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WHO: Kaneki/Sasaki + YOU
WHERE: All imPort cities
WHEN: All through November
WHAT: Catch-all for Sasaneki
WARNINGS: Mentions of cannibalism, gore and violence. Sasaneki's arms and legs currently look like this and his tattoo is located on his neck and it says "Unregistered".

OPEN ; Books and library
[ One of the things that feels most natural for Kaneki is to read, reading is not just a hobby but something that Kaneki always did in order to feel normal, peaceful, happy, or simply to gather his thoughts or to learn. He relies on books a look, even for things he needs to learn in practice – such as farming.

The House in Nonah is a farm, and Daryl has a lot of plans to actually farm the land, have animals and become sort of self-sufficient. While it IS a great idea in Kaneki’s opinion, he himself doesn’t know A THING about farming. So the best way to learn is to read about it, in his opinion. And the library is the best place to find books on farming, of course.

Once inside the building, kaneki will pick a variety of books; as much as he can, actually, eventually carrying a huge pile. It’s not difficult to carry them because he is strong enough, but it’s difficult to see where he is going. So either he bumps into someone inside the library, either he bumps into someone as he is coming out of the building – he does bump into someone and the books just fall all over the floor ]

S-sorry! [ he should have brought bags or something. ] I wasn’t watching where I was going…!

OPEN ; Free samples
[ Food. He has such issues with food and yet Kaneki really does love cooking. It was a big part of his daily life the past three years since he cooked for his subordinates, and as now Hinami-chan can eat human food too, he cooks for her – also for any of his friends who want a meal, of course. So that means he needs to go shopping for the month.

Kaneki avoids supermarkets because of how busy they are, and usually sticks to local markets that sell different kinds of food; these are usually a lot better, he thinks, or at least the products look much nicer (it’s not like he can actually taste them). Of course, the sellers try their best to have a hero buying from them and even offer free samples of their pastries and fruits, hoping Kaneki will love them and buy ]

I don’t eat, I’m sorry. [ but that melon bread looks pretty nice and the man is offering free sample so- Kaneki just turns to the first person he sees, waving lightly ] I’m sorry, could you taste this for me?

SEMI-OPEN ; ”The group” House
[ After he spent the first couple of nights sleeping wherever someone would let him, eventually Kaneki headed to the House. It’s only called the “house” just like the group is only called “the group”, but he never really demanded a better designation and he isn’t about to do so. He is thankful as it is that Daryl and the others allowed him to sleep there (sure, Daryl says he is part of the group, but when you are Kaneki – a cannibal half-human-half-ghoul - you constantly wonder when others will decide that the cannibal needs to go). Plus, to be honest, he doesn’t exactly know anyone else from the group, and they should probably have a saying in this, too-

But that will something to worry about in the future. Right now, Kaneki IS at the house and after he slept for nearly two days straight, he wakes up feeling refreshed enough to act like a normal living being, even if he still doesn’t look like one (and won’t for a while). Kaneki’s arms and legs are still completely missing and so with the use of his powers (the kagune) he is replacing them, which makes him look like he came out of some eldritch horror story; while they do look awkward and clumsy and probably sort of gross, he is pretty good with them, enough that he can actually /cook/ using those things.

In fact, that IS exactly what he is doing. Though Kaneki can’t eat, he does love to cook since it relaxes him, and after waking up he decides cooking pancakes for everyone is the best way to start the day. It was a bit tricky at first thanks to his weird-shaped hands, but once he got the hang of it, Kaneki seems to be at ease – and some pancakes are ready to be eaten, too, currently pilling up on a plate as he finishes the rest while in front of the kitchen stove. ]

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[Pancakes definitely have a aromatic smell to wake up to and find downstairs in the morning, far as Enid is initially concerned. It's something she assumes Mako is behind until she walks into the kitchen and sees the white haired boy she had been told about. He was polite she had been told, but what rang more in her recollection of what she had been told was the part about how his limbs were not quite human.

