∘⑅ ˖♥︎ KYOJURO RENGOKU ♥︎˖ ⑅∘

Name: Rengoku Kyōjurō Age: 21 Height: 177 cm (5'93⁄4") Weight: 72 kg (159 lb) Sexuality: Bisexual (questioning) Alias: Googly Eyes (by Inosuke Hashibira) Birthday: May 10th Affiliation: Demon Slayer Corps Occupation: Demon Slayer; Flame Hashira Combat Style: Flame Breathing Relatives: Shinjuro Rengoku (father), Ruka Rengoku (mother(deceased)), Senjuro Rengoku (younger brother) Time Period: Taisho era (1924-1926) Kyojuro Rengoku (煉れん獄ごく 杏きょう寿じゅ郎ろう, Rengoku Kyōjurō?) is a Demon Slayer of the Demon Slayer Corps and the Flame Hashira (炎えん柱ばしら, En Bashira?) of the Taisho era. Kyojuro is a young man of tall stature and lean-muscular build. He has long bright yellow hair with red streaks akin to flames along with two shoulder-length bangs and two chin-length bangs on the side of his head, black forked eyebrows, and golden eyes that fade to red with white pupils. He is known to be charismatic and had an air of great optimism, having an enthusiastic smile plastered on his face nearly all the time. Kyojuro wears the standard black Demon Slayer uniform, tinted brown in the anime, which consisted of a brown button-up jacket with stand collar and long sleeves, a white belt around his waist and tattsuke-hakama pants. Over this, he wears a haori with a white-yellow gradient pattern and red flame-like ridges at the end that his father Shinjuro had once worn and more than likely his father had worn when they were the Flame Hashira respectively. Finally, he wears red kyahan with yellow flames erupting from the bottom-up, with pale brown tabi socks and a pair of white zōri with red straps. When he first joined the Demon Slayer Corps, he only wore the regular Demon Slayer uniform but as he rose up the ranks, Kyojuro started wearing a completely white haori before donning on his signature flame-patterned one. Kyojuro was greatly enthusiastic in regard to his duties as a Hashira, and often came across as cheerfully eccentric. He is amiable, pure of heart, and boasts extraordinary technique and swordsmanship stemming from strict practice and discipline. He is an honorable warrior who adheres to his code of morals and principles that is instilled into him by his mother at a young age; the most significant being his belief that those who were born strong have a duty to protect the weak. Kyojuro also loves his family immensely, displaying great respect and worry towards his father, Shinjuro Rengoku, despite him growing slowly more aggressive and apathetic towards Kyojuro. He is incredibly encouraging and optimistic towards his little brother, Senjuro Rengoku, believing in him and wishing him the best no matter what. Kyojuro also believes that if someone lacks immense skill, their hard work towards their dreams and desire to help people doesn't count for nothing. Beneath his enthusiastic demeanor, Kyojuro is very logical and tactically intelligent, acting quickly and precisely in battle, especially when the lives of others are on the line. Kyojuro is also great in seeing talent in others, even in Nezuko Kamado, a demon that he wanted to kill beforehand, after seeing her risk her life to fight and protect others. Though he is extremely optimistic, Kyojuro did sometimes have a sense of foreboding that those he believes in might die, especially his friends who he cared deeply for. He, like most Demon Slayers, absolutely detests demons, usually because of their heinous deeds or because of their clashing moral values. Despite this, Kyojuro recognized and accepted Nezuko as a member of the Demon Slayer Corps after seeing her risk her life to protect the innocent, showing that Kyojuro is capable of not letting his hatred for demons cloud his judgement.

Abilities

Overall Abilities • As a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Kyojuro is a very powerful and skilled combatant. Before he took his father's place, Kyojuro was already shown to be an amazing fighter. He successfully avenged the death of the 9 Demon Slayers that died to the Flute Demon by himself and later managed to singlehandedly defeat Lower Rank Two, Hairo, who even appraised his swordsmanship before he died. Moreover, his father, Shinjuro Rengoku, stated that, after he stopped teaching his son, Kyojuro trained himself to become a Hashira by learning from the guide book of the Flame Breathing style, a book which only had three volumes.

• Indomitable Will: Kyojuro has an undaunted spirit and indomitable willpower. Ever since he was a child, he has had a strong will and passion in himself due to his promise to his late mother.

• Keen Intellect: As a swordsman who comes from a lineage of Flame Hashira, Kyojuro has access to generations of combat knowledge and tactics as well as training from previous Flame Hashira, like his father, Shinjuro Rengoku. Kyojuro could also master the entire Flame Breathing style just from reading 3 volumes of a book on it.

• Destructive Death: Air Type, he realizes that he must fight at close range with he wanted to increase the chances of cutting of his head. He also possesses great knowledge in the use of the Total Concentration Breathing (全ぜん集しゅう中ちゅうの呼こ吸きゅう, Zen Shūchū no Kokyū?), knowing how to plug minor wounds and hemorrhaging. As another testament to his tactical intellect, Kyojuro can instantly read his allies' sign language at indicating the Flute Demon's abilities despite being unable to fully control their movements and execute a countermeasure before the demon's Blood Demon Art befell him.

• Immense Speed & Reflexes: As a Hashira, Kyojuro possessed tremendous speed and reflexes, so much so that even gifted Demon Slayers like Tanjiro and Inosuke Hashibira with the latter stating that he was on a different dimension. Kyojuro could even cause tremors to the ground and nearly launching a train off its tracks by running at such high speeds. Moreover, Kyojuro could easily move at speeds much faster than the eye can see, decapitating demons before they can even react.

• Immense Stamina & Endurance: Kyojuro displayed superhuman stamina and endurance during his battles over the course of the series. In his battle with the Flute Demon, Kyojuro ruptured his eardrums, yet didn't flinch in the slightest, ignoring the pain and continuing to fight and win. In his battle with Hairo, he suffered dozens of severe wounds and injuries from gunshots and explosions coming from the former Lower Rank Two but continued to stall enough time for all the bombs he planted to be disarmed without showing any signs of pain or fatigue, which shocked Hairo into questioning whether the person he met in the past was really the same person he was fighting now.

• Immense Strength: Having spent years of perfecting his physical prowess, Kyojuro possessed amazing physical strength, being capable of swinging his katana at speeds faster than the eye can see incessantly with faultless accuracy while engaging in combat. Kyojuro could also lift an entire train off its tracks by simply dashing forward. Even when he first became a recognized Demon Slayer, he had enough strength to instantly rupture his own eardrums by hitting his ears with his hands. Kyojuro also possessed exceptional grip strength. He is one of the physically strongest characters in the series, despite having his solar plexus pierced earlier and sustaining multiple other fatal wounds.

Supper Natural Abilities

• Extrasensory Perception: Kyojuro had incredibly honed senses, Kyojuro is also capable of sensing demonic presences faster and more accurately than Tanjiro Kamado, who harbors an acute sense of smell. This ability also allowed him to precisely gauge the regenerative abilities and weaknesses of most demons. Kyojuro is also able to perceive Tanjiro's injuries and torn blood vessel accurately, which allowed him to teach him how to plug up that wound and prevent him from dying of blood loss.

Fighting style

• Master Swordsman: As a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Kyojuro is one of the most powerful and skilled swordsmen in the entire organization. Additionally, Kyojuro is part of the Rengoku family which has an impressive lineage of powerful swordsmen and Flame Hashira, giving Kyojuro an edge in developing and polishing his swordsmanship. His extraordinary swordsmanship skill has been displayed on multiple occasions across the series.