Talk:Akira Mado/@comment-27704373-20170402174054/@comment-189.152.33.168-20170403061831

> wanting to kill someone for killing someone you care about

Touka also killed that other investigator for being involved in the killing of Hinami's mother, and that was not out of self defense, but pretty much the same horrifying and petty revenge you mentioned. Given that she had already done that, how do you expect Akira to know her father wasn't attacked for the same reason, and died defending himself? The reader knows it was Touka who killed Kureo, out of self defense, yes, and the burden of perpetrating the same violence that left someone without a family stayed with her. But Akira has not had that experience. You can't expect two characters to gain the same knowledge from an individual experience, nor can you even even expect for two characters to gain the same knowledge from a shared experience.

You've also gotta remember, as someone else said, that to her, her father was not evil. Akira was indoctrinated to believe ghouls were. To her, ghouls caused nothing but pain: she lived, firsthand, the loss of her own mother to a ghoul, and also saw her father suffer that loss, to the point that he claimed his reason to live was to avenge Kasuka (all while still having a daughter to raise -I don't know about you, but coming second to revenge to a parent sounds pretty tough as well). To someone like her, hunting down "Rabbit" to kill them -especially after they killed another investigator who had not wronged them- was hunting down evil. So even if she knew he was the one hunting her, to her he was doing good. And so far, nothing had really come along to challenge her irrational beliefs, not even the Quinx or Amon and Takizawa, all of who were half ghouls. As character development, her reflecting on it without a queue would have come pretty out of nowhere.

We're far along that she's been slow to catch on to the unfairness of it all, but you can't expect everyone to grow at the same pace. She's also been shown to be someone to supress her own feelings, so her long overdue self reflection just couldn't have happened until something came along that forced her to think of it.