Talk:Tatara/@comment-75.139.233.127-20160907210244/@comment-10733658-20160909083857

^ First and foremost, tone down your attitude, Anon. Insults and name-calling will not be tolerated, so any further outbursts will result in you being removed from this page.

Now that Modly things are out of the way, my thoughts:

I think that we as fans tend to have incredibly unrealistic concepts about forgiveness. We see people get forgiven for things in fiction that.....really ARE NOT so easily forgiven. In this series, we have seen Kaneki forgive the likes of Nishiki and Tsukiyama with ease in spite of their actions against him. We've seen Touka forgive her brother for nearly killing during during the 11th Ward battle.

So because we want Houji and Akira to simply accept Takizawa, it blinds us to their side of the narrative. I think expecting them to take him in, or to shelter him, or to let him go.....really is a naive and unrealistic expectation. It would be wonderful, but it simply isn't in line with the world as those characters know it.

Think about it from their point of view, for a moment. Take a step out of your view as an audience member, and consider what their world.

Houji and Akira are people that have devoted their lives to protecting humanity. They have accepted positions of authority within a rigid, military-style organization with very strict regulations. Their duty is to, first and foremost, save human lives. They have been taught their entire lives that ghouls are not people, and their lives have no value. Akira, in particular, is someone indoctrinated from birth into these beliefs and fueled by losing both her parents to ghouls.

Look at Takizawa from their point of view:


 * Murdered civilians
 * Murdered Investigators, including people Houji and Akira personally knew
 * Traitor to the CCG
 * Mentally unstable and violent
 * Incredibly powerful
 * Marked by the CCG leadership for termination

They do not know what he has gone through. Maybe they can venture a guess based on his appearance, but that is it.

But they do know that he is someone that the CCG will not allow to live, and they know they cannot simply let him go. And if he escapes and keeps killing, that blood is on their hands. Both have acted as his superiors in the past, so culturally his actions are their responsibility. Dealing with him is their burden and duty. That is how Japanese social and corporate hierarchies work.

Does it make it any easier in our eyes? Is it what we, the fans, wanted to see? No, it isn't. But Ishida gives us a lot of harsh moments, when reality intrudes on what we would like to see.

Realistically, neither of them saw another way out of a nightmare scenario. If Amon had appeared earlier, maybe they would have seen another option. But at the time, with what information they had available......they did the only thing they saw as an option.