Akira Gushiken

Akira Gushiken (具志堅 明 Gushiken Akira) is a Demon Slayer of the Demon Slayer Corps.

## Personal Status

### Relative(s)

Akemi Gushiken (Father)
Ai Gushiken (Mother)

Fuji Gushiken (Brother)

Koko Gushiken (Female Dog)

## Appearance

Akira is an average height and handsome boy with celeste coloured short hair and a scar across the left side of his face.

Akira wears a brown tinted Demon Slayer uniform with a large cloth around his calves to make it look loose. Over it he wears a haori with blue around the top and white around the bottom. The blue has a black dot and black cloud design. His haori stretches down to his legs with more blue around there.

## Personality

Akira is generally a quiet person and will only speak when spoken to. He is also friendly when you get to know him and he talks a lot. Although Akira is a quiet person and is timid at times, he will not hesitate to save anyone in danger, be it his dearest friend or his hater.

Akira joined the Demon Slayer Corps because once he was outside at night and got attacked by a demon. He was fighting with it desperately until a demon slayer came. That's how he got hit scar on the left side of his face. He decided to learn how to kill demons before anything else like what happens to him happens to anybody else.

He treats Tanjiro and Zenitsu as a friend, Nezuko like a little sister, Inosuke as his rival and friend and Kanao as his friend and go-to person for advice. He respects the most his teacher Gyomei who taught him Metal Breathing, which branches off Stone Breathing. He goes to Gyomei to train and visits Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke to talk with and train together often.

## Abilities

**Skilled Swordsmanship**: Akira is a very skilled swordsman, using Metal Breathing to defend and attack. His swordsmanship is known throughout the corps as he is the Tsugoku of Gyomei.

**Enhanced Physical Capacity:** As the result of his training for 5 years under Gyomei, Akira has improved all of his physical traits including:

* **Enhanced Strength:** Akira has shown improvement on his strength as part of his training. Some feats proving this are his ability to push a boulder as tall as Gyomei around town and sitting for hours with three logs on his shoulders.
* **Enhanced Speed and Reflexes:** Akira has improved in his speed and reflexes the most as it is needed for his aggressive breathing style. Despite his small legs and his long uniform seeming like it makes him slow, it is the same effect for the Mist Hashira, Muichiro as he wears a long uniform to cloud his speed. Some feats proving this are his ability to run around a village which is over 7km in perimeter in only 10 minutes and his ability to dodge arrows coming at 60mph.
* **Immense Stamina and Endurance:** Akira possess immense levels of stamina and endurance. This is expected as Gyomei is the Hashira that trains them. Akira was able to walk across a path of burning coal while carrying heavy rocks.
* **Enhanced Touch Sense:** Akira, like Inosuke has an amazing sense of touch. He trains with Inosuke and sees him as a rival so Akira picked up a few things about Inosuke's fighting style. He can sense when someone is looking at him, with our without evil intent. He cannot sense where they are looking at though.

**Total Concentration: Constant:** Akira has mastered Total Concentration: Constant and uses it to make sure that he isn't using too much energy when fighting.

**Demon Slayer Mark:** During the Infinity Castle, Akira helped Gyomei fight Upper Moon 1 and awakened his mark. It is a diamond on his forehead.

**Transparent World:** During his fight with Upper Moon 1, Gyomei and Sanemi helped him look into the transparent world.

**Bright Red Nichirin Blade:** During his fight with Upper Moon 1, he was so concentrated on strategies to beat him, he held his sword so hard that it turned red. It was that and Muichiro's blade that defeated Upper Moon 1.

## Fighting Style

### Breathing Form

Metal Breathing (金属の呼吸 Kinzoku no Kokyu): A breathing form that Akira Gushiken uses. It was taught to him by The Stone Hashira, Gyomei. This breathing style focuses on speed, as many of its techniques' movements have to be fast for them to work. This is also a very aggressive breathing style, with a lot more attack techniques than defence techniques.

