Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-27247962-20170323200752/@comment-25047329-20170323213508

^I feel that that might be an unpopular opinion because he was supposed to have "gotten over" his suicidal idealizations, but I'm going to get on the Unpopular Opinion™ train too and say that this goal just shifted from active to passive.

Aside from that, I think he has a couple of end goals. Breaking the cage is important to him because he has lost important people because of it. The people he cares about now are "in the cage" and are in constant threat of it.

And to protect those people so he's not alone.

I kind of interpret his actions as simultaneously selfless and selfish. He's doing the whole OEK thing because he is a genuinely empathetic person, but it's also a good way to get everybody to flock and look up to him.