Yuri Hanae

* **Art:** I don't know the artist.

* **Creditials of name and content/information of character:** By Dafailure428 on the Kimetsu no Yaiba Wiki and the Sengoku-Era Hashiras Wiki but altered to fit the plot of the *Kimetsu no Yaiba Reishoki anthology*.

* **Difference between the characters:** ① The KnYR Yuri Hanae and the KnYR Yusuke Mizuhara are childhood friends in this version unlike their Sengoku-Era Hashiras Wiki counterparts who met each other for the first time when Yoriichi demonstrated the use of breathing techniques to the other Demon Slayers. ② The KnYR Yuri much taller, standing over than her Sengoku-Era Hashiras Wiki counterpart.

* **Links used to create this article:** Yuri Hanae - Sengoku-Era Hashiras Wiki and Sengoku Era Character headcanon #2 - Kimetsu no Yaiba Wiki.

## Characteristics

### Age

19 (1452)
 22 (1455)

## Affiliations

### Occupation

Demon Slayer
 Flower Hashira

### Combat Style

Flower Breathing
 Water Breathing (Formerly)

## Personal Status

### Relationship(s)

Yusuke Mizuhara (Childhood Friend)
 Ginjiro Tomioka's Wife (Reincarnation)

## Familial Status

### Relative(s)

Unknown Father
 Manami Hanae (Younger Sister)

**Yuri Hanae** (花江 百合, *Hanae Yuri*?) is a major character in *Kimetsu no Yaiba Reishoki: Sengoku Tales*. She was a Demon Slayer of the Demon Slayer Corps and the first ever Flower Hashira (花柱, *Hana Bashira*?) during the Sengoku Period.

Yuri was also the childhood friend of the Sengoku Period Water Hashira, Yusuke Mizuhara.

## Etymology

* Yuri's surname contains the kanji for "flower" (花, *hana*?) and "river" (江, *e*?). Her first name "Yuri" means "lily" (百合, *yuri*?).

## Appearance

Yuri was a young adult that had a relatively tall but had a slender yet voluptuous build with a slightly pale complexion. She had long, flowing, black hair swept to the right of her forehead and lets it flow down her back.

Yuri wore a pink kimono tucked into purple-colored hakama pants without any leg wraps around her shins and held up by a dark pink sash around her waist. She also sported a pair of zōri with pink straps and white tabi socks on her feet.

When relaxing on her days off, Yuri wore a dark kimono that has red flower patterns all over it with a red obi tied around her waist.

## Personality

Yuri was known to be good-natured and having an easygoing personality; She is almost always seen with a gentle smile on her face. She also had an unrealistic dream of someday being able to live peacefully alongside demons despite all the suffering and death they have inflicted on humans. She also held compassion and sympathy for demons only because they have never hurt her or her family. The fact that she held sympathy for them led to her feeling insecure about what side she was on since it was highly controversial for a demon slayer, especially a Hashira, to feel anything except hatred for demons. Yuri knew she shouldn't, but she did.

## Abilities

### Overall Abilities

As a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Yuri is a very powerful and skilled combatant. Despite her small physique, Minami does possess the strength to decapitate a demon with a Nichirin sword.

**Medical Expertise:** Despite being as combat-talented as the rest of her fellow Hashira, Yuri also displays immense skill and mastery in over medical and pharmaceutical fields to add on her natural-born combat ability.

**Genius Intellect:** Yuri has great knowledge of medicine and botany, since she knew the medicinal value of red spider lilies after accidentally discovered their medicinal use when she needed a bandage thus led to her using red spider lilies later.

### Physical Abilities

**Immense Strength:** As a Hashira, Yuri possesses a great deal of strength enhanced to superhuman levels much higher than the Demon Slayers at the time.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes:** Yuri possesses superhuman speed and reflexes enabling her to effortlessly evade and out-pace demons, attacking them before they can even register what happened. Since she is a Flower Breather, it is assumed she has a flexible body since she trained alongside Yusuke Mizuhara, the Water Hashira at the time, to master Water Breathing.

**Immense Stamina and Endurance:** As a Hashira, Yuri has attained tremendous levels of stamina and endurance much higher than the Demon Slayers at the time due to years of harsh training.

**Enhanced Agility:** In accordance to her Flower Breathing swordsmanship style, Yuri is incredibly agile and swift, shown when she maneuvered through lush and difficult terrains effortlessly and evade a demon's Blood Demon Art with ease and finesse. When fighting, Minami also relies on acrobatic movements to deliver dozens of swift attacks with her katana to deliver as many cuts as she can into her enemy at once. This also allows her to dodge and evade attacks, even blocking them easily.

### Demon Slayer Abilities

**Demon Slayer Mark:** Like the Hashira and other Demon Slayers of her generation, Yuri awoke her Demon Slayer Mark due to Yoriichi Tsugikuni's mark resonating with the Demon Slayers at the time. Her mark resembled patterns resembling flowers that are light pink in colour that run up her left arm, around her chest up her left neck to her right forehead. When activated, she gains a tremendous increase in strength, speed, precision, and endurance along with the power of his Breathing Styles increased by 100x their usual capabilities. She however, rarely uses the mark.

