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mutsurie for the ship bingo

Ooh Mutsurie… I like them a lot as they are but, if I were to modify their narrative to make it more compelling to to my tastes...

despite how I actually enjoy the “Mutuki goes apeshit” arc because I think trans people deserve to do a little atrocity, (the intrinsic transphobia annoys me of course but it is present in almost every single facet of Mutsuki's character so whatever. Thank you Sui Ishida,) it is actually the thing that unfortunately lessens the interest for me. I still like them don't get me wrong but I think Urie could afford to be weirder about Mutsuki. Urie cares about how he's doing so much that it inhibits his ability to talk but can't ask outright? Alright show it further. When Mutsuki declares that he's in love with Haise and plans to find him, Urie doesn't do anything other than verbally protest, which Mutsuki is far too gone to listen to. And even if you argue that Urie's too traumatized to recognize the glaring signs of an unhealthy attachment (which is fair and almost certainly part of it) Mutsuki's still directly committing a mild crime against the ccg and could very well get in trouble for it thereby harming his well being. To have Urie promise he'll still be there, or show that he's been following Mutsuki's missions could help a lot in making the scene where the Quinx hug him and tell Mutsuki that they still love him a bit more impactful instead of feeling a bit like they just remembered that I suppose? You can only fit so many simultaneous narrative strings into a manga I guess and neither of them are good at feelings, but I just want them to indicate the tasty potential of caring about someone past their lowest points more. Mutsuki still dislikes himself and keeps himself at a distance from his friends at the end of the manga. Having Urie so determined to see this green thing happy that Mutsuki slowly learns to forgive himself for what he's done and grow more comfortable in his masculinity would be cool, and in turn Urie can heal from the Black Reaper's attack on his character and psychological effects of The Everything by being tender with someone for the first time in years.

#doodles #zeph answers questions about media/characters/ships #tokyo ghoul #mutsurie

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IF YOU HAD TO ASIGN ANIMALS TO TG CHARACTERS WHAT WOULD YOU PICK? (ANY CHARACTERS) 💕

"Any characters"

If you say so, sweet anon.

Haise is a White Crested Black Polish Chicken

I will no longer be offering commentary.

(this is uta, and yes that is a real creature.)

I hit the image limit. "Why are they all birds" you wouldn't understand.

#miscellaneous not-art things #some of these are very shallow some of them are EXTREMELY thought out. Up to you to decide which is which. #tokyo ghoul #zeph answers questions about media/characters/ships

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Do you feel like Kuki had a point in not liking Sasaki, at least from his career-oriented standpoint? Him saying "fucking Sasaki" as his Kagune goes wild revealed some resentment. I think Sasaki treated the Quinx as "playing house" like Furuta puts it; they really only progressed after he wasn't in charge of them. In my head, I don't think he ever really ends up getting along with Sasaki/Kaneki: he just tolerates him because the Quinx likes him and he ended up getting attached to the Quinx.

Answered this under the cut!

From a career-oriented standpoint oh sure, Haise isn't all that much of an effective mentor when it comes to specifically sharpening skills and he deserved criticism, he's just the golden boy's favorite little creature who got assigned to a project so they could keep him alive. However, what he is decent at is keeping up morale, and they they also all fall into various states of mental despair once he leaves, which effects their performances even if they improve physically, because their job and existences are astoundingly bleak, (remember they are literally owned by the company and can be killed without repercussion if they're deemed dangerous and what they get in return is just being a decently effective living weapon and decent pay), they're all barely adults, and really what they could probably have used would be a more proper mentor figure who still holds the capacity for compassion. Akira or someone would've done well in the role of Quix guide but, since Haise is a half-ghoul, it's easy to put him in charge of the basically-half-ghouls and use that as a reason to keep him from the chopping block. Because the Quinx's success is not the priority to the one pulling the strings.

However Kuki likes to deny he needs connection anyways so in short: yes probably, but it's less Sasaki's fault and more Arima's, as usual. That said I do think he gets somewhat attached to Sasaki by sheer factor of having no one but him and the other quinxes to grow particularly bonded to, even if he resents that and his connection is obviously more strained than the rest, ESPECIALLY after that "it's your fault your friend died not mine" talk.

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Can you do one of the Aogiri people for the blorbo thingy?

