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Shingeki No Kyojin Smartpass AU : Some Stories of Determination vol. 1 (Eren Jaeger)
So, a new side story titled (”Tell me a Story : Some Stories of Determination”) came out on the 31st August. Since I didn’t find the raws or the translation anywhere on tumblr I figured I would post the raws here along with a rough translation by yours truly. My japanese isn’t that good though, so if anyone who’s more fluent stumbles upon this post, be free to re-translate it properly. I just want a maximum amount of people to have access to this story since I think it’s really good and actually foreshadows some recent events and character motivations/relationships in the manga.
Raws:
世界は、嘘と虚構でできていた。ねじまげられた歴史のせいで、多くの人が犠牲になった。
子供たちがこれから学ぶのは、世界の真実と未来の物語。
だから、語り継いでいこう。
今まで起きたすべてと、心に秘めた決意のことを。
壁に囲まれた、小さな世界。その片隅に、牧場を改装した孤児院がある。
そこで慎ましやかに「先生」として生きている少女ヒストリアに、子供たちが声をかけた
「ねえ、ヒストリア先生。エレンってやつ、本当に巨人になれるの?」
「僕、知ってるよ。オルブド区では巨人になって、街の人を守ったんだって!」
「うそだあ。あいつ、手伝いもしないで、ボーッとしてるの、おれ見たもん」
男の子たちがうわさをする横で、小さな女の子がヒストリアの手を掴んだ。
「……巨人のエレンは、誰かを食べるの?」
声はわずかに震えている。無理もない。巨人といえば、人を食らって殺す絶対悪だと、この壁の中の人間はみなそう思っていた。
「彼は人を食べたりしないの。巨人の力で、戦ってくれるんだよ」
そうなのかな、頼りになるのかな、無邪気な声。
「少しボーッとしてるかも。だけど、信じてあげてね」
おだやかに笑って、ヒストリアは遠く南の空を見上げた。
「へえ……子供たちが、そんな話を」
孤児院には、ヒストリアと同期で兵士になった者たちが手伝いに訪れる。
子供たちが寝静まったあと、彼らと簡素な夜食をとりながら、彼女は昼間にあったことを話して聞かせた。
「オレは……『みんなを守って戦ってくれる良い巨人』ってことになってるのか」
話の張本人は、どこか戸惑った様子だ。
「それ以外にどう説明するってんだ。あてにならないヤツだと思われちゃ、兵団全員が困るんだよ」
憎まれ口のようでいて、大局を見据えたジャンの発言に、ヒストリアはうなずく。少しだけ、エレンに申し訳なさそうに。
「エレンのこと、疑ってほしくなかったから。背負わせてごめんね」
孤児院の「先生」としてのヒストリアは、エレンを調査兵団の兵器、人類を守る英雄として紹介した。それは、いまの壁の中を治める女王として必要な判断だ。
「……わかってるよ」
エレンもそれは重々承知しているようで、しかし、どこか納得のいかない顔だった。
夜更け
何かと用事の多いアルミンが宿舎に戻ると、エレンはまだ起きていた。
「ヒストリアの話を気にしてるの?」
幼馴染の表情から、ただならぬものを感じる。ままならない世の中への、怒りにも似た、やり場のない感情。
「オレは英雄なんかじゃねえよ」
「そんなの、みんな知ってるよ。だけど、戦うつもりだよね」
「自分のために戦ってるだけだ……敵を倒して、自由になるために……」
エレンを動かすのは、自由への渇望と、それを許さない者への怒りだ。
アルミンたち、調査兵団の仲間は当然のように共感し、ともに戦ってきたが、果たしてそれは人類普遍のものだと言えるだろうか。
「壁の中の人たちは、エレンの自由がみんなの自由につながるって信じてる。エレンは違うの?」
「……どうだろうな」
このとき、エレンの瞳は、海よりも遠い、夜空の果てを眺めているとアルミンは感じた。
朝になって、アルミンは真っ先にヒストリアのところへ向かった。胸騒ぎがしてならなかった。
「ヒストリア。この先、エレンが何をしても……やっぱり、みんなを守る英雄だって言う……?」
「エレンが戦ってくれる限りは、そう言おうと思ってる。どうして?」
「……なんでもない。ヒストリアにも立場があるのは知ってるから」
アルミンには、エレンの未来にある道が、英雄的なものだとは思えなかった。飢えた獣のような感情が、あまねく人々の幸福になるとは限らないと、そう思われて仕方なかった。ただ、今は何もはっきり言うことができず、言葉を飲み込む。
「……私は、私の見方を伝えただけ。それにね」
ヒストリアは柔らかく、しかし毅然と言った。
「ここの子供たちはエレンを直接、見ているから。今はわからなくても、いつかは自分と同じ、迷ったり悩んだりする『人間』だって、理解できると思うの」
未来に生きる子供たちなら、エレンという人物のことを冷静に見られるだろうと、ヒストリアは信じているのだ。
「……そうだね。そうだといいな……」
牧場の朝のけだるい風は、アルミンの不安をただ揺らすだけで、答えを出してはくれなかった。
Shitty translation :
The world was made of lies and fiction. Because of the twisted history, many people were sacrificed. From now on, what children will learn is the truth of the world and the story of the future. As such, let’s pass it down. Everything that has happened until now, and the decisions we’ve kept secret.
