Shinobu Kocho

Shinobu Kocho (胡蝶しのぶ Kochō Shinobu?) was a Demon Hunter and the Insect Pillar of the Demon Killing Corps. Shinobu has short black hair tied back with a purple butterfly ornament and parted fringes. She also has grey compound looking eyes similar to those in bugs. Shinobu is rather short in height and has been described as having a small and weak looking built, which is later reinforced by her saying that she does not possess the physical strength to cut a demon's head off like other the other Pillars. She uses the standard Demon Hunter uniform of a straight-lined black jacket with black hakama pants tucked into a butterfly pattern fabric around her lower legs and white sandals. She also wears a grey haori with a butterfly wing pattern, which fades into a turquoise and pink color on the sleeves. Shinobu is rather laid back, always having a smile on her face regardless of the situation. She seems to enjoy teasing others and can be rather sadistic about it. Despite her relaxed exterior and her initial claim of wanting to get along with demons, she can be rather cruel towards them such as killing the spider older sister after giving her false hope of helping her, and attempting to kill Nezuko without hesitation. Later on she is shown to have a more compassionate side towards both Tanjiro and Nezuko after hearing their full story.

Later during her battle against Doma, Shinobu revealed that she also suffered from an inferiority complex due to her inferior physical abilities compared to her fellow Pillars, having been jealous of them for possessing taller or more muscular bodies than her and cursing her own body for not developing further to make her more effective in combat.it was also revealed that she also held a strong amount of frustration and rage due to everything and everyone she lost that she usually held back. Shinobu was born as the youngest daughter within the Kocho household, living alongside her mother, father and older sister Kanae. She was raised in a loving and caring household until her parents were slaughtered by demons, before her and her sister's eyes. Just when the demon was about to attack her and her sister, they were saved by the pillar, Himejima Gyoumei, who slayed the demon. Determined by the pain and suffering they endured, Shinobu and Kanae both promised to become demon slayers to protect each other as well as prevent other people from enduring the same losses they had to experience. Later in her life, while accompanying her sister Kanae on a trip. The sisters encountered a young girl being led away as a slave on a bridge. Intrigued by her, Kanae took an interest and decided to take the girl back to the Butterfly Estate, against Shinobu's initial wishes. They eventually purchased the girl, named Tsuyuri, from her master and trained her within the Butterfly Estate to become the next tsuguko.

Natural Abilities

Despite not possessing the physical strength to cut of a demons head common to that of a average demon slayer or even the superhuman abilities possessed by her fellow pillars,Shinobu is non the less as dangerous and deadly as the rest of them,She has instead made up for these shortcomings using her extensive knowledge of medicine and poisons and acts as the official head doctor/medical expert of the Demon Slayer corps,having used her skills and knowledge to create a wide array of deadly westeria based poisons incorporated in her thrust/stab swordstyle to make up for her inability to cut of demon heads and using her knowledge to create several antidotes and anti-venoms specifically created to counter the types of poisons/drugs created by demons,as seen when she cured Zenitsu Agatsuma of the poisons that was slowly transforming him into a spider creature.