Hinami Fueguchi

**Hinami Fueguchi** (笛口 雛実, *Fueguchi Hinami*) is a ghoul whose parents, Asaki and Ryouko Fueguchi, were killed by ghoul investigators. After the event she began to share strong pseudo-sibling relationships with both Ken Kaneki and Touka Kirishima. The CCG held insufficient information about Hinami, and therefore failed in eliminating her. She was known as subject **Number 745** or **Daughter** in their files. Later, she joined Kaneki's group of ghouls.

After the time skip, she became a member of Aogiri Tree. While her primary duties concern information gathering, she also serves as a strategist and commander when necessary. She became known there under the alias **Yotsume** (ヨツメ, *Yotsume*).

After being captured by the CCG during the Auction Mopping-up Operation and sent to Cochlea, she was released several months later by Kaneki, Touka, and Ayato Kirishima. She is currently a member of Goat, an organization founded by the One-Eyed King.

Eight years after the Dragon War and Shouta's adoption by Kaneki, she is married to Ayato Kirishima, Touka's younger brother. Making her as Shouta's aunt.

## Appearance

As a young teenager, Hinami bears a resemblance to her late mother. She had short, straight brown hair, brown eyes, and often wore a hairband decorated with two four-leaf clovers, a common motif for her.

She was identified as the "Daughter" ghoul when she was wearing her butterfly dress and coat. Therefore, she disguised herself while moving around the 20th ward.

After the time skip, Hinami has grown into a beautiful young woman, with her hair arranged into a bob cut with her fringe parted towards the right side of her face. She first appears in the opening montage wearing a long black hooded cloak on missions.

## Personality

After Shouta's adoption, Hinami played her role as his aunt and will treat him the same as his mother Touka. When she was a teenager, Hinami was shy with a very gentle heart. She was also eager for knowledge and fond of reading in order to learn. She cared deeply for Touka and Kaneki, constantly expressing sadness and worry for the two's unhappiness. She also had a very pacifistic nature, having no intention to avenge her mother and father despite loving them so much. Hinami gradually coped with the deaths of her parents better, and obtained a very cheerful attitude.

After the time skip, Hinami's demeanor has become much more calm, collected, and somewhat distant. Her experiences since Kaneki's disappearance and the CCG's new agenda has caused her to lose much of her previously cheery stance and instead take on a jaded, realistic outlook on life. Since joining Aogiri Tree, Hinami's persona has become more solidified. She is no longer terrified of smelling or seeing death, as shown through her interactions with Torso and Ayato. However, she is still reluctant to kill. She believes this to be her weakness and the reason people she loved left her.

## Relationships

### Ryouko and Asaki Fueguchi

Hinami had loving relationships with both her parents and missed them dearly after their deaths. Her mother Ryouko taught her to live in the human world and educated her in literacy. After Hinami was orphaned, she confined herself in sorrow for days but decided to live on in respect to her mother's last wish.

### Touka Kirishima

Hinami sees her as an elder sister and loves her, willing to fight back against whoever harms Touka despite her own pacifistic nature. In return, Touka is fiercely protective of Hinami. After the death of her parents, Hinami lived with Touka until she joined Kaneki's group of ghouls. When they reunite Hinami breaks down in tears and starts apologizing.

### Ken Kaneki

After the two bonded over reading, Hinami and Kaneki quickly developed a close sibling-like relationship. In later chapters, she expresses worry to both Tsukiyama and Sen Takatsuki over his sad and stoic demeanor, desiring his happiness. She is one of the few able to make Kaneki genuinely smile after his torture at the hands of Aogiri. Even years after Kaneki's disappearance, Hinami still thinks of and misses him. During the Auction Raid, she still cares for him deeply and broke from her position to rescue him from Takizawa. She has come to the conclusion that Sasaki is not just an empty, former vessel of Kaneki, but that Sasaki and Kaneki are one and the same.

### Shouta Magatsuchi

Hinami had a really strong bond with her adoptive nephew. However, whenever Shouta wants to help her on housework, Hinami would just refuse to as if she could do them by herself. Hinami is very fond of Shouta as she loves hugging her nephew all the time.

### Ayato Kirishima

The two work closely together as members of Aogiri and seem to have a comfortable relationship. His similarities to Touka brought Hinami comfort when she was starting out in Aogiri and they would eventually form a close bond. Ayato would often cover for her, such as berating her in front of Tatara to spare her from having to commit murder. After her capture, Ayato was visibly distraught and insisted on saving her. When Tatara refused, he reached out to Banjou instead to assist in breaking her out.

