Hantengu

Hantengu is the primary antagonist of the Swordsmith Village Arc of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He is a Demon affiliated with the Twelve Kizuki, holding the position of Upper Rank Four (の).

Appearance
Hantengu takes on the appearance of a short frail man with a very thin and skeletal body, covered with veins and wrinkles and is usually seen crouching. His most noticeable feature is a large bump on the top of his head, accompanied by two curved horns.

His face is thin with a sharp chin and constantly wears an expression of terror and fear, with a prominent brow ridge that lacks eyebrows. His eyes are narrow and often appear to be squinting, lacking any visible pupils.

He has dark shoulder length wavy hair with a low hairline, only growing out from the back of his head and ears, who themselves are sharper and longer then a normal humans. His nails are long but not sharp like most other demons and retain their natural square form.

Clothing wise he wears a dark kimono that is split in the middle, the right half being covered in a pattern of flowers and lines with the left half being dark and lacking any detailed features. He also wears dark hakama pants and zōri.

Personality
Hantengu = Hantengu's primary form had a persona of cowardice. He was easily frightened by what occurred in his surroundings, showing traits of paranoia, fear and delusion, as, despite the obvious evidence of his numerous crimes as a human, he still believed that he was innocent and didn't do anything wrong. Even as a demon, killing and eating scores of innocent people, he still stubbornly and delusionally believed that he was innocent. The more threatened he felt, the stronger his other personalities became. Sekido = Sekido - The personification of Hantengu's anger. As such, this clone portrayed himself to be in a constant state of anger, irritation and hatefulness, even towards his fellow clones, which could be seen when he forcibly absorbed them against their will to form Zohakuten. He also showed himself to be the most dominant of the emotion clones and appeared to be the leader, as he was the one who barked orders to them when they were battling the Demon Slayers. Karaku = Karaku - True to his name, this clone showcased himself to be the most relaxed and laid back of Hantengu's clones. The entire time he was battling against Genya Shinazugawa, Tanjiro Kamado and Nezuko Kamado, he was constantly praising them and, instead of taking the battle seriously, he instead saw it as nothing more than a game, seeming to only take interest in the new experiences he was obtaining from the battle. This could be seen when he happily expressed his interest at the new sensation upon being shot by Genya and commenting that was the first time he was ever injured in such a manner. This was demonstrated again, only this time during his battle with Nezuko, when, instead of finishing her off, he decided to tease and play with her despite being able to easily overpower her anytime he wanted. This behavior easily got on the nerves of his fellow clones, specifically to Sekido, who constantly berated him for taking so long in battle. Aizetsu = Aizetsu - This clone portrayed himself to be completely dejected, sour and negative as he constantly described everything as being depressing. Out of all the emotion clones, Aizetsu was shown to be the most calm and collected out of all five of them, as seen where instead of frivolously wasting time on entertainment as Urogi and Karaku or immediately getting agitated and enraged by anything like Sekido, Aizetsu was shown to calmly analyze his opponents and think out his strategy and figure out his opponents abilities and weaknesses before attacking. Urogi = Urogi - The most jovial and giddy of Hantengu's clones. Similarly to Karaku, he seemed to view the entire battle against the Demon Slayers as nothing more than a game or as a source of entertainment, as seen when he happily complemented Tanjiro on his intelligence for correctly guessing that neither one of the four clones were the "real" body, and constantly exclaimed that the entire fight against Tanjiro was delightful. Zohakuten = Zohakuten - The evolved form of Sekido after he absorbed the other clones. Zohakuten has displayed the same traits of Sekido, as he too was easy to enrage and was incredibly spiteful and hateful towards his enemies due to him, deeming them as "evil" for bullying his "weak and innocent" self. Like Sekido, he was also incredibly foul-mouthed as seen when he constantly insulted his opponents and referred to Mitsuri as a harlot, constantly calling her various degrading names in his thoughts. He also seemed to harbor an immense sense of loyalty towards Muzan, as seen when he told Mitsuri that he only heeds and follows the orders of one man in the entire world. Out of all the clones, he was shown to be the most intelligent and insightful aside from Sekido, as seen when he easily analyzed why Mitsuri Kanroji survived his powerful attacks and figured out the true source of her strength. Urami = Urami (み) - The final of Hantengu's clones, and his last-ditch attempt at surviving. He was shown to be just as hypocritical and delusional as Zohakuten and Hantengu, as he angrily told Tanjiro not to bully and hurt his "weak and innocent" self. He angrily asked why Tanjiro couldn't "see" his innocence and, true to his name, he has shown to be the embodiment of Hantengu's resentment due to him being punished and persecuted for crimes that he was "innocent" of.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: Having held the position of Upper Rank Four, Hantengu can be considered to have been the fifth strongest Demon in the series. His weaker clones were able to hold off and overwhelm Tanjiro Kamado, Nezuko Kamado and Genya Shinazugawa, all 3 which are extremely talented combatants. Once four of his clones combined to form Zohakuten, he was able to overwhelm the aforementioned 3 Demon Slayers as well as the Love Hashira, Mitsuri Kanroji.

