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[Yamiga]

I know a lot of people may think thatHide is related to the clowns or the to the Washuu family, however, I have my own theory about him.

 

What if he’s related to Ukina? I say this for a few reasons.

One, Hide is basically a blank slate. All we have to go off of is his name, and his personality traits.

So I’m going to start with his personality traits in comparison to Ukina.

 

First and for most, they both are very upbeat, kind and no matter what supportive. We see the way they both care for the ones they love, and that everlasting bond they have even through the most toughest of times. We also see that sacrafices they are willing to make for the ones they love.

I mean, it wasn’t even a question of whether or not Ukina was going to eat human mean when she found out Yoshimaru was a ghoul. She completely tarnished her humanity for the sake of “their” happiness.

Hide nearly risked his life on multiple occasions various times when he was searching for Kaneki.

 

And this also brings me to something else.

They are both very accepting of the ones they love being ghouls. I mean, just look at how they don’t care, and how both Yoshimaru and Kaneki aren’t expecting such a reaction.

They both genuinely love their ghouls, and not even the nature of them being ghouls ruins that bond. Ukina and Hide see Kaneki and manager as people they love.

 

On a more ‘negative’, trait, they both harbor intuition, and because of that, are both very manipulative and deceptive.

But in the end, Ukina didn’t betray Yoshimaru, nor did Hide turn his back on Kaneki. And a side note for Ukina, despite the fact that she was tracking the V organization, she had no idea Yoshimaru was affilated with the V organization until later on. Kind of like Hide had no idea that Kaneki was affilated with Anteiku until later on.

They both, despite the danger they’re putting themselves in, care for their ghouls unconditionally. They are both humans that accepted ghouls, which is what really sets them a part.

 

So moving along…this may explain why Hide knows so much about ghouls. I have a itch that maybe, Ukina could’ve been his aunt.

 

Remember she had a diary that she wrote stuff in about Organization V. I have a feeling that she also wrote other things to, maybe facts about ghouls. If Ukina is Hide’s aunt, then it would’ve made sense if her brother, or sister (either Hide’s mother or father), got some writings after she died, maybe spare journals? I know Eto has the original diary. Hide could’ve gotten a hold of some things at a point and started reading about ghouls from what Ukina wrote. 

She was a journalist, which meant that she liked to snoop out stories, find clues, look for facts, search for answers….kind of like a detective. Hide is called the ‘amateur’, detective is he not? Her writings could’ve influenced his urge for wanting to be a detective and also, his love for reading books that deal with mystery?

 

Lastly, I want of focus on Hide’s name. Which is Hideyoshi Nagachika.

Hideyoshi, and Yoshimaru.

 

Okay, I’m pretty sure that Ukina may’ve mentioned Yoshimaru’s name in her writings. Though he was Kuzen, maybe Yoshimaru was his last name?

It has ‘Yoshi’ in it. Maybe Hide’s mom or dad wanted to honor Yoshimaru or something like that, or pass down the name to Hide.

So, they took the “Yoshi” part and combined it with  “Hide”. It would make sense if Ukina and Hide’s parents were close. Since I’m pretty sure Yoshimaru fled afterwards, they probably figured he was dead. So they put Yoshi in Hide’s name to honor both of them.

Also, we don’t know Ukina’s maiden name. It could very well be Nagachika. 

This is just something I thought of, and it may not be canon, but it’s fun to ponder on, right? Please tell me what you think?

 

And one last thing. When Hide went looking for Kaneki during the Anteiku raid, there were aogiri ghouls around. Wouldn’t it be easy for them to kill him?

 

Maybe Eto, knowing who he was, told them not to. Just food for thoughts.

 

[Volitan]

How interesting! This would surely be more fascinating than if Hide were related to the Washuus... Though that would be fun to see as well, and may not be mutually exclusive.

 

What reasons does Eto have for caring about the fate of her human relatives, though?

 

I do wonder how Hide made it down into the sewers without anyone else going after him. Aogiri ghouls aside, surely slipping away from the CCG crew would be difficult as well.

 

 

I think that these parallels are quite good, but it may be too soon to draw this conclusion.

 

Either way, Hide has shown to be quite resourceful when it comes to gathering information, and has been shown to be able to quite insightful/ good at reading people and whatnot. So it's possible, I believe, that he would have been able to learn so much about ghouls without outside help.

 

Furthermore, the kanji used for the "-yoshi" in "Hideyoshi" is different from the "Yoshi-" of "Yoshimura", and I'd think that naming someone after another person would be more likely to involve taking the same kanji for the name.

Edited by Volitan, 13 February 2015 - 06:31 PM.

[favole]

Interesting, even if I'm not buying it that much, sorry. Still, it was interesting to read.
Hide definitely has a shady background (other people have mentioned him maybe being a part of the Washuu family, so maybe you're both right and he's linked to important people in this story)

Just one thing because it bothered me a Hell lot, it's Yoshimura not Yoshimaru. Please write his name right, he deserves that much.

Edited by favole, 13 February 2015 - 06:14 PM.

[Volitan]

I hope we get more of Hide's background soon....

Edited by Volitan, 13 February 2015 - 06:32 PM.

[favole]

Soon might be the key word here. I'm not convinced it will be soon, personally...

[mellow yellow]

Like everyone else has been saying, this is pretty interesting to think about, really difficult to buy. A lot of the OP just seems to be changing the problem to fit the answer you want to reach, that is, Hide being related to Ukina and Eto. But whatever the truth is, we won't know it for a long time.