Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-223.255.230.48-20150211034451/@comment-10733658-20150211080224

Passionate Anon, again I disagree with you.

You are clearly too caught up in personal bias to actually look at what is going on. Kaneki's story has always been about the struggle to find balance between two separate worlds, to balance the Ghoul and the Human. With the sequel, we are seeing his world expanded with seeing things from another unique perspective. (And if Amon is indeed now a half-Ghoul, that means both our protagonists are going into things having walked both paths.)

Unless his memories of his time as Sasaki vanish, your view is oversimplified and ignores that he is absolutely not the kind of person to just throw away relationships.

I'm not arguing that CCG is absolutely the best place for him, nor that he should never regain his memories. I just honestly dislike people that are so quick to ignore or write off his current bonds. They are real, and they matter to him. I think his ideal happiness would be having all those he cherishes, but this is not exactly a happy series. So I think there is going to be a struggle in trying to protect the people he cares about -- ALL the people he cares about!

The Quinx are a family to him, as much as Hide or Anteiku or his gang. They are people he loves, people he wants to protect, and people that care for him as well. The Quinx are unique in that they are the closest to him and his situation are something that blurs the line between Human and Ghoul. Like him, they have a power they struggle to deal with and I think as his memories return, they are going to be a huge piece of the puzzle in terms of him deciding what to do. Kaneki is not the kind of person to abandon people he feels responsible for, and I think regardless of what happens he will continue to worry for them and want to protect them from making his mistakes.

It is an enormous, messy situation. It is going to be painful, and ugly, and it is going to force everyone involved to evaluate their loyalties and their view of the world. It's going to force Kaneki to again struggle to figure out his place in the world and his goals. It's going to force Akira and the Quinx to evaluate the views of Ghouls that CCG has drilled into them. It's going to force others that care about Sasaki to consider if blindly following orders is truly best -- a question raised in Ch. 143, showing that even among the ranks of CCG there are misgivings.

If Amon shows up again as a half-Ghoul, again it is going to further complicate things.