OOC Player/Contact: Vee! / lycanthropic or PM Other Characters: N/A
IC Name: Ken Kaneki Canon:Tokyo Ghoul:re Canonpoint: Post-Chapter 99 Age: 23 years
History/Personality:History | Personality Kaneki's personality is a little tricky, as he goes through several "phases" of personality (including a stint of amnesia in which he was essentially operating as an entirely different person). His current canon-point synthesizes his character development from the beginning of the comic through the Third Cochlea Raid. I'm happy to provide any further elaboration if desired.
Would you consider your character to be heroic? Why or why not?: Though he's the protagonist of his series and, by his canonpoint, the leader of a revolutionary group which seeks to reshape the very structure of the world into one which champions parity and understanding between ghouls and humans, I am hard-pressed to argue that he is a purely heroic figure. My reasoning lies not within his goals but within his motivations. The integral flaw of Kaneki's character is that he is an incredibly passive character at his core — he rarely makes a critical decision without being influenced by the impetus of others, either coloring or overriding his own. He becomes the leader of Goat not because of everything he has seen and experienced as a half-ghoul in his cruel world but because the crown of the One-Eyed King had been left to him by two other authoritative figures in his life. It's not to say he doesn't believe in his newfound mission, but it becomes doubtful that he would have unerringly made the same decision should that outside influence have been absent.
So within the structure of his own narrative, no, Kaneki often fails to be heroic. He changes often (almost fickly and usually in whatever way makes what he's trying to do easiest and most palatable to him), but he struggles to make concrete enough character development to stop from making the same mistakes at the end of the story as he did in the beginning. Where the wrinkle in all of this comes is that he is a very heroic figure to others. Regardless of his personal reasons, he becomes a lodestone to which all of the disparate individuals of his revolutionary group look to when the outlook of their struggle seems uncertain. Because he is so motivated by his desire to aid or protect others, one could also say that his self-sacrificing selflessness is another heroic trait which many would find admirable.
So when asked whether or not Kaneki is "heroic"... it's a little of Column A, a little of Column B. In a world as vicious and dire as his own, it's very difficult to be a hero, especially not for an individual whose continued survival invariably comes at the expense of others' lives. But he has always been unflinching in observing the twisted truth of that world, and though he was largely set up to be put into the position to do so, he is serious about trying to change it for the better.
Powers/Abilities:Here, though please discount anything having to do with "Dragon." Inventory: Not much! Just the clothes on his back.
Coterie: Jaguars. He'd find himself most at use protecting others.
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IC
Name: Ken Kaneki
Canon: Tokyo Ghoul:re
Canonpoint: Post-Chapter 99
Age: 23 years
History/Personality: History | Personality
Kaneki's personality is a little tricky, as he goes through several "phases" of personality (including a stint of amnesia in which he was essentially operating as an entirely different person). His current canon-point synthesizes his character development from the beginning of the comic through the Third Cochlea Raid. I'm happy to provide any further elaboration if desired.
Would you consider your character to be heroic? Why or why not?: Though he's the protagonist of his series and, by his canonpoint, the leader of a revolutionary group which seeks to reshape the very structure of the world into one which champions parity and understanding between ghouls and humans, I am hard-pressed to argue that he is a purely heroic figure. My reasoning lies not within his goals but within his motivations. The integral flaw of Kaneki's character is that he is an incredibly passive character at his core — he rarely makes a critical decision without being influenced by the impetus of others, either coloring or overriding his own. He becomes the leader of Goat not because of everything he has seen and experienced as a half-ghoul in his cruel world but because the crown of the One-Eyed King had been left to him by two other authoritative figures in his life. It's not to say he doesn't believe in his newfound mission, but it becomes doubtful that he would have unerringly made the same decision should that outside influence have been absent.
So within the structure of his own narrative, no, Kaneki often fails to be heroic. He changes often (almost fickly and usually in whatever way makes what he's trying to do easiest and most palatable to him), but he struggles to make concrete enough character development to stop from making the same mistakes at the end of the story as he did in the beginning. Where the wrinkle in all of this comes is that he is a very heroic figure to others. Regardless of his personal reasons, he becomes a lodestone to which all of the disparate individuals of his revolutionary group look to when the outlook of their struggle seems uncertain. Because he is so motivated by his desire to aid or protect others, one could also say that his self-sacrificing selflessness is another heroic trait which many would find admirable.
So when asked whether or not Kaneki is "heroic"... it's a little of Column A, a little of Column B. In a world as vicious and dire as his own, it's very difficult to be a hero, especially not for an individual whose continued survival invariably comes at the expense of others' lives. But he has always been unflinching in observing the twisted truth of that world, and though he was largely set up to be put into the position to do so, he is serious about trying to change it for the better.
Powers/Abilities: Here, though please discount anything having to do with "Dragon."
Inventory: Not much! Just the clothes on his back.
Coterie: Jaguars. He'd find himself most at use protecting others.
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