Talk:Karao Saeki/@comment-72.67.145.116-20150225022236/@comment-77.223.42.189-20150326202110

Nah. I doubt that. It would be kinda tasteless.

Of course it might be true. In my theory, just a theory, ghouls sometimes mix up their romantic or sexual attraction with the desire to eat, and sometimes can't tell those two desires apart; actually, the hunger can even replace the romantic or sexual attraction entirely, so instead of making "that kind of advances", they just want to eat their victim.

This would explain Rize and Tsukiyama. Both saw Kaneki as a charming and attractive person, the kind of person you'd normally fall in love with, but because they were a little messed-up ghouls, they just wanted to eat him because of that. Tsukiyama himself states in the manga that he's an "idiot", because he almost killed Kaneki and only later realized that he actually appreciates him as a person.

Also in that spin-off where we see a bigger and more gorilla-like version of Kaneki Ken, it is stated that young (straight) male ghouls prefer to eat young girls, while unattractive old men are seen as less desirable food etc. And not to forget Rize, who only eats good-looking young men.

Nishio Nishiki, in this case, is an expectionally good-natured ghoul. He unconditionally loves Kimi, who is a human, and has no intentions to eat her. Same with Yoshimura and Ukina.

In my theory, ghouls are just as capable of romantic or/and sexual attraction as humans, but sometimes those feelings are confused with mere hunger for unknown reasons. Tsukiyama is a good example of that... Of course it's not sure or confirmed in any way whether his interest in Kaneki is romantic or platonic, but he does like him. He's happy to meet Kaneki, who he can even talk about books with, but the urge to eat him is strong in him and he has hard time realizing how much he actually cares for him. In :re he's depressed, missing Kaneki. I don't think someone would get that much depressed over just a good steak...

I just like to think that when the hunger replaces attraction, no sexual acts are committed. But that's just what I like to think, my headcanon and my theory. Mainly, because a corpse-fucking character or a rapist character is something I can't bring myself to like, and I still want to like the character so I make up these headcanons.

But wow man, I really hope he isn't "doing" those corpses.