Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-70.30.75.216-20140805085142/@comment-213.66.199.45-20140814133619

That is one thing about him that makes him a badass...(Not mentioning that with a little bit of practice, anyone can crack their fingers like he and Jason did, in real life. Ever since I saw that scene, I started practicing and now can do it without problem and can honestly say that I can fully understand why Kaneki does it all the time... That finger cracking makes you feel like a beast.)

But that wasn´t the only habit he picked up from Jason either, the cannibalism is one of them as well.

But I think the reason that insanity is involved regarding that, is that cannibalism in real life can bring some serious brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, something I suspect that Kaneki have contracted with due to his diet of fellow ghouls.

Why I say that? Well, some of the symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob´s disease involves: Dementia, memory loss, personality changes, hallucinations, anxiety, depression, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive symptoms (his fingercracking) and psychosis.

Kaneki have displayed 9 out of 10 of these symptoms ever since he started cannibalize on ghouls.

The disease is lethal and become fatal after a couple of months or even weeks, the standard life-expentacy of someone with this is six months, but some patients can have the symptoms for years before they die. 15% percent manages to survive for two years, a few manage to survive for four or five with only the symptoms until the inevitable happens and death comes to claim them through the decay of brain cells that leaves the brain full with tiny, tiny holes.

The most common cause of it is by consumption of abnormal prions that´s stored in the brain and by extension, the spinal cord. One might argue that Kaneki only been feeding on the Kagune from his victims but based on its biology, it´s fully possible that this organ is connected to the spinal cord as it moves according to what the ghoul wants it to do so eating it might well be the same as eating a ghoul´s second brain.

If Kaneki was solely human, he would at most have a couple of years left to live, based on the symptoms he been shoving through this story.

But since he´s the type of ghoul that have the highest regeneration rate among the four types, it might be possible to regenerate his dying braincells by devouring human flesh that is fully capable of restoring the strength (Kouka´s fight with Tsukiyama for example) and heal lethal Injuries (Kaneki´s third fight with Amon) so it being capable of healing brain cells is not that impossible.

The only condition though is that he needs human meat to heal and stop his disease from spreading further.

So Kaneki, if this is the case, will be forced to eat human meat to fight back his disease and perhaps even gain control over his Kajuna Kagune as his current state is too sick to function properly... (Touka´s father was a Kajuka and he was perfectly sane, but he was also known as the "Corpse Collector" and feasted on a large quantity of humans and ghouls alike...) So regardless of what Kaneki wants, if he´s too survive, he will be forced to eat a lot of humans during his lifetime as medication against his current brain-disease that´s slowly devouring him from within.

His "inner Ghoul"...

This is just a theory of mine but it´s difficult to deny that he fits the profile disturbingly well...