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All of the power in the world is useless if you can’t control it.

Case: [A-OWL]

Donor: Yoshimura. Recipient: Amon Koutarou.

RC cells behavior pattern: 230, 970, 5820, 10181…

N.B.: Normal increase in RC-cells for the first two weeks. Kagune has started development on time. However, the subsequent increase in RC-cells was abnormally high. After RC-count reached 10,000, an RC suppressing medicine was administered to the subject. Further increase not observed. Further drug administration suspended. Writing off “A-OWL” as a failure. Experiment closed.

Kanou’s notes: Such a pity, too.  Although from a theoretical value standpoint it’s great that the case’s specimen was able to become a kakuja. If he was at least able to control it, that is.

10,000 is far beyond a stable point. Seidou Takizawa who was considered a success and a scary level ghoul was basically only at 7,000. This was after years of torture and forced feedings to get the rc cell pathways to spread out amongst his body. Whereas, Amon reached that level all on his own in under two weeks. 

Not only does he seem to spike at random intervals, he also does it inconsistently. “Further increase was no longer observed.” 

Kaneki continues to grow and surge in a predictable way, that’s why Kanou finds him so absolutely fascinating. In comparison what we witness of Amon’s ghoulification, he has low and short kagune growth. There’s partial in character motivations for this, Amon did not make contact with any ghouls nor did he learn how to control himself from a ghoul, nor does he consider himself a ghoul.

We also see that Amon’s attempts at creating kagune are kind of pulpy and gross.

So, Amon cannot properly form a kagune and he has periods where he has extremely low production and exhausts himself easily. Urie even plots the whole fight around this concept. 

Yet, Amon’s kagune is also observed doing weird thing. He either still has Doujima on him, or perfectly recreated his quinque. Urie’s dialogue seems to suggest that it’s fake.

What we observe next then, is either the result of Amon absorbind a quinque made out of a similiar material (Noro’s kagune was most likely donated from Eto), or a sudden spike of RC Cells that unleashes his uncontrollable Kakuja state.

Urie’s dialogue as well as literally everything about Amon’s character also suggests that Amon has not been eating anything other than ghoul up until this point. So perhaps that Kagune explosion was something waiting to happen, or perhaps it was a result of devouring Ginkui on top of the stress his body was already undergoing.

The point is though that Amon experiences period of incredibly low kagune production and low rc cell production, with then sudden and unexplainable spikes. He is incredibly unpredictable. 

To Kanou that was not what he was looking for. He wanted to move away from his unsafe and low productivity surgery to something that was easier to mass produce, thus it makes sense he moved away from Amon entirely as a subject. Amon’s kagune is just too weird to be predictable.

Kanou’s also a really bad scientist, so it makes sense he wouldn’t want to investigate those failures for why specifically they would fail in character.