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.
Can we talk about how much of a genius Ishida is for a second?
The prefix re- indicates repetition or withdrawal. Continuations of re- in the context of Tokyo Ghoul could be reborn, reunion, or return. The latter is most likely the meaning Touka had in mind when she named her cafe since she was sure that Kaneki would return to Aneteiku. But Ishida also intended re to mean king, which it means in Italian.
And then there’s the bicolored colon, one of them black and one of them red, just like Kaneki’s eyes. If we consider that Touka included it in her cafe’s name, it’s probably symbolic for Kaneki, as in “This is his place to return.” But with re meaning king, it can also be read as One Eyed King.
for “re” puns, now i really have to wonder if 0 squad is a pun meaning “king’s squad” (because 0 is “rei” in japanese, read p much exactly the same as “re” (the i is silent/elongating))
Okay so we’re gonna split this ask into two sections
Petition for Hirako to be a good investigator who hates his job as much as Arima and goes to help Kaneki, Instead of being dead in the next few chapters.
We already know how Hirako feels about the CCG policy with his statement on Irimi’s fate back in TG and with his standing as a First Class Investigator (Special Classes have no mercy)
I’m still hoping for Hirako to go watch out for Kaneki though, as I’ve explained here (x), since I don’t think Hirako will believe that Kaneki killed Arima due to past experiences:
And because the hooded figures in this panel do remind me of the members of Zero Squad
They are heavily loyal to Arima, so it wouldn’t be too far fetched to imagine that he may have asked them to follow Hirako and Kaneki as well especially if they are all Garden kids. That would also explain why none of the squad went out and attacked the ghouls infiltrating Cochlea, and why none of the squad went as backup for Arima despite only being a floor above them.
And Matsuri said that once he gains control of S3 and Arima Squad (once Arima’s dead) he would be replacing all the members anyways:
So the remaining members of Arima squad going AWOL as a last promise to Arima would be nice as well
And as for some selfish thinking, since this arc parallels Aogiri Arc from TG, I’m also hoping for a parallel of this scene:
With Hirako wrapping Arima’s coat around Kaneki’s shoulders
But that’s just wishful thinking
Just realised that the call Urie got could be referring to Arima and Hirako now, especially with Donato and Uta on the way, with Uta using Hirako’s Quinque to kill him.
While I do agree that Hirako has some neck related foreshadowing, especially since he is a Judas figure (x), I feel like to fulfill his destiny as a betrayer/dying, he first needs to follow Jesus (Kaneki) so he has some time ; ~;
I sincerely hope Hirako doesn’t die soon a few chapters from now though, especially since we know even less about his character then Arima’s
So for now, I guess we wait o)-(
Didn’t believe Kaneki killed Arima:
Arima asked 0 Squad and Hirako to watch out for Kaneki:
But I’m guessing whatever feuds the two had before Yoshitoki’s death, one of the reasons may surround “atashi” and the harshness of gender roles in Japan
And if we do look at this crime scene here:
We can conclude this much:
Matsuri heard the gunshot and ran up the stairs to center command (10-20 seconds)
In that 10-20 seconds Yoshitoki aimed to kill everybody in the room using a bikaku/rinkaku (the streak marks on the ground)
Then something made it to the stairs before Matsuri did at an incredibly high speed, breaking the concrete on the ships floor and blasting a crater in a quinque steel door, most likely using the same propulsion to run Yoshitoki through with Yoshimura’s kagune
That same person then grabbed Marude and escaped presumably through the windows (since Matsuri was most likely running up the stairs at that point)
So there is a high chance that Amon did kill Yoshitoki
Oh wow that’s really a theory I never saw/heard before. We know Uta had been the leader of the 4th ward in his early years, but we never saw his “childhood years”. But this would mean there’s a chance that Amon and Uta know each other.
Right now I don’t see any hints for this because we still don’t know a lot about Uta, but if somebody wrote a solid theory about it then I would certainly read it!
