Akira is still using the Fueguchi quinque so I hope once this fighting is all said and done, that she’ll hand the quinques over to Hinami so she can bury her parents and receive the closure she still needs
? But Anon, I agree Mutsuki is not going to die, though? Look at all the posts I reblogged ever since yesterday on the matter. :))
Again, the only one who doesn’t have plot armor is Aura. Everyone else is definitely going to get okay, I only have doubts about Aura because he’s a stagnating secondary character for a reason.
The
way things are shaping up I’m highly skeptical of the notion that they won’t be able to save Mutsuki but will be capable of saving Kaneki.
It’s not either/or; rather, it should be both.
They’re both yanderes
determined to cling to the person they love who don’t care about the
entire city or about anyone besides themselves and how their beloved
makes them feel. Kaneki makes Mutsuki feel safe and gives him what his
father never gave him: security and love.
Touka gives Kaneki what his
mother gave him: choosing him above all else.
Kaneki’s
failure as the OEK was on his own shoulders, yes. He ultimately made
his own decisions. But it’s also not wrong to point out that he was
enabled by the people standing around him who did not call him out on
his behavior–or in the case of Tsukiyama, tried to do so and ultimately
failed. They did this while supporting him without challenging him, and
it led to disaster.
Mutsuki had the opposite happen: no one
supported him except Aura Jr. Urie and Saiko knew something was wrong
and did nothing. When he was missing post-24th ward raid they didn’t
even ask about him. They forgot him. And it’s led to disaster (he
awakened the sleeping Dragon).
Blindly supporting
someone=ignoring the problem just as much as what Urie and Saiko have
been doing with Mutsuki is ignoring the problem. You can’t repress an
issue and expect it to get better. You just can’t.
Mutsuki
and Aura right now represent two issues Touka and Goat are ignoring
right now: the people Kaneki hurt when he abandoned them, and the people
who have lost loved ones to Kaneki. Neither are willing to forgive him,
and honestly, that’s understandable, and Aura also represents how the
general population will feel. If Kaneki is going to
grow after he’s dragged out of Dragon and not just slip right back into
a pattern of destruction, he needs love, yes, but he also needs to
realize just how wrong he’s been.
If Mutsuki is
dead/irretrievably lost to insanity when Kaneki’s dragged out of Dragon,
I don’t see how that is going to help Kaneki realize just how badly he
hurt the Qs. Hsiao and Hige never knew him, Urie always was bitter
towards him, and Saiko has only ever been shown to be happy sweeping
things under the rug. Mutsuki is the only one who has said “that’s
wrong” to Kaneki.
Seeing a dead body hasn’t really helped anyone in this
series realize just how wrong they were–Urie telling Sasaki that
Shirazu needed him didn’t work, so I don’t see how Urie or Saiko telling
Kaneki Mutsuki was devastated over his abandonment would work.
Kaneki
needs to see what he’s done to the Qs, including Mutsuki. And Mutsuki
also needs to face what he’s done, because his actions are hurting the
Qs, whom he does love and who love him. That’s why I hope that while I
do expect a chapter 29 parallel wherein Mutsuki hurts Urie and Urie hugs
him and tells him it’s all okay, Mutsuki will also be forced to see what his
actions have wrought.
Pain for the Qs. Pain for his family. He’s hurt
Kaneki, the person he loves, and facing Kaneki might help him do that.
If
anyone dies, I think it may be Aura, as if the Qs are symbolic of
Kaneki’s flaws and Mutsuki specifically of the dark violent side Kaneki
tries to repress, Aura is symbolic of Mutsuki’s dark side and notably unlike
Mutsuki isn’t given much else in terms of character. But, I actually do
think there’s hope for him too, because he represents the general
population of Tokyo who have lost loved ones/been terrorized by Kaneki
but don’t know him, and probably won’t sympathize with him. Killing him
doesn’t exactly work because you can’t kill a problem–that’s literally
what the CCG’s goal is with ghouls, and guess what, it hasn’t worked;
it’s only created more pain. If anyone hurts Mutsuki it would most
likely be Aura (with Mutsuki sacrificing himself for Kaneki) but again,
TG tends to more be about reconciling your flaws than your dark side
killing you off or you killing off your dark side, or else Kaneki would
have been dead… 800 times over already.
I don’t think killing representatives of Kaneki’s problems make them go away any more than killing ghouls stops the violence in Tokyo. But we shall see.
