May 28, 2018
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Tokyo Ghoul:re Chapter 175/176 Headcanon
Seeing as we’re about to reach the climax of the Kaneki vs Furuta fight, I thought I may as well post my headcanon of the events I personally wish to take place, but will very unlikely happen. I hope other people enjoy reading this if they hold similar sentiments to my own.
*Kaneki backs away and stands firm, facing towards a heavily injured Furuta whose kakuja gradually breaks away*
Furuta: Haah... Haah...
*Furuta looks downward with his hair covering his face, as he clutches onto his torn abdomen which slowly regenerates*
Furuta: Hahaha... Well done. You've won, haven't you?
*Kaneki looks on with a somber tone on his face*
Furuta: This is the part where you finish me off and celebrate to everyone how you "saved" Tokyo, and killed that evil bastard Furuta...
*Kaneki remains still, his facial expression shaded out*
Furuta: Well? What are you... fucking... waiting for.
Kaneki: No. You're right about me.
Furuta: Hah.
Kaneki: Up until now, I couldn't understand you.
Kaneki: I thought of you as trash, who nobody should care about, someone who should be tossed aside without a second thought. But...
Kaneki: I'd just be saying the same about myself, wouldn't I?
Furuta: ...
Kaneki: I said to myself that I wanted to start taking responsibility, yet even now all I do is find ways to ignore the things I've done.
Kaneki: You chose to play as the villain, and I chose to play along as the hero and point at you, so that I could distract everyone from seeing the real me.
Furuta: Oh? A little late to admit your shortcomings now, don't you think?
Kaneki: At the end of the day, We're both mass murderers who have taken countless lives. If anything, all I did was perpetuate the system.
Furuta: Come now, enough of those predictable lines. It's as if you're reading straight out of a book.
Kaneki: Furuta, you...
Kaneki: You just... wanted to be loved, didn't you?
*Furuta twitches*
Furuta: Idiot, idiot. You, understand me? ....Hah. Hahahaha.
Furuta: Look at you. Making that pathetic face. Trying to sympathize WITH ME?!
*Furuta's kakuja emerges once again, taking on an even more distorted form than previously, with kagune, mouths and eyeballs sprouting from every angle of his body*
*Kaneki is surprised by Furuta while his guard is lowered. Furuta swings a massive kagune arm which Kaneki failed to dodge, being swatted away by the blunt force of the strike*
Kaneki: Guh!
Furuta: THAT'S EASY FOR YOU TO SAY, FOR SOMEONE WHO ALREADY HAS EVERYTHING!
Furuta's kagune: This world!
*Kaneki tries to regain his footing, but Furuta continues to lunge at him, even quicker than before, the two of them continue clashing*
Furuta: WHY IS IT THAT YOU'RE THE ONE WHO HAS EVERYTHING, AND NOT ME?!
Furuta's kagune: Let’s laugh!
Furuta: YOU'RE JUST AN IDIOT WHO CAN BARELY TIE HIS OWN SHOE LACES!
*Kaneki shows signs of struggling as Furuta continues lashing wildly at him, this time breaking through Kaneki's kakuja and grazing him several times*
Furuta: DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
Furuta's kagune: Stupid!
*Furuta forms a huge blade which slices off one of Kaneki's wing blades*
Kaneki: Tch!
Kaneki: Furuta! Stop this!
Furuta: Haah...
Furuta: Who the fuck do you think you're talking to, trying to give me pity...
Furuta's kagune: How fun!
Furuta: SHuT uP AnD KiLL Me aLReaDy.
Kaneki: I won't.
*Kaneki surprises Furuta by wrapping his wing blades around him, then proceeds to violently drag him across the ground*
Furuta: This isn't... ENOUGH!
*Furuta breaks away from Kaneki's hold by releasing his kagune in all directions*
Furuta: ...Just looking at you pisses me off.
Kaneki: You're right, Furuta.
Furuta: Urgh...
Kaneki: You're right, I do have everything. To be honest, if I didn't have Hide when I was growing up, and if I didn't have Anteiku when I became a ghoul, I think...
Kaneki: I would've ended up a lot like you.
Furuta: ...
Furuta: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Furuta: ENOUGH OF THE SENTIMENTAL BULLSHIT!
*Furuta impales his kagune into the ground which suddenly rises from Kaneki's feet, which he barely manages to avoid, losing another wing blade in the process*
Furuta: I'm not inferior to you, just because you have friends...
*Furuta's kagune divides and twists around Kaneki from all directions, followed by an onslaught of attacks*
Furuta: I didn't need anyone to get where I am! I done it all on my own!
*Kaneki continually blocks Furuta's oncoming attacks, his kakuja gradually being torn off while doing so*
Kaneki: Guh...
Furuta: But you! You always had someone there to lick your boots! Yet even with all that support, you still manage to fuck everything up!
