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[ghoulking]

WHO: Kaneki + YOU
WHERE: Every city
WHEN: All through October
WHAT: Catch-all
WARNINGS: Mentions of cannibalism


Drunk at 5am (NONAH)
[ Kaneki’s insomnia is getting worse every day, to the point he doesn’t even bother trying to sleep, and during those sleepless hours when time seems to go by so slowly, he decides to go check out his coffee shop. Put some things on the shelves, prepare for the next day (even though it’s 12 hours until opening…).

Anyone passing by the coffee shop will realize it’s open. Technically, it’s not (so says the sign on the door) but if one pushes the door, it will certainly open, and the lights are on, and there are some boxes on the floor and tables. Anyone who wishes to go further exploring will find the Private Area open as well – any normal day it’d be locked, with an electronic lock even!, but apparently no one is guarding it.

People curious enough will get to see how it is inside. Quiet, elegant, classic; very different from the rest of the shop, in fact. And on top of the counter there is a bottle of wine half-empty. Spoiler alert: it’s not really wine. From behind the counter there is some noise and a white head moving around and finally when Kaneki lifts up his head and realizes he isn’t alone, he steps back, startled with a loud gasp ]

WAH! [ he realizes that was dramatic.] You scared me- wha… what? [ slurred words, red cheeks, and weird balance. Kaneki is actually drunk, but look. He will pretend he is not ]


:Re Café (NONAH)
[ Having a “Cannibal Café” means that October is one of the busiest months. Kaneki doesn’t bother to decorate it for Halloween, and he only will dress up on the 31st of October, but through the month people are excited to celebrate Halloween and coming to the coffee shop that sells actual human flesh for imPorts who need it appears to be a popular thing.

Through the month, clients drop several Halloween items that will eventually decorate the show slowly, and by the 31st of October the whole shop is covered in pumpkins, ghost, bats, skulls and trinkets Kaneki knows he will have to sell off during the next FanPort. In fact, you caught him with a big box of Halloween decorations just now. He is staring at all of it, taking a soft toy of a bat out of the box and looking at it – quite unsure what exactly to do.

However, he does turn to the closest person, with a tiny smile ] Want to help decorate the shop? I never plan on doing it, but people always drop these.


Drawing (ALL CITIES)
[ Kaneki is a man in love. He is married in this world, to D33, but back home he also has a wife, Touka. And despite loving his husband so dearly, he can’t really stop loving his wife either, and he can’t stop missing her and he can’t stop thinking about her. All in all, Touka is still the best thing that happened in his life; she is the reason why he came out of his black hole, she is the reason he wants to live, and she is the reason he did everything he did back home – and the reason why he will continue to do it.

Because he can’t talk about Touka, often Kaneki does small things no one realizes: during the FanPort he bought a lot of small rabbits that the natives remember Touka loved; when he is alone, Kaneki goes through the network to find Touka’s entries and her conversations with other people; and he listens to her voicemails and the conversations she had with him. Kaneki is a man in love.

And sometimes he will find a nice spot to sit down (either at the Park, maybe a coffee shop with a beautiful view outside, maybe just somewhere quiet) and will grab a sketchbook and just sketch away small drawings of cute rabbits, flowers, and of a very rough draft of a woman (Kaneki is much better at rabbits and flowers, but he is trying his best). He is so lost in this, he might not realize someone approaching or peeking over his shoulder. ]


Clothes shopping (ALL CITIES)
[ Kaneki’s fashion isn’t interesting or that good – he wears black over black, with some boring stuff on top – so buying clothes is very easy to him. He will buy anything that will allow him to blend in, and anything that will cover his body completely (less skin showing, the best). Kaneki even buys a lot of gloves, and in his shopping cart, all of that can be found.

However, he does stop in front of a soft yellow dress. Kaneki watches it for a while, and then reaches to check the price. He steps away from it for a moment, before he goes back to reach for it once again. Anyone watching would know immediately this person wants to buy that dress, but he doesn’t seem to know what to do about it.

And yes, indeed, Kaneki wants it. It’s cute. It has a nice color. It soft. It’d be great for Halloween, since every year Kaneki dresses up as a girl. It’d be nice to at least buy a new dress to go with the Halloween costume, right? ]


General Prompts (ALL CITIES)
[ Night
It’s so late in the night that it’s difficult to hear anything outside. But there are steps, slow and tired. Kaneki’s insomnia hasn’t given him any rest of late, and feeling like a zombie most night, he wanders around the Porter cities. Those who don’t sleep, for whatever reason it is, give Kaneki weird glances since he is wearing black heavy clothes and coat, which is pretty suspicious (but to be fair, this is how Kaneki dresses). Anyone can approach him and talk to him, he most likely will appreciate the chat.

