I’m lowkey shipping Yusa and Niji after that little bit you wrote please may I ask for a confused Yusa asking Ui for advice?

Lol yessss I am too.

“Ui?” Yusa asks Ui a few days after the attack Tokyo. Kaneki Ken is recovering in Tokyo’s best hospital, and ghouls and humans are negotiating.

“Yes?” Ui hesitates. He still feels guilty that he kept condemning ghouls in the presence of a half-ghoul like Yusa. He was so ignorant.

“How did you know you liked Hairu?”

Ui stills. “Uh…You knew that?”

“You weren’t trying to get Arima back, but you trying for Hairu. Besides, Shio has been convinced for over a year,” Yusa admits.

Ui colors. “Well, Yusa…yes, I love Ihei Hairu. It hasn’t even stopped with her gone.”

“What is love like?”

“Love is…” Ui sighs. “Well, it can start with a fluttering in your chest, or a tingling in your stomach. Or a realization that you are interested in spending the rest of your life with them. Or the desire to do everything in your power give them the best in life. Love can be like a lot of things.”

“But what is it?” Yusa presses. He definitely gets heart flutters when he sees Niji, the rainbow ghoul who’s charmed even CCG’s staunchest.

“A deep, affectionate feeling for someone,” Ui says. “According to the dictionary. Magic, according to Disney. Drugs. Fire. Who knows.”

He wishes love was magic enough to raise the dead.

“Is this person a ghoul?” Ui asks with a knowing smile.

“It’s…yeah…” Yusa mumbles, his face red.

“I think love is magic enough to give you a chance with them.” Ui pats his shoulder. “You’ll feel better if you tell her, I assure you.”

Magic. Somewhere, there’s still a part of him that thinks if Yusa can date a cute rainbowed ghoul, Hairu can return.

More princess Niji! I miss her!

I MISS HER TOO!

After Kaneki goes into dragon-mode, Niji finds herself in the forest with Touka and the others. As soon as she sees Shuu, she lets out a cry and flings herself into his arms.

“It’s okay, shh,” Tsukiyama tells her, rubbing her hair as he hugs her.

As soon as Touka tells him what Kaneki has become, Tsukiyama collapses. Now Niji and Chie comfort him as best they can.

When Itori appears to convince the remnants of Goat to fight humans, Tsukiyama hesitates. A part of him, too, wants justice for his family, and always will.

But then he sees Niji’s narrow eyes. She pokes him in horror.

He remembers Kaneki and what he would want. Squeezing Niji’s hand, he closes his eyes and screams: “SHUT UP!”

When the ghouls arrive at CCG, Niji lets out a cry as soon as Yusa appears. Where are Shio, and Rikai? Could they – no, no, no!

Yusa sees her and stumbles towards her. She races up to capture him in an embrace, sobbing the names of their friends.

Ui’s eyes widen at this feminine kid who looks like a boy, who’s grabbing Yusa and comforting him beyond what Ui himself could manage. Finally, Yusa is showing emotion.

“This is my friend Niji,” Yusa says to Ui. “Shio nicknamed her the rainbow princess.”

“And she’s my friend, so if you hurt her, I eat you,” Tsukiyama warns.

Ui nods. “It’s nice to meet you, Niji.”

She hisses at him.

“I’m sorry,” Ui blurts out.

“Me too,” she says then, crying again and reaching for him.

Ui is baffled, but sure. He’ll hug her. Maybe that’s what he needs, too.

Do you think that maybe when Ui was younger he used to watch He-Man? That maybe that inspired him to be all into the ‘justice’ thing? As well as the hair style!

OMG

“Ui, he looks like you!” Shio points towards the screen. He quivers with excitement.

“Uh, how?” Ui blushes. He-Man. His favorite hero. Prince Adam was his favorite character growing up. He never quit. He always fought for justice.

“You have the same hair,” Rikai says, smoothing her own bob.

“But he’s blonde,” Shio says.

“Can we be your Masters of the Universe?” Yusa asks.

Ui chokes. “I…”

“Where’s your Power Sword?” Shio demands.

“It’s only half,” Ui retorts, then catches himself. Shoot.

“So you do know He-Man!” Yusa cackles.

“Stop!” Ui gulps.

“Does that make Hairu Skeletor? Since they’re partners, she can be the second half of the sword.” Shio rubs his hands together.

“She would be Teela!” Ui insists. He’s already deep in this hell. might as well descend more.

“Not Adora? I could see her as Adora,” Rikai muses.

“No!” Ui is appalled. Then Hairu would be his sister…and she definitely isn’t. Even in fictional games.

“What’s going on?” Hairu and Hirako race up to see Ui sputtering nonsense and the kids giggling.

“He’s reverted back to his Prince Adam state,” Shio says mysteriously.

