Given how most mothers in TG is either manipulative or abusive, I wonder how will Ishida reveal Ukina true motive.
Was it a coincidence that she met Yoshimura years ago?
Was it true love that she had with Yoshimura and devotion in teaching him?
Was it a miracle of half ghoul baby that she didn’t intend?
Ishida never reveals her face so I wonder what is fishy here.
T-thanks Ishida…
Like mother like daughter, manipulative women.
ALWAYS, ALWAYS BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR IN THIS FANDOM
*i am cries* It’s interesting to see how her understanding of her absent parents has evolved over the years though.
pssssst Eto – maybe if you didn’t keep your father unconscious in a TANK he could tell you how sorry he was and how much he loved you.
But it’s like @oneeyedkingeto said [x]- she can’t actually be loved, right? She has to be right about how terrible the world is and how horrible people really are. Because if there was a possibility of love there all along, what has her life of fighting been for?
But…I’m not sold on the idea that Eto is right about this. Remember, she’s basing her opinion on this from her unique standpoint. She’s had a lifetime to construct her version of reality which we know, from past events, is not necessarily reliable nor accurate. She didn’t know her parents, and we’ve seen the judgments that she made about her father. But we already knew that Ukina was a reporter, and we already knew that she originally grew close to Kuzen to spy on him. We also know, at least from Kuzen’s perspective, that she grew to love him deeply, and that she risked her life to be with him, and to have Eto.
Eto’s view of her mother is inevitably colored by her experiences of the world, and the bitterness that has grown in her heart. Imagine that she found Ukina’s journal from before…before she fell in love, before she became pregnant…and assumed that her attitude never shifted. In reality, the sacrifices that Ukina made for Eto and Kuzen were incredible. Perhaps they were not sacrifices made from love…but if not, what were they made for? A story?
Either Ukina loved Kuzen and Eto, or she believed in something much greater than herself. I refuse to believe that Ukina was simply a “manipulative woman,” though if Eto’s rhetoric about changing the world is a true reflection of her motives, then perhaps they are alike. Either Ukina did what she did for her husband and daughter, or she did what she did for what she believed to be the betterment of all. But reducing either of them, the totality of their motives, their loves and their heartbreaks down to a simple act of manipulation is a gross misestimation of what these two women have accomplished, and most likely, what they will accomplish.
Perhaps Ukina started the work of bringing down V. Perhaps, when she died at the hands of her husband, she had no idea that her blood would flow through the veins of the one who finished that work.
midnight-in-town 