Hi, I don't know if you have been asked this before, but how do you feel about the theory that eren is the father of hisu's baby?
Hey anon, I don’t know how long it’s been since you asked this, but since it’s probably been a long time, my apologies for keeping you waiting. I’m permanently away from tumblr (and pillowfort) for reasons of principle, among other things. I’m on fandom.ink and dreamwidth though, and you’re more than welcome to chat with me there. I have an asks entry set up on dreamwidth (which hopefully works as intended), which would be a good place to send questions anonymously.
I don’t intend to keep you waiting any longer though, so: the Historia babydaddy question. My preferences for who the father should be go like this:
Levi > Eren > 104th > anyone else
I would love Levi to be the father, because Royal Ackerbaby would be objectively cool (and would raise a lot of interesting questions regarding the specific heredity of bloodline powers), and it would piss off the people involved in the LeviGate madness back when the Uprising arc first came out. (That second bit is petty of me, I admit.) This is a crack scenario; I doubt it will actually pan out that way in the story.
Still would be cool though.
Eren is my other favorite pick, by a very long way, but to explain why that is I need to skip past Eren to the other part: 104th vs anyone else.
Back when the pregnancy reveal came out, I wrote out a lot of my thoughts on Historia’s place in that storyline, but I skirted around the fatherhood question. In most of the discussions I saw at the time, people said that they hoped the father was farmer-kun or some other random person, not a named character. I suspect that’s essentially because they want to avoid the drama of that kind of reveal, which is fair. But I can’t think of anything worse than having to have sex with some stranger, someone I don’t know well and don’t trust, simply for the sake of getting pregnant
(Note: “they have sex to continue the line” is such a strong squick for me that I refuse to read even fun and cheerful fics from authors I love, if they have that premise. “They have sex to have a child who’ll be doomed to a short and brutal life in order to stop an oncoming genocide”? Nope nope nope nope nope. Can’t.)
So: the father needs to be someone Historia knows and trusts, someone she has a connection with, or else the whole situation is even more horrible than it already was. That pretty much narrows it down to the 104th + Levi. Who in the 104th is she closest to, out of those who have the ability to father children?
Eren. This is obvious, of course, since Eren is the main character and obviously we see more interaction between them than between Historia and other characters. She doesn’t have a strong connection to Armin, or Connie. She does to Eren.
Eren is the one who understands the choice she made to take on the crown, and why she made it, and what she gave up to do it. He was there with her on the precipice of decision. The story has emphasized over and over and over (literally, at least three times) how much he cares about her safety and happiness, even to the point where for years, he was willing to put The Cause completely to the side and keep quiet about the royal titan thing, purely out of concern for the consequences to her.
So yeah. Not only would I prefer a storyline where Eren turned out to be the father, purely in terms of Historia being able to keep some measure of dignity, despite all the messiness that would come with that, I also think that’s the most likely outcome for the story. And I would welcome it.
