#dragon rambles

Tanjiro broke corps rules by traveling with a demon. A demon. The same species that Obanai’s family worshiped. That wanted his mouth cut open. That scared him every night by crawling near his cell. That killed his family which he blames himself for. Of course he is not going to trust Nezuko and by extension Tanjiro. Most of the hashira didn’t accept her at first either.

And we know Obanai takes the rules and being a hashira seriously. With the way he insisted Giyuu should be punished for defending the siblings and wanting Tengen to continue fighting despite his injuries. So simply breaking the rules also put Tanjiro on his bad side.

He also is protective of Mitsuri. We see this during the Muzan fight when he takes her out of battle. Obanai doesn’t want Mitsuri to get hurt. But during the training arc he has students to train and she seems fine from her letters so he doesn’t physically check up on her. That doesn’t mean his protectiveness and worry went away.

It also makes me wonder how Obanai felt knowing Tanjiro was there when Kyojuro died. Someone who I imagine was close with Obanai since his father saved him from the snake demon. When he was roughly 12 and had nowhere else to go. Especially since he refused to believe kyojuro died when first hearing the news. It would make his protectiveness of Mitsuri from Tanjiro fiercer than it already was