Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-89.114.169.171-20151215192648/@comment-89.114.169.171-20151216112343

You can’t compare Hinami and Touka, do you know why? CCG knows almost close to nothing about Touka while in Hinami’s case they probably have her health files and with it all her information (assuming that the Fueguchi family was “official”). Hinami staying in Anteiku was more dangerous than actually going around undercover with Kaneki learning to protect herself (I know in root A you see her running around like her parents were not killed just some months ago, but please let’s not bring that adaption into this). Most people don’t notice, but Hinami’s and Kaneki’s relation is very twisted. Hinami, a 13/14 year old girl, was the emotional lifeline of Kaneki after being tortured. Hinami was basically in house arrest when she lived with him and I can bet you that Kaneki probably can’t “go kakuja” when Hinami’s around (or at least an “insane” kakuja). The problem with Hinami is that she was too young to be able to fully understand what was going on and help, because she couldn’t understand what was “bad” in their situation. Hinami loves Kaneki to death and because of it she just wishes to ease his pain, and she knew that Touka could “understand” him, that’s why she says that Kaneki should be with Touka. There are three people Kaneki can’t put on a mask for: Hide, Hinami, and Touka. The first, Hinami barely knows exists and even if she did, Kaneki avoids him; Like I said before, Hinami is too young to understand him; which leaves us with Touka, who Hinami saw could talk on “equal terms” with Kaneki.

Touka was Kaneki’s partner, his “wife”, of course she’s dear to him. But Kaneki does not love her romantically. He never saw her in that light. You have to understand that he met Touka right after the girl he had a crush on / lusted after, aka Rize, broke his heart in the worst way possible. You don’t bounce back from that so easily. Besides, at the start, Kaneki and Touka had a terrible relationship with each other, but slowly turned respectful towards each other. But while Touka fell for Kaneki, because he represented to her “a human who accepted ghouls”, Kaneki only saw her as a “life savior” and partner, or “Hide’s replacement” if you want me to be blunt about it. I’m not saying Kaneki doesn’t like Touka for herself, but a big contribution to the development of their relationship was the fact that Kaneki “lost” someone he could be completely truthful with, because he didn’t want Hide to know he was a halfie, and saw that he could have that in Touka. That’s why Hide confided to Touka “how” to snap Kaneki out. Because Hide was no longer in a position where he could do that anymore, but Touka was. For these reasons, I don’t see how Kaneki has any feeling of “love” towards Touka. Make him go to the psychiatric for some time, and maybe I’ll believe he is capable of loving romantically someone else.

I also wasn’t saying Touka’s just that (love interest, etc.), but sometimes it seems that’s all people see in her so I condensed it. The whole thing about the aces is also a wreck. Touka is no longer contributing to the story. She no longer matters. I’m not mad at that. Her purpose was fulfilled and as such she’s thrown under the bus and forgotten. The thing is that it’s not like that. She’s not contributing in any way to the development of the story, but she’s still around saying “Hey, don’t forget about me, because I’m the most important thing in this story and the key to everything” (yes, I’m exaggeration, but that’s how much bitter I am). THAT’S NOT HOW THINGS WORK. People move on, relations weaken, you don’t press the “stop” button so that things stay the same and your feelings don’t change. That’s my problem. I know I’m being unfair since we’ve seen almost close to nothing regarding how the coffee shop people changed, but I feel they are frozen in time because Ishida wants them to be and did not let their life move on naturally. It makes sense for Hinami to be living for Kaneki’s sake, since he’s the last member of her family, but Touka’s life shouldn’t resolve around Kaneki. That’s not who Touka is!

In the end, I’m just mad at a “half-assed” situation… And because of it I wrote this big ass comment and I’m sorry about it? As I said, I’m just bitter and wanted to vent. Thank you all for “listening” to me though :)