Kuro Tsutsuji

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Kuro Tsutsuji ( 黒ツツジ coo row tsu tsu jee) is one of the main protagonists to the story of Onryo, a strange boy with a small yet disfigured figure.

## Personality & Character

Kuro is a soft spoken but wise individual despite his age. Despite not being able to speak much, Kuro shows a great belief in nature and the benefits it provides almost to a religious degree. While estranged to the idea of friends and incapable of interacting greatly with others, he has shown a deeper understanding of people, but lacks the social ques to say what someone needs to say, only what is correct.

When within a civilized area, Kuro has shown a problem with navigation and panics when removed from contact with soil or trees. In truth as much of a boon that Kuro provides within a forest, he acts just as heavily as a hindrance when within heavily populated towns or cities. This hindrance usually does not last long as due to his disfigurement he is regularly chased out of large towns, sometimes even hunted.

## Skills & Abilities

Kuro shows a great knowledge of the forest and how it functions to a seemingly inhuman degree thanks to his belief that he is one with nature and apart of it. This knowledge of the forests extends beyond plant life but also animals and fungus and the social structures that a forest resides within. Shown within the show is his ability within a forest to navigate it without much effort and impossibility to get lost as well as a skill to find animals when in need to hunt. As a hunter, Kuro has a active knowledge of his charge and the most effective ways to defeat them.

Kuro's skill in hunting and gathering has translated into his ability as a Demon Slayer, making him a powerful enemy to those who would go against nature. Using a fighting style known as Forest Breathing, he wields a yellow nichirin sickle which enables a close quarters and ultimately reckless but effective fighting style. Unable to attack traditionally, they fight through reaction, being able to harm those who attempt to harm them or those fleeing. Additionally his use of nature allows him a mild control of it, being capable of sprouting trees and other plants to assist him in combat or in day to day life. Although not actually having the ability to speak to nature, he believes he can.

## History

### 1912

The world was shaken through the economic crisis that was World War 1, and as such many people, Kuro's family included, would reject the ideas of the then government, some opting to leave the ever growing modernity and return to smaller villages and tribes. As a collective, 8 families, including Kuro's would go into the forest to build a society amongst themselves, with the idea of being free from government control and protection. These decisions would mark this group of people as perfect targets for both bandits and demons.

Life in the wilds was never peaceful per say, as wild animals and poisonous plants exist everywhere in a abundance. With the threat of bandits breathing down their necks, many of these families would begin to resorting to unfavorable methods to prevent those who would harm them. Through a method of violence and a introduction of proper farming systems things would grow peaceful for a time. But as we know, bandits are the least of ones worries when remaining amidst the trees.

### 1915

It was sounds at first that would alert the village of somethings presence, then the smell of smoke, and lastly the screams of a family that would insinuate a full blown attack. A group of lesser demons, taking full advantage of the people here, were prepared for a slaughter. everyone, including Kuro's family, were slaughtered. The only reason that the child of 3 survived was purely because, as if by miracle, the demon which would devour his eyes became distracted by another.

Flames of the village would engulf the area, burning away all impurities, and horribly disfiguring the boy. After the flames descended, whatever that would be left would be taken by the forest denizens, foxes, boars, birds.