Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-50.152.150.233-20151109200233

I'm curious to know people's thoughts about Arima as a sadist. So far, he seems basically detached and straightforward. Compared to people like Mado or young Juuzou his methods are infinitely more efficient and, for lack of a better word, humane.

One thing that comes to mind is the behavior of his subordinates. You see Hairu and Haise yearning for an approval that never comes, which I imagine is because he's never had any interest in external validation himself. You simply do your job. In Hairu's case it made her a brutal sociopath, and with Haise it made him push down his morality to satisfy Arima's expectations.

Also, it does seem like Arima genuinely loves death. In V14 Kaneki asked how he could be seeing beauty in so much death because Arima was perfectly serene. Not wild, self-righteous, cruel or conflicted like almost every other investigator we've seen -- he was so comfortable it filled Kaneki, who was by no means weak at the time, with complete despair.