Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-26653902-20150804163817/@comment-76.115.237.209-20150810073002

I think it's really safe to say that Arima is Chirin and Sasaki is the baby lamb. Ishida mentions that Arima is a sadist-which isn't very apparent yet. But this could easily be a reference to the fact that Chirin turns into a creature as violent as the wolf who trained him in his pursuit of power and revenge, killing joyfully and senselessly. This would be a simple explination to explain Arima's very blank outward behavior. But this would still allows him room to show compassion and protection to Sasaki, who he views as a different version and outcome of himself-which is basically cemented by the fact that they have the same birthday. A literal and figurative “sameness”.

But because Sasaki is also a lamb-kitten (the kafka reference) he has the ability to have some say in his own life because the kitten aspect (the half-ghoul portion) gives him innate power to take control. The half lamb (human) and half kitten (ghoul) could also be a segway into sasaki's struggle with finding a place to fit in. The half breed in kafka's story doesn't recognize either cats or sheep, and instead becomes tethered to it's owner (Arima) due to having no literally family, genetic Sasaki's lost memories and life) or species (due to being a half of each). This is another parallel that Sasaki has the chance to break by finding a way to reconcile his ghoul and human sides, and consequently his CCG life and Kaneki's past.

Sasaki's "breaking of bonds" as the half-breed, and doubly as a reflection of the young lamb version of Arima, would be a complete salvation for Arima, who may feel he has strayed so far into the darkness, as Chirin had (in Ringing bell he despairingly runs away to presumably die in the forests when the other sheep are so scared of him and his violence, claiming something like that could never be one of them) to ever return to the "normal world". Which, funnily enough, even Taishi was angry at Arima for "not living a normal life" so.

HAHAH ISHIDA HOW DO YOU PLAN THIS SHIT OUT.

(granted this is all speculation :’)