Since I’ve been sick and refuse to believe that she’s dead (those two things have nothing to do with each other, but bear with me ^^;;), maybe some cute scenarios/headcaons involving Ichika with “grandma” Eto~?

I believe in Eto. Unless Ishida confirms otherwise, she’s alive to me.

-Touka and Kaneki totally come home from a date night to find that babysitter Banjou has been kicked out, and replaced with a laughing green-haired witch.

– Eto teases them that she’s read her stories to Ichika, and Touka promptly tells her to drop dead.

– It turns out that this is partially true. Eto has concocted new, child-appropriate stories for Ichika.

– Ichika loves Grandma Eto, who is “just like me.”

– “I wanna be just like Grandma Eto!” she declares, to the dismay of both her parents. At the same time, somewhere else in Tokyo, Arima rolls over in his grave.

– Eto definitely helps Ichika hide a lifetime supply of candy in her room.

How would Ichika’s first day of school be like? It’s my first day back today, and I’m so nervous!

I hope your day went wonderfully. ❤

– Ichika is so excited she can hardly sleep the night before.

– She’s already quite a reader for her age – the influence of Kaneki, obviously.

– She skips into her classroom, determined to become everyone’s friend.

– And then shyness hits for the first time, and she’s nervously by herself. The only non-human here.

– And then Shiroi enters the classroom, a ghoul, and she runs to him and throws her arms around him.

– They soon gets lots of friends. Most kids are actually REALLY excited to tell their parents they have befriended ghouls. It’s “cool.”

– I suspect Ichika is that kid who loves homework. Touka and Kaneki, however, also love helping her.

Everything is the same at the end of Tokyo Ghoul, except Ichika was born with Asperger’s. How do her parents and loved ones raise this special child?

They accommodate her as best they can. If she has specific sensory sensitivities, they won’t make her feel bad for them. If she’s overwhelmed in crowds, well, they understand and frankly are relieved to retreat home with her. They encourage any obsessions she has, so long as they’re not harmful to her or anyone else.

Kaneki loves interacting with her detailed imagination, and Touka is fascinated by the little rules and lists her daughter has.

If she doesn’t understand social norms, well, all the better in Touka’s opinion. Most social norms are foolish anyways.

Privately, Kaneki frets about a kid, who will already feel different due to her half-ghoul nature, having Asperger’s on top of that. Touka is worried, too, but a bit more practical. She emphasizes how special and unique Ichika is, and she and Kaneki both make sure Ichika understands that there is nothing to feel bad about.

When they first found out Ichika-chan could eat human food, Kaneki and Touka were feeding her and tried baby food which went surprisingly well. Once it did and she wanted more, he burst into the cafe (where there was Yomo, Uta, Hide, and Nishiki) and yelled “SHE CAN EAT HUMAN FOOD!!!” and Hide’s first thought was to ask if they could feed her a lemon and film it

I like the way you think.

The door nearly flies off its hinges. Kaneki stands in the frame, panting, double-over, shaking.

“What’s wrong?!” Nishiki yelps.

“SHE CAN EAT HUMAN FOOD!” He shrieks. Behind him, Touka appears with Ichika in her arms and a dry look on her face.

“That’s what you were freaking out over?” Nishiki snickers.

“That’s wonderful.” Yomo looks like he’s about to die of joy.

“I’m happy for all of you,” Uta says calmly.

“Can we feed her a lemon and film it?”

Everyone turns, slowly, to Hide, who sips his coffee. “It’d be so funny.”

“Holy shit! Why are there are nine kakugans staring at me!” he shrieks.

“Good!” Yomo bellows.

Touka shakes her fist.

“I’ll eat more than your face this time,” Kaneki growls.

“Get in line.” Nishiki seethes.

“Uh, I’m her father. I’m first,” Kaneki protests.

But behind all of them, Uta catches Hide’s gaze. He winks, with a slow nod.

How good or disastrous would a day of Itori and Uta watching Ichika be?

10/10 disaster.

10/10 good fun for Ichika, Uta, and Itori though.

The disaster only when Kaneki and Touka come home to find Ichika sipping (very dilute) blood wine, with fake tattoos and fluorescent hair dye.

She’s also wearing Itori’s high-heels. The counter is covered in paint from the drawings Uta has been doing with her.

While Kaneki wheezes in a corner, Touka calls Yomo and asks him to “collect his trash friends.” Which Uta and Itori take as a compliment.

We now know the official name of Pleasure-chan is Ichika! Her bio came out with an illustration in the final volume! She’s a natural one-eyed ghoul, can eat normal food, she likes apples and Yoriko’s bread and she’s almost 6! Can we have some more headcanons about Ichika-chan?

I A M S C R E A M I N G Ichika is the PERFECT name!

– Ichika loves to play as a witch. She runs around offering Princess Touka and Prince Kaneki a magic apple.

– Yoriko named one of her specialty breads after Ichika.

– Tsukiyama definitely gives her a single flower every time he sees her. Yes, every time.

– Her favorite type of apple is green. She was eating one when she first remembers meeting Mutsuki, and ran towards him yelling about how his hair was the same color as her apple. Since then, he always brings her a green apple.

– Ichika wants to learn science. Nishiki sets up fun little experiments with her, and she has shadowed Kimi around her lab for a day.

– Saiko has dutifully converted Ichika into a video-game and manga fiend.

– Her first meeting with Marude will live in infamy. She was four when he was invited to their cafe for a meeting. But Ichika had crawled into the cabinets. She leapt out to surprise her dad, but wound up grabbing Marude instead.

– Suzuya once collaborated with Yoriko and Mutsuki to build her a candied-apple bread.