Talk:Re: Chapter 71/@comment-68.61.164.175-20160405201737/@comment-28138660-20160407131515

Appearance isn't my only reason for the theory, its simply what admittedly caught my attention first. Hearing that somewhere Ishida gave the ages of both the characters at apparently the same times and they were different is a pretty good indicator that its wrong, that said saying its wrong because one of them was living a peaceful life? Its not like he'd be the first or the last ghoul to live double lives...

Also, it is never said exactly how the incident went down which is odd because usually ishida shows most of the character development in horrific detail not just before and after. Every other time we hear about Arima appearing to ghouls in his youth we always see it even if its just a single panel of the last or first move of the confrontation. Odd we only get a characters word for this one.

My thought was that it was similar to what happened with Yoshimura. Hikari was well known and dangerous ghoul, and a young Arima (also known as Arata or maybe later known as Arata) was assigned to exterminate her, then plot happens and they end up having a kid. Then one day he gets caught living double lives (his Arima facade fails or he hesitates infront of another investigator or maybe something as extravagant as V found out (or always knew) and black mailed him). At which point he realized he couldn't be "Arata" and "Arima" anymore, if I had to guess Ishida probably would have had hikari force Arata/Arima to kill her in order to save the kids.

That said, again if thier ages have been confirmed by someone other than CCG (who have been known to forge and/or erase records for special cases), preferably Ishida himself that coincides with the other's age at the same time not just Arima was 16 when he was a 2nd class investigator and Arata was 20 when hikari died (these are just example numbers) then the whole theory is for not. Was simply curious if anyone else saw the potential or if that was indeed the message.