Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-25047329-20170523060055

Since this new chapter has given rise to the discussion of genetics again and what it might mean for Kaneki and Touka, I'm going to leave these here:

http://silverbulletsama.tumblr.com/tagged/tg-genetics

http://silverbulletsama.tumblr.com/tagged/genetics

One of the biggest issues we have right now in trying to figure out this whole genetics funny business is that we ultimately don't know how much Ishida will abide by Real World Science. The way he's been addressing genetics has been kind of a mix between RWS and sci-fi. If you want to know what the outcome might be like in a realistic scenario, ^those links are a good place to start.

If Ishida tries to push for something more on the realistic side, plus, with the in-universe information we have now, the short and sticky is this:

-Kaneki shouldn't be affected on a genetic level by having a kakuhou transplant because cells don't transform cells. He should still register as %100 human (unless there's a ghoul lineage we don't know about).

-Kaneki's germ-line cells, his sperm, would be even less likely to be affected because Rc-cells are not sex-linked and the kakuhou modifies a different type of cell altogether (somatic).

-If Kaneki were to have an offspring with Touka or any other full ghoul it would constitute as a union of human x ghoul parents. The offspring would be a hybrid. The overwhelming probability would be a half-human with a one in a million chance of another Eto.

-Current in-universe rules dictate that the union between a human father and ghoul mother would result in an auto-abortion however. Intervention to keep the offspring alive until conception is a possibility, but the odds are stacked.

In summation, Kaneki still registers as human, his offspring with a full ghoul would yield hybrids with the most likely chance they’ll be half-humans, but the offspring have a high chance of mortality.

This is assuming that Ishida cares about science though since he can always just not give af and do what he thinks the story requires. So we'll have to play the waiting game and see what direction he goes. P: