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WHY YES I DO, THANK YOU. HAVE MY DEMON SLAYER OC:
Xiaolan Matsunade was born in the Yoshiwara district to a courtesan of the Kyogoku House and one of her many clients. Her mother passed away shortly after birth, and she has no knowledge of her father. She was raised by the courtesans and elderly manager of the Kyogoku House, referring to the courtesans as her sisters and the manager as "Grannie'. While growing up, she was trained in a variety of classic entertainment arts like dancing, reciting poetry, and playing the shamisen. However, her favorite thing to do is perform the traditional tea ceremony for her sister's clients.
Xiaolan is a kind and soft spoken young woman, who's years of being raised in the red lantern district taught her to be hyperaware of her surroundings. Shockingly perceptive, she's stolen potential client's hearts with the way she would cater to their whims while her sisters worked, bringing snacks, refreshments/alcohol, paper and ink stones, whatever the men may need in that moment without being told. A twitch of a finger, curl of the lips, a stolen glance at an object, Xiaolan has learned to interpret each one with startling accuracy. Despite her skills, she had yet to service a client in the brothel herself, instead acting as a lady-in-waiting to the oiran there.
Xiaolan took after her mother in terms of looks, sharing the woman's deep violet eyes, fair complexion, and balanced, just-curvy-enough figure developing as she grows up. However, she has her father's indigo black hair, which she normally keeps styled in a loose bun. Regardless of style, her hair is almost always held in place by her mother's favorite accessory, a long silver hairpin accented with a blue crystal butterfly charm.
Following the battle with Daki and Gyuutaro in Yoshiwara, Xiaolan joined the Demon Hunters as part of the Kakushi, hoping to one day meet the Demon Slayers who helped save her adopted family, and the people of Yoshiwara.
And a 3am shower thought that has consumed my brain:
Xiaolan meeting Inosuke when he's disguised as an oiran, fully believing him to be a girl at the time given his more effeminate facial features. Of course, this pisses him off, but for the sake of the mission, he can't blow his cover. So Xiaolan treats him as any girl would treat her friends. They talk and spend time together helping around the brothel, maybe Inosuke coming to "tolerate" (we all know he'd never admit to liking something outside of fighting and food) her hanging out with him.
One night, Xiaolan wakes Inosuke up to ask if he wants to join her in sneaking out of the brothel to visit a night market taking place outside of the walls of the Yoshiwara District. They sneak out, and Inosuke actually enjoys himself, eating tasty street food and watching Xiaolan swindle free trinkets by flirting with any young men manning the stalls. They come to a perfume stall, and the owner tries to sell some to the two "girls". Xiaolan is torn between two scents and asks Inosuke to pick between the two of them for her. Whichever one he picks is the one she gets. But wait, shit, she's too short on coinage, and the stall owner doesn't fall for her flirtations. After a few seconds and seeing Xiaolan's disappointed expression, being the King of No Impulse Control, Inosuke just yoinks the little pot with the perfumed oil in it and fucking BOOKS it, yelling for Xiaolan to run. They spend the rest of the night ducking in and out of the rows of vendors, hiding from the perfume stall owner and the night market guards before sneaking back into the brothel just before sunrise. He gives her the perfume, and she surprises him with a small wooden carving of a boar she got from one of the vendors, as a thank you for nabbing the solid perfume for her.
This all happens before the battle with Daki. Xiaolan makes it out of the chaos safely, but she never saw Inosuke again. She was heartbroken, looking for him afterward. He wasn't with the line up of bodies following the demon battle, so Xiaolan fully believed her friend was still alive out there somewhere, despite the Kyogoku survivors saying otherwise. "She" had to be alive, "she" was too stubborn and clever to die like that! They never recovered a body, after all, right?!
Eventually, the damage is repaired, and life in the Yoshiwara District returns to normal after a time. That's when she hears rumors from the other courtesans about the Demon Slayer Corp saving everybody that night. Maybe they knew something about her friend, or at the very least they could give her a lead! So she joins the Demon Slayers as a member of the Kakushi, to see if she can figure anything out. Years go by, nobody knows anything, or if they do, they weren't willing to tell her. So eventually, her goal of finding out what happened to Inosuke fades, and she falls into the rhythm of her duties as a Kakushi.
Until one day, almost 10 years after their run through the Night Market, Inosuke is brought in after a mission to be treated at the Butterfly Mansion for injuries he sustained. He wakes up in the usual hospital bed, but something is different this time. There's a faint, but DISTINCTLY FAMILIAR scent filling his nostrils through his mask, forcefully YANKING almost-forgotten memories from his early years in the Demon Slayer Corp back to the forefront of his mind...
Where did he remember this crisp, floral, and woody scent from? A scent so reminiscent of spring on the mountainside... Why was it tugging at his heartstrings, and filling him with such a deep sense of loss and longing for something? No, not something... SomeONE. Finally the muffled sounds of voices outside the room catch his attention, and he grits his teeth against the pain in his limbs as he pulls himself to his feet, aiming to demand whoever was out there if they could smell it, too. Ignoring the cries of the attendants Kiyo, Sumi, and Naho of how he needed to lie back down, to think of how upset Lady Aoi would be if he didn't heal properly! He all but rips open the door to see Shinobu speaking with a Kakushi woman, carrying a wrapped bundle gently in her arms. The Insect Hashira simply gazes up at him with the same soft smile she always wore, but the sudden slamming of the door made the Kakushi woman jump, gazing up at the peircing blue eyes of his mask with her own deep violet ones. Inosuke opening his mouth and then shutting it again as the gears in his head turned over and over again.
The scent was eminating the strongest off of her.
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