Trytfullt, because I dont know how tumblr works or if you can see comment, there's a questions for the royalty AU. What would had been Ayame and Tanjirou's life had demon never showed up, add Nezuko's to that, waas she a bodyguard too or do the Kamado women had another role?
hiiii! honestly, i do see comments, but it does take me some time to reply in general. partly because of who i am as a person, but also because i'm on the + side of the gmt timezone, so i kinda have a weird sleeping schedule.
and i'm sorry i'm getting to this so late too!!! the last couple months have been hella hectic for me, but i've finally found some equilibrium uwu
anyway, some nezuko hcs for royalty au!
- this is probably odd for the time period, but the roles of the kamado women wouldn't be that far off from the role of the men
- it would be a spillover from the sengoku era, where fujiko was a demon hunter despite being a woman. i can see the kamados seeing that and emulating fujiko's strength in their daughters.
- i personally hc tanjurou as an only child, but i assume that if he had a younger siblings, they would have been takehiko's guard as well
- that being said, nezuko would have been ayame's guard if mimi-reikohime had never set foot in okutama. while she wasn't as trained in swordsmanship as tanjirou was in, er, royalty au canon (?), that was because tanjirou was assigned as ayame's guard from the time they were nine, which is when they officially start sword training with live steel
- nezuko has basic swordsmanship training since she's the eldest daughter. basically, only the eldest son and eldest daughter are the ones who have to take on the roles of guards. hanako might have been trained eventually though! but that would have been merely for her own (and misaki's) basic protection
- nezuko would have the unique position of being both ayame's guard and handmaiden tho. ayame's the first higuchi daughter born in centuries; the first hime from the higuchi line in generations.
by that time, the concept of handmaidens for the higuchi princesses would have long been lost in history. the higuchis, as kuge, are pretty self-sufficient all things considered. they have the forge, but it's more ceremonial than anything. not so much for knives and nails, but for ceremonial daggers - gifts for villagers that are getting married, have children born etc.
their blacksmithing would be more delicate as a result tho! but ayame wouldn't spend nearly as long in the forge as she did in fits canon. she had other lessons, naturally. horseback and archery would be some of them.
- nezuko would be awesome on horseback tho
as for tanyame...
- it would be unlikely they would become friends at thirteen years old. tanjirou is very bound to his duty, and his duty would have been exclusively to akihiko. ayame would remain o-ayame-hime to tanjirou for years, until he sees the way ayame treats nezuko as an equal, then he'd probably nurse a small crush on ayame.
- (listen. tanjirou falls first, but ayame always falls harder - no matter the au.)
- but would they have gotten together? I think so (bc i'm the president of the tanyame fanclub dammit)
- they would be much older tho - maybe nineteen by the time akihiko convinces tanjirou that yes, it's perfectly fine if he wants to court ayame. in fact, he would even encourage it!
- there's no one else akihiko could trust more than tanjirou to look after his eldest younger sister
- not that ayame needs to be looked after. she's very independent and headstrong
- tanjirou is probably the only person who wouldn't let her walk all over him. ayame can be such a brat sometimes. around tanjirou, she's a lot more humble. (but nezuko plays a part in ayame's humility too!)