I think that Eren and Mikasa’s conversation meant that the SC
didn’t agree with Eren’s plan, and maybe they didn’t want Eren to be in Marley in the first place. They had to intervene to
protect him, because if they lose the founding titan, everyone on
Paradis Island will most likely gonna die. Hanji explained in ch90 what’s
the main purpose of the SC:
And
that’s obviously not why Eren went to Marley.
Also,
judging by Mikasa’s line, she thinks that even though
Eren probably acted without the SC’s approval, and basically started a war, the military would let him keep the power of the titans,
instead of giving it to someone who’s more “obedient”. Because, if death was waiting for Eren upon his return to Paradis, Mikasa wouldn’t have wanted so desperately of Eren to “come home”, right?
This raises a
lot of questions, and it supports my belief that Eren was consumed by
the will of the Attack Titan, so the reason why the military wouldn’t pass the power to someone who’s more obedient, is because nothing would actually change, as that person would be consumed by the will of the Attack Titan as well.
He’s literally been fired for his research, stayed in hiding for his research, tortured his research in intensely personal ways, and adopted his research.
Why kill himself before seeing the last stage of the zombies through?
Unless…he knows they’re already going to come through. Maybe the dragon and/or something scientific has already set the zombie plan in motion.
So why kill himself?
I think it’s notable that CCG pinpoints his mother as his motivation, but we never see him mention her, only his desire to see his research grow. To have his researchproven worthy.
Throughout the manga, he tortures Seidou, throws away human lives in order to make more Kanekis, and coldly responds to his adopted daughter’s demise, because it’s all research. His research.
Because Kanou is ultimately extremely self-centered. And by self-centered, I mean research-centered – like many a grad student (teehee), he seems to see his research as his primary identity. It’s the only thing he ever talks about, even when we finally see his inner thoughts this chapter.
When he’s dying, he expresses no fear or self-preservation; just curiosity at experiencing how death feels. Death is more research. Kanou is research.
Also, when dying, doesn’t even question whether his life’s work will continue – a curious move that makes me suspect he knows he will be there to see his research through.
So why kill himself and abandon his research at its zenith?
He wants to experience death and resurrection himself. He wants to be his own research.
Old theory, but I want to bring back the idea that all the Garden kids were conceived via IVF, only they’re grown in incubators instead of getting transferred to a womb.
All those tanks in the original ghoulification facility beneath the Yasuhisa’s mansion, the pods in Kanou’s labs, the Oggai… something obviously had to keep the wombs from absorbing the fetus, and if it’s not daily doses of RC suppressants getting shoved into one of the parents, it’s an external fertilization system.
V’s opening volley was to cut the eyepatch from Kaneki’s mask. These are, as Hirako calls them, the mature squad zero. Which makes me wonder if this outcome was not exactly what they intended to do. To cut just the eyepatch off. As a symbolic move in the long narrative Furuta and the Clowns are crafting.
Kaneki’s claim, after all, is to the title of One-Eyed King.
It’s certainly possible that in terms of in universe strategy, it was about intimidation, or even a means to get Kaneki back to HySy. But given who we are dealing with, I suspect there is intentional symbolism in the order.
Removing his eyepatch, though, actually serves to reveal his one eyed status, as much as it cuts off a symbol he is using to advertise it. The Eyepatch was originally crafted to obscure, not advertise Kaneki as a one eye.
what are the chances of Sphinx Trading Co’s weird RC juice being pumped into the dying bodies of old garden grads to preserve them?
…and is it anything like Eto possibly stuffing Noro full of RC cells to keep his creepy decrepit self going for so long?
same for Kanou’s Q’s– presumably dead investigators being strung along by their new organs (and subsequent huge influx of RC cells)?
All of them share a weird puppet quality, so I feel like there’s something in common with them. Kanou says that ghoulification shortens a person’s lifespan, but presumably because– like his old pre-owl failures– the kakuhou consumes the host. But maybe if the amount is controlled, there’s a tiny window where the RC cells can use the body for basic survival purposes, just like the cordyceps fungus.
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