Eto Yoshimura

Eto (エト, Eto) is an executive of Aogiri Tree, often seen interacting with fellow Aogiri member, Tatara. She is the daughter of Yoshimura, and the half-Ghoul known as the One-Eyed Owl (隻眼の梟, Sekigan no Fukurō).

Her human identity is Sen Takatsuki (高槻 泉, Takatsuki Sen), a best-selling horror novelist mentioned throughout the series.

Her relation with the One-Eyed King is unclear. However the CCG and Nico speculate that they are the same person.

Appearance
As Eto, she has a child-like appearance. Her entire body is wrapped in bandages, with a tattered maroon cloak with droopy ears attached to the hood. She wears a floral, pink scarf around her neck. Her right eye is a kakugan, while the other is a normal green eye.

As Sen Takatsuki, she is an attractive young woman in her early 20s. She typically wears a sleepy or curious expression and dresses in modest or sloppy fashion. Her mossy green hair is usually either uncombed or bundled on top of her head in a messy bun. However, even though she's typically unkempt, she is noted to be a great beauty with many admirers and greatly resembles her late mother.

As the One Eyed Owl, her initial kakuja created a mask with one hole on the right eye's position and three zigzag lines on the left, with two lines at the mouth's position slanted downwards, which greatly resembled that of her father, Yoshimura. After ten years of continued canniblisation, presumebly, her massive kakuja now forms a mask-like head with four horns and a single eye in the center with three markings on the left and right cheek and the forehead.

Personality
Due to her human and ghoul nature, Eto has a number of sides to her personality.

As a ghoul, she has a sadistic personality, cutting off Shinohara's leg so that he could "match" with Juuzou's injuries and taunting Kurona and Nashiro about their parent's death. Her twisted personality is possibly the result of fighting to stay alive during her early years in the 24th ward. As a result, she has no qualms about remorselessly slaughtering humans and ghouls alike.

Like many ghouls, she is able to compartmentalize her ghoul and human alter egos with relative ease. Since she doesn't see any value in human life, this indicates that she has a misanthropic view on humanity. Whether her views on humanity was a factor in her attacks on the CCG is still unknown.

As Sen Takatsuki, Eto projects a childish air around her through her actions and overall demeanor. She appears to be quite ditzy at times, oversleeping on the day she was suppose to be signing books and taking photos with admirers when it was prohibited by her manager.

Past
Eto/One-Eyed Owl was born to Ukina and Yoshimura as a hybrid human and ghoul being. However, when Ukina was forcefully killed by Yoshimura under the orders of V, the child was hidden in the 24th ward in order to protect its frail life. As Eto grew up in the 24th ward, she came to hate the world and continued to survive; eventually, she became a half-kakuja due to the low human and high ghoul population ratio in the ward. In her youth, Eto first appeared to the CCG during their whack-a-mole hunts and killed Mado's wife as the latter covered for her comrades' retreat.

One day, Eto appeared for the first time and single-handedly killed a Special Class Investigator that was affiliated with the 3rd ward. Eto was assigned a S-rating and then given the nickname X.

One month later, Eto executed a large-scale attack on CCG's 2nd ward branch office. The office was heavily damaged and CCG suffered numerous casualties. Eto's rating was increased to SS, and her nickname was changed to 'Owl', due to her plumage-like Kagune. After a report of Eto only having one kakugan, her nickname was again changed to 'One-Eyed Owl'.

Afterwards, Eto and other ghouls attacked the Ghoul Detention Center in the 23rd ward. Eto's rating was upgraded to SSS.

Later, Eto's faction attacked the 2nd ward for a second time. This time, First Class Investigator Kuroiwa dealt a lethal damage to Owl's kakuhou with his Quinque. However, Kuroiwa himself was seriously injured and could not participate in subsequent operations.

Finally, Yoshimura, acting in his daughter's place, attacked the 2nd ward for a third time alone. CCG's team was unable to exterminate Yoshimura. However, the genius Rank 2 Investigator Arima used the Special Class Investigators' quinques as he went up against Yoshimura. Finally, he defeated Yoshimura, leading to CCG's victory. Yoshimura, fatally wounded, vanished after this day ten years ago.

