#ukina

[milk-chocolate-kittycats-artblog]

Me and some mutual’s were having a small debate on discord while I was writing my fanfic (aka my ship fic of Karren and my oc Nora) and me and some mutual’s were having this debate on who was the most underrated character in Tokyo Ghoul so I made this poll to see what others think. Also please put why you think a character might be underrated and stuffs :3 so Yeyeyey please settle this debate and put in why

#tokyo ghoul #polls #tokyo ghoul karren von rosewald #haise sasaki #Mirumo Tsukiyama #Ukina #drawing

[ipsen]

TG 1 vs. TG:re 64

#tg #tokyo ghoul #'ukina as the black goat's egg' is a theory with some merit #since we know literally nothing about her relationship to kuzen #and both the people involved who talk about her are equally unreliable and biased #bc eto has no self-worth #and kuzen is throwing a pity party for himself 24/7 #yoshimura #kuzen #ukina

[elmaxlys]

TG Sexywoman Poll - Round 2: Ukina VS Fueguchi Ryouko

Ukina is Eto's mother and Ryouko is a peaceful ghoul as well as Hinami's mother.

Masterpost

#ukina #fueguchi ryouko #tg sexywoman poll #tokyo ghoul #tg #my poll #polls

[lurkerwithcomputer]

A more polished up version of the oneshot with Kuzen and Ukina.

#lurker writes #tg #yoshimura kuzen #ukina

[canadianlucifer]

Masterpost

#tokyo ghoul #tokyo ghoul re #ken kaneki #hairu ihei #touka kirishima #eto yoshimura #tooru mutsuki #ginshi shirazu #saiko yonebayashi #kuki urie #ukina tokyo ghoul #koutarou amon #nico tg #yamori #uta tokyo ghoul

[mestos]

my viera, but make him baby

#neesan shit art #ocs #noi ukina #i mean.... technically #ffxiv #but not lore accurate outfits lol #this is actually more oc than it is xiv lore #but theyre essentially still viera lol

[the-unending-journey]

You'll never believe which one the WoL is here

#ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #my screens #other's oc's #oc: ukina #the tiny bard man belongs to my gf

[spacepaissa]

i'm making viera androgyny a two way street by creating a female viera using the male model

#her name is ukina and she flirts with women by bringing them dead animals she hunted herself

[yoakkemae]

@bonescribes { yukina & kurama. }.

' if you're here to try to change my mind , i won't hear of it. ' she offers the older demon , the one that her brother chose , the same cold look filled with steel that she had given to tarukane in her captivity over a decade ago. still , she is unfailingly gentle as she pours tea for herself and kurama to drink. ( since her hundredth , she no longer feels the need to cool her tea down before she has to drink it ). ' but if you would like to speak of something else , i am all ears. '

#bonescribes #tbt. #:DDDDD #i'm really not going to add her #i'm REALLY NOT GOING TO ADD HER #anyway y//ukina is talking about how she's ignoring h//iei after their 100th #⤷ yukina.【 ❝ i will not cry as i have no tears for you. ❞ 】interactions.

[shewhoeatssand]

WHY TG BOYS ARE SHIT BOYFRIENDS

I come up with the best topics for posts

Hide 🌞 : axe body spray, probably loves Kaneki more than you, has nicknamed your boobs, has also nicknamed Kaneki’s boobs

Shuu 💐 : introduces you to his entire extended family after less than a month, spams you if he hasn’t heard from you in a week, his house is so so big you will get lost in it very fast (not his fault but still annoying)

Suzuya 🔫 : thinks shoplifting 10 bags of candy is a good date idea, has killed someone in front of you and then desperately tried to explain why it was actually okay because the guy was wearing crocs

Marude 🏍 : refuses to use public transport after having his bike stolen, won’t stop talking about how much he misses his bike, yell-y

Shinohara 😊 : prints out minion memes and shows them to you

Nishiki 🦎 : is ginger, immediately wants to make out with you and have hot ghoul sex after eating a raw lung, easily irritated

Ayato (:re) 🤬 : doesn’t know what a period is and thinks you’re making it up, bullies people on roblox, can be so rude sometimes

Kaneki (pre aogiri) 🥺 : describes everything in incredible detail when he doesn’t like something, will make his best attempt to be talking to you all the time (even when you are pooping) and thinks you hate him if you ask to be left alone, scarily average dick

