Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-50.32.167.27-20150404024956/@comment-10733658-20150418075703

^ Except that he isn't, if you bother to pay attention. There are numerous indications that he is someone that is incredibly unhappy with his life, but has little choice in it. (He's been working for CCG since he was 16 and indicates to Taishi that he had never gone to school.)

The whole scene about his Will shows that his life is very empty and devoid of meaningful relationships. And if we look at Kafka's "A Crossbreed" as an indicator of the relationship between Arima and Kaneki, the narrator in the story talks about his unhappiness with his job and how the creature gives him comfort.

He's a mystery, to be sure. But he's less a monster, and more someone that has spent his whole life being a weapon and viewed with either envy or awe, keeping him at a distance from everyone else.