(Of course... at the time she thought nothing of it because she's seen walkers and a talking cat, but seeing it now?)

She stops in place to take it in for a moment and let her surprise pass. Once it subsides a little, she swallows the rest of it and approaches casually as can be, not allowing herself to stare anywhere but straight.]

Good morning. [She offers that in simple greeting over leading with the question of who he was. She already knew his name, after all. The rest of getting to know each other would work itself out, she figures.]

[ at least someone told her about it. In fact, it's a thing kaneki sort of worries about; he doesn't want someone to enter the house and suddenly sees some mutated guy that they weren't expecting. At least Enid knows.

When Kaneki hears the girl's voice, he turns his head and opts to pull the pan away from the stove, in case he gets distracted ] Good morning. [ he smiles politely and nods. It's the first time actually meeting her, though he knows who Enid is ]

You are Enid, right? it's good to meet you, I'm Kaneki. [ even if she already knew his name, kaneki still introduces himself because he is a polite fellow ]

[She didn't mean to distract him so bows her head apologetically ever so slightly.]

Yeah. That's me. Nice meeting you, too.

[To be honest, it helps he knows who she is and vice verse. Helps her relax to know that they don't have to go about doing any more of an awkward introduction than this. She steps more into the kitchen now that is out of the way, opening the fridge to see what there is. Though she subtly turns back to eye the pancakes he is already making.]

You making all those for yourself?

[She just assumes, because it's still slightly hard to imagine someone being so kind make pancakes for the house. Besides she's seen people with big appetites here, so why not.]

[ and it seems the doesn't know the part where Sasaneki is a cannibal. That will be... interesting. He sort of hoped that had been something the group had mentioned to each other by now, but- well, it won't be the first time he'll admit to it.

Still, he smiles and shakes his head ]

No, I don't eat this. I'm making them for whoever wants them.

[ he turns to the stove again, to finish the pancake ] Do you want some? I promise there is nothing weird in them.

[She tilts her head slightly to an angle when he declares he doesn't eat pancakes, but chalks it up as maybe an allergy... So then why was he making them for everyone else? Pretty confusing, if you ask her.]

That's nice of you. Why make them for everyone else and not yourself, though? What can you eat? [Because she's assuming he's allergic or just not a fan or, hell, maybe changed his mind. There were endless possibilities.]

If you sure there's nothing weird in them, why not. [She's open to giving her trust to people at least once.]

[ it's some sort of allergy, sure. The kind that leaves you vomiting and weak. The kind where he can't digest it at all so it'll just feel like gross garbage inside his stomach. Not a fun image.

Still kaneki delays his answer to give Enid her pancakes with a smile, before he turns back to the stove. he just needs to finish the batter but doesn't plan on making more after that. ]

Hm- nobody told you about me? [ kaneki had somewhat expected someone would have, if only to make things easier. Neither Rick or Daryl took it well, and Carl probably didn't have the same reaction because he learned about it when they had other things to worry about (like being kidnapped by Russians). ] By now, I expected everyone to know...

[Long pauses are okay with her. She's convinced whatever it is might be embarrassing to say, so she turns to find a plate and helping herself to some pancakes and sit down while she waits for him to work up whatever it is and tell her.

And she is just about half finished cutting the pancakes up when he speaks and says that very strangely. Her eyes turn back up on him.]

What does that mean?

It means that I can't eat the same that humans do, because I'm not human. [ Enid probably knows that by now, if only because of how kaneki's legs and arms look currently ]

I'm a ghoul, and ghouls have a very strict and specific diet. [ it's a way of putting it. ] The only thing we can consume, digest and taste are humans.

[ he says it softly but there is no way trying to beat around the bush for this. ]

[She has guessed already that he is something a little different, but not gone so far to think his dietary needs are any different than a humans or any other animal for that matter, at least not until he says so...

And what he's saying to her understanding is, in other words, he's a walker... A living, breathing, talking walker?

