The Qs get a tabby cat called Mochi. She is good therapy for everyone.

All cats are, friend, all cats are.

– Mutsuki is mildly afraid of Mochi, but eventually Urie helps him see Mochi as an opportunity to move past his past.

– Mucchy’s bed is Mochi’s favorite place to snuggle at night.

– Saiko is the Lord of the Can Opener, and Mochi purrs the moment he sees her.

– Hsaio loves playing with Mochi. She will run all around the house with string for Mochi to chase.

– Higemaru is building an elaborate cat tree for Mochi. He’s also the source of Mochi’s catnip addiction.

– Aura is scared of Mochi, too, which of course makes him Mochi’s favorite lap.

– Aura soon fishes to treat Mochi.

– Urie loves Mochi, but Mochi loves using him as a scratching post. It’s a sight to see – Urie dancing and leaping around, yelping in pain, as Mochi attacks his feet. He only does this to Urie.

Hc of mutsuki & urie refusing to talk so they try to get each others attention by making the other jealous. x)

– Mutsuki starts it, because he’s insecure about Urie interrupting him to focus on the mission, per 161. He was trying to be good and take responsibility for Aura, dammit!

– He flirts a bit with Aura, then. Mutsaura time!

– Aura is just confused and Saiko amused. She immediately sees where this is going.

– Urie then tries to make Urisai a thing. Slips his arm around Saiko.

– She is not having it and tosses Urie backwards into Mucchy.

– Hsaio catches on and elbows Higemaru and a very scared Aura into action. They push Mutsuki into Urie.

– “Now talk, dumbasses,” Saiko orders, before leaving with the Quinx.

– It’s only then that reality dawns on Aura. “WAIT. THEY LIKE EACH OTHER?!”

– Hsaio and Higemaru clap hands over his mouth as Saiko drags him out, leaving a very embarrassed Urie and Mucchan.

Hakatori gets to know the Qs. Higetori.

“Hi.” Hakatori waves at the Quinx, who are gathered in the living room to the Chateau. Plus Kaneki Ken and Touka Kirishima. “Well, I know you two already.”

“But you don’t know meeeeeee.” Saiko rolls over to her. “Hi, I’m Saiko, and I have an awesome rinkaku.” In less than five seconds, she has molded her kagune into a skeleton.

“That’s amazing.” Hakatori gasps.

“I’m Hsaio.” A dark-haired girl smiles tentatively at her.

“The half-human.” Hakatori nods.

“I’m Aura.” A figure half-waves from the corner.

“He’s a grumps,” Higemaru whispers. She giggles.

“What’d you say?” Aura demands.

“Nothing untrue,” Hakatori replies with a gleam in her eyes.

“We’ve kinda met.” Mutsuki waves from the couch, where he snuggles against Urie.

“Well, I got to take on at least one Quinx bikaku now.” Hakatori grins at Higemaru. “But I’m always up for another.”

Mutsuki snorts. “I can mold mine too.”

“Wait, really? Teach me!” She looks thrilled. “Wait, teach both me and Hige.”

Higemaru grins. “We’ll be the bikaku terrors.”

“I’m already terrified,” Urie mutters as Higemaru pecks Hakatori on the lips in front of them all.

“Let’s spar together!” Higemaru wraps his arms around Hakatori. “Please?”

“If only to get you two off each other,” Touka teases.

“I can handle it.” Mutsuki waves his hand. “Saiko, help me teach them the art of kagune manipulation.”

At the end of the day, Hakatori has pinned Urie to the floor, Touka has Aura on his knees, Hsaio, Higemaru, and Mutsuki are at a standstill, and Kaneki has given up against Saiko, because she made her kagune into Haise Sasaki and he can’t stop laughing.

“Your family is wonderful,” Hakatori says, leaning over to whisper in Higemaru’s ear.

Higemaru buys Hakatori some bottles for her collection and flowers for her to sketch and the Qs tease him about his crush.

“Higemaru, what are you doing?” Saiko peers into the kitchen.

“Nothing,” he says quickly, as he continues scrubbing the glass bottles he dug up from the dumpster. He will ensure they’re sparkling by the time he gives them away.

