Pavlova Cookie is a bit annoying with his penchant for sticking his nose into everything with little regard for if it’s wanted or asked for, so that is something that people may want to avoid, but the main reason for this opt-out is his primary ability. Pavlova has the ability to essentially look into a person’s heart and see their relationships. This is not limited to romantic relationships, as he can see both romantic and platonic relationships, as well as being able to sense if a person wants certain relationships. If it has to do with their relationships in any form he can find it out from poking around long enough. From unrequited love to lies people tell themselves in relation to their perception of their relationships, he can see it all. If he focuses hard enough he can even read the story of a particular relationship. It’s a very specialized power, but it’s also very powerful. So I’d like to know if for one reason or another you’d like him to Not Do That. Or if you’d like to opt out of interacting with the little shipper entirely. The descriptions offer suggestions for people opting in, but opting out is always alright, and you can just put “No” into all of the sections. You can also just put what he can sense and nothing else if there are parts and pieces you don’t want him picking up on.
Opt out: Yes/No
Relationships he can read: This is the fun part! Tell me aaaaall about your character’s relationships. All of the important ties they have! This can be as detailed or simple as you like, or as you feel befits the importance of the relationship. If your character has a billion and one friendships with npcs, you can just say that. Have fun with it!
Beliefs they hold: Essentially, what parts of their relationships are they misinterpreting or lying to themselves about. Have they been willfully ignoring someone’s advances because they’re nervous the other isn’t serious about it? Have they been arguing with a friend over a total misunderstanding? Do they think that a relationship they want won’t work out for some reason? Do they want romance but don’t think they’re cut out for it because of their occupation or situation or something? He can sense that! Put it in!
Tropes: He is the CRK equivalent to a kid who reads fics on Ao3 to stave off depression. If you want him to call your character cringe I can see what I can do to make that happen. He’s already wrapping his head around Shadownilla Toxic Yaoi. This is also a less intensive option for those who don’t want him peeping their whole romance.
How does their heart look: I often like to embellish my writing with things like this, so sometimes I might refer to a character’s heart as though he is seeing a representation of it tangled in its relationship strings. Are there a bunch of severed ones hanging there? Are the strings squeezing it too tightly? Are the strings threatening to break? Loose? What are the strings made of? What does the heart itself look like? Is it like glass? Literally walled off? Drained of color?
Additional considerations: Anything you think is important that might not fall under the prior sections! His "knowledge of relationships" is very vague in it's scope so if you'd like him to learn something specifically to call them on it, this would be a good place to note that.
May I contact for more info: Yes/No. This is just here in case things change organically over time and/or i’m writing something specific and want to double check about the specifics of something mentioned above. “No” is for those who only want him referencing what is mentioned and nothing else.
Opt out: let me IIIIIINNNN Relationships he can read: in game - KYOJURO: the flame hashira who protected tanjiro when akaza tried to execute him. his level of power and passion captivated akaza during their fight, to the point he lost track of his original goal and of time. he offered multiple times to convert kyojuro into a demon, so that they could grow stronger together forever, and each time kyojuro rebuked him. when they both finally went all out, akaza overpowered kyojuro and mortally wounded him by punching through his solar plexus. even knowing he would die, kyojuro still refused to become a demon, and tried to hold akaza in place until the sun rose. ultimately, akaza broke off his own limbs to escape. [suicide attempt mention:] when he entered the grove, akaza was confronted by kyojuro but did not antagonize him. in fact, he asked kyojuro to move aside so that he could step into the sunlight. kyojuro recognized that akaza had changed since he died, and challenged him to continue living, to hone his moral fortitude just as he had honed his physical strength. their relationship is nothing like the demonic partnership akaza had envisioned, but that isn't a bad thing. akaza has come to greatly admire kyojuro's convictions. he doesn't