yOOOO okay so what if a really sweet and nice s/o suddenly disappeared and like a year or two they come back suddenly and is a hardcore enemy of tsukiyama, ayato, shironeki, and suzuya and the boys have to fight their previously missing tho not anymore s/o who is all traumatized evil and stronger etc (tho not a ghoul themself)
I guess their partner is a human then??? Alsothis scenario was hella fun omg
TSUKIYAMA had always wondered what had happened to that kind-hearted,gentle human whom had been his lover for some time. He assumes that they are dead,as miserable as it seems it is the one possibility he is able to stomach. Thethought of them suffering, be it the result of newly inflicted ills or therepetition of injuries past, is utterly intolerable. And so Tsukiyama buriedhis partner as best he could, but the grave does not hold the memory of hispartner steadfast. Then one day, he is faced with his partner once more. For amoment, he believes it to be some impossible design of fate, and it is, but notin the way he hopes. There’s something different about their presence now, asort of strength that welled forth from tribulation and desperation, the senseof something within them being broken beyond repair. And despite wishing hispartner had been alive in some twisted hope, he now found himself wishing theyhad died.
“Hello, love.” They chirpthat phrase emotionlessly, but he can feel rather than hear the coldness intheir voice, all frozen snake venom glittering dangerously in the sun.Tsukiyama knows that they aren’t here to reforge what had been created in thepast. No, they are here for his head and all the miserable years that hadpassed by did nothing to whet his feelings for them. “I want you dead.” And it’sthose words that make him realize that it really is over, it had been over along time ago and perhaps the only way to save his partner is to destroy them.
AYATO pretended not to care what happened to his partner all that time ago.Still, it is obvious even to the present that their lack of presence had aneffect on him. Are they still suffering somewhere? Are they dead? If they’redead did they at least get a proper burial? Ayato’s lip curl in revulsion atthese thoughts. Thinking of them would not bring them back, no matter how muchhe wanted to have them back by his side. Even if he denied it, vehemently,adamantly, he wanted his precious, weaker than he human by his side again. Hefeels that he’s gone too deep when he sees his partner—ex-partner?—certain thatthey appear him as a mirage, a delusion brought upon him by a lack of sleep andraw desire. But then they speak in a way the lover he knew never would have.
“Funny how you aren’t deadyet.” They smile and it’s a horridly broken thing, a bastardization of thesweet, kind expression he had unconsciously grown fond of. There’s been achange in his partner, a result of horrors they could not escape, of therepressed desire to make everyone suffer, to drag others into their despairthat spiraled out of their control. “If I kill you, then…yes. If I kill you Ican go back to that place.” His partner, or rather what’s left of them, laughs,a debased ghost of what it no longer is. They don’t quite make sense to Ayatoand that’s when it hits him like an eighteen wheeler jackknifing off the road.There is now something inherently broken about his partner, things that theycan never again be returned to them. Ayato feels like it’s his fault. If he hadtried harder back then, could he have saved them from this fate? Could he havesaved both of them…?
SHIRO!KANEKI remains torn over his partner’s disappearance. No matterwhat he did, he had never been able to locate his partner. He knows it’s bestto forget and move on, but he can’t. he feels that forgetting is worse than theagony that threatens to rupture his heart, and so he opens and reopens thewounds that their unwilling vanishing act had inflicted. He would give anything—anything, everything—to see his partneronce more. And so he does but the price of having his wish realized is greaterthan he could have ever foresaw. And Kaneki wishes, futilely, that he had notbeen so desperate for such a thing. Having been Yamori’s plaything, he canrecognize the soft, jagged angles of trauma that have replaced the sharpsoftness of the person he loved, the person he still continued to love.
“Aw, is my Kaneki sosurprised to see me that he’s been rendered speechless?” There’s a tauntinglilt to their words, but Kaneki can hear the pain in their voice, the desperationthat drove them to allow themselves to lose a bit of their mind in order tocope with whatever horrors they must have endured. “What are you waiting for?Wreck me! Destroy me!” they roar at him, voice dis embodied at the edges. Andeven though the killing intent from his partner is enough to suffocate him, hestill loves them more than anything, more than he could ever love himself. Ifonly his love could be enough to save them, but he knew nothing could wake hislover from the nightmare they would continue for the rest of their life. The leasthe could do is send them to sleep, where they might perhaps have a betterdream.
SUZUYA for all his lack of understanding about how the world at large worked,knew enough that his partner had been taken, against their will. Had they beencrying, screaming for him to help them? The thought of them wailing futilelyfor someone, anyone to save them made his chest hurt. He didn’t want hispartner to be scared, or hurt, or alone, even if he could not articulate hissentiments. As time passed, he went on with his life, attending to his duties.On the outside, he is still very much the Suzuya everyone is familiar with.Inside, he is a raging storm of emotions he can’t make sense of, but it all coalescesinto a desire to see his partner again.
“Have you been lonelywithout me?” their voice brings him out of his thoughts, and he calls theirname, desperate to see them again. And so they step from the shadows, their eyesreflecting a sorrow, a fear, and a desperation that took form in cool, bloodyrage. When he looked into those tumultuous eyes he saw no trace of the ever patient,sweet partner that haunted him even now, staring into a face that isundoubtedly theirs. “Suzuya, fight me. Untildeath do us part.” And they grin, an expression that tears their visage intwo, eliminating any thoughts, annihilating the slim hope that the partner heonce knew remained. Suzuya would…lay them to rest. He could tell somehow thatthey were still suffering, the least he could do is put them out of theirmisery…right?