At an unspecified point during her teenaged years, Eto would adopt the human identity of "Sen Takatsuki" and begin her career as a novelist. Her first work, titled Dear Kafka, would go on to be a best-seller and help establish a strong following as an author. She published five other works, before publishing The Black Goat's Egg -- the very novel being read by Ken Kaneki and Rize Kamishiro at the beginning of the series.

Aogiri Arc
Eto attended the meeting where Kaneki was brought before Tatara. At the end of the meeting, Tatara left the Aogiri hideout's affairs to Noro. Tatara predicted that the doves would come soon and ordered Noro to follow their plan. Then, Tatara left with Eto to meet comrades that were waiting for them.

Raid of Kanou's Lab
Eto is among the members of Aogiri gathered while Tatara interrogates Dr. Kanou's assistant about his location. She briefly chats with Naki about Yamori's death, suggesting that Tatara should have killed Kaneki when he had the chance. Once the group have their information, she joins Tatara to discuss making their move before the Doves can.

She is among those sent to raid Kanou's lab, and uses the chaos to sneak deeper into the facility alone. There, she encounters the twins Kuro and Shiro, and begins to taunt them about their past. Displaying incredible speed, she is able to seemingly teleport around the room while asking them painful questions. Once her psychological tactics overwhelm them, she appears behind Kazuichi Banjou and rips out several of his ribs.

Later on, she joins Kanou in his control room and watches the confrontation between Koutarou Amon and a deranged Kaneki. She expresses interest in Amon, before leaving the facility along with Kanou.

Anteiku Raid
Appearing on the rooftop in her full Kakuja form where Shinohara, Kuroiwa, Houji, and Suzuya subdued Yoshimura. From there she continues fighting the CCG's forces until Arima and Squad 0 arrived.

After fighting with Arima one on one and even losing a leg, she hops over and swallows Yoshimura whole and escapes off the rooftop. After fleeing to another building, Owl's Kakuja split to reveal an unbandaged Eto. Eto then looked to Yoshimura and called him father with sadistic affection.

Post-20th Ward One-Eyed Owl Battle
She is later seen in Dr. Kanou's old lab, stating that they would just have to make Kaneki again, apparently after losing the old one.

Power and Abilities
As one of the executives in Aogiri Tree, Eto takes orders only from the One Eyed King, Tatara or Noro and can command anyone below her rank. Despite being an executive, she has a ghoul rating of SSS and is far stronger than the other executives such as Yamori and Ayato. She possesses incredible agility, able to readjust her position from the Yasuhisa sisters to Banjou at a speed where it it seems like she teleported. She has exceptional reflexes. This is shown when she ripped out parts of Banjou's ribcage without him noticing until it has taken place. Due to her hybrid nature, Eto is stronger than most ghouls, evident by her attacks in CCG headquarters and the number of investigators that she has killed as the One Eyed Owl. This is shown when she easily subdues a team of high class investigators prior to Arima's arrival whereas Yoshimura has trouble fending off with the same investigators' cooperative attacks. She is the strongest and most dangerous ghoul to date with 6-8 Kakuhous that help expand her kagune abilities.


 * Ukaku Kagune: Eto's kagune takes the form of a plumage of feathers that can shoot bullets similar to her father's. Due to the high number of kakuhous in her body, her kagune abilities are very diversified.


 * Kakuja Kagune: Due to living in the 24th ward where the number of ghouls are much higher than humans, Eto had to cannibalized ghouls at an early age and quickly became a kakuja. Like her father, she is able to shape her kakuja kagune into two muscular blades above her shoulders. This increased capability in close range helps her counteract her kagune's weakness. In her full kakuja form, Eto takes the appearance of a large, monstrous creature with her Ukaku kagune growing into large spikes protruding from her back, large bird-like feet, and her mask develops four horns and has a single eye in the center with three markings on the left and right cheek and the forehead. In this form, she is nearly unstoppable. Her ukaku kagune is capable of shooting projectiles large enough to overwhelm most seasoned investigators with ease and her physical strength is augmented to the point where she is able to knock out an Arata Proto equipped Yukitori Shinohara and Iwao Kuroiwa through brute force alone. Unlike most kakujas, she is able to maintain her consciousness. So far only Kishou Arima is the only combatant able to stand on equal footing with Eto in this form.