Kaneki (post aogiri) 🐙 : sleeps on top of you and makes you so sweaty, won’t shut up about fitness and getting stronger, wears a mask with a smile for hours at a time, probably ghosting you by this point tbh (there’s a lot wrong with him so I might make a separate post about why he sucks)

Yoshimura ☕️ : really wholesome, but can’t be dated because a) I’d assume you’re not a boomer b) can’t take hints and c) misses Ukina ;-;

Koma 👹 : he’s actually pretty great and very fun but he brags about how good his coffee is and also about anything else he can think of

Uta 🎭 : eats people’s eyes in front of you and says “it’s okay because they aren’t real, they’re halloween decorations!”, also ate a plastic spider to prove this to you, mind games, spooks you from behind the corner all the time and it gives you anxiety

Amon ✝️ : refuses to kiss with tongue or see you naked until marriage, takes up too much space on the bed, keeps doing long ass speeches about “doing what is right” after killing a guy with a wife and 3 kids

Shikorae 🫠 : doesn’t sit still long enough to have a conversation that makes any sense whatsoever, has so many issues to the point where idk if you’d even be able to befriend him unless it’s by feeding him coffee grounds

Takizawa (pre :re) 🥺: makes everything a competition, disney kid, insists that you have a glass of milk every day

Takizawa (post :re) 🦉: never sleeps, an actual cat, bites your hand, smelly, insists that you have a glass of milk every day

Urie 😶 : first name is “cookie”, punches a hole in the wall when he doesn’t get an award after a raid and someone else does, hides important stuff from you

Shirazu 🦈 : sooooo cool but he can’t spell so you have to edit all his emails for him

Naki 😎 : loud while playing fortnite battle royale, also screams while playing any horror games but insists he should keep playing them, his reading capabilities have the power to instantly kill a literature major

Hanbee 🎩 : unironically loves licorice, absurd fashion, also eats the licorice with a super fancy fork kept in a little fork bag he carries everywhere labeled “the licorice suitcase”

Tatara 🤯 : is always busy so you can’t spend much time together, one time a cat meowed at him and he meowed back in the most serious voice, penis is actually too big to fit inside 😔

Mutsuki 😇 (before the insane shit happened): you have to kill all the spiders, very clingy and has similar issues to pre-aogiri Kaneki, puts cinnamon on a lot of things that don’t really need cinnamon

Arima 🌨 : cold, you’ll never truly know about him, not very open, a general mystery to the point where you don’t even know if he’s actually your boyfriend