“It’s clearly something,” Aura says dryly.

“Flowers, too.” Hsaio whistles at the a bouquet of tropical, imported, expensive flowers in a vase. “Who’s the lucky lady?”

“Shut up!” Higemaru blushes as pink as his hair.

“I know,” Mutsuki pipes up behind the rest of them. “I think it’s a good thing!”

“You do?” Higemaru grins.

“Me, too.” Urie folds his arms. “I think Hakatori will love it.”

“Urie!” Mutsuki’s mouth drops. He can’t believe Urie told them.

“What?”

Higemaru squeaks. His arms flap around, scattering soap suds across the floor.

“Is she coming over here for a RC dinner? When?” Saiko demands.

Higemaru moans. He scrubs the bottles harder.

“Here.” Mutsuki hurries closer. “We’ll help you.”

Higemaru brightens. “Really?”

“Yeah. It figures, with two of us framed out and one of us a half-human, someone would fall for a ghoul at some point,” says Aura. “Didn’t expect you, but hey.” He hands him a thumbs up. “You got this.”

“When does she come over?” Hsaio asks.

“She doesn’t,” Higemaru says with surprise. “I’m, uh, just leaving these on her doorstep.”

The room falls silent.

“Saiko, I’ll leave this to you,” says Urie.

The next morning, the rest of the Quinx hide in bushes as Higemaru knocks on Hakatori’s door.

“What?”

“I bought you flowers to draw. And bottles! Hi!” Higemaru thrusts the gifts at her.

“Huh?” The goth girl blinks at the pink wunderkind. She’s sparred with him a few times – they both have bikakus – but she had no idea. “Hi.”

“Do you want to get dinner sometime, Hakatori? Or do you prefer Yumitsu?”

“Hakatori is fine,” she says slyly. “And sure.”

Higemaru claps his hands together. “Thank you!”

Aura and Urie regularly lowkey fight over Mutsuki when he’s not around but one time Mutsuki catches them in the middle of an argument and neither Aura or Urie know what to do so Urie just blurts out “marry me” to Mutsuki

“Mutsuki, here’s some coffee.” Aura bustles over to greet Mutsuki the moment he steps out his door, rubbing his eyes in the morning light.

Urie scowls. “Mutsuki! I hired Touka to make pancakes.” Having Sasaki and Touka in the Chateau has certainly improved their food quality.

Mutsuki’s eyes brighten. “Yes, please.”

As Mutsuki hurries to the kitchen Aura narrows his eyes at Urie and draws a finger across his throat. Urie sticks his tongue out.

That’s it, Aura realizes with a snap. He’s going to bake Mutsuki the best cake ever.

Three-layered. Like a wedding cake.

Aura sits back to allow Urie to fawn over Mutsuki during breakfast. He’ll make up for everything with his cake idea.

That afternoon, Aura steals Higemaru’s strawberry-stuffed cake recipe and slips into the kitchen.

“What are you doing?” Saiko looks up, her hand most definitely in the cookie jar. Her other hand is on Hsaio’s chest.

Aura gulps. “Baking Tooru a cake.”

Hsaio and Saiko exchange grins.

“We’ll leave you to it then,” Saiko says slyly.

Urie bounds in five minutes later. “I smell baking!”

“I’m baking Tooru a cake,” Aura grumbles, hugging the mixing bowl to his chest.

“Let me decorate it.”

“No!” Aura grabs the bowl of emerald frosting he made, balancing it precariously with the mixing bowl. “Mine.”

“Tooru’s!” Urie begs. “Not yours. Let me help, please.” He will not be owned by this overgrown runt.

“Nope.” Aura screams as Urie lunges for him. The bowls fly in the air.

“What’s all this?” Mutsuki strolls into the kitchen to see Urie covered in frosting and Aura dripping vanilla cake mix.

Well, that’s it. He’ll take a page out of Takeomi’s book. Urie drops to his knees. “Marry me!”

