Talk:Hinami Fueguchi/@comment-24.228.126.129-20151003051913/@comment-62.211.150.103-20151003193034

I disagree since I actually think she has her flaws like all the other characters.

To put it simply she has yet to find a reason to live. Do you remember how her arc ended in TG? She wondered if it was ok for ghouls to live? Kaneki conforted her and told her her mother wanted her to do so and so she kept on living. Yet, I am not sure she has found a reason to do so.

She felt useless and wasn't able to help Touka or Kaneki the way she wanted. She was so confused that she ended up joining a violent organization like Aogiri and forced herself to committ crimes in order to become stronger.

After three years she has become stronger physically, but inside I think she hasn't matured so much despite what many say. I am not saying she isn't wise or caring, but she was all these things even in TG, so seeing her caring about her oni-chan or wanting to protect him isn't really a sign of development to me.

By reading her diary I didn't just see a sweet character or an innocent girl locked in a cage (we should remember she is a member of Aogiri after all), but a confused young woman who still hasn't decided what to do with her life.

She isn't sure about her own decision of joining Aogiri and doesn't know what's right and what's wrong. She is exactly like that little girl who three years before asked if it was ok for ghouls to live. She hasn't her answer yet. At one point she even comments on how it could be seen as easier to live in prison for a ghoul. That catched my eye since all her time in TG was spent in a situation similar to a prison: she couldn't go to school, she couldn't show herself in the streets after her mother died, she couldn't go out alone while being in Kaneki's Group. In Tokyo Ghoul she wanted more independance, but when she got it after the Anteiku's raid she ended up putting herself into a twisted situation and she regrets it and now she feels somehow confortable being in prison where she can't move, but she is somehow protected from the outside world.

Don't get me wrong, I like Hinami and it's precisely because I like her that I don't like when people reduce her only to her positive traits and eliminate every kind of conflict from her character.

Hinami has many positive traits, but lacks the indipendence to make these qualities truly shine IMO. I think it's also because she was over protected by her parents, Touka and Kaneki. When we met her she was thirteen but she acted as if she was younger and I think it wasn't just because she was sweeter that way, but also because by not going to school she didn't have the chance to interact with people who weren't family members and that's not good for a teenager.

I think we have still to see her true development and potential in :re. If she finds her answer she will become a wonderful adult IMO.