Enhanced Stealth: Hantengu's skill in stealth seems to be his most formidable ability when not divided into his clones as can be seen when he managed to easily infiltrate the blacksmith village of the Demon Slayer Corps, one of their most vital and well fortified bases, without any of the numerous guards noticing. Later on he managed to sneak up on both Muichiro and Tanjiro without them noticing, despite the former being a Hashira and having prodigal skill and talent in battling demons and the latter's superhuman sense of smell.

Immense Durability: Hantengu, like all Demons, has superhuman durability. Not even Genya's Sun Steel bullets or sword could penetrate his flesh, despite Genya using his demon enhanced strength to further strengthen his attacks. Even with Tanjiro Kamado's bright red blade, he couldn't make a slight dent in his neck.

Immense Speed & Reflexes: As an Upper Rank Demon, Hantengu possesses incredible movement speed, being able to outspeed Tanjiro Kamado, Genya Shinazugawa and Nezuko Kamado. It required Tanjiro combining his Hinokami Kagura and Zenitsu Agatsuma's Thunder Breathing for him to catch up.

Immense Strength: Hantengu and his clones have incredible physical strength. Urami shown being capable of holding Tanjiro Kamado down with his bare hands and it took the combined effort of a demonically enhanced Genya Shinazugawa and a demon, Nezuko Kamado.

Immense Regeneration: As an Upper Rank, Hantengu's regenerative abilities are incredible even among the the ranks of the Twelve Kizuki. He and his clones displayed the capability of healing from slashes, burns or even gunshots to their body or head effortlessly and instantaneously.

Unlimited Stamina & Endurance: Hantengu possesses absolute and infinite stamina and vitality, never tiring and always remaining in optimal physical and mental condition all the time as well as being able to endure waves of onslaught as if it were nothing.

Blood Demon Art
Emotion Manifestation: Hantengu's Blood Demon Art allows him manifest his emotions as powerful younger clones of himself with their own unique appearances, personalities and abilities. These clones are personifications of a certain emotion Hantengu has felt before, and mainly display that emotion. Each one is identified by a kanji tattoo on their tongue labeling their core emotion. This ability is activated when Hantengu's head is cut off, where his head and body turn into two separate clones, with those clones splitting into two after they are decapitated. However, they are at their strongest when there are only four of them. In addition, his clones will never die as long as the main body is still alive. It is later revealed that Hantengu developed this ability through being constantly cornered throughout his life, causing the intense emotions he felt to personify through his blood.

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 * -|Sekido =
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 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|One of the first two clones split from Hantengu, Sekido, who is the embodiment of Hantengu's anger.
 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|One of the first two clones split from Hantengu, Sekido, who is the embodiment of Hantengu's anger.


 *  Flesh Manipulation: Sekido can shape and distort his flesh into the shape of a Khakkhara staff.


 * Absorption: When angered and enraged enough Sekido can forcibly absorb and assimilate his fellow emotion clones and form Zohakuten.

Blood Demon Art
Lightning Generation: Sekido's main ability is to summon extremely powerful lightning strikes and manipulate them at will. The lightning attacks themselves are powerful enough to nearly kill fellow demons, as seen with Nezuko, and to completely paralyze demon slayers. However a weakness to this is that Sekido cannot electrocute something created from his own cells as seen when he could not channel his lightning through the severed leg of Urogi.


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 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|One of the first two clones split from Hantengu, Karaku, who is the embodiment of Hantengu's relaxation.
 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|One of the first two clones split from Hantengu, Karaku, who is the embodiment of Hantengu's relaxation.


 * Flesh Manipulation: Like the rest of his clones, Karaku can manipulate his own flesh, which he shapes into a maple leaf-shaped Uchiwa fan. When Karaku's arm was torn off and separated from him by Nezuko and was blown away by his own technique, Karaku showed that he could easily regrow and create a new fan from his flesh similar to Sekido.

