Ella

My heart has no pity on me ⋆˙⟡ She/Her

[saturnyenne]

This is so her

[saturnyenne]

Haters can pry hayffie from my cold, dead hands.

[saturnyenne]

Meeting a tokyo ghoul fan irl, but they're straight

[canadianlucifer]

dehumanization but not as in viewing someone as less than human, but rather more than human.

dehumanization but in the sense of seeing someone as god-like, all powerful, magnanimous and unable to do any wrong. They are perfection incarnate, a symbol to follow, a martyr for a cause, or the embodiment of a teaching.

dehumanization as in thinking someone is beyond constrictive human behaviours and beliefs like bias, mistakes, misunderstandings, being under pressure, or selfishness.

[ghoulsbian]

i always interpreted torso's father killing and eating torso's childhood friend, minomi, as a metaphor for him raping and killing her to teach his son a lesson. i feel like the metaphor is very obvious but have never seen anybody else talk about it. i'm wondering if i'm completely off base here? i'd like to hear what others think.

i'm curious about if anyone else interpreted it this way ever, so let me know. this is literally how i've always interpreted it, since i read that chapter. not that i necessarily need others to validate how i read it, but i just was curious about discussion this could spawn.

[ghoulsbian]

and then, sort of related, i feel like another obvious one to me that i don't see anyone talk about is donato porpora being something of a social commentary on sexually predatory clergymen. he is a literal predator to the children in his care, preying on them like a wolf whose become to accustomed to the ease of hunting a sheep in a pasture with a chronically broken fence. they came as easy to him as the sheep did to the wolf, because orphans were literally being placed in his care, without any sort of outward suspicion of what might've happened to the previous ones. much like how young children are entrusted to religious leaders because people assume someone of such caliber would be more trustworthy. much like how the molestation and grooming done by these people is swept under the rug due to their status.

and then, i think amon is sort of an exploration of the complex feelings of being the only person in a group of people that wasn't abused by someone they all have in common. like... the weird mix of i'm glad that didn't happen to me and why wouldn't they choose me? am i not good enough? and the guilt and disgust that follows the latter half of that mix.

[saturnyenne]

[saturnyenne]

"How does it feel to be adored?"

[saturnyenne]

Eto & Kuzen Yoshimura from Tokyo Ghoul

[ipsen]

ch63 and re63

These images side by side are great at capturing how the original series and its sequel are different using the same line.

Tokyo Ghoul is bloody and gross and tragic, because ultimately Kaneki's plight here is pointless, as Aogiri, as we know, is not the real enemy, and yet, starting with this line, he begins his attempt to destroy them. He seizes control of the narrative-- we'll use a boat metaphor here (trust me)-- and he steers it toward Tragedy. Because tragedy is just 'doing a pointless thing' but like, if it was interesting.

Tokyo Ghoul: re is hopeful and about breaking cycles of tragedy, and Eto here, as a constant boat rocker, is now attempting to divert the boat's direction away from Tragedy and toward actual change and Hope. Because from chapter 63 onward (except for the things post-143, which is a whole other bag of worms), the relevant information about V and the Washuu is revealed, and the true villains of the narrative are finally placed on the board.

But there's another thing to talk about: the purpose of the characters saying the line. This line signifies Change. It denotes that the story has shifted in a different direction from where it used to be going. And that change is being driven by the character saying it in both instances. And, though that change is different for both of them, there is one commonality:

They are throwing away their human half. Their 'safe' half. They throw all of their cards into their identity as a ghoul in the hopes of pursuing their ideals.

They're the same.

[saturnyenne]

[saturnyenne]

Once more to see you

[saturnyenne]