She sets down the knife and fork she had been using to cut the pancakes, not quite allowing her grip slide off of either of them, in case(???). A numb sort of feeling sunk into her bones, but he had only been nice and truthful to her to this point so she remained seated and let herself process this. All she really wanted to do was get up and go, though, but she fought her better instincts.

After a long couple of moments, she finally attempts working it out in words.]

So... I'm the last to know? How... How do you eat? Who do you even eat?

[Can she ask these questions? WHAT IS EVEN THE RIGHT THING TO DO HERE. There may be some internal screaming or a lot of uncertainty translating through her look on him right now. Please don't fault her for that.]

[ why is he always compared to a walker ~~it's called zombie everywhere else~~? he isn't exactly one, no; specially given the differences in internal anatomy. And it's not like he'll turn people into ghouls by biting them either. However, Kaneki sort of understands the need to use things you know in order to understand things you don't know, so it's not like he takes it to heart if someone calls him a walker.

he blinks a little at the question. Daryl never really asked him about it because he avoids the subject like crazy (kaneki was the one directly telling him), and neither did Mako. Enid was indeed the first person of the group to ASK how Kaneki feeds (or who he feeds on) ]

... well. The government used to allow me to eat bodies that were donated to science, under the argument that imPorts fall under "the science umbrella". But that's ONLY if I was registered. Because I no longer am, I have to rob morgues and cemeteries. [ and he knows a couple of murders who gladly give kaneki their victim's corpses in order to dispose of them. ]

I don't know the people I eat, but they are already dead. I don't hurt anyone in order to feed. [ IT'S AN IMPORTANT QUESTION, kaneki will tell her everything she wants to know ]

[Truth is, she really rather not hear how or who he eats here, but with the surprise of learning it this way in this situation, honestly, there is not why she doesn't find herself needing to ask to put her mind at ease or to put herself on guard. She already has nightmares about walkers in her sleep, she doesn't need to wake up to the nagging fear of it being real again where she sleeps too.

As she expects, though, she doesn't like the detail of what she hears but she adsorbs it quietly for a minute or more before nodding in small, anyway. (Perhaps a part of her feels sorry he doesn't have access to free bodies, too, but that's neither here or there. It's more worrisome in a way, too.)

She also feels herself going a little pale.]

And that's-- So, you do that and that's it?

[ Kaneki finally grabs the batter he ended up not using to put it inside the fridge. He will do more later, probably for Josuke.

Of course as he walks through the kitchen he is gentle, since he doesn't want to scare enid even more, but he does reach for the fridge ]

Are you asking me if I can infect someone? [ Rick asked him that before ] I can't. Ghouls is a species, different from humans anatomically, biologically, physiologically. It's not a virus or disease or a bacteria or anything like that.

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[It was not exactly what she was asking as she was referring more to dietary habits still, but she'll take it. Knowing he could not infect anyone, perhaps, was more of something she needed to know anyway.

Enid visibly puts her guard up a little when he moves to the fridge but mostly stays as she is. Call it being watchful.]

That's... a relief. [She felt herself say, at least being honest about it.] If you were one of them, I don't think I'd be able to trust you at all. The infected always turn, I mean, so it'd make no sense if you were stuck somewhere in between being one of us and them.

[Doesn't mean she trust him yet, but she's working it out so maybe she will be able to. This here just happens to be the awkward start of that.]

[ well, kaneki can eat other ghouls, but while he can consume them and not get sick, it tastes really bad. He doesn't think Enid needs to know about that part as there are no ghouls here for him to eat.

But he does drink coffee. In fact, it's literally the only thing a ghoul can consume and taste like a normal human, and that's why Enid will eventually get to see him doing a lot of coffee and drinking it. It's a detail, simply, and Kaneki doesn't remember it right now, hence why he doesn't mention it. ]

I can't pretend I understand what is happening in your world. [ all he knows are from books about zombies. But he is avoids making that comparison ] I only know that it's not really the same.

