Fire in Your Eyes: Desire

A birthday gift for a friend, I forgot how much I love this goofy character!!

Tohru's lover.

Decided to make him look more japanese (i tried my best). This is not finished yet because I am impatient but I had so much fun drawing him!

🏮 Happy Lunar New Year 🧧 🐍

Rimuru uses BOTH MALE and GENDER NEUTRAL pronouns for themselves while others use something similar to 'it' and they. (It's also nice to note that very rarely would Fuse refer to Rimuru with a gendered pronoun rather then it.)

“It's cute when it's a slime, and when it's humanoid, it can't be either male or female. I wasn't aiming for anything with Rimuru's asexual gender, but I think it turned out to be a good thing." “It was too much trouble to decide on the gender, so I chose asexual (laughs)."

At the start of the novel, Rimuru calls themselves a man, like their past life. But as time went on, Rimuru would rarely talk abt their gender besides those moments (which become less and less with Rimuru losing sexual interest) and instead cuts the 'man' all together and says 'slime'.

As a small add on, Rimuru's page on the FAN-MADE wiki refer to Rimuru with they/them. Take this with grain of salt.

I personally believe that Fuse has set up Rimuru's gender for interpretation, and fans are free to view Rimuru as whatever.

Whether Fuse did this because 'well, slimes are genderless, so why should Rimuru be gendered' or if he made the conscious decision to create a non-binary main character, I don't know.

In conclusion, suck my non existence dick. Rimuru is a Demon Lord slime thing, gender is the least of thier concerns.