Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-81.229.118.172-20151101184706/@comment-10733658-20151101210717

To be honest, I'm always a little off-put with the fandom adoration for the 103 Bones scene and wanting him to be more things like that.

I mean....seriously? I don't think people that consider that scene a good thing/something they want to see happen again really consider what was going on. Is it because it's supposedly "badass" or whatever?

An adult takes a 14-year old boy, and systematically breaks half the bones in his body. He tortures a kid, basically because Ayato pissed him off by hurting Touka -- after stating he realizes that Ayato's actions, while messed up, are to protect her.

Ayato is about the same age as Hinami. I know some of the readers are only a few years older, and don't realize how young 14 actually is. But Ayato was a kid, and the whole thing isn't supposed to be something to cheer about or want to see Kaneki do again. It's incredibly disturbing and horrifying. A lot of his supposed "badass" moments are actually showing how utterly damaged Kaneki had become. They show how he abandoned his morality, and became just like Yamori in those moments, taking pleasure in hurting others.