Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-171.6.183.62-20151211081838/@comment-27204325-20151211122427

^ Maybe, but I don't think so. First of all, she couldn't have known the operation to turn him into a ghoul would be a success, since the operation itself is a statistical failure by Kanou's own admission. So that's not something she could plan for.

Also, Aogiri found him by looking for Rize or the ghoul who smells like Rize. They didn't know his name or anything, he just happened to be in the ward where Rize was last scene at the coffee shop she frequented. If Eto had been following him, she would have known where he was.

Kaneki wasn't of any real interest or value until after his encounter with Jason. I think it was his reaction to that trauma that initially garnered Eto's interest, because he became strong and vindictive like she had. Before she didn't care if he lived or died, after that, she personally kept him alive with Shachi was going to kill him.

Now, you can say that she knew his encounter with Jason would end that way, and that's possible, but also unlikely, and I say that because it was that encounter that taught her how to make ghouls almost as strong as Kaneki. At the end of TG, she says that they can just make Kaneki again (he was assumed dead by all). The result is Seidou, who has clearly gone through the same sort of torture Kaneki was subjected to in order to break his mind and get him used to extreme pain and violence.

If she knew about this method already, and creating more, powerful hybrid ghouls is one of her goals, why not just do this to Kaneki from the beginning? The logical explanation is that she didn't know to do so, but once she did we've seen her strengthen other people this way.

Anyway, I do think her plan is certainly larger than it seems, but it would take far too many logical leaps to tie her into Kaneki's life in the timeline you suggest.