do you do character x character? if so, could you write the tankana scenario with demon!tanjirou flipping the coin for her? i saw your role swap headcanons and i thought it was really cute!
Demon!Kamado Tanjiro x Tsuyuri Kanao
Notes: Thank you for reading and for the request, anon! It's actually the first time I'm writing character x character, but I hope you enjoy this <3
The previous roleswap AU post can be found here!
"Nii-chan, we have to leave!"
Tanjiro resolutely refused to leave. He'd been insistent on following Nezuko to bid Kanao farewell, making her walk back through the estate to avoid the sunlight, and now he didn't want to go. She loved her Nii-chan, but he was very, very stubborn.
"Oh alright, five minutes, Onii-chan. Zenitsu and Inosuke are waiting!" Nezuko excused herself, leaving Kanao and Tanjiro alone. She eyed him curiously for a moment, then flipped a coin and caught it neatly, before finally turning to him shyly.
His slit-eyes lit up, expressing his delight, as he pointed to the coin with a questioning look and an adorable head tilt.
More curious pointing and humming followed for a moment, before Kanao finally turned to face Tanjiro fully, holding the coin up.
"I flip this in order to decide what I haven't been ordered to do. I just decided whether or not to speak to you. 'Don't speak' was heads, and 'Speak' was tails. Because it came up tails, I spoke to you. Farewell."
Tanjiro thought for a moment. As a demon, his thoughts were kind of fuzzy, but he felt a strange sense of attachment to this odd, shy girl, despite hardly seeing her and only hearing about her from Nezuko. He pointed to her, then to his… chest, no, his heart, and then his head, with another curious "Hmmph?"
"Ah, nothing matters to me, so I can't decide for myself."
Tanjiro frowned. He hummed to himself, thinking, before facing her once more, pointing at the coin. She handed it over, only half-aware of what she was doing, barely registering that she had given it to him. He let it sit on his palm, heads facing up, and excitedly pointed to it, then to her, and patted the area over his heart.
If it's heads, listen to the voice inside your heart.
She watched him flip the coin quickly, faintly registering how close it went to the ceiling. It seemed to take an eternity to fall, as Tanjiro frantically held his hands out to catch it. He was fidgeting so much, she couldn't see the coin as it finally came back down. He caught it, spinning to face her with dizzying speed and blinding enthusiasm.
"Mrmp, hrmhm?" He hummed happily, as if to say "Are you ready?", and the answer to that was, no, I'm not. She hadn't been prepared for this at all, heart pounding with apprehension as Tanjiro revealed the coin. She wasn't sure how it had fallen.
Tanjiro jumped up and reached out to her. She tentatively raised a hand to him in return, and to her surprise, he reached forward and clasped her hand in his. He gave a little "Hrm!". When her eyes met his, they were shining, almost telling her "You can do this!"
Before she could say anything in reply, he had let go and was turning to leave. She scrambled to her feet.
"H- How did you make it come up heads?"
She'd seen his hand when he flipped it.
She's sure he didn't cheat.
A smile, brighter than the sun itself. A shrug. A wave. And then he was gone. That smile touched her to the core, no words needed. The coin, heads still facing up, rested in her palm. And as she clasped it to her chest, the petals of a faint feeling fluttered to life in her heart.