I was going to do eto originally, but I think I’ve divulged my thoughts on her pretty thoroughly as-is. He's funny! We're about the same height, though I think I'm marginally taller.

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Tooru for the blorbo ask game???

A blorbo in the truest sense!

Ranting under the cut!

(For the record I mark the "just like you fr" square because we share a lot of physical similarities and a couple other details, I don't share most of his personality traits.)

He's like a weird comfort character thing to me? And yet I'm not nearly confident in my own interpretation.

I've seen it said he's badly written past shirazu's demise and I can't say I entirely disagree, but at the same time his history and trans-ness is so important to me that I can't really fathom changing him at this point. He's kind of in the same basket as Takizawa? Introduced as a nice friendly guy, (albeit flawed but in a human way that can be improved upon) who then gets bucketloads of trauma dumped on his head and becomes a seemingly unsavable villain only to kind of get redeemed?... and ultimately written off and moved far far away from Kaneki's happily ever after in the epilogue with no true resolution of their own. Why does that always happen to my favorites also they're both transmasc I will continue to spread my trans Seidou agenda until the end of time. Would definitely shift the narrative to respect his identity more if I could, but simultaneously his self-doubt is another comfort. I WISH I could make it so that no one would ever again point to his use of pronouns and femininity as a form of self-deprecation in his lowest moments, and go "See! He sees himself as a girl! When he calls himself a woman that's a good thing and a sign that he's healing from the evil trans disease, don't worry about how it's happening at the same time as he breaks down-"

I couldn't fix him and he isn't fixing me but he is VERY cathartic. One of those characters that I like to read fics about and draw going through the ringer when I'm feeling down.

#incentive to send me your blorbo: I doodle them myself #tooru mutsuki #mediocre art #zeph answers questions about media/characters/ships #tokyo ghoul

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I'd like to hear your thoughts on Furuta for the blorbo form?

I'm pretty sure every other fan of his I know disagrees with my takes but at this point I just keep going out of spite. Anyone who would mark "Aspirational Character" is going on some kind of watchlist. I love the anime's decision to give him the radioactively fuchsia eyes, I feel like they should always either be searing or completely lightless, soulless and slightly uncomfortable to look at regardless. Despite what the chart says, definitely a harbinger of bad luck.

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Shuu for the blorbo thing!!

Can’t attest much to the accuracy of this, but I do love my original Tokyo Ghoul blorbo.

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For the violence ask game 🗡

2, 17 and 22!

Thanks for the ask! These were fun.

2. A compelling argument for why your fav would never top or bottom

(I know it said compelling but for the record this is 90% me joking just because I try to keep this blog relatively sfw in terms of this)

An attempt at either act would remind Koori of Hairu and the resulting spiral would kill the mood. Furuta couldn't do it with a guy because he's homophobic and everyone else is off the table because he's gay.

17. there should be more of this type of fic/art

I said cannibalism last time, and I stand by that because it's an immensely powerful symbolic thing, but this time I'll say AU stuff! I love seeing people's TG AU's they're always crafted with so much love and thought. But really I love all art and fics that are created for this fandom, there aren't many of us but all of you are wonderful!

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

I love the restaurants as a concept I love that there’s probably one or two per ward I love the connections and questions they bring about ghoul high society and yet I feel like they’re only ever acknowledged and explored in regards to Juuzou and occasionally the restaurant arc itself. The whole fighting ring-esq “let’s throw three humans in a pit and have the deprived, ravenous and broken one we keep as a pet hit them with sticks” thing? Absolutely insane. I love it. I hate the rich but I like observing them like insects in a jar. I wish we had another character from it who was slightly more centric and eaten by Kaneki just so I could write a fic about the terror of realizing they could not be saved by any of their wealth or power in those final moments.

#I could make an OC but OC centric fics are really hard to get right and I’m not good at writing to begin with. #miscellaneous not-art things #zeph answers questions about media/characters/ships #tokyo ghoul

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Can you do Juuzou and ayato for the unhinged bingo?

Juuzou first ft. The most atrocious shade of pink

No particular thoughts I just generally agree that he's one of the best-written characters in the series.

