Apologies for not posting your ask; last time I answered a similar question it led to a troll targeting me *rolls eyes*. Don’t feel bad about asking though; it’s a legitimate question.
I’m also happy to hear from people who love Mutsuki, as he’s still one of my favorite characters ever. I can’t not love him. Under the cut!
My explanation of said scene is here. I do not believe Mutsuki really wanted to harm Kaneki like that; I think he was having a psychological breakdown and I think he was vacillating between his anger at Kaneki for leaving him (and the anger he also had towards his mother and father for not treating him well was also being projected onto Kaneki, because Kaneki had been a “good dad” so to speak and then wasn’t) and his desperate desire to think that “if I’d only done x, they would come back.” There was also a deliberate parallel with Torso as well, to parallel Kaneki’s paralleling of Yamori in the first TG. Anyways, it all stemmed imo from a deep insecurity and a lack of self-worth that led to a fractured sense of self.
Mutsuki’s breakdown, imo, is one of the parts of TG that I think could have been really well done, but it kind of got dropped towards the end which was disappointing. Oh well. I still love him and am glad he survived his spiral.
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