Muzan

Membership

Kimetsu no yaiba

History

Muzan Kibutsuji (鬼き舞ぶ辻つじ 無む惨ざん Kibutsuji Muzan?) is the main antagonist of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He is the Demon King, the progenitor of all other demons in existence, and the leader of the Kizuki Twelve, an organization made up of the twelve strongest demons under his direct command. A millennium ago, during the Heian Era, Muzan became a demon due to an experimental treatment for his terminal illness [1] and his goal ever since has been to live without fear of death and become truly eternal. [7] He plans to achieve this in two ways: find the Blue Spider Lily or create more demons in the hopes that one day, one of them can conquer his sunlight weakness. It is later revealed that Muzan is also from the same lineage as the Ubuyashiki family.

Appearance

Muzan is a tall man with a lean, muscular build along with an abnormally pale complexion that can be easily mistaken for an unhealthy and sickly person. He has curly black hair and sharp, almond-shaped eyes. His irises have a feline appearance and are plum red. He also has sharp blue nails on his hands. Physically, he appears to be in his twenties. but he really he he is a thousand years old.

Personality

Muzan is callous, ruthless, intimidating, and exceptionally intelligent. He sees no value in the humans he has encountered and shows little value in his own subordinates. Rarely visibly upset or happy, he appears completely monotonous and distant on most occasions, even when he callously murders his own subordinates. The only times he shows emotion is when his vision of perfection advances or when his subordinates completely submit to his will. The manga shows him to be more expressive, particularly when he is enraged and his facial features are exaggerated to show it (possibly as a way to show his normally unreadable emotions). In the anime, his expressions change slightly and his tone of voice tends to be constant almost at all times, accentuating his monotonous demeanor. His cruel and imposing nature has earned him the great admiration and fear of many demons. His inflated ego and delusional sense of self-esteem are so great that he cannot bear to be mocked or corrected in any way, believing that others only exist to serve him.

Personality

The most prominent trait that Muzan possesses is extreme narcissism, meanness, and obsession with becoming the perfect being. As he has had over a thousand years to live and observe, facing hardly any real challenges, extreme self-centeredness is almost expected of him. Being the obsessive perfectionist that he is, Muzan loathes the very concept of change; whether it be a change in circumstances, physical, emotional or change of any kind. He equates change with decay and therefore with evidence of imperfection. Behind the myriad facades he displays, and completely countering his insatiable ego and lust for perfection, Muzan is incredibly cowardly. He always seeks to avoid conflict whenever possible, and his refusal to face an unpleasant situation.