Yoshimura
Eto appears to have some form of twisted relationship for her father when they reunite from the time she is an infant. This is evident by her intervention during the Anteiku Raid to save Yoshimura from being killed by the invading CCG investigators. However this is done in Aogiri's and Kanou's best interest as they plan to use Yoshimura for experiments. She appears to have little to no true feelings for her father other than his usefulness to Aogiri Tree.

Ukina
It is unknown whether Eto knows if her mother is alive or not. However it can be presumed that Eto knows about their relation since Yoshimura left Ukina's diary with Eto when he dropped her off as an Infant in the 24th ward.

Tatara
The exact nature of their relationship is unknown, though Eto is almost always seen in his presence. In public, their dynamic seems to be that of an older and younger sibling -- it is unclear whether this is more intentional misdirection, considering Eto's true age.

Hinami Fueguchi
The two initially meet at a signing event, and form an immediate connection. As Sen Takatsuki, Eto later approaches Hinami in a coffee shop and strikes up a conversation. She treats the younger girl with kindness, but also refuses to candy-coat her words and offers her genuine advice. As such, she quickly earns the girl's trust and establishes herself as a surrogate older sister. She provides her contact information, promising to offer help when she has the time to do so. Two years later, Hinami has become a member of Aogiri and was likely brought in after catching Eto's interest.

Ken Kaneki
The plans of their relationship is complicated, as a result of the many identities Eto has assumed. In her human identity as Sen Takatsuki, she is one of his favorite authors and someone he admires greatly. She is pleased with his ability to pick up on hidden details in her books, and they enjoy a brief discussion of her works. Their meeting renews his energy, while she claims to have found something hopeful in talking to him.

Kaneki is one of the few aware of her true origins, having learned it from Yoshimura. This brings him some uncertainty, even though he considers her a deadly enemy to be destroyed. While chiding Tatara for sparing Kaneki's life in the beginning, Eto seems to consider him interesting after witnessing his mutation into a partial Kakuja. She refers to him as "Kakuja's Egg", and while he seeks to destroy Aogiri, she seems to have some unknown plans for him.

Koutarou Amon
Eto is fascinated by him, taking an active interest in Amon after witnessing his battle against a deranged Kaneki. She seems to know quite a bit about his past, considering this unusual and noteworthy enough to make him more interesting than the half-Ghoul Kaneki. In her human identity, she goes to CCG headquarters to meet with him under the guise of an interview. There, she discloses information about Kanou's laboratory, and causes him to begin questioning what dark secrets CCG might be hiding.

Works

 * Takatsuki's debut work is titled Dear Kafka. It was released when Takatsuki was still a teenager and is a bestseller with 500 000 copies.
 * Monochrome Rainbow is a short story collection. Among others, the collection contains the short stories Summer Diary, Resentments and Showers at Sunset (Sayoshigure).
 * The seventh work is titled The Black Goat's Egg. It narrates the story of a son and his mother, a cold-hearted serial killer called "The Black Goat". The protagonist is disgusted by his mother's depravity, but has to realize that he is developing the same cruel impulses. The book combines brutal descriptions with a delicate portrayal of the main character's mental state. After the organ transplant, Ken Kaneki likens himself to the story's protagonist.
 * Her eighth work is called The Hanged Man's MacGuffin, a collection of stories about the life of death sentenced prisoners. Kaneki reads it after the "Banjou incident".

Trivia

 * She is the only natural One-Eyed Ghoul to date.
 * Like other One Eyed Ghouls such as Ken Kaneki, Eto's hybrid nature can bypass the Rc scanning machines in the CCG headquarters.
 * Her books such as The Black Goat's Egg and The Hanged Man's MacGuffin contains dark themes that reflect the life of a ghoul.
 * According to an Omake in Volume 11, her manager's name is Shunji Shiono.