Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-27086661-20160120071745

So I was wondering, what if the reason Yoshimura took Touka and Ayato in was because he was still haunted about his 'failure' with Eto. Together Touka and Ayato represent the 'ghoul' side, which is quick, violent, cruel etc (Ayato) and the 'human' side, which is empathetic etc (Touka) Yoshimura tried to appeal to the 'human' side and it's pretty ambigous if it was successful or not, (I'd be inclined to say not). The same applied to Kaneki, although there's no symbolism here, Yoshimura tried to keep him 'human' in the loosest sense, he wanted Kaneki to have a human life, He failed. Ultimatley the ghoul instincts are stronger than the human empathy, which is shown in both the half ghouls and Touka and Ayato (who we can argue are two sides of the same coin)