#anyways just an idle thought. im sure someone has headcanons for this or better insights on speechlessness/mute

[nerosdayinanime]

au where giyuu can only whisper/maybe mute entirely

i dont really have anything else, thats the whole idea. giyuu cant speak/can only speak in whispers

i was reading a fic that said somethn about him 'a cry silenced by a broken voice' and it reminded me of one scene from my Clan au: Shit Marriage path where giyuu has a breakdown and wrecks his shit screaming it out in the middle of nowhere/grasslands away from the compound, in that au he broke something & convinced shizu to 'heal' it to where he couldnt speak so he had an excuse Not To Talk To People

was just thinking of a more canon-adjacent au where he does sonething similar, screaming himself to silence after sabito's death in a twisted mirror of tsutako's death when he had to stay silent or he'd die too- or developing a speech disorder Because of that event with his sister where its a psychological thing, or he already had it as a kid but the event exacerbated it to an extreme-

giyuu's not a very talkative person, but to take it away entirely. try to talk with him & hes just dead silent. sanemi trying to get a rise or reaction from him and get nothing but an impossible-to-make-out whisper that makes him scoff and drop it. shinobu trying to communicate with him after she realizes he doesnt verbally respond bc he literally Cant, if he'd even put in the effort to do so for someone he's gonna keep at arm's length anyway. paired with the popular Kyojuro Cant Hear Shit hc how they'd interact, kyojuro trying to befriend him despite the lack of response, maybe they both know sign language and hes the only one giyuu actually puts effort into talking with- or kyojuro teaching giyuu sign language bc he never bothered to learn after final selection/never learned bc he always had someone else to translate for him (tsutako/sakonji/sabito). (/shinobu knowing or learning sign language, speaking with giyuu that way or teaching him as well- her and kyo being the only two hes let any sort of guard down for)

bonding with the kamados being very different, tanjiro not realizing giyuu doesnt speak at first and trying to befriend him/get in his good graces (they already were, and doing all that just made him feel soft that tanjiro cares so much abt him & his opinion of them<3)- having a much easier time deciphering giyuu's thoughts n shit than anyone else given his super feelings sniffer

#kny #tomioka giyuu #loserboy giyuu posting #lmao the post was way too small & unspecific at first & i have to get out of the habit of making short posts then monologing in #the tags until i run out of space (and context/extra shit getting lost in reblogs) #anyways just an idle thought. im sure someone has headcanons for this or better insights on speechlessness/mute #he just seems a fun character for this