Talk:Ginshi Shirazu/@comment-93.118.2.217-20151014173115/@comment-10733658-20151015173314

I disagree about the Kuroneki to Shironeki change being good. He simply traded one set of issues for another, and got caught in a self-destructive spiral of bad decisions. He threw away his humanity, pushed away the people that cared about him, started making dangerous/destructive decisions, forced himself to be cruel and vicious mistaking those things for strength, and pretty much destroyed himself in the long run.

I mean, yeah. He was badass/cool, but his Shironeki phase was pretty much watching a trainwreck in slow motion.

As for the original point of Shirazu, I think we were meant to be fooled by his bravado. It's very clear that Shirazu had absolutely no clue what being an Investigator actually involved, and killing Nutcracker while hearing her echoing his sister's words made him realize what is a central theme of the series -- that humans and Ghouls are, at the core, the same. He realized he was killing a person, and that sort of thing always shakes people up. It's like Fura told him, the ones that AREN'T shaken and don't go through a period of doubt are the ones to worry about.

I think his ability to empathize and recognize the humanity in Ghouls is going to, long-term, be very important. Like Saiko, he realizes they aren't just soulless monsters pretending to be people. They ARE people, and he's realistically dealing with that reality and how utterly messed up the whole Quinque thing actually is.