Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-198.200.100.140-20171008093817

Is anyonelse nervous about Hide's final role in RE?

Like I think we can all agree he's a  "magician" that control's the dragons of this story, one who mirror's Furuta. His current involvement with the remainder of quinx squad, furata's first mention of quinx as dragon and his notation of Kaneki as a dragon to bring "super peace". All of this makes me feel like hide's going to get Urie, Saiko and his own terrorist squad to face Kaneki and stop him in his 'Dragon' form. their factions might even combine with Amon, Akira, Seidou, Touka, Ayato, and basically everyone left, to do it. Hide is literally the only person who has connections, resources, mystery, and power at this point to bring them all together.

The uneasy question is what is it going to cost them all to win against furuta, to bring kaneki back to himself after Ken's latest mental shattering. I actually don't know if Kaneki is going to make it this time, I want him to but I've had an uneasy feeling for the past 2 chaps that he really might not. He'll be brought back by everyone's effort, but they won't get a chance to reconcile, with Kaneki spending his last moment fulfilling his last fervent wish to see to Touka again. I dread the idea of any of the 'good' TG character roster left having to strike the final blow to kill Kaneki in order to save him, but that burden falling on Hide is the worst. Aside from Touka, I don't think there's anyone else in TG that has given up so much of themselves just to see Kaneki live (Arima comes damn close, but we don't have another Arima left).

Though RE was not forcasted as a Tragedy that TG was by Kaneki, at best, If Kaneki does survive it'll cost too much in terms of other people's lives and his own mental health. Even though the Oggai are an unpleasant lot, they are children at the end of the day, and children are what Kaneki has spent key turning points in his journey wishing to protect (Hinami from her mother's death, the mother and child trial Jason brought, the quinx kids and Shirazu and Mutsuki who he's failed, and his and Touka's child now). Even if he regains himself, slaughtering all the oggai in desperation to not lose, it isn't something that he'll be able to live down in good conscious, (either he'll beat himself for it when all's said and done, or he won't feel awful about it and then feel awful for becoming such a person).

I don't like any of these options, as a Hide fan, what I want more than anything is for Kaneki to know that Hide is alive, for them to reconcile, forgive each other and themselves, even a little while. But I feel with the way the narrative has been going, we won't really get that kind of beautiful, cathartic healing. Either because there isn't enough time or too much has happened in between them that their connection will never fully get better.

At best a brief moment, and even that, i'm not sure we'll get it without accompaning feelings of heartbreak. That frustrates me most of all, especially considering a lot of this could have been avoided if Ken and Hide worked together from the get go. Hell, even if Hide had chose to talk to kaneki as scarcrow anyways, despite Ken's answer to Amon's question. If they just tried to work through their emotional baggage earlier, I'm 100% furuta wouldn't have gotten as far as he has. At the very fucking least, Hide would be smart enough to make sure goat had some means of long range communication. He is literally one of the few character in tg that's gotten into a large leadership position with cunning alone, and its a goddamn shame we've got so little in the narative to show for it.