Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-26146658-20150609025055/@comment-25047329-20150609031858

I wonder indeed. Touka's fascination with Kaneki is interesting, but probably for different reasons from what you're thinking.

Ishida has a weird thing about having parental figures (either literal or metaphoric and to varying degrees) being interchangable with lover/sexual figures and vice versa.

First there was Rize, who Kaneki wanted a relationship with, but eventually became his metaphoric "ghoul mother".

It's not outright said that Kaneki reminds Touka of her father, but it's implied through Ayato who hates him for being so much like Arata.

Yamori was a saditic "torture pervert" who got pleasure from hurting Kaneki and became Kaneki's metaphoric "ghoul father".

While drunk, Akira mistook Amon for her father then later fell in love with him.

idk, maybe I'm thinking about it too hard, or Ishida is playing around with the Oedipus and Electra Complex a bit, but this is something that always stuck out to me in the series. Eh, either way, I don't think Touka sees Kaneki as a "father figure" (Yoshimura already has that role), but she's probably reminded of him.