Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-10733658-20151215083044/@comment-10733658-20151215194423

Good points about his caring nature and the various people that have hurt him in the past.

One thing I think is important about Kaneki is his ability to turn enemies into allies. He has always been able to unite people, to bring together groups and serve as their glue. He started out on bad terms with Touka, Nishiki, Tsukiyama, Banjou, Amon, and a lot of folks in the CCG. But through his kind nature, he was able to transform so many people into allies and even dear friends. Like Yoshimura kept trying to tell him, his gift is that he has the ability to bring people together.

All the "true Kaneki" baffles me, because this.....isn't who he really is. Ishida explicitly dropped the fact that his brain structure indicates exceptional Empathy and Compassion. He is wired to be caring, to be able to understand and empathize with others. That is his true self, everything else is simply masks he puts on out of necessity. Hide told us that Kaneki is an excellent actor, and wears masks to hide his sorrow or pain.

He's doing it again. He's pushing away people important to him, and the last time he went down that path it ended with him utterly destroyed as a person. He lost everything, attempting to go it alone and not hear when the people around him asked him to share his burdens and trust them.

Kaneki is at his finest when he is a part of a group, and letting people be with him. And he's been at his darkest points when he was alone.