The idea of Donato taking in little orphan ghouls and raising them amidst the little orphan humans he’s butchering and eating, and then sharing the humans with his ghoul charges so none of them have to hunt and they can all otherwise avoid CCG detection turns him into a much more morally ambiguous character. Because yeah, he’s still butchering orphans, but suddenly it’s no longer just out of selfishness. Those human children he took in might have found another place to live, and certainly a place that would have been better in the long term for them, but if the human orphanage was really a cover for a ghoul orphanage, then Donato was doing a much, much needed service. We’ve seen ghoul children getting orphaned constantly, and living in terrible conditions.
Yomo and Nishiki were lucky enough to have their older sisters. Touka managed to get Ayato to the safety of Yoshimura. But Nuts wasn’t so lucky. Who knows what Naki’s childhood was like. So if Donato really was running an orphanage for ghouls and using the humans as a cover, he becomes a very different person than the one we’ve known.
There is also the possibility that we’ve been getting the timeline of Donato’s capture wrong. Donato is said to have killed a lot of investigators, so it’s possible that after Amon revealed his secret, instead of being taken in right away, he fled, which was when he lived his life as Crown/Clown and met the Clowns we know and love.
As for the ages, Uta and Itori seem to be about Amon’s age, maybe a year or two older, Nico seems to be older than them, though it’s kind of vague – we really have no context for his age, and Roma claims to be Touka’s age while she works at Anteiku. If all of the Clowns were in the orphanage, Roma would have been really tiny, like a toddler at most, unless she was lying about her age, which, I mean, is totally possible.
Of course, if Uta’s kakugan are always active (either in one or both eyes) he probably wouldn’t have been able to hang around with the human kids…
That said, because it does change so much about Donato, I don’t know how I feel about the theory. It also really changes his relationship with Amon, because while there is still something special about Amon as the one human child he forms a bond with, there would suddenly be a bunch of ghoul kids as well.
I suppose I’m more fond of the idea that Donato’s relationship with the Clowns is separate from his role as the head of the orphanage, but who knows.
These are the Clowns we’re talking about. There are endless possibilities and very little to back up any theory.
And I’m totally here for the AU where little Uta has to stay in the back room because of his Kakugan and only the other ghoul kids know he’s there but he developed a close relationship with Donato and Itori because of this and… Gosh… actually a good guy Donato AU…
So now we know for sure that Rize– a full ghoul– was bred as a brood mother, most likely to be paired off with Furuta. In an arranged coupling, her sole purpose would be to create more half-ghoul children against her will. All of her strength was just a tool for someone else, to be funneled into a child she wouldn’t want, for a family that denies that they’re just like her.
The psychology behind her binge-eating young men clicks now: it’s her proof that she can “have” whoever she wants, whenever she wants, as many times that she likes– that all her strength is for herself, and that she’s the one in control.
I also think that with Furuta’s misogynist, hyper-masculine quirks, he tried to kill her and take her kagune out of greed and jealousy. If he was promised her, I’d be convinced that he felt that her body belongs to him. It’s his birthright as a man and a Washuu to “dominate” her, so he believes. Things could be even further complicated by the fact that he was nothing but a tool, too; an unloved donor with a purpose greater than himself. Just like Rize.
I have read the chapter and I wonder where it said Furuta was destined to be Rize partner? I presume it was the breeder line that caused the confusion but I think he asked Rize whether she was also a breeder, the another one maybe Washuu ghoul parents because they father half blood children – in a sense, they are really the breeders but they have full control of who they breed with.
That also questions me why V wanted to breed Rize with Furuta in the first place, becauae we have not seen V arranging marriage of the half human children. They are just there, used as a tool, but not for breeding, becaue their bodies are weak and they don’t even have a kagune. In term of qualifying as ghoul parent, they fail as no kagune can be inherited. In term of qualifying as human parent, they also fail because their bodies age fast and die young, a huge failure in gene. Hypothetically speaking as a scientist, why would they try to breed Rize, a functional and healthy full ghoul with a sick child like Furuta as he offers no value to the gene pool? And we don’t even know if they are fertile at the rate of their bodies dying. Aa Furuta qualifying as a candidate instead of Arima, what makes him different? Sure he is a Washuu but we know that Arima and Hairu can also be half blood of Washuu too, as they have been fathering many children. Furuta is not an exception out of the group. There is also the fact that Rize can be a legitimate Washuu member, seeing how they are full blooded ghouls and they participate in breeding program.
