Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-50.158.162.51-20151102043621/@comment-26653902-20151103165431

You see, there's this thing called "brainwashing" where you repeatedly torment a person for having a belief you don't want and then offer them a way out via accepting a new belief. Also, I'd imagine that considering ghouls all go into a crazed deranged state when starving, it wouldn't be hard for them to twist Seidou's world view to something that fits.

There's something similar that happened in Mockingjay of the Hunger Games trilogy where a character was repeatedly dosed with a hallucinogenic venom and given suggestions that the person he loved was really his enemy so that his memories became corrupted and he only wishes to kill said person. Considering how we saw Eto brainwashing Kanae in this fashion, I'm pretty sure this was what hapened to Seidou.

Also, sometimes I feel like the reason Seidou acts this way to drown out the memories of things he did. Starving Seidou and then setting him on his parents would have been the perfect way to break him. And because he hates what he had becomes (as evidenced by the shame he expressed when he saw Akira), he willing sinks into hedonism and destruction as a way to drown that sorrow. Like an alcoholic who drinks to forget pain.