Hairu frowns, not understanding, but Hirako collapses to the floor in laughter, as tears stream down his face.

Crack head cannon: cochela doesn’t give prisoners haircuts, so when sasaki was released his hair was quite long and at first glance he could easily pass as a woman. During the tour around the ccg squad zero kids don’t help and further solidify to passerby’s that the new squad member is a girl much to Haises annoyance. Next day he comes in with a haircut. Everyone was left to believe the lady quit after her first day and tease Arima for years. Until Arima tells the story at Haises x mas party.

lollololololololllllllllllllllll

“Okay, okay, you think Hajime’s a brat, but do you know what the Squad Zero kids did?” demands Ui. His arm is almost, but not quite, around Hairu’s shoulders. Propriety. Yeah, that’s it.

“Do tell,” says Akira, clutching her seventh glass of wine.

“Please don’t,” says Sasaki.

“Arima, tell it.” Saiko winks. She’s heard Arima is a legendary storyteller, too.

Arima winces. “Well…”

“Come on, out with it.” Hairu giggles. Rikai, Yusa, and Shio bury their heads in their hands.

“So.” Arima sits down. “One long day, our Squad was gifted with a new investigator. Their hair was white and flowed to their shoulders. Shiny as a shampoo commercial.”

Sasaki’s face is now crimson.

“And then, our darling prodigies decided to introduce everyone to ‘the new woman in our squad.’”

“I was excited to have someone think we had three females,” Rikai insists.

“Was I not enough?” Hairu counters.

“Take me,” says Saiko.

“This new woman vanished the next day, and coincidentally, we replaced them wth Sasaki Haise.” Arima sips his tea. “Or so the Bureau Legend goes.”

Urie rolls his eyes. A grin spreads over Shirazu’s face.

“You mean that story isn’t true?” Mutsuki asks.

“Ask the lady.” Arima points to Sasaki. “Amazing what the power of a haircut can do.”

“You!” Akira doubles over laughing.

“You kids were such a handful!” Ui shakes his head at the three junior investigators.

“Don’t ruin our urban legend,” Shio begs. “Keep it quiet.”

“We are powerful masters of myth,” Yusa intones.

“Madam Sasaki, may I have this dance?” Shirazu sticks out his hand.

“Sure.” Sasaki grabs Shirazu and spins him in a circle as everyone laughs.

oh oh ui and hairu were planning on having a simple New Years party for just the two of them but brooke (my best girl) and the rest of her squad (and maybe the zero squad kiddies because something tells me they’d be all over this) totally crash their party by making it totally wild and fun much to ui’s displeasure.

Also based on @koyuki-tan‘s “Peace Sign.”

“Now this is my idea of a party,” says Ui, pouring two glasses of wine for Hairu and he. “Just us.”

“Hmmm, and what else can we do before New Years,” Hairu murmurs, a seductive grin on her lips.

Ui leans towards her. Her fingers unbutton his shirt.

“Surprise, elected hosts!” Their door crashes open. Ui gasps, and Hairu sloshes her wine onto her blouse.

“Oh my.” Brooke blinks at the sight of Ui desperately trying to mop Hairu’s blouse. “Kids, don’t look. This isn’t a sight for innocent eyes.”

“He’s just trying to clean her shirt,” Shio says in confusion.

“Let’s agree to that,” Brooke says quickly.

“It’s okay, Ui, it was an old shirt anyways.” Hairu smiles. She wasn’t planning on wearing it for long anyways, even it’s not exactly off for the reason she expected.

“We heard you weren’t coming to any parties, so we decided to bring the party to you,” Rikai says shyly, holding out an offering of cake.

“Apology accepted,” Hairu says, sniffing the pan.

“Ui, your fly is open,” Brooke says.

“What!” Ui gasps, but of course, it’s not true.

He glowers at her as the Zero Squad kids howl with laughter.

Their doorbell rings.

“Who else did you invite?” Ui asks with dread. Koharu’s on a date. Carma is moping, Marie is helping her, and Michiko is with Mizurou. That leaves…

“Surprise!” Brooke whips open the door as a dozen kids pour in.

“What a nice apartment!” shouts Hajime.

“Can you believe we get to stay up til midnight?” Mayazumi yells back.

“How do the Oggai have better manners than you?!” Ui fires at Brooke. He will have to inform Koharu about this. Definitely. New Year’s is canceled.

But when he turns around, Hairu is already cranking up the stereo, and Hajime’s asking her to dance…and even Ui Koori has to admit, they’re pretty cute.

wouldn’t it be funny if hajime made fun of yusa’s crush on marie but marie would still defend yusa even if she still didn’t truly understand his feelings for her?

Omg he totally would.

Characters from @koyuki-tan‘s “Peace Sign.”

“Aw, is someone hiding behind a girl…or are you really hiding?” Hajime wiggles his eyebrows at Yusa, who cowers behind Kitami Marie. He just caught Yusa rushing alongside the beautiful Quinx, and this is too good an opportunity to pass up. Besides, he wants to impress Marie himself.

“Shut – shut up,” stammers Yusa.

“Hey, Hajime, knock it off.” Marie puts her hands on her hips. “You don’t have to be mean to Yusa.”

“Aw, I’m just trying to play evil matchmaker,” Hajime says, twirling a pretend mustache.

“What?!” cries Yusa, horrified. His secret is out!

Marie, however, merely laughs. “Hajime, you’re a terrible matchmaker.”

“Hey.” Hajime pouts.

“Now run back along to your Oggai friends, and be nice to Yusa. He’s a sweet, smart boy, and we’re all blessed to know him,” Marie declares.

Yusa’s face is now as red as the iris in Hajime’s kakugan.

“Uh-huhhhhhhh.” Hajime winks at Yusa before skipping away. He immediately whips out his phone.

Yusa’s buzzes, and he winces as Marie smiles at him. “Don’t let Hajime get to you. He’s probably just jealous that you’re in Squad Zero, Yusa.”

“Okay,” Yusa rasps. She walks away, and with relief Yusa yanks out his phone.

I hope you realize what a favor I just handed you, doofus – Killer H.

Yusa scowls. It’s not a favor unless I wanted it.

But before he presses send, he recalls the warm, tingling feeling of Marie praising him. Maybe, just maybe, this was worth it after all.

Ui kneels in the office for whatever reason and Hairu thinks he’s proposing, while everyone is present

Yasssss.

Ui curses silently as his pen drops to the floor of their meeting room. How will he be able to take notes without it?

He drops to his knees before Hairu, who is distracted by her conversation with Hirako.

Hirako raises his eyebrows to cut Hairu off. She spins around and gasps. “Koori!”

He opens his mouth in confusion. “Huh?”

“Say yes!” Shio cheers.

“Yes, of course, yes.” Hairu’s face is as pink as her hair.

“Wait, what?” Ui’s mouth drops. “You all think – wait – Hairu – I’m not actually – I’m grabbing a pen.” He holds it up.

“Oh.” Her shoulders slump. Now her face is cherry red. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be.” Ui stands and leans in close. “I’d make it far more romantic than in a morning meeting.”

Hairu giggles.

“Wait, so you’re not engaged? Come on,” Yusa complains. “How long are you gonna keep us waiting?”

Ariam strides in. “We’re running on time, Yusa.”

“No, we’re talking about Ui and Hairu not being engaged,” Rikai says.

Arima frowns. “Come again?”

“You really haven’t noticed?” Hirako exclaims.

As the room descends into bickering chaos, Hairu leans over to Ui and plants a peck on his cheek. “Well, at least now you already know my answer.”

shio and rikai should try to help out Yusa with trying to win over marie but she only sees him like a younger brother.

Based on @koyuki-tan‘s “Peace Sign.”

“Okay, we need a game plan.” Shio paces back and forth in their room.

“We don’t, not really,” Yusa mumbles, his face red.

“We absolutely do!” Rikai is appalled. “You need a girlfriend.”

“I asked Arima,” says Shio, “but he says the only girl he’s ever dated, he also tried to kill first, which seems weird.”

“Maybe he was joking?” Yusa frowns. If Arima Kishou’s only dated one girl, Arima Yusa is doomed.

“Maybe. But the point is, if Arima can’t help us, we need to do this on our own!” With a fake scowl, Shio points at Yusa.

“Sasaki said to buy them books and Ui said to trip them,” Rikai adds. “Also unhelpful.”

“So here’s what you do…” Shio rubs his hands together with glee.

—

“Isn’t this sweet?” Kitami Marie skips into the office of the beta-Quinx, holding a red rose in her hand.

“Wow, you’ve gotten flowers every day, haven’t you.” Brooke winks.

“I have! It’s so amazing.” Marie giggles. “I wonder who they’re from.”

“Maybe ask someone observant…like Yusa,” Ui Koharu says with a wink.

“Ha! Yusa’s like a kid brother. I bet he’d get protective.” Marie giggles. “That’s a great idea.”

Outside the office, Yusa jerks his ear away from the door, sorrow on his face.

He’s not going to stop with the flowers, though. She deserves them.

Crack head cannon (which is really just a contraction of a previous crack head cannon): Ui Koori doesn’t help with the rumors surrounding the Quinx mentor, and to anyone that askes, he’ll tell them it’s cruella deville’s psychotic cousin

It begins with an un-caffeinated Ui, out of cigarettes and fresh out of bed.

