SabiGiyuu

SabiGiyuu is the slash ship between Giyū Tomioka and Sabito from the Demon Slayer fandom.

Canon
Sabito and Giyu met years before the start of the series as apprentices of Urokodaki, the former Water Pillar. They were good friends and bonded well due to their similar past and motivations.

Originally, the pair along with Makomo were supposed to pass the Final Selection and become demon slayers together. However, things went horribly wrong when Sabito was forced to protect his friends and other participants from demons, exhausting himself and subsequently killed by the Hand Demon due to this exhaustion. Giyuu made it out of Final Selection by luck, as he had passed out during the Exam and only made it out because of Sabito, he felt so guilty to the point where he diminished his own self-worth, feeling that he was unworthy of his place as the Water Pillar and that Sabito was better than him.

Giyu never had the thought that he should be better off dead, because he respected his friend's vow that if Giyu ever said that, their friendship would be over. He kept their vow/promise going even after Sabito's death.

For an unclear reason - whether to remember Sabito or as a reminder to why he lives - the left side of Giyuu's haori is reminiscent of Sabito's, likely symbolizing that losing Sabito was essentially losing half of himself to Giyu.

Quotes
"Don't say that you'd be better off dying ever again. If you do, you and I are done. We'll stop being friends."

- Sabito to Giyuu.

Fanon
SabiGiyuu is one of the most popular Giyu ships, and the rival ship of ShinoGiyuu. A lot of fans saw their friendship as a special relationship where both of them held deep feelings for the other, romantic or not, but very caring, kind and with mutual growth.

Many fans theorize that Giyu's dead eyes and cold attitude is a result of his grief for Sabito's death, as it is seen in his flashbacks that his personality was used to be a lot more open prior to losing Sabito, most notably that the "light" in his eyes disappeared.

Due to Sabito's death, this ship is usually followed by a great amount of angst, usually revolving around Giyuu's feelings toward him or the aforementioned boy's death. Some people, however, prefer to draw and write about them in happier situations/AU's where Sabito lives.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Giyuu/Sabito on FanFiction.Net
 * Giyuu/Sabito on FanFiction.Net

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