Haise 🐼 : BAD PUNS, insists that he spends every afternoon and evening with you instead of doing his work so he ends up doing it super late into the night and gets tired in the morning, too easy to manipulate and too eager to please (kind of an issue with all the Kanekis really), sometimes he talks to the wall or makes a sour face for no reason

~~~~ BONUS ~~~~

Yamori 🕺 : sadistic torturer (obvious part), his farts smell so incredibly bad that you have to evacuate the room while he wonders wtf is going on (not so obvious), unfixable

OS! Kaneki 😎 : walks around shirtless in winter, sometimes he doesn’t even wear pants, touches your boobs randomly and it gets old real fast

#tokyo ghoul headcanons #tokyo ghoul #tokyo ghoul: re #kaneki ken #tsukiyama shuu #nagachika hideyoshi #sasaki haise #nishiki nishio #kirishima ayato #mutsuki tooru #suzuya juuzou #arima kishou #takizawa seidou #urie kuki #shirazu ginshi #uta tokyo ghoul #tatara #tokyo ghoul naki #amon kotarou #shikorae #koma enji #yoshimura kuzen #shinohara yukinori #itsuki marude #tokyo ghoul jason #hanbee abara

[nateriverswife]

tokyo ghoul characters as song lyrics

(mostly :re, playlist i took these songs from + icons)

karren von rosewald

haise sasaki

shirazu & urie

arima & haise

urie

quinx squad

ken kaneki

shuu & kaneki

shinohara & juuzou

touka & kaneki

hide & kaneki

ukina & yoshimura

#i was bored lol #tokyo ghoul #tokyo ghoul re #karren von rosewald #ken kaneki #hideyoshi nagachika #haise sasaki #shirazu ginshi #urie kuki #saiko yonebayashi #arima kishou #tooru mutsuki #yoshimura #touka kirishima #juuzou suzuya #quinx squad #d.tokyoghoul

[hamamatsu-divison]

"it's cold,not the weather, my heart"

Age 0

Is born to Ukina Yamamura and Soto Kiryuu

Ukina left him in a orphanage

Age 2

Have an accident that make him burn scars on his upper arms

It's adopted by Aoi Yamamura and Ryukyu Shirone after they found he's Ukina's son

Meet his older siblings Aoba and Kururi

Although both of them initially feel discomfort with Eden because he looks like their mother them accepte him quickly

Age 7

Meets and befriends Makoto Okumura at elementary school

Becomes intereseted on Music after Makoto shows him his guitar

Meets and befriends Nellie Yukimura

Starts to be insecure after learn he looks like his mother Ukina, because she hurted his siblings and left him in a orphanage

Age 9

Aoi is muredered by people from aoyama

Eden accompany Aoba and Kururi on they revenge and the see how both of them bombed a building and kill the responsibles

Age 10

Starts to fall in love for Makoto

Develope a "self-love" point of view after tell Makoto his insecurities and he tell him how beautiful he is

Ryukyu tell him about the supernatural and his experiments of mix magic to give people supernatural criatures abilities

Wanting be useful for his siblings Eden ask Ryukyu if he can be part of the experiment,after much dialogue Ryukyu accept

After the experiment Eden ask which criature he is but Ryukyu tell he needs wait for see

age 12

Wanting express himself Eden starts to wear female and male clothes, hair extenssions and makeup

Makoto introduce him with some friends and talks them about start a band

All them accept and starts the band "BLACK ROSE" that do perfomances at streets

Eden confess Makoto his feelings and to his delight Makoto feel the same

Eden and Makoto starts a relationship

Makoto gift him his old guitar and Eden starts to play

Age 13

Starts to feel an aument in his physical and sexual attraction and notices how people seems to be attracted by him

He ask Ryukyu about it and he say that his supernatural abilities woke up

Read about the sexual devils and find he have features and abilities of succubus and that he needs feed of physical (sexual) human energy

Eden doubt but tell Makoto,he believe him and accept help him to Eden's joy

Kunio tell him and Kururi that Aoba tried to commit suicide and both confront him

Aoba tell them about his relationship with Rintaro Himura and his miscarriage

Eden accompany Aoba and see him provoke the masive bombings and arsons event know as "the blue hell"

He joins him and Kururi at his crimes but only to accompany

Age 14

BLACK ROSE starts to perform at underground music halls and live-houses but they refuses to be employed by a any record label, considering them "limited and with very much standards"

Sees Makoto kissing a girl and both arguing for it

In that argument Eden ask Makoto if he would to die for him

After not see Makoto for a few days Eden go to his home and find him hanged by suicide

Eden is traumatized and blame himself, his band support him

To try to overcome the situation Eden starts to test his abilities on his perfomances

When he do it found he can desinhibes people and exuding feromones who aument the attraction of people by him

Without Makoto to help him Eden's "hungry" and need for human energy aument and get out of control

Use his succubus abilities on his underground perfomances and night walking to attract people to him and feed of they sexual and physical energy

