Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-108.28.7.188-20150706133940/@comment-10733658-20150713235921

Touka did have to contend with her mistakes. After killing Ippei, she's clearly feeling guilt over it since she tells Kaneki she's just a murderer and doesn't think anyone would care if she died.

Immediately after killing Mado, she's haunted by what she did and realizing he had a family left behind.

After her fight with Kaneki, she thinks about how she messed up and regrets how she lost her temper. And when the Anteiku Raid happens, she tells Yomo that she is a killer and should pay for her sins the same as everyone else.

Losing her home, her friends, and the life she'd worked so hard to maintain all had a major impact on Touka. She learned from it, and has clearly grown considerably since then.

On the other hand, Kaneki spent months on a self-destructive spiral. It took him nearly killing his friends and Touka calling him out to make him realize his mistakes. He realized, even if her methods of delivering the message were flawed, that she was right. He was being selfish, and lying to himself and everyone else. As much as fans seem to like his post-Aogiri self, in-series everyone that cares about him recognizes that Kaneki was wrong. That his quest for power and revenge was dangerous, that he was crossing lines he shouldn't have, and that he was tearing himself apart. In the end, during his weird dying vision, he admits he was the same as his mother -- acting out of fear, and like her, he pretty much destroyed himself.