*waves* Hi! So I waited all week to ask you that. What did you mean by « I don’t know how he met Claudia either, if it was 50 years ago (possible because of something Othello said) » on that Undertaker post (you were answering someone in the comments)? I’m curious about what you meant about Othello. Thank you!

Hi, thank you for reading Anon! :3 Aww you know you might as well ask even when the Anon mode is not on though, I answer privately if you do. :))

So iirc, what I was saying is that we don’t know yet when UT met Claudia but that I think it’s possible their first meeting was 50 years ago, on that case Othello also took part in, because Ohello said…

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And it’s just my opinion, but I think he could be hinting at Claudia there, for several reasons.

First of all, if somehow Othello was talking about the twin because he had already met him, then that’d mean he and Grell would have already found out about the star lords being most likely something like bizarre dolls and as such, they would have tried to take them out and the arc would already be over.
Besides, since Othello is constantly with Grell, if he had met the twin then so would have Grell, and Grell knew Ciel from before, so they would have said something in ch125 too.

So a conclusion is that Othello probably wasn’t talking about the twin here. 

Secondly, the last time Othello was in the human world was approximately 50 years ago (1840~)…

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and being born in 1830, only Claudia was alive back then. Now, thanks to what Sensei once explained (here) about the drawing concept of Vincent/Frances and Liz/Ed, we know that Vincent strongly resembles Claudia.
The twins, however, don’t share this concept and take more after their father than after their mother (one look and you can tell). 

So if Vincent looks a lot like Claudia and the twins look a lot like him, then it’s a syllogism and we can assume that the twins also look a lot like their grandmother, who would have been alive and approximately of the same age the last time Othello was in the human world.  

And so, if UT was on that same case as Othello approximately “50 years ago”, maybe that’s the first time he met Claudia even if, again, that doesn’t mean he deserted for a reason related to her, since we know he was already more than fed up with his job for a while before leaving. :)) 

All in all, what it means is that Othello probably has interesting things to share about “50 years ago” as well as possibly UT’s desertion and/or Claudia, but we need the current arc to move on a little before we get to that part. 🙂

I hope it makes sense Anon! Sorry you had to wait the whole week to ask. :/ Have a nice day :3

kanekikenunot:

I love this silent chapter

Cause it just makes the pain so much more poignant and you really feel every emotion Touka is going through. She probably hasn’t slept since Goat was raided because she has been too busy trying to save Kaneki. She has been forced to fight battles when she is tired, weakened from fighting almost none stop since they were raided. She just wants to find and save Kaneki and for a brief moment she thought she did.

And you can just feel the shock and fear that he must be dead running through her. She screams calling out his name, and she starts to cry.

Then she continues looking frantically for him through her tears as she calls out to him. I think that it says a lot that even finding an arm doesn’t deplete her trust in him being alive.

She was working so hard to dig him out she was practically ripping her nails out of her fingers breaking them in ways that I legit flinched as I saw the panel. It shows every ounce of how much she cares for him and then she finds him and you can just feel the relief come out of her.

It was so beautiful and heartbreaking to say the least.

Touka and Kaneki

captainhunterman:

arvendell:

I have written a lot of fanfictions with regards these two, but every time Ishida writes them I still grow amazed and I still very much feel more love for them. Below is a subjective interpretation on why I think their relationship is beautiful – even with their flaws, even with the circumstances.

From the beginning til now, their relationship had developed so much and had offered both a kind of life worth fighting for – a kind of life that both of them found happiness in, even in the darkest and most painful of days. Both who always had to endure so much pain, both who had grown hard because of the world found solace in each other’s presence. It’s like walking on a path where you cannot see anything but the darkness until someone takes your hand until you finally see light.

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He gave her a realization that she has the right to live, she gave him the realization that he has a reason to live.

piipionna:

akira1love:

akira1love:

Eren and Mikasa just had an exchange that’s extremely similar to the one they had in chapter 1. It’s my belief that Eren is reliving his life in a nightmarish loop because he returned to mindless form as an escape from a reality in which he made a mess that costed the lives of his friends. “The Mist” ending.

