do you think eren has romantic feelings for historia? if its true that the reason he came to marley is for historia, the cost is too high. No hate for historia but, but for the sake of literally saving one person, he sacrificed so many lifes. innocents eldian women and children, even sasha. EVEN SASHA. SASHA WAS KILLED FOR THIS:( that man even laughed at her death. *1

*2 if he did this for paradis, i would be not this mad,(bcs at least sasha died as hero(to help paradis), not died for this foolish man’s egoistical action). i’ll be forever salty about this. sorry for this salt. WhyShouldSashaPayforHisSelfishReason #justiceforudo #justiceforzofia #JUSTICEFORSASHA

I don’t think Eren has romantic feelings for Historia. Eren forms close bonds with people easily as has been shown with Historia, Mikasa, Annie, Armin, Levi’s squad, etc. aaaaand it’s an important motivator for him.

See, whereas Armin puts the good of the majority first to a fault sometimes, Eren puts the good of someone he cares about first to a fault. Mikasa is more in the middle, seeing the world as cruel and beautiful. Armin is too accepting of the world’s cruelties and Eren is too focused on the world’s beauty, but ironically, in these visions Armin is probably going to help save the world somehow via empathy (a beautiful thing), and Eren has contributed to the world’s cruelty.

Anyways, Eren and Historia shared a lot together, so of course they care deeply about one another, and it pains Eren as it would pain anyone to see a friend regressing and slipping back into old, unhealthy habits–to see Historia choose to sacrifice herself after all is terrifying for Eren. Eren firmly believes in freedom, but seeing Historia’s choice not to sacrifice herself be mitigated by the world’s circumstances makes him feel as if he has no choices, as he tells Hange.

He will not stand by and let a person he cares for suffer; that’s a part of Eren’s characterization that has been consistent from the beginning.

Another important part of Eren’s character is that he cannot endure other people being treated wrongly especially when it comes to having their freedom inhibited (one of the series’ main themes is freedom, after all!). Eren at nine years old became a murderer to save a girl he’d never met before (Mikasa). That’s not much different than what Eren is doing now except the stakes are higher, so the consequences are higher (now it’s not human traffickers who are dead, but innocent kids). In trying to protect a friend in Historia he lost one in Sasha, and it is a narrative consequence indeed.

It is certainly not fair 😦 we are in a series where nothing is fair (like tbh the world today). It isn’t fair Sasha died. It also isn’t fair Gabi is in a position like this or Eren’s dad gave him the titan ability or Historia is forcing herself through a pregnancy. The world is cruel, but–there is beauty, and I still believe beauty will still exist in the end.

I do want to quibble with the notion that Eren laughed at Sasha’s death–I mean, he did, but it is certainly not a laugh of callousness. Laughing is actually a genuine psychological response to shock, grief, and horror that can’t be controlled sometimes. Sounds strange right? But it’s also really a thing. Eren wasn’t not caring, and the text clearly shows that he does care. The laugh was likely also a response to Sasha’s last words being meat, and Eren probably realizes the irony of trying to save a friend=losing a friend.

I think his laugh was one of despair. Because, as he tells Hange, he doesn’t know what else to do. Choices, freedom, the things he’s always clung to, been fighting for, are not simple at all, and he does not feel like he has any.

This isn’t a ship ask unless it directly relates to your answer but what is your favourite character relationship in Snk? Your favourite dynamics between 2 characters? Whether it’s one of love, hate, respect, admiration, etc. Which dynamics between 2 of the characters is your fav? It may seem weird but I’ve always found Annie and Reiner’s dynamic to be extremely interesting, since it’s a mixture of loathing on one end yet a sense of mutual respect/understanding. Either that or Reiner and Eren.

No worries!!! So I would say my two favorites are the dynamics between Armin and Annie for reasons I outline here (I do ship them, but I also love their dynamic in general and am excited to see more of it, as it seems we may well get more of it though I doubt it’ll be explictly romantic) and Eren and Levi (whom I DO NOT ship romantically; it’s fine if people do but it’s a NOTP of mine romantically.)