Completely unintentionally the funniest character in Tokyo Ghoul. He didn't like that his sister was being nice to a human so naturally, he joined a terrorist organization as a middle schooler. He has committed atrocities unknowable, he smells terrible, anime-lines like "Let me clip your wings" feel exactly at home coming from his stupid face. Love it.

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Amoneki and Shuuneki for ship bingo? 🤔

You know not the snake pit you have just poked with a stick. I'll start with Amoneki because I can be normal about that.

The thing about Kaneki ships, is that I do not really care enough about him outside of selective interpretations to care who people pair him with. However, I can say with relative confidence that I enjoy this. It makes me feel kinda fuzzy, not in the brainrot way, just every time I try to think of the scenarios to put them in my brain turns to mush and I go "mmm. ghoul." Unlike most of my ships I do not want them to suffer profusely but I would not complain about a good angst fic.

Then next Shuuneki.

oh god.

I have mentioned that seeing Shuu Tsukiyama was the event pulled me into reading Tokyo Ghoul, but Shuuneki is what kept me here. I can't stress how much I used to think about them. I think I stalked this place for a solid month before I posted any drawings just digging as far as I could through the tag and examining fanfiction and you know what? Most of it was terrible two dimensional nonsense. I only found a couple that I genuinely thought were well-written. Most of the art I've liked was from one artist. They have a genuinely really interesting dynamic but they're also really easy to turn into soupy, weird nonsense. Anyways if anyone knows any genuinely good content of them please share, trying to look for content of this ship really is rather like digging through a trashbin. And yet I think about them a LOT. I would love to talk about them more.

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Omg wait 20, 23, and 24 for Touka, Ayato, and maybe maybe Renji :OO

Alright here we go! Kirishima family.

Touka, such an icon, if I don’t see her giving up on her dreams for Kaneki it didn’t happen.

20. A weird headcanon

Yoriko briefly really wanted to start a band, and Touka actually got really good at playing the electric guitar because of it. The band never happened but she retains the skill. Karaoke night at Anteiku is all fun and games until Touka breaks out the guitar and now everyone’s just sitting on the floor in awe while she duets whatever song gets chosen on the jukebox out of their small catalog. She’s got Wonderwall down to a T at this point, everyone say thanks Koma. 

23. Future headcanon

After the utter chaos of the dragon died down, she returned to her ambition of researching the origin of ghouls! She became widely respected in her field and wrote a couple books with theories that were used far into the future, and eventually one of them was proven. 

24. What do you think is a secret they have that they never told anyone?

When she worked at Anteiku, she collected little scraps of travel magazines, research articles, etc. and kept them in a drawer. Just motivation for days when pretending to be a human at school was difficult.

Ayato! Garbage child, committed 3 war crimes before he learned what a kidney was, banned from 4 public restaurants.

20. A weird headcanon

If he wasn’t a ghoul his beverage of choice would be some terrible soft drink or just straight milk with no alternative. I can’t specify the prior because I’ve had a singular sip of about 2 sodas in my entire life but I can speak for the latter, because the two of us are very similar in certain ways and I thrive on milk. No one has ever made the interesting critter joke and it saddens me.

23. Future headcanon

I know he’s canonically 5’5 (170cm) by the end of the series but consider, it would be way funnier if he just stayed 5’2 (159 cm) and for that reason I will always draw him shorter than everyone. Pry short Ayato out of my cold dead hands Ishida you can’t make me believe this idiot is even average height. 

24. What do you think is a secret they have that they never told anyone?

Generally he did a lot of stuff at Aogiri he’s not proud of at all anymore. Many ghouls are forced to kill from very young ages on account of their parents being taken by the CCG, but they’ll still have someone to help them compartmentalize it, and typically they’re not slaughtering for the sake of slaughtering in the name of a terrorist organization. He had a lot of power and a need to prove everyone wrong and to prove himself, so he blindly committed at least a few atrocities mindlessly following a command. He refuses to open up about any of it. 

Renji! Uncle by birth, good one by choice.

20. A weird headcanon

He genuinely does not know how to tie a standard shoelace knot. Any pair of shoes with laces he owns were tied once by someone else and are functionally slip-ons. Uta refuses to teach him because he thinks watching this grown man struggle to keep his shoes on is the absolute HEIGHT of comedy, and Yomo refuses to ask anyone else because of pride. So Uta will continue to lose his goddamn mind in peace. Why did the mask maker just fall off his chair cackling? Look across the room, Renji’s probably fighting for his life with a piece of string and losing. 