As for the last thing, we also have to consider the fact that Furuta knew he was dying and if he doesn’t interfere, he would die soon. It is possible that the surgey will give him regenation ability, slowing down his aging process. I will not comment on him being “mysogynist” because I consider him to have a grudge against particular people, who happen to be vile woman, as he has said no mysogynist insult against “other” group of woman like Touka/Hinami/Matsumae. But that is up for another discussion. What we should consider here is the chance that he got the Rize kagune surgery was not purely out of jealousy and greed, it was to save himself. Furuta is someone who is very concerned with life and death, the scheme around his birth, and him working with Kanou to destroy a bird cage, and so those motives can not be ignored and be reduced to simple greed and jealousy.
I believe he is an complex character with lots of flaws, but they are understandable if we view it at different angles instead of labelling him as simple as a mysogynist and jealousy man. Furuta point of view has not been shown yet and I understand why people have limited view of it, but give Ishida time; he will explore the character psyche further, just like how he has always done.
I definitely agree with @nimawalker. I don’t think it makes much sense for the Garden to be promising someone like Furuta anything, let alone anyone. We still don’t completely understand what Rize’s place in the Garden is, and I, for one, am going to hold out for more information on her place within things as a supposedly pure ghoul. (to be honest, there’s even some ambiguity over the term little Nimura used way back in ch. 66 [x])
I do think @actuallyhaise is super on point as far as Rize goes, and I’ve said as much before [x] Rize has always seemed driven by a fundamental refusal to be controlled, tethered, or restrained by anything, be it society or friendship or common sense, in the end. And this makes a lot of sense considering where she came from and the fact that, one way or another, her body was going to be used as nothing more than a tool for V’s aims.
But the same has always been true of Furuta. They are alike that way, and their behavior and their constant struggle to have control over their actions reflects that. We see it in a bunch of characters in the manga who were denied agency early on. Eto, Ayato, even Hinami in her own way – looking to control their own destinies after feeling that it has been denied them. But this is so much more true of the Garden Children.
And just as it would be incredibly reductive to say all of Rize’s behavior had to do with wanting to dominate men (remember, in the Novels, her story is largely about her overpowering women and just ignoring the male ward leader), it is the same to limit Furuta to anything of the sort, I think. Like I think reading him as primarily, or largely motivated by being unloved and destined to be nothing but a tool is a really smart reading, but I’m just confused about where you got the rest of it.
First of all, I’m not entirely sure where you are reading Furuta as having Hypermasculine Quirks? The man makes silly faces and dances away from fights. He spins around on his chair and laughs and cries and screams in fake pain. Other than the “I want to dominate you” panel, which takes place 1) while he is expressly playing the role of the mighty V agent and 2) is part of a power game he is playing with Eto that has been escalating on both sides since the beginning, there really is nothing “hyper masculine” about Furuta, other than maybe his violence. Which itself can be read as “childish,” I think, as easily if not more easily that it can be read as masculine. (He reads more like the American forever-boyish Hyper masculinity than any readings on Japanese masculinity I’ve seen? Both countries have their own issues with toxic masculinities, for sure, but different ones…)
I’m not sure where the readings of Furuta as greedy or jealous come from if not accidentally mistaking him for his masks. Furuta loves hiding behind masks. Playing the part of Comedy King. But people wear masks because they are hiding something they don’t want you to see.
Masks are a huge motif in Tokyo Ghoul, so it’s important to pay attention to ways in which the metaphorical as well as the literal ones both reflect and contrast with the person underneath.
