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“Remember that I wasn’t useless. Remember that I meant something.”

A wishful childhood. (Kaneki)

Summary: an au where all the tg cast knew each other as children. Imagine this place a universe where nothing went wrong in this tragedy and how I imagined the characters as children with each other. Hope you enjoy~

The small eight year old pressed his face against the fence bars, his wide eyes peering into the playground filled with all different children and families. He watched in wonder at the newly build monkey bars, swings, slides and climbing frame, a growing excitement urging him to go inside and play with the rest. With kaneki completely entranced with the shrieks and laughter from the groups of children in the playground, he didn’t notice Hide calling his name loudly before he crashed onto his back, pulling him around and resting his chubby hands on kaneki’s timid shoulders.

“Why didn’t you turn around? I’ve been calling for you for ages.” Hide frowned, but it quickly eased up into a wide grin. “The new playground looks so cool.”

“I know.” Kaneki agreed with another smile, the two boys turning in awe at the colourful image before them. “Let’s go. Let’s go. I want to go on all of them.”

They shuffle in between the running children and rushed through the rainbow painted gates into the playground, the boys eagerly darting their eyes to the different areas whilst struggling to decide which one to go on first.

“The swings!” Hide exclaimed, his hand pointing at the two empty swings right besides them and the two immediately set off towards them.

Hide, as usual, was faster than kaneki and though he almost stumbled along the way, he reached one of the empty swings and clutched onto the chain with relief. Kaneki, unfortunately, couldn’t muster up enough energy before another kid reached it first. He had dark purple hair and two unusual small dots under his left, remarkably sharp eye. The boy glared at kaneki to back away and sat triumphedly onto the swing with an almost smug look.

Kaneki scratched the back of his head and looked towards Hide, who’s cheeks became puffy with some agitation within him.

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Touka’s look in this panel

Touka’s look of despair in this panel makes me come up with several possibilities.

The first one is that Dragon had killed everyone surrounding her but Touka, leaving her in despair because she thought she was about to be swallowed up by this monster just like others too. Given that at this moment she just met Dragon for the first time and could not immediately recognize this is Kaneki, but just another threat for all ghouls, she could be thinking this was her last moment before she died.

The second one, though unlikely, is that she knew this was Kaneki, and was forced to watch him slaughter people in a rage without being able to stop him. I consider this unlikely because Kaneki’s Dragon form right now can hardly make anyone even know it was him except Furuta, but still a possibility nevertheless. If that is the case, this might hit Touka hard because she knew her father had also gone crazy from trying to gain power for revenge, resulting in him being captured and losing his mind just like Kaneki is right now.

The third one is sort of similar to the first one, but instead Kaneki had only killed the CCG squad facing Touka and the remaining ghouls in chapter 143, and the other ghouls were actually in front of Touka instead of behind her back, while she turned her back to temporarily shield them from Dragon, again because she had yet to recognize him. I doubt Kaneki would hurt Touka, the only one he had been looking for while going through this rampage, since his position right now looks more like he is surrounding her to protect her from danger, but the other people’s safety is not guaranteed at all.

Extra note, Kaneki’s human form might actually make an appearance in this chapter too, in the round bubble beside Touka.

This panel looks like an egg to me, and since Kaneki’s story also follows the “Black Goat’s Egg”, in the next chapter we might actually see him emerging from this “egg” he was in to go to Touka. As for how his attitude would be towards everything he had done, I have no concrete assumption to make at all. People speculate him to be absolutely wrecked, devastated by what he had done, but that is Kaneki from part 1 when he accidentally stabbed Banjou and tormented himself over it. But chapter 144 showcased a very clear change in his personality and outlook towards life, when his thoughts were all about eradicating everything in his way including himself and Ishida’s illustration of him wearing the eyepatch on his human eye might represent a disconnection from his humanity.

Nothing is for certain until the next chapter is out or when Kaneki returns to his sense, but oh boy whatever the outcome is would not be pretty at all. And if he had not attacked Touka even when he went berserk and lost his control, then she might be one of the only few people who can talk some sense into him right now.