#best decision of my teenage life was vicariously living what i thought big city life was like through tg fanfic

[juuheizou]

THANK YOU so much for giving such detailed answers to my silly questions. I love reading hc’s about him from people who are much more creative than me, because I can’t give an answer to most of the questions I’ve asked myself and when someone else does it, it’s easy for me to imagine the potential situation and decide how I feel about it.

Despite me loving the idea of him and Shinohara living together, I agree that’s probably not the case. The man has wife and kids, if I was his wife, I’d never let such a dangerous feral child near my kids lol. But it brings me pain to imagine him all alone in his dorm room, especially after he was blamed for the cats.

Him being in a mental facility during the timeskip is what I begged the gods of headcanons to have happened. I was always angry at everybody at the CCG for not giving him the proper mental care after they found him. Even as a cadet at the Academy, regular therapy sessions should’ve been a MUST.

So I sure hope he got the care he always needed at least before :re. I headcanon he had group sessions as well. I think hearing other people’s tragedies after experiencing his own helped him become more empathetic.

You headcanons about how the squad met (and became a squad) are just too perfect for me to add anything else. I felt like a proud mom reading what you wrote.

"but I have a whole timeline of the off-screen relationship I headcanon them having all plotted out in my mind."

I understand this, same. But with Hanbee.

But the thing is, when I talk to other people about juuzou and love, I don’t have any particular character in mind. Because in general I think I don’t even care if it’s boy, girl, somebody from the ccg or a random person, I just want him to experience butterflies in his stomach, at least once. I want him to experience first kiss and warmness and sex and waking up in the morning with someone beside him.

I’m trying to figure out why is this so important to me. I think its because him looking the way he does, doesn’t fall under the range of what you’d call “normal” scale for other people, and I feel like they all perceive him as “gross” and something they wouldn’t wanna touch (i MIGHT be influenced by a lot of fanfics on this one lol) because of the castration and all the changes in his body and hormones caused by it. It’s as if he was doomed, this boy could never experience and maintain a romantic relationship because his body does not fit the “normal” standards and because he is way too damaged to maintain a functional relationship.

WELL, YOU’RE WRONG!

I very much hope he found someone who accepts him unconditionally and loves everything about him.

His appearance. Dude I can’t imagine him ever looking older.

I like the whole long hair concept! I also imagine him keeping it on the longer side and maybe wear it in a bun like in the manga, but I like the idea of him having it cut short after Shinohara woke up. Not a buzzcut or anything, just shorter than usual. And then as years go by, it will grow longer, and he’ll keep it that way.

No comments on the hobbies, I see him doing everything you mentioned.

Rollerblading definitely! Him walking into a shopping mall with rollerblades. Imagine the rest.

I am so, so happy I got to talk about him with somebody. Thank you for this.

I'm so glad you liked my rambles! Not that I don't talk to myself on this blog a lot but I always love a good excuse to talk about my favorite Tokyo Ghoul characters, so thank you! Also, it’s super validating that someone else sees my thinking behind some of my (as far as i know) specific-to-me headcanons, even if the implications can be depressing.

And I get that, :re the relationship thing. I haven’t been involved in more than my own little corner of the fandom in... ever, but in that corner it was definitely pointed out by ppl at one point that the vast majority of fans insist on changing his anatomy or ignoring the ways it would be different on the occasion that they portray him in a shippy or remotely erotic way. Which, fandom is supposed to be fun, do what you want, but it peeves me that that’s so inescapable even with fans who adore him.

One of these days I’ll have to pick up drawing again just for the ability to see him in a bunch of different hairstyles, because I think he could rock shorter hair as well! No promises though. I tell myself I should do that a lot and then I stick with writing lmao.

Haha the shopping mall idea awakened such a primal 00s skater desire in me to do exactly that. I will imagine it always and forever, thank you for that.

[fyeahbatcat]

Hi, I agree with you about the whole thing of Batman needs Bruce Wayne, Tom King said something really made me love Batman even more than I already did, He said "Batman turns his pain in to hope". I think a lot of people don't realise that Batman is a persona of Bruce, it's his way of dealing with the trauma and trying to make sure what happened to him doesn't happens to anyone else. In Superfriends when Clark is telling Lois why he didn't call Bruce is the reason Batman is my favourite hero.

