Talk:Re: Chapter 58/@comment-151.57.55.40-20151219194537/@comment-27204325-20151219201005

How is it different? He'd worn glasses before now, and the jacket is just the uniform (though that black is dope). He respected Rize's strength because he needed it to validate his own at the time. It wasn't about Rize. And he cracked his fingers because that was the indication he was taking on the role of the "torturer". Yamori did exactly the same thing; he got that habit from Goumasa.

My point is that if we consider what we know about Kaneki, and what we've already been shown regarding Arima's treatment of Haise, then we can assume that he behaves like Arima because Arima beat that mindset into Haise, and Kaneki tends becomes his abusers as a means of overcoming them.