Talk:Seidou Takizawa/@comment-78.35.145.19-20150405173637/@comment-10733658-20150406181724

Honestly, I kind of find your continued insistence on "he signed up to be an Investigator, so it isn't tragic" a little.....well....troubling. Its kind of uncomfortably close to the real world attitude that argues that LEO or military being maimed or killed in the line of duty isn't a tragedy, because their job carried such a risk.

It's still a tragedy, whether he made the decision to be an Investigator or not. It is a tragedy, because he was presented in the original as a very naive and sheltered young man that took the job solely because he saw how scared of Ghouls his mother was. But he mostly did desk work, and didn't really have a full grasp of the reality of his job until having to write his Will -- then he was terrified.

But he still did his job, and this entire thing happened to him for one reason -- because, presumably for the first time in his life, he made the decision to throw away the rules and do what he felt was genuinely right. He disobeyed direct orders, and ran off on his own because Akira said Amon was in trouble. He refused to abandon Amon, even while he was literally pissing himself in terror and had just seen guys far more skilled than him slaughtered. And he got torn to pieces for it.

His transformation into a Ghoul happened because he decided to do the right thing.

While we don't have the details, from his appearance we can construe that he probably spent a good amount of time being systematically tortured, broken down, utterly destroyed as a person, and then rebuild into what Aogiri wanted him to be. Like Juuzou, he's someone that didn't have any choice in what he became because all power and self-determination was taken away by others.

I mean, that speech he gives sounds a very much like Eto. Like, textbook Eto.