It is an effective way to control someone, isn't it.
[There's a... pause before he replies to the rest of that. He's certainly "at risk," in a way. It had been a dangerous sort of "kindness" which had been the death of his mother, working herself to an early grave in order to support both herself, him, and his emotionally-abusive aunt. Kaneki didn't appear to have interpreted anything as cautionary. Were it not for his body's dogged determination to cling to life, he would've died multiple times over by this point, most of the time because he had tried to do something he believed was helpful to someone.
He owes her and the gravity of the offer more than just shrugging or laughing it off. He's serious when he replies.]
FROM: kaneki.ken@cdc.org
Should it ever become an issue for me while working here, I would accept your offer.
[Unfortunately, even this is done for someone other than himself. Kaneki truly doesn't care all that much for his own life—for him, it and what he's doing are just chips being used to help others back home, relying heavily on what the CDC had seemed to promise him when he had agreed to help.
It's what gave him a purpose to work for, though. Until something else became more readily available.]
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It is an effective way to control someone, isn't it.
[There's a... pause before he replies to the rest of that. He's certainly "at risk," in a way. It had been a dangerous sort of "kindness" which had been the death of his mother, working herself to an early grave in order to support both herself, him, and his emotionally-abusive aunt. Kaneki didn't appear to have interpreted anything as cautionary. Were it not for his body's dogged determination to cling to life, he would've died multiple times over by this point, most of the time because he had tried to do something he believed was helpful to someone.
He owes her and the gravity of the offer more than just shrugging or laughing it off. He's serious when he replies.]
FROM: kaneki.ken@cdc.org
Should it ever become an issue for me while working here, I would accept your offer.
[Unfortunately, even this is done for someone other than himself. Kaneki truly doesn't care all that much for his own life—for him, it and what he's doing are just chips being used to help others back home, relying heavily on what the CDC had seemed to promise him when he had agreed to help.
It's what gave him a purpose to work for, though. Until something else became more readily available.]