Talk:One-Eyed King/@comment-26689808-20150922220431/@comment-10733658-20151001171337

You're right that we don't know who the ultimate antagonist of :Re will end up being. In my opinion, it will probably not be Eto. For all her threat, she is still a product of the twisted world. Rather, I think the ultimate antagonist is going to be V, the ones that have been responsible for everything and have been in the shadows all along, controlling everything.

I think we have two very different ideas concerning what Eto being the King means. From what I have seen, for her Aogiri is a meanings to achieve her personal goals. She was stated to have followers during her original rampage, but that ended poorly for her. Afterwards, it seems that she established herself as Sen Takatsuki and began her career as a writer. In more recent years, we suddenly have this mythological "One-Eyed King", this larger-than-life figure that unites Ghouls under the banner of Aogiri. (I've used the Wizard of Oz comparison before, and I think it fits. The "King" is the great myth Eto uses to induce fear and reverence, while she hides herself among the ranks.)

I said before that I feel bringing in some new character as the King feels like poor writing. That sort of thing is very difficult to pull off, without feeling cheap. I personally feel it would be an enormous cop-out, to suddenly yank out some other character that happens to be a super-powerful One-Eyed Ghoul that happens to also be an incredibly charismatic master manipulator and is wanted by V, that is more powerful than the most powerful known Ghoul and happened to raise her. It lessens Eto's narrative, and her place as a foil to Kaneki.

Nah, I'm not under-estimating her. I think you're greatly over-estimating her, to consider her a more reliable source for the Big Secrets of the series than the leader of one of the core groups of the series. Chie's information primarily comes from her wandering around, taking photographs of things and occasional hacking jobs. But she's still fairly low on the food chain, in terms of Information and Knowledge. She has limited resources, and is currently on the run from the CCG because her antics got her noticed.