the final dismantling ch.15 - rated m - mutsuki tooru/suzuya juuzou - hurt/comfort au where big madam escapes the auction and takes mutsuki with her, inspired by rosatonta's classic 'deconstruction'
not a dog-moder or a prince-moder when sick but a secret third thing that, boring version, is just person who lives alone-moder but since it means I claw my way out of my sick person nest to grab as many little treats and actual sickness necessities as possible in one miserable trip, scatter them around said nest, and then curl up around my hoard to see if death or the strength to use some of them comes for me first, I've decided dragon-moder sounds more fun
Oh you like the CCGs? That's fun, wonder if you've got thoughts or headcanons on. Hogi Aymu or Kiyoko Aura?
I've got a sorta au one that I have is that Hogi covers face for her dimples yes, but also cuz it was cut up quite abit in the Ghoul attack that turned her towards the CCG. It's also "useful" in the sense that it makes it less bothersome to cover her face with hair, since her visions already impared.
Honestly I have little memory of either character and it seems like most of the parts that really flesh both of them out are after I stopped reading the manga because the latter half of :re just sucks that much. But this ask has been in my inbox forever and you probably think I'm ignoring it, and that's sad because I really like your Hogi headcanon! If I ever have a reason to write Hogi, yours will be the version of her I write because I like it that much better than my brief scroll down her Tokyo Ghoul wikia page XD
Even though I don't have anything for Hogi herself, one of the reasons I like your headcanons so much is I do have so much to say about Ishida's tendency to turn natural outcomes of the worldbuilding into some deliberate conspiracy the CCG had to actively make happen in order to persecute serial killers with superpowers. This includes the asinine shit he says about survivors of ghoul attacks becoming investigators. I think about this one piece of dialogue somewhere before I quit the manga about how the Academy is like... manipulating those ghoul attack survivors 'to make them hate ghouls' sometimes if I ever need a reason to facepalm
I won't go deeper down that rabbithole though, because it will make me mad and accomplish little else but... yeah. Let's just say it's a big deal to me to actually flesh out what those characters went through when it comes up in my writing. I think it's great how you've done that with Hogi and if I do revisit the pre-quitting the series parts where she and Aura come up and draw some ideas from it, I'll make an effort to post them! And that very well could happen because my favorite minor investigator characters are, at this point, the thread my special interest in this series has been hanging on by for many years XD Thank you for the ask!
arata joker chest plate pattern, finally done! this and some decent progress on the middle piece of the torso took me six hours yesterday. ik it doesn't look like arata joker without all the textures and layers but I will jump off cross that bridge when I get to it
On this international mothers days, I want to ask, what Tokyo Ghoul fave characters do you see enjoying being mothers or which would dislike it. Or maybe, which would come around to it?
Thank you for the ask, friend! Truthfully, as an ace person who dislikes being around children, part of the appeal of some characters to me is that they don't fit the maternal mold and Ishida disappoints me when he shoehorns some of them into it anyway. Even when the sadistic dom in me wants to domesticate a lady from the series it's more in a 'sentient pincushion' way than a 'lobotomized housewife' way. But ask, and you shall receive the very best I could do! Long post under the cut
Yoriko - she would be good at the quintessential mom things, and even has a strong nurturing but firm side that could handle the realities of parenting, but in my post-canon universe, her restaurant is her baby. She works hard for what she wants and if she wanted kids, she would have them. They would pull her focus from running her business and nighttime feedings just wouldn't work with long shifts of ingredient prep and busy services. She could maybe, maybe come around to it if Touka, her wife in my universe, wanted them badly enough to step back from :re or teaching or whatever she does to take care of them. Not that Yoriko would be completely uninvolved. Like I said, she could be a good parent, but the restaurant and career she busted her ass for since high school would always come first for her, and kids need to come first if you have them, so they would have to work together to compensate for the former enough that the kids still come first for them as a family unit, if that makes sense.
Akira - wouldn't be good at it, wouldn't like it, and has no desire to change either of those things. Even just partnering her up cost Ishida any remaining crumbs of credibility he might have had with me after the Rushima arc. She is a forever-single cat lady and asexual weapons fanatic, and that's what I like about her. Making her Haise's maternal figure is and has always been so laughable to me because that is so not Mado Akira and it would have so much comedic potential if it wasn't more likely the author viewing her personality in the original series as like... young and immature for a woman, so of course after a time skip, she's more mature and that automatically means she's more motherly. The Real Akira thinks babies look like mangled hairless cats and cringes when Misato's husband brings their kids to visit her at the main office. She doesn't even realize how many times she refers to them as 'its' when the happy nuclear family somehow foils her effort to ignore them and keep, you know, investigating murders.