I’m not over the face Levi gives Eren in 105, like a father who has just seen his child ruin his life, and who knows the pain and repercussions of what Eren has done personally (being raised by a serial killer for a bit, after all).

I see Eren and Levi’s relationship as paternal in a sense (Levi and Hange are like. Eren’s distraught parents at this point) and specifically it’s a mentor one. I know a lot of people think serum bowl damaged their relationship, but I actually don’t see any evidence it did. Levi sees himself in Eren: he always has, and for those reasons he’s shown Eren nothing but compassion and understanding since then. But it’s precisely because he understands that Levi also knows just how wrong the path Eren has tread is, and how harmful it is not just to the world and to innocents but to Eren himself, whom I do think Levi loves like family (I’d say he loves the entire 104th, not that he’d be happy to show it–Levi has always been motivated by the people he loves, much like Eren).

Levi’s dislike of Zeke is definitely related to Erwin but probably also to Eren, as Zeke and Levi are foils and instead of listening to Levi, Eren is listening to Zeke because he didn’t like his substitute dad’s advice (granted if it was along the lines of the SC’s plan with Historia I get why, though I think it’s complicated). In the end, I think Eren and Levi’s mentoring relationship will be crucial to saving Paradis, though how that will play out I don’t know yet because so much information is missing.

I remember back when the Uprising arc was happening I used to consider Kenny as a sort of filler villain. He was cool and all that for being a badass, cowboy, Ackerman who raised Levi but I didnt think he had any real importance in the story besides creating hype and giving Levi more characterisation. But then his last speech to Levi about everyone being drunk on something was one of those Snk speeches that perfectly presents its themes and I just have to give respect to Isa for proving me wrong

Kenny’s characterization is incredibly important to Levi’s arc and I’m very, very interested to see the further reverberations in Levi’s arc because I’m getting some very strong parallel vibes. But we’ll see.

If you were to cross ur fave charas into each others’ series, who do u think would get along/ whose interactions would u want to see? More of a random ask lol but I think about this a lot with my favorite characters

I want that Mikasa, Annie, and Touka chat about their men and their quest to get them to realize common sense. Gimme.
Mutsuki Tooru, Suzuya Juuzou, Illumi Zoldyck, Reiner Braun, Levi Ackerman because Levi can be a good mentor and relate to Illumi’s assassin training and Reiner’s and Juuzou’s childhood as well, and Reiner and Mutsuki need a mentor. Mutsuki can relate to Reiner; also Illumi and Juuzou need to learn to be a good mentor and Illumi can relate to Mutsuki’s unhealthy love need.
Jean Kirchstein, Falco Grice, Armin Arlert, Todoroki Shouto. They’ll save the world.
Porco Galliard, Ui Koori, Amon Koutarou, and Kurapika can practice taking specks out of each other’s eyes.
Bertolt Hoover, Alluka Zoldyck, Gon Freecs, Fueguchi Hinami, Ihei Hairu, Yaoyarzou Momo, Uraraka Ochako. Angels Too Good For This World.
Historia Reiss, Kaneki Ken, Chrollo Lucilfer. Talk books, stories, the dangers of making yourself a figurehead, and a lack of self worth.
Ymir, Eren Jaeger, Gabi Braun, Urie Kuki, Kirishima Ayato, Dabi, Bakugou Katsuki, Shigaraki Tomura, Killua Zoldyck. RIP that building is toast.
Erwin Smith, All Might, Arima Kishou, Yoshimura Eto. CAN YOU IMAGINE. I want it. I need it. It must be mine.
Hisoka Morow and Furuta Nimura. Clown time fun time wreck some lives time.
Kamishiro Rize and Himiko Toga. HAVE AT IT LADIES DO YOUR WORST.
Endeavor, Silva Zoldyck, Kikyo Zoldyck, Ging Freecss, Mutsuki’s dad, Kaneki’s mom, Grisha Jaeger. They’re all sent to the submarine of bad parenting.

Since you ranked TG arcs could you rank the Snk arcs? (Including Marley)

Sure. In order from my favorite to least favorite. Not ranking the current arc because not enough chapters yet:

1) Clash of the Titans. The chapter “Somebody” is my favorite chapter in all of SnK. Also, it made me ship Eremika.