yet fully realize it, but he feels emotional and physical attraction to kyojuro. however, he feels he is unworthy of kyojuro's affection, both for killing him and for being a demon with an enormous body count, so he unconsciously sabotages any progress toward a relationship. unlike his insistence during their fight for kyojuro to renounce his humanity, now akaza doesn't want kyojuro to ever compromise his morals for his sake. kyojuro bought human flesh from the shopkeeper just to keep akaza from eventually going feral, and akaza refused to eat it because he felt it would be an unforgivable betrayal of kyojuro to himself. - SENJURO: out of respect for kyojuro, akaza avoids being around him, aka no weasel rping with himself lol. - FLAMEBRINGER: once kissed kyojuro with blood, which means akaza has to fucking kill this guy. - WHITE LILY: akaza respects her and tries to be a polite young man around her. - VILDRED: he and akaza embarrassed themselves together spying on spin the bottle. vildred is obviously super into ras. couldn't be akaza! - GENYA: a demon slayer and a FREAK who ate akaza's tooth. his powers are very unique and interesting, and the kid is entertaining with how unhinged he is. akaza likes to fuck with him, but wouldn't actually hurt him. - AIRA: sonboy. he protecc. he seems sensitive and kind, the exact personality that activates akaza's caretaker instinct. akaza wants to learn more about him to better help him. - MAFUYU: daughtergirl. he protecc. she shared some concerning things at the king's game, things that he can very much relate to, and akaza wants to give her a safe space to be vulnerable. - PAVLOVA: sonboy. u get it. he comes across as tender and deeply hurt, which akaza sees his child self in despite pav admitting to being thousands of years old. even if they've only talked briefly, akaza has found it difficult to keep things from him, even the things that are usually difficult for him to talk about. - JOSHUA ROSFIELD: the healer who helped kyojuro with his wounds from their fight, as well as the wounds he received from protecting akaza at the circus labyrinth. akaza feels deeply indebted to him. - LUCA: akaza embarrassed himself by shittalking luca's cooking in his own house. he does his best to avoid luca while he learns how to be a big boy and apologize. - ZOEY: a fascinating young lady! akaza likes her. - MYSTERY: another demon, but not the same sort as he is. akaza is intrigued, but still bristles at him. how dare he pick up akaza's human. - HEIMR: at first, akaza didn't like the shopkeeper by merit of him providing kyojuro with human flesh to offer akaza. he has since spoken to heimr about it, and guesses the man isn't so bad. - BEIWE: due to her role as the sun, akaza feels an instinctual distrust and fear of her. - SURI: he tried to use koyuki and keizo to manipulate akaza. if not for kyojuro, it probably would have worked. reminds akaza way too much of muzan. can't stand him. would knock his head off in an instant if allowed to.
from canon - HAKUJI/AKAZA: hakuji was akaza in his human life, which he forgot completely after becoming a demon. he only remembered his human life within minutes of dying, and now he is struggling to reconcile both parts of himself with his entire memory intact. he actively chooses to continue going by "akaza" as a form of self-punishment for his sins. - FATHER: hakuji's only birth family. a kind, gentle man who suffered worsening chronic illness and malnourishment for hakuji's entire impoverished childhood. hakuji was his caretaker and had to steal to get money for medicine and food. [mentions of suicide and basically police brutality:] after hakuji was caught and punished multiple times, including receiving criminal tattoos and beatings of 100 lashings multiple times by age 11, his father hung himself so that hakuji would no longer feel obligated to resort to crime to take care of him. hakuji did not understand this, as he gladly would have taken any punishment to take care of his father. - KEIZO: a bare-fisted Soryu martial arts master who found 15-year-old hakuji starting street fights with multiple grown men at once. as he put it, he "beat the criminal out of hakuji" and took him in as the sole student at his dojo. he taught hakuji to channel his penchant for fighting into something healthy, and over three years became a new father to him. - KOYUKI: keizo's daughter who endured chronic illness like hakuji's father. he was designated her caretaker in exchange for his room and board at the dojo. they both brought out the kind and gentle natures of one another and fell in love over three years. they were engaged when hakuji was 18, and he promised to spend his life protecting her. - KENJUTSU DOJO: the neighboring dojo whose master, a samurai, coveted keizo's, a commoner's, land. the master's son wanted koyuki as