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To be honest, I
think it was to be expected that Amon would have to go through more
development during the rest of the series. Tokyo Ghoul is a story
told from the perspectives of several different characters at
different times, but at least during the first part the most
prominent ones were Kaneki and Amon, to the point that he could be
considered the deuteragonist of the series. Off-panel action is good
to set up future plot points, but to fully develop such an important
character during a timeskip would be lazy writing (or a tragic lack
of time and space in the manga, but still a bad decision,
story-wise).

But that’s from a
meta point of view; from an in-world point of view, I don’t think
Amon will ever fully develop without doing two things: talk to Kaneki
and understand his point of view, and reunite with Donato and come to
terms with the feelings they BOTH had for each other. There are other
plot ties for him, such as the Yasuhisa siblings, Akira, Seidou,
Sphinx… but I believe those first two would have the most impact in
his development.

Right now… I think
that Amon still hasn’t come to terms with what he has become. All his
life, he’s strived to become the ideal investigator, fought to build
and preserve that image. And for that, he became stronger and
stronger, respected his superiors and protected his subordinates
while building with them the relationship that would be expected of
him. But anything that’d be outside that would simply not work:
actually talking to Kaneki,  developing his relationship with Akira
beyond superior-subordinate, investigating Takatsuki’s words and the
corruption of the CCG (alone? He’d probably have needed help with
that, but of course he couldn’t burden his respected superiors with
that or put his subordinates in danger when his duty is to protect
them…).

He might have been
investigating the CCG during the timeskip, since we still haven’t
heard much from Amon’s life as a ghoul… But I feel like that might
not have been his focus at any rate. After all, what we have seen of
him as “floppy” was simply saying “Yasuhisa” while on the
place where she’d been cannibalising, which means he has probably
been tailing her.

What we’ve seen of
him son far in the last chapters is him closing his kakugan,
protecting Akira and declaring he’ll save Seidou… as well as
leaving Houji to die at Seidou’s hand without doing anything. He’s
still holding onto his need to protect those “beneath him”, to
his old relationships. But even before they were quite flawed, since
he never truly tried to get closer to them, on an actual personal
level. They were people to protect. It’s almost as if he was greedily
gathering relationships and ferociously defending them as his dear
belongings. I guess that was born from the insecurity of having
already had people dear to him taken away, such as his precious
mentor, his colleague Harima, the other orphans at Donato’s orphanage
and his parents, both the biological ones and Donato.

Donato… He might
be the most interesting piece in the puzzle of Amon’s life. He might
not have died physically, but as the parent figure he loved he did.
The betrayal of his loved father figure and possibly survivor’s guilt
have surely played a big part in who he is now… And the fact that,
to protect himself, he saw all as the actions of “a ghoul, Donato”
instead of just “the individual, Donato” and pushed all his fear,
frustration and pain away by turning to hatred towards ghouls, to
give him a reason to keep going after “realising” all his life
had been a lie. And, in a way, to get revenge without having to
actually kill Donato by blaming all ghouls as a whole.

But it wasn’t
“ghouls” that killed the orphans. It was Donato. This
generalisation is what started to be brought down by the existence of
Kaneki, that piqued his interest, and it’s also something that might
bring him a great contradiction right now that he has become a
half-ghoul. The act of closing his kakugan might have other reasons,
but it still stands as denial. And my personal opinion is that more
than to himself, he’s trying to deny what he is to others, trying to
appear as normal as possible despite how impossible that is (which he
also surely knows). After all, he only closed his eye while around
his old companions, but had it open during his big reveal (one could
argue that Ishida wanted to show us that he’s become a ghoul, but I
think having his  arm back would have been enough of a giveaway, so
if closing his eye all the time was an important part of Amon’s
personality as half-ghoul I believe Ishida would have showed that-
but that’s of course just my opinion).

This brings me to
believe that he might have been following Kurona and trying to save
Seidou as much for them as for himself. With this I mean that, if he
has internalised the notion that being a ghoul is inherently evil and
his insecurity prevents him from reaching the conclusion that he’s
wrong, he might be trying to prove himself that they can be saved. By
saving Seidou, he’d prove himself that he too can be saved, that his
sins can be forgiven. I’m not saying his motives are completely
selfish, but I don’t think anyone’s motives are entirely selfless
either, and all parts have to be considered.

For someone like
Amon, who has repeatedly carried the burden and blamed himself for
what wasn’t really his fault, determining that ghouls aren’t evil just
because he himself has become one doesn’t seem likely. He needs to
come to terms with himself, to reach out to people and truly
understand what they are beyond what they are TO HIM. For that,
Akira, Seidou and Kaneki will play a big role, but in the end I still
believe it’ll be Donato who’ll have the biggest impact. If he can
accept that ghouls can love (and I believe Donato loved Amon) and
still be evil, can be loved back as he loved (and, in a way, still
loves) Donato despite it all, and that being a ghoul in itself isn’t
what’s evil, then he’ll finally become a person capable of reaching
fulfillment, building true relationships and seeing the real enemies
wherever they are- be it ghouls, humans or investigators.

Anyway, I’m not sure
if this is what you were asking of me, but these are my thoughts on
Amon and his situation right now.  Thanks for the message, nonnie,
and have a good day. ^^