Tag: eto

oneeyedkingeto:

To me it feels like, right now, there are two levels to the CCG vs Aogiri fight happening.

One is on the larger level, on Rushima. It’s between organizations as a whole. The majority of the CCG’s forces against nearly all of Aogiri’s.

And the second is on a much smaller, individual level. An indirect struggle between Arima and Eto for influence over Kaneki.

In either case, it’s an idealogical struggle. The CCG is fighting for humans to be free of being killed by ghouls. Aogiri is fighting to bring in a new world where ghouls are free of being killed by the CCG. Both are fighting to prevent deaths on their side, by eliminating the other side.

With Eto and Arima, they’re both trying to impart their ideologies on Kaneki. Eto is trying to sway him into adopting her beliefs, into recognizing the world is wrong and that the people in charge need to be stopped. Arima and the CCG is trying to shape Kaneki into being his replacement, into being someone who takes orders without hesitation or question.

Kaneki is caught in the middle of the struggle between both organizations, both individuals, and both halves of the world. Each side is fighting to control him because the world as it is now is in a stalemate – each side needs something more to tip the balance in their favor, and Kaneki is that something. He could make or break either side if he decided to join one, completely, instead of being caught in between the way he has been since the beginning.

But that’s the point. He’s in between.

He doesn’t belong exclusively to one side, and he shouldn’t. He’s the bridge, he has connections everywhere, ghoul, human, CCG, Aogiri, :re.

Eto and Arima have been shaped by the world to be who they are, and they’re trying to do the same to him. But Kaneki has the potential to be something more, to choose a new and different path. To surpass both Arima and Eto.