senju-swag:

arima let the butterfly go, he freed it and himself, he wasnt born; he was bred, he was used his entire life, devoid of all free will, never allowed to live at all, put into existence to die and bring death, he was the reaper, the god of the CCG, a cog in the machine thats slowly killing him, slowly killing himself, and his one choice in this life was the take his own, his life in his own hands, by his own hand, for the first and final time in one blow. 

People ask a lot why Arima is one of my favorite characters– it’s his end that culminates all my enthusiasm for his character. He was walled off, closed up behind the secrets of the CCG, but there were hints, his foil to Kaneki giving hints at his inner thoughts, the teasing at his true character, and now we see it come into light- a man who never had a say in how he lived choosing how he is going to die. And it’s bittersweet, he hates himself, he hates what he had to be, what he had to do, but he couldnt stop. Death was his calling since birth. 

And as we all heard from a wise pineapple once, if you become Death, you won’t be afraid of it anymore. 

Arima became the Death god of the CCG. And he wasn’t afraid to die. Not even by his own hand.