#hajime hazuki

[tatatatatara]

Tokyo Ghoul characters as Florida Men

[captain-astors]

EVERYONE LOOK AT MY RAT BASTARD SON. He’s got more diseases and less education than the average feral possum.

[fawntastic]

Happy pride month from the CCG

[kyanitedragon]

[deepspacialrift]

japan beat argentina in men's volleyball and it brought back... everything

[initiumslave]

[captain-astors]

SUPERB. I love the sign thank you.

if you get this on your dash or following you should stop scrolling and name some characters 😻😭

[songweaver]

Beach episode

[dnana-2809-blog]

Day 19- BL that should be more well-known

I think these 4 are so underrated and more people should know these amazing stories...

◇ Let Dai

◇ Night Beyond Tricornered Window

◇ My Darling Kitten Hair

◇ Gerard & Jacques

Day 20- My Favorite Top

I know I must have forgot some but here are my top 5 fav top from any BL (until now) :

♡ Hua Cheng (TGCF)

♡ Bongchun (Bongchon Bride)

♡ Adam (Barbarities)

♡ Hazuki (Kirai de Isasete)

♡ Mamiya (Hajime no Koi)

Day 21- My Fav Bottom

Here are some of my beloved BL (bottom) characters, I must have forgotten some (sorry) :

♡ Wei Wuxian (MDZS)

♡ Yu Yang (Here U Are)

♡ Katsuragi (Blue Morning)

♡ Ilya (Kouguu no Omega)

♡ Eui Joon (Dangerous Convenience Store)

♡ Shun (Harukaze no Étranger)

Day 22- BL series

Here are some of my favorite BL series ( > 1 vol)

♧ Complex - Ringo Manda

♧ Stigmata Aikon - Hidebu Takahashi

♧ Tabun Korekara Ai no Hibi - Ayu Ikemori

♧ Our Not So Lonely Planet Travel Guide - Abii Abiru

♧ Only Serious About You - Kai Asou

♧ Hide & Seek - Yaya Sakuragi

Day 23- BL oneshot

Here are some fav of my BL one chapter story

♤ How to Start Your First Love at Age 50 (Noda Matsumoto)

♤ The Red- Eyed Offering, Akari (Umako Hareya)

♤ A Fine Day (Nemui Asada)

♤ Gunpuku no Order (Kotaru Kashima)

[kiritanimai]

Redoing this post again: all my Project Sekai fankids so far! Corresponding pairings under the cut.

Masato - Haruka and Mai Haruto - Haruka and Minori (Minori's brother donor) Saito - Kanade and Mafuyu Ritsu - Airi and Shizuku Chiaki - Mafuyu and Ena Hajime - Mizuki and Ena, Mia's twin Mia - Mizuki and Ena, Hajime's twin Satomi - Emu and Nene (Shousuke donor) Natsuko - Nene and Tsukasa Hiro - Airi and Ena Akari - Mizuki and Rui Fuuka - Ena and Futaba Nao - Akito and Touya Kyousuke - Emu and Tsukasa Makoto - Kanade and Ena Hazuki - Haruka and Airi Raku - Mafuyu and Emu Senri - Airi and Ayumi Himari - Shiho and Saki (Tsukasa donor) Hotaru - Mafuyu and Haruka Yoshiko - Arata and Souma (Akito surrogate) Nagisa - An and Kohane (Touya donor) Shion - Rui and Tsukasa Yuu - Mafuyu and Rui lo - Kanade and Mafuyu again Hisami - Honami and Saki (Tsukasa donor) Ayame - Mizuki and An Miki - Akito and Koutarou Hitoshi - Minori and Kohane (Minori's brother donor) Mie - Ichika and Saki (Tsukasa donor) Hikaru - Shiho and Honami (Honami's brother donor) Rina - Ichika and Honami (Honami's brother donor) Tsubasa - Shizuku and Mafuyu Kazusa - Kanade and Mizuki Kon - Nene and Mizuki Kimi - Minori and Mizuki

[kraken-draws]

set of emojis i made for my japanese themed dnd group so we can shower each other with emojis while we’re playing. no new art for my own character (shinichi) because his emoji is a crop of older art already on here. he was however used as the style basis to make the rest.

characters in order:

kanaye: rabbitfolk rogue. very greedy, always trying to make some quick cash. player is my friend marc, who doesn’t have an active tumblr but has a twitter at @LividWizard.

kaneko: kitsune sorcerer. a retainer under the okani clan’s employ, his job is technically to mind shinichi. haughty but unlike his charge doesn’t hold his station above others. player is @inkandpain.

hajime: human fighter. hails from a clan of demon hunters. like many members of their clan, gets straight to the point with their interactions but is surprisingly gentle and pacifistic despite their clan’s reputation. player is dollhouse, who i sadly don’t know any social media for.

houseki: centaur druid. i’ve explained who he is in another post of mine. player is @dissimo.

biwa: not strictly a character in and of itself but a representation of the strings of fate pulling the players around, which in game always seems to be accompanied by the strum of this instrument and a red flash. requested by the dm, my fiance @suninabox13.