Reveals his nature to his siblings and both of them accept him, Eden accompany them at they crimes as Saika and Bluefire

Starts to be know as "the succubus" who have sex or seduce his victims before left them masive hurts or kill them by drain their energy

Meets and befriends Kaede Iwasawa

Is oficially adopted by Nellie Yukimura and moves with him to Hamamatsu

Notices nellie's mental illnes and take care of him during his episodes

Meet and had a crush on Elliot Shimizu of setagaya

Age 15-present

Realized his feelings for Elliot are unrequited and get sad

In one of his beach perfomances meet Kyo Sakuma of Naha and Eden get surprised because his abilities don't work on him

Found his older brother Aoba joined to the division rap battle and Eden get worry

In one of his hunts as "the succubus" seduced and drain a woman who had three hypnosis microphone with the intention of form a Chuokhu team at Hamamatsu for his fury

Bring the microphone to his adoptive father Nellie

Becomes the 2rd member of Hamamatsu's division team Trickstar alongside Nellie Yukimura and Kaede Iwasawa

Schedule

21:00 p.m 1:00 a.m-perfoming at an underground livehouse/music hall

1:00 a.m 4:00 a.m- out as "The Succubus"

4:00 a.m 4:10-returns home

4:20 a.m 4:25-removes makeup

4:25 a.m 7:00 a.m-asleep

7:00 a.m 7:30 a.m-wakes up and get ready for day (get dress, does makeup and check his school supplies)

7:30 a.m 7:45 a.m- makes and eat breakfast

7:45 a.m 8:00 a.m-take a train at school

8:00 a.m 8:30 a.m-listen music or songwritting at the music room

8:30 a.m 9:00 a.m-reading at the library before class

9:00 a.m 12:00 p.m-class

12:00 p.m 13:00 p.m-lunch

13:00 p.m 15:00 p.m-class

15:00 p.m 17:30 p.m-rehearsals with BLACK ROSE or rollerskating throught the divisions

17:30 p.m 18:00 p.m-rollerskate at home

18:00 p.m 18:30 p.m-talks with Nellie about their day

18:30 p.m 19:00 p.m-does homework

19:00 p.m 19:20 p.m-dinner with Nellie and Kaede

19:20 p.m 20:00 p.m-takes a bath and does body care

20:00 p.m 20:25 p.m-choose his outfit and does makeup

20:25 p.m 20:50 p.m-go to a underground livehouse/music hall

20:50 p.m 21:00-get ready to perform

21:00 p.m 1:00-perfoming at the underground livehouse/music hall

Character hashtags

Regular hashtags

#hidden succubus

#turn the music up!

#protective younger brother

Trauma hashtags

#you would to die for me?

#carbon copy of that bitch

#draining your energy

Other info

Hobby:Ballet

Weakness:constant lust

Trauma:"my words killed the love of my life"

Twitter:@GoldenSuccubus

Drinks:sometimes

Smokes:no

Special skill:"i'm not only a singer,i can makeup like a pro"

Intro quote:"oya? C'mon don't be shy cutie...just forget all ya worries and give me a kiss trust me you will no regret it fufu"

Trauma quote:"I'm so sorry...i never had to said that words and now you. are..*crying*please forgive me Makoto"

#hypmic #hypnosis mic #hypnosis mic oc #hypnosis microphones #hamamatsu division #trickstar #eden yamamura #paradox live #trauma #timeline

[ipsen]

Eto Character Analysis

Big long post coming. Couldn’t help myself.

Admittedly, I’m mostly stealing from this post from the old ages (it’s crazy good and turned Eto into my favorite character), so you can read that and honestly get the same information. But I figured I’d take a swing at the behemoth myself.

Also wanna preface the analysis with the fact that I’m using the official translations as my source, as I can’t access the original scans and also couldn’t read them even if I did (cursed by monolingual tendencies).

Under the cut!

Eto is, unfortunately, a character that is built mainly on subtext crammed into very few chapters. Figuring her out is very difficult and a lot of her more nuanced traits can go over most people’s heads (it’s easy to call her insane, for example, and while she does have a few issues up in the old cranium, i’d hardly call her that).

The most important thing about Eto to keep in mind when discussing her is that she has been failed, and as a result of that, she also believes that she has failed those around her.

Her father left her in what is basically a literal shithole, especially for a baby. Her mother, though she died without really knowing Eto, did leave a journal behind, and Eto’s singular insight to the work regarding herself is that she is just a “byproduct,” and her foster parent got killed (presumably) protecting her from V, punting her to an orphanage where she’d have to steal money to survive (see: re 62), and presumably pretty often at that.

She got insanely lucky with the writer gig and shiono, who-- side note-- means a lot to her. Finally, a positive adult figure in her life! Unfortunately, he is a) only human, and b) her editor/coworker, so his positive influence, while welcome, is limited. still, she picks up his cute little hand gestures and I, personally, appreciate that (see: re 62 and compare it to TG 114).

Just the greatest.

Where was I... Ah, Eto being failed by those around her. And where does that leave her? Look no further than TG 98:

“A replacement is merely a replacement.” Eto doesn’t believe in found family, because she never actually found one.

And within the context of this chapter, we learn another thing about Eto. Whenever she interacts with someone and “breaks” them (the Yasuhisas, Kanae), she heavily projects onto them (because she recognizes their situation; notice how she only ever targets people who are both relatable to her and weaker than her) and breaks apart the “lie” the target tells themself, even if it isn’t entirely accurate:

(re 43) This is a false statement; Kanae does wish for Shuu to recover, he’s just upset it’s happening like this. Because who wouldn’t be, in his situation? Despite everything that he and the others did for Shuu, the only thing able to bring him out of his depression is the very thing that caused it. But I digress.

Back on track, there’s also Haise’s analysis of her work, the most personal thing she has, to consider when discussing her in re 39:

Once again, the void rears its ugly head.

Hopelessness. Emptiness. Filling it with anger and bitterness, and it’s never enough, but it’s all she has. Because the void can only be filled by the things she can never have.

So she throws herself at the CCG, banging her head against its walls with small raids alongside some fellow ghouls and then taking on the special investigators by herself. She’s 14, she’s a kakuja, and she’s mad. Mad at the world that failed her, mad at V for making it the way it is, and mad that things haven’t changed for a very long time. She has Ukina’s journal; she knows how stale the “narrative” is.

Of course, her raids don’t work very well, but she’s basically just a kid. She is as old as Hinami during TG.

Then, she’s finally thrown a bone, and is worse off for it:

Something I’ve noticed when factoring Arima’s influence into Eto’s character is that there is an assumption that the power dynamic between them is equal. It isn’t. I cannot stress this enough; there is a hierarchy at play here, and Eto isn’t the one on top. How do we know this?

(TG 139)

(re 52)

Kaneki was the new toy to replace Eto, the old one.

The ultimate plan is “the One-Eyed King will destroy the egg of V’s world and make something new.” By the time Kaneki does take the throne, this plan has been going on for 13 years. Kaneki was chosen as a candidate at the ten-year mark; he had to have been a non-factor before then. So who is left to become the king instead?

Eto.

The age difference between her and Arima is roughly 4-5 years. Remind you of another relationship?

(TG 14)

Uh-oh.

To reiterate, Eto is a 14-year old kid who has been abandoned by everyone who could possibly love her the way she wants. She desires parental love, protective love, the kind of love that makes her feel safe, when she has only ever fought to defend herself.

Enter someone who is far stronger than she could ever be, someone who could actually offer her the protection she so desperately wants. Unfortunately, Kishou Arima is the endgame mindset of Black Reaper Kaneki, to put it simply: someone who is impossibly distant, wants to die, and craves the approval of everyone.

Let’s expand on Arima for a brief moment. “Craves the approval of everyone,” specifically. He is both the One-Eyed King and the greatest ghoul investigator that ever lived. He doesn’t pick one or the other, and when he dies, he doesn’t have to pick. He is mourned by the CCG, and Kaneki, ever a puppet in someone else’s game, carries on his legacy and “wish“ for coexistence.

Eto is no exception to his godly levels of charisma. She is one of Hinami’s foils, and we know how quickly and easily she latched onto Kaneki. It’s safe to assume that something similar happened with Eto and Arima.

And Eto failed him. She doesn’t become king; someone else does. Someone very similar. And yet, when faced with this new person:

(re 56)

Well, then.

Eto also does everything in her power to give Kaneki the information he needs to break the eggshell. She freely gives away information about V, the Washuu’s involvement with them, the connection to the CCG, everything. Or as much as she can give him while under Cochlea’s surveillance.

So what’s the game here? Why does she support Kaneki, the one who basically stole Arima's approval, something everyone around him wants, from under her nose? Better yet, why is she aiding the search for her “replacement” in the first place? Because remember, even before Kaneki registered on her radar for a candidate for the OEK, she and Aogiri were searching for Kanou, the one-eyed ghoul maker specialist man. Aogiri wanted to use Kanou to make as many possible candidates beyond just Kaneki. So even without Kaneki in the picture, Eto wants a replacement. She wants this. Why?

Well, here’s what I think she actually wants:

(re 53)

