Talk:Eto Yoshimura/@comment-26689808-20151211095305/@comment-10733658-20151211175636

Actually, you're incorrect and theorizing as much as anyone else.

We have no actual evidence that Noro was ever subjected to torture. The "black nails" is inconclusive, because we have multiple characters with black nails as well as multiple tortured characters. These two groups only have cross-over in two cases -- Kaneki and Takizawa. Yamori and Kanae were tortured, but didn't have black nails. Noro, the Bin Brothers, and Hakatori all have black nails but no indications of ever having been tortured.

So we cannot conclude that Noro was ever tortured, because this is based solely on faulty reasoning.

Noro and Kanae are both heavily associated with Eto, and both demonstrate the same abnormal traits. We know that Kanae developed these after Eto implanted a piece of her kagune, but have not yet been shown what happened to Noro in the past.

However, there is reason to conclude Eto's involvement with Noro since the two have been together her entire life. As I mentioned, we also have the timing of Ishida revealing that Eto can implant her kagune into other Ghouls -- through Kanae's transformation, we have hints of what could have happened to Noro in the past. Noro's past is also partially revealed to us, in this same arc. Ergo, Ishida is using a common literary technique to draw our attention to this.