Thread:Sunou-san/@comment-27078917-20160408131224/@comment-25787298-20160508012226

I was thinking about that. However, a lot of things come together when I think about it. Of course, this doesn't apply to every single case of consumption. Only the psychologically altering/damaging ones I'd imagine, or something along those lines.

Kaneki has Rize's Kakuhou, so he already has her RC cells. She was his first "conscience". That is, until he "consumed" her (accepted his Ghoul self, and thus, no longer resisted the RC cells [if there's such a thing as "resisting" RC cells' influence]).

Remember in part 1 when Kaneki acknowledged that he thought that he was consuming those Ghouls, but all that time, they were consuming him? He heard cries from them and such. It was at this time that he apparentally consumed Hide, as well.

In part 2, it was his true self, as he was a repressed repression of himself in Haise. This may have been more psychological than RC influenced, but Eto confirms the sentience of RC cells in her conversation with Karren in chapter 44.

Once becoming himself again, he had gained that level of stability (to a certain extent) up until this battle with Arima, which is pushing his RC cells(which are influenced by Eto's) and his psychological stature to their limits, which could've made him fall upon Hide as he was using him as a role model to set up his own death like Hide did.

The question that remains is, why hasn't he heard from Hide sooner? Maybe he was thinking about it over the six months that we didn't see.