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Going into this arc, Kaneki and Arima were both actively suicidal. Furuta, we know, at least passively sees death as a cure and a positive thing. Given all the foiling around these three and Eto, it makes a lot of sense that given everything, Eto might pick the martyr’s path here. 

Like Arima, she has been working towards forming someone – Kaneki, in this case – into the person who could finish the revolution she started. A revolution that for some reason she could not finish herself. Like Arima, she has a hope for fixing the world, and like Arima she is placing that hope on the shoulders of Kaneki Ken.

I wonder if the reason she does not crown herself King is that she cannot see herself leading any kind of revolution through to the other side. Because a revolution cannot just end in destruction, it must end in renewal, and she knows that she is not a person who can bring it through to there.

When she is talking to Kaneki, she emphasizes her act of saving his friends. Like Arima speaks of Kaneki as the one thing he gave back, the one good deed he did, Eto talks about her final act as a sort of self sacrifice. As if she gave herself up to save them, though we know there was time for her to turn around instead of chasing after Furuta. Ample time before Furuta turned around and revealed his kagune. Furuta left her alive. There were plenty of dead bodies around.

But she has set herself up to give Kaneki a final request and a final choice. She has put herself in a position to offer Kaneki her final wishes. The king has been revealed and killed. Her long game has played out. It is now up to Kaneki whether or not he takes the throne, and she has put herself in the best place she can to make him climb the steps and take that seat.

She has woven a final narrative to worm her way into Kaneki Ken’s fractured psyche and plant her seed of revolution. Arima used his death to seal all the training he put into Haise over the years and sent Hirako to give him a physical reminder of the lessons he hoped to engrain.

Eto, Arima’s fellow god on the other side of the board, his fellow child soldier trapped in this fucked up bird cage, may be doing the same. Seems to have been doing the same. Crafting her side of this throne.

Whether she actually dies here or is just using the set up of a potential death for similar purposes we will have to see. If Kaneki chooses to save her, to honor Yoshimura’s request of him, she will still have managed to gain a certain amount of his trust, to get a certain amount closer to him and to guiding his future actions as the one eyed king.

Going into Cochlea, perhaps Eto, Arima, Furuta, and Kaneki all had their own sorts of death wishes. Eto and Arima, it seems, may have chosen to die, while Kaneki and Furuta chose to fight on, both under mantles we as the reader don’t fully understand. Kaneki under the banner of the OEK, crafted by two people who literally carved it out of his flesh, and Furuta under the name of Super Peace, a cause he has yet to truly explain to anyone.