Unfortunately this is the only prompt I was able to get done this year. I really wish I had been able to do them all (it’s tragic because I even have some roughs for mini animatics for almost every day ToT who knows maybe I’ll finish them one of these days), but alas I ran out of time and energy just getting off of a project and being in my 9th month of pregnancy. But hey wouldn’t it be fun if my baby was born during this year’s Zutara Week. lol Anywho, just a very short little mini-animatic for this prompt.
Dedicated to the ZDAS, you all are still very much in my thoughts. n.n
Yumihisu and Erehisu - how do these ships compliment each other?
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve written a longer post. Recently, I’ve been feeling a bit more inspired, though - and, once again, my thoughts are occupied by my two favorite ships from SnK. Unfortunately, a lot of people seem to think that shipping both is impossible, or that shipping one of them authomatically means that you’re against the other. I think it’s ridiculous - even more, I think that shipping both is quite logical.
Today, I’m going to write about how Yumihisu and Erehisu are, in my opinion, tied to each other. (As always, a short disclaimer: there will be spoilers, and the pictures/gifs used in this post don’t belong to me. Have fun reading!)
its so ridiculous that erehisu shippers are the only shippers in the fandom who need to have a reason to ship them. or that need to have "proof" of the ship's existence.
in any other (sane) fandom, or with any other ship, you can literally be like "these two characters r cute together! i ship them!" and move on with your day.
like, it's really not that deep. a ship doesnt need to be canon to be shipped, two characters dont even have to interact at all and you can still ship them. at the end of the day, shipping is just abt finding a relationship in fiction that you enjoy. that's all.
ok i’m gonna bite the bullet and say it… i lowkey really like erehisu as a ship. I KNOW I KNOW, wah wah wah “what about ymir and mikasa?” well, here’s a crazy thought… none of this is real. you can like multiple different ships for the same person and it not be because you dislike anybody. i don’t ship eremika but i don’t hate mikasa or anything.
anyway, it’s insane seeing the hate that the erehisu ship gets. like, jfc. a lot of the discourse around it also really borderlines on being biphobic and that gives me the ick. coming from a pansexual, dating a woman then dating a man as a bi person doesn’t make you straight, and it doesn’t take away anything from the wlw relationship you had. so it’s really weird seeing people insinuating that you must hate lesbians or hate ymir & that you’re weird for wanting to see Historia in a “straight” ship after ymir *beeeeeeps* yunno? idk. i don’t like that.
also, while i’m sharing my ship opinions no one asked for & that i literally never feel like sharing… i like kataang but zutara being canon would’ve made so much sense (see: this youtube video essay about it). also, it would’ve been cute as hell. there, i said it. it’s all out there.
that’s it for my ship ramblings, feel free to chime in.
Girlie, hi. First off, love your works, they’re really good! But I have another question for you. I’ve been reading your stuff for quite a while and can see you hate eremika with a passion, so much so you’re basically discrediting all the foreshadowing and important scenes between them. That’s fine, I get that you’re coping, but how do you interpret chapter 50 and chapter 123 for example. Like, I get theories are cool and all, but there’s a writer and he’s put all these things there for a reason
Hello, baby! Thank you for loving my works ❤️ Answering this below the cut so I won't trigger any more people than I already have.
This is also going to be the last time I'm explaining about this again because I'm really tired and I just want to have fun talking about my versions of eren.
EM and Mikasa stans, if you can't handle EH, please don't read this.
I think it's only a matter of perspective? Chapter 50 and Chapter 123 definitely had a romantic aspect to it because Mikasa loved Eren very much. It's supposed to be romantic because she had romantic feelings toward him. But there wasn't any romantic feeling from Eren's side.
When you see the whole picture of their relationship, there are a lot of moments where eren, again, verbally, mentally and physically abused Mikasa. This is the point that I'm having the biggest trouble with because Eren could be gentle. Look at the way he treated Historia. I'm sorry, maybe a lot of people are okay with Eren being toxic around her, but for me personally, I can't ship two characters like that. Eren and Mikasa never had any deep/meaningful conversations. Mikasa had an idealized version of him so whenever he tried to speak up his mind, she would say, "No, Eren, this isn't you." Eren had better chemistry and interactions with Armin, Historia, Reiner and Zeke.
Eren cared about Mikasa like how a brother would love his sister. You are very welcome to disagree with me, darling, you're allowed to ship the pairings you want to ship (and I can do the same) but this is how I see it. Plus:
I mean, Isayama said that years ago. Feel free to disagree, but Isayama had stated multiple times that he changed the original ending. EM was forced to be canon to please his readers. they had no build-ups, everything just seemingly came out of nowhere and Isayama contradicted himself many times just to make their relationship make sense. watch this video starting from 39.09 to know more about what I'm talking about.
I think I would've been completely fine with eremika if Isayama had developed their relationship like how he developed YmirHisu, Eruri or Erehisu's relationships. Isayama knew how to write a subtle, brilliant love stories. These three are the perfect examples, so why couldn't he do the same with EM?
"Like, I get theories are cool and all, but there’s a writer and he’s put all these things there for a reason." I can say literally the same thing to you about every EH panel Isayama has written.
even hange and armin (the smartest people in the show) knew something was going on between them, for example:
but ofc, people would say "Eren is just trying to manipulate historia so she won't interfere with his plan." or "eren cares about his other friends just as much as he cares about historia." and you know what? I don't think isayama would've wasted so many panels and dedicated a whole arc trying to build historia and eren's relationship if that's the case but again, it's only a matter of perspective. it's up to you to decide how you interpret the story.
and that's okay. you have your "what am I to you?" moment, and I have all my "I'm willing to give up my life if that can change something, but i'm not willing to sacrifice historia" moment. we can ship whichever pairing we want.
oh and this moment: https://twitter.com/rreisstoria/status/1495496345976811520
let me clarify one more time that the reason why I ship EH isn't because something as simple as "aww they look cute together" or "they care about each other" I ship them because EH being canon in the end would've made the story that much better. all of these parallels would lead to something:
historia's pregnancy would hold a significant importance because she would be carrying eren's child. their baby would be born on the same day rumbling happened, and god I think I've said this a million times before, but it would've made eren a much better protagonist because he'd be fighting the whole world not just for his people, but for his own child as well. anyway, go watch the ANR mv, I'm too tired to explain about this again lmaoo
if mikasa had all these parallels, these build-ups and if eren had treated her the same way he treated historia (or armin, at least), i would've shipped eremika harder than I've ever shipped anything else. but sadly, that is not the case. when i see EM, i see love between siblings and that's beautiful. but if you force me to think of them romantically, then all i can see is just eren being super toxic and mikasa being super obsessed/dependent on him, and as a huge fan of the show, I don't want to see my characters being written like that, I'm sorry. mikasa deserves a better man. she deserves better period.
though, i have to say, right now I just wished no romance ever happened in the story because shippers really did ruin AOT.