Ihei - zero interest in being a mom, if not aversion to it. Children would be a distraction from surpassing Arima, a task that already might be impossible and that's why she wants to do it, at best. She may not dislike other people's kids as much as Akira does. If someone goes on childcare leave, then she might be able to poach some of their good half-solved cases and be their boss by the time they decide to come back. Same with covering a less desirable shift so the parents on her assignment can see their kids. But she is even more age-inappropriate at interacting with other people's kids, considering she was a highly decorated investigator as a teen. Understanding violence and death is like a rite of passage, what do you mean talking about her last case is inappropriate for a toddler? She might, however, find having children, regardless of what parenthood looks like for an individual, to be a pathetic end to all their potential at anything else, which she does not want for herself and, while colored by her feelings about it, is not entirely incorrect considering domestic labor is a full-time job.
Matsumae - she might want children. Hell, she would die for the person she was essentially tasked with raising in canon. For that reason, though, she has decided that she is too committed to watching over the Tsukiyama family to have children of her own. Especially seeing Kanae's loyalty to the family waver out of devotion to one person in the Rose arc, she would fear becoming compromised like that and one day having to choose her child or her duty to the family. The best way to avoid that situation is to just not let anything else into her life that would even have a chance to become more important to her. For that reason, there is a sliver of a chance she would come around to it, whether one day she just wanted it so badly that she couldn't resolutely stay away from parenthood anymore or she had Tsukiyama and Mirumo's blessing. And how deliciously tragic would it be if her worst fears did indeed come true down the line? This is where the mind goes when you like Matsumae but also really like Kijima
Nico - not even a fav of mine, but I needed SOMEONE to be a yes. I don't know or care enough to decide whether he's somewhere under the trans umbrella, a fabulous fey man, or Just Nico, but either way I think he would call himself his child's mother, so I'm counting him. He would be a very loving mom, just not a stable, reliable one without actively giving up his pursuit of fun and shiny objects to fixate on. The younger years might be a whirlwind of affection and play and awe of how beautiful his child's innocent face is, but parenthood is the rest of your life if you're doing it right. Eventually, the novelty would wear off and something else would become his next thing. He has some moral compass and wouldn't cross the line into complete neglect, but I can see him becoming estranged from a child who realizes they don't want more gifts or cuddles or storytime when he is around-- they just want their mom to be around. Or he might continue to have a very happy relationship with them, but maybe not the most well-adjusted child in the end. Or a little bit of both, if he lives long enough to slow down and think about where he could have been a better mother, depending on how forgiving his child grows up to be.
Misato - also more of a character I want to like more than I do, but I'm including her so that I have some 'yes' characters on this list. We know in canon that she wants to be with one of few men more physically imposing than herself and be protected by a man she loves. My headcanon is that she also wants the white wedding and two kids part of her... what's the word... old-fashioned, I guess, fantasy. Maybe it's what makes sticking her with children more palatable to me, but I don't think (gross anyway so who cares) gender roles would be adhered to in her home like, at all. For one, she canonically can't cook and she just doesn't strike me as the detail-oriented type. Either her big protective husband cooks and cleans or that kid is going to grow up with a vast knowledge of takeout and TV dinners, and Mama Misato lifts them up on her shoulders (maybe she should be a twin mom and lift one on each shoulder) and teaches them how to protect themselves from bullies.
Big Madam - listen I KNOW you said fav and she's not one of mine either, but I spent a lot of time in my version of her head for my last big fic project and think it would surprise anyone who reads this that I actually don't think she wants to be a mother at all. Most of this is vibes in my head because she's not afforded that much depth in the series, but to me she wants to be a child, or at least she wants what she thinks it must be like to be a child who wasn't groomed to be the heiress of whatever company or industry makes her so wealthy and influential her whole life. I think 'mama' is just the terminology the Restaurant uses with human scrappers (Madam A and Taro use it too) rather than her actually wanting to be a mother. Whether she's playing dress-up with them, pitting them against other kids' toys, or cutting them into pieces, her scrappers aren't her children, but her outlet to experience the idea she's built up in her head of childish abandon. She's the little girl with no responsibilities or pressure and they're her toys.
these autistic bloggers who are either too young, diagnosed too late, or just happen to have some other life experience insulating them from realizing it really think they're making a point in 'actuallyautistic' type spaces by reinventing aba (assuming you can reinvent something that's still alive and booming) and now i understand what doomscrolling really is and why it's bad
"if you do this/don't do that/can't do this/won't do that you have a SeRiOuS pRoBLEm!!1!" well, yeah. my serious problem was diagnosed by a developmental pediatrician when I was 15 after a decade of being diagnosed with 'bad kid.' of course I have a serious problem. anything of value to say about it or just pointing out the obvious to feel superior to *checks notes* people with life-altering disabilities?
It's because everyone who's been a fat kid glimpsed how rotten the world is and how it is absolutely true that people get judged based on non-meritorious, arbitrary qualities that are largely out of their control. They also know that the people who won the genetic lottery will get treated better their whole lives and interpret their luck as being deserving of better treatment, somehow. And there's nothing at all they can do to improve this state of affairs. Living is like continuously watching one part of humanity abuse another part in slow motion
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