I’ll explain myself. 
Mindless titans are people stuck in endless dreams/nightmares, right? In the past, we’ve seen Eren losing control of his titan and acting in a mindless manner (es. when he attacked Mikasa). He didn’t even remember after, he had no recollection of his own actions. It happened when he was too conflicted, exausted or angry. “The Mist” ends with the protagonist killing his friends and going insane. He believed they couldn’t be saved, so he put an end to their suffering, only to discover that they were about to be rescued and that if he had been more patient and less scared they would be all alive. He literally loses it then.
I think that something similar will happen to Eren. He can’t control the coordinate power, he’s a true danger for the whole humanity given that he might awaken the wall titans. I think he will and cause humanity’s doom, sentencing everyone, his friends included, to death.
Unable to bear the shock, the pain and the guilt, Eren will lose his consciusness forever and permanently turn into a mindless. He will relive his story again and again in a loop and escape that way rather than coping with reality. At the beginning of the manga he cries and sees short-haired Mikasa saying goodbye because it will probably be the last thing he will consciously see.
So, the same way he relived Grisha’s entire life and was shocked to tears in 87, he was shocked in ch 1, with the difference that the “story” he just ended expreriencing is his own and doesn’t remember it. Yams said multiple times that Eren is the “story’s slave”, and I think that the definition may have this specific connotation too.

If you don’t mind me adding, this is one of the pages that made me suspicious as hell…

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Just the way it’s cut to Eren’s exhausted face while having Ymir say that…

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midnight-in-town:

So guys, I know we already had a debate about this, but I want to bring it back one more time because I have a third possibility: Seb has “never encountered someone like the twin” possibly because…

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the twin’s body burnt with the rest of the cult 4 years ago and thus he can’t be like the BDs we met before because he possibly was entirely brought back body and cinematic record together.

If you remember, UT only edited the cinematic records left behind in dead bodies during the Campania and Weston arcs, he can’t recreate a body or a soul, that’s why he was crying about not being able to bring back Vincent in ch105:

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So if the twin’s body was badly/completely burnt 4 years ago, then that means the blood transfusions are about keeping him “alive” in a physical sense because his “new” body is deteriorating without receiving blood constantly. 

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In that case though, maybe UT edited the records of the 4 lords with his “yearning for the future” method (that would explain why real!Ciel is so strongly obsessed with staying with our!Ciel forever, since that’s how he wanted his future to be when he was a kid), but as seen with ch105, he probably wasn’t the one to have thought about the blood transfusions to salvage the 4 lords’ bodies, since he couldn’t do it for Vincent’s badly burnt body in the first place.

I still strongly doubt that he’s 100% involved, but if he is because he helped with editing the cinematic records of the star lords for example, then maybe UT’s goal is to take the twin away from the sect, 

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especially if the sect is linked to the Queen’s projects. 

In any case, as usual, I wouldn’t expect any straightforward or simple goal from UT if he’s partially behind this arc, not when he purposely made sure to destroy the Aurora society on the Campania and when we still can’t be sure why he even was involved during the Weston arc. 

So the next step is to check out next week whether or not the twin’s body really was burnt along with the rest of the cult 4 years ago. :))

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Hi Anon! Good question. 🙂 Keep in mind that if UT is partially involved with bringing back the 4 star lords, personally I think that, just like the Campania and Weston arcs, his reasons are going to be more complicated than it initially seems. 

It’s all theoretical but let’s just say that, since the Queen wants his BDs (war subplot), she/John Brown found a way to make UT want to work for her (or so she thinks)…

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…in that case, what would that be?

Well, we know UT’s BD project has its limits: 1) He can’t recreate a soul…

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so instead he has to to edit the cinematic records in such a way that the BDs will act as humanly as possible and for the longest time possible. 

2) He can’t bring someone back if their body is too badly damaged (either because the cinematic record is not available anymore or the body simply cannot physically move even if its record is edited): that’s the example of Vincent and possibly of the twin if his body was burnt 4 years ago…

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…and we saw before that UT was ready to try almost anything to bring him/them back.

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So let’s say that the Queen/Brown or someone else belonging to the blue sect found a way to recreate a body via something close to alchemy thanks to the involvement of a supernatural being

(the blood transfusions being a part of the whole process), don’t you think that it could be enough to tempt UT to work with them for a time (that is, until he gets what he wants)?

Again, if the twin’s body was burnt 4 years ago and that bringing him back was impossible (for UT alone), if someone managed to give him a body back, well, I think UT could be tempted to edit the records in order to 

  • first, make the twin come back (since the twin is one of his beloved Phantomhives),
  • and then possibly use that technology to bring back people like Vincent or the rest of his lockets. 

As seen with the Aurora society, I doubt UT will ever be above backstabbing anyone as long as he gets what he wants, so maybe that’s what’s going on in this arc too. 

