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[enucleation]

WHO: Kaneki + Open
WHERE: Heropa, Nonah, Maurtia falls, De chima
WHEN: March 1st to March 15th
WHAT: Find Kaneki on the street because he won't tell you he is here otherwise
WARNINGS: Canon spoilers, mentions of violence, gore and cannibalism

[ His arrival back in this world was smoother than he expected. The government told him he was not going to prison for what he did, but due to his violent acts --even if he wasn't in his right mind and was being "controlled" by Hornets-- he had to be put on probation. He was requested to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet for a month and he will have to report to a Registered imPort who will act as his parole officer; the tattoo in his arm now says "criminal" and will remain so for a month. And during all of this, not once Kaneki argued or complained. He nodded and accepted every decision the government made about this situation, and at the end all he did was ask if he still had access to De Chima labs --they said 'yes' because it was necessary-- and requested to now live in De Chima --request accepted-- and that was it.

That's how he returned to this world.

He left an entry over the network, and went to his new place. he is not sure how to address others just yet, but he knows he has to apologize, though you can't really apologize for something like that, not so lightly. He will focus on what he can while he decides the best course of action: the Hornets, the Porter, he will focus on keeping his place in this world, that has been threatened so many times already, and he will protect everyone. He will find what is the better way to do that, since experience told him he can't just do everything blindly. He needs to think.

He will figure it out. ]

HEROPA : Bookstore

[ Even though Kaneki is no longer living in Heropa, he still walks around the city quite often. It's a way to make sure everything and everyone are safe and in case something happens, he will be there to help and protect the people he cares about. He is now working at De Chima bookstore, but he decides to drop by his old workplace; here, only few days passed after he was sent back to his world, but back home it was over 6 months.

He smiles politely at his ex-boss as he comments on the white hair, and he smiles kindly at the man. He also apologizes for leaving and apologizes for no longer working there. With a small bow, he buys three new books and an extra fourth is given to him for free. When he finally leaves the bookstore, he looks around for a second and decides to take off his eyepatch; white hair and black clothes made him pretty weird already, but he figured it was better to avoid looking THAT weird with an eyepatch too. ]

NONAH : Coffee shop

[ He never actually been to Nonah before. It's funny because he was 6 months in this world before, and he never found an excuse to go to Nonah and visit the city. Right now he is only doing so because he wants to know the city, the layout, to see the people, the natives, the imPorts and their locations. He is scouting, that's the only reason he is there. Annie and Reiner live there, so it's important for him to know the place and in case something happens, he can navigate through it.

After a whole morning of walking around, he eventually comes to a coffee shop - a petite and quiet one - and asks for their "best coffee, no sugar, no cream, just coffee". And he eventually sits by the window, looking outside. Doing this sort of things... drinking coffee at a coffee shop, taking a moment to look around without searching for an enemy... it has been a while. ]

MAURTIA FALLS : Streets

[ This was the second city Kaneki was set on getting to know. Like Nonah, he has never been there, but like Nonah, he needs to get to know it in case anything happens. Scouting, learning the layout, learning what you may need to face. If anything happens and he needs to go to this small city again, he will know the place easily. He is also interested in the rumored underground scene going on; these are usually good for information, but given Kaneki is currently a "Criminal" and under Government's observation he knows he can't approach it just yet.

He is carrying his eyepatch today, plus the black clothing and the white hair help a lot for people in this town not to be so suspicious of him. The ankle monitor also brought enough attention, too, but Kaneki politely asks them to go away -with a smile and everything!- as he grabs his cup of coffee and sits down at a public bench to drink it.

This is a really interesting place, actually. Ghouls would probably find it "homy" ]

HEROPA/DE CHIMA : Moving from a city to another

[ Now that he lives in De Chima, he will have to move there. It means going to his old apartment in Heropa and get his things and move them to a different city. At least Kaneki doesn't have much house utensils and necessities, but he has a lot of books and carrying those can be a feat. At least he has super strength and he isn't going to hide that anymore; in his hands, he carries bags full of books, some clothes, some other accessories like coffee.

He can be found carrying his items from Heropa Individual Housing back to De Chima Individual Housing, since it's where he will live from then on. ]

CLOSED : Will Graham

[ Kaneki was assigned Will Graham as his parole officer; he is to report to him and the man already has files on what Kaneki is, thus he doesn't expect having to explain it to him. Hopefully. Though he has a feeling questions and conversations will be had. In any case, Kaneki decides to visit him the second he can.

At least he doesn't bring cupcakes this time.

Kaneki is wearing black, and if Will remembers a gentle black haired kid who smiled and looked too naive for this world, he will now meet a white haired Kaneki who still wears an eyepatch and looks far too tired (and sad). He is still smiling, though. Once he arrives to Will's shop, "Hook, line, & tinker", the first thing he notices is the dog, but after he looks around ] Excuse me...?

Comments

Moving from a city to another

[nagachika]

[A mess. That's what the entire deal with the Hornets had been--an entire mess. Dealing with information leaks, people losing their actual minds and more than enough chaos to go around--maybe Hide wasn't thinking this place quite so 'glamorous' as he had in the beginning.

He knew with this sort of power and life, there was going to be bad to go along with the good, but to almost be eaten by your best friend on top of having to watch him get dismembered on public forum? Maybe that's why he kept checking his best friends' house every dozen hours or so, for some sign of the guy. He wouldn't just... stay dead, right?

He... had to show up. Again. Somewhere, somehow. He wouldn't accept it. Just like back home, he would keep trying until he learnt something.

