Noro

Noro (ノロ, Noro) was a direct subordinate of the One-Eyed King and one of Aogiri Tree's leaders.

In the past, he was a Ghoul known as Noroi (ノロイ, Noroi), and the Ghoul entrusted with raising Eto.

Appearance
Noro was an eerie giant of a ghoul with long black hair tied up in a ponytail. Noro wore a white mask featuring huge black lips, a huge mouth with equally massive teeth and tiny slits for nostrils. His fingernails are black, much like those of a pre-timeskip Kaneki. After the time skip, Noro's hair has grown as they are seen with a much thicker ponytail.

After his death, Noro's face was revealed to not have eyes or a nose, though it is unknown why at this point.

As Noroi, he was a powerfully-built man with a serene expression. He wore a hooded robe similar to what he later wore as a member of Aogiri.

Personality and Traits
An intimidating giant in eerie silence, he seemed to communicate only through actions, not words. He'd also carried around a clock when being fought by Tsukiyama, Yomo, and Uta. Tsukiyama speculated that he is under a curfew much like a child. Noro never displayed any signs of pain or resistance when attacked and seriously injured and merely heals his wounds without any problem.

The CCG has noted Noro's actions being unpredictable, as he sometimes ignored them and other times is ferociously aggressive. Such behavior is demonstrated in the 11th Ward Battle where he decimates the squad that discovers the wounded Ayato Kirishima but ignores Juuzou when he finds Yamori's body and later assaults the Itou and Quinx Squads during the Rosewald Investigation.

From the perspective of an average ghoul, he ate an absurd amount of meat.

Past
Many years before the series, Noroi was a Ghoul living in the 24th Ward. He was contacted by Kuzen, who was fleeing from the organization V and given responsibility for raising the infant One-Eyed Ghoul, Eto.

It is unclear what happened to him in the following years, that would result in his transformation into Noro.

Aogiri Arc
Noro attended the meeting where Kaneki was brought before Tatara. At the end of the meeting, Tatara left the 11th Ward Base's affairs to Noro. Tatara predicted that the doves would come soon and ordered Noro to follow their plan. Then, Tatara left with Eto to meet comrades that were waiting for them.

At the beginning of CCG's attack on the Aogiri hideout, Noro was waiting until his clock showed 12:00 midnight. They then started to act.

After the fight between Ayato Kirishima and Kaneki, Noro came to pick up "the half-killed" Ayato, killing the CCG squad that had discovered the pair in the process. They clashed with Renji Yomo, Shuu Tsukiyama and Uta, displaying his absurd regeneration ability. When the alarm of his clock rang at 2:00 am, they casually picked up Ayato and left. Afterwards, they went to the roof to pick up Yamori. They left without fighting Juuzou Suzuya after they had realized that Yamori was dead.

Anteiku Raid
They appear alongside Tatara on the streets when they confront Amon, Takizawa and a couple of other CCG investigators. Using his ghoul abilities, one of Noro's kagune takes a bite of Takizawa's arm.

In the √ A anime, Noro also encounters Hide and is later shown to have inflicted a lethal injury to him.

Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation
Overlooking the scene, Eto gave Noro orders when the first fighting during the operation began. In the Lunar Eclipse building, he barred the way of the Itou Squad and Quinx Squad, minus Sasaki. He immediately attacked after the investigators organized their formation, cutting Nezu in half and devouring Umeno who was on back support. His next attacks on Saiko and Urie were repelled, and he was pinned down by Mutsuki and Shirazu's kagune, before being cut in half by Saiko's. Noro, however, regenerated, stood back up, and broke Kuramoto's rib cage with one strike from his kagune.

After being struck by the explosive power of the Nutcracker quinque, Noro was blown into four separate pieces and had his head stabbed through by Michibata. However, the ghoul's lower half came back to life with four kagune tentacles that resembled Eto's, piercing through every remaining and able investigators' bodies on scene aside from Saiko and Shirazu.

Noro continued fighting with Shirazu, having incapacitated every other investigator in the room, aside from Saiko who was still recovering from the use of her kagune. Shirazu kept straining himself and bombarding him with continuous projectiles from his own kagune in order to defeat Noro. Despite Shirazu's best efforts, Noro regenerated from the damage once more and impaled him in midair. However, Shirazu used his remaining strength to shout out at Urie to deliver the final blow using the distraction he provided. As Urie was about to strike him with his kagune, Noro alled out to Eto that he would "go ahead", before Urie delivered the finishing blow to him. After the fighting had ended, Takeomi Kuroiwa gazed at his mummified head lying on the floor next to his mask.

Post-Tsukiyama operation
After his death, his Kakuhou was used to create Ginkui.

Eto
As Noroi, he was entrusted with raising her and seems to have been a loving caretaker. At some point during their life together, something happened that resulted in his transformation into Noro. He remained at her side, as a loyal subordinate.

Yoshimura
In the past, the two seem to have known and trusted each other. Kuzen trusted him enough to leave his infant daughter in Noroi's care.

Power and Abilities
Out of all Ghouls acknowledged by the CCG, Noro is considered as one of the strongest ghoul excluding Owl and Shachi.

Noro has displayed abnormally high levels of regeneration even by ghoul standards, being able to heal any severed body parts through immediate reattachment, even when it's his torso cut in half. Noro has a very thick kagune with razor sharp teeth, resembling a mouth, and that it can consume food through them. Noro can also create two tentacles which were shown to be able to pierce through the CCG's computer system quite easily. Isolated, his lower half is capable of creating four thick tentacles itself, resembling Eto's kagune with its wrinkly texture and additional mouths unlike his commonly seen lamprey-like kagune.

Noro also possesses very high pain tolerance, durability, stamina, speed and endurance even by Ghoul standards, as evidenced by the fact that they were repeatedly peppered with ammunition, repeatedly stabbed by Shuu, impaled from back to front by Uta, and had his head kicked off without showing any sign of being affected. Noro is also able to turn his head 180 degrees, like an owl.

Trivia

 * In Tokyo Ghoul Trump, Noro is featured as the "Queen of Spades".
 * The Noro was spirit medium priestess that communicate with ancestors and the Gods from indigenous belief system originated from Ryukyu Islands. At one time, they were considered Queen-Priestesses with considerable political and spiritual power within the community.
 * He seems to have a slight fear of buzz cutters, as shown in an Omake.
 * His original name, "Noroi", literally means Curse.
 * It's possible Noro went through the same process Kanae did when Eto tortured him. Noro and Kanae display similar feats of regeneration, and their kagune are similar in both appearance and function.
 * When Rio encounters Noro in a sub-scenario in Tokyo Ghoul: Jail, he's overwhelmed by the scent of a rotting corpse.

Quotes

 * To himself: "I'll see you on the other side,Eto."

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