A small world surrounded by walls. In this corner of the world, there’s a farm reorganized into an orphanage. Here, children called out to the young woman Historia, who modestly lives as a teacher: “Hey, Historia-sensei. That guy Eren, can he really turn into a titan?” “I know, I know. He turned into a titan in district Orvud and protected the townspeople!” “Bullshit. He never helps around and he always daydreams, I saw it” Next to the little boys who were busy making up rumors, a little girl grabbed Historia’s hand. “… When Eren’s a titan, who does he eat?” Her voice is slightly trembling. It’s understandable. If we’re talking about titans, they eat and kill people and are the absolute evil, that’s what everyone inside these walls thinks. “He doesn’t eat people, you know. He uses his titan power to fight.” She said with a simple-minded, reliable voice. “He might zone out from time to time, that’s true. But please, trust in him” Historia quietly smiled and gazed at the southern sky.
“Eeeh… So that’s what the kids talked about” Historia and her fellow comrades become soldiers who came to help at the orphanage. After the kids fell asleep, while taking a simple meal, she informed them of the things that were said during the day. “I’m… becoming a ‘good titan who fights to protect everyone’, huh” The person at the center of the discussion seems to be perplexed. “Besides, how do you even explain that. People think you’re an unreliable fuck who gets everyone in the corps in trouble” Historia nodded to Jean’s harsh yet accurate words. Just a bit, she felt sorry for Eren. “That’s because I didn’t want them to doubt him. Sorry for burdening you with that” As the “teacher” of the orphanage, Historia introduced Eren as the Survey Corps’ weapon, the hero that protects humanity. This was a necessary decision she made as the queen who governs the walls. “…I get it” Eren also seemed to fully understand that, and yet, his lack of conviction showed on his face.
Late at night
Armin came back after running some errands only to find Eren still up. “Does Historia’s story bother you?” Judging from his childhood friend’s expression, he sensed something alarming. An emotion similar to anger, directed at a world which was beyond his control, an emotion he had no outlet for. “I’m not a hero or anything like that” “We all know that. But, you’re still fighting, aren’t you” “I’m just fighting for my own sake… Destroying the enemy, in order to be free…” What motivates Eren is the longing for freedom, and his anger towards those he can’t forgive. Armin and co, everyone from the Survey Corps did sympathize with him and fight alongside him, but can we really call it something universal? “I believe your freedom and that of everyone inside the walls are connected, Eren. Do you think otherwise?” “…I wonder” In that moment, Armin felt that Eren’s eyes, more distant the ocean itself, were gazing at the limits of the night sky.
