Tokyo Ghoul - NEST

Part 1 Author Notes

Hello to all the readers that stuck with me this far. First of all, I want to thank you all for reading part 1 of this story, it really makes me happy that I can improve my writing skills on wattpad.

These notes will answer some questions I've been asked many times, whether they be in the comments, private messages, or my friends that read this have asked me. 

Questions:

Q: "What was your inspiration for Levin? Why make him the way you did?"

A: Levin is one of my proudest creations. The way I wanted to write him, was someone who was very childish as heart, at least in the beginning of the story. At the beginning, you can tell that Levin was a very sassy, and mood swinging character. I was trying to convey that he wasn't very "Mature", this is a very simple concept. He had been in custody of the ghoul prison for year, he hadn't gotten to mature like the rest of the people his own age. When he first got out, he had a skewed vision of the world and how it worked based on the books and other lessons V taught him after his torture. The torture itself was locked deep inn his memory from trauma, he acted innocent at first, but slowly started to let it out, until it broke free when he really wanted to kill anyone in his way. An example of this lack of maturity in the beginning, was the point when Kurona had broken his arm, and he told her to "Go die", like an upset child in frustration. Accepting the mixed world he was stuck in was hard for him, and him finally accepting it as it is after Rizes death, was as far as he could go as a character, unless I pulled more tragedy cards on him. We go insane, come up with a new persona and rules, then watched that break down until a new one was formed; this showed that he still didn't know what to think of the world. All in all, he was a very fun character to create, introduce, and develop; and I wouldn't change a thing about him.

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Q: "What is Levin?"

A: This was tossed around a lot in the book, so much it confused a lot of people. To be honest whenever I took longer break than usual from writing about his condition, I forgot sometimes. At first we see him as a "Hybrid", being a different ghoul that can eat human food as well as human meat; eating this meat would allow him to release a kagune. H cells were a different terminology than the RC cells, whilst Levin does consume RC cells, his H cells devour them to grow more powerful. Instead of healing more from physical terms with RC cells, H cells, if devoured, can ease the mind and put it into a depressant of sorts; this is shown when Rize eats Levin, and when Kurona did when locked in Tsukiyama's mansion, it calmed them both and let Rize crawl out of a vegetive state. Levins parents were a ghoul(father), and a half-human(mother). Half-humans are failed attempts to make a One eyed ghoul (like eto), they have lowered lifespans, and have incredibly increased speed and strength in return. Levin, in being called an "Alghoul", combines the words of "Alpha" and "Ghoul", boasting that if ghouls are above humans in the food chain, he is above ghouls, the alpha. This makes Levin have greater strength and speed than normal ghouls, and an ability to control a huge amount of H cells in a kagune. In simpler terms, he's like Arima, but with a kagune.

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Q: "What is up with Levin's family? What's their history?

A: Like in the question above, his mother was a half-human, and his father was a normal ghoul. Before Levin's father met his mother, he was married to another woman, one of the higher ups in V, and one of the people who ran the Garden experiments to make one-eyed ghouls. Whilst her name is still unknown to readers, she and Levin's father had a ghoul child named Vincent. But after being in the experiments some time, Levins father met Levin mother, who was a failed experiment there. After spending time with her, Ryuunosuke (Levin's father), slowly fell in love with her. His married life with his first wife was going down the drain, because Ryuunosuke then started to question V's activities, even his own wifes orders. They argued a lot, and soon they stopped talking. Forcing himself to forget his first love, he moved to his new one, and they fell in love. Ryuunosuke had an unspeakable desire to take here away to somewhere where she could be free, and have a normal life. Together, they planned to escape, taking files V had to expose them when they left. Their plan worked perfectly, and they made it to America, where Ryuunosuke was adopted from his Japanese parents (This means even though he has a Japanese name, he was named this by Japanese parents; he's still American). They settled down and had a child, but surprisingly it didn't need substance of human meat to survive in the womb, so they were able to easily give birth to Levin. This made Levin and Vincent half brothers. Levins mother, had the same father as Arima, meaning Arima and Levins mother were half siblings. Arima is Levins half-uncle. On another note, the leaked info they finally leaked gave away their position, and they sent a V squad after them to eliminate. There they found Levin, a complete mystery to them, and captured him. The rest is history.