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I will probably never shut up about Yamori trying to channel everything good he had left in the face of his upcoming psychosis into literally adopting children who lost in fights. Naki, Hooguro and Shousei (and lbr 200% Gagi and Guge too since they couldn’t even use kagune) had all lost their fights and were subsequently allowed to be a White Suit. You win? You can fend for yourself, fuck off. You lose? Come on in, Yamori’s son needs playmates and if Yamori is good for anything any more, it’s killing shit providing for the family. Have you seen how they all respect him? How Naki loves him?

He spent time explaining abstract concepts to Naki and refused to subject him to the worst of his mental instability.

I have bouts of feels regularly because of Naki and Yamori and how Yamori was vicious and brutal and knew he was fucked in the head but still wanted to have something good and beautiful.

I don’t particularly like Yamori, it’s very hard to like him. But as a character who was caught in this particular circle of violence and chose to perpetuate it to survive (just as Kaneki did later), he is fascinating.

And then Ishida goes and gives us Miza, who also adopted probably every ghoul child she could find into the Blades. When Urie says, “The Blades are all malnourished and small”, you just know they are underfed children, because Miza wants children fiercely but conceiving is hard for a ghoul.

have a happy

fucking  birthday this month eddie, this manga seems to be saying to me, because naki is about to get majorly fucked and you will cry

Oh man, these feels. I think so much about how complex Ishida makes his character, even the most vile of them.

Yamori is such a fascinating character in his complete duality. He remains completely vile until longer after his death, when we begin to have glimpses of the other parts of him. He was a sadistic monster that thrilled in repeating the suffering he’d endured. But he was also someone that chose to surround himself with the outcasts and the losers. He made a gang/family out of people that wouldn’t belong anywhere else. 

Naki, Gagi, and Guge are all disabled in some capacity.

Nico is viewed as a “sexual deviant”, and shunned or mocked because of being a Sexual Minority and interested in BDSM.

Yamori befriended them all seemingly without a second thought, and didn’t give a shit what people thought. We know that he could be violent towards them, though much of it seems to have been with consent (Naki and Nico both enjoyed being hit by Yamori, and speak of it with fondness). When he turns on Nico during his “CHOOSE” session with Kaneki, the violence against Nico is primarily verbal and the physical violence is far more restrained than anything he inflicts anywhere else.

The White Suits are just such a fascinating group, over all. Just seeing how much loyalty and family bonds there are, in a group founded by /Yamori/. There’s something eerie about how similar Kaneki and Yamori became. Thinking what Kaneki could have become, had things gone a bit different.

Well, Kaneki did kill and eat an inordinate amount of people directly following his stay at No Fun Allowed Casa de Aogiri. So much so that when he donned his mask three years later, ghouls still run away from the sight of it. I actually don’t think they are all that different, Yamori and Kaneki. After all, they both used the same coping method – becoming their abuser. For Yamori it meant, probably, a complete breakdown of his own self, although he tried to build something on the smoking remains. Kaneki just became suicidal and won’t learn from his mistakes (such as throwing away the bonds he created with people and generally being in denial until his life blows up in his face. I understand why he’s doing it, but I don’t condone it and at this point it’s just tiring.)

I’m also interested where the Nico being shunned theory came from? I would argue that everything gender or sexual orientation-related we’ve seen was negatively coded only among humans. Ishida explicitly positions ghouls as a minority and borrows heavily from sexual minorities’ lingo (see: ’born this way’ at Eto’s press junket). So for example neither Tsukiyama’s bisexuality, nor Uta’s queerness get discussed so much as just accepted. The only thing ghouls judge people on is power, and 

Nico is pretty much always recognized as a powerful ghoul, which is one of the reasons he can identify and present as loud as he wants – his power is undisputed and if anyone doesn’t like him, it’s not because he sucks dick. It’s because he’s too strong. This is why Ishida also explicitly does away with patriarchal structures of Japanese society among ghouls to the point of mocking them sometimes. Because power is more valuable than sexual orientation or gender or age.

Sorry, I rambled there at the end. The perception of Nico in the fandom has always mystified me. That aside, yes! Yamori and his kindergarten of lost children was such a perfect and unexpected character development. I love how Ishida fleshes out his characters with a few words and a panel here and there ♥

Yeah, ghoul society seems to focus more on power than anything else. But when you pay attention to small details, you notice some of those negative aspects of human society leak into them as well.

Nico is someone that has enough power to be feared and not messed with. But Nico is also someone that people do make nasty comments about, and look at in a negative fashion. Ayato, for example, uses “Okama” as an insult and a slur when discussing Nico. There are some snarky moments from unnamed folks in Aogiri, in terms of judging Nico.

Tsukiyama also earns disdain as a result of his sexual orientation and flamboyant presentation. People refer to him as a pervert and a deviant, which is part of the reason that he has such a bad reputation among ghouls.

Uta is someone that we are told can do whatever the hell he wants, because people are TERRIFIED of him.

So the rule seems to be that as long as you are powerful, no one will bother you about being non-conforming. But they will still probably talk shit about you.