Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-26544002-20160509183315/@comment-25047329-20160509204032

Hide is frustratingly under explored, but the supplementary material helps some. For better or worse, his character development is spread between the manga, novels, and even calender. Bento takes place from his PoV and so does the short story in the calender at least. It looks like Hide partially started his relationship with Kaneki out of pity. Kaneki would get picked on at school, and Hide felt bad because Kaneki was just so defenseless.

From the little we know of him, it just looks Hide became used to being Kaneki's "protector". It started off small with school yard bullies, then escalated over the years. He went from protecting him from bullies, then from his aunt, then ghouls.