There’s no other explanation that I can think of for why she would willingly get herself arrested and leave Aogiri to be fully exterminated on Rushima (the One-Eyed Owl totally could have turned the tables of that battle). She’s only lived as long as she has because she doesn’t want to leave anything unsaid. This is also the reason why she reveals herself as a ghoul as Takatsuki; she’s effectively destroying her own career while simultaneously giving V a huge middle finger.

This desire to close off everything she’s built up until now and pass the torch to Kaneki is also represented in her haircut; she’s literally shedding her burdens to give to someone else. Someone similar to her, but kinder than her. Better than her.

(re 52)

--

I’ve said what I’ve come to say. Thanks for reading!

#tokyo ghoul #eto yoshimura #sen takatsuki #tg meta #tokyo ghoul meta

[elmaxlys]

TGSWP Loser Bracket - Round 1: Hori Chie VS Ukina

Chie is a photographer and information broker, and Ukina is Eto’s mother

General Masterpost

Loser Bracket Masterpost

#tg sexywoman poll #tgswp loser bracket #tokyo ghoul #tokyo ghoul re #hori chie #chie hori #ukina #my poll #polls

[lurkerwithcomputer]

Inevitable

Even in an AU, some things don’t change.

Her shoes scuff on the damp, sandy concrete, and she almost slips. Eto half-wakes in her baby carrier, giving a disgruntled sniffle. She takes a deep breath, steadying her stride. Dust motes drift, luminous, in the dim light of cheap bare bulbs.

Kuzen keeps himself closer to her as they turn a blind corner. She can see the tension in his shoulders, the way his eyes sweep over dark doorways and mark out the maintenance hatches occasionally bolted into the wall. A damp smell builds, one that isn't just water dripping from the corroded, wheezing pipes overhead.

They turn again and she stifles a gasp.

The wooden beams holding up the shantytown are bolted to the steel girders of one of Tokyo's flood cisterns, the lowest floor barely above a faded paint line reading "maximum water level". The grating rattles as they walk, and when they reach the plank floor, her steps echo in the cavernous space. Pumps or ventilation fans drone in the distance, creating a white noise background that leaves her hearing strangely fuzzy.

Kuzen knocks at a door made of the same planks as the floor and walls, once, then three times, once again, and twice.

Footsteps tap from the other side. After a moment, the door is pulled open by a man in a long, dark coat. He takes them in, looking her in the eyes. His own are dark, set in a lean, bony face, pale from lack of sunlight. Those eyes are very like Kuzen's - long-suffering, wary eyes, with fine lines that make him look older than he probably is.

He shuts the door, firmly, and turns to them.

She moistens her suddenly dry mouth with her tongue, tasting damp and dust on the air, but Kuzen speaks first.

"Noroi, old friend."

Eto wakes again, at his voice. Her baby gives a hissing gurgle, grabbing at the front of her clothes, right over her chest. At least she knows where food comes from, she muses.

"Good to see you, Kuzen." He certainly sounds closer to Kuzen's age than he looks.

Eto reaches up and tugs at the edges of her hood, making grumpy whimpers than haven't quite become crying. Noroi glances back to her.

"I'm not the type to be shocked by bare breasts. Feed your child," he says, his tone softer than his words.

"Ah, I haven't introduced myself," she says, glancing up from unzipping the hoodie she's wearing as a top, "Ukina."

"Pleased to finally meet you," Noroi muses, hard-bitten face lightening a little, "and who is this little one?"

"Eto."

"A beautiful name," he says, softly, gently, almost a whisper.

His voice is tuned for ghoul hearing, she realizes. She winces as Eto latches on to her breast with definitely more strength than a human baby would have. She almost misses the smile Noroi and Kuzen share.

Their faces fall again as they lock eyes for a moment.

"To talk shop, Noroi, they are almost at our heels. If something happens to us and you have to raise Eto, then ransack our apartment. There's plenty of hidden valuables, and you know as well as I do that you'll need it to support a child."

"Consider it done, if it becomes necessary," Noroi says, grimly, and a cold certainty settles in her chest.

There's no "if" with V. Just "when". Noroi looks to share her thought, for the lines under his eyes are pulled tighter now.

"And," she adds in, a sudden fierce heat filling her chest, "if you find V there to do the same thing, roll some heads, for us. Just make sure you come home to Eto."

Kuzen turns to her, surprise stretched over his face.

"I'll make sure your keepsakes stay out of their hands."

Kuzen takes a deep, firm breath. She just knows he's lowering his heart rate after what she said, but she can't bring herself to feel bad. Her husband is starting to sweat, and he shifts his wait.

"I apologize, Noroi,but--"

"No, it's probably wise you get on your way. Wouldn't do to be followed," he pauses, reaching into his coat, "Here, For the road," he says.

He presses a brown paper bag into Kuzen's hand, and a battered box of strawberry pocky into hers. He holds out a pair of water bottles.

