Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-28892972-20171110170819/@comment-10733658-20171112220542

......because the story explicitly tells us that Touka and Hide are his two most important people, the ones that he thinks about in his darkest moments and gains motivation from?

You don't have to like it, but pretending that other people are making things up or wrong for accepting explicit canon is kind of an enormous stretch. That's fine that you don't like a character or a pairing, but that doesn't mean you should be so quick to dismiss or belittle others for not agreeing with you.

I am aware that Hide and Kaneki have a relationship beyond someone they both met in their late teens. Am I.....really that confusing and difficult to understand? I am really confused as to how you keep leaping to these conclusions, which are absolutely not what I said or intended with any of my comments. Then again, it seems like perhaps you're simply too on edge and guarded to consider a differing view, and instead have to come to a conclusion that has little to do with what is actually being discussed.

This thread started talking about plot movers, and some of the core people involved with Kaneki. I personally think that Hide and Touka are both going to have vital roles to play in resolving this crisis, because those two have long been the characters presented not only as Kaneki's "most important people" but are also connected to Major Arcana that are explicitly tied to one another as two pieces of a whole. The Magician, Hide's card, is a masculine force of intellect and energy. The High Priestess, Touka's card, is a feminine force of instinct and self-reflection. They are known in tarot reading as a "Permanent Pair", intending to contrast and compliment one another as forces in a person's journey.

I don't think that is an accidental decision on Ishida's part.