23. Future headcanon

Constantly anticipating the next murder attempt from your closest companion is… an objectively miserable way to live. But he’s also still well aware Uta will go right back to “tormenting everyone you love because I desperately need your attention if I can’t have your affection.” So he has no choice but to tolerate it for a very long time. However, I like to think it gets more tame with time. From ward-shaking battles to simple poison in his drinks and whatnaught. Sometimes Uta just jumps out of his closet and stabs him halfheartedly 3 times with a stolen quinque and then goes home and that’s the murder attempt for the week. It’s a funny dynamic because that’s a miserable day for Uta and he’s probably going to be pondering the emptiness of his own existence for the rest of the night and is only held back because of lack of drive, and a good one for Renji because in his mind less murdering is a sign of calming down, right? And he can focus on his actual healthy family and friends. Also like a couple others I’ve seen, I do like the thought that eventually Uta is successful. It fixes nothing.

24. What do you think is a secret they have that they never told anyone?

Overall he's a very secretive person but I should probably think of something relatively amusing because I could go on about genuine regrets for a while... As a teenager in the fourth ward he'd graffiti ravens with bloody claws, and thought it was very cool and tragic at the time, but on account of his poor art skills they kind of just looked like weird black blobs with red feet. That unrecognizable form was a blessing and a curse because he can insist that it definitely wasn't him without major suspicion.

#Another fun one! I adore the kirishimas and I was hoping someone would ask for them #speaking of which if anyone sent some numbers for furuta I would love you /p #touka kirishima #renji yomo #ayato kirishima #tokyo ghoul #miscellaneous not-art things #zeph answers questions about media/characters/ships

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H, J, and P?

H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?: It really depends on what I’ve heard, but typically I prefer to read the manga if I really care about the story/want to get through it faster! However there are some cases like Land of the Lustrous or Jujutsu Kaisen where the animation is so good that I start with what’s out of the anime, then go back and read it to ensure I don’t miss any details. Or alternatively, I go to the anime if I just want it as a background story while I draw. I’ve been doing that with Attack on Titan recently, it was a lot better than I anticipated so I presume the general negative opinion I’ve heard derived from its overpopularity not the quality itself? Or maybe it gets really problematic or something, haven’t finished it yet. As for Movies Vs. Books it’s a similar situation, but I prefer books more generally.

J - Name a fandom you didn’t think about until tumblr: Honestly, I’ve been introduced to a good portion of my recent fandoms by a friend of mine first, and then convinced to actually start them by tumblr art/my mutuals (mostly Quinn) so if I had to think of something that was genuinely introduced to me here… Good Omens? Haven’t watched it but I see them on my dash constantly. Oh also Witch Hat Atelier!

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas): Tokyo Ghoul obviously,

maybe an AU where all the folks pulling strings and playing king (Arima, Kaneki, Furuta, Eto) somehow end up in a very uneasy alliance to take down V for good. They argue over the ultimate goal constantly, they all hate at least two of the others, nothing’s really going well but they do get stuff done… somewhat, but they hate each other’s methods and tend to end up fighting after ever decision, and very rarely consulting each other before. The only thing keeping them united is a common goal and wanting to die.

AU where Haise is sent with the Quinx to deal with Noro instead of capturing Shuu on the roof. Shirazu doesn’t die, neither does Kanae (unless Eto decides to dispose of them?) but also, Haise never stops dreaming. But, a King is needed anyways and thus he ends up tentatively playing the role despite shironeki continuing to insist he be let out. I thought this one up right now and I haven’t considered consequences to this yet, but I like it as a concept.

Don’t think I’m inventing this but, AU where someone, legitimately anyone, comes to rescue Kaneki in time, hopefully helping him steer away from the mindset of “No one is able to help me”

AU where Juuzou and Hanbee are a little too effective and end up actually killing Kaneki (or injuring him to the point where he’s unable to dragon-ify even after taking a bite out of Hajime, leaving him only with the strength to flee) effectively throwing a wrench in everyone’s plans.

Not an AU but do you ever think about the fact that every single crucial event in Tokyo Ghoul wouldn’t have happened if Tsuneyoshi was just actually a good dad.

