Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-26940038-20151117183217/@comment-50.152.150.233-20151118065810

^ It wouldn't be a great idea to put that on your wall, since it's not accurate. Haise is not Kaneki stripped to his purest core, he's a dissociative personality created by Kaneki's subconscious as a defense mechanism after the extreme physical and emotional trauma he suffered became far too much to take.

That doesn't make him "pure", though. He's an expedient to buffer any further trauma from affecting Kaneki, which is why he doesn't remember all of the pain Kaneki went through, but when new dangers to his life or psychological stability become too serious the original personality has to "wake from his dream" to deal with a reality the incomplete persona can't. Were he completely stripped down he would likely have forgotten everything: How to speak, how to read, how to deal with human interaction, etc.

At he end of the day, "Haise" is just a projection. He isn't pure or impure and is by no means a representation of Kaneki's "core" personality, since his existence is neither complete nor stable. Kaneki is Kaneki's core; Haise is merely a fugue state created by that core to deal with the outside world and equipped with the tools to do so.