The Dragon is an enemy capable of one-punching Arima and the Qs are meant to surpass Arima. That means that they would technically be able to hold their own against the Dragon. The Dragon that is Kaneki Ken, the person they were meant to be able to stop in the first place. The original purpose of the Qs which is what’s mentioned in the next chapter’s preview.
When the Qs are going out of control, they’re meant to be exterminated and that could apply to Mutsuki here since they’re endangering everyone with their actions. However, when Furuta is talking about the Dragon, all three of them show up which means that all three of them will be the key to solving this issue and defeating the Dragon. So despite Mutsuki agreeing with Shirazu that they don’t want to die at the hands of their friends, they’re actually going to be fine in the end. That is, because Saiko managed to prove that stopping an out of control Qs is not impossible and showed that the issue can be solved with love and compassion and following the rules to a t isn’t always the best option. Hugs and love as a solution sounds cheesy, but it’s worked on Urie two times in the past. The other time funnily enough being what Mutsuki did back in chapter 29 to stop him when he was going out of control. Perhaps it is about time Urie’s returned that favor?
If he manages to calm Mutsuki down, they’ll probably find a way together to stop the Dragon and fix this mess.
Soooo I’m kinda taking this chapter as a confirmation that
Uta does have a Washuu kakuhou too
and that a Washuu kakuhou is the key to being able to make these clones
meaning that Kaneki, like Uta, can now clone himself (and that’s what those things who attacked the CCG are)
Basically, having a Washuu kakuhou means being a kakuja from birth, as Kanou explained, + being able to generate a kakuja made of pluripotent cells…
…which is possibly the explanation behind why they can create clones of themselves.
I’m still wondering about Donato’s own cloning abilities though, because being Russian I’m not sure he has a Washuu kakuhou. So…
maybe he has another special kakuhou that allows a cloning ability,
or Uta somehow grafted him with his own kakuja
or maybe he cannibalized the Nagaraj’s kakuja for a while at some point, that is to say that he ingested a huge quantity of pluripotent cells, which is how he could have ended up with the same ability.
TBH, I find that Uta grafting Donato with his own kakuja (possibility 2) is kinda reminiscing of Eto apparently “injecting” her kagune into Karren (ch45,
credit to @amonmahboi for pointing that out to me the other day :))…
…increasing her fighting abilities for a time even if she still died.
And now that I think about it, since Eto said that V killed her foster parent too (ch66), it’s possible that Noro was injected with Eto’s kagune in order to stay “alive”, until he was annihilated for good and that’s maybe why only a skull was left (because he actually died long ago). So when Furuta said…
…he was possibly talking about the result of Eto grafting Noro with her kagune to keep him “alive” all this time. As for Banjou, from the moment Eto stabbed him, he finally was able to develop his kagune and it’s now very useful thanks to its healing properties (like Nico can do), so who knows if she’s not responsible for that too.
TL;DR maybe kagune/kakuja graft into another ghoul is possible and also implies a graft of the kagune/kakuja’s special abilities, so Uta grafting his own kakuja (made of pluripotent cells) into Donato might explain why he, too, can create clones of himself.
EDIT: @bloodycarnations mentioned how Kurona “absorbed” Nashiro and gained two kakugans as a result, which is a fair point:
And also anyone remembers kakuja!Amon backflowing rc cells into Seidou, triggering an explosion?
…so IDK for sure, but kagune/kakuja graft/injection between ghouls sounds possible, since in the end all that gets passed around should be rc cells anyway. It’s just that, in the theoretical case of Uta & Donato, since Uta most likely has a Washuu kakuhou, the kakuja is made of pluripotent cells which could be why Donato gained the ability of cloning.
TBH cracky thought but I’m just curious as to why Donato couldn’t manage to create a clone to escape the CCG with his beloved Amon 18 years ago if he already had the ability back then. In other words, maybe Uta grafted him recently, after he finally escaped from Cochlea?
Ehhh, we’ll see.
Soooo I’m kinda taking this chapter as a confirmation that
Uta does have a Washuu kakuhou too
and that a Washuu kakuhou is the key to being able to make these clones
meaning that Kaneki, like Uta, can now clone himself (and that’s what those things who attacked the CCG are)
Basically, having a Washuu kakuhou means being a kakuja from birth, as Kanou explained, + being able to generate a kakuja made of pluripotent cells…
…which is possibly the explanation behind why they can create clones of themselves.
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