Talk:Rize Kamishiro/@comment-83.143.245.98-20170401110607/@comment-10733658-20170407222834

To be honest, I sort of feel that the point of Rize isn't her as a character. Rather, she is both a catalyst of major events.....and someone that people have fixated on. She is someone that people have built ideas around, obsessing over their own personal "version" of Rize while no one really knows the real person.

Furuta fixates on that childhood connection, which may or may not have really meant anything to her.

Banjou fixates on her as this vision of a powerful and independent ghoul. But he never bothered to really get to know her, or recognize how destructive she was to everyone around her.

And Kaneki fixated on her as first his Dream Girl, and then as this symbol of Ghoulish power and strength. He projected onto her, and created an illusion of her to voice his darker thoughts. And even his own strength, he continued to view as coming from her when it was his own.

Rize is basically a deconstruction of a lot of older ideas about women. She's either a tool for people that sows nothing but destruction, or someone that men fixate their romantic ideals on to while ignoring how she ruins their lives.

She's a ghost that people have pinned their hopes on to, as opposed to facing things.

Kaneki keeps focusing on wanting to talk to her again, but.....why should she care? She only wanted to eat him, he's not important to her. Why should she want to talk to him?

Furuta claims he loves her, and wants to dominate and claim her. But as even he admits, she forgot about him long ago. He wasn't important to her, and she sure as hell wouldn't want him now.

And Banjou pushed her to be a leader, and idealized her while not even bothering to recognize how little she cared about others.

Rize the character isn't the important part. It's Rize the symbol, and how everything basically keeps happening because of how all these people are chasing after a fake "Rize".