Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-2.110.227.10-20141205163818/@comment-10733658-20141210082809

Honestly, you have got to be kidding me. Have we even been reading the same material, because you obviously have been reading another series.

Chapter Five, Page 1:

Mutsuki: "I don't really know why, but for a long time now I've only had unpleasant feelings about living as a woman. I want to live as a man from here on out."

Japanese literate fans have stated two things about the phrasing Mutsuki says in that scene. The first is that the words he uses convey "disgust, unease, discomfort" and that the time frame is placed as most of his life.

Ergo, from this statement we are told by Mutsuki himself that he has always felt uncomfortable with being female. He also explicitly states that he does not know the reason he feels this way. We have this explicit statement, as well as the linguistic and artistic choices Ishida Sui has made.

We have not been given a single piece of evidence to suggest that Mutsuki suffered abuse or sexual assault in his past. The only thing we know about his past is that a Ghoul killed his family, a common event among Ghoul Investigators. So Mutsuki has past experience with literal predators, having lost his family to a predation event. He also encounters Donato Porpora, who looks at him with a distinctly predatory expression. He therefore has illustrated history with Predatory Ghouls, but no evidence he has history with sexual predators.

Your theories require considerable conjecture and just plain inventing scenarios.

Your theory requires the following to be true:

1. Mutsuki is lying when he explained himself in Chapter 5.

2. Mutsuki was abused or sexually assaulted, even though there is no evidence to suggest such an event in his past.

3. Ishida Sui is writing and drawing an accurate portrayal of a Transgender person (which would have required him to research artistic references and accurate psychology), when the character is not intended to be so.

4. Dr. Shiba and Sasaki do not know Mutsuki's situation, even having access to his medical records.

5. His team do not know anything about his situation, even though they all live together and he is extremely close to Shirazu as demonstrated by the use of personal names.

6. Torso, someone who does not know Mutsuki, is the only person correct in accessing who Mutsuki is.

7. Ishida Sui wrote a character solely to troll the fandom and cause controversy.

Your theory relies entirely on inventing scenarios and ignoring evidence clearly presented in the material. Therefore, it is wrong.