Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-5.152.44.11-20170318210342/@comment-27247962-20170319122230

^Kaneki is being a hypocrite from one perspective, but caring from another. Still it's an effort of two. You make a good point, I can elaborate on now (& am glad you had a good laugh :P)

Since Kaneki is the one who's fine with how things are, it's (tbh) Touka that needs to speak up first. She has enough arguments to start the confrontation & put him in his place, but she refuses to do that (fear or pride) and expects Kaneki to sniff out her issues she has with his behaviour & be understanding of her situation.

That's just in 2 words: Too selfish.

It's that same selfishness that made Amon & Akira harbor intense hate for her and has her frantic about a confrontation. That same selfishness isn't gone, it just expresses itself in a more passive way now. From acting impulsively, she jumped to the other side of the spectrum: being so paralyzed by fear of messing things up again.

Where's that bright flame that once burned within her. It now seems all so meaningless. Everything she fought for, her mistakes & sucesses, seem so redundant now. And that same fierceness with which she fought for her justice is now substantiated more then ever before, but instead of amping up her flame even more, it completely burned out and left her indifferent to status quo.

In the past she blamed everyone around her & now she blames herself. Now if she can find something in the middle of that, then there's hope. But the way things are now, she just looks depressed & more lonely then ever before.