Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-3173617-20161129234551/@comment-25047329-20161130002033

I've been seeing a small influx lately on "Kaneki's mysterious past" and I'm curious where that came from.

I think the situations might be a bit different. The way I interpreted things with Kaneki's mother is that she could be legitimately kind and caring to him, but she broke under the stress of being a single mother supporting two families. He remembered the times she was kind, but repressed the moments she snapped. Kaneki's mother flip-flopping from sweet to brutal might have been too confusing for a young Kaneki to comprehend, so he chose to only acknowledge the good memories.

Kaneki I see more as being the type that "lied through omission", and I don't think Kaneki's aunt gave him that levity. They didn't have the type of relationship where Kaneki wanted to see the best in his aunt and a lot of her abuse was passive aggressive. She did thingss like "clean his room" as an excuse to throw away all his books, set three places at the dinner table instead of four, and ignore him. Stuff that let him know that he wasn't really welcome and wasn't allowed to be comfortable. Unless Kaneki initiated contact first, she wasn't so "hands on" if you know what I mean.