Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-27311086-20160625125624/@comment-25047329-20160626063100

^This is true and to add my own thoughts on to this, Kaneki is a strongly emotional person who makes connections with others quickly and deeply. He's been deeply disturbed by the deaths of people he's known for a much shorter time, like Mrs. Fueguchi, the mother and son Yamori killed, and even Amon who wasn't even his "friend" strictly speaking. Their deaths haunted him for months, even years. He took Amon's death so hard, it bothered his unconscious while he was still amnesiac. Arima has been his "dad" for three years. Kaneki just lost so much.

Then Arima went out in such a terrible way for Kaneki. He's had a history of his friends and loved ones being martyrs and he himself as well. Yoshimura, Koma, and Irimi went on a suicide mission to help the other Anteiku employees escape and "pay for their sins". Hide let himself be eaten so Kaneki could survive. Then worst of all, his mom. His mom worked herself to death to provide for her son and sister who didn't care for her. Arima just did the same general thing his mother did. In the end his honor, pride, and loyalty to the CCG and whatever hangups he might have had were stronger than his love for Kaneki. He couldn't "live for him". What Arima did was probably worse than if Kaneki had just killed him and Arima probably doesn't even know.

He is not going to be okay after this.