The One Eyed Sparrow

Age: 12-16

Born: some point a while ago (sorry the age is a bit weird, she tends to be “whatever would appeal to Kaneki most right now”)

Education: Graduated year 10 !! still in school, but this is flexible

Gender: female

Species: human

Size: 157cm*43kg

Blood-type: o (can donate to Kaneki! ❤️)

Likes: Kaneki, anything Kaneki does ever, rice, rocks, ponds, plants, birds, fish, finding ceramics that “look like Kaneki”, stickers, strawberry, pink, milk tea, tapioca

Favorite Literature:

Whatever Kaneki is reading right now - she doesn’t understand any of it because she only knows like 5 kanji. Literally just likes it for Kaneki

Basic Japanese - A Grammar And Workbook. She borrowed this book from the library for 10 weeks to study Japanese, used it very occasionally and then reluctantly returned it to the library because she felt bad for hoarding it. Has not seen it since despite multiple visits. She misses it so bad

nature books that aren’t overly complex

Sexuality: complicated but attracted to Kaneki

Hobbies: drawing, long videos while doing other things (semi-educational), minecraft creative mode, thinking about Kaneki, learning Japanese but specifically during completely unrelated classes without structured time

Personality: (I’m not very good at these sorry) Likes to be creative and is good at tying unrelated topics back to things like Kaneki in order to focus. Will think outside the box, but sometimes this is because she misinterprets where the box is. She has a unique way of speaking and communicating with others, and often struggles when talking to strangers or people she doesn’t know well because of this. Strength of the Kaneki obsession fluctuates between “hold on why do I like him again” and “God made the whole Earth especially for him because he’s so special”. She has a general obsessive personality. Often described as autistic, but she knows there’s definitely something more going on because it doesn’t cover the more severe stuff like possible delusions in the recent past. But she is also very autistic. She struggles with characterization

Positive traits:

can draw

can make a good fried rice

strong dedication towards Kaneki

picks up most art mediums easily

will try to do her best with most things

an honest girl

She’s allegedly intelligent but she’s got this personality that makes her sound so stupid to anyone not on the same wavelength, so this sometimes gets cancelled out.

Can provide unconsensual unconditional love towards Kaneki

Negative traits:

peculiar

not very strong or useful or like anything that beneficial

is in Japan, doesn’t know Japanese

can’t explain how she got here or became friends with Kaneki. The past is blurred to her, she’s focused solely on her life with Kaneki in the moment and near future

would let Kaneki kick her to death to make him feel better

urge to cut split ends whenever she finds them, will ask to get up to get scissors to cut these split ends if they’re frayed enough

extremely bothered by polyester fabrics, not because of an allergy she just hates them

struggles socially and with being in public spaces a lot, especially with navigating crowds

often needs very specific instructions for what to do

Background: Honestly up to the person writing/drawing since I hardly ever explore the starting point of Iyu and Kaneki’s relationship, it is always just a continuous thing. I have a bit of a structure below but it’s a bit gross and I would prefer seeing what other people come up with, it’s just there in case it helps someone with the dynamic

Sometimes it branches from the idea of her making a sort of deal in her own world to go to Kaneki’s. This is specifically a timeline where he’s more isolated than before and is living on his own. She tries to be upfront about the situation and offers some special information to stop him from going to the Anteiku raid (like his suicide failing), but she omits information that would make him realize the eventual effects of that decision would make it worth it in the end. Iyu worries immensely about Kaneki leaving her for others, seeing his other friends as people she couldn’t compete with. She has a general belief that others will always be chosen before her, and in most situations will just let people slip away for someone better, but Kaneki is very different. If she fumbles this one boy she will jump off of Skytree. After somehow convincing him that it’s in his best interest to keep her around, she spends her time making gifts for Kaneki and accompanying him when he is comfortable with it. They kind of just hang out. Initially Kaneki was thinking to kill Iyu, despite the information proving useful, but he couldn’t bring himself to do that to someone who “loved him” so he put off the decision until he just adjusted to her. Sometimes he gets angry with how pathetic she can be, and her weird refusal to stop liking him when she sees him get so low, but she loves him so genuinely and he was kinda lonely before so he’s a bit attached to the attention now so now they are bros. Iyu wonders what would happen if he knew the full truth about his original future.

DOs:

Ships I'm okay with: Iyu and Kaneki (platonic\one sided), Iyu and Shuu (platonic but not as strong), any OCs that you think could be friends with my Iyu!!

Things I'm okay with: basically anything as long as Kaneki is involved in some way and it doesn’t go against my Don’ts

DON'TS:

Things I'm NOT okay with: molestation, Iyu or Kaneki dying

Ships I'm not okay with: basically anything not in the prior ship section, more if it’s romantic

Major Updates and Changes to Iyu and Iyu’s Kaneki

Iyu will no longer have a flexible age. She is 16. She may mentally age-regress when stressed, but it doesn’t affect her physically and wouldn’t be something Kaneki understands anyway

Iyu covers her hair with a wimple or pashmina when outside and Kaneki braids it for her almost daily, or even several times a day because he likes playing with it

It is now confirmed that Iyu travelled space and time through some sort of contract to be with her dream boy, Ken Kaneki. She has some special properties because of this, the main one being her memory of TG as a story. She arrives while Kaneki and his group are still searching for Kanou and provides key information for Kaneki to find him. This fast-tracks his mission and he is able to confront Kanou without Shachi or Aogiri arriving, but Kanou is still able to escape as Kaneki focuses on freeing Rize. He has some sort of absurd projection-fuelled incidence with Rize as she regains strength at his house that eventually leads him to break down and disband the group while she runs away. Kaneki moves into a new flat with Iyu and continues his violent spiral, and this is where Iyuneki mainly takes place :)

Iyu still doesn’t know Japanese: she can speak to Kaneki and they understand eachother as part of whatever contract she filled to travel to the Tokyo Ghoul universe, but this doesn’t apply to anyone else and she can’t read Japanese. Because of Kaneki’s lessons, she can now get through basic interactions and read and write elementary kanji, but she will always come across as stiff and can’t talk about extensive topics with other people.

