Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25955276-20161111083400/@comment-31190419-20170218081330

Pre-Kurona, all the cases we had of OEG's were ghoul/human hybrids, and all the cases we had of ghoul/human hybrids were OEG's. However, I am pretty sure that OEG wasn't used to refer to the human/ghoul hybrid aspect of them but rather their identifying marker that was in their abbreviation. Once kakugan amount, and hybridity are no longer biconditionally related (i.e. a ghoul has exactly one kakugan and one normal eye if and only if they are a hybrid), then it makes sense to either:

a) change the nomenclature to something that is more accurate (replacing Artifical OEG with Artifical Hybrid for example)

or

b) adding a new category that reflects the difference (Artifical TEG for example)

One-eyed ghoul is simply not a canon way of referring to characters who are hybrids. As far as we know, it has always been used in its literal sense in the manga: to refer to characters who literally have one eye.

So with the lack of a canon definition of OEG that is differentiated from the literal meaning, I don't see the point of adding confusion to the issue.

My vote would be to change "Artifical OEG" to something like "Human (modified)", and then have a separate place for their particular surgeries and number of kakugans next to their RC level.

So for example:

Kurona

Species:

Human (modified)

Known Modifications:

Implantation (Rize Kamishiro)

Merging (Nashiro Yasuhisa)

Kakugan:

1 (time reference)

2 (time reference)

Urie

Species:

Human (modified)

Known Modifications:

Quinx [framed out]

Kakugan:

1 (time reference)

2 (time reference)

Kaneki

Species:

Human (modified)

Known Modifications:

Implantation (Rize Kamishiro)

Cannibalization

Torture

Kakugan:

1

This also makes "species" work consistently to refer to something that is determined at birth.

If you're really that sure that the characters in the story will refer to people like Kurona as "one-eyed ghouls" now, then it wouldn't need an overhaul, but without a canon justification why use a literally wrong description when it is completely unnecessary?