They're surrounded. She's glad she doesn't have Eto with her anymore, even as hot rage rises like bile in her chest and throat. A man lunges, drawing a fucking sword, who carries an uchigatana in this day and age? Even for a Yakuza that would be pretentious.

She almost throws herself sideways, body feeling like it moves without the input of her thoughts - she doesn't think she's ever moved this fast in her life. He stumbles past her, and behind her she hears Kuzen snarl and a wet thwack and crack of bone, and a scream that cuts off.

Cold sweat contrasts the burning feeling pounding in her temples.

Someone else reaches out to grab her - she has nothing but a packet of runny, discount wasabi sauce from the last fast food place they went - but maybe...

She twists away and tears the plastic with her teeth, the burn on her lips only adding to the heat in her chest. He makes another grab at her. She squeezes it into his face, and he screeches, backing up a step and clutching his eyes. She whips one legs upward, slamming the toe of her studded, sturdy boots between his legs.

He makes gasping, gagging noises as he crumples. She kicks him again, in the knee, and he crumples. She plants the low heel of her boot on his throat, her weight crushing down until she feels something give out.

Ten months ago, she thinks she would've been sick over crunching a man's voicebox and probably killing him. A full-term pregnancy while eating raw human flesh has given her a stronger stomach.

She suppresses a flinch at the bump against her back.

It's Kuzen.

He presses a rough, leathery handle into her grasp. She's put on muscle while he taught her to dodge and hold a knife, sure, but the tanto blade is still heavy compared to her - useless against people who might be ghouls - pocketknife.

But. It's quinque alloy.

A man with a balaclava under his fedora - she'll laugh at him if she survives this - lunges at her, also holding a sword. Kuzen hisses and one kagune wing flicks away from whoever he's fighting, parrying. She ducks under balaclava guy's arms and jams the dagger against his inner thigh as hard as she can.

She scrambles away from his last-ditch attempt to grab her by the neck, pulling the blade free as she does. Blood gushes out, turning his pants an even darker shade of black. He staggers, staring, goggle-eyed, even as his knees wobble.

She looks around, back to back with Kuzen, time momentarily frozen for her. The moment is broken by the sound of even more shoes, and the arrival of more sword-carrying men in black, behind the ones surrounding them.

She grits her teeth and Kuzen rolls his shoulders, kagune puffing up with fresh spikes.

She's panting, blood trickling down her shoulder, her leg and the side of her face. Kuzen is likewise bleeding, although his wounds are already healing. A dozen men in black suits, black trenchcoats and equally black fedoras lie dead in this alley.

More advance, seemingly without end. Someone slides around Kuzen's spitting fury, and there's a gasp that is not entirely pain.

"Enough."

There's a certain air of grim authority in this voice. Someone who stands unquestioned and unquestionable, becuase none who do otherwise live to tell.

"Kaiko," Kuzen hisses.

The guy who steps up to fight her slips away from her stab like black-clad smoke. Her vison whirls, dizzying, and a grip more solid than any handcuffs closes on her wrists. She can now see Kuzen and the sunken-cheeked, pale man holding a sword to Kuzen's neck. Apparently these new guys aren't chumps, she realizes, considering how she's been expertly spun around, disarmed, her arms behind her back, two other guys keeping one foot each on the toes of her boots so she can't kick.

"Kuzen. Ukina. You have two choices," comes Kaiko's deep, hollow voice, "we can torture you until you tell us where it is, and then make sure nobody will ever find your bodies."

"It"? I want to spit in this Kaiko guy's eyes, but he's not close enough.

Their captor's gaze fixes on Kuzen.

"Or," he says, smiling now, "You can kill your spy girlfriend, swear to never raise a hand against us again, and never have the support of the power that upholds this world again."

Her and Kuzen lock eyes, across that alley. A strange calm washes over her. We both know one of us has to survive. Guess we know who, now.

"One last chance to just tell us where it is," Kaiko adds, smile now pulling the corners of his mouth as though his face is made of melted wax.

"No," comes from both of them at once, and then she breaks the look she and Kuzen were sharing. She takes a deep breath.

"Make it quick," she says, words she's dreaded - yet always expected to say, and because she can't resist absurdity in the face of death, "Oh and if you let my body go to waste, I'll haunt you to your dying day," she adds.

She tilts her head back, exposing her throat. She hears the shift of boots on asphalt, the wet rustle and click of Kuzen's kagune shifting from feather shards to hardened blade. A whip-like snap and a red-hot sting against her nec

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