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Hashira
JAPANESE: 柱
RŌMAJI: Hashira
ENGLISH: Pillars
AFFILIATION: Demon Slayer Corps
The Hashira (柱はしら, Hashira?, lit. Pillars) are the highest ranking combatants in the Demon Slayer Corps. As such, they are the organization's most elite and powerful warriors who each serve a pivotal role in their war against Muzan Kibutsuji and the Twelve Kizuki.
Demon Slayer is an organization that has existed since ancient times, dedicating its existence to protecting humanity from Demons. There are hundreds of Demon Slayer within the organization, however, they are not officially recognized by the goverment.
Members of the Demon Slayer Corps are separate into ten different ranks. From lowest rank to highest, these are ranks are;
Mizunoto - Mizunoe - Kanoto - Kanoe - Tsuchinoto - Tsuchinoe - Hinoto - Hinoe - Kinoto - Kinoe,
within the Demon Slayer Corps, there is a group of elites known as the Hashira. This group consists of the most powerful combatants in the organization.
Finding Successors
Main article: Tsuguko
In some cases, an exceptionally talented Demon Slayer can become the designated successor to one of the Hashira, known as a Tsuguko. To become a Tsuguko, a Demon Slayer can either apply for the position and get accepted, or get scouted by one of the current Hashira.
Demon
Demons (鬼おに, Oni?) are an ancient race of monstrous, supernatural, and immortal beings and one of the main antagonists of the series.
Practically all Demons posses a murderous instinct to kill and devour humans, and have lost most of their memories from their human life. Demons however do still retain their original personality, except it often turns into a twisted, dark version of what it used to be. However, there are Demons who have completely retained their human emotions and memories, such as Nezuko Kamado, Yushiro, and Tamayo. All Demons do regain their memories moments before they die.
Demons come in a variety of forms. Most look human at first, only with sight changes, such as paler skin, catlike eyes with unusually-colored sclera, dark markings that come in various patterns across their bodies, and/or a change in hair color. The changes differ from Demon to Demon, as some Demons can still retain their normal appearance while the gain monstrous features like multiple heads, mouths, or limbs.
Demons are a mostly carnivorous, vampiric species whose primary diet in humans, consuming their flesh and/or blood. Sunlight is deadly to them and will burn them to ash, so they strictly operate at night. Demons have an abnormally powerful physical constitution and regenerative ability which makes them immune to normal weaponry and grants them the ability to regenerate from most wounds with ease. Only the Nichirin Blade, special weapons made from special ore with sunlight absorption properties, allowing them to inflict life-threatening wounds on Demon kind. Of course, even with a Nichirin Blade, the only method guaranteed to kill a Demon is by chopping their head off. They are also known to hate Wisteria flowers which are poisonous them and whose smell is repudiated by them.
The Demons species is also known to mutate and grow stronger over time the more humans they consume, allowing them to grow into more monstorous forms and develope Blood Demon Arts, an array of signature supernatural powers which arw unique to each Demon. Different human blood types have different levels of nutritions for Demons, the more rare blood type is known as Marechi; eating a human with this blood type provides a Demon with roughly the same nutrition as eating one hundred ordinary humans.