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1. A Winter’s (Formal) Tale by bonesOfgod

   Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   24 Jan 2026

   Tags

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   • Kamado Tanjirou/Shinazugawa Genya
   • Kamado Tanjirou
   • Shinazugawa Genya
   • Kamado Nezuko
   • Agatsuma Zenitsu
   • Tsuyuri Kanao
   • Hashibira Inosuke
   • School Dance
   • Mutual Pining
   • Kimetsu Academy
   • Dual POV
   • some background ships if you squint
   • Feelings Realization
   • get-together plot
   • don’t worry about that lingering sense of dread
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Implied/Referenced Abuse
   • implied/referenced queer characters
   • religious trauma
   • genya is doing is best
   • shinazugawa genya is severely mentally ill
   • Kamado Tanjirou is a Ray of Sunshine
   • Kamaboko squad
   • slow dance
   • Almost Kiss
   • Idiots in Love
   • Random background OCs - Freeform
   • religious based homophobia
   • Religious Guilt
   • Suicidal Ideation
   • mention of conversion therapy
   • domestic abuse
   • kamado kie is a good mom
   • shinazugawa shizu is a good but traumatized mom

   Summary

   It’s the end of the semester at Kimetsu Academy, and thus time for Winter Formal, and Genya is—somewhat—excited. It’s what he hopes, at least. He doesn’t want to be anxious, not when he has such an important guest waiting for him: his friend, Tanjiro Kamado, who Genya definitely has very normal and very platonic feelings for.

   Already at the dance, Tanjiro is in quite the opposite predicament. He’s a nervous wreck, waiting with bated breath for his final friend to arrive: Genya Shinazugawa, who Tanjiro isn’t quite sure he feels ‘just’ platonically for—a feeling he desperately wants to acknowledge and explore that night.

   But fairytales don’t always play out as planned, and sometimes happy endings aren’t as easy to write as the princes may wish.

   Series

   • Part 6 of He Was Punk & He Did Ballet - A GenTan AU

   Language:

   English

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   20,483

   Chapters:

   4/4

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