It was a visit to the others' house, mid-day, when he saw someone leaving his best friends' flat. Someone his best friends' height, but that hair...

...That hair colour was definitely something. No fear or hesitation; it takes little to nothing for Hideyoshi to call out, his eyebrows furrowed, but a smile on his face. Relief.]

What's with the hair? Is that in style in this place or something?

[infomodder]

[He's glad to receive files on this Ken Kaneki, he really is. It makes it easier to start discussions on whatever he might have been trying to keep secret if his fallback isn't a Network-wide post leaking people's files. He expected to be given something, of course, but getting the information from a more valid source was much more appreciated than it might normally be. He'd seen the reactions when Freddie had let out her information. The last thing he wants is to mention a certain dietary restriction and be met with horror, disgust, or anger because he dared to put any amount of stock in anonymous, even if he's merely asking after its validity.

There is a downfall, though. Will keeps a fridge stocked with soda, a freezer stocked with ice cream. If Ken is exclusively a cannibal, he can't offer him just-above-generic-store-brand ice cream as a peace offering, and that's terrible. He does, however, have the advantage of knowing how to cook humans, even if in a very limited number of recipes. (Would that be met with horror, disgust, or anger?) Whatever. They'll figure this out.

The dog watches Kaneki from behind the taped line he's not allowed to cross, tail slowly wagging and tongue hanging out his mouth, a dog's version of a smile. His voice is what draws Will out of the back room, dumb hat on his head and covered in the usual plaid shirt. A moment passes, one where Will goes from not recognizing him at all to recognizing him completely, that transition plastered on his face as he crosses the gap whether he intends for it to be or not. No cupcakes this time, that is just fine.]

Hey. [You're not dismembered, awesome. No. No handshakes, either, not unless Ken initiates it. He's trying to be polite.] Good to see you. How you doing?

coffee

[lyingheart]

[ This is not a person she expects to find out in the city. March has started; Annie has agreed to her own probation so that she can stand with the military barking at her back. She's transferred schools, no longer attending Heropa High. She's altered a lot of things in little ways, and they add up, but it's a Monday now (the 9th of the month) and she's been making inquiries in the city for places to be that aren't the places she knows.

Quiet ones. Ones asked where people don't care who she is, because they're not expecting to see a hero or a monster showing up on their doorstep. Nonah is a city that believes in thanking heroes. It's a city that has been hit early, and served well, by a small population - Annie knows this city. Since May, she's called this city her stopping place.

It's why she doesn't leave. The city that made it impossible for her to breathe before is now the crush that she welcomes. Be big enough, be populated enough, and you can find your own way out of what you don't want to handle. You can find space.

You can also find, she determines, things one doesn't expect. A build that's almost familiar... a face that, caught in a reflection, reminds her of one she's seen up close time and time again. He doesn't move right. His hair - that's all out of sorts too.

It takes the rest of her tea while she sits in the corner, combing over the advertisements on the paper she picked up from the prior occupant, for her to decide that she might be right. To stand, take the long way around, and lay her borrowed paper down on the table, tapping a finger on an ad for Salsa Classes - Bring your own partner.

She knows he died. She knows he left. She knows this happened when she was nothing much of herself, but very much another woman's anger, another woman's love. ]

Strange what they'll advertise in the papers these days.

coffee;

[orangehoodie]

[A familiar face. That's what he first thinks, catching a glimpse of the face in the window. He doesn't recall where from, not immediately -- he never looked too closely at that bloody video from a few days ago, and he doesn't recall seeing anybody with white hair, let alone knowing them. Except, like, Akihiko, but that's not a face he wouldn't recognize. This guy clearly wasn't him.

He's really about to brush it off and keep walking, but Koromaru, his dog, has other ideas. He caught Ken's curiosity (however momentary), and he's had a personal mission of keeping the kid from becoming a recluse. That, and he himself liked meeting new people anyway. With a bounce and a wag of his tail, Koromaru's trotting his way over to the window Kaneki's sitting at, pressing his nose right up to the glass and waiting to get his attention.]

HEROPA : Bookstore (14th)

[unbreaker]

[Following the brutal murder of Ken Kaneki, Josuke did what was expected of him. He got angry, he mourned a little, leaned on the shoulders of those closest to him, and then recovered. No one seemed suspicious of his quick recovery, either. He returned to school after having missed only one day, and he'd returned with a smile on his face. He'd made time for friends, went to the arcade and the park and teased people on the network...like everything was completely normal.

And for the most part, it was. He was adjusting as well as anyone could expect. He was moving forward and trying hard not to look behind and linger on the past.

But he hadn't forgotten. Couldn't forget...

In fact, with each passing day, with still no sign of Kaneki reviving and returning the way imPorts were said to be able to do...it was getting harder to be optimistic. And the harder it got to be optimistic, the more Josuke felt compelled to fill up his days with doing stuff. Literally anything he could think of to do: working; gambling; playing video games; watching movies; playing with Jonathan's dog and hanging out with family; studying extra hard; and spending extra hard, too.

It was the latter that brought him to the bookstore, and after picking out a Prince biography and taking it to the counter he couldn't hurry the cashier fast enough because...

...because that back retreating out the door? He's pretty sure he recognizes it. Is pretty sure he heard the clerk call the guy Ken, too. Sure, the hair's all wrong, but he's seen people change appearances before.

And no sooner is that book paid for that he's rushing out and laying a hand down on the person's shoulder to get their attention. A shoulder that's...not as small as he remembers Kaneki's being. But his mind's never been the sort to play tricks on him. Especially not like this...]

Kaneki? ...that you?