Kaori Hayashi

\*This page is about an OC, please proceed with caution as all of this info is not canon\*

## Affiliation

### Occupation

Demon Slayer
Rose Hashira

## Personal Status

### Relative(s)

Kunika Hayashi (Father)
 Kimiko Hayashi (Mother)
 Kentaro Hayashi (Older Brother)
 Kanari Hayashi (Younger Sister)
 Kanae Kocho (Distant Relative)
 Shinobu Kocho (Distant Relative)

## Appearance

Kaori is an elegant young woman, she has long beautiful black hair, with gradient pink tips. Her eyes are a pink color, accompanied by a yellow tint at the bottom of the iris. She has soft pale skin, and her nails are painted a dark purple.

She wears a long haori that covers her hands, the pattern of the haori is of roses and white tips at the ends. She wears a normal Demon Slayer Corps uniform, but her pants have a cute round cut at the ends. She wears white socks, layered over with pink leg warmers. She wears a pair of white zōri with purple straps. On the back of her head, she wears one of the butterfly hairclips, which was gifted to her by Kanae Kocho.

## Personality

Kaori is a very kind, patient, positive, and energetic being. She enjoys making people smile, and helping others who can't help themselves. Despite her kind and sunny nature, she has her weaknesses, which cause her to become either angry or depressed, depending on the situation. Like Shinobu Kocho, she taught herself to just smile, and to not let others take advantage of your feelings. She sometimes pretends to be happy, because she wants to stay positive, and to make the situation better for herself and others.

She became a Demon Slayer to achieve her goal of being helpful and useful to the world. She believed that if she helped out humanity, that she'd actually have a purpose in life, which helped her self-esteem a lot. She trained for many years with the help of her mentor, Kanae Kocho (when she was alive). Everyday, she tells herself that she will be a hero someday, and that she will use herself as a shield and a stepping stool to making others' lives better.

Despite her seeming calmness, and maturity, she can also be very childish and teasing at times. Depending on who she's with, she plays jokes and pranks on them, to lighten the mood. Though, she understands the boundaries of others, and won't do any pranking or joking if they don't feel comfortable with it. Another thing with Kaori, is that she is a people-pleaser, she wants to get along and befriend as many people as she can. She always enjoyed meeting new people and making new friends. She is a very social person, and would do anything to make anyone happy.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Abilities:** Kaori uses the *Rose Breathing* technique, which her own forms of the technique are very useful and powerful when in combat. She uses a katana, but it's not like every other normal katana. Her katana is specially designed to have a sharp hook at the tip of her blade, which causes her to easily nick or stab her rival whenever the other parts of her katana doesn't work.

### Physical Abilities

* **Immense Strength:** Because of her petite body, it might seem that she's capable to have any strength at all, but that's not the case here. Despite how her body looks, she is very strong, mainly in her legs. Since she'd trained with Kanae Kocho at a fairly young age, she has grown a lot of muscle, and learned from Kanae's own strength.
* **Immense Speed and Reflexes:** With her past mentor, she learned a lot of good habits and instincts when defeating a demon. Kaori was taught many ways on how to kill a demon, and how to know when a demon is about to attack. With that, she now has advanced senses of vibration. She can feel movement from afar, just by feeling the slight vibration from the air and objects. Because she is a very energetic girl, her speed level is very high, she can move at a fast pace, but also do it silently.
* **Immense Stamina and Endurance:** Although she does have a lot of speed, she also has pretty low stamina, whenever she is using too much energy. She normally uses energy faster, when she hasn't been eating or drinking anything on a regular. Even though she has a low stamina at some points, her endurance is pretty tough. She can go on with a fight, even if she's getting hurt. She focuses more on the fight than the pain, and keeps herself going until she faints.
* **Enhanced Flexibility:** Kaori's past mentor had loads of flexibility, which caused Kaori to gain that flexibility as well. She can bend and stretch her body in any position or pose she desires. Though, she has nothing like Inosuke Hashibira's flexibility, her's isn't that loose or free.

**Rose Breathing** (薔 (ば)  薇 (ら)  の呼 (こ)  吸 (きゅう ) , *Bara no kokyū*?)

**First Form: Blinding Nectar** (りんぢん (まばゆ) ねた (いネクター) , *Ichi no kata: Mabayui nekutā*?)- Kaori uses her katana to create pollen, which confuses and blinds the enemy.

**Second Form: Ballette Rose** (ばれ (バレ) って  (エロ)  ろせ (ーズ) , *Ni no kata: Bareerōzu*?)- A form, Kaori uses to multiply her katana into deplicates, and cause all the katanas to be thrown at the enemy spinning rapidly.

**Third Form: Flutter of Thorns** (るって (い) お (ば)  ほん (らの羽ばたき) , *San no kata: Ibara no habataki*?)- She uses her katana, having her stab her enemy multiple times, at a fast pace.

**Fourth Form: Rose Buds** (ろせ (バラの) ぶ (つぼみ)  , *Shi no kata: Baranotsubomi*?)- Her katana nicks at the enemy, causing them to be distracted at the nicking, instead of anything else.

**Fifth Form: Rose Meadow** (ろせ (バ) め (ラ) あど (の牧草地) , *Go no kata: Bara no bokusō-chi*?)- She slices the air with katana, causing there to be a big blanket of flowers and Roses to be coming out of the air. The flowers and Roses hit only one point of the enemy's body.

**Sixth Form: Elegant Thorn Cage** (えれがん (エレガン)  ほん (トなとげの)  あげ (檻) , *Roku no kata: Eregantona toge no ori*?)- With her katana, she summons big thorny vines from the ground, and capture anyone who is targetted.

**Flower Breathing** (花 (はな) の呼 (こ) 吸 (きゅう) , *Hana no kokyū*?): One of the core Breathing Styles, this style was created by Kanae Kocho. This breathing technique has been taught to Kaori Hayashi and Kanao Tsuyuri, by Kanae Kocho. However, although Kaori Hayashi was taught the technique, she didn't feel comfortable using the technique herself, so she created her own, leading her to develop the Rose Breathing.

## Trivia

* Kaori's name means "scent and aroma".
* Kaori's butterfly hairclip was gifted to her by Kanae Kocho, for passing her entrance exam when she was becoming a demon slayer.
* Kaori is a distant cousin with Kanae Kocho. Which is why Kanae was the one to mentor her, when Kaori was younger.
* Kaori wears a long and big haori to make herself seem more small when in combat, to confuse and trick her enemies into thinking she's weak.
* Kaori loves eating shrimp and fried fish.
* Kaori has once requested to have a parrot as a bird companion instead of a crow.
* She has a really good connection with her younger sister, and always considered herself as her younger sister's twin.
* She paints portraits and cleans in her spare time.
* Her katana is shaped differently so she can attack enemies, even if she makes one mistake.
* Tekushi and Kaori have a lot of similarities That's why they get along so well Even Tekushi's best friend is Kaori!
* Kaori loves to hug Tekushi.
* tekushi and kaori are each other's confidants

## Quotes

* (To herself) *"Don't waste your time and emotion on something that's not important in reaching your goal. Focus! Focus!"*
* (To Tekushi) "*Tekushi You are my best friend that's why I'm loving you so much.*"