Demon Slayer: What Remains

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• We Get There Together or Never Get There at All by Error_Code_Orphic

  Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime & Manga)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Other
  • Complete Work

  09 May 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Reader
  • Demon Slayer Corps Hashira | Pillars
  • Unnamed Demon Slayers
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Political Allegory
  • Anti-Authoritarian Themes
  • Demon Slayer Corps as Mutual Aid Network
  • Class consciousness
  • Collective trauma
  • community survival
  • Protest Chants
  • war imagery
  • Survival
  • Human resilience
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst
  • Rage as a Form of Love
  • The Horrors Persist But So Does Humanity
  • Muzan Kibutsuji is a Capitalist
  • Muzan Kibutsuji is the System
  • Demons as Instruments of State Violence
  • Canon Typical Violence
  • everybody is tired
  • People Taking Care of Each Other
  • people who should hate each other fighting side by side anyway
  • poor people keeping each other alive because no one richer will
  • there are no heroes here just people
  • this fic smells like smoke mud and iron
  • the real horror is systemic
  • everybody is haunted by the people they couldn’t save
  • refusal to abandon each other as an act of rebellion
  • if you think this fic is only about demons i need you to REREAD
  • please engage your critical thinking skills i am begging
  • read between the lines until you hit bone
  • the metaphor is not hiding from you
  • its actually waving in your face going "HI HERE I AM OVER HERE"
  • “why is this political” because people are involved next question
  • media literacy save me
  • if this made you uncomfortable GOOD
  • i need everyone to sit very still and think about who gets abandoned during disasters
  • the demons are fictional the systems are not
  • some of you have never been held together by community and it shows
  • “keep politics out of fiction” brother have you READ fiction
  • the horrors are overwhelming but human beings keep reaching for each other anyway
  • if this fic radicalizes one teenager my job here is done
  • read as deeply into this as your spirit can tolerate
  • and then either find god or abandon him and read deeper
  • ao3 is an archive and thus i cannot be censored
  • thus i refuse to be censored

  Summary

  The Corps is not an army.

  It is a collection of hungry people, grieving people, furious people, trying to protect each other in a world that decided their lives were expendable.

  Somewhere along the way, they start singing.

  "Master, do you hear the people sing?"

  Series

  • Part 1 of Demon Slayer: What Remains

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,129

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  2

  Hits:

  26

• This Life is Amazing When You Greet it With Open Arms by Error_Code_Orphic

  Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime & Manga)  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  13 May 2026

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Rengoku Kyoujurou/Reader
  • Rengoku Kyoujurou
  • Reader
  • Angst
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Character Death
  • Canonical Character Death
  • Mugen | Infinity Train Arc Spoilers (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Mugen | Infinity Train Arc (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Psychological deterioration
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Guilt
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • implied self destructive behavior
  • Love as Tragedy
  • Everyone is traumatized
  • Getting Worse Instead Of Better
  • There Are No Therapy Licenses In Taisho Era Japan
  • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
  • preserving a dead lover’s room exactly as he left it
  • grief-induced self neglect
  • open arms by epic the musical
  • guys i dont even LIKE musicals
  • something about this song tho
  • Fire symbolism
  • ash symbolism
  • yes i DID make the flames on the replacement haori gray leave me ALONE
  • if you listen to open arms while reading this that is between you and god
  • especially a slowed version without the lotus eaters bit
  • or detuned mini bass by havocharpa on spotify
  • Ouch
  • please let me know if this fic makes you need to stare at a wall in silence for a bit
  • shoutout to grief for being the worst thing ever invented
  • this started as a blurb and then the horrors happened
  • 3-5k words I SAID
  • BUT NOOOOO HOW ABOUT 7K
  • No beta we die like Rengoku Kyojuro
  • the wedding ring reveal killed ME too don’t worry
  • like that wasnt even in the original plot idea
  • until i was yapping at google docs with voice to text and THERE IT WAS
  • “open arms” this and “lead from the heart” that meanwhile reader is rotting alive
  • if kyojuro rengoku has one million mourners i am one of them
  • if he has one mourner it is me
  • if he has zero mourners i have died
  • if i think about the flower tucked behind the ear too long i start seeing god
  • do you know how serious it is to see flashes of something you dont even believe in
  • love did not save him but it DID ruin somebody permanently
  • Songfic
  • technically ig?
  • i hope this ruins your evening respectfully

  Summary

  Open arms only work if someone comes back to hold you.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Demon Slayer: What Remains

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  7,025

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Kudos:

  3

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  38

• It Gets Harder to See Me the Closer You Try to Look by Error_Code_Orphic for mcpoggy

  Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime & Manga)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • M/M, Other
  • Complete Work

