Muzan

Name

Muzan

Appearance

Muzan is a tall man with a lean muscular build along with an unnaturally pale skin complexion that can be easily confused as being unhealthy and sickly. He has curly black hair and sharp, almond-shaped eyes. His irises are cat-like in appearance and are of a plum red color. He also possesses sharp, blue nails on his hands. Physically, he appears to be in his twenties. In his first appearance, Muzan was shown wearing a white fedora with a red ribbon and a somewhat extravagant outfit, consisting of an embroidered black tuxedo and a white tie over a black dress shirt and white dress pants. He also wore black loafers. During his meeting with the Lower Ranks, he arrived disguised as an elegant woman with a chignon hairstyle while wearing a long black yukata, causing the Lower Ranks to not initially recognize him. Later, he transforms himself into his latest cover identity - the adopted sickly son to an old couple - taking the form of a young child with pale, white skin and black, silky smooth, neatly combed black hair. His main outfit in this disguise is a plain white button-up shirt and black cargo shorts with long tube socks and loafers. He is able to revert from gender to gender if he so wanted, but his base appearance is that of a man, and that's the one he prefers most.

Personality

Muzan is cold-hearted, ruthless, intimidating, and exceptionally intelligent. He sees no value in any humans he has encountered and shows little value in his own subordinates. Rarely ever visibly upset or happy, he appears completely monotone and detached on most occasions, even when he callously murders his own subordinates. The only times he ever shows emotion are when his vision of perfection is moving forward or when he has subordinates completely submit to his will. In the anime, his expressions change slightly and his tone of voice tends to be consistent at nearly all times, accentuating his monotonous. demeanor. His cruel and imposing nature has gained him the great admiration and fear of many demons. His inflated ego and delusional sense of self worth are so large, he cannot stand being mocked or corrected in any fashion, believing that others only exist to serve him. This also means he rarely ever takes any opponent or threat seriously. He brutally killed a drunk man simply for being rude to him, displaying his shrewd pettiness as he won't settle for any mockery and will do anything he pleases until the humiliation is remedied. The most prominent trait Muzan possesses is extreme narcissism, pettiness, and an obsession with becoming the perfect being. He considers almost nothing to be his concern except overcoming his inability to walk in the sun, which is his primary drive. His long life and obsessions have caused him to want every plan he concocts to be absolutely perfect, and his superiority complex prevents him from seeing his own failures. Being the obsessive perfectionist he is, Muzan loathes the very concept of change; be it change of circumstance, physical, emotional or change of any kind. Furthermore, his delusional sense of omnipotence is such that he compares himself to natural disasters, namely something that is far beyond what humans can compare to and fight against.

Overview

Muzan Kibutsuji is the Demon King, the progenitor of all other demons in existence, and the leader of the Twelve Kizuki, an organization made up of the twelve strongest demons under his direct command. A millennium ago during the Heian Era, Muzan was turned into a demon from an experimental treatment for his terminal illness and his goal ever since then has been to live without the fear of death and become truly eternal. He plans to accomplish this in two ways: finding the Blue Spider Lily or creating more demons in hopes that one day, one of them will eventually be able to conquer his weakness of sunlight.

Views towards others

Because of his perceived superiority and his double-faced nature, he feels no attachment to his henchmen, using them and discarding them as disposable pawns whenever he sees fit. Additionally, he does not allow his subordinates to question him, regularly enacting brutal and ruthless punishments should they do so. Many of his subordinates, in turn, are deeply afraid of him, and measure their words and thoughts carefully for fear of saying anything that may displease him. In spite of this, he is able to sway many demons to his side with promises of power, revenge, and grandeur so long as they serve him. His intelligence and manipulation shine here, since many find the promises appealing, as he encounters many of his subordinates at their lowest point, when their emotions are easy fodder for him. In the end, all of these promises are ultimately false, given that Muzan only cares about himself and has no qualms about killing his own subordinates to protect his own safety. However, despite his infinite cruelty, even to his own subordinates, Muzan can allow for leniency should a demon fall into favor with him. Notable examples include allowing Rui to weaken himself by sharing his own power with other demons in order to form a "family", and giving Akaza permission to not eat women, even though he personally disagreed with both of their choices.