AU where everyone has actually decent parents (This one’s a joke but I actually cannot conceive of it.)

AU were Hide, Kimi, or someone else is the person to get Ghoul’d instead of Kaneki and the consequences thereof.

Very self-indulgent AU where Koori gets kidnapped by Aogiri instead of/in addition to Amon or Takizawa (mostly just writing this here because I’d like to draw it maybe, thematically I’m not really even sure it would work for him to begin with, but I like drawing theoretical ghouls.)

Also not really inventing this but I’d also like to draw a Pokémon AU some time.

#miscellaneous not-art things #zeph answers questions about media/characters/ships #I loved writing this actually. My ideas aren’t spectacular but heck it I like sharing them!

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L, R and S please? 💫

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.):

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED PROMPT SPECIFICATIONS, I WILL GIVE MYSELF AN ANEURYSM. It's not exactly a secret I get really uncomfortable when it comes to Kanou or any of the other... folks like that, but I will gladly acknowledge that he's a crucial and interesting part of the manga and plays the role of villain very well! He's multifaceted, capable of being a genuinely well-meaning person and also capable of completely setting aside all emotion to conduct his experiments. I love mad scientists, I love elderly characters that act kind of unhinged, and if it weren't for The Thing I'd probably love him.

Additionally, Tatara and Houji are actually higher up on my list of favorite TG characters, due largely to you, but I'll happily write something about them here regardless. I love their complimentary color schemes, Tatara's devotion to serving Eto and devotion to defeating Houji, both of which slowly consume him until his demise are fascinating. Houji's twisted sympathy towards ghouls, his reluctance to kill Takizawa despite knowing full-well the consequence, both of them just scratch my brain in a certain way you see.

R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?: The specification of "in fandom" definitely adds another element to this... I like the way the fandom treats Hori and Tsukiyama? If Ishida wasn't a coward and Shuu's character development stuck, I think they'd be my definite favorite friendship in canon as well. I also really like Kanae and Tsukiyama.

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged): I like to think Hajime was an absolute menace when the Oggai weren't actively on duty. One adolescent with little to no concept of how to behave and hundreds of barely-sentient zombie children who take orders from him? Nothing is ending well.

Also because I know I can talk about Furutui to you without feeling like I'm unnecessarily dragging my odd little pairing into a post, I've said it before but I really think it's the mundane things mixed with the horror that keep them somewhat grounded. Riding the train back to their office while half-heartedly bickering over logistics, strategizing about eliminating ghouls from another district like they're in this for any reason that's nearly noble, talking over a too-large map with so many notes stuck to it that it's functionally unreadably to anyone but each other, washing liter after liter of blood out of their clothes and hair. There's an element of Furuta trying to uproot any of the stability it provides with terrible comments and awful plans he never intends to act upon unless it serves a purpose, but eventually Koori sort of figures that out. As dramatic as their atrocious relationship-not-relationship is, I really love thinking over the smaller things. They unintentionally end up learning quite a lot about each other, by simple nature of disliking the prospect of seeking out anyone else. Because at that time, from their point of view, who's there to ask anyways? And it doesn't matter how close they get, as long as they both agree they hate each other at the end of the day. That last part's just my own delusion but I like it anyways.

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16, 20 and 23 asks for Nishiki and Kimk

Alright I’ll do the first two separately and then the last one I’m combining because it’d be repetitive. 

For Kimi!

16. A childhood headcanon

Her family was so supportive and loving it was almost alarming. Also she had a pet goldfish that lived an abnormally long time! Seriously, that thing was resilient. She took excellent care of it ‘till the end. 

20. A weird headcanon

She chews on random stuff when she’s focusing intensely, literally whatever’s closest. Sometimes it’s a pencil end, sometimes the collar of her own shirt, once she subconsciously just bit Nishiki’s hand that happened to be resting on her shoulder while she was writing a paper, and he was surprisingly unfazed. 

And then for Nishiki. 

16. A childhood headcanon

He used to just sit on the windowsill of a petshop and stare at the reptiles while his sister was away at work. Eventually the owner decided he might as well let the kid in, and taught him how to hold a snake. It’s one of his brightest memories. 

