Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-10733658-20160218235400

Prayer Circle that this arc wraps up with Kaneki realizing his mistakes and finally setting down the correct path.

Because seriously, not only has he not learned from his past mistakes of pushing people away to "protect them", he's gone one step further. He's intentionally hurt everyone that cares about him, pushing them away so they'll hate him and avoid him. He's surrounded himself with enemies and manipulators, without a single ally or supporter in his corner. And he's basically thrown on his emotionless Dark Mysterious Anti-Hero mask to keep everyone at arms' length.

With any luck, Amon/Banjou/Hide/Touka/SOMEONE will finally make him realize he's going about everything wrong. He needs to be shaken out of this "Black Reaper" nonsense, because his current course is one that cannot actually change anything. The only thing he could potentially accomplish is to kill some people, and die himself in the process. But that won't change anything, the world will remain twisted and wrong.

He's basically thrown away his greatest tool in changing the world, which is his ability to form connections. He unites people naturally, and both Aogiri and V/CCG represent forces that want to keep the world divided. Even Anteiku was a flawed effort, because it's members kept humanity at arms' length and preached the idea of basically "protecting" them from ever having the chance at accepting things. (IE: Touka and Yoriko, Kaneki and Hide)

In all fairness, I do admit that I'm probably a bit biased because I miss that unique aspect of Kaneki's character. He was always a protagonist that had so much love and compassion for others, but not in a really Cheerful Upbeat Protagonist kind of way. He's never quite been able to cross that bridge from Loving Others to being able to accept Being Loved. Sasaki may have been a bit closest on the surface, but still had so many doubts.

He needs to reach back to the point from his original battle with Amon, when he realized that he was the only person (at that time, not so much anymore) capable of speaking for both sides. Even more so now, as someone that has lived as an ordinary human, as a ghoul, and as an investigator. He lost that desire to serve as a Connection between the worlds, and never really got it back. He's going down the same sad path as Eto, if he doesn't get it together.