The Red on Our Evergreen

Description

Hakyeon had made a plan for their Christmas Eve. It's not much though, just a delicious-romantic candle light dinner on his apartment. He had their house decorated for it. Traditional Christmas bulbs and the medium sized evergreen tree with excessive amount of clay angels and figures alike, also colorful plastic decorations with various shapes. He satisfied with the result of his work, he does hope that it won't be too much for Taekwoon's eyes though. All that Taekwoon needs to do is preparing the food for the night. And it isn't as smooth as it should be.

Foreword

This one-shot is written in Tokyo Ghoul AU.

For you, dear readers, who's not familiar with Tokyo Ghoul (a Japanese manga and anime), it would be better if you read this foreword to give you some illustration of the universe I'm writing the oneshot in.


About Ghouls

This AU is actually have a normal-modern life setting where there is a creature called 'ghoul' live alongside with humans. Ghouls have a human appearance but they cannot eat human food, instead they eat the human themselves. Human flesh. Normal food tastes lika a garbage to their tongue, but more adapted and stronger ghouls can endure eating it, though it still tastes bad. To fulfill their appetitte which almost as much as humans with their three meals a day, they have to hunt for their own food, and because of that the authority is actually hunting for them.

With this situation, their can't have their everyday portion of juicy flesh. When they have to stay low and stopped hunting for a while, they have no choice but to supress their appetitte with coffee.

Ghouls have some characteristics. Even though they look humane enough. when they release their power their irises became red and their sclera (the white part of your eyes) is changing into black. The same change would also apply when they are desperately hunger, they could go berserk and losing their mind. But after they got their food, they'll be their normal self again. More experienced ghouls could supress their hunger better, maybe some mood swings will occur though.

Ghoul's power is called kagune. Each ghoul has different kind of specific power depends on where the tentacles coming out from different part of their back. They also have different kinds of  kagune color. For more detailed explaination please go to this link.

That's all! Hope you enjoy reading the oneshot!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

 

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Amalya
#1
Chapter 1: I must say this was a morbidly entertaining read. I'm not familiar with Tokyo Ghoul (though I've heard about it and am currently now quite intrigued) but it was fascinating. Considering the entire plot was basically a search for food - forbidden or otherwise - it was quite funny (in a dark way) and satisfying by the end. They remind me of vampires with the whole eyes changing when they're hungry but far more original with the other aspects of them too.

The characters stayed true to form as well and it was frustrating if also amusing the way that everyone kept teasing Hakyone and Taekwoon, especially in their condition. Likewise for the 'playing' between Hakyeon and Sanghyuk: cheeky little bugger. heh I was curious if Wonshik was a ghoul and if so, why he has a human lover - unless that was a morbid joke meant as something else in which case, nothing more need be said. haha

I'm glad you opted for the happy ending too and those last couple lines were darkly funny indeed. Maybe their evening started out crappy, but it looks like it ended up pretty well overall. lol As mentioned before, very interesting read and thank you for sharing. I'm glad your first secret Santa (on AFF) was a success and good luck next year if you participate again. :)
DGNA_Forever
#2
Chapter 1: I finally got a chance to finish reading this, now that my connection is better. I really liked the concept of this, and it's different. I liked how they weren't "good", but also just going off of their natures as ghouls. Hyuk cracked me up with his lack of concern for Hakyeon's threats. He was also "so" proper with his ways:). Also, Hakyeon and Taekwoon's y teasing was great! Thank you for writing this for me. I really liked it<3.
DGNA_Forever
#3
This looks very intriguing. I look forward to reading it, especially since it was written for ME:D.