Time At Ease, Helps Me

Just a heads up, I’ve only seen the Toby and Andrew Spiderman movies. The animated ones make me motion sick… 🥲

Anyways, here’s some of my ideas/plans, without over explaining too much:

The current WIP title is Tokyo Spider. I think I suck at names/titles so I’m open to suggestions (and I’ll give credit).

Hide is a photographer in this AU ;)

Their dynamic is initially a bit one sided because Kaneki is a victim of comp-het (not that Hide is subtle in the slightest; Kaneki is just hella dense— they’re both bisexual idiots). It’s slow-burn so it’ll be mutual eventually lol.

After the spider bite, his hair starts to go white, starting from the roots, and he gets little fangs. He hides the fangs with a mask usually (replacing the eyepatch).

I mentioned a “twist” in the tags last time— Surprise, this fic is also technically a vampire AU!! (Because what is Tokyo Ghoul without a little cannibalism-angst 😔🫶)

This fic is only gonna be half-angsty dw. The blood thing is more of a craving than a physical need. That’s the extent of it too— he has no other vampire traits, and everyone else is human. He also can eat normal food in this AU, but it just tastes like nothing (besides coffee, of course).

I’m a nerd so I was actually pulling more from irl spider feeding mechanics lol. I basically said “what if Spiderman was even more spider…” and ran with it. There will be some other additional traits in this vain, but this is the major one.

I don’t think I need to explain the above image lol.

(I fully subscribe to Anxious-Kaneki and ADHD-Hide headcanons).

His spiderman design is based off his combat outfit from the manga! I just added a hood and the magenta gradient plus spider/webs also the hip windows. Why magenta and not red, you ask? Because magenta is surprisingly abundant in the manga covers 🤷 and it looks nice.

Anyway, I didn’t draw the rest of the characters but I will be including much of the cast in some way or another, including some Aogiri and CCG!

Please feel free to ask any questions in the comments! As long as I continue working on this project, I’ll follow up with more art/ideas 👌 I’ll also be sure to update y’all once the first chapter is up on AO3.