Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-178.62.61.239-20161205005905/@comment-25047329-20161206003715

Yeah, Kaneki is not one to learn from his mistakes easily and even monologues about how things repeat during his fight with Arima. It's another "for better or for worse" thing with Ishida's writing since part of the reason things are they way they are now is because he insists on using symbolism. Kaneki's the "Hanged-man" and looks like he's somewhat resigned to his fate.

Days (and the calendar a bit) gives another perspective on things however. We get to see more on how they interacted during their Anteiku days and Touka...is not the easiest person in the world to talk to. When she's in a bad mood there's a lot of negative feedback and even when Kaneki tried to communicate with her on an emotional level she was often too emotionally stunted to understand what he was saying. By the last story he was kind of exasperated and just decided to try and ignore her by doing work.

Since Kaneki is dreading his talk with Touka, it could be an extension of this. He's afraid of getting hit again and at work, he learned to preoccupy himself with work separate from Touka so he didn't have to confront her more than necessary. Since he's the boss now, so he can assign her tasks miles away from him. I mean, I'm sure he's doing it for her safety too, but if the novels are anything to go by, he sometimes goes "Touka mad, make excuses to be too busy to interact".