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All we really learn about what he was up to pre-canon is that some ways back he got involved with a Ghoul named Yakumo Oomori, or Yamori (or Jason, by the Commission of Counter-Ghoul/CCG). Naki was more or less Yamori's sidekick, calling him "big bro" and emulating his ruthless, borderline psychotic/torture-happy tendencies. He also ran errands for Yamori, doing his shopping and handling his money, however well he managed to do that. Then at some unspecified point, they both wound up in the CCG's Ghoul prison and were rated S rank on the danger scale. Being in prison hasn't had a great effect on Naki; at one point Yamori promised to keep doing their thing whenever they broke out, then he broke out, and Naki stayed in the prison until the Ghouls of a gang called Aogiri Tree broke him out some time later.
Now, by this point, Yamori has been killed by the combined efforts of Kaneki and CCG Investigator Suzuya Juuzou, so Naki gets out of prison only to find that his most important big bro!! is dead. He stays with Aogiri after learning this, anyway, and is a minor grunt in the organization who goes around with his own pair of big dumb henchmen and various members of the higher ups, carrying out basic tasks and getting into fights. He first shows up in the canon timeline kidnapping a nurse attached to the elusive human Doctor Kanou, who Aogiri wants for some mysterious reason. Here Naki, his henchmen, and another Aogiri Ghoul named Shachi throw down with Kaneki and friends and make off with the nurse. Back at Aogiri's hideout, Naki chats with Eto, one of the leaders, about how much he misses Yamori. Then he gets in a stupid shouting match with someone who thinks he's a big moron, complains about how unfair it is that they get to be ranked with Yamori when they clearly don't deserve it, and reports that he should have been the one to interrogate the nurse. Although he would have just tortured her and not gotten any info, according to the brighter Ghouls around. He cries a bit.
Later, Naki and his crew are the ones Eto and Shachi bring to Kanou's hideout to catch him, where Kaneki and friends have already arrived, again. Naki throws himself into a fight with Tsukiyama, then is easily convinced to join forces with him for a little while to fight the CCG when they show up as well. He gives the investigators a hard time until one of them whips out an aerosol can full of gas designed to break down Rc cells and cripple a Ghoul's kagune. Naki's dissolves, and he winds up leaping in front of an attack meant to kill his precious henchmen and then taking a huge chunk out of an investigator's leg to get more Rc cells in him and try to force his kagune back out. He's attacked again, the Ghouls fall back, and eventually the Aogiri group makes a run for it and leaves the Kaneki club to deal with themselves.
After the Kanou lab incident, Naki isn't important enough to feature again until the very end of the manga, where it's shown that even though Kaneki's side is largely dead or disbanded and Aogiri seems to have taken Kanou and vanished to do something gross even by Ghoul standards, Naki is out with his henchmen. On a playground. Crying on a seesaw. Thug life.
Personality: Like many Ghouls, Naki has grown up believing and treating humans as food on the level of cattle and nothing more. Straight away it's evident that he sees no real worth in human life and even takes pleasure in torturing or killing humans for the sake of harming them, rather than only for food—in his very first scene he gives a human nurse the choice between fast and painful torture or slow and extra painful torture, even. He is ruthless and downright cruel, with no regard for humans or his enemies, if they happen to be Ghouls. This viewpoint is common among Ghouls, although where some Ghouls need to treat humans like cattle so as to distance themselves from taking lives to survive, Naki is not like that at all; they're cattle, plain and simple. His insistence on torturing humans and taking pleasure in it is also a pretty common Ghoul attitude, as there are Ghoul "clubs" like the Ghoul restaurant that engage humans in fighting for their lives before they die like gladiator sports. Killing without specifically caring about the final payoff, the meal, is a bit less common. He picked it up from Yamori, most likely.
So let's get into the Yamori thing. Yamori is known to the CCG as pointlessly ruthless and cruel, a Ghoul who kills for the pleasure of killing rather than eating. He tortures for fun and profit, and Naki idolizes him. In his own words, Yamori is "awesome and cool and really strong." Naki is incredibly loyal to him, even after his death; he talks about him constantly, references "how Jason of the 13th Ward does things" in fights, and says that when he found out Yamori had died, he cried every night and still gets emotional thinking about it. He is really, really, powerfully attached to this guy, and Yamori's philosophies and bad habits shape most of Naki's as a result. He even picked up his manner of dress and his knuckle-cracking habit. The knuckle-cracking is significant in demonstrating his desire to be like Yamori voluntarily; another character, Kaneki, picks up Yamori's habits including that one after Yamori tortures him, whereas Naki intentionally picks up the habit and modifies it to be his own (a different knuckle... it's important!!). He emulates Yamori, rather than being essentially tortured into adopting the same madness to cope. It's intentional. Yamori is also a big point of his pride, especially after death, as Naki constantly feels the need to prove himself to prove that Yamori was worth more than his unseen death. He's following in his footsteps to some extent, but not trying to overtake him by going after his position in Aogiri or anything like that. Naki is all about big bro Yamori. All about... Yamori.