When morning came, Armin was the first to head over to where Historia was. He felt some uneasiness. “Historia. From now on, no matter what Eren does… As I thought, you’ll keep saying he is a hero that protects everyone…?” “As long as he keeps fighting for us, I will keep saying that. Why?” “…Nothing. You have your own viewpoint, I understand that” For Armin, it didn’t seem like Eren’s future path would lead to heroic acts. However, being unable to say anything for certain, he swallows his own words. “…I’m simply teaching my own viewpoint. That is all” Historia said with a soft, yet firm voice. “The kids here have direct contact with Eren. They might not understand now, but someday when they lose their way or find themselves in trouble, they’ll be able to understand what being human means. That’s what I think.” The kids that will live in the future should be able to see the person called Eren with serenity/calm, that’s what Historia believes. “Ah, yeah. That’s right…” The morning breeze blowing across the meadow only shook Armin’s anxiety (not sure if that means it made him even more anxious or if it shook it away lol), and he was unable to come up with an answer.
PS: This sentence「飢えた獣のような感情が、あまねく人々の幸福になるとは限らないと、そう思われて仕方なかった」 has me beat. Don’t know what it means at all, no matter how hard I try to make sense of it. I can understand the beginning, “similar to feeling like a starving beast” and “he couldn’t help but think that…” but I’m lost with あまねく人々の幸福になるとは限らないと. If any other person who can read Japanese could help I’d be grateful.
You sell yourself short, your translation is very good. I’m not sure if I’m any better, but just going to add the few thoughts that I have, which hopefully are not going further astray xD, they are only slight and don’t really impact on the story.
Apologies in advance if I got anything wrong myself :P
For the boys “making up rumors”, I would go with “gossiping”.
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誰かを食べるの? is literally like “does he eat somebody?”, so perhaps the question is closer to “Does he eat people?”
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そうなのかな、頼りになるのかな、無邪気な声。 I feel like this line is the little girl asking back: “Is that so, is he reliable (I wonder), the innocent/simple-minded voice.”
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孤児院には、ヒストリアと同期で兵士になった者たちが手伝いに訪れる。 “The people who had become soldiers at the same time as Historia, came calling to help at the orphanage.” perhaps?
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「それ以外にどう説明するってんだ。あてにならないヤツだと思われちゃ、兵団全員が困るんだよ」
Personally, I feel like this is more:
“How else to explain it? If you’re thought of as an unreliable fellow ;), it’ll be troublesome for everyone in the army corps”
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エレンを動かすのは、自由への渇望と、それを許さない者への怒りだ。 What motivates Eren is the longing for freedom, and his anger towards those he can’t forgive.
For me I feel that the last part is “… towards those who do not allow it (them to be free)”
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アルミンたち、調査兵団の仲間は当然のように共感し、ともに戦ってきたが、果たしてそれは人類普遍のものだと言えるだろうか。
Just a slight tweak to:
Armin and co, the comrades of the Survey Corps naturally empathised and came to fight together but, could this really be said to be something universal to humanity?
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「ヒストリア。この先、エレンが何をしても……やっぱり、みんなを守る英雄だって言う……?」
Just a slight difference in thought on the yappari:
“Historia. From this point on, no matter what Eren does… in any event, you’ll say that he is a hero who protects everyone”…?
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My take on this problematic part (hopefully it makes sense!):
アルミンには、エレンの未来にある道が、英雄的なものだとは思えなかった。飢えた獣のような感情が、あまねく人々の幸福になるとは限らないと、そう思われて仕方なかった。ただ、今は何もはっきり言うことができず、言葉を飲み込む。
To Armin, the path present in Eren’s future, it did not appear to be something heroic. The feelings like starved beasts, that it would not necessarily lead to the happiness of people everywhere, he could not help but think so. Only that, unable to articulate anything clearly now, he swallows his words.
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Continuing from here to the end:
“Because the children here are directly looking at Eren. Even if they don’t understand now, some day when they are the same, as “humans” who are lost or troubled, they will be able to understand I think”
That future children, would be able to calmly look at the situation of the person known as Eren, is what Historia believes.
“… that’s right. I hope so (lit. It would be nice if it were true)…”
The listless morning breeze of the meadow, merely shakes (agitates?) his anxiety, and did not give an answer.
(I think the last line is meant to be poetic?)
Hope that helps!
Lmao, Attack on Titan Creator Hates GoT ending
From Hajime Isayama’s blog:
“Today I watched Game of Thrones’ Finale. There’s something I thought about it personally. That’s all I’m gonna say for now. I’d like to explain what I thought of today in the future. orz”
“orz” is an emoticon used in Japan to signify a person bowing their head in frustration/shame while on their knees with their hands in front of them.
