Yet Even So, How I Hate the Cold Light of Dawn: A Genya Time Travel Universe
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Yesterday, Tomorrow's Wind Blows by PlatinumDescent
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
03 Jan 2026
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Genya stood amongst a field of red spider lilies, their stems bowing like a crowd of quiet witnesses. The sunlight warmed his face in a way that made the moment feel absurdly ordinary. He knows at once where he is, and for an instant the world zoned on the river that faced him.
His mother had told him, long ago, whispered to him and his siblings like a warning within a lullaby— the old wives’ tale came back to him unbidden, the river that carried you across, the current that met you at the edge of everything. It had been said to him as a child, a thing to keep in the corner of the mind like a reminder. Now it felt less like a tale and more like a foretelling.
In which Genya dies in his brother's arms, a Hashira finds the merit in gun wielding and a meeting between demons prompt a change of heart. Not necessarily in that order.
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