Now that we know more of his backstory, about the truth about the Garden, one he clearly knew from the time he was a tiny child, it becomes easier, I think, to parse out how much of Furuta Nimura is real and how much is a mask or a coping mechanism.
Even Eto has figured out that Furuta’s true loyalties aren’t with the Washuu and V. Furuta, ally of Dr. Kanou, is trying to break this Bird Cage. What exactly his goals are, we don’t know, but at least some of his motives should be obvious right now. If wanting to live past your 20s is greedy, and being jealous of people who will be able to do that and not rot from the inside is what you mean by jealous, then sure, I suppose you can use those words as some of his “true” motivations, but I think that’s awfully unfair.
Besides, he isn’t even sitting back and just hoping Rize’s kagune will slow or stop the process. He’s been actively poking around and making a change. He’s been trying to make something happen. Furuta is going to leave his goddamn mark on the world. When Eto vows to do that, we call it revolution, even if her motivation is largely revenge and spite and jealousy. I think we owe Furuta at least the same courtesy.
I’m still torn on whether or not Furuta sees himself as a Washuu, to be honest. At this point we have no idea what his feelings towards his father are, whether they are a kind of longing for recognition or pure hatred for what he is and for being created and doomed to die. Furuta isn’t not a Washuu because he’s a bastard. He’s not a Washuu because he’s a failed experiment, destined to be used as nothing more than a tool, to rot, and to die, likely before he’s the age Matsuri is now.
I don’t know if he would respect any kind of birthright that house claims they have. He seems to want to destroy their birthrights, rather than uphold them and claim them. But he might feel a sort of extra responsibility or need to act, one way or another. He might feel entitled to do whatever he feels he needs to in order to achieve what he wants to achieve. I think it also depends on what the Washuu’s own history is. Why they were doing what they were doing and how much of that Furuta knows.
Furuta seems like the type to use part of an ideology if it serves his goal, so I can imagine claiming he’s using the long standing Washuu tradition of “keeping the peace” as is his birthright, or some such, if such a tradition does indeed exist. Whether or not he actually will buy into any such thing at all is unclear. (though it is a fun thing to think about…)
As for what he thinks as a man, the only times Furuta has shown that he feels any sort of privilege in that respect is at the ghoul restaurant as Souta, so… count the masks there… (it’s hard for me to judge him based on how he acts while infiltrating the clowns while infiltrating the ghoul restaurant. That’s two levels of kind of sadistic organizations, as much as I love the Clowns…) and in the power play with Eto, which I’ve already talked about. Plus, both he and Eto were playing up the fake romance/sexual tension thing in that power play. By the time she’s chasing him around cochlea in her Kakuja, she’s starting manzai comedy romance sketches with him.
And that’s not even to get into the very particular things shared by Rize, Eto, and Ami, the only women there is any claim towards him acting this way towards. I actually think there is something really interesting going on there that is easy to miss by painting it as an issue he has with women in general.
He makes no comment about or to Matsumae or Hinami related to gender. His relationship to Eto, Rize, and Ami foils Kaneki’s relation to these women and their type. Kaneki, for oedipal reasons, is attracted, drawn to, and even protective of these women at some point. At some point, Kaneki protects or promises to protect every one of these women. And at some point, every one of these women tries to kill Kaneki after he tries or promises to protect them.
That’s not to say Furuta doesn’t hate women. I just don’t think he hates them any more than he hates men. Or any other gender. He just kind of hates everyone. And he’s a cheeky bastard and rude as hell. He uses really informal speech with his superiors, he calls people names, he’s just not really respectful unless he’s playing that role. And I think the combination of these things probably means that he is more likely than a moral formal character to use gendered insults or slurs, simply because he’s a rude, nasty, cheeky, asshole. (keep in mind, of course, that I’m reading in translation and am not Japanese, so some of this might be going over my head.) As Nima said, Furuta has his faults. God does this boy have his faults.
