his mind.

[collossvs]

"--giyu-saaaaan!!" presses his chest up against the window, "d'you get something to eaaaaat?" (from compassneedle for giyu!)

@compassneedle ❀ unprompted!

he is walking away from the window he is walking faster from the window he is running away from the window--!!

[tsukkiakarii]

Tell me, what does it feel like to be loved gently? (from compassneedle uwu)

𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐍 🌕 @compassneedle

to be loved so clearly, so resolutely still feels so new and strange--there were times kokushibō couldn't tell if she wished to cling tighter or if the adoration ached. gentleness still burned, too unaccustomed to it all.

but the result never actually changed: however greedy it made her, she clung to both dōma and akaza, and hoped her grip didn't bruise them.

akaza's question still gives her pause, for whilst kokushibō has not taken their love for granted there remains an irrational fear--that if she doesn't tread lightly, if she doesn't give extra care, it all may be taken away.

an urge to protect them, to keep them.

"...gentleness is still so strange to me," she begins to admit softly, "but it feels as if i've been drowning and finally reached a breath of air."

forcing air into the lungs of a corpse to give her life.