Safe to say, Isayama is not amused.
It’s also good to note that Isayama is a possible Jonerys shipper as he designed two characters, Historia and Eren, around similar characters from Game of Thrones, Daenerys and Jon.
He made them similar but also swapped them around a bit.
-Historia resembles Daenerys from the show with her blonde hair and blue eyes. Is a royal bastard (might be a Jon Snow personality) that cares for everyone around her.
-Eren resembles Jon Snow from the books. Dark hair. And while the show counterpart has “ocean” blue-green eyes, Isayama has stated that Eren has Grey eyes in the manga. Also, interesting to note that Eren grew his hair out and sports a man bun, similar to Jon Snow. However, the personality is all Daenerys. In his younger years, Eren was prone to his hotheadedness (giving into his inner “dragon”) but has shown a level head after the timeskip. Similar to Dany during her growth.
Interesting, that Historia and Eren resemble Daenerys and Jon but hold the personality of the opposite gender.
There’s also the similar storyline of the “Prince that was Promised” and the chosen one. Eren is seen as the Savior. Historia also said that whatever Eren decided to do, she would stand by him.
I seriously 🤦🤦🤦 at people who consider Eren some clueless hermit who lived in isolation all his life and doesn’t know “where to stick it”.
Do you guys have some reading comprehension disability?
Because Eren was only shown being clueless about ROMANCE and relationship part of a relationship. Which, you know, 99% of 15 year old boys are.
Plus, depression. It’s a thing. Eren had a lot on his plate, as well as childhood trauma.
Not to mention, that 95% of you considered it perfectly logical, nothing out-of-character, for him to get it on with Mikasa in that 4 year span.
When Marley arc was going out and we were waiting for Eren and then for the SC to reappear, 2/3 of the fandom was eagerly waiting for confirmation that Eren and Mikasa had become a thing during the timeskip.
No one was thinking that’s OOC for Eren to get a girlfriend when it was Mikasa.
But the moment pregnant Historia appears?
“no! Eren doesn’t care about girls!”
“no! Eren doesn’t know what sex is!”
“no! Eren is asexual!”
“no! Eren is gay!”
Guys.
Guys.
You lot are HILARIOUS.
😂🤣👌
Like, never ever have we had a plot where a 15 y.o. serious aloof boy (never mind that he is 19 already), who has always been about training and fighting and succeeding, ignoring girls, meeting that one special girl, who moves him beyond anyone else, and fall in love with her (helloooooo, Ichigo, Sasuke and basically every other male protagonist in anime). Never! Never has it been done! (I hope you recognise me being sarcastic - I cannot be sure with you people).
But what am I even going on about here? Everyone perfectly agreed on a possibility of such plot for Eren, when it was Mikasa who was the girl in question.
Rio Amazonas.
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Just my rant on SnK
namely, Eren x Historia, Zeke’s character, Zeke vs Levi and all the fandom in general
People who are refusing to see all the numerous Eren x Historia hints Isayama peppered throughout the whole manga are people who are afraid to let go of the vision of Shingeki no Kyojin and its plot they cultivated in their minds.
Me, I rarely ship something just because I love the pair. In every story, in every fandom, I ship satisfying plot. That’s it.
I was only mildly invested in Game of Thrones, while I believed they were heading for Jon x Dany and the boring Living vs Dead ending, it’s only when they were closer to the story end in s7, when I saw all the Jonsa and pol!Jon and Dark!Dany hints (I saw them earlier too, especially dark!Dany - her problematic behavior irritated me from s1, but I thought that all that would amount only to problems the Good™ side would have to overcome to battle the Evil™), came back to rewatch the show and finally saw the true real story GRRM and D&D were crafting (that is infinetelly more awesome and interesting than what is on the surface level), that I finally entered the GoT fandom.
Similarly, I was only mildly invested in SnK before the Marley arc - not because I fell in love with the Marley side, but because with the introduction of it, the plot jumped from being just a very entertaining story to “hooo boy this can rival all the epic serious classic literature pieces!!”
