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).
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.
You know, to be able to make us feel like this, I have to admit that he’s a amazing story teller. It’s hard to make a story like this, to make the readers feel intense emotions and got immersed into the plot as deep as we are now.
We all know he has already planned everything from the start. He knew the risk of making a story like this (maybe that’s the reason why he hide his identity? He said he wants to live in peace.. afterall…), but he executed it anyway.
Some of us might think that he’s cruel and heartless, to kill off our beloved characters that we already related to. But you know Anon, actually we have to thank him for the wild ride he pulled us in. I think lot of us wouldn’t be at where we are now if Tokyo Ghoul doesn’t have a plot as crazy as it is. We might mourn when we lost our favorite characters and be upset at him, but this is his story, the whole plot is his, not ours. So please don’t be mad at him. Just thank him for this emotional journey he created for us. Maybe when TG had ended, we all will close the book, takes a deep breath, and sigh. “What an intense experience.”
If you think someone could write something this gorgeous and this intense and this layered and this devastating without having human emotions you’re just…….
Can you describe what it feels like to stub your toe? To scrape your knee? To fall? Do you think that someone who didn’t feel pain could describe those sensations? Can you describe what it feels like to find acceptance when you feel unlovable? To find mercy when you feel damned? Can you describe what it feels like to start a new school or job, the nerves in your belly, the anxiety in your mind? Can you describe what it feels like to be so exhausted that you can barely move, to pick yourself back up again, to try just one more time?
Could you describe any of this without human emotions?
In order to write profoundly, you must feel profoundly. There is no person who can write tragedy without having experienced human emotion. I imagine that Ishida is a highly emotional, highly sensitive person. To be only 30 years old and able to write about trauma, abuse, suffering, love, fear, triumph, failure, pain, acceptance…to write about all of this with such a deft hand takes, at the least, an acutely sensitive, emotional nature.
Does Ishida have feelings. Really. Really?
How could he break your heart if he didn’t understand the feeling of a heart breaking?
What would Fura think if/when he finds out the truth?
He seems to have always been bothered with Arima’s situation. He asked Arima whether all ghouls were like Minami, longing to be human……but Arima avoided his question.
How would he feel, realizing his friend was like Minami the whole time – a ghoul trapped living on the edges of human society.
That there was SO MUCH that Arima wanted to tell him, but could only express through revealing his resignation over his situation. Telling Fura that he would probably die, sooner or later. Telling him that he simply did what he was told, and his job as an Investigator was merely “a hobby”. Letting him speak his peace with Minami, instead of simply killing her.
His reaction is going to be painful, thats all I can say…
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