Talk:Ayato Kirishima/@comment-173.212.73.220-20150615224019/@comment-3412713-20150617004127

I really enjoy and appreciate Ayato's character. I don't he's a perfect character by any means, and I wasn't that fond of him when he was first introduced. He does terrible things, but I don't he's necessarily that wrong in his choices. I think Ayato's main goal with Aogiri is to protect Touka by ridding the world of the investigators or the humans. He's helped Touka in many ways where he comes off as the bad guy. If Ayato had let Touka try and fight Yamori, then she would have ended up much worse than her brother left her. He didn't want to watch his sister get tortured (by Yamori that is). He also took the spotlight off of her by becoming the Black Rabbit. He started killing investigators randomly, so that we would a bigger target than Touka. I think those are reasons for why some fans are fond of Ayato. Tsukiyama and Ayato are similar characters from the standpoint that you either like or you don't. Both have done terrible things, but they've undergone great development as well.

Ayato definitely has said and done things that would be considered wrong. I think his behavior before the timeskip can be greatly attributed to the fact that he was 13 and was continuely fueled by his (understood) hateful emotions towards of humans. At 13 years old, most people struggle to handle their emotions well and Ayato is a great example of actions that are based off emotion. He became bitter over Arata's death and being betrayed by his human neighbor to investigators (who Touka and Ayato thought liked them and they could trust). Ayato and Touka dealt with their emotions in different ways. Ayato likely became more closed up and shut people out. I think that's the reason why he became so aggressive towards those around him. He likely didn't have much of a choice joing Aogiri (since Tatara found him), and I don't think he regrets joining it either. I don't Ayato would have been as cruel as he became if he hadn't had the tragic loss of his father in childhood happened or the betrayal.