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greek mythology x kimetsu no yaiba

But I just make shit up.

Tanjiro and Nezuko were born of wedlock, son and daughter of Aphrodite and Hephaesteus.  Taniiro is warm and kind, gentle like his father.  But his beauty dims stars and makes fire wobble with heartsickness.
Nezuko has patience that makes hundreds of years of work seem easy, she is care embodied.  But so much like her brother she makes even the heavens look dull.

They loved their father more than the Mother of All, worshipped him more than Zeus and took the places of his silver and golden statues to help him to walk.  But their Mother, their mother felt nothing towards them.  Their birth was an accomplishment of hers and nothing more, they were hardly her children.  She spent her days with her other son Cupid and his father Ares, doting on him as a King would his High Consort, leaving Hephaesteus to his own devices.  It angered Nezuko who thought a persons pride to be their highest asset and Tanjiro who's temper was a fickle thing that took long to start but once awakened was fierce and harsh.

Hephaesteus insisted it was of no matter.  He was a meek man, and as long as his wife was happy he was content.  Even if this care of his came with nothing in return.  His children disagreed.

And on one fateful day, Aphrodite visited her husband.  Tanjiro and Nezuko stood at their fathers sides wary of the Goddess of Love, their own mother.  She smiled with morning dew and sunbeams and asked sweetly that Hephaesteus fashion a new girdle for her to wear, for Ares wanted to take her on a chariot ride.  Tanjiro grit his teeth but Nezuko was aghast.
"You come to your husband, asking of a favor for with to flatter your Mister?  Shame on you!  Shame on you, woman!"

Aphrodite was infuriated, no one spoke to her in such way, for fear of her great beauty.  She grabbed her daughter by the arm and threw from the forge and out into the open air.

She turned on her second son when he screamed at her in fury and dismay, "I am your Mother!!  The Goddess of Love, you two have nothing!  You are nothing!!  Children of blood and nothing else, you are a folly unto me!"  She screamed and Olympus fell silent,  Hepheasteus did not speak. He never did when she asked these favors of him.

Tanjiro fails to remember on some days exactly what he said in the midst of his fury.  But he know from the look that crossed the faces of his father and that wretched woman it must have been truly awful.  Perhaps one day he will return to apologize,  but for now he wanders and searches.  For Nezuko had not been at the foot of Olympus.

So he searched.  He walked Mother Gaia's skin and slept under his Great Great Grandfathers sky.
Occasionally he spoke with his aunts and uncles and cousins.  Be it the moon on silent nights or Pan and his children deep in the woods.

And Tanjiro searched.  He met a demigod, a child of Zeus who had manifested no powers, so his mother cast him away and the great God of the Heavens had yet to come fetch him.  They walked together.  Searched together.  For Zenitsu's missing powers, for Tanjiro's sister. 

They met another strange character soon.  A man who claimed to be the son of Artemis.  'Artemis?' Tanjiro and Zenitsu thought alike 'The virgin goddess?'

That night Tanjro asked the moon and she bequeathed him an answer; Artemis found him when he was a babe, drifting in her favorite bathing pool.  She took the child and gave him a piece of her soul.  Inosuke could not die, for a God cannot be killed.  He left his mother long ago, to search the wilds on his lonesome.  Tanjiro, satisfied with this answer, invited the man to walk with them.

They have not grown old, they never do.  Tanjro looked at Zenitsu, who's face stayed the same so much like his own.

"I have found your powers, Zenitsu."

"What?"

"You live as long as a God.  You cannot be killed."

They have walked for thousands of years now, the clothing has changed and so have the languages.  They have seen all corners of the world.  Greeted Atlas and seen the Gorgon's Isles, littered with bodies turned to stone, long worn and broken into rocks the same as any other.  They have walked.  The people have light in their fingers now, Hertha has little work left to do.  Tanjiro stares at one of the massive glowing signs, taking up an entire floor of a building.  Tokyo has changed magnificently.

"Tanjiro!!  Come on, I lost Inosuke again!  And if he gets into another alley fight we might be in serious trouble!!!"

"Yes, yes.  I'm coming!"