But don’t be fooled by the faults he’s distracting you with. It’s the magician waving a silk scarf so you don’t look at his DEEP INSECURITIES AND SELF HATRED AND DESPERATION. I mean, hell, I’d say the fact that he’s rude as hell and tries to distract from his other issues by being a petty little bitch is a flaw on its own. He also kills people without much remorse. Lots of people. Lots and lots of people. Furuta, along with Kanou, has one of the highest body counts in the goddamn manga. He certainly didn’t ask Kaneki’s permission before COMPLETELY RUINING HIS LIFE. And I’m willing to bet he’s put laxatives in the office coffee creamer on at least one occasion because he’s a goddamn child.
i wasn’t going to respond at first but your tags got me feeling some kind of way and it was about arima but also about the garden children I’m still in pain.
This chapter has me crying about so many people.
I’ve just been thinking about the Washuu clan and the CCG and V and all their talk about order and peace. And they made quinques and gave the humans a fighting chance. Talk of a balance.
Pretty words like Truth and Beauty.
But god, look at everything they’ve done. All the shrapnel they’ve fired. Those children. Doomed to kill. Doomed to die.
Who really buried their truth under playgrounds?
I’ve been thinking about Yoshitoki, whose best friend of 30 years just shot him in the forehead. Who helped brainwash his only real friend into thinking that there is no way that he, a ghoul, could have cared. No way that friendship could have meant anything.
Arima took his own life and told all their secrets. Cochlea has been breeched. Their (the Washuu) time is up.
Yoshitoki, alone with the things he’s done. The children he’s sired. The lies he’s told. The death he’s caused. The people he’s betrayed.
One son who hates him. One more who hates everything he stands for. His only friend who would prefer to be a murderer than confront the truth. Who could never believe that he could be a friend and a ghoul at the same time.
And whose fault was that, in the end?
This is his legacy. Alone with the things he’s done.
oh man, I was not expecting that but I also loved it so…
This chapter was intense, it took the world that we’ve seen from the beginning, the world we grew to love and care for, and it peeled away the wonderful words. It took away any hope there was for balance because yes, V is so corrupt and awful but V was one of the only things keeping the balance. And to have that illusion of justice ripped away is jarring at best. Was it ever justice if it was built on a lie?
Arguably the Washuus buried the truth under playgrounds didn’t they? They took the truth of what they were (murdering cannibals ghouls) and created children that were going to die anyway. They created a system where ghouls were the enemy, where ghouls were meant to be killed even though the truth was, they were ghouls that wanted to be human (just like all the other ghouls.)
I never particularly cared for Marude, but for someone so close to Yoshitoki try to kill him, but for someone so loyal to the Washuus begin to doubt. It’s a look at what’s going to follow if/once this information reaches the public: One reaper has fallen, the other killed him, your only heroes were a lie, there is no such thing as justice for the humans lost /The biggest threat to ghouls has been eliminated, the system that hurt the ghouls and took so much from them was founded by ghouls, they built a system to persecute their own kind/ The death god of the CCG is dead, his student betrayed him, so many special class and associate special class are dead, the ghouls they’ve been taught to hate and kill were the ones who taught them to.
And Yoshitoki, I don’t know where my feelings stand, but he’s alone in the way the rest of the Washuus are, but through him we see the consequences of the things they’ve done. His life was built on a lie that’s been in place for so long. He’s lost a friend, someone who genuinely did care for him. He lost his sons long ago can’t blame them honestly, and the only thing he had which was a legacy, a legacy of being a form of justice to humanity is now falling apart. And really, what happens now?
I think one of the things this chapter is starting to really show us, and that your edit and that comic represent, is that revolutions are not clean nor pretty. They are brutal affairs that leave death and tragedy in their wake on all sides.
We talk about revolutions with the language of Truth and Beauty and Justice and Hope, but in reality they are messy, messy things almost all the time. And this one most certainly will be.
It isn’t going to be as easy as hoping for a better world or marching with protest signs. It isn’t even going to be as easy as a big battle of good versus evil.