Sunrise
Around sunrise, Kaneki can be found on top of a random building, watching the light finally come up. He is quiet and alone, but he does bring out his kagune. The two centipede tails come out from Kaneki’s lower back and wrap around him – one around his waist and resting on his lap, the other around his shoulders. A small comfort, since he doesn’t feel like he can have more than that.

Day
During the day, he can also be found walking around, less of a zombie since it’s day time and he is awake and probably already had too many coffees by now. One can find him shopping, for food or for any small trinkets for his coffee shop, or perhaps just exploring places. Again, Kaneki is more than open for chatting, since company is always welcome. ]

Comments

NONAH NIGHT

[forgeabettertomorrow]

[With a now empty house all to himself, Darin really has little reason to return home from his smithy unless it's to sleep and refresh himself. More often than not, though, he's usually tinkering with some sort of experimental gear until the ungodly hours of the morning. This just happens to be one of those time.]

[As he makes his way home from his forge, he passes by :Re Café. Coffee was never something Darin particularly favored, but the café always seemed like a popular spot.]

[He stops as he passes by, realizing that the lights were on. That...seemed odd. He's come this way dozens of times, but he didn't recall this place being open this late (early). He tests the door and, sure enough, it's open.]

[Normally, someone with better judgment might call the police. Or assume something bad was happening and walk away. Darin is someone with routinely poor judgment, so he walks in, looking around. He spies the Private Area, and notices that, that too, is open. Something is clearly up here, but Darn approaches the door with little caution. What could go wrong, right? Who needs to be sneaky. It's not like he's trespassing or anything.]

[Regardless, he walks in and spies the tuft of white hair bobbing behind the counter. Darin's about to say something when the owner of the white hair stands and turns, yelping loudly. This, in turn, makes Darin yelp loudly.]

HOLY GEEZ!!! I scared you?! You scared me!!

[ghoulking]

[ and this person is screaming and talking loudly, so of course that means Kaneki should talk loudly too. Makes sense, at least to a drunk ]

You are the one who walked into my shop without warning...! [ he says that loudly, but it's not screaming. Kaneki rarely screams, after all.

Kaneki reaches for the bloodwine bottle to put it away because he doesn't want a human to suddenly realize "oh crap, that's blood", but Darin can probably see that easily - all bottles are labeled with A, B, AB and O, and absolutely does not smell like win in this place.

But look, he tries ]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Oh, it's yours?

My fault, man. I was just heading home and I thought someone was breaking in. I was gonna put a stop to it.

...You alright?

[Does Darin look like a wine drinker to you? For all he knows, this guy's been drinking long enough to get through half of the alphabet, especially if he's on 'O']

[That's actually what he assumes.]

I didn't mean to intrude.

Wildcard - Farmhouse

[d33tached]

[It's not that D33's been feeling particularly upset lately - irritated, sad, nervous, etc.. On the surface, he really feels rather...

[Well, rather...average, even, what have you. But there's been something on his mind for nearly a month now, and it's something that he's finding incredibly hard to shake - thoughts of the man he used to share a bed with and the possibility that he might be brought into this world. K31 had been, after all.

[He's sitting on the couch in the living room, supposedly reading, but rather than looking at the book he has open in his lap, he's staring blankly at the wall, clearly absent, lost in thought.]

[ghoulking]

[ kaneki is cleaning around the house (like a good wife and mom), while he waits for the food he prepared for the café to settle before he places them in boxes. And naturally his cleaning brings him to the living room as well, spotting D33 reading.

Well. Supposedly reading.

He leans against the door frame for a second, before he speaks softly ]

Boring book?

[d33tached]

[It takes a moment for Kaneki's question to register. During this moment, D33 simply keeps his eyes on the wall, maintaining that absent, far away look.

[Then he turns to Kaneki and let's out a quiet:] Hm? [He glances down at the book. He has to check the cover again to remind himself what he was supposedly reading in the first place.] Ah. Hello Kaneki. I was just...

[Not reading, clearly. He furrows his brow a little, not quite sure what to say.] I suppose I've been a bit distracted. That's all.

Drunk

[d33tached]

[D33 had forgotten something at the Café - only a book, but it's the one he's currently reading, so he'd really like to have it. He hasn't slept yet, having just finished a late training session with Shinigami. He thinks to stop by the Café on his way back to the farmhouse. He's ready with his key to open the door, but upon further inspection, he finds that it's...already open?

[That's not necessarily a good sign, but perhaps Kaneki has let himself in for some reason. D33 enters carefully, quietly, all the same. The place seems rather empty. He checks behind the main counter, into the kitchen - perhaps Kaneki had forgotten to lock up after closing? That doesn't sound like him, but--

[His eyes land on the door to the private area and immediately he notices that the door is cracked open.

[It's always locked, even when the Café is open and there's someone there to guard it. Surely if it's open now, something nefarious must be afoot...