Furuta: HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A FAILURE AND A MURDERER!
*Furuta's rambling is cut short as Kaneki detaches one of his wing blades and hurls it directly at Furuta, impaling him through the chest and sending him flying into a wall*
Furuta: AAAARGHGRRGHH!
*Furuta pulls the blade out of his chest as blood spurts out and his kakuja breaks off once again, his body slowly regenerating*
Furuta: Haah... Haah... Urgh...
Kaneki: I don't want to kill you Furuta, I'm tired of killing.
*Kaneki's kakuja completely dissipates as he comes to a standstill*
Kaneki: Don't you feel the same?
Kaneki: You don't need to be alone, you know.
Furuta: ...You're telling me this? Seriously?
Furuta: How can anyone take what you say seriously. Why is it that you're the one who's loved by many.
Kaneki: Honestly, I don't know why.
Kaneki: I'm not that smart, I'm not that caring. I push people away from me. I try to take everyone's burdens and destroy myself in the process.
Kaneki: Among all the unfortunate humans and ghouls in this twisted world, maybe I was just lucky.
Furuta: ...Luck, huh.
Furuta: ...
Furuta: Then I guess you were dealt the Joker card.
*Furuta looks at Kaneki with sincerity and regret in his eyes, before lunging at him once again with his kagune, its form now taking on a smaller and no longer distorted appearance*
*Kaneki promptly blocks Furuta's kagune with his own, which also takes on an equally smaller appearance, both of their kagune now resembling Rize's original kagune*
*Kaneki and Furuta continue battling, neither of them having a clear advantage in the fight, as they progress they both become more bloodied and bruised, their regeneration gradually slowing down to a halt*
*As they continue their life and death struggle, they begin to smile in a sinister yet sincere way, as if they were enjoying the battle*
*Some time after, both of them are seen lying on the floor, trying desperately to get back up, using every ounce of their remaining energy just to stay conscious and breathing*
Kaneki: Haah... Haah... Furuta...
Furuta: What... do you want...
Kaneki: Before... You told me...
Kaneki: That you were doing all this for Rize.
Kaneki: I think... I understand why now.
Furuta: ...Good for you.
Furuta: (Rize...)
*Both of them become motionless as they fall unconscious, the surrounding area being covered by a blanket of silence*
I think Furuta’s motives in the end boils down to envy. He envied others for things he couldn’t have and he especially envied Kaneki for being able to continue on in life despite everything being stacked against him. For being able to find happiness. For being able to live his life.
And because of that he wanted to see Kaneki fall. He wanted Kaneki to go into despair and wish for death. That’s why he was enabling the toxic mindset that Kaneki had when he went through his Black Reaper phase. Even now he tried in vain to sink Kaneki into despair by mocking him for his past mistakes. All to hide his inadequacy and awareness that ultimately he’s the one for whom nothing matters in the end.
Furuta spread despair and destruction so he can feel better about his situation while doing nothing to truly give his life meaning. So when his taunts failed this time, when he realized that Kaneki is no longer trapped by his old insecurities, he is forced to face the fact that what Kaneki has is exactly the thing he truly wanted but threw away his life for in favor of nihilism and causing misery.
He can no longer escape facing the fact that in the end, he made his own life meaningless. And he will die a meaningless death to end a meaningless life.
My bby boy i love him so much
I was thinking that Kaneki maked this face because he realised that Furuta was watching him all this time from Aogiri torture to King times.
I don’t think so... Furuta wouldn’t have had the reaction he did if so. Kaneki already knew that from 101 and didn’t care, so that wasn’t anything knew. The look on Kaneki’s face was clearly empathetic, and Furuta was basically like DONT PITY ME. :(
For those who haven’t realized
Kaneki had already revealed his final kakuja form in chapter 164, which we all assumed was just his regular kagune at the time. But now we can see that the same cross blades are present here as well.
But, wait, I thought the last page shows someone else and not Rize? I mean, the female here is blonde and the kid near Furuta really resembles Hairu??? I'm confused, plz enlighten me. I want to cry after reading this chapter btw. Fruit-chan is precious and must be protected at all costs.
*inserts you and me into the narrative to save Fruit-chan from Rize most likely*
But I think it’s just a generic wish--he just wanted a family, because he just wanted to be loved, and it’s a generic fantasy. Is it Rize? It might not even be, and if it isn’t, it doesn’t really matter because he hoped Rize would fulfill that wish he had. But if it is, keep in mind Rize, when we last saw her, actually had white hair! I think the girl is their daughter just with a similar haircut to Hairu tbh, which might be refelctive of the Garden and how they all had to conform.
So Furuta is loved?
Every time someone says this I lose an hour off my life.
Jk but no, this chapter seemed to reinforce the idea that Tsuneyoshi was a gross lying rapist who bred children. Kindness is part of the abuse cycle.