Plus, I am alive. My heart is beating. [ he has no idea HOW, after all that happened to him, but- yes. Kaneki is a living person. ] Ghouls do have hearts. [ he says a bit more jovial. it's meant to be a small joke ]

[Probably for the best he doesn't; because she's not even used to the weird name the group or Alexandrian's call them, let alone the word and culture that seems to take place here around zombies. The former at least makes sense. Walkers walk, biters bite. But words aside, none of the culture around zombies here could really detail how horrifying it was in reality. She nods when he says he can't pretend to even understand, thankful he doesn't try. In turn, she feels a little more open to what he said before and now.

Though not a laugh, she cracks something of a bemused smile.]

Yeah. I'll give you that. They wouldn't be able to stand here and talk either. [That was about to be some comment about how he has more brains than they do, but upon second thought, it seems more in poor taste than as any sorta compliment.]

[ and they are rotting and don't feel any pain. Kaneki's only similarity to them would be the whole "eating humans" thing, but even walkers/zombies/them can eat other animals as long they move. ]

I also have these. [ he rises his hand to show her the weird looking claw-y fingers ] Well, they don't look better but they are different at least. [ he's sure Enid's world didn't have that. ]

[Not at all. She caught a glimpse of it just before, but seeing the hand extend towards her so can see even closer causes her to subconsciously pull her head back and steel herself for how much they almost look like raw nerves.]

Yeah. There's nothing like that back home. How-- How did you get hands like that? Or were you born with them?

[She tries to put that as delicately as possible there, but it may be lost with her straight forwardness.]

[ Kaneki shakes his head softly, looking down at his mangled hands ]

They are healing. My actual hands, I mean. [ his eyes avoid the claws again, looking back at Enid. ] They were cut off, but I can regenerate them. However, it'll take some time and while I wait, I needed to replace them somehow. [ and those claws are the replacement. ]

They'll eventually look a bit better and more like hands, though. Give it a month or so.

[That's...well, a little horrifying to be honest. Enid drops this silent "what do you mean cut off?" look over being able to say anything in that given moment.

"Someone cut off your arms in this place?" her look could say too.]

ah- [ Kaneki has no tact when it comes to the bad things that happen to him. In his opinion, whatever happens to him is no big deal, and thus he will act like it really is no big deal. Sometimes he forgets people don't take things so easily. ]

Don't worry- ghouls can regenerate and we can take hits, so it's no big deal, really- don't worry about it.

[That's not the point here. She is very disturbed still but the fact someone cut them off, which is why it is another moment before she finds herself able to speak, shaking her head.]

Why shouldn't I worry when someone cut them off. What happened? [Dare she ask.]

It was back home. [ so, again, trying not to worry her about it.

He isn't sure how to explain because it's such a long complicated mess. Of course at least he knows he can't tell her it was his own father doing that but- ] Back home, ghouls aren't allowed to exist. So after I was captured by the government, they decided instead of killing me, to turn me into... well, a weapon of sorts; I killed ghouls for them.

[ it's a lot more complicated than that and it involves amnesia, but he doesn't think it's fair to drop all of that on Enid ] I eventually decided to break free from them and they weren't happy about that decision.

[God, now she feels a little bad for his situation at home. She was still wary of what he was, but he wasn't a walker so it wasn't right anyone would decide that they all couldn't live or turn them into slaves to kill their own kind then do that to them (cut off arms) if they resisted. Not in her opinion, at least. It hit her as something too close to what happened with the Russians.]

Oh. I didn't mean to bring it up.

[ they did a lot worse to Kaneki but those are details he wouldn't even tell, anyway. And at least he doesn't have to explain Haise Sasaki to her - that would be a lot more complicated ]

No, it's alright. It's the life we lead, and we make what we can out of it. [ with cut off arms or not ] Even though all of that happened and ended like this, I'm very glad about certain things that I was allowed to do.

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