Talk:Hideyoshi Nagachika/@comment-30667988-20161203162752/@comment-206.188.86.71-20161203205850

If we're down to that I'd prefer him to be half human v.s. half ghoul. Because if he was half-ghoul and he had a stronger sense of smell- then that means he should have caught that Rize was a ghoul by smell alone from day 1. I can deal with the idea of Hide as a possible antagonist- but it makes zero sense if he was antagonistic to Kaneki  from the very beginning. He can't have known 110% that Rize was a ghoul and been hunky dory with sending his friend as her dinner date.

Frankly, I'd prefer if he wasn't actively sided with (or attached) the Washuus, or with  Kanou, Donato, Clowns, or another Ghoul group. I'm kinda tired of the idea fandom has that characters always have to be Ghoul in some part to be relevant or capable of making a difference in the TG world. That's not what made Hide interesting in the first place, and its an insult to all the human characters in the narrative that have taken part (Shinohara, Suzuya, Mado, Kimi, Yoriko, Chie Hori, Amon, and Takizawa (before their glorification), the regular officers still working in CCG [Koori, Taishi], and everyone who's defected [Take, Marude]).

Any attention we've given those characters has everything to do with what they try to do rather than who they are born as. I don't want Hide to turn into another Furuta with an obvious finger in every fucking pie. If Hide comes back, it has to have emotional impact, otherwise there's no point in bringing him back at all. Piling every nifty ghoul association onto him does the opposite of "emotional impact".