Talk:Kichimura Washuu/@comment-76.5.83.51-20160702232621

Repost from the Chapter 83 comments. I did a thing.

Theory: Hide is Yoshitoki's son, and the ideal end result of the breeding experiments. V allowed him to live a normal life as a sort of trial run - you can't know it worked without seeing it in action. However, it's still very much a hit-or-miss thing, with Hide just happening to be a direct hit, and so V is seeking alternative methods, namely the Quinx surgery. Furuta, knowing this and being in the game solely for his own benefit, saw this, knew they would never allow him to get the Quinx surgery (too old), and instead threw in with Kanou to get the artificial OEG surgery, believing (correctly) his stronger physical abilities made him far more likely to survive the procedure. The Washuus want to become humans, and due to Furuta's resentment of being an illegitimate "failure," he wants to become a ghoul to spite them (and possibly murder his father and family to boot). This also explains his resentment of Rize, who didn't become a "failure" half-human but instead became a full-blooded ghoul, just as he wishes to do.

Forgot to say, Hide and Furuta have parallels in their relationship with Kaneki, too. Furuta has no real reason to like Kaneki, and in fact should view him as a rival like Takizawa does, but instead seems to genuinely like him. He let him go without a serious fight despite being alone (V can't know about the surgery, yet he was able to be impaled and heal without tipping them off), he's referred to him as his "dear Kaneki," and they're very friendly with one another, from what we've seen of their time as partners. Hide and Kaneki were never shown arguing or fighting and Hide often referred to Kaneki in a similar manner. Additionally, the first time we see Kaneki and Hide together, Hide is joking around while Kaneki is serious - the first time we see Haise and Furuta together, Furuta is joking around while Haise is serious. And, strangely enough, it seems that both were friends with him when he had black hair, and, depending on where this next arc goes, both may well be distant from him when he has white hair. I think the parallels indicate some kind of relationship, and I think, with what we now know, that a fairly strong case can be made for them being half-siblings at the very least, possibly full.