I used to fall into that train of thinking but as I’ve gottenolder I’ve realized what bullshit it is. I’m convinced that writers use theexcuse that “Batman is who he really is” to avoid writing Bruce because writingBruce is haaaard ☹☹☹. I also think that they get caught up in thishypermasculinization of Batman’s character, and honestly just use Batman toself-insert and live out their male power fantasies vicariously through him.Batman has become the ultimate alpha male of DC Comics and writers useadventure stories to divert attention away from the fact that they don’t know how tocharacterize him as human being.

They think it’s cool to portray Batman as aloof,cold, and stoic meanwhile his character didn’t have any meaningful development forover 30 years. Because all Batman cares about is his war on crime he isn’tbothered by the fact that he’s perpetually alone and clinically depressed. Ithink that Batman Beyond believably exposed the consequences of being this way.Bruce ended pushing away all his former allies and he ended up bitter andalone. I don’t think that’s the ending Bruce deserves.

There’s this conflation between who Bruce Wayne isand his public persona that has resulted in people thinking that Bruce Wayne doesn’treally exist. There is an image that Bruce puts on for the cameras to protecthis identity, but there is a real side to him. Writers will say that Bruce Wayneis just a façade and then turn around and use his public persona when it’s convenientfor them. They’ll spend all day long taking about how “the mask is who hereally is” and in the same breath use “Bruce Wayne is a playboy” as an excusefor having him mac on all his female colleagues. *Oprah voice* So what is thetruth?

When Len Wein took over the series a goal of his was toreincorporate Bruce Wayne in the series. He said, “Now unlike Superman andClark Kent, where Clark was always a critical part of what went on in his book,Bruce would frequently be in the background in the Batman book. You’d gothrough months and months where he’d hardly be there. He’d hardly even be doinganything, and I felt, you know, he’s an interesting character.” If I were the Batmanmain writer this would be my focus too. Bruce Wayne is extremely compassionatebut flawed and I would want to highlight that side of him. 

He’s a genuinelygood person who wants to do right by the people of Gotham, but I wouldn’t wantto do it in a way where Bruce gets idealized as a perfect social justice crusader.One of the very few things I praise Scott Snyder for is Batman #44. It was about a teenager that was killed by policeviolence in series of misfortunes that all began when Bruce Wayne’s company “developed”part of the city which resulted in it becoming gentrified. It was about theintersection between racialized police brutality and urban poverty, a situationthat Bruce unintentionally exacerbated. He tries his best, but he should messup sometimes, because he’s human.

It’s something that I really appreciate about the Batman Telltaleseries and it’s something that you really get to see in the second seasonfinale. It shows you how integral Bruce Wayne is to Batman and vice versa. The choicesthat you make as Bruce Wayne impact Batman’s ability to fight crime, anddecisions you make as Batman affects Bruce Wayne’s life and partnerships. That’ssomething that will come back in a big one in the next season because of *thatlast choice* in the game. They don’t pigeonhole him into one role, because Bruceand Batman exist as one.

I think that Tom King has humanized Batman more so than any otherwriter has in about three decades, but I still think that he falls into thetrap. On the one hand he’s finally allowing Bruce to make decisions about hislife and act on his desires rather than his duties. Bruce opening up to Clarkand admitting, under a mask of manly bravado of course, that he’s sad and lonelyand doesn’t want to be that way anymore in the “Super Friends” arc and when hetold Selina that he was scared right before proposing to her is the mostvulnerable we’ve seen him in years.

On the other hand, the way that King talks about him in interviewshe seems to lean towards the “the mask is who he really is” train of thought.He explained that the reason Bruce and Selina call each other “Bat” and “Cat”is because thinks they see each other for who they really are, and he considersthat to be Batman and Catwoman. Also, in a podcast interview that he did a fewmonths ago he basically said that Bruce and Selina don’t have a publicrelationship and they way he talked about seems to be that he thinks that it’sBatman and Catwoman getting married and not Bruce and Selina. This concerns mebecause there is still no indication that he’s going to resolve Selina’scurrent legal problems and if not it’s going to create a huge plot hole surroundingtheir marriage.

So that’s how I feel about that.