a bride, but treated her roughly. once, the master and his son, both wielding swords, had a two-on-two duel with keizo and hakuji, who wielded no weapons, which the soryu dojo won. the kenjutsu master respected their victory and backed off. however, his son still resented them, and after the master died, his son poisoned the soryu dojo's well, killing keizo and koyuki while hakuji was away. before he could even see his family buried, hakuji entered the kenjutsu dojo and killed all 67 of its fully armed members with his bare hands. - MUZAN: the progenitor of demons, who turns humans into demons by infecting them with his cells. he followed rumors of the kenjutsu dojo massacre, which was so violent and one-sided that it was said to be the work of a demon. he found hakuji and converted him (who did not agree to it, but also did not resist) into a demon. akaza then lost his human memories and became one of muzan's strongest, oldest, and most loyal demons. this loyalty likely only existed as a biological tie, as he felt neither respect for nor fear of muzan. - 12 KIZUKI: muzan's strongest demons, consisting of upper ranks and lower ranks. akaza was Upper 3. anyone lower than him, he did not concern himself with at all. - KOKUSHIBO: Upper 1, and one of few demons older than akaza. akaza begrudgingly respected his power but still disliked him and sought to grow strong enough to defeat him. he once challenged kokushibo for Upper Rank 1, but lost. typically, the losers of these duels are absorbed by the winner, but kokushibo allowed akaza to live because he found his level of power and determination entertaining. - DOUMA: Upper 2, a demon younger than akaza who amassed power quickly and usurped him. akaza received special permission from muzan to never kill or eat women; douma almost exclusively ate women and delighted in torturing them, and constantly tried to pressure akaza into doing so. akaza, who notoriously loved talking to humans, would violently strike douma outside of duels, a taboo for kizuki, for trying to talk to him. i cannot emphasize enough how much akaza fucking hated this man. - HUMANS: akaza avoided fighting, killing, or eating women, even those in the demon slayer corps. any men who did not have the power to keep up with him, he killed quickly. those who could present a challenge, he loved to talk to and "play with" in combat. without fail, he would offer to convert them to demons, otherwise he killed and ate them. the few who ever accepted his offer did not survive the transformation. - HASHIRA: pillars of the demon slayer corps, their strongest members. over his demon lifetime, he fought and killed many hashira, each one of whom he offered to convert. every single one refused him. - TANJIRO: a demon slayer with a mutual personal vendetta against muzan. from the moment they met, he viscerally repulsed akaza. when akaza fled the sun after fatally wounding kyojuro, tanjiro called him a coward. months later, when muzan trapped the entire corps inside his stronghold, akaza confronted tanjiro again with the intent to kill him quickly. tanjiro had gained enough power and skill to impress akaza, but his passion for morality still disgusted him. tanjiro was able to achieve a state of being that akaza called "the realm of the highest," where he was able to release his fighting spirit and thus become impossible for akaza to read. in this state, he confronted akaza head on and decapitated him with no resistance, which akaza could not accept, and his headless body continued to fight, a feat that almost no demons could perform. ultimately, an exhausted tanjiro punched akaza in the face as he regenerated his head, an act that reminded him of his master, keizo. once he acknowledged his human memories, akaza accepted that tanjiro had defeated him fairly in battle and allowed himself to die with honor. now, he feels immense gratitude toward tanjiro for helping him remember who he was. - GIYU: the water hashira who fought akaza alongside tanjiro in the castle. like kyojuro, akaza greatly admired his combat skills and toyed with him. also like kyojuro, giyu refused akaza's offer to become a demon, and even akaza's attempts at other conversation. akaza found him so fascinating that he allowed giyu to live long enough to use every single water breathing technique, after which he attempted to kill giyu, which tanjiro thwarted. after tanjiro beheaded him and collapsed from exhaustion, giyu, despite grievous injury, protected the boy from akaza's repeated attempts to finish him off. giyu's defiance even with the very real possibility of his own death reminded akaza of his master keizo's own values, which initially led to him beginning to recall his human life. although it repulsed him at the time, akaza has come to admire and be grateful to giyu for reminding him of his humanity.
