Talk:Re: Chapter 56/@comment-26689808-20151206144551

Alright, after thinking it over, it's time to get all these thoughts out of my head:

The impact this chapter has on the story: Eto is 100% alive, she will survive the fall. Knowing this, we can expect Eto to continue chasing after Kaneki in the series now, in her own twisted ways. Now about the CCG seeing what happened, I'm really not sure what they're going to do now.

Ui will probably become very afraid of Kaneki, seeing that he's eating the Kakuja of the One Eyed Owl. I'm not sure if Kaneki will still be accepted into the CCG, since his act of eating the Kakuja shows that he's become a huge potential threat to them. I think it's pretty clear that Kaneki no longer trusts the CCG, so if he does go back, it will only be to rescue Hinami.

Kaneki vs Eto: I can see their fight causing lots of controversy, seeing how it defied nearly everyone's expectations. However, my stance actually hasn't changed much after analysing how this fight actually went down. For a start, I don't think Eto was fighting with her full strength, nor did she ever have the intent to kill Kaneki. If she was intent on killing Kaneki, why would she come down gently to lick his face? If we were to take Eto's decisions from face value, what she done was REALLY stupid. To me it felt like Eto was testing Kaneki, or trying to change him into what she envisions, which actually worked if you think about it.

Also, concerning Eto's true strength, she only fought with a fraction of her abilities against Kaneki. As we've seen, Eto is still faster than Kaneki in her base form (she can teleport god dammit), so if Eto were to fight in her base form, Kaneki literally wouldn't be able to do anything to her. Eto also has her Armour Kakuja which is actually a better choice for one-on-one battles because not only is it much faster than her Behemoth form, she also becomes a smaller target who is harder to attack, and to top it off she would have more RC reserves since the requirement to use the Armour Kakuja is much smaller compared to the Behemoth.

Now about Kaneki's strength. First of all we have to take into account that he only had one arm during the whole fight and was also severely weakened before hand. Taking all this into account, we can't actually gauge how much stronger Kaneki has gotten since the Anteiku Raid. All Kaneki had to do here was dodge Eto's very obvious Behemoth attacks, and counter them. There's nothing here that suggests Kaneki has actually gotten faster since the Anteiku Raid, and his Kagune was also at it's strongest when he fought Arima. Now, with Kaneki eating Eto's Kakuja, we can assume that Kaneki's Kakuja is definitely going to come back and grow into a full armour Kakuja.

Eto's feelings for Kaneki: Yea, this definitely needs to be addressed. I think Eto made it pretty clear in this chapter that she is obsessed with Kaneki. She even went as far as licking his face and saying "I love you... Ken Kaneki", if that's not an indicator that she's obsessed with him, I don't know what is. Anyway, it's implied that her reasons for being obsessed with Kaneki involves 2 factors:

1) Eto is desperately seeking to be loved, and Kaneki fits the role more than anyone else 2) Eto is playing out the role of the "Black Goat" while seeing Kaneki as the "Black Goat's Egg"

I mean, Eto even called Kaneki the "Kakuja's Egg" before. With the second factor, we could assume Eto's love for Kaneki to be maternal rather than romantic, or at least that's what Eto will try thinking to herself. However, I think Eto probably doesn't realise that her love is actually romantic, since she's never loved anyone before.

As for Kaneki, well he certainly didn't have any strong feelings in this fight, quite the contrary actually. However, I feel like as their relationship develops in the story, and the more they both think about each other, Kaneki will eventually change his mind again and will decide to save Eto rather than kill her. So the EtoKen ship hasn't been burned down, if anything it's actually sailing faster now.

The Second King: So this is the chapter title, which has a very obvious implication which refers to Kaneki. Eto was previously referred to as the One Eyed King, so "The Second King" would clearly refer to Kaneki. I feel like the whole "One Eyed King" business has 2 purposes:

1) To throw off outsiders from finding out Eto's identity 2) The One Eyed King is Eto's symbolic desire

Technically Eto can't be the One Eyed King, she'd have to be the Queen, and every Queen needs a King beside her. What does this mean? Eto sees Kaneki as her symbolic One Eyed King that she desires.