Crack head cannon: After kaneki is extracted from dragon, q squad encounters the women they saw aura and mutsuki try to kill earlier now at the hospital and witness her punch a doctor ( that nobody liked cause he was more interested in dissecting kaneki then saving him). Saiko suggests they should go talk to her cause she might know her maman, which they do and it’s leads to a whole bunch of revelations.

“There they are.” Saiko and the rest of the Quinx have finally arrived at the hospital. Tokyo’s controlled enough that they can visit Maman for an hour.

She waves at Hide, Tsukiyama Shuu, and the manager of :Re. They all wave back, though their attention remains on the white-haired doctor talking to them.

“Perhaps he might better serve the world in a lab,” says the creaky old doctor, pushing his glasses up his nose.

“Oh, hell no!” The pretty ukaku the Quinx saw from earlier leaps to her feet and punches him square in the jaw. “Not on my watch, you’re not.”

“Amen.” Hide claps.

“Miss -”

“We saw nothing,” Tsukiyama says innocently.

The doctor scowls before scurrying away.

“I’ll call Dad and find a proper doctor.” Tsukiyama leaps to his feet and hurries off in search of better phone service.

“Do you know Saiko’s Maman?” Hsaio asks.

Mutsuki turns red. He and Aura exchange glances.

“I’m his wife,” says the ghoul with a shrug.

“Wait – what?” Urie sputters.

“Seriously?” Higemaru grins.

“AIEEEEEEEE!” Saiko launches herself into the ghoul’s arms. “Hi! Hello! I’m Saiko! I’m your daughter, kind of, I guess!”

The ghoul laughs nervously. “I’m Touka.”

“We should talk,” Mutsuki says nervously.

Touka nods. “That sounds good to me. It’s nice to meet Ken’s family.”

crack head cannon: ken kaneki’s full name is kenneth kaneki and touka calls him kenneth when she is mad, annoyed, or as a last resort when she repeatedly tries to get his attention. Quinx squad witness it for the first time and they think its the funniest shit cause he’s never heard of sasaki’s real full name before that.

“I’m hungry,” Touka mumbles, rubbing her swollen belly. She reclines on the sofa in the Chateau, feeling like a beautiful whale. She’s eight months pregnant and not very happy right now. But Saiko and Hsaio just did her toenails, and she’s never had nail polish before.

Mutsuki leaps to his feet, but Touka shakes her head. “Let Ken handle it.”

Kaneki is conferring with Higemaru and Urie across the room.

“Ken?” Touka calls.

He doesn’t appear to hear over Higemaru’s excited chatter.

“He’s literally showing Kaneki his monster drawings,” Aura says.

“Ken.” Touka narrows her eyes and clears her throat. “KENNETH!”

Kaneki jumps. “Touka? Is it time? What’s wrong?”

“I want Rc chips.” Touka pouts.

“Coming right up!” He putters into the kitchen, and Saiko finally releases her peals of laughter.

“Kenneth?” Aura cries in disbelief. “You’ve got to be shitting me.”

“Like the Barbie doll?” Urie grins wickedly.

“Yup.” Touka holds a finger to her lips. “Don’t tell him I told you.”

So of course, the moment Kaneki hurries back into the den, all the Quinx chime in, “Hiiiiiii Kenneth.”

Everytime Hsiao walks into a room, the rest of the Quinx can’t help but slip compliments about her thighs and hips into every sentence. To which she never notices.

“Hello Hsaio.” Saiko’s eyes are wide as Hsaio strides into the kitchen one morning. “You look beautiful this morning – I mean how could you not, with those legs.”

“Thanks!” Hsaio says brightly.

“Hsaio where can I get nylons like yours?” Higemaru waves his hands. “Or legs, for that matter.”

“Why do you want nylons?”

“Aura and I want to see who looks better in them.” Higemaru crosses his arms. “Hsaio will win, of course.”

“Higemau is crazy,” Aura begins. “And God dammit your hips are better shaped than my aunt’s.”

“Aura, you’re a little obsessed with Kiyoko,” Hsaio says. “It’s uncomfortable.”

“Uncomfortable like I feel with her legs,” Saiko whispers to Urie, who flushes.

“I’m sure Mutsuki’s legs are better,” he grumbles. Although it’s hard to have sexier legs than Hsaio Ching-Li.

