Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-124.105.164.130-20150720235259/@comment-213.66.199.45-20150721152257

To put it into simple terms, regarding the whole discussion between AOG and NOG.

When it comes to the AOG, they get a Kakuhou implanted in them.

Think of the Kakuhou like the "Symbiotes" (From the Marvel universe, you know... "Venom" and "Carnage" and the like?) put instead for them spreading over the host like a suit, they´re implanted inside to poor guys instead, never be able to take them off or get rid of them.

Would that still be a hybrid as well?

No.

I say it would be a whole new species instead with the merge of "symbiote" and "human", a sub-species of the former to be more precise.

The same techniqually goes for all so called "meta-humans" who gets "superpowers" inscribed into them on a genetic level.

Even if they make the gene for the powers "dormant" that still doesn´t make them "humans", it just make them no different from a bird with its wings clipped.

And a sub-species isn´t a hybrid, so in that sense, "no".

AOG aren´t sterile. They´re perfectly fertile since they´re a new species of their own and neither ghoul or human or a incomplete mixture between them both.

The AOG definitely go through the genetic dna-change all right... turning into a new species has that effect.

Of course, they can reproduce with the other two species in its genetic tree ("Ghouls" and "Humans") so they´re genetically compatible there...

NOG are no different, they´re just the natural way of making the new species.

And if there was a way to "cure" the ghouls from their hunger, they still wouldn´t be "humans", just wing-clipped birds unable to use all their genetic benefits while the so called "cure" only render the "ghoul-genes" dormant for as long as it takes effect. I would also imagine that they would have to ingest such a "cure" on a regular basis for the effect to remain, as if the supply of the drug ceases, the kakuhou would go active from its dormant state and make them "true ghouls" again.

The closest thing to a "cure" as I see it, would be the "frames" of a Quinx which keeps their ghoul genes dormant until triggered. and even that is no permanent solution since I highly doubt that the surgeons can remove the kakuhou from these AOG ever again.

If they could, they would have done it to Kaneki... but behold, he´s still a AOG.

So there´s no cure for the ghoulism as I see it. Kaneki and the rest of the quinx or the twins or Seidou will never ever be "pure humans" ever again.

So it´s safe to say that they´re not sterile.

(Go Kaneki, make a chimera ghoul with Touka... I don´t think we have seen a Ukaku/Rinkaku ghoul in the series yet...)