When Investigator Mougan Tanakamaru's Higher Mind was shot at Hinami's Koukaku, she falls to her feet as a result of the sheer force inflicted upon her. Ayato rushes to Hinami's aid and angrily attacks Investigator Tanakamaru to only be heavily injured by Investigator Kiyoko Aura's Zebizu quinque. Hinami later cries out for Ayato and is stopped from attempting to save him by Banjou.

After hearing about Akira Mado's recovery, Ayato asked if Hinami if she was content with the news. Hinami replies by stating that Akira never directly harmed her. The fact that she spoke to Ayato about such complex feelings relating to her parents deaths implies a closer relationship between the two of them. Afterwards Hinami silently cries in despair and Ayato is shown to comfort her upon seeing her saddened.

### Akira Mado

Though the two never had any encounters with each other in *Tokyo Ghoul* and Aogiri, Akira seems to know of Hinami's connections to Kureo Mado's death. In *Tokyo Ghoul:re*, the two have a brief encounter with each other in chapter 120, which was also their first meeting with each other. Akira seemed to hold a grudge against Hinami, given how she coldly and bluntly admitted that it was her father who murdered Ryouko Fueguchi, but when Hinami warmly embraced her, Akira seemed to have a slight change of mind in her opinion of Ghouls and shed tears.

## Powers and Abilities

**Ghoul Physiology**: Hinami was born with both a rinkaku and koukaku kagune, as well as heightened senses.

* **Koukaku Kagune**: This kagune resembles two flowers petals that act as shields. After the time skip, Hinami could create four koukaku petals, which was strong enough to block one of Higher Mind's blasts.
* **Rinkaku Kagune**: This kagune takes the shape of flexible red and yellow spines. As a child, Hinami could produce up to two rinkaku tentacles. As time passed, Hinami displayed the ability to create four rinkaku tentacles while having greater control over them.
* **Superhuman Senses**: Having a great sense of hearing, Hinami can easily sort through sounds for information. Having an abnormal sense of smell, Hinami can use this information to find peoples’ locations from long distances.

## Quotes

### *Tokyo Ghoul*

* To Touka (about Mado's defeat): "I can't... do more than this. I don't care about getting revenge or not... I... was just sad."
* To Banjou (about Kaneki): "I can't do anything, but I can keep someone company. So I want to be together with *onii-chan* in place of *onee-chan*, because *onii-chan* seems so lonely."

### *Tokyo Ghoul: Void*

* To herself: "I love Touka and Kaneki. If I could make a wish, I'd ask for the strength of two people so I could help. But to them I'm just a kid, not somebody they can rely on. That's why, like Koma said, we're not 'equal.'"
* To herself: "If someone can't hear you, you need to go closer. If your words don't reach them, you grab their hand."

### *Tokyo Ghoul:re*

* To herself: "He's not a vessel or anything. Even without any memories... Haise Sasaki (this person) ... is Ken Kaneki (my big brother)."
* To herself: "I'm happy, *onii-chan*. But... more than that, I am sad. Aren't you just going to do the same thing again?"
* To Ayato: "Ms. Takatsuki... Eto told me... 'You're not doing anything. It is your fault that the people important to you are taken away from you. It's the fault of your weakness.' And she's right. Both mother and brother... That's why I thought I'm going to save someone next time. But it's useless. I'm still as weak as ever. I wish I was strong."

### *Dragon Quinx*

* To Shouta: "I'm not happy for what has happened to big brother and big sister, if it's revenge you want, don't take it too far."
* To herself: "It's meaningless... ghouls just want to live peacefully, but yet... here they are."

## Etymology

* The name **Hinami** means "chick, squab, duckling, doll" (雛) (**hina**) and "fruit, good result, truth" (実) (**mi**).
* Hinami's surname **Fueguchi** means "whistle" (笛) (**fue**) and "mouth, entrance" (口) (**kuchi**/**guchi**).

## Trivia

* In the first character popularity poll, Hinami was ranked sixth.
	+ In the latest, she came in as twelfth.
* Hinami loves her parents, studying and Touka Kirishima.
* Hinami is interested in Sen Takatsuki's works, human society, and Ken Kaneki.
* Hinami is associated with the Tarot Cards *II. The High Priestess*  and *VIII. Strength*.
* The members of Aogiri Tree refer to Hinami as "Yotsume," in reference to the Japanese crest.
	+ It symbolizes vigilance, good fortune and protection from evil spirits as well as something that appears weak but possesses great hidden strength.
* Hinami was the first ghoul shown to possess a dual kagune.
* In *Tokyo Ghoul Trump*, Hinami is featured as the "Ten of Hearts."
* The person that Hinami wants to share her last conversation with before her death is Ken Kaneki.