Talk:Re: Chapter 67/@comment-27175366-20160305175048/@comment-10733658-20160305183516

@UlquiorraCifer1996, he says he doesn't remember his father. So he never really had a paternal presence in his life.

@Lt. Gonzague

Well, look at what he did. Kaneki was stuck in a cycle of vicious self-harm, starvation, and insanity. Arima snapped him out of it, and then proceeded to devote a large amount of time to visiting him and bringing him books. This pretty much saved Kaneki from destroying himself, and helped him recover to the point he was able to become a functional person again. Arima also made a point that /Kaneki/ be the one to pick his own name, which.....considering what we're learning about the Garden, probably says a lot. The expression he wears when Haise smiles at him is a lot like what he wore back in JACK when Fura fought for him to stay. He looks unprepared/surprised.

So basically, he actively saved Kaneki from himself and made a point of giving him some form of agency and self-control through naming himself.