Mikasa’s wish and Eren’s promise
As a member of the Eremika fandom I have witnessed the fear and insecurities of many fans regarding Eremika’s future as a couple. Chapter 50 not anymore stands as a powerful source of faith and the fandom is complaining about the lack of Eremika and how this affects their relationship in the manga.
However, there’s one scene nobody pays enough attention (maybe they do, but I feel otherwise) and freaks me out because I see everything so clearly.
I’ll try to be as quick as possible.
As we all know, Mikasa’s strongest aspiration is to have a home alongside Eren and Armin. While Eren and Armin dream about the ocean and the endless adventures that they’ll accomplish in the outside world, Mikasa doesn’t seem very ambitious about it. She just wants to go back to the start, finish all of her work as a soldier to finally be able to settle down in a nice place alongside the people she loves and live the kind of life she once had. Let’s remember that she only joined the Survey Corps because of Eren. I’m sure that after the big amount of experiences she had as a soldier, Mikasa feels now more implicated with the Survey’s cause and wants freedom for humanity, but it is quite obvious that her job as a soldier and the things that come with it are something secondary in her personal desires. So she asks, she dares to ask for something she wants, a home, the type of home she lost countless times.
However, Eren feels more reluctant and bitter about it and it’s kinda obvious that he thinks this way. At this point of the story hope is just a distant thought, and after all the people he lost and all that he suffered, it is kind of hard to imagine that everything can be as it used to. And Mikasa looks down, she looks a bit disappointed. But then, this scene pops out.
He sees his home, he thinks about his family, about the past. He’s surrounded by a feeling of hopelessness. He thinks that because everything was left behind, he will never be able to build up a home again. Grisha, Carla, BRA trio, the fallen soldiers… they’re all gone. They’re never coming back, nothing will be the same again. Never.
But then he looks at Mikasa.
There are no words to explain what this scene means to me, the magnitude of this scene and the HUGE meaning it carries with it. He believes hope is gone just because the people he loved aren’t there anymore.
To think about home and then turn around to look at Mikasa and see his hand tightening the grip on his sword, and saying “but that’s fine, I’ll get it back” it means that even if everything is lost, he still has Mikasa. She represents the home that once was lost, but in her resides the hope to build up a new one.
“I’ll get it back.” — He knows Mikasa’s dream, she confessed to him. He knows she just followed him because she wanted to protect him. He knows she wants a peaceful life. And she asked for it, but Eren said that “it won’t all come back,” but then he looks at her, he sees her right behind him, and it’s like his hope is renewed. He’s denying his first statement of “we’ll not be able to come back” with a firm and confident “I’ll get it back”, and I think it is truly beautiful how he comes to this conclusion after looking at her, because I deeply interprete this “I’ll get it back” as a promise he’s internally making to Mikasa, “I’ll get it back because you’re still here, not everything is lost, and as long as you want a home, I’ll get it for you.”
It is impressive the amount of influence Mikasa has on Eren in a very positive way. In chapter 50 he was about to give up but she gave him strength and that was the first time he was able to use the coordinate. She’s the source of his hope, the hope of a better future. And even tho I really appreciate chapter 50 as a very crucial moment in their relationship and development, I consider this scene way more important and relevant simply because this is all about Eren. Chapter 50 was about Mikasa and her feelings of which we are all aware of. But this scene in chapter 72 shows Eren’s development and how he feels about Mikasa.
And this reminds me of @a-heartablaze fanfic, Touch, and what Eren said to Mikasa:
“This was not the life you wanted. What do you want? When this is all over, when we take it all back. What do you want? Whatever it is, I’ll give it to you. I’ll make it happen.”
He’s taking the lead, he’ll be the one protecting her this time. This scene gives me so much hope for this ship, because I’m finally seeing a very mature change in Eren’s character and that’s amazing. This scene, for me, represents the future of their relationship. The true meaning of Mikasa in his life and what he’s willing to do to make her happy.
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