After getting out of prison and finding out his most important big bro is dead, Naki's attachment to his dumb henchmen goes through the roof. He's a big crybaby and will lose it at the drop of a hat, despite his tough gangster image, and when he saves his henchmen from being killed by the CCG, he says he'd rather cry because he's in physical pain than cry because of loneliness. In this way, Naki is pretty dependent on having others he can call allies; being alone is the worst thing he can imagine, trumping even risking his own life. He's drawn to others for this reason and surprisingly open about his tender emotions about it, telling Eto about how he misses/yearns for Yamori very earnestly. What with all of the crying and how his behavior always seems to be at 150%, he pretty much wears his black heart on his sleeve.
To this end, he is gullible. Partly because he's not very bright, he can be really easily convinced to do things for others and not realize he might be screwing himself over. To wit, our dear friend Tsukiyama Shuu gets him to turn around and forge and alliance with him in about five seconds, when previously they'd been literally at each other's throats. In the same fight in which Naki had charged in and defended Tsukiyama from a third party without meaning to (and immediately complained that he'd ruined his entrance upon realizing what he'd done), all it takes is Tsukiyama saying "let's forge an alliance for this" to get Naki's agreement—and get him to think that Tsukiyama isn't all that bad, while Tsukiyama thinks Naki is an idiot who he'll turn on as soon as the CCG people are out of the way. Naki's loyalties are very surface-level; if you say you're his ally, he'll probably believe it. Likewise, if you're the ally of his ally, he'll probably be okay with your allegiance, even if he doesn't like you as a person. See: Ayato Kirishima, a member of Aogiri who calls him dumb and gets under his skin all the time, who Naki still puts up with because he's a member of Aogiri, which he's attached to because of Yamori. It's really not that hard to get Naki on a given team, because he'll take "alliance" as airtight until it's agreed upon to be null, so... yeah. Gullible.
On top of being gullible, he is just generally unintelligent. He's barely literate and mishears or plain misinterprets what people say really often ("forge an alliance" = "four gem lions?!"), and since he's never gone to school or been taught by another Ghoul who is more intelligent, it's likely that his practical knowledge is all he has. He can sort of handle money, supposedly. Naki knows he's not very bright, and this is a sore spot for him as he is very proud; he considers it a personal affront when someone is more intelligent than he is, because he takes almost every display of intelligence as mockery, even if it's not. This is his main problem with Ayato, who does call him a moron all the time, but Naki has also been shown to be offended by Tsukiyama speaking foreign languages at him (all of which he interprets as English, when they're French). He picks fights based on his own perceived worth and beefs up his own importance as Yamori's errand boy, and uses his fighting prowess to maintain his image and prove himself. A fight based on avenging Yamori is something he considers himself entitled to, when Kaneki is on the scene, and he even gets legitimately angry when his suit is torn. Image and pride are pretty important to him, although he goes about maintaining them in a pretty clumsy way due to his low intelligence.
Following the pride thing, he also demands respect based on further shallow justifications for why he should be treated better than he is. Age is one of them; he's personally offended that Ayato, who is much younger than he is, is higher ranked in Aogiri and insults him all the time. He also says he has "no interest in kids" when Kaneki's gang first tries to take him in a fight, which is a little silly because he's not that old himself, but it's a flimsy reason for his superiority that he's latched onto, all the same. Naki has a terrible temper and can go from zero to screaming in no seconds flat, and peppers almost everything he says with swearing, for some kind of tough image effect. When he's calmer he doesn't say "fuck" every other word, so it's very much a conscious thing.
As if it weren't obvious by the age thing and the errand boy thing, Naki overall is just very childish. He has a black and white view of people, situations, and just about everything - Yamori is Good, enemies are Bad, enemies might as well not be people at all given how much thought he puts into their lives (which is none). It seemingly doesn't occur to him that people have more depth than what he sees at any given moment, which both leads him into those ultra gullible situations like switching his opinion of Tsukiyama at the drop of a hat and into situations like being constantly mad at Ayato, because he just can't comprehend that maybe Ayato has some depths to him that he isn't privy to.
Naki is childish and solves most of his problems with ruthless violence or crying, but at the same time is aggressively loyal and at least good at fighting, if you can point him in the right direction.