[That's what D33 tells himself, anyway, to justify what he's about to do. He'd never been allowed to enter the place before - part of him doesn't really want to, but curiosity did kill the cat. He puts his hand on the door knob and pulls it slowly open, entering slowly and taking a look around, soaking in the appearance of this forbidden room.

[That's when he hears Kaneki behind the counter. Uh oh...] Ah, uh. Kaneki, the door was open. I thought perhaps someone had broken in--

[Wait.]

Have you...been drinking?

[ghoulking]

[ Kaneki stares back at D33 for a while. It doesn't feel like a while in his head, since he is trying to form a plan of action of sorts as he looks at his husband who should not be in this room, neither he should be looking at all the blood, and should absolutely not be looking at Kaneki gorging himself with bloodwine.

It was a pause much longer than he wanted it to be, but kaneki realizes at least he has to break the silence ]

It's nothing- [ that is the best excuse he could ever give under the current circumstances. And his hand reaches for the bottle to get it away from the counter, as if trying to pretend it wasn't there in first place ]

[d33tached]

[D33 doesn't even look a little convinced.] You don't have to lie to me. [They've been over this, haven't they?] Though, I am...surprised. I didn't know that you were capable of drinking alcohol.

[Unless it's...not alcohol. Perhaps some strange concoction from Kaneki's world that would make such a thing possible?

[Suddenly, he's concerned that perhaps it's some sort of poison that he's ingested.] Are you well, Kaneki? You haven't ingested anything dangerous, have you?

Drawing - De Chima

[jericoded]

[Markus doesn't mean to be nosy, but he can't help it; the movement of the pencil maps a 3D image of what he must be drawing, constructing an approximation of what he must be drawing there on the bench. The same man who recorded all of that information, idly sketching rabbits and flowers and people in the park.

Markus approaches without a pause in his stride, a bag over his shoulder.] Mind if I join you?

[ghoulking]

[ when markus approaches, Kaneki lifts up his eyes towards him, before he glances back at his wrist - it's a quick glance only, and though Kaneki might not be able to get the glimpse of the imPort tattoo, he always does this in hopes to identify if he's talking to a native or not.

(after all, he only used voice function with Markus, he has never seen him) ]

Not at all- [ kaneki moves a little to give the other some room ]

nonah night

[knaval]

[you know what the best thing to see when you're highly exhausted? a giant gun (blue visored minibot not included) materializing in the middle of a park. it's not even dawn and the bullshit has already started. the thing's about the size of a small van, and the blinking lights on it make it both visible from a distance away and look like something of a twisted carnival toy.

then... it disappears.

and re-appears, in the same spot. a voice rings out, "There are no enemies nearby!" cheerfully proclaiming it's semi-awareness of the surrounding area. or is it? there's plenty of foxes and bats flitting around. is it malfuntioning? who knows how these giant weird things work. when it disappeares again, kaneki might be close enough to hear the loud POP of air rushing back to where it had been displaced.

then another voice calls out, one he might actually recognise, even if he doesn't know riptide in his human form;] Useless! Bloody-- [he kicks a trashcan that's cemented to the ground. a sturdy one.] ---bollocking useless!

[the gun reappears. it starts to play a jingle, which riptide responds to by picking up a small rock and flinging it at the weapon.]

[ghoulking]

[ Kaneki is So Tired. And he is tired of imPort bullshit and imPort weirdness and this is the prime example of that. He is too tired to even care to understand whatever is happening here - he doesn't, he absolutely doesn't get a thing that is happening - but Kaneki also decides he absolutely does not care, either.

Mostly because he knows asking will earn him an even weirder answer and he has no brain power to try and understand any of it.

So he does the safest thing ever: pull his coat closer to his face, and keep walking, passing by this whole "whatever the hell it is", and hopefully he won't even be noticed by the singing thing and whoever is kicking trashcans (unsuccessfully) ]

shopppp

[fauxmarth]

Oh-?

[Lucina, who has been mulling about nearby, does a double-take when she turns and sees Kaneki's familiar eyepatched face here in the ladies' section. her expression brightens immediately -- she hasn't seen him since the Mars mission, after all -- and wastes no time in hastening through the tiny maze of clothes racks to reach him, calling out ahead of herself:]

Kaneki!

[ghoulking]

[ kaneki would recognize that voice anywhere, by now. When he hears Lucina, his head turns towards her and his smile grows bigger ]

Lucina-chan...! [ he will meet her halfway, coming closer with his bags ] Hello- it has been a while!

drunk binch kaneki

[h2no]

[this is a bad idea. archie knows it's a bad idea, but he's doing it anyway.

probably any other time, he would've just continued on and minded his business. it likely doesn't seem like it, but he can be very good at minding his business. really! you know apart from that one time he didn't mind the business of an entire planet and almost ended it, but. details.

arceus, he really hopes he doesn't walk in on kaneki and dee canoodling. he might actually force himself to port out if that happened. maybe it's a break in. maybe it's--

ah. he doesn't quite enter the area (not breaking the rules!!), just leans against the doorframe with his arms crossed. eyebrows raised.]

