Welllllllll I have five favorites! Since Suzuya Juuzou is a human, we’ll discount him, and also Mutsuki Tooru, since his status as a Quinx is widely known. That leaves…
1. Yomo Renji
“I’m…a ghoul.”
You catch your breath. Of all the things for this beautiful strong man to tell you, for all your reassurances, for the night you just spent in his apartment, you feel betrayed.
“So…you eat people. People like me.” You try to remain calm.
“These days I eat suicide victims rather than kill.” He closes his eyes. “That wasn’t always the case.”
“And the families? Who will never find their loved one’s body?” You gulp. You love Renji, yes, but this is horrifying.
“I can’t atone for that,” he says simply.
“How can you accept this?” You hiss. “Find a better way. You’ve taken one step by not killing. Now take more. There are morgues and donors who would help.”
“And get CCG to kill me?” he challenges. His voice trembles with anger. Anger at himself, because he wouldn’t entirely be undeserving of arrest.
You dissolve into tears. “I’m sorry, Renji, it’s just so much to take in. I’m not breaking up – I just need to think about this some more.” You try to smile. “I don’t know what I want. I want to right the wrongs of the world, but I don’t know how to do that with or without you.”
2. Karren Von Rosewald
“You participated in that auction? You harbored human traffickers? Ghouls who keep slaves?” You glare at your girlfriend across the table on the Tsukiyama family porch.
You turn your gaze to the roses she just gave you. “Karren. That breaks my heart.”
Karren frowns. “You’re not mad that I eat people?”
“You don’t have a choice about eating people, though I’m sure there’s better ways than murder. I can handle that. But this – the debauchery you’ve encouraged – this hurts, Karren.” You let out a sob. “This isn’t about ghouls versus humans; I dont’t care about that. I care how you choose to live as a ghoul, and – and you’re better than this.”
“I’m sorry, [Name].” She leans across the table to take your hand. Tears shine in her own eyes. “I never wanted to hurt you.”
“I know, but that only helps so much.” You wipe your eyes, and she hands you a handkerchief.
“I can let you think it over. If you don’t want to see me again…I understand.” Karren lowers her head.
“I don’t know. But I can say I’ll never turn you in,” you whisper.
And that’s the hope that Karren will cling do. Her eyes light up, and you feel your stomach stir with longing for this ghoul.
3. Furuta Nimura
“If this is a joke, this isn’t funny.” Your heart races, but no, his toothy kagune slides out from his back.
“I was born like this. I just had surgery to make it official, right?” He smirks. Furuta’s trying to play calm in his office, but one wrong word could send a swarm of investigators over to disrupt his plan.
He could always kill you if you got in the way. But Furuta isn’t sure he can, and that frightens him.
You stretch out a hand to touch his rinkaku. It is magnificent, you muse.
“[Name]-chan.” He grabs your arm. His eyes are desperate, vulnerable in a way that Furuta would never appear to anyone except you.
“Did you ever want to eat me?” you ask dully.
“It’s why I got close to you,” he says. “You smell delicious. But I’m not dumb enough to eat another CG agent. And then…I couldn’t for other reasons.”
The words I love you hang in the air.
You’re reeling. You know Furuta does love you, in his Fruity way. He’d never expose his deepest secrets otherwise. And yet…and yet you’ve been raised your entire life to hate him.
“May I have time?” You ask.
He nods. He hates feeling helpless. You could turn him in, and he won’t kill you. Fuck, Nico was right – he does have it bad.
Furuta isn’t sure he can handle being rejected again. As soon as you leave his office, he presses his kagune against his mouth to suppress his screams.