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Hide being quinx test subject 0, Marude used that to keep Hide alive after his way too passionate makeout sesh with Kaneki
Subject 0 stayed in a coma, but his wounds did heal. The first month or so, Hide had similar symptoms to the rc cell disease, and everyone was starting to give up hope for the project, but soon the symptoms started to go away and he was left a quinx in a coma.
Then Haise got approved for field work, getting the quinx assigned as his squad. After their first few missions together, Hide started waking up. Shirazu was the first to see him. When he went to say hello to Haru, he accidentally walked into Hide's room. The only words exchanged were "Shit, wrong room! Sorry man"
The second person to see Hide was Urie. No words were exchanged, as they met during one of Urie's surgeries. Hide was getting his own check-up and Urie saw the scars all over his body and face, assuming it was a human investigator with a weird scent.
Haise never actually saw Hide. They'd pass eachother in the hallways, Haise would pick up a familiar scent that made his heart ache and his hands tremble, the monster inside him screaming louder than ever before. But by the time he turned around, all he saw was a tuff of blonde hair disappearing behind the corner.
Marude had nothing to do with the quinx squad, aside from Hide, but it drove him absolutely up the wall whenever their teams would work on a case together and the ghouls would run away because Urie and Shirazu were arguing, Saiko was sleeping or Tooru was too afraid to do anything. They were uncoordinated, and none of them had the desire to listen to their squad leader, who was a lot stronger than he looked. So Marude just came over to Hide one day with a massive stack of papers.
"What?"
"The quinx are stupid. They need a brain."
"They have Kaneki."
"Your boyfriend is the dumbest one of them."
"Oh."
So when the quinx were woken up early one day and called in for a meeting, even Haise was surprised. As their leader, he should be in the loop about these things, but even he felt like a kid being scolded by the elders.
Marude told them that they needed better strategies, or all the resources were just wasted on a project destined to fail.
"You'll be mentored by Subject 0."
The room was heavy with silence. Everyone was told there was no Subject 0, that he died within 24 hours of his initial surgery. He was always used as an example of the risks they'd be taking if they joined the quinx squad. So why was he here? And why was he a young adult, Haise's age, looking perfectly happy and healthy. The strangest part about him, though, was that he was wearing a mask and no uniform.
After countless cases in which Hide was the brains but never the brawns, Haise decided to ask why he doesn't carry a quinque, since his kagune obviously never developed. Hide simply told him that he doesn't like them.
But when they found out, after a year of working with him, that he is in fact fully capable of using his kagune, and what his kagune could do, they all suddenly understood why he never used it.
Hide's kagune at first glance looked exactly like their leader Haise's. But when it's brought together above Hide, it forms a giant eye that screeches so loud everyone just blacks out and Hide is forced to fight alone against the ghouls left standing.
After two years of working together, Hide jokingly proposes overthrowing the CCG. It was at dinner, so everyone just stopped eating to look at him.
"It's just a joke! Unless..." He'd say with a wink
The third year is when things started to go to hell. Shirazu dies, Urie develops a kakuja, Tooru goes rogue, Haise remembers.
Kaneki remembers.
That was the hardest part for him. Having to come back home with everyone locked in their rooms all the time was one thing, but opening the door to an armful of sobbing Kaneki was another. For the rest of the day, the only words uttered were "I'm sorry." "It's okay."
And then Hide overthrows the CCG
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