Beliefs they hold: a portrait they found in their grove home implies that hakuji was married to both koyuki and kyojuro in their past lives. while he isn't explicitly homophobic, akaza can't quite wrap his head around being attracted to another man, much less having multiple partners.
akaza doesn't believe he is worthy of receiving kindness from anyone at this point, romantic or platonic. even if he wasn't a demon with centuries of eating humans, hakuji still committed murder as a human, with his master's soryu style nonetheless.
he believes that being in the grove is both a sort of purgatory and a punishment for his actions in life. when he had finally accepted his death, he escaped muzan's control and became hakuji again in spirit, and the spirits of his father, koyuki, and keizo welcomed him to the afterlife and were willing to endure hell with him. here, he doesn't even get to be beside them as he is punished – and it is punishment. he still inhabits a demon body, subject to demon weaknesses and demonic hunger for human flesh.
Tropes: tragic monster, challenge seeker, determinator, slasher smile, you are what you hate, wouldn't hit a girl
How does their heart look: like a fist, the veins and arteries clenched fingers instead. it still flexes like it's beating, strong when alone but fluttery and nervous when around others. something tender and fragile pretending to be intimidating. there are scars where old strings have broken off, some uglier than others. the existing strings are various colors, each relevant to their respective "owner." they seem tenuously connected, as if each flexed heartbeat might cause them to snap off.
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Relationships he can read:
in game
- KYOJURO: the flame hashira who protected tanjiro when akaza tried to execute him. his level of power and passion captivated akaza during their fight, to the point he lost track of his original goal and of time. he offered multiple times to convert kyojuro into a demon, so that they could grow stronger together forever, and each time kyojuro rebuked him. when they both finally went all out, akaza overpowered kyojuro and mortally wounded him by punching through his solar plexus. even knowing he would die, kyojuro still refused to become a demon, and tried to hold akaza in place until the sun rose. ultimately, akaza broke off his own limbs to escape.
[suicide attempt mention:] when he entered the grove, akaza was confronted by kyojuro but did not antagonize him. in fact, he asked kyojuro to move aside so that he could step into the sunlight. kyojuro recognized that akaza had changed since he died, and challenged him to continue living, to hone his moral fortitude just as he had honed his physical strength. their relationship is nothing like the demonic partnership akaza had envisioned, but that isn't a bad thing. akaza has come to greatly admire kyojuro's convictions. he doesn't yet fully realize it, but he feels emotional and physical attraction to kyojuro. however, he feels he is unworthy of kyojuro's affection, both for killing him and for being a demon with an enormous body count, so he unconsciously sabotages any progress toward a relationship.
unlike his insistence during their fight for kyojuro to renounce his humanity, now akaza doesn't want kyojuro to ever compromise his morals for his sake. kyojuro bought human flesh from the shopkeeper just to keep akaza from eventually going feral, and akaza refused to eat it because he felt it would be an unforgivable betrayal of kyojuro to himself.
- SENJURO: out of respect for kyojuro, akaza avoids being around him, aka no weasel rping with himself lol.
- FLAMEBRINGER: once kissed kyojuro with blood, which means akaza has to fucking kill this guy.
- WHITE LILY: akaza respects her and tries to be a polite young man around her.
- VILDRED: he and akaza embarrassed themselves together spying on spin the bottle. vildred is obviously super into ras. couldn't be akaza!
- GENYA: a demon slayer and a FREAK who ate akaza's tooth. his powers are very unique and interesting, and the kid is entertaining with how unhinged he is. akaza likes to fuck with him, but wouldn't actually hurt him.
- AIRA: sonboy. he protecc. he seems sensitive and kind, the exact personality that activates akaza's caretaker instinct. akaza wants to learn more about him to better help him.
- MAFUYU: daughtergirl. he protecc. she shared some concerning things at the king's game, things that he can very much relate to, and akaza wants to give her a safe space to be vulnerable.
- PAVLOVA: sonboy. u get it. he comes across as tender and deeply hurt, which akaza sees his child self in despite pav admitting to being thousands of years old. even if they've only talked briefly, akaza has found it difficult to keep things from him, even the things that are usually difficult for him to talk about.