Blood Demon Art

 * Wind Generation: Karaku can use his fans to create powerful gushes of wind capable of easily leveling an entire building and nearly crushing humans and demons respectively to death and leave behind maple leaf like craters.


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 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|The third emotion clone split from Hantengu, Aizetsu, who is the embodiment of Hantengu's sorrow.
 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|The third emotion clone split from Hantengu, Aizetsu, who is the embodiment of Hantengu's sorrow.


 * Flesh Manipulation: Like Sekido and Karaku, Aizetsu can manipulate and shape his flesh, which he makes into a Jūmonji Yari spear.

Blood Demon Art

 * Spear Manipulation: Aizetsu can extend and shrink his Yari according to his will. He incorporates this ability in close range combat by extending the reach of the spear during mid thrust and slash, allowing him to easily butcher his opponents from a long to mid range combat.


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 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|The fourth emotion clone split from Hantengu, Urogi, is the embodiment of Hantengu's delight.
 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|The fourth emotion clone split from Hantengu, Urogi, is the embodiment of Hantengu's delight.


 * Flesh Detachments: This clone is also capable of creating several miniature clones of himself from his severed body parts. The clone is also capable of firing sonic screams, however only possess less than a tenth of their original power allowing even the weakest demon slayer to easily shrug its attacks off.

Blood Demon Art

 * Bird Physiology: Urogi takes the form of a gleeful harpy-like demon with wings and bird talons. He has extremely sharp talons that are sharper than diamond.


 * Sonic Scream: Urogi has displayed the power to blast sonic screams from his mouth as his main attack.


 * valign = "center" style = "border:3px solid #4d0013;" align = "center"|
 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|The most powerful emotion clone of Hantengu formed by Sekido's absorption of Karaku, Aizetsu, and Urogi. Zohakuten is the embodiment of Hantengu's hatred.
 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|The most powerful emotion clone of Hantengu formed by Sekido's absorption of Karaku, Aizetsu, and Urogi. Zohakuten is the embodiment of Hantengu's hatred.

Blood Demon Art

 * Wood Manipulation: Zohakuten can manipulate the wood from the flora in his surroundings and conjure wooden dragons to attack his opponents by beating on the five drums attached to his back to control the dragons.


 * Ability Combination: Zohakuten has the power to use the abilities of the four clones he absorbed through the Dragon heads which are capable of breathing out lightning and thunder of Sekido, emitted the Sonic Screams of Urogi, generate powerful wind attacks that leave behind gigantic maple leaf craters like Karaku, and breath out spear-like thrust attacks like Aizetsu.


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 * style = "width: 40%; align: justify; border:3px solid #4d0013; padding: 10px;"|The final emotion body detachment split from Hantengu, Urami, who is the embodiment of Hantengu's resentment.
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Fighting Style
Master Combatant: Hantengu is an expert in various forms of armed combat, including a Khakkhara staff, a gigantic leaf fan and a Yari spear, each of his combat skills able to keep up with several master combatants simultaneously.

Techniques
Hantengu's techniques are mainly used by his clones created through his Blood Demon Art. His techniques have only been displayed by two of his clones, Aizetsu and Zohakuten.


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Aizetsu

 * Weeping Spears: Aizetsu violently thrusts his Jūmonji yari multiple times in rapid succession towards his opponent, expanding and contracting it incessantly, allowing him to extend his range and attack potency significantly.

Zohakuten

 * Countless Striking Trees: Zohakuten unleashes his dragon-like trees towards the enemy, making them rapidly grow bigger and multiply as they rush towards his opponent.


 * Crazed Cry of Thunder Death: An attack utilized by Zohakuten's wooden dragons, which demonstrate the ability to combine the unique powers of Urogi and Sekido's powers to create an attack of thunder and sound.


 * Compressed Sound Waves: Zohakuten emits wavelike-screams &mdash; similar to Urogi &mdash; which are powerful enough to destroy a human's body; For stronger individuals, the attack can temporarily stun the opponent as seen when he attacked the Love Hashira, Mitsuri Kanroji.


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Trivia

 * Muzan sees Hantengu as normal but sometimes he's so annoying it's intolerable.

Quotes

 * (To himself) "Since the day I was born I've never lied... not even once! I'm a good natured weakling! I deserve pity, but no one has any sympathy for me."

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