Talk:Seidou Takizawa/@comment-41.226.86.253-20160824192609/@comment-27247962-20160825090537

^And because you are completely right on all of that, that's also where the problem lies.

Ishida chooses to portray some characters "innocent" by leaving things out canonically. We will only have our assumptions, but even though those assumptions can be very logical and probably true, nobody on here will accept them, since there isn't any proof of it.

In the story that would be Ishida creating a positive reality for Amon, since he is far more important then Seidou, but since they are so similar he needs a portrayal that clearly distinguishes both from each other, so that we won't condemn Amon for what happens only to Seidou.

To be real here and putting myself in the story for a bit. Seeing Takizawa and everything he has been through and done, would strike me as understandable. To see Amon be healthy, sane & helping out, i'd be a bit taken aback. When I put those two next to each other i'd be more likely to trust Seidou, then Amon, based on the certainty I have when looking at Seidou's behaviour, while Amon seemingly having no mental damage from everything that happened, seems rather suspicious. + If I was in that story not as a reader, I wouldn't have the knowledge if Amon killed CCG members or not, because nobody knew if he was still alive or not, so Akira doesn't either, if she trusts him it's her emotions getting the better of her. And even as a reader it's rash to conclude Amon didn't kill anyone but ghouls, based on canonmaterial.

You see the problem is that even though you're points are 100% spot on canonwise, there is so much detail left out canonwise that it isn't out of the question that it's just a method for the writer to make specific characters more unambiguous, because he can't have his fans see those characters as evil (while in actuality there are things that happened, which would make them evil).

insanity is manageable if you know the drive underneath al the madness, sanity is not, which makes a sane man much more dangerous overall.

And that incompleteness is what will always prevent a storydiscussion from ending in the truth, only commong ground and understanding if at all. The fact that Ishida refuses to show what Amon has been through (which we will still have to be patient for) will only strengthen my point, because nobody can be such a justice knight that he pulled through such an experience without having had the necessity to kill to survive or the mental fortitude to get through this without losing a bit of your sanity at times. Kaneki had Re to keep him from killing humans until he was sane enough as a ghoul to make that 'no-killing humans' a principle of his, while Amon didn't have anyone to support him, leave out learning him how to gain food without having to kill it, as far as we know that is.