Text ; Anonymous [cw;discussing cannibalism]

[anthropophagite]

[ baby's first network post and it'll be an anonymous text post, because Kaneki's priority is to know just how bad his situation really is without having others freaking out. He has thousands of questions, but none are as important as these: ]

Does anyone know what Ghouls are? Do they exist in your world? Do they exist here?

Comments

[anthropophagite]

I don't expect that.
Your reaction is normal. You are normal.

[ even if it's an heartbreaking normalcy, to hear people say that ghouls are nothing but monsters that should be wiped out, aren't worth of being alive, and pretend to have any feelings. ]

[pundemic]

so y do u sound like u sympathize with them??

[What with all this 'they hear that every day' nonsense, and the way he freaked out about the thought of killing them. You can't afford to be a pacifist when there's a real threat at your door. Maybe he's just a kid.]

[anthropophagite]

Because I do.
I don't think they are things to be killed or monsters. They have feelings, they have families, and they are born into a complicated existence without being asked to, from the very first day they open their eyes.

I am scared of them. But I've seen more than just death and violence in their world.

[pundemic]

do u really think having feelings or family means u can't be a monster? bc i am pretty sure humans have been pretty fucking monstrous over the last whatever thousands of years and they have both those things.

[Wait that might actually strengthen his argument. Ellie frowns at herself.]

[anthropophagite]

That's right.

And that doesn't justify the extermination of our species, does it? Why does it justify theirs?

[pundemic]

[She wrinkles up her nose in distaste. She doesn't like the direction this conversation is gone in, and she's seriously tempted to just... stop talking to this person because sticking her fingers in her ears and going YOU'RE FUCKING WRONG at the top of her lungs seems a touch...

... immature.]

do i need to draw u a diagram about how eating humans is wrong, or...

[anthropophagite]

So is killing a mother right in front of her child.

[anthropophagite]

It doesn't matter. [ not to her. And not to any human in Kaneki's world. They don't want to see the grey between the black and white, because if they did, they'd be living a really difficult life, just like Kaneki is right now. ]

It is wrong. [ a lot is ] Thank you for answering.

[pundemic]

depends on what the mother's done.

[She's not enough of a monster to be able to say she's completely unmoved by the idea. Maybe she can even accept that a child born to that shitty life would be innocent up to a certain point. But she would have killed David in front of a hundred of his kids on a lit up goddamn stage without a fucking ounce of remorse, too. What does that make her?

She folds her arms uncomfortably. It takes her a while to come back to this to reply.]

who r u anyway?

[anthropophagite]

That doesn't matter either. [ he is obviously not going to out himself. Specially after she made it clear she thinks like every person back in Kaneki's world regarding ghouls. ]

[pundemic]

[Okay but now you've made her paranoid and she's going to do research on these damn things on her own time.]

suit urself dude.

[Annnd exit stage left. Besides arguing, she doesn't think there's anything else to be had from this conversation, and she's got a Lot to think about.]

[anthropophagite]

[ sorry for making your life harder ellie oooops ]