Talk:Hinami Fueguchi/@comment-213.66.199.45-20151221081300/@comment-27183676-20151222040902

I'm not confident enough with predicting or theory crafting for TG to care to comment on what has or will happen to Hinami, but I'd like to take a second to give my take on what the meat of the discussion has really been about, that being, "Would Kaneki be okay with having Hinami endure the pain and torture associated with the 'Arata treatment' AKA kakuhou farming, if it meant prolonging her lifespan enough to allow time for Kaneki to formulate a solid plan and group of people, as well as lay down the various set pieces necessary to break her out with a high success rate? Or, even taking into consideration the consequences for everyone if failure, would he absolutely refuse such pain onto Hinami, thus jumping into save her with a much less refined gameplan and groundwork before the CCG would be able to start farming her?"

I think this is actually a pretty easy question to answer given that we have already been shown two solid examples of how our new 'version' of Kaneki goes about saving the people he has previously (and perhaps still does) cared deeply for. He is clearly not someone who now doesn't give a damn about them, but his methods to going about saving and helping them have been thus far the most brutal, cold, callous, and cruel we've seen from him. I'm of course talking about how he handled Urie and Shuu. I think the Wikia contributor did a fair job in summarizing those two situations but I'll just reiterate that this version of Kaneki is not someone who is above hurting/inflicting direct pain on even those who he cares very much about, as long as the end result is one he deems more satisfactory than if he were to abstain from hurting them in the process. Just for a relevant example, he beat Shuu *nearly to death* simply because it was one of the components necessary to all but ensure he would survive the ordeal in the end. Ironic, I know. But THIS is the way that Kaneki thinks now.

From that, I think you know where I'm going with this. Kaneki would absolutely choose to let Hinami endure the kakuhou farming if it meant he'd have the time to gather and formulate a fantastic plan and group, as well as lay down the various set pieces as mentioned above to make it so that success (in this case meaning Hinami rescued with few or no casualties) is all but ensured in the end, rather than jumping straight in with a plan and group that is subpar simply in hopes to spare Hinami from the Arata treatment. I think the black-haired Kaneki of old would have chosen the latter without much thought, mostly due to his naivety and kind-heartedness of course, but certainly not the 'Black Reaper'...