Iyu does not go to school, instead she stays home in Kaneki’s house and fills some workbooks he buys for her. These mainly focus on learning Japanese and maths

Instead of Kaneki being angry with Iyu for being pathetic, it is now the other way around. She gets angry with him for behaving pathetically and for having so much power over her, which builds into a slight resentment when he’s gone for long times, but it melts away easily when they spend more time together

Romantic and sexual relations is now available for Iyu and Kaneki. I know this may make people uncomfortable but I prefer to keep her as a minor because it adds to their toxicity and power dynamic and also because I am attracted to Kaneki

Unlike Iyu, Kaneki has more of a life now: he looks for Rize (bothering Iyu) (he can’t find her because she’s moved to Osaka), he does odd jobs for Anteiku outside the shop, he hunts small ghoul gangs and Aogiri members/affiliates, he interrogates a lot of these victims to find people higher up the chain, he gets all the way up to Eto and is invited to join Aogiri as a contractor against the Doves in big missions, he visits Hinami and Banjou’s group sometimes (whom Tsukiyama has been somewhat adopted into after Kaneki pushed him away), and he’s joined a poetry club at his local library!

Minor Updates and Changes to Iyu and Iyu’s Kaneki

Iyu no longer watches long videos while doing other things because she has no devices to watch them on

Iyu no longer plays Minecraft because she has no xbox or computer. She has a 3DS and plays Mario Kart 7, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Wonderland and Harvest Moon: A Tale of Two Towns. Kaneki wants to buy Pokemon for her

Iyu gets all her cute and fun outfits from her pink suitcase that she brought when she came to Tokyo. Her phone, headphones, and TG volumes were destroyed during the transfer (basically if it couldn’t exist in 2012 or in the TG universe, it disappears)

Kaneki is no longer reliant on Tsukiyama’s money because he is paid for his jobs in Anteiku and Aogiri. He fails to be discrete in eating a few of his teammates every time they pay him for a mission, but he faces no punishment because unbeknownst to him Eto has instructed them not to. For secret fun hidden reasons. He hardly sees the higher members of the organisation and gets all his assignments by mail

Iyu likes artificial strawberry flavour more than the real strawberry flavour

Iyu has alien and bunny association now. I’m currently playing with the idea of her wearing a suit similar to Frank from Donnie Darko or the bunnyman in the Newjeans Supernatural mv in an opalescent white colour

Kaneki brings Iyu when he eats a few times a month, hence the need for the suit. She carries a damp towel and a change of clothes in a backpack for him, and an axe and pepper spray to defend herself. After his first job with Aogiri these are replaced with a quinque

Kaneki cooks for Iyu but she still cooks for herself sometimes, whenever they go to a convenience store together she buys a cooking magazine for recipes. Neither of them cook enough though so Iyu often goes hungry because she doesn’t think it’s important and sleeps off any weakness she feels

Iyu tries to learn first aid and medicine from Kaneki’s stash of medical textbooks but because she can’t read she just guesses from the diagrams

basic info.

name: mihaku, also goes by haku, haku-chan

age: around mid twenties, think older than the main tg cast but younger than the fourth ward trio

birthday: june 18

gender: non-binary (they/them, it/its is fine too)

species: ghoul (ukaku + koukaku chimera)

height: about 1.71m, but always add at least 10cm of chunky platform shoes

personality, traits, background.

likes: clothes with horrendous patterns and animal prints, bugs, body mods, anything related to ghoul vs human biology

hobbies: diy-ing their clothes and piercings, collecting trinkets (they love to hoard anything they find cool or interesting), annoying the ccg

positive traits: curious, open-minded, street smart and resourceful, a fast learner when it comes to manual tasks

negative traits: short-tempered, changes their mind and contradicts themselves a lot, hard to read, gets easily nervous when they're the center of attention or when there are too many people around

background: their lore is still under construction but here's what i can share:

haku grew up mostly alone and had to survive by themselves. always being isolated and the odd one out, they learnt from a very young age that even if they were born human, they would never have access to a normal life. bad relationships with both ghouls and humans made it hard for them to tell what affection is like, and to this day they tend to be attracted to what hurts them while pushing away genuine care. nowadays this also shows through their habit of teasing ccg investigators, by bickering with them but avoiding full-on fights.

since hunting is one of the only ways they interact with 'regular' humans, they like to take it slow, following their preys for days or weeks, sometimes never even killing them. this tendency is what made them a target of the ccg despite their low kill count. though honestly, this hunting method gets haku reported to the 'regular' cops as much as the ccg.

design notes.

i'm aware that their design might be a lot to take in lol. here are some possibly useful infos:

- both the darker and lighter hair strands are design traits, not shading

- they have quite a lot of facial piercings: eyebrows on each side + one anti-eyebrow, bridge, septum, angel bites, dahlias, snakebites, and cross-shaped earrings. they also have four dermals on their collarbones (think one at every extremity) and their nipples and navel are also pierced.

- they often wear makeup, feel free to give them some!

that being said i'm not very strict with their design, i won't get mad if you forget something. by all means feel free to change their outfit entirely as well. they love clothes and customizing them, so have fun with it!

do's & don'ts.

do: give them other outfits, ship them with about any canon character(s) or oc(s) (i often pair them with uta but any adult character is fine, have fun), draw gore, angst or suggestive art

don't: change their design other than the outfit and accessories