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What's your hc on Ghouls nature in the Animal Kingdom or beyond? They're probably mammals, but I also think them being like another class, kingdom, invertebrates whose bodies overcame predatory mimicry as their ancestors rose to sapience is also interesting.

Oh that's a really interesting headcanon!!

Maybe just bc I love irl invertebrates and love canon kagune but I'd love to see/explore a take about that!! 👀

As for me, I'm not that educated on biology and phylogeny / taxology so I don't have much to go on. I mostly just read other fans' biology headcanons and nod along and assume they know what they're talking about XD

Outside of my heavily divergent AUs I prefer to stick close to canon, so I more or less prefer and go with what the series implies and what fandom's been theorizing forever:

That ghouls used to be human, until something happened that essentially evolved them into a new species / subspecies.

I like the idea that the kagune itself used to be it's own creature but somehow combined with a human and created a new species (the fact that in canon a kakuja kagune or quinque has a level of sentience, and then mixing in the idea of parasites (X) and even lichen (X))

I also like the mystery of it, the unknown. How ghouls by nature of not having long lives probably don't have much family history nevermind species history. And how the CCG is so corrupt that any "research" they do is so focused on the Washuu's personal goals. And anything else probably gets so warped to be false propoganda. I think, in-series, no one truly knows what ghouls are or where they've come from. (Except for Kanou's group. Maybe. Barely.) And I think that's something that'll finally be properly and respectfully researched post-canon once peace truly gets going.

This particular AU started as exploring the inhuman side of ghouls and over the years ended up turning into ghoul worldbuilding. Most of what I come up with is very much just "wouldn't it be cool if—?" that I run away with and write for fun. A lot of it probably won't be "canon" even to the au in the end.

Like. I've expanded ghouls to include purring, glowing eyes, heat cycles, unhingable jaws, etc. I'm just having fun now versus trying to come up with a cohensive biology or evolution line.

#tokyo ghoul #mint legs #two steps forward one step back #ghoul worldbuilding #ghoul headcanons

I gravitate towards aspec takes, but lately I've been into the idea of an allo ghoul Kaneki, who has a lot of anxiety about dating humans, and a good while after Hide finds out he's a ghoul and accepts him, they're talking and Hide goes on one of his typical "I accept you" speeches — except something about his wording hits hard in a way it hasn't before, and Kaneki realizes that Hide doesn't just accept him in passing or despite being a ghoul, but truly and entirely as he is, and sudden the floodgates open and his heart swells and Kaneki realizes...

Oh. Oh hold up... he likes Hide.

...He likes Hide?! When did that happen?! Has he been... repressing this?!

Like, he leans more towards being attracted to humans than ghouls, but safely dating a human and having it work out long-term had been a pipe dream so he never bothered. It's just been this pure fantasy for all his life.

And in this moment he just... goes through this little checklist and realizes that Hide in fact... hits all of his standards...

Knows he's a ghoul ✅

Accepts him as a ghoul ✅

Easy on the eyes ✅

Nice, friendly, kind ✅

Patient, respectful ✅

Intelligent ✅

Bonus Points: Already have a connection ✅

And Kaneki just has to sit there with with his heart racing and pretend to be normal and like he doesn't really wanna kiss him right now.

(And then Hide finds out and laughs heartily and finds it adorable and flattering and kisses him the end.)

#tokyo ghoul #hidekane #os!kaneki #mintlegs!kaneki #mintlegs!hidekane #allo!kaneki #mint legs #au content #all

I am fascinated by and technically subscribe to all the fans doing biology meta about how ghouls can take drugs the same as humans, and how between Nishiki & Kimi being med students and ghoul society probably being pretty good at smuggling and distributing items amongst each other, getting access to said drugs probably isn't terribly difficult,,,

but the whump fan in me who wants no pain relief, all soft pained gasps and twitches... says no to that in this fic

#tokyo ghoul #mint legs #two steps forward one step back

OS!Kaneki: I have very high standards.

Hide: I accept you as a ghoul.

OS!Kaneki: OH NO!!! YOU'RE MEETING ALL MY STANDARDS!!!

#source: Undertale #tokyo ghoul #mintlegs!kaneki #distant!kaneki #mint legs #distance #hidekane #incorrect quotes #au content #all

Full story of how this AU came to be:

@HidekaneHeadcanons* liked writing oneshot!Kaneki and wrote a bunch of Hidekane oneshots that I really liked

(*Their blog is sadly deleted, but I went back and archived their fics I had reblogged on my main here. The "read more"s are broken, but all the AO3 links work as they simply orphaned them.)

And from there, I was inspired to also think of my own ideas featuring a full ghoul Kaneki, and I decided to specifically think about how Tokyo Ghoul's story would go if Kaneki was a ghoul from the start - how that would change his past, personality, his relationship with Anteiku, and his friendship with Hide

I first wrote and posted "Life As A Ghoul" to AO3, but it was definitely my weakest writing and just sort of a copy-and-paste of canon. I ended up deleting it because I hated it and it wasn't working lmao.

But the basic concept of a full ghoul Kaneki au never left me, and finally I came up with a good idea: "hey what would be the most fucked up way for Hide to discover that Kaneki was a ghoul?"

And I wrote that, re-using the name Life As A Ghoul and posting it to AO3. And after that introduction, it quickly became a really endearing fic of unconditional love and some ghoul & character building.

A few years passed, it went on an indefinite hiatus, I got out of Tokyo Ghoul for a while, but my love for the series remained and through it all I was still obsessed with the idea of a full ghoul Kaneki.

Eventually I did a manga re-read and also reread my fic, wanting to get back to it. Except... I had done a lot more analysis during that manga reread, and a lot of my understanding, takes, and headcanons had changed. Additionally, the original dark concept kind of caused me to write myself into a corner of where to go from there.

So! Instead I decided to try to "revamp" the au.

The name "Life As A Ghoul" had only ever been an easy placeholder title (Literally a phrase picked out from a sentence in the fic I had emphasizing Kaneki's difficult life as a ghoul).

But now I had the perfect proper name for the au fic:

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Because the whole concept that always grasped me was Kaneki's ghoul side and true self being revealed to Hide, and Hide loving him unconditionally, and yet between Kaneki's shame and the struggles of a realistic predator and prey relationship... their journey to strengthen their friendship ends up being "two steps forward, one step back". Each time they made progress, something seems to knock it back a little.

And then for whatever reason, since February of this year I got really into ghoul worldbuilding and doubled down on it so hard.

(I also constantly wrote tons of other full ghoul Kaneki reveal oneshots on pure whims)

At this point... the au and fic barely have a plot. And I'm not really sure it ever will?? But I've had a hell of a fun time writing adorable and angsty unconditional hidekane love and acceptance and just growing my worldbuilding headcanons.

So, here we are... A place for me to ramble about it, and post some of the random fun stuff I've made for the au.