[maybemacdc]

on today's episode of "spending 5h on a drawing of a character that no one cares about": hajime hazuki

[captain-astors]

I just think it would be funny if this freaky 13 year old who’s already been revived once survived getting his face removed, and the infinite amount of infections that should come of that. Cockroach type of kid.

(Courtesy of that draw your favorite characters with scars of the injury that killed them post thing. Also sorry for my bad asl I can excuse the denial of death but there is no way he should be able to articulate words.)

[superryunosukeyuki]

The True Nature of the Oggai

In the latter half of Tokyo Ghoul :re, the reader is introduced to a group known as the Oggai. This is a group of more advanced Quinx that each have one of Rize Kamishiro‘s kakuhou implanted into them. They were created by Akihiro Kanou on the orders of Furuta, supposedly to eliminate all ghouls in the city. However, it’s later revealed that they were created with the intention of eventually being eaten by Kaneki, so the resulting overload of rc cells would trigger his transformation into Dragon.

However, there are still a number of things about the Oggai that were never revealed. Where did the come from? Why, despite being only pre-/early teens did they seem to have no problem with mass slaughter, and why did they normally show no emotion? Also, why would Furuta use children for this purpose?

Origins

Some have theorized that the Oggai were typical CCG revenge recruits: their families were killed by ghouls, and they thus sought revenge. This was likely supported by the presence of Hajime Hazuki, their squad A leader who was such a recruit. However, the fact that there were 100 Oggai calls this into question. To elaborate:

Remember, the Oggai were a type of Quinx. When the original Quinx team were in their final year at the CCG junior academy, they were given an aptitude test to whether they could actually become Quinx. In the above picture, all of the cadets appear around the same age. This suggests that only the graduating class was tested. This is further supported by Aura and Higemaru (a year younger) not receiving the test until the following year.

So, the orginal Quinx team (Urie, Saiko, Mutsuki, and Shirazu) all came from that year’s graduating class. However, the CCG has seven junior academies, and so they had seven graduating classes (Mutsuki was from the second academy, while the others were from the seventh academy). This likely amounted to hundreds of graduates (if not more).

So, here’s the point: in a graduating class of at least hundreds only six (Urie, Saiko, Mutsuki, Shirazu, and two unnamed others) were capable of becoming Quinx. From this ratio, we assume that in order to find one hundred candidates for the Oggai, it would take a candidate pool of thousands (if not tens of thousands). Also, all of the Oggai were around the same age. Even with seven academies, it’s doubtful the CCG had this many kids of the same age on hand. So, where did they come from?

Another explanation is that many of the Oggai came from the Sunlit Garden. Ching-li Hsiao, a half-human from the Sunlit Garden, was able to become a Quinx. Also, since Rize (the ghoul whose kakuhou they received) came from the garden as well, her half-human relatives would acclimate to her kakuhou especially well.

However, there may be one more explanation. In the first picture above, I've drawn an arrow point to someone administering the test. It appears to be a blood test. In the series, humans have an average rc cell blood factor somewhere between 200 and 500. The first Quinx all had rc factors that were (for some reason) above 500, but below 1000 (the minimum rc factor for a ghoul). This above average rc rate is likely what determines whether one can become a Quinx. Also, from chapter 29 of the original series:

RC cell tests are performed even on ordinary citizens, with the CCG being allowed to take citizens with above average levels into custody. So, Furuta and Kanou could have simply searched through public records to find children with above average rc rates. Then, using the above law as as a precedent, took them into custody and forcibly converted them into Oggai.

So, the likely answer to where the Oggai came from is a combination of the above three hypotheses. While a few (like Hajime) may have been academy students searching for revenge, most were likely taken from the Sunlit Garden and the general public, and then subjected to the ghoulification procedure against their will.

However, this raises another question. If most of the Oggai were forcibly conscripted, why do they obey Furuta without question? The answer lies with how they were both created and trained.

The Walking Dead

While in the story it’s referenced that the Oggai were created using Quinx technology, Hajime states they were “made differently.” How they differ is alluded to in a :Re volume 11 omake.

Okahira was an investigator who died when the CCG attacked the Tsukiyama family in the Rose arc. Later, he was revived by Dr. Kanou in the Rushima Island arc as a half-ghoul using Quinx technology. By making this allusion, could Ishida be telling us that the Oggai were created in the same way (killed and then revived as half-ghouls)? There is additional evidence supporting this.

