floppyamon:

So I thought about this for a bit, and I came up with an idea

So according to the Chinese scanlation (thank you @lilydally) the writing for “pass” is just as flexible as it is in English (not sure for JPN atm)

To pass by somebody, to pass them something… to pass a test

Which leads me to believe that Amon may had been a candidate for being the OEK back in TG (he isn’t now however)

We at least know that Eto was very interested in Amon for a period of time:

“It’s worth watching people who push ahead at full speed finally fall”

And she even went so far as to place seeds of doubt in Amon’s mind when given the opportunity to do so (and she risked the RC Cell scanners going off as well, if they work that is)

So what if Eto had sent Tatara to go find Amon (because face it, it is a odd coincidence that Tatara decided to go into the dinky little alley that Amon was bleeding out in)

He then briefly explained what was happening:

“The king is going to pass… this test”

And after Tatara provoked Amon by grievously harming Seidou, Amon displayed the very traits that Eto has been trying to create in Kaneki in recent :re chapters: externalized anger, rage, a sense of justice:

The very traits needed to make the OEK, to which Tatar replies Hao (very good)

And during the three year timeskip, we can assume that Amon was built and molded to be King, but something happened. He failed miserably. A failure as a king, a flop, a floppy:

Which is why Eto has now reset her sights on the thought-to-be-dead, original one eyed ghoul, Kaneki

so tl;dr: 

Amon was Eto’s candidate to be king and he passed the test that Tatara presented him with in the alleyway by displaying Eto-approved king traits, but sometime during the three-year time skip Amon wiggled his way out of being King which is why Eto hates him so much:

and why Amon is hobo-ing it out with Kurona now.

And as for speculation as to why Amon failed: if Amon did in fact make connections/relationships with ghouls during the time skip (Hinami, Shachi, Ayato) thus realizing ghouls aren’t the evil demons that the world makes them out to be, and Amon did agree with (a facet of) Eto’s philosophy that for ghouls to get rights, you need to bring down the CCG, her methods of doing so would have appalled him. 

Killing investigators in the masses, violence and recklessness, Amon only fights for the ones he loves and to protect them, not for needless blood shed as Eto does. I wouldn’t be surprised if Amon just up and escaped the Tree after that and went to form his own little rag tag rebel group (Kurona, possibly others)

So the daily question remains: where the fuck is amon