### Supernatural Abilities

**Enhanced Eyesight:** As the creator of Flower Breathing, Yuri possesses extremely sharp eyesight over all other Demon Slayers, being able to accurately predict her opponent's next attack and movements by simply observing the subtle shifts of their muscles, joints and the slight movements of their eyes. This allows her to make effective counterattacks and dodges and stay ahead of her opponents. This ability is enhanced with the **Flower Breathing, Final Form: Equinoctial Vermilion Eye**.

**Extrasensory Perception:** Yuri had extremely honed senses able to pick up things outside the normal range of perception, such as discerning the aura of a demon's from a human's.

## Fighting Style

**Master Swordswoman:** As a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Yuri is one of the most powerful and skilled swordswomen in the entire organization. During the battle that the first generation of Hashira and Demon Slayers had against Muzan Kibutsuji, Kokushibo and the first generation members of the Twelve Kizuki (both Upper Ranks and Lower Ranks), Minami was able to fight Tenzo Oda, the first ever Upper Rank 2 of the Twelve Kizuki to a standstill and set an achievement that no later generation of Demon Slayers could do, kill an Upper Rank single-handedly.

### Breathing Style

**Flower Breathing** (花の呼吸, *Hana no Kokyū*?): Created by Yuri herself by deriving it from Water Breathing and modifying it further into a combat style which combination of graceful attacks that focus on agility and used it in conjunction with her vision to enhance her sense of sight. Since she is the creator of Flower Breathing and the Flower Hashira, she is her generation's most skilled Flower Breathing user. Her skill is so great that it far surpasses the skill of the Taisho Era Flower Breathers, Kanae Kocho and Kanao Tsuyuri, since she created Flower Breathing and knew it the best. It is stated that her sister had the same skill as her.

## Equipment

**Standard Nichirin Katana:** Like the majority of Demon Slayers, MinYuri ami harbors a standard Nichirin Sword. Her katana is light pink in color, complementing her Breathing Style, Flower Breathing. Her hilt is circular shaped with a light pastel blue center and border, filled 3 red five-leafed flowers and a winding pattern that is light green in color. As a member of the Hashira, Yuri's katana also had the words **Destroyer of Demons** (惡鬼滅殺, *Akki Messatsu*?) engraved on both sides. Along with her katana, Minami carries around a standard sword sheath that is black in color with silver flower patterns decorating it.

## Trivia

* Due to the rarity of female slayers, the headquarters never felt the need for a special female uniform. Thus, the few female slayers wore male uniforms (kimono jackets and hakama pants). Yuri never seemed to mind this.
* Yuri was the first female Hashira in demon slayer history. She gained a fellow female Hashira when the Ice Hashira was picked.
* She learned from a teacher in her family how to cure simple wounds with herbs, cure diseases and nurse people to health.
* Due to red spider lilies were often grown around rice paddies to fend off mice with their poison, Yuri saw it during her time studying and after continuous research, discovered its medicinal use when she needed a bandage.
	+ This would later lead to Yuri using red spider lilies later.
* Yuri would then grow a lot of Wisteria around her estate and various medicinal herbs in her gardens, including red spider lilies.
	+ Due to her estate also functioning as a hospital, it us the largest out of the Hashira estates.
* In the middle of her estate's garden, Yuri planted a small cherry blossom tree. She named it "Victory" and cared for it every day (It grew to a magnificent size centuries later and is the same tree to which Kanao Tsuyuri reported their success against Muzan in Chapter 204).
* Due to her father's friend betraying her father and setting fire to her previous home, Yuri has always detested arsonists and traitors, or acts related to those.
* Yuri might have been more powerful than Kanae Kocho and Kanao Tsuyuri since she created Flower Breathing and knew it the best.

## Yuri's view of the other Hashira

* *"He is a good person at heart, but I think he should reconsider his pace a little. It's exhausting to keep up with him, too."* - Flame Hashira.
* *"He maybe rude, but he's still admirable and cute"* - Mist Hashira.
* *"I often talk to him about how to properly interact with women. Its difficult because he hates women"* - Thunder Hashira.
* *"I really like his calm demeanor."* - Stone Hashira.
* *"My senior trainee and childhood friend. Yoriichi taught us two the same combat styles, but I did it differently. I like his ability to adapt. It's amazing. I wish he was more open to me. I want to heal his heart of his pain."* - Water Hashira.
* *"My fellow female Hashira. She is a kind and she often visits me for company. Although her personality is as cold as ice"* - Ice Hashira.
* *"I hope he doesn't trigger get a stroke being angry all the time."* - Wind Hashira.
* *"I still get confused about whether he is the older one or the younger one. Twins are often confusing."* - Moon Hashira.
* *"It's surprising how kind he is. He even took the time to modify his breathing style to suit my strengths. I respect him from the bottom of my heart."* - Sun Hashira.
* *"I didn't know that another different supernatural creature existed, even more surprising that he's the first of his kind. Hearing him say that he was born that way and with the powers and able to use the sun and qi as a power source is really interesting to study. Overall, it's great to see another equally strong supernatural entity actually fighting for the corps."* - Stellar Hashira.