Taketora Igarashi

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> *Shut your mouth you bastard!!! If hell is not real I'll just make it myself!!*
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*-Taketora to Muneyage-*

He is along with Hikari Akinori and Atsushi Kirihara, a travelling companion of Tsuneto Kushihara and Yukago Minami. He is also a Demon Slayer in the Demon Slayer Corps.

## Appearance

Taketora is a young man of average height and pale complexion with an extremely toned and muscular build for his age, possessing large, defined muscles most notably over his stomach and arms. In sharp contrast to this, he has an incredibly pretty and feminine face, with large, wide eyes that are framed by an array of long eyelashes, their irises a dark to soft pale orange, thin eyebrows and what could be a small, well-mannered mouth. His thick, orange hair reaches just past his shoulders, fading into black at the tips and forming an unruly and uneven fringe that falls just above his eyes, puffing out before curving and thinning towards his forehead.

Taketora wears his altered version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform, which consists only of the baggy hakama pants, his tinted a dark gray-blue.Unlike his travelling companions, Taketora does not wear a haori. The usual cloth leg-wraps are replaced with what appears to be knee-high socks of a furry hide which expose his heels and toes, which also appear to be what fastens the sandal-bases he wears on his feet.

## Personality

Taketora is an extremely short-tempered and proud young man who always likes to think he is the strongest fighter in a situation, constantly challenging most people he comes across and wanting others to respect and praise him for his skill. This often leads him into unnecessary danger, since he tends to overestimate his abilities in comparison to who he's fighting and refuses to accept when he's been defeated, which can be seen when Tsubasa Shinosaki has to tie him up after his fight with the Father wood Demon to prevent him challenging the Hashira to a fight while still severely injured from his previous battle.[5] This constant wanting to be the best can also cause Taketora to be very provocative, as he often tries to goad others, most prominently Tsuneto Kushihara, into fighting him, although in the case of the latter he usually fails due to Tsuneto's obliviously kind nature.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** Taketora is a very skilled and talented swordsman as he was able to learn Total Concentration Breathing on his own and develop his very own Breathing Style known as Tiger Breathing based on his own instincts and upbringing in the mountains by wild and passed Final Selection to become a Demon Slayer all without formal training. Taketora is more than capable of hunting and slaying demons on his own, as he easily killed the Spike Demon without any trouble.

**Enhanced Strength:** Taketora possesses amazing arm strength, being able to dual wield two katana's as opposed to one, even swinging them at subsonic speeds. During the First Training, he even managed to move a boulder nearly thrice his size with his bare hands.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes:** Taketora is an incredibly fast individual, being able to keep up with the movements of Hirari and later on, a weakened Urami Kyosho.

**Enhanced Touch:** After growing up in the mountains, Taketora developed a sharp and incredibly sensitive sense of touch. His skin can even feel the small vibrations in the air. Taketora incorporated this ability into his **Tiger Eyes** technique, where he uses his acute sense of touch to locate all the demons spread out across a giant mountain and later used it to detect the location of the Wood Demon (Father).

## Tiger Breathing

* **First Claw: Tough hunter** (壱ノ爪 • 強い猟師 *Ichi no tsume:* *Tsuyoi Ryōshi*) - The user will dash towards the opponent and slash when they reach the opponent's belly and slash the head again.

* **Second Claw: Lonely Hunter** (弐ノ爪 • 寂しい猟師 *Ni* *no tsume:* *Sabishī* *Ryōshi*) - The user would have to dash out of somewhere and slash the opponent quickly.

* **Fourth Claw: Ancient spirit** (肆ノ爪 • 古代の精神 *Shi no tsume:* *Kodai no seishin*) - The user will jump and flip himself mid-air and slash his opponent four times in succession.

* **Fifth Claw: Tiger Ambush** (伍ノ爪 • 虎待ち伏せ *Go* *no tsume: Tora Machibuse*) - The user lunges at the opponent and pushes himself towards the opponent and slashes the opponent three times.

* **Sixth Claw: Crazy Tiger Claw** (陸ノ爪 • 爪トラ絶賛 *Roku no tsume: Tsumetorazessan*) - The user unleashes a double slash with his two blades in an X-shaped cut.

* **Seventh Claw: Tiger under the moon** (漆ノ爪 • 月の下の虎 *Shichi no tsume: Tsuki no shita no tora*) - Used when an opponent surrenders. This form will warm the opponent and the user will immediately behead.

* **Tenth Form: Predator Awareness** (拾ノ型 • 捕食者識覚 *Ju no kata: Hoshoku-sha Shikikaku*) - The user utilizes their sense of touch to identify the position of enemies and their weaknesses by feeling small disturbances in the air. This technique was so strong that **Taketora Igarashi** could sense all the demons spread out through a whole mountain.

* **Eleventh Claw: Tiger's Thirst** (拾壱ノ爪 • 虎の渇き *Jū Ichi no tsume:* *Tora no kawaki*) - The most powerful posture of **Tiger Breathing**, The user will spin the sword around his hand and dash towards the opponent while turning the sword in his hand and attacking them. After using this stance, the user would get a lot of wounds.

* **Hidden tiger** (隠された虎 *Kakusareta tora*) - The user dashes to dodge attacks and then dashes to attack the opponent again.

* **Tiger Rush** (虎猛進 *Tora Mōshin*) - The user relentlessly charges towards their opponent ignoring practically all attacks thrown at them.