Abilities

As the Demon King, the first and the progenitor of his kind, Muzan is the strongest demon in existence. Even after dissolving a drug that was supposed to weaken his powers and turn him back into a human, Muzan easily annihilated close to a hundred Demon Slayers in a short period of time effortlessly. Having lived for over a millennia and gained further experience from the telepathic link with demons he control, Muzan is extremely clever and erudite. Since he has five fully functioning brains, it would most likely boost his intelligence and other mental capabilities such as memory and cognitive processing. As the Demon King, Muzan possesses the fastest and most advanced regeneration out of all demons, recovering so fast that it appears as if the attacks phased through him and he was never injured in the first place. He displayed his flawless regenerative ability on multiple occasions. After the experimental treatment gave him a new body and physiology, Muzan's blood develops special mutagenic properties that can transform humans into creatures known as demons. His special blood also seems to give rise to a plethora of special abilities to those that assimilated his blood such as powerful and quick regeneration, the power to control their flesh, immortality, an accelerated growth rate. Muzan can also further empower a demon by giving more of his blood, enhancing their pre-existing abilities. However, this is limited to how much blood the recipient can withstand and adapt to. If a human were to take in too much blood from Muzan, their body would mutate faster than they can withstand, causing them to self-destruct into one giant mass of flesh before disintegrating into ash. Muzan has the ability to read the thoughts of those that he has shared his blood with by looking at them. Later, it was shown that he could also send telepathic messages and have full conversations with other demons as well.

Muzan was born in Japan's Heian era, to a constant struggle to survive on account of his frailty. His heart stopped multiple times in his mother's womb, and when he first entered the world, he was deemed stillborn, having no pulse and not breathing. As a young man, Muzan was diagnosed with a disease that would kill him before he reached the age of 20. The doctor treating Muzan gave him a special experimental medicine, but it appeared to have failed. Muzan killed him. However, it was only after killing the doctor did he realize that the medicine was actually working and had helped him acquire a strong body. He realized he needed to consume the flesh of humans to survive but was not bothered by this. However his new, more serious problem is that he was unable to walk in sunlight anymore, as doing so burned him severely, even realizing that it would kill and turn him into ashes. Upon conducting research on the contents of the medicine that the doctor had made for him, he discovered that it contained a rare component called the Blue Spider Lily. Believing that if he consumed one, it could nullify his weakness to sunlight, he searched the entire country for the flower, but couldn't find it as the only person who knew about them was the doctor he killed, and that Muzan was unware that it only bloomed during daytime for at most 2-3 days a year. Obsessed with walking at daytime, even though he had obtained great power, Muzan considered himself to be imperfect and wanted to be rid of his weakness to sunlight. This desire eventually became an obsession that he would chase for the next 1000 years and with the search for the Blue Spider Lily going nowhere, he started to use his blood to turn people into demons, under his control, hoping that one of them would eventually find the Blue Spider Lily, or creating more demons, he hoped that one day, one of them would be able to withstand sunlight.

The Twelve Kizuki

The Twelve Kizuki are divided into two groups, the six Upper Ranks, numbered one through six, and the six Lower Ranks, also numbered one through six. The number signifies their ranking among the Twelve Kizuki, determined by each member's level of strength, Upper Rank One being the strongest and Lower Rank Six being the weakest. The Lower Ranks have their numbers and ranks engraved only into one eye, whereas the Upper Ranks have their numbers in one eye and the kanji for "Upper Rank" in the other. While the exact relationships between the two groups are unclear, it is known that the Upper Ranks despise the Lower Ranks. Upper Rank 1: Kokushibo Upper Rank 2: Doma Upper Rank 3: Akaza Upper Rank 4: Nakime Former Upper Rank 4: Hantengu Upper Rank 5: Gyokko Upper Rank 6: Kaigaku Former Upper Rank 6: Gyutaro Former Upper Rank 6: Daki Lower Rank 1: Enmu Former Lower Rank 1: Ubume Lower Rank 2: Rokuro Former Lower Rank 2: Hairo Lower Rank 3: Wakuraba Lower Rank 4: Mukago Lower Rank 5: Rui Lower Rank 6: Kamanue Former Lower Rank 6: Kyogai