Hantengu Husbando

Hantengu, along with Gyokko, was one of the primary antagonists in the Swordsmith Village Arc of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He was a demon affiliated with the Twelve Kizuki, holding the position of Upper Rank Four. Hantengu is 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 he 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, obscuring his pupils. He has red eyes with golden irises, and the daiji of "Upper Rank" and "Four" engraved into them. Hantengu also has the kanji for "fear" etched into his tongue. He has dark shoulder-length wavy hair with a low hairline, only growing out from the back of his head and ears, which themselves are sharper and longer than normal humans. His nails are long but not sharp like most other demons and retain their natural square form. Hantengu wears a dark kimono that is split in the middle, the right half being covered in a pattern of flowers and lines (simplifed to just yellow lines in the anime), with the left half being a dark red and lacking any detailed features. He also wears black hakama pants and a pair of zōri. As a human, Hantengu was nearly identical to his appearance as a demon, with the exception of the discolored veins on his forehead, his pupil-less eyes, and curved horns. Hantengu's primary form has a persona of extreme cowardice and agitation. He was easily frightened by what occurred in his surroundings, showing traits of paranoia, fear and delusion. He was always shown to cry out in fear at even the most insignificant things, such as the number of years since the last meeting of the Upper Ranks being 113. Moreover, during said meeting, Hantengu spent most of the situation crying out and cowering in fear over everything around him. This extreme paranoia is especially evident in the fact that he always chooses to crawl instead of walking up straight. Even in combat, Hantengu was shown to be extremely cowardly and afraid, crying when he was slashed by Muichiro Tokito and when he was hiding from the Demon Slayers throughout most of the battle. Hantengu seems to believe that he was completely innocent despite the obvious evidence pointing toward his numerous crimes as a human. He had a habit of deflecting the blame towards anything but himself, even proclaiming at one point that his hands were guilty but not himself as a whole. Even as a demon, killing and eating scores of innocent people, he stubbornly and erroneously maintained that he was innocent, and claimed that he deserved the sympathy of others.