Talk:Re: Chapter 61/@comment-3173617-20160125204030/@comment-10733658-20160126001133

Welcome back, Valyrie.

What I think was really interesting about all of this was that Ishida managed to make it so that everyone was essentially right and essentially wrong at the same time. Because Ishida managed to mislead both the characters and the audience into asking the wrong questions and focusing on the wrong pieces.

Those of us that argued about Eto being Aogiri's founder and leader were right on that count. She was the person responsible for all that, as she says.

But we were wrong about the King, because we never stopped to consider that the basic piece of information that Banjou first gave us was wrong. We've been operating with the assumption that the rumors of the One-Eyed King being Aogiri's mastermind. But it turns out, something else entirely is going on.

So now the question becomes.....what is the King really? Another character? A figure from the past? A symbol or idea? Why has Eto been letting people believe in the story of the King all these years, only to suddenly reveal herself and state she isn't the King while rallying the troops?

I've seen some people discussing things in terms of Chess -- Eto being the Queen, is the most powerful piece. But the King is the prize, what makes or breaks the game. It's the goal.