That bad, huh?

[sad, but also... not. sometimes getting very drunk and having a good cry can help! he really hopes that's what's happening here. archie has a few regrets that occurred inside the last hour.]

[ghoulking]

[ LOOK if they were doing the do, Kaneki for sure would have locked everything, he is too careful for ever let that happen. Plus, D33 doesn't come into the private area - he isn't a cannibal, after all.

Kaneki might be drunk, but he recognizes that voice and recognizes Archie shouldn't be looking at any of this. Like a thief caught in the act, Kaneki reaches for bottle and tries to hide it from sight, but given the whole room is covered in bottles with bloodwine in them branded "A", "AB", "B" and "O" ]

... No. [ he is fine, Kaneki is absolutely fine.

And he also drops the bottle of blood as he was putting it away, and now there is bloodwine on the floor and Kaneki whispers to himself a small "fuck"", which ends up being audible ]

Drawing!!!!

[k31rfree]

[K31 is pleased to see a familiar face in the streets. And a face she hasn't seen in, what she now has to remind herself of, half a years time. After her warming reunion with D33, she had made a promise to herself to become more open with the people she came to care for in this world. And especially to the man her best friend had given his heart away to: Kaneki.]

[She makes her way toward the man at his bench and glances over his shoulder. To her pleasure and surprise she sees his book open, already full of idle drawings on this particular page.]

Those are lovely. [She says in a quiet voice, eyes softly gazing over the drawings in his book. To all of them of course, but there is one less complete image that keeps catching her eye.]

I've never seen you draw before, I didn't know you were fond of it.

[ghoulking]

[ kaneki glances back at Kei when he hears her, a smile coming to his lips ] Kei...! [ he doesn't manage to get up, but kaneki is quick to move so he can greet the woman properly ]

Hello- how have you been?

CAFE

[andtherevolution]

[Utena came into the cafe to catch up with Kaneki-san (and maybe mooch some day-old pastries off of him, if there were any). Instead of slightly stale baked goods, though, she sees... a bat. A very, very cute bat, but still]

Sure? I've gotta admit, I've never really had a chance to get into the Halloween spirit before.

[She didn't have much of a chance to celebrate it here, and back home... well, she was familiar with it, but she lived a few years before Halloween really took Tokyo by storm.]

[ghoulking]

[ she will get some day-old pastries, specially if she helps. When Utena accepts giving him a hand, he will gently push the box closer so she can grab some stuff from it to decorate. He has no actual vision on how to decorate the shop, so she can just go wild ]

Oh? is this your first Halloween here?

:Re Café (late with starbucks!)

[consulinchief]

[Roland had come in to check out the cafe after hearing a lot about it in his research into the imPort population. Its owner, Ken Kaneki, seemed to also be the one with his pulse on what was happening with the imPort population, and he'd be lying if he wasn't just a bit curious to learn more about him.

What he didn't expect, however, was to receive a soft bat toy and be asked to decorate the store. Still, he doesn't skip a beat, smiling as he takes it.]

Is there some sort of decorating scheme you have in mind?

[ghoulking]

No scheme - my coffee shop hardly has an aesthetic. [ that's not exactly true. The café is pretty much like an "urban museum", that's what natives had called it in their blogs. ]

But Halloween is approaching, and clients like to drop some decoration and see what we come up with, I suppose.

:re Cafe (Nonah)

[drivesadesk]

Jonathan comes up behind Kaneki, who seems to be working out what to do with all the Halloween decorations around them. For once, he's not wearing his skin suit. He'd been trying to get more comfortable out of it for a while now, but something about the Mars mission really helped him to feel more comfortable with himself. Seeing the depths of how monstrous humans could get shifted the dynamic in his mind between humans and Reptilians. It didn't make the invasion seem any less bad to him, it just...made it seem less like a Reptilian thing and more like a people thing.

"Sure, why not," he says, reaching into one of the boxes and grabbing a bag of fake spider webs. He rips open the bag and starts putting them up before asking, "So how have you been, Kaneki?"

[ghoulking]

kaneki only remembers seeing Jonathan out of his suit mostly during the night; out in a public place like this is probably the first time. He never minded it, honestly, so he doesn't give the man any weird look for it.

"I'm well," as usual. When is kaneki NOT okay? spoiler alert: he is never okay, but he will forever lie about it "trying to relax a bit, now that we are back. and you?"

he smiles a little, before he decides to comment "It's the first time I see you out of your suit looking so relaxed. It's nice."