For example, even during battle the Oggai typically wore blank, stoic expressions on their faces. This is similar to Okahira after his revival.

However, there are exceptions to this. Hajime of course shifts his facial features, and a girl named Mayuzumi does as well.

Hajime and Mayuzumi were the only Oggai named in-story, and this suggests there was something special about them. However, most of the Oggai typically had bland expressions like Okahira did. Also:

In :re chapter 134, the Oggai are beginning to frame out. In the official English translation, one of them keeps asking “why did you kill me” over and over again. This further suggests that the Oggai were murdered and then revived as half-ghouls to do Furuta’s bidding. It also helps explain their absolute obedience. After his own resurrection, Okahira says he has no choice but to serve Kanou, and later gives a reason as to why.

He mentions that there is a medicine he has to take every so often or else he will die again. This “medicine” is likely a concentrated rc cell solution, and if the Oggai were made in the same way Okahira was it means they would have to take this medicine as well. As Furuta and Kanou are the only ones who could supply this, they would be forced to do Furuta’s bidding unless they wanted to die a second time.

On a side note, the kanji for Oggai is an invented one that is basically just two of the death kanji. They were made to die twice: once for their resurrection as half-ghouls, and then again as fuel to create Dragon.

A Clockwork Orange

The Oggai being undead dependents explains why they obey Furuta. However, this doesn’t seem to explain why they are able to kill without hesitation despite their young age. Psychologically, the mass slaughters they are forced to commit should have some effect on them, but we don’t see this. However, this may be explain by something referenced in the story. 

In :re chapter 127, when Mayuzumi enters a coffee shop owned by a ghoul, her companions tell her to “tolchok” him. Tolchok isn’t a real word, but an invented word mentioned in the novel (and its later film adaptation) called “A Clockwork Orange.”

Set in a dystopian setting, the story features a slang known as “Nadsat” which is a hybrid of Russian and English. One word of Nadsat is tolchok, which means “hit.” The film’s main character is a teenager named Alex DeLarge (played by a young Malcolm McDowell).

Alex regularly goes out at night with his gang members (called “droogs”) to engage in “ultra-violence.” Whenever he performs these violent acts, he sings the song “Singing in the Rain.” When Hajime is in his cell in the 24th ward in :re chapter 131.

Two different Oggai both saying things related to this film suggests a correlation. In the film, Alex is caught after one of his violent escapades and is forced to go through a brainwashing therapy. Essentially, his eyes are forcibly kept open while he is made to watch terrifying images of violence and destruction on a projector.

This treatment makes Alex so adverse to violence that even thinking of violent acts makes him feel ill. It works to the point where can’t even defend himself. So, while Alex was brainwashed against violence, what if the Oggai were brainwashed towards it? This would explain why killing is no problem at all for them.

RC Cell Potential

The previous points all explain where the Oggai came from and reasons for their behavior. However, all of this begs the question: why would Furuta go to such lengths to use children for his project? For his kidnapping and brainwashing, why not use older teens/early adults? A textual reason:

Kanou mentions that their young bodies cause their kakuhou to permeate quicker. This is likely due to the nature of rc cells as a type of blood cell. A post by @coromoor​ titled “Ghoulology 101″ suggests the rc cell to be a type of human blood stem cell because of its presence in the blood, its shape (it looks like a blood cell that has undergone sickle-cell anemia) and because it can regenerate several different tissue types. Blood cells are produced in the red marrow of the bones, and the younger you are the more red marrow you have in your bones.

The Oggai, being in their pre-/early teens, have more red marrow in their bones than older ghouls and half-ghouls. This means they have more potential for rc cell production, and thus they can both adapt to kakuhou more quickly and form larger kagune. This is shown on occasions when the Oggai are able to quickly generate huge kagune.

Remember, the main reason Furuta had to create the Oggai was for them to be eaten by Kaneki in order to form Dragon. Since the Oggai had greater rc cell production then that means Kaneki received a greater rc cell overload (and thus formed a larger Dragon).

Conclusion

The Oggai were (for the most part) forcibly conscripted into service for Furuta. They were kidnapped, killed, and resurrected as half-ghouls before subsequently being brainwashed into killing machines. They were subjected to all of this for the express purpose of being eaten in order to create an eldritch abomination. They were disregarded by the CCG who they were forced to work for, and despised by the ghouls they were forced to hunt. After their deaths, both sides simply forgot about them. Their story is a tragedy that shows the darkest aspects of the Tokyo Ghoul universe.

[star-fiend]

[k-kuja]

a child... one of the orphans taken in by the department...