2) Uprising. I love Historia and her development here and how it parallels Levi’s is powerful. I did not read this monthly so I know people often say it had pacing issues but it doesn’t if read as a whole. Reading it monthly would have killed me though.

3) Shiganshina. I know, I know, serumbowl. I’m going to be in the minority (but I’m loosely quoting @aspoonofsugar) when I say that while I agree the execution of serumbowl was trite and I did not like how Bertolt’s character got shafted, serumbowl is actually the thematic crux of the series and the entire story rests on it. Also Armin’s development here was great, as was Levi’s.

4) Marley. Again, the pacing was downright awful to start with, especially when you consider that it’s a monthly series. Reading it as a whole, though, I don’t think it would bother me (much like Uprising), and the thematic implications of this arc were so powerful. And Mikasa confronting Eren? Probably my second fave scene.

5) Battle of Trost. I loved how it developed Jean’s character, Mikasa’s “the world is cruel but it is also beautiful” and her decision to live, and Armin’s development as well.

6) 104th Training Corps. It’s just fun and a nice breather but it’s waaaaaaay better done in the anime than in the manga because the pacing of this in the manga is like wtf.

7) Female Titan. I loved Annie and Armin’s relationship because their
interactions are fascinating to me but it’s just not as resonant as the
others imo.

8) Fall of Shiganshina. Intro arcs usually aren’t my fave. It’s a good intro. It’s just an intro.

Historia and Ymir’s Shared Paths

Oh, Historia. 😦

As sad as this development makes me for her (and I totally get why people don’t like it), I do believe it makes narrative sense for Historia’s arc and fits with the cruel aspect of SnK’s world (really not much different than our own). Also, I do not believe this dooms Historia to tragedy.

It’s no secret that the one piece of Isayama’s writing that I’ve thus far hated completely is Ymir’s death. It didn’t seem to fit with what we knew about Ymir, and left a lot unresolved between her and Historia, especially in terms of how they affected each other. Her death was confirmed way too late to have any real thematic impact since the characters were already used to living without her.

But with 107, we see that Historia is not cured and has in fact regressed. Historia is still trapped in the same dangerous cycle that killed Ymir: sacrificing herself and her own desires to be a figurehead for her people, and allowing her children to suffer the same fate. This flaw killed Ymir twice (firstly when she was turned into a Titan, secondly when she was too kind to leave Bertolt and Reiner), and Historia is currently heading down a path that will kill her and kill her children.

The irony of the situation is palpable: Historia is deliberately having a child to sacrifice them for a cause. That’s what Grisha did with Zeke.

It also carries parallels to what happened to Ymir–hopeless people used a street child to fulfill their own desires, to give themselves hope.

Eren just sacrificed children for a cause too (to somehow break with this plan and thereby protect Historia presumably), narratively showing Historia the horrors of just what she is planning to do.

This development gives Ymir’s death resonance, rather than her death being just a letter way too late in the game with no real impact. Because of her own and also directly because of Ymir’s martyr complex driven decisions, Historia has sunk into a similar place: allowing herself to be a figurehead, endangering her life and her child’s for the sake of a cause.

No, Historia, that is not all. Because someone still has Ymir’s memories:

I think we’ve all thought Ymir’s memories would be relevant at some point, but this development is giving me hope that it’s going to be not just a sweet heartwarming moment, but instead a powerful one. If Porco does share certain memories of Ymir’s with Historia, including how she actually felt about her and how she felt about her own decisions (this is surely not what Ymir would have wanted for Historia), I have hope that might jumpstart Historia’s development in a positive direction again.

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I wonder who announced the SC’s recent invasion on Marley as a “victory”! What do you think about it hamliet-san?

I mean my eyes are on Floche or people like him personally who think victory=accomplishing your temporary goals and haven’t heard of a pyrrhic victory, which is what Armin, Levi, et al pretty clearly recognize that that’s what their mission in Marlay/getting Eren back was. The damage the SC did to their image in the site of the world is going to be extremely hard to repair, if it’s even possible (I think it is but with like, a lot more work than it could have been).

hey!!! uhm,,, just gotta ask,, recently someone (idk if i should put their @ or not) made a post about how attack on titan is extremely antisemitic and can make jewish ppl uncomfortable,,,idk,,i’ve never noticed it being,,,antisemitic before??