“Ui, who is Sasaki?” asks Yusa.

“Cruella DeVille’s psychotic cousin,” Ui grumbles.

Yusa’s eyes widen, and he races off. Ui slides into his seat, not thinking much of their exchange.

An hour later, Shio appears. “Ui sir, who is Sasaki?”

“The Quinx Leader,” Ui says simply.

Shio pouts. “Why are you boring with me? You told Yusa something funny!”

“I did?” Ui thinks for a second. “Hmm…okay, Sasaki is Maleficent’s brother. Complete with the dragon.”

Shio claps his hands in approval.

Rikai is only five minutes behind Shio. “Who is Sasaki?”

“The personification of decaf coffee and e-cigarettes,” Ui replies, staring straight into her eyes.

Finally, he can get back to work.

“Kooriiiiiii,” sings a voice. Hairu waltzes in, and Ui brightens immediately. “I have something for you.”

“Yes?”

Hairu holds out a sugar cube.

Ui takes it eagerly, but gags after it settles on his tongue. “Hairu!”

“It’s a salt cube! Just like you,” Hairu cheers.

“You heard what I was saying about Sasaki, didn’t you?” Ui complains, spitting out the cube.

“Yup.” Hairu softens. “Be nice, okay, Salt-senpai?” She offers him two more cubes. “I promise these are real sugar this time.”

What the TG characters want for Christmas

I’ve sorted the characters according to their introductory affiliation.

Anteiku/Re Affiliates

Kaneki Ken – to be safe

Nagachika Hideyoshi – to see Kaneki again

Yoshimura Kuzen – Eto’s forgiveness

Kamishiro Rize – freedom and food

Kirishima Touka – Kaneki to be free of the worm

Koma Enji – to be alive

Irimi Kaya – a puppy

Yomo Renji – His niece and nephew safe

Kosaka Yoriko – To see Touka again

Hinami Feuguchi – for everyone she loves to be happy

Nishiki Nishio – to kiss Kimi

Nishino Kimi – a world where ghouls and humans live in harmony

Tsukiyama Family

Tsukiyama Shuu – A taste of Kaneki

Karren von Rosewald – Tsukiyama’s love

Matsumae – the family’s safety

Mirumo – his son’s happiness

Chie Hori – another camera

Clowns

Uta – eyeball snacks. Maybe a kiss from Yomo.

Itori – blood wine!

Hoito Roma – to belong

Nimura Furuta – his father’s approval

Rio/Shikorae – his brother

Nico – makeup

Donato Porpora – a reunion with Amon

Aogiri Tree

Kirishima Ayato – Hinami’s coffee. Maybe Hinami.

Yamori – kagune pliers

Tatara – Houji’s head, but really his siblings back

Yoshimura Eto – the world’s obedience

Noro – life

Miza Kusakari – nothing bad to happen anymore

Naki – to see Yamori again

Hakatori – a new quinque

Banjou Kazuichi – a hug

CCG

Amon Koutarou – to be a good person

Takizawa Seidou – to be human again

Mado Akira – internal peace

Houji Kousuke – a break from murder investigators

Mado Kureo – to kill the one-eyed owl and make their kagune into his quinque

Marude Itsuki – assurance that Yoshitoki was actually his friend

Washuu Yoshitoki – a vacation

Washuu Matsuri – Urie

Washuu Tsuneyoshi – nothing good.

Kuriowa Takeomi – Yoriko’s cooking

Kuriowa Iwao – his son’s happiness

Aura Kiyoko – Aura to calm down

Tanakamaru Mougan – hairspray

Shinohara Yukinori – to see his family again

Itou Kuramoto – a practical joke book

Kurona Yasuhisa – Shiro

Hajime Hazuki – to be a renowned badass

Mayazumi – eyebrow liner

Arima Squad

Ihei Hairu – Arima’s smile

Arima Kishou – atonement

Ui Koori – Hairu resurrected

Take Hirako – Shio and Rikai’s resurrection

Arima Yusa – a peaceful world

Ihei Shio – a pet reindeer

Souza Rikai – flowers

Suzuya Squad

Suzuya Juuzou – Mr. Shinohara to awaken

Keijin Nakarai – recognition

Hanbee Abara – to marry Suzuya

Miyuki Mikage – an alien encounter

Mizurou Tamaki – a girlfriend

Quinx Squad

Yonebayashi Saiko – no one dying anymore

Shirazu Ginshi – Haru’s healing

Urie Kuki – Mutsuki’s safety

Mutsuki Tooru – to be safe and happy

Hsaio Ching-Li – Saiko’s affection

Aura Shinsanpei – Kaneki’s head, or his aunt’s approval

Higemaru Touma – to save the world