  06 May 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Iguro Obanai/Reader
  • unnamed slayers
  • Iguro Obanai
  • Reader
  • Ubuyashiki Kagaya
  • Kochou Shinobu
  • Tokitou Muichirou
  • Kanroji Mitsuri
  • Himejima Gyoumei
  • Shinazugawa Sanemi
  • Tomioka Giyuu
  • Rengoku Kyoujurou
  • Uzui Tengen
  • Songfic
  • POV Second Person
  • Angst
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Post-Infinity Castle Arc (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Canonical Character Death
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Survivor Guilt
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Nightmares
  • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
  • Smoking
  • Self-Destruction
  • Repression
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Unresolved Sexual Tension
  • Unresolved Romantic Tension
  • Unresolved Emotional Tension
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • Post-War
  • Angst with No Happy Ending
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
  • Dead Dove: Emotional Devastation
  • Love as a form of self harm
  • we could’ve been something if we were better people
  • yearning as a terminal illness
  • nobody in this fic knows how to ask for love correctly
  • grief as a haunted house
  • surviving the war was the easy part
  • the horrors are no longer metaphorical
  • the horrors are grief
  • men who desperately need to be held but would rather die
  • this fic is one long panic attack
  • if they kissed they both would’ve exploded instantly
  • no seriously they never even kissed
  • and now they never will
  • everybody say thank you noah kahan
  • i wrote this on the way back from THERAPY
  • clearly i need it
  • i need to lie down after writing this
  • its the end of the semester and i walked into my dorm to have half of it empty cause my roommate moved out while i was gone
  • LAST thing i needed after that
  • this is about grief but unfortunately also yearning
  • iguro obanai they could never make me hate you
  • they loved each other so badly it ruined them
  • if you came here for happiness i have terrible news
  • sorry in advance

  Summary

  The first thing you learn as a Demon Slayer is how to lose people.

  The second is how to keep living afterward.

  Series

  • Part 3 of Demon Slayer: What Remains

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  9,490

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  8

  Hits:

  61

• Guess I’ll Never Be Ready by Error_Code_Orphic

  Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime & Manga)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  12 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Iguro Obanai/Reader
  • Iguro Obanai
  • Kaburamaru | Iguro Obanai's Snake
  • Reader
  • Post-Infinity Castle Arc (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Survivors
  • Trauma Recovery
  • Psychological Trauma
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Chronic Pain
  • Vomiting
  • Disordered Eating
  • Food Issues
  • Nightmares
  • Hypervigilance
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Established Relationship
  • Eventual marriage
  • Love as Survival
  • Iguro Obanai Needs a Hug
  • the demon slayer corps did NOT believe in mental healthcare
  • “recovery” is a generous term here
  • if you came here for healthy coping mechanisms im so sorry
  • war changes people in ways that do not fit neatly into inspirational speeches
  • this is less of a romance and more of a long-term mutual medical emergency
  • obanai iguro and reader vs the horrifying vulnerability of domesticity
  • if i wrote “his hands shook” take a shot
  • Please drink responsibly
  • nobody here believes they are lovable and that sounds like a THEM problem actually
  • body horror but in the “living in a human body after trauma” way
  • Psychological Horror
  • “i can fix them” no you cant but you CAN hold them while they spiral
  • this fic was brought to you by untreated ptsd and emotional yearning beyond mortal comprehension
  • ive never been through a war but i have been through trauma and im processing it in a Healthy Way
  • aka making a reader insert that i liken to me SUFFER
  • this was supposed to be cathartic and then it became a hostage situation
  • Songfic

  Summary

  The war ends.

  Which, unfortunately, means Obanai and you have to survive it.

  Recovery is uglier than either of you expected. It lives in untouched meals and reopened stitches, in nightmares violent enough to tear scar tissue back apart, in the awful realization that the Demon Slayer Corps taught both of you how to keep people alive but never how to live beside them afterward.

  Love, it turns out, is even worse.

  Series

  • Part 4 of Demon Slayer: What Remains

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  11,512

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  3

  Kudos:

  4

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  44

• Snapping One, Two, Where are You? (You’re Still in my Heart) by Error_Code_Orphic

  Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  14 Aug 2023

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Shinazugawa Genya & Shinazugawa Sanemi
  • Shinazugawa Sanemi & Tomioka Giyuu
  • Shinazugawa Sanemi & Uzui Tengen
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Uzui Tengen
  • Uzui Tengen's Wives
  • Uzui Tengen’s Kids
  • Shinazugawa Sanemi
  • Shinazugawa Genya
  • Ubuyashiki Kiriya
  • Tomioka Giyuu
  • So. Much. Angst
  • seriously. I cried writing this.
  • Songfic
  • Self-Harm
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Self-Hatred
  • Survivor Guilt
  • Guilt
  • Depression
  • depressive episodes
  • set in the aftermath of the final battle
  • Sanemi starts to get better toward the end. Kind of.
  • slayer marks
  • Passing Time
  • a countdown to death
  • Kimetsu no Yaiba Manga Spoilers

  Summary

  Sanemi’s thoughts and actions in the time after the final battle.

  Series

  • Part 5 of Demon Slayer: What Remains

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,435

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  3

  Kudos:

  89

  Bookmarks:

  8

  Hits:

  1,041