Every time I see this argument made Emperor Time activates and I lose an hour off my life from sheer wtf.

Jk that’s harsh of me but honestly, every time I see that argument I’m struck by the terrible reading comprehension out there and people’s lack of ability to see that their interpretation isn’t always correct. I wrote this post on it in answer to another ask about this about a month or two ago.

Suffice to say, if it makes you uncomfortable, I absolutely do not fault anyone for not wanting to read it. Not at all. But to apply one’s triggers to the entirety of the world and say “THIS STORY SHOULDNT EXIST BECAUSE IT’S EVIL BECAUSE IT TRIGGERS ME” is the most immature, egotistical, ridiculous attitude and I see it a lot on Tumblr.

But to be honest, it’s the X-Men fallacy (which also applies to Tokyo Ghoul). I don’t even read or watch X-men but like the idea is if a group of repressed people have special powers that legitimize general humanity’s fear of them, does that mean that the writing is legitimizing oppression?

My answer to that is to point out that fiction does not equate to real life and should not be equated. It is not separate from real life, though, either, and needs to be handled responsibly. For example if Isayama’s conclusion was “yes the Eldians are dangerous wipe them out for the good of humanity!”=irresponsible, gross, no. But that is clearly, clearly not what Isayama is trying to communicate at all. If anything it’s the opposite. We are on Eldia’s side. Every reader is on Eldia’s side whether with the Warriors or Paradis.

So let’s assume he’s handling it responsibly, and he does need to be extra careful now that he included armbands and like… no I don’t think that was a great idea because that does trigger people and I don’t think it was necessary (if I were an editor I’d have been like ‘let’s do something else’ but w/e), but I also don’t think Isayama is drawing and writing this story like “Eldians are Jewish.” The correlation can, as I said, trigger people, and that needs to be respected if people prefer not to engage with the story as a result.

But SnK is honestly extremely anti-fascist, condemning oppression even if they can turn into monsters–because, in case people hadn’t noticed, they do not turn into monsters of their own volition. Other people (Marley) force them to turn into them by injecting them with a serum–and the nine founding titans are the only ones who in theory have to exist, but none of them have to be violent as we’ve seen. If you wanted to make a parallel to a group of people having a genetic disease it’d be more apt than saying Isayama is advocating for oppression.

Hello hamliet! I hope you’re having a wonderful day. Given the latest chap, do you think Levi is okay with using the coordinate for rumbling the rest of the world and bringing fear among all the other nations just as Armin had predicted in the flashbacks? I know he’s just following orders, but I’m wondering if he’s upset over being forced to use this power against the world which might lead to many deaths. Eren sure didn’t leave them with any other choices.

Hello hello!

Nope. I don’t think Levi is okay with this at all.

So, despite being like, very powerful physically, I don’t think Levi enjoys death at all, and even less so since Shiganshina. I honestly can see Levi agreeing more with Armin’s take here:

I think Levi at this point realizes that death accomplishes nothing, and threats and fear accomplish nothing. That was kind of the basis of Erwin’s arc, actually: his father was killed to protect the secrets of the wall and to thereby instill fear in those who would dissent. And that led to Erwin’s lack of self-worth and depression and guilt, which we know Levi knew about to en extent. Any kind of “peace” based on threats and fear and rumbling is not peace, because it is not free. Freedom is a major theme in SnK, and freedom and peace cannot exist without the other.

That’s why when Armin says he saw nothing useful from Bertolt’s memories I raise my eyebrows because I think it’s likely he saw nothing useful from that perspective of fear/how to intimidate Marley. When it comes to being able to empathize, as we saw Armin doing when he arrived in Marley, on the other hand–I think Bertolt’s memories have been incredibly useful, and honestly? That empathy is Paradis’s best chance, and Armin knows it, and I think to some extent–though I don’t expect Levi to go against the grain in any significant way while I do expect Armin too–Levi does too.