Because Eto, a woman who tortures people because of how they love, and because she hates to see love go uncorrupted, is on the side of freedom here.
Because the villains of are story are the ones who gave the humans the best weapons they have to fight against sometimes vicious and sadistic predators. Because V and the Washuu didn’t create the ghoul restaurant or the auction or the madams. They were fighting against them. Where will that fight be when the bird cage is broken.
Revolutions destroy families, destroy friendships, destroy lives. The words of the comic you chose to use fit so well, because shrapnel is unaimed. It is about doing damage to anything in the area. About damage for the sake of damage. And revolution, when it turns into war, fires shrapnel everywhere.
And it takes down so, so much with it.
And Tokyo Ghoul is too smart of a manga to let us get away with not watching that shrapnel rip apart the good with the bad. This conversation should sound familiar, by the way…
But what is the cost of keeping the peace?
What price is worth paying to shatter it and try for something better?
And what destruction will the attempt leave in its wake? How will you even know if you’ve succeeded in creating a better world, or just a different one? (The French revolution resulted in years of utter terror and ultimately resulted in an empire and another monarchy several times over before it got anything near what it was looking for…)
Revolution is a pretty word, but the real thing is terrifying. But sometimes, the lack of it is even scarier.
(Sorry for extending this post even further with my rambling thoughts and manga caps. Thank you for creating such a thought provoking edit!)
I did recall Furuta’s words. And I myself have jokingly said “burn it all down” but the truth is, you’re right. Revolutions are never that pretty and clean cut. When you get rid of a power, no matter how unjust it is there will be a power vacuum. More often than not, what follows is often worse. France had Napoleon, France returned to where they started and arguably their situation post-revolution was worse than their situation in the time leading up to that revolution.
We can see it in former colonies and how often they fall under military or totalitarian powers/dictatorships. The aftermath of revolutions are not beautiful either. Revolutions are considered beautiful and grand and righteous, but only after the buildings have been burnt. Only after the executions are outlawed. Only after blood has been spilled. We hear about buildings burning in former colonies and we talk about tragedy, but one day this will be history and this will be the lead up to a revolution.
I’ve digressed and gone on into history ramblings but really there’s almost always a pattern to these things. And you’re right TG is smart. Consequence has always been present. The revolution does not/will not/cannot pass peacefully. There is no beauty in the shrapnel, shrapnel is shrapnel and at the end, the players of this war/revolution will be left with the things they have done.
And yes, V is corrupt and awful. That’s been highlighted so often by the narrative. But had they not showed up, had they not created quinques and the CCG, the ghoul organisations would still exist. Restaurants and auctions would still thrive, The Clowns (the original ones, and not our generation of clowns) would still exist, The Black Dobers, The Devil Apes, The White Suits… The ghouls are not innocent either.
Eto may speak for freedom, but she is not the solution. She is cruel and sadistic and she cannot let the good go unpunished. Karren was tortured for loving someone she could not have. Seidou was made to kill, was pushed to be something he wasn’t. She may talk about how ghouls have been persecuted, but she has done no better. She wants revolution (or well that’s how I understood her words) but the price she is willing to pay is not hers to pay.
The world of TG was familiar at least before, the people knew how to live in it. It wasn’t a Right or Just world but they were familiar with it. It’s a theme in Psychopass as well actually. Do we let the corrupt systems continue and continue this illusion of peace or do we bring these systems down and plunge the world into the unknown?
Regardless, the war has begun and I’m scared to see what happens to them. (I’m sorry for rambling too but I needed to talk to someone about this)
That’s a very interesting idea, Anon! However, I do think that Furuta’s lifespan is still significantly shorter than a full human’s or a full ghoul’s, no matter what– In his birthday poem, he mentioned only being able to “live ¼ a person’s life”. As for his loyalty to Kanou, I personally believe this stems from the fact that Furuta may very well be able to use Kanou to achieve his “super peace” considering Kanou’s medical skills and the fact that he does not have loyalties to the CCG or V (as far as we know).
Relatable FE Quote or Something 