Metamorphosis

Tragedy

"I'm not wrong, this world is wrong..."

My eyes open to the blinding light?

How did I end up here?

Oh that's right, a ghoul tried to eat me.

All I wanted to do was simply go on date.

Little did I know that it would end in such.... a tragedy.

I can't eat, I can't sleep, my mind is going through so many things I can't process. 

I isolate myself in the darkness of my room with no contact of the outside world.

Can somebody tell me how to live like this? 

I never wanted this to happen.

I stumble upon a cafe where I meet a ghoul. 

The cafe manager takes me in where I begin my new life as not only a human, but a ghoul.    

I'm scared and challenged with my ideals to survive.

Is it right to eat what I originally was?

I am falling deeper into madness than I originally was.

"It's better to be hurt than to hurt others right?"

I also ate my closest friend, Hide out of my own starvation. 

I move on. I live and every day is a struggle. 

I grow stronger and eventually I'm tortured. 

I break free from the chains and accept who I am. 

"I am a ghoul."

I live among my comrades. I find out I'm an experimental success. 

One of the very few ghoul hybrids. 

I fight. This time I lose and plunge into an identity that's not myself.

Haise... 

"Arima is my father and Akira is my mother."

"I'm so happy living like this."     

I mentor the Quinxes and we grow close. 

Kaneki Ken..

I am overwhelmed. Why does that name sound familiar.

I sit in the cafe called RE.

I see a women who I feel serves as a reminder. 

She smiles and seems somewhat sad. 

I take a sip of coffee and tears fill my eyes. 

Our eyes meet. 

Again, Haise....

I continue to fight ghouls, and train.

I am promoted and Arima is proud. 

I continue to fight the restless thoughts that invade my mind. 

"Please don't erase me."

I awaken. 

I don't care what's in my path, I fight for those I want to protect.

Hinami.. I'm so sorry.

Arima, why? Why did it have to be you?

"645 times I could have fatally wounded you. It would take me two seconds to kill you. 645 times I decided not to" he says.

I fight with the blood raging in my veins and I move forward. 

I fall and for a split second I see Hide.

I have to live for everyone and I finally understand the meaning of living.

Arima, my father... another loss.

"I am the One-Eyed King!"

I lead the group I call GOAT. 

I want to try to have humans and ghouls understand each other a bit more. 

War rages on...

Blood is shed...

I find love....

Touka, the girl who would have been sad that day if I had died all that time ago...

"Kaneki... are you a virgin?"

I feel happy inside.

"Kaneki, I'm pregnant. I didn't want to tell you in case the baby didn't come out right" she says.

A father to be.

We exchange our love on each other's shoulder.

We marry and are love grows strong. 

I can't function, the world around me grows dark.

I am growing into something I can no longer control. 

I yell and scream in my mind. 

All the people come back to me, everything I've tried to protect or failed to protect.

I don't know what's going on.

I wake up from what seemed like a nightmare.

My hair is long. It's weird. 

Tokyo is in ruins, but everything seems ok.

However, I meet up with Hide and have a painful reminder....

My thoughts go back to that fateful day...

"Kaneki.. I want to save you... Please eat me." Hide says.

I lost my mind no I couldn't have possibly.... 

I'm so sorry Hide... I didn't mean to make your life this way...

"I'm sick and tired of not being able to do anything."

I learn to move on. 

I have a beautiful daughter to hold and to now raise. 

"I still would have gone to meet Rize that day. All of it was necessary. To me, the world isn't wrong. It just is."