Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-50.152.150.233-20151109200233/@comment-25047329-20151110000425

^idk, I have a couple of reasons to think he might be a sadist (or saying he has "sadistic tendencies" might be better). I just think he's more subdued compared to others we've seen. Much of it does have to do with the V14 incident because we don't have much reference elsewhere as Arima isn't shown to fight often (particularly without other investigators around).

To name a few things I find interesting:

-The time it took for Arima to fight Kaneki.

Arima is a very quick man. He moves so fast that some ghouls can't even keep up with him and Kaneki couldn't keep track. Arima could have killed him very quickly, no fuss no muss. The most sure way to take down a ghoul is to hit them right in the kakuhou. Even if it doesn't kill them, there's a chance of immobilizing their kagune and slow down their regeneration. Arima had a clear shot of his kakuhou, but went for the back of the head instead. Afterwards, rather than killing him right away, Arima steps back and just kind of...watches. He can see that Kaneki is suffering and building up for an attack, but rather than bring out Narukami and get him while he's writhing, he lets Kaneki attack. He smiles and dodges and seems to be having a bit of fun at Kaneki's expense. Afterwards, Arima continues to leave him for a bit going mad from brain damage and watching from afar.

-Arima knew who Kaneki was.

Arima was aware that Centipede was Kaneki Ken, missing college student who was forced to become a half ghoul. He didn't seem to realize until half way through their fight, but continued to attack, and let Kaneki know that he knew, but didn't care. Arima attacked him relentlessly which brings me to...

-The lobotomy.

Granted, this one is admittedly a bit iffy because we don't have a solid time frame. Anyway, for what it's worth, it's implied that Arima was jamming his quinque into Kaneki's skull for a bit. He starts with the left eye-socket and Kaneki starts counting down from 714, indicating that he equates what Arima's doing to him with torture. By the time Arima gets to the right eye, Kaneki doesn't stop counting until he gets to 21. Considering that Kaneki's getting a back alley lobotomy, he may not be entirely reliable, but since Arima did puncture each socket one at a time until he stopped squirming, I assume he was there for some minutes. He's again prolonging Kaneki's pain for no given reason other than because he could. By this point, Arima had stabbed Kaneki in the head a total of three times and watched him writhe each time. It's a pretty brutal thing to do to say the least.

So, there you have it. Blue Luna's probably too long post about why Blue Luna thinks that Arima has sadistic tendencies. Feel free to agree, disagree, like, comment, and subscribe.

I don't want to make the post longer than it already is so to try and keep it brief, Kaneki's mind interpreted the corpses as flowers, which are beautiful. Kaneki considers Arima beautiful, who he associates with death.