Techniques

1. **First Form: Metal Berserke**r (壱ノ型: メタルバーサーカー Ichi no kata: Metaru Basaka)- The user leaps at the enemy, swinging the chain left and right to attack while charging forwards.
2. **Second Form: Double Ore Cut** (弐ノ型: ダブル 鉱石 カット Ni no kata: Daburu Kouseki Katto)- The user throws the blade at the enemy to trap them with the chain and cut them with the blade.
3. **Third Form: Mineral Aegis** (参ノ型: ミネラルアイギス San no kata: Mineraru Aigisu)- The user throws the blade at the enemy to cut any attacks early. This is chained into a series of the same technique by the user manipulating the chain to move to different areas.
4. **Fourth Form: Welding Armour** (肆ノ型: 溶接装甲 Shi no kata: Yousetsu Soukou) - The user spins the chain around holding the middle of the chain to defend from any incoming attacks.
5. **Fifth Form: Steel Surge** (伍ノ型: 鋼鉄サージ Go no kata: Koutetsu Saji) - The user, holding the middle of the chain, throws the end of the chain and the blade as a pincer attack but then jerks the chain with the blade so that it goes faster to its target. This causes the enemy to get hit from their left side by the blade first and be pushed into the chain end.
6. **Sixth Form: Megaton Sledgehammer** (陸ノ型: メガトン-スレッジハンマー Roku no Kata: Megaton-Suretsujihanma) - The user jumps up, spins the blade end of the chain and slams down with it, creating a shockwave that pushes enemies away and slices through anything that it hits directly.
7. **Seventh Form: Blinding Cannon** (漆ノ型: まばゆいばかりの大砲 Shichi no kata: Mabayuibakarino Taihou) - This technique can only be done when a bright light is available. The user reflects the light into the enemy's eyes, blinding them momentarily. When the enemy regains their vision again they see the user already at their face with their blade in hand, ready to cut.
8. **Eight Form: Pyroclast Drill** (捌ノ型: 火山岩 錐 Hachi no kata: Kazangan Kiri) - The user twists up the chain to shape a spring and throws it at the enemy. The grinding of the blade against the chain creates friction to heat the blade. This attack drills into the enemy and burns them.
9. **Final Form: Ultimate Safeguarding** (終ノ型: 究極の安全対策 Tsui no kata: Kyuukyoku no Anzentaisaku) - This is the last resort technique that has only been used once. Like Zenitsu, this technique can only be used when the user is unconscious. The user throws the chain and manipulates it in a way that can only be done unconsciously. The unconscious self makes two priorities. Priority 1, defending anyone from getting attacked by physical forms such as punches, kicks, tentacles or anything that can touch someone to harm them physically and Priority 2, hitting the enemy in multiple places due to the chain's long reach and the user's unconscious skill in manipulating the chain.

## Equipment

**Nichirin Blade:** Akira uses a typical Nichirin Blade. It has black spikes on the blade and has a gold tsuba with a dragon carved on it. Akira specifically requested that his friends Tanjiro, Zenitsu, Inosuke and Nezuko's names be carved on the blade to remember them whenever he kills a demon.

## Quotes

* (To Tanjiro Kamado) "If we can still fight, we fight. Our heart will never waiver from who we are. And us? We're Demon Slayers. Right?"
* (To Zenitsu Agatsuma) "JUST SLEEP ZENITSU! When you are unconcious you will fight! Go to sleep!"
* (To Nezuko Kamado) "If Zenitsu ever tries to kidnap you or do anything to you, come to me and Tanjiro. We will deal with that pervert simp."
* (To Inosuke Hashibira) "Are you ready Inosuke? Lets fight! But chill out when you're fighting. This is training not a death match. Lets fight not only as rivals, but as opponents to each other."
* To (Himejima Gyomei) - "I understand the conditions that I will have to meet if I am your Tsugoku, sensei. And I will strive to reach them with all of my strength."