Talk:Kagune/@comment-10613301-20150429155136/@comment-213.66.199.45-20150619102326

If anyone haven´t notice, there is in fact a small time-window between the Koukaku is released to when it hardens that can be exploited to alter its shape. Tsukiyama (part 1) has a ribbon as standard release and creates a blade by wrapping the ribbon tighter and gets more material over to shove the blade forth. But I believe that if a koukaku´s rc-supply and deposits increases through cannibalism, then the koukaku would grow more ribbons that would wrap around his body instead like straps of armor without going actual Kakuja mode, as it´s in the Koukaku´s nature to harden into a exo-skeleton that can be used offensively. (look at Arata, he is the perfect example of the natural outcome of a Koukaku as he´s essentially a knight who would be invincible if he had been born in the medieval era...)

One can even see the proof of the "multiple ribbons" in Tsukiyama´s case as he in his current state has feeded on ghouls and regardless if he gained a kakuja or not, his rc-deposits have gone through a significant increase, creating multiple ribbons that wraps around him in an hungry armor, perhaps for the purpose of restoring mobility to him as his muscles should have detoriated from three years worth of starvation and lack of usage while bed-ridden as his body auto-cannibalised itself to keep him alive while it waited for human meat.

It could be the case that his kakuja armor migth try to reach the same state as Eto´s "Kajiu Kakuja" (the naked owl) is for the sake of seeking out food for itself, using Tsukiyama as a core but not dependent on his movements to act and move on its own. It would basically control itself and he would be a passenger inside of it, until he gets enough human meat to recover and snap out from it. Heck, Tsukiyama could even be sleeping while using it and let the kagune go on auto-pilot...

If his kakuja can act on its own, driven by his "willpower" alone, then "Gourmand" will attack, prey and defend itself based on pure survival instincts if threatened or attacked by outside sources.

In a weird sense, he´s Cinderella and the Knight in the same package... a fallen prince in an armor awaiting for the "One True Taste" that shall bring him out from his eternal slumber.

But the shape of the kagune is a form of a mental preference determined by the mindset of the ghouls and how creative they can get with them.

I have no doubt that Tsukiyama would be capable of forming a drill with his original kagune before the timeskip, he was just not creative or motivated enough to do it.

It´s all about creativity and using that narrow window to form the thing before it hardens, as I see it.