▌♚ viinter​

               Elsa paused for a moment where she stood, half way to the door, vision blurred and distorted by the haze of sleep. One hand was on the wall, supporting her, as she attempted to tug her shoe onto her left foot, but she figured he could see as well as her that it wasn’t happening. She was too tired, too sleep deprived; it would take her an hour at least to cross town, even in a taxi and they only had another five hours until they ought to be in the office again.

                              “Are you sure?”

              Her words were less precise than usual, a little slurred from exhaustion, and on the same strain her decisions weren’t quite what they would usually be. For more reasons than one the idea of staying the night seemed like a pleasant one; more than pleasant, really. Besides, it wasn’t like it could ever be awkward between them. The only real difference between a possibly morning following her sleeping at his place would be that maybe he would come with her to buy his own coffee for once.

                             “A-alright.”

              Swaying a little on her feet she placed her shoe back on the floor and stood, removing her hand from the wall and turning to face her partner with a hesitant but sleepy grateful smile. It was nice to know she could rely on him; not just as a partner, but a friend.

                                                           “Thank you, Jūzō.”

♚ —— ❛ YEAH, I’M SURE. ❜ _{he nodded, pallid arms 
                 raising above his head as he stretched, barely stifling his
                 yawn as he kicked off his shoes.}

_{It had been a long day. Although killing ghouls in the the 11th ward
took over half the day, what had them thoroughly spent was the 
hours of documentation & paperwork that followed, not to mention
the other two ghouls they had run into on the way when he was
walking her home, which lead him to taking her to his place. It
was obvious that they had to stick together & the area around 
her house was crawling with ghouls that were possibly the ones
that had escaped the CCG attack.}

         _{He was more tired than he looked, considering how scarcely
         there was any time to sleep. & he knew that she was most
         likely minutes away from collapsing where she stood. Not
         that he was any better. Pale fingers fumbled with the lock,
         a sigh of relief escaping his lips as the chain slid in before   
         dragging his feet to the bedroom, halting midway across the
         living room.}

❛ –— WE NEED TO BE _{up in five 
hours, Elsa. C’mon, lets go to sleep, ❜}

mama's little pet.	❛ –— how many good boy points did i get, mama ? ❜ childhood verse; where he had been kidnapped when he was very young lives as the pet human of an abusive, influential ghoul called Big Madam, who he calls "mama", who regularly tortures him to lessen his ability to feel pain.
❛ –— hang in there ! hang in there ! don't let this end too soon ! ❜ scapper verse; where he works as a scapper in the ghoul restaurant, killing the "meals" bought to the stage to amuse influential ghouls. His sense of fear & morality disappears.	hang in there.
chaos in stitches.	❛ –— whether i live or die isn't that big a deal... ❜ default verse; where he is rescued & trained & joins the CCG, fighting with no other purpose but to exterminate the ones he is told to.
❛ –— i'll work hard, for your part as well. that is my salvation. ❜ post-timeskip verse; where he works hard to honor shinohara's sacrifice, fighting with that sole purpose in his mind. A sense of morality begins to slowly form within him.	fight with a purpose.