Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-27143318-20151031171409/@comment-27143318-20151103012251

@Chilopoda

I wouldn't say that the :re folk don't need Kaneki. We don't know what their emotional state is and while emotional needs may be less obvious, they are very real. As to the Quinx, they don't particularly need Haise's help either - Saiko might as well leave her job since she does very little anyway. Shirazu's pretty much the same way - he can still get his Quinx surgery money until the end of times. Mutsuki... well... I still have no clue what the hell Mutsuki is doing in the CCG anyway and I am certain that Urie would be more than happy to work under someone else from what he's shown so far. That aside, even if they weren't serving under Kaneki, they would be far from helpless or useless - Urie's gone a long way now and is quite stronger than before.

IMHO, Kaneki doesn't really gain much from working for the CCG. It's been what, 3 years since he started working there and all he gets is hatred, fear and disrespect, among a couple of medals here and there. He still has zero influence outside the Quinx squad and he is yet to actually come across something useful while on duty. All he's gotten from the CCG work is getting smacked up by S to SS rated ghouls. We also saw exactly how much inside information he can get his hands on when he went to ask for some resources and they told him everything is classified.

As to Kaneki being the bridge between the two worlds, I honestly don't buy it at all. He used to seem like he had potential when he was white haired Kaneki since he at least had power, and therefore influence, although he paid the price with his humanity. However, now he has his humanity back but nothing else - his power is significantly diminished and whatever influence he had is gone. He seems to have no prospects of doing anything to either the CCG or Aogiri. I can see him getting killed by either side, but not much else. Besides, realistically speaking peace between ghouls and humans is impossible, not because it can't happen but because it's simply too much trouble. It's much more feasible and less resources intensive for the CCG to just kill all ghouls instead of looking for guilty ones. It's also much easier and safer for ghouls to kill CCG agents than rely on the mercy of their investigation process. There's too much difference and too much prejudice. You would assume that both humans and ghouls have lost many relatives to the other side so far and even if a temporary peace was established with most ghouls (because a lot of them will simply continue their murderous sprees), minor incidents around the world would instantly put a cease to that. At best, Kaneki could convince Eto to stop killing everyone since the plot points in that direction (Yoshimura made a request himself, after all) at which case things would just go back to the status quo of CCG decimating disorganised ghouls instead of the CCG and Aogiri decimating each other. I think a bittersweet ending where Kaneki manages to live a peaceful life with his friends despite having to make many sacrifices is the most desirable, but the most likely one seems like the total extermination of 99% of the Tokyo Ghoul cast on both sides, including Kaneki and the main cast.