X and Hide

eto-when-and-where:

It might just be my insomnia rn, but can we go back with X symbol in this series?

First time it pops up is with Itori, that specifically pops up at moment Itori starts talking about hybrids.

Eto, who is first half ghoul (that we know of), has also had alias as “X”.

Then X during chapter 125 of :re that was ahm you know and Touka staying pregnant after it with her own hybrid baby.

(not exactly saying she stayed pregnant after that specific chapter but hopefully you get on what I’m aiming at)

But we had X show up way earlier with … Uta in chapter 35.

(interesting pattern)

It even got its own special panel right in chapter 36.

And speaking of it, Hide also appears to have what seems to be X pattern on his headphones in latest volume cover.

(credits to @midnight-in-town)

Either I’m reading too much into this due my inability to sleep rn or there is something with all this. As X in this series appears or gets emphasized on usually when it is related to hybrids in some manner.

@eto-when-and-where sorry it took me so long to get back to you. :3
Actually, leaving Hide’s headphones aside because a better version of the cover gave me the impression it rather seemed to be a ray of sunlight (not that it changes anything to these theories), I think the whole “X” thing really is supposed to imply hybrid/crossbreed:

• Itori introduced the concept by making that X gesture with her fingers, but she also showed just one kakugan so far so… I’m not saying her being a OEG is the most likely possibility but, y’know, I wouldn’t exclude anything either until Sensei addresses the topic. xD Anyway, there seems to something personal about hybrid babies with her.
  EDIT: also…

• you made a great point about Eto, who’s a natural OEG (it always was such a confusing part about vol 8 for me. I couldn’t understand why they’d refer to her as X)
• same about ch125, even if it most likely wasn’t the day Touka became pregnant (unless ghoul pregnancy lasts longer than 9 months), but it was just to imply that Kaneki and Touka falling in love would eventually result in conceiving a lil hybrid baby
• finally, there is a Uta: artificial or natural I don’t know, but there are hints that he could be a OEG. To give an example, the X headphones happened during the same chapter as….

and we possibly have seen the ink fading before. 

As for Hide, I still think there is something linking him to those kids from the 24th ward, but I am not sure that implies he is a OEG or, more simply, that he has a kakuhou. I guess we will see anyway :))

Thanks for making that post, very interesting as always! ^3^