Talk:Re: Chapter 122/@comment-187.10.105.131-20170424155855/@comment-27247962-20170425142522

Lemme just throw that out here:

Haise had an eye for Touka. There's no denying that. "An eye for", is attraction or being attracted to. Attraction can be fleeting (1) as well as it can turn into something really romantic (2). There was no interaction between Haise & Touka besides some glances. There's a negative ratio between the two, where that feeling of attraction being fleeting is the dominant one of the two.

But there's a second thing to consider, depending on how you interpret this, it can make previous statement more positive. (Later more on that). Important to know is that Kaneki = Haise, but Haise = not Kaneki. Haise had no recollection of most of his memories of who he was in the past, not enough to make it all flood back. That means all the memories of Kaneki spending time with Touka weren't memories that affected is attraction to the current Touka he was glancing at. In other words when Haise's memory returned & became Kaneki once again, all those memories came flooding back. The reason Kaneki doesn't feel or show a similar attraction to Touka as Haise did, is because he knows her personally, which shapes his image of her & his feelings towards her. That's another possible explanation for Kaneki not showing his affection or even love. Not romantically at least.

Hell Kaneki didn't even consider the possibility of her being in love with him & had no idea what all Touka's nonsense talk meant. These questions sprout naturally when you're attracted to someone or might be in love with them. The fact that Kaneki didn't even ask this question in all this time 'til Touka layed it on thick with her 'are you a virgin?' oneliner, says more about the make-belief of the fandom, then Kaneki's density. To top that off, if every reserved man is honest here, then i'm fairly sure they'll tell you them being reserved wasn't really an issue, when the person they love just spits it out right in their face & confirms that it's mutual... a characteristic as 'being reserved' can never beat an emotion as 'love'.

Now back to the point of why the second argument can make things more positive is this: In the first the chance is extremely high that it is a fleeting emotion even for Haise, this can be confirmed considering Kaneki wasn't affected by this attraction Haise had when he regained all it's memories, it was canceled out by the more dominant memories about how Kaneki saw Touka. That would completely crush the possibility of this ship. Therefore Touka coming straight out & Kaneki not having given her a definite answer leaves the possibility open that Kaneki will allow them to grow closer before deciding. With some luck Touka succeeds in developing feelings that resemble 'love' in Kaneki. But don't be too discouraged, there's a lot of aspects that could lead to a person feeling attracted to another, such as 'respect', 'trust', 'support', 'comfort', etc. ...

But to say the romance is settled because one side offered sex, sure is something. To me though that seems more like a last resort or desperate attempt to create something that was never meant to be, considering it's the outside that tries to win the man over, when the inside could not. But in favor of Touka i'll go with a one-night stand that could lead to something more. I'll keep my hopes up on a positive & realistic note.