In that case, he’s 50% involved I’d say. He has nothing to do with the idea behind the blood transfusions, however he possibly is the one who edited the star lords’ cinematic record. And if the Queen is the other guilty party, then because he indeed dislikes her, I think he’s bound to backstab her. 🙂

Does it make sense? I hope so! Please have a nice weekend Anon! 

mawjaw:

Killing off the touken bab would make sense as a punishment for Kaneki eating the Oggai but not for Touka, she hasn’t done anything this past arc that would warrant her kids life as an equivalent exchange (because no, being apathetic about a cause isn’t that extreme and her choice to save her husband doesn’t strike me as a Yamori-esque CHOOOOOOOOOOOOoose parallel).

With the garden arc revving up as being centerstage in the final arc, I can’t imagine why having a potential hybrid baby as a plot device wouldn’t be a thing.

We’re supposed to worry, but I think the whole hybrid vigor concept surrounding why Eto is so strong might extend to Pleasure-chan as well, with RC cells acting as a healing factor for mom and for the bab. Itori’s lied before and Arima said one-eyes are rare, a third naturally born one-eyed ghoul might still have some secrets surrounding their existence.

@mawjaw

While I don’t think Itori particularly lied on this subject, since her words follow Arima’s about OEGs and it seems to be a sensitive subject for her, I

otherwise

agree. 🙂

The topic of hybrid pregnancy is to be linked back to the previous OEGs in the timeline, to the Sunlit Garden, and it’s a way to introduce a brighter future about a world that would allow hybrid children to finally belong, since other mixed couples in TG might end up having hybrid babies too (looking at NishiKimi in particular). 

Besides, even if one could see Touka’s miscarriage as a possible punishment for Kaneki, getting him and Touka to blame themselves for the loss of their kid seems rather counterproductive on the aspect of more positive development for their relationship. I say they had enough trials already, and it’s not even over as long as V still stands.  

Besides, the baby is one of the three ways Touka has to finally convince herself that she is indeed a very beautiful person (the other ways to stop being fatalistic being finding out about what happened to her father and confronting Yoriko in :Re).

 So yeah, BABY SUI WILL SURVIVE THIS TOO!

So guys, I know we already had a debate about this, but I want to bring it back one more time because I have a third possibility: Seb has “never encountered someone like the twin” possibly because…

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the twin’s body burnt with the rest of the cult 4 years ago and thus he can’t be like the BDs we met before because he possibly was entirely brought back body and cinematic record together.

If you remember, UT only edited the cinematic records left behind in dead bodies during the Campania and Weston arcs, he can’t recreate a body or a soul, that’s why he was crying about not being able to bring back Vincent in ch105:

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So if the twin’s body was badly/completely burnt 4 years ago, then that means the blood transfusions are about keeping him “alive” in a physical sense because his “new” body is deteriorating without receiving blood constantly. 

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In that case though, maybe UT edited the records of the 4 lords with his “yearning for the future” method (that would explain why real!Ciel is so strongly obsessed with staying with our!Ciel forever, since that’s how he wanted his future to be when he was a kid), but as seen with ch105, he probably wasn’t the one to have thought about the blood transfusions to salvage the 4 lords’ bodies, since he couldn’t do it for Vincent’s badly burnt body in the first place.

I still strongly doubt that he’s 100% involved, but if he is because he helped with editing the cinematic records of the star lords for example, then maybe UT’s goal is to take the twin away from the sect, 

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especially if the sect is linked to the Queen’s projects. 

In any case, as usual, I wouldn’t expect any straightforward or simple goal from UT if he’s partially behind this arc, not when he purposely made sure to destroy the Aurora society on the Campania and when we still can’t be sure why he even was involved during the Weston arc. 

So the next step is to check out next week whether or not the twin’s body really was burnt along with the rest of the cult 4 years ago. :))

coromoor:

it’s interesting because despite it being a silent chapter, there are empty speech bubbles throughout

like these 2 which you can easily imagine might be sound FX for the ripping and tearing

but then there’s these ones, just before Touka found Kaneki’s severed arm holding the ring

I get the feeling she thought she had found Kaneki and was calling his name, which makes this panel even more painful

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Frankly I just wouldn’t be surprised if the whole point to cut all sounds in the new chapter was because the first thing Kaneki is supposed to hear from the outside world as he wakes up is Touka saying “Ken, I love you, don’t leave me all alone” as she gets desperate to get him out of his kakuja. xDD

also i’m sorry but he is clearly naked in there, did dragon eat his clothes too?