anyanwu15
I love Demon Slayer, but the more you think about its worldbuilding, the more questions start piling up. Families get brutally killed, people disappear all the time, and demons are apparently roaming around the countryside-yet governments never investigate, society never reacts, and an entire organization of sword-wielding demon hunters somehow stays completely secret.
So this AU asks a pretty simple question:
What if the world actually reacted realistically to demons?
Set in the early 2000s, this version of Japan knows demons exist. Instead of revealing the truth and causing mass panic, the government secretly funds the Demon Slayer Corps as a black-ops organization tasked with containing the threat.
Publicly, demon attacks are blamed on serial killers, cults, or animal attacks. Behind the scenes, the Corps-called the "Ravens" by demons-fights a hidden war using weapons made from harvested demon materials, intelligence networks, and even captured demons forced to fight their own kind.
Neither side thinks it's the villain.
Humans see demons as monsters that need to be wiped out. Demons see the Ravens as scavengers who harvest their bodies and call it justice.
Caught between them are Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado, siblings separated by this hidden war and forced to navigate a world where morality is anything but simple.
What makes someone a monster-and what makes someone human?
I do not own Demon Slayer. This is a fan work and a worldbuilding thought experiment.