Talk:Seidou Takizawa/@comment-98.145.163.169-20161020031103/@comment-27204325-20161020104801

We don't know the details, but we know that Seidou was a bitter man with a poor self-esteem and a hero complex to begin with. It's not as if he developed Stockholm Syndrome being around Aogiri. He rationalized his atrocities under the pretense that he was "playing Ghoul" in order to swoop in at the last moment and save the people he admired, and when that didn't work he murdered them, too.

I think the only person who deluded Seidou was Seidou. There was no need to brainwash him because it was already his nature to seek approval and recognition from authority figures, then take his frustration out on anyone weaker or beneath him in some way. It's not that he wasn't thinking clearly - he's been perfectly aware of his actions as far we've seen - it's that his thinking is inherently immature and dangerous.