20. A weird headcanon 

Unironically prefers just snacking on the coffee grounds over drinking it. Kaneki once found him sitting with a full bag just scooping handfuls out and eating them during their break once, and was so uncertain of how to respond that he just turned around and went back to work. Technically it’s not that weird for a ghoul, but it’s a weird sight to a human. (Or once human.) 

For both!

23. Future headcanon

Kimi was absolutely the one who proposed, (after inconspicuously teaching Nishiki how human marriages work and educating herself on ghoul ones for at least a few months beforehand.) I'm not sure if they'd be the type to have kids themselves, (not to mention it's canonically incredibly difficult to have that happen in the first place, regardless of how entirely ignored that was for Plot Baby.) but they radiate "the cool aunt and uncle" energy.

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5 for the ask game?

Warning for uncomfortable teeth discussion and teeth drawings.

After all these years... I've finally finished it. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GHOUL TEETH! The amount of time I've spent on this really makes it feel weird but the longer I dwell on that the more it actually is, so without further ado.

(The numbering system was mostly for my own convenience when trying not to lose these pictures that all look the same at first glance, but I kind of adapted to it as I was writing this.)

A1 is a pair of human teeth drawn by yours truly. The cuspids will typically be a bit duller, but otherwise these are pretty average, if poorly drawn. These will be your point of reference because pointy teeth can look normal when not compared to how genuinely flat our teeth are.

Now we have B1, this is the mostly widely recognized kind of ghoul teeth, used in scary propaganda and horror films, very vampire-esq. Sharper cuspids, slightly slimmer teeth, but difficult to distinguish if you're just walking past, or even taking a good look without a point of reference.

Some ghouls with noticeable B1's include the Kirishimas, Itori, Nishiki, Donato, Yumitsu, and Tatara. But! Here's the thing, there's actually two kinds of common ghoul teeth and this one's actually found with less frequency than the other kind,

B2, almost all the teeth are more pointed than the human counterpart, but typically a bit more dulled than this example.

Some ghouls with noticeable B2's are Naki, Kanae, Irimi, Koma, Hinami, Roma, Miza and Shikorae.

Now we've dealt with the fun art stuff, time to get into the technical nonsense that I frankly know too little about dental functions to speak on but you cannot stop me with anything short of death itself. Proceeding! (There will be more fun art stuff further down)

The public is vaguely aware that there are actually two kinds of teeth distinctions that ghouls can have but it's more of an obscure trivia bit than common knowledge unless you work for the CCG, "You can tell an octopi's gender by whether or not it has suckers on the third arm to the right." type of factoid. Shirazu was actually pulled aside by investigators quite a few times times before even undergoing the Quinx procedure, just because his teeth give the impression of an unfortunately noticeable B2 ghoul. They had a record of him in the office for those working in the area he used to live in, that pretty much boiled down to "He's not a ghoul, please do not attack or interrogate if encountered in the wild, he's just Some Guy."

He's built like that for the same reason he was a good candidate for the Quinx procedure.

When it comes to concealment, It's pretty common practice for ghouls to have something extremely hard to chew on in order to seem to have completely average teeth, but if that's not their thing the bolder ghoul can just go the Uta route of "It's a body modification"

But in general dentists aren't a great idea unless you're a fortunate ghoul with naturally passing teeth, and even then only in necessity. Which is why it's remarked in confusion that Hajime Hazuki's teeth are "so straight," if he were a ghoul by birth that shouldn't really be the case.

Even now they obviously posses much stronger bite forces and teeth than any human, but this is actually quite a step down from ghouls of old. When integrating themselves into human society wasn't strictly necessary outside of simplifying hunts, the best comparison I can think of is monkeys. You'll see an actually drawing of roughly that in the next part...

This series has an unfortunate amount of unethical experiments, breeding, and hybridization fuckery, and this would feel incomplete if I didn't make an attempt to acknowledge that!

First off biological half ghouls. They're kind of a toss-up, they'll never have teeth as sharp as their ghoul parent, but there's a chance they'll only get certain teeth or none at all. Eto's the prior kind, her cuspids are a little pointy but she could easily pass as entirely human. I don't want to think about Ichika for any longer than I have to so that's all you're getting.

Artificial half-ghouls, Oggai and Quinx! They don't just magically grow sharper, your human teeth stay perfectly normal but the shift happens when they're broken and have to regrow after time/reaching a high enough frame, kind of an inevitability for artificial half-ghouls because human teeth are not made for ghoul shenanigans.