“What are we all standing around for?” Mutsuki enters. “Hot damn Hsaio could turn me straight.”

“Saiko, do you have the coffee ready?” Hsaio smiles. “We have to get going or we’ll be late.”

Because to Hsaio, the only sexy legs worth talking about are Saiko’s.

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

Touka and Mutsuki fight after 152 and then both decide to shoot for a peaceful solution. Mutsuki decides he doesn’t care if Kaneki loves someone else as long as he can also be loved by him. He helps Touka and Hide and everyone get Kaneki out of Dragon with Touka and Kaneki and the others all move into the Chateau with the rest of the Quinx. Mutsuki gets the pure genuine love he always wanted from his Sensei and Touka and the others watch on while smiling

Can this, like, happen?

“Why do you think love is so cheap?” Touka fires Rc shards into Mutsuki’s arm. God dammit, she knows Ken loves this kid, but if he ain’t testing her patience now. “What, you think if Kaneki loves me he can’t love you? Love isn’t a math game, Eyepatch! Kaneki left you because he was afraid of you! And he was afraid because he loved you all! It had nothing to do with me!”

“Then why didn’t he come back?!” Mutsuki screams.

“Because Kaneki wants to hide when he feels like he’s done something wrong – like leaving you!” Touka yells back.

Mutsuki hesitates. He wants to hide. He’s very good at hiding.

“Mucchan!” shrieks a voice. Touka whirls around to see the rest of the Quinx. The screaming one is the blue-haired girl, the first one to agree to work with ghouls. Saiko, if Touka recalls Kaneki’s descriptions correctly.

“What?” sobs Mutsuki. “Go away! She – stole him!” He points wildly at Touka.

Aura appears. “And we’re going to finish this.”

“Oh my god, really,” Higemaru mutters.

“No, Mutsuki. Sasaki – Kaneki – Maman, if you will – he left us because he was too cowardly to face us. Just like you, leaving us for the Oggai, right? Because you don’t want to admit you have problems?” Urie steps forward, tears in his eyes. “Just like me, ignoring all of you at the start? And you – you were the one who hugged me at my lowest. And kept me from damaging myself more. Now I’m returning the favor.”

Urie steps forward and wraps his arms around Mutsuki. “It’s awful being alone. You do it, I do it, Sasaki does it, Saiko does it, Hsaio is part ghoul so we’ll say she does it too, Aura clearly does it.”

“What about me?” demands Higemaru.

“You’re the balm to the rest of us,” Urie tells him. Higa brightens and prances over to Aura. He hugs him, and Hsaio joins in.

Aura looks like he’s never been hugged before.

Saiko rushes over to join Urie and Mutsuki. Touka and a recovering Miza tiptoe closer.

“Is this where Maman is?” Saiko whispers to Touka.

She nods.

Saiko fastens her kagune into a drill and stabs into the flesh of the giant worm.

Touka gasps as Saiko rips forth a bloodied Kaneki with ease. His arms are no longer scaled. He looks whole.

“Ken!” she cries. She and all of the Quinx rush forward as Saiko lays him down atop the kagune.

“He’s unconscious,” says Miza.

Kaneki, however, cracks open one eye. He sees Mutsuki – Touka – Urie – Saiko – Miza and the new quinx, all standing there.

“Family,” he mumbles before losing consciousness.

Mutsuki bawls and Touka hugs him. For Kaneki’s sake, she’ll forgive this poor kid.

Three months later

Mutsuki opens the door to the Chateau. “After you.”

“Thanks,” says Touka, stepping inside to see all of the Quinx, Hide, and her husband gathered in their living room. Aura still sulks in a corner, but he’s inching closer to the rest of them day by day.

“Well? What did the doctor say?” Kaneki wasn’t able to accompany Touka to her ultrasound this morning, because he’s still under house arrest at the Chateau.

Mutsuki exchanges a smile with Touka.

“It’s a girl,” Touka blurts out.

Saiko shrieks, Higemaru cheers, and Mutsuki claps. Kaneki stumbles forward to wrap his arms around Touka. “Another girl in our family.”