arima this chapter… whoa

floppyamon:

AGREED

Arima has been wild this chapter, and I guess it’s frustrating that everybody is reading the chapter at face value instead of recognizing what Arima is doing exactly, but I’ll bullet some info:

• Arima has been confirmed to be breaking protocol by not killing Haise 
• Arima has been confirmed to deliberately disobey Yoshitoki’s and Haisaki’s orders, instead letting Kaneki go multiple times and encouraging him to fight
• Arima does not want Kaneki to die whatsoever, both in his speech and in the meaning of 645 (x)
• Randomly thinks of that picture Ishida drew: I will not permit you
• Arima was the one to breach Kaneki’s suicidal tendencies (desires) so that Kaneki will fight to live another day
• Kaneki has genuine feelings for Arima. He doesn’t understand Arima but he desperately wishes he could, and he truly sees Arima as a paternal figure
• Kaneki was the one who got Arima to appreciate the beautiful things in life, starting with his poem in v14 (x); he’s also the one to get Arima to enjoy the little wonderful aspects of life (such as reading)
• Kaneki is Arima’s rose as his role as the Little Prince. Now where’s the fox who will tell Arima this (x)
• This is the most Arima has ever talked in an single go. Wow.

Now it’s just a matter of why Kaneki is so important to him

• Maybe Arima doesn’t know
• Maybe Arima doesn’t want the one good thing in his controlled life to die; the one human aspect of himself that he isn’t able to achieve as a “god”
• Maybe he sincerely wants Kaneki to kill him (paralleling Kaneki’s suicidal tendencies)
• Maybe he wants to bring out the best of Kaneki since he recognizes his potential

Anyways, this chapter was just 

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