Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-178.62.104.33-20160813101140/@comment-81.233.86.104-20160813131628

Some of that was merely irritation, and those moments has long passed; plus you shouldn´t say that as if she´s endured little in comparison to others.

At the start of the series Kaneki wasn´t even consciously aware of his mother's abuse of him, and even with the ill treatment he´d received from his remaining "family" he still hadn´t suffered enough to be on-par with what the young Kirishimas had gone through, although it was substantial nonetheless. In the first dozens of chapters Touka was a difficult person(occasionally horrible in attitude as Kaneki once internally commented) and largely a wreck of her past that was slowly being mended, with difficulty, though later on the last of the punches were primarily directed towards his ill(self)-perceived idea of good will, which in itself was also a proper wreck that needed fixing. Near the end, she herself was lightly upset with herself for those punches, but a lot of the words she spoke to him started to help him figure things out, and was on the way to bettering himself just before the Anteiku Raid commenced. Like she said, sometimes when people go wrong they may need a good slap on the cheek, whether physical or verbal, whichever works best, and her words actually did seem to have an effect on him if you actually read. And don´t you dare say she´s had it easy in life. Someone has to stay sane if they are to help others out.