- JOSHUA ROSFIELD: the healer who helped kyojuro with his wounds from their fight, as well as the wounds he received from protecting akaza at the circus labyrinth. akaza feels deeply indebted to him.
- LUCA: akaza embarrassed himself by shittalking luca's cooking in his own house. he does his best to avoid luca while he learns how to be a big boy and apologize.
- ZOEY: a fascinating young lady! akaza likes her.
- MYSTERY: another demon, but not the same sort as he is. akaza is intrigued, but still bristles at him. how dare he pick up akaza's human.
- HEIMR: at first, akaza didn't like the shopkeeper by merit of him providing kyojuro with human flesh to offer akaza. he has since spoken to heimr about it, and guesses the man isn't so bad.
- BEIWE: due to her role as the sun, akaza feels an instinctual distrust and fear of her.
- SURI: he tried to use koyuki and keizo to manipulate akaza. if not for kyojuro, it probably would have worked. reminds akaza way too much of muzan. can't stand him. would knock his head off in an instant if allowed to.
from canon
- HAKUJI/AKAZA: hakuji was akaza in his human life, which he forgot completely after becoming a demon. he only remembered his human life within minutes of dying, and now he is struggling to reconcile both parts of himself with his entire memory intact. he actively chooses to continue going by "akaza" as a form of self-punishment for his sins.
- FATHER: hakuji's only birth family. a kind, gentle man who suffered worsening chronic illness and malnourishment for hakuji's entire impoverished childhood. hakuji was his caretaker and had to steal to get money for medicine and food. [mentions of suicide and basically police brutality:] after hakuji was caught and punished multiple times, including receiving criminal tattoos and beatings of 100 lashings multiple times by age 11, his father hung himself so that hakuji would no longer feel obligated to resort to crime to take care of him. hakuji did not understand this, as he gladly would have taken any punishment to take care of his father.
- KEIZO: a bare-fisted Soryu martial arts master who found 15-year-old hakuji starting street fights with multiple grown men at once. as he put it, he "beat the criminal out of hakuji" and took him in as the sole student at his dojo. he taught hakuji to channel his penchant for fighting into something healthy, and over three years became a new father to him.
- KOYUKI: keizo's daughter who endured chronic illness like hakuji's father. he was designated her caretaker in exchange for his room and board at the dojo. they both brought out the kind and gentle natures of one another and fell in love over three years. they were engaged when hakuji was 18, and he promised to spend his life protecting her.
- KENJUTSU DOJO: the neighboring dojo whose master, a samurai, coveted keizo's, a commoner's, land. the master's son wanted koyuki as a bride, but treated her roughly. once, the master and his son, both wielding swords, had a two-on-two duel with keizo and hakuji, who wielded no weapons, which the soryu dojo won. the kenjutsu master respected their victory and backed off. however, his son still resented them, and after the master died, his son poisoned the soryu dojo's well, killing keizo and koyuki while hakuji was away. before he could even see his family buried, hakuji entered the kenjutsu dojo and killed all 67 of its fully armed members with his bare hands.
- MUZAN: the progenitor of demons, who turns humans into demons by infecting them with his cells. he followed rumors of the kenjutsu dojo massacre, which was so violent and one-sided that it was said to be the work of a demon. he found hakuji and converted him (who did not agree to it, but also did not resist) into a demon. akaza then lost his human memories and became one of muzan's strongest, oldest, and most loyal demons. this loyalty likely only existed as a biological tie, as he felt neither respect for nor fear of muzan.
- 12 KIZUKI: muzan's strongest demons, consisting of upper ranks and lower ranks. akaza was Upper 3. anyone lower than him, he did not concern himself with at all.
- KOKUSHIBO: Upper 1, and one of few demons older than akaza. akaza begrudgingly respected his power but still disliked him and sought to grow strong enough to defeat him. he once challenged kokushibo for Upper Rank 1, but lost. typically, the losers of these duels are absorbed by the winner, but kokushibo allowed akaza to live because he found his level of power and determination entertaining.
