Spider Demon (Mother)

The Mother Spider Demon (「」) was a member of the Spider Family.

Appearance
The Mother Spider Demon is a short woman with long white hair and red markings on her face. She wears a long white kimono with very long kimono with large sleeves. She is very young for a demon and thus very small.

Personality
Like most demons, she is cruel, unfeeling, and murderous towards humans. Though after much time with him, she developed fear for Rui and the Father Spider Demon who abused her for being weaker than expected,this abuse was severe enough to cause her to fully embrace death instead of having to continue on knowing that both Rui and the Father Demon would continue to abuse her,in her final moments she seemed to have regained some of her feelings and memories as a human and seemed to have been genuinely touched by Tanjiro's kindness that she bid him good luck as she died.

Past
Not much is known about her past as a human, but she was loved and cherished by someone. After she became a demon, she took up residence at Natagumo Mountain. Later, Rui came to Natagumo Mountain, and forced her and her, soon to be, family to transform themselves to look like him and become his fake family. She herself took the role as the mother of this family, but because of her being a very young demon, she was very unfit for the role and faced chastation and abuse from Rui and the Father Spider Demon.

Natagumo Mountain Arc
Rui assigns her the role to protect the Natagumo mountain and her 'family' from the demon slayer corps. She uses her threads to take control of the demon slayers that enter the territory and make them her own dolls. She uses some of the demon slayers she took under her control to kill the others, having fun playing with them.

Tanjiro and his friends enter the mountain in order to defeat her and her family. They are greeted by her dolls which are dead demon slayers. However, her dolls are easily defeated and Inosuke detects her location.

As they get closer to her, her threads become harder and her dolls get stronger. She then gets confronted by Rui, who asks her if they can win and tells her she is taking so long. She panicks because despite the supposed "Mother-Son" relationship between them, she knows full well the massive power gap between herself and Rui. Rui then threatens that he will inform the Father Spider Demon about the situation if she does not kill the remaining Demon Slayers quickly. Now in a state of panic, she begins to push the physical power of the controlled Demon Slayers to the maximum, putting them on immense pain due to the physical strain. She manipulates them with her threads into attacking the duo.

Tanjiro, unwilling to kill his comrades, figures out how he can immobilize them without killing them. Using her threads, Tanjiro picks and throws the controlled Demon Slayers up toward the trees where the the threads controlling them are tangled into the tree branches, stopping her from moving them any further. Deeming them to be all useless to her, The Mother Spider Demon snaps all of the captured Demon Hunters' Necks and resorts to her strongest puppet as she enters into an even higher state of panic In the midst of of which she finally reached a state of borderline hysteria she releases and reveals her strongest puppet that is revealed to be a headless corpse of a Fellow Demon that she somehow collected, that she then launches into battle against Inoske and Tanjiro. When the duo see it they are amazed that it does not have a neck. They start attacking it but their attacks are ineffective against it. So they use a combination attack together that manages defeat it. Straight after that, Inosuke throws Tanjiro up to the sky in the direction of the Mother Spider Demon's location. As she fears defeat and punishment from her "Family", she notices Tanjiro diving down towards her from above. Trying to figure out her next move in Order to survive, she realizes that if she simply dies she will finally be at peace and no longer have to suffer the wrath and ridicule of her "Family".

Having already given up any form of resistance and willpower to continue fighting, she holds her arms up awaiting death from Tanjiro's coming attack. Tanjiro realizing that she no longer has any intention to fight back, finishes her with his Fifth Style: The Merciful Rain of a Dry Day instead of the First. A "sword strike of kindness" that beheads the target with little to no pain. It is used when the enemy surrenders him/herself willingly. After she is beheaded, the Mother Spider Demon is shocked at how peaceful and painless her death is and is even further surprised and touched by Tanjiro's eyes, which has no malice, hate or contempt. Instead she sees nothing but pure kindness and mercy. As she fades away she remembers all the painful memories and unkind stares her "Family" gives her and vaguely recalls her past as a human, remembering being loved and cherished by someone. She wonders where that person is now. In return for Tanjiro's kindness, she weakly warns him that one of the Twelve Demon Moons is in the mountain and bids him good luck as she dies.

Abilities and Powers
Like others of her family, she can use threads to cut apart humans. She can also attach these threads to living people and corpses to manipulate them, with the recipient not being able to fight back, this ability even extended to the corpses of fellow demons,seeing as she was able to control the headless corpse of a demon and keep its body from disintegrating into dust.

Trivia

 * Mother Spider Demon was ranked in 34th place as of the first character popularity poll with 32 votes.

Quotes

 * (To herself) "Those eyes.... Such kind eyes... Back when I was human, I think someone used to look at me with kind eyes. I wonder who that was. I can't remember. It was someone who always treasured me. I wonder how that person is doing now."

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