Amon gained a pretty good set of B2's but Takizawa's look a little like a weird yet subtle mix. (Not every ghoul falls neatly into one category or the other, but the vast majority do.) Kurona and Nashiro both ended up with B1's, Mucchan is a B2, Shirazu is as well but there was barely a change, Urie's a B1 and Saiko's never had to regrow her teeth but she'd be a B2. Aura, Higemaru, and Suzu are B2, Hsiao and Ryuusen are B1 but whether or not this has been shown is arguable.

Kaneki's teeth remained stubbornly humanoid regardless of how many times they were removed. Back when he had his mask made, Uta took note of this as an interesting trait and that's why the zipper-teeth are such a central feature. The Oggai are similar, but they were pretty good at keeping their human teeth anyways. More about this and the fruit bastard you'll notice is lacking from the half ghouls in a little.

Now the... breeders? What would you even call these three groups. Blades, Tsukiyamas, and Washuu Clan. The Blades aren't really interested in striving for appearances so they just have a mix of the two, mostly B2's with a couple B1's.

It gets a little more interesting for the other two.

The Tsukiyamas not only refine their ghoul traits into unique appearances, they pride themselves on those qualities and have the money to get away away with it. Their Kagunes may not be the strongest but by god do they draw the attention of the whole room in terms of unique mutations. So too are their teeth! Mirumo's are impressively noticeable B1's by themselves, but the real star is Shuu. Primarily inherited from his mother, they're one of the closest things to and old ghoul's teeth you'll find in the modern world. (Pictured bellow)

Outside of his pure influence, knack for luring in good dishes and wealth, part of the reason he's so liked at the restaurant is that he's just capable of ripping things up in a way that very few modern ghouls can. It's great fun to watch, but he rarely agrees to do so the first time around on account of his preference for actually prepared dishes and "polite" behavior, not to mention ghouls generally don't like to eat in front of others. But few are entirely immune to persuasion, and Shuu certainly isn't among them. It's quite the spectacle. Downsides: They're kind of awkward for such a verbose person, and if he bites a little too hard he can take his tongue clean off without meaning to. It'll grow back quickly but it's definitely not fun.

Now for the Washuu garden, where the only the thing they're growing is broken kids and misogyny.

As Rize states, the more human you are the "better" you are to them, and this extends to physical appearances as well. So, even the ghouls posses pretty human-looking teeth, but for most branches there's a noteable type that tends to surface. Arimas stay impressively human so they tend to be liked, Ihei's tend to be B2s, Kaikos willingly make them as dull as possible but they lean towards B1, Souzus tend to be B1s as well, Rize's branch tends to be B1 and the Furuta branch tends to be B2.

Which brings me to my final comment, fruit! An annoyingly unique case, with the closest perhaps being Suzu, but the operation and situation is vastly different for her and 179 is not real and cannot hurt me. Anyways, I've discussed his warring RC systems at length, on account of that with the added detail of the different teeth kinds for himself and Rize, if he was to lose all of those it might look a little like this.

I speak from experience when I say that wouldn't be fun but whatever he deserves the suffering. Enjoy never being able to close your mouth entirely without some amount of discomfort Nimura, you chose this life.

That is all thank you and goodnight apologies for the wait.

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Curious to know what your rarepairs are!

The thing is that I don’t really have strong ships I'd call my own, I am an absorbent net of “ooh interesting tell me more about how this works to you.”

The main ones I sort of thought up and then delightedly realized there were a couple others already shipping them would be Furutui, followed by Kokugiyuu but that’s kny, and then as for ones I was indoctrinated into those consist of kanaemutsu, one-sided Kaiko and Kuzen (it was funny alright), Shuuhide, Houtata sort of but at this point it's one of the most prevelent ships in our shell of a fandom, Etori, (Hori Chie and Eto) and then Hairu and Matsumae. But really I like anything that anyone proposes to me as long as I can see it! And my bar for that is low.

I Haven’t been into JJK or anything else actively enough to gain a lot of rarepairs for those yet but I want to, I suppose Yuki and Shoko could count but I think they’re funniest as exes. I’ve got two from Trigun, Zaziemeryl and Legato with Livio.

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