- DOUMA: Upper 2, a demon younger than akaza who amassed power quickly and usurped him. akaza received special permission from muzan to never kill or eat women; douma almost exclusively ate women and delighted in torturing them, and constantly tried to pressure akaza into doing so. akaza, who notoriously loved talking to humans, would violently strike douma outside of duels, a taboo for kizuki, for trying to talk to him. i cannot emphasize enough how much akaza fucking hated this man.
- HUMANS: akaza avoided fighting, killing, or eating women, even those in the demon slayer corps. any men who did not have the power to keep up with him, he killed quickly. those who could present a challenge, he loved to talk to and "play with" in combat. without fail, he would offer to convert them to demons, otherwise he killed and ate them. the few who ever accepted his offer did not survive the transformation.
- HASHIRA: pillars of the demon slayer corps, their strongest members. over his demon lifetime, he fought and killed many hashira, each one of whom he offered to convert. every single one refused him.
- TANJIRO: a demon slayer with a mutual personal vendetta against muzan. from the moment they met, he viscerally repulsed akaza. when akaza fled the sun after fatally wounding kyojuro, tanjiro called him a coward. months later, when muzan trapped the entire corps inside his stronghold, akaza confronted tanjiro again with the intent to kill him quickly. tanjiro had gained enough power and skill to impress akaza, but his passion for morality still disgusted him.
tanjiro was able to achieve a state of being that akaza called "the realm of the highest," where he was able to release his fighting spirit and thus become impossible for akaza to read. in this state, he confronted akaza head on and decapitated him with no resistance, which akaza could not accept, and his headless body continued to fight, a feat that almost no demons could perform.
ultimately, an exhausted tanjiro punched akaza in the face as he regenerated his head, an act that reminded him of his master, keizo. once he acknowledged his human memories, akaza accepted that tanjiro had defeated him fairly in battle and allowed himself to die with honor. now, he feels immense gratitude toward tanjiro for helping him remember who he was.
- GIYU: the water hashira who fought akaza alongside tanjiro in the castle. like kyojuro, akaza greatly admired his combat skills and toyed with him. also like kyojuro, giyu refused akaza's offer to become a demon, and even akaza's attempts at other conversation. akaza found him so fascinating that he allowed giyu to live long enough to use every single water breathing technique, after which he attempted to kill giyu, which tanjiro thwarted.
after tanjiro beheaded him and collapsed from exhaustion, giyu, despite grievous injury, protected the boy from akaza's repeated attempts to finish him off. giyu's defiance even with the very real possibility of his own death reminded akaza of his master keizo's own values, which initially led to him beginning to recall his human life. although it repulsed him at the time, akaza has come to admire and be grateful to giyu for reminding him of his humanity.
Beliefs they hold:
a portrait they found in their grove home implies that hakuji was married to both koyuki and kyojuro in their past lives. while he isn't explicitly homophobic, akaza can't quite wrap his head around being attracted to another man, much less having multiple partners.
akaza doesn't believe he is worthy of receiving kindness from anyone at this point, romantic or platonic. even if he wasn't a demon with centuries of eating humans, hakuji still committed murder as a human, with his master's soryu style nonetheless.
he believes that being in the grove is both a sort of purgatory and a punishment for his actions in life. when he had finally accepted his death, he escaped muzan's control and became hakuji again in spirit, and the spirits of his father, koyuki, and keizo welcomed him to the afterlife and were willing to endure hell with him. here, he doesn't even get to be beside them as he is punished – and it is punishment. he still inhabits a demon body, subject to demon weaknesses and demonic hunger for human flesh.
Tropes: tragic monster, challenge seeker, determinator, slasher smile, you are what you hate, wouldn't hit a girl
How does their heart look:
like a fist, the veins and arteries clenched fingers instead. it still flexes like it's beating, strong when alone but fluttery and nervous when around others. something tender and fragile pretending to be intimidating. there are scars where old strings have broken off, some uglier than others. the existing strings are various colors, each relevant to their respective "owner." they seem tenuously connected, as if each flexed heartbeat might cause them to snap off.
Additional considerations: none at this time!
May I contact for more info: ALWAYS