Back to Eren x Historia. People who believe the father is the Farmer Guy, are seriously ignoring this panel:
Back when we got Grisha’s story from Grisha’s POV, I kept telling people that when Zeke outed his parents he was manipulated to do so, because he was a child, and that he was traumatised by the experience. I based that on the following panels:
1) at the very end of the chapter, we get Zeke determinly pointing a finger at his parents, looking like a Child Villain™ (which, frankly, is already a sign it’s Isayama playing with tropes, since there’s no Villains™ and especially Kid Villains™ in his story)
2) but at the begining of the next one, we get Zeke’s face in the moment right after he pointed a finger at them, and he looks like this:
^finger uncertaintly lowering down, eyes terrified and shocked. Assured by the adult he trusted that this is the right path (manipulated is the more correct word, even if the coward Xaver didn’t understand he’s manipulating a 7 y.o. baby), he probably mastered all his courage and determination to go to the Marley authorities and point a finger at his parents… But then it was done, and his parents were being led away… And here you really see what is happening - a scared child who loves his parents watching them being taken away (I can even clearly see a scared and confused “Mom?… Dad?…” in his eyes), when the reality of what is really happening finally catches up to him. Again, I remind you ZEKE WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD.
3) And then his face closes off:
^^ this is the beginning of “Euthanasia plan” Zeke - the child who rationalises that it’s better for Eldians not to be born - to cover for his own suicidal tendencies; the child who hates his own father who he loved and idolises the parent figure who misguided him - to cover for the hate he feels for himself for what he did; the child who places all the blame on his father and can’t stop seeing the world through the lenses of the adults in his life - because to do otherwise would make him to confront the truth of his own feelings and that would destroy him. Ultimately, Zeke’s euthanasia plan is born of his belief “I should have never been born” and of “I hate myself”. The reasoning he created for that plan, the reasoning he adopted from the coward Xaver for that decision - all of it is just a way to fool himself into thinking this idea is a sound one and not one born of his own feelings and his depression and suicidal desires. His latching onto Xaver and his ideas and idolising him is a way to convince himself that his father was utterly wrong and silence the knowledge inside himself that he destroyed the father he loved and wanted to be proud of him.
Without the specifics - the names and the specifics of Xaver’s involvement - I still got all that back then from these three panels.
People didn’t believe me, didn’t listen to me, and threw rotten tomatos at me.
Why the majority of the fandom didn’t want to see a deeply traumatised child in those three panels? Well, because - and here I am so 😂 now - we all knew Levi would have to kill him to fullfill his promise to Erwin! They wanted their fave to descend onto the Evil Zeke like a vengefull angel and bring justice to him - not see their fav essentially beating and destroying a misguided and sympathetic guy. They didn’t want to feel sorry for Zeke when Levi would kill him.
NOW LOOK HOW IT ALL TURNED OUT!😂😂😂
Now, I am telling you - no way Historia x Farmer Guy exists. She doesn’t feel any romantic feelings for him.
Do you think that Isayama would write Historia essentially raping a NPC farmer guy to save herself?
The only thing that prevents you from clearly seeing the answer, is your complete undesire to see all the numerous Eren x Historia hints Isayama, yes, peppered throughout the whole manga!
But you don’t want to see it. Because Eren x Historia essentially gets in the way of a great number of the fandom’s fanservise-y desires. Just like in the case with humane!Zeke.
But just like with Zeke, you’ll see what Isayama placed right in front of your nose to see from looooong ago, but you were too stubbornly clinging to your own vision of the plot and what fanservice you want out of it to see it.
Drama CD Sukuka vol.2 has so many EH moments
My Japanese level isn’t good enough to understand fully (and I’m tired to hear Jean’s agressive voice) but here are some contexts (not correct 100%…) I can hear from their dialogue.
Levi asks Eren where did he go, “toilet desu” lol
(something about writing the composition due to their detention, and cleaning? or Levi himself is busy with clean up the garbage idk)
Reiner comments that Levi is talkative.
Armin’s nickname by Levi: “blondie mushroom” (kinpatsu kinoko)
Jean says something about Historia being a “queen”, but Reiner defends her that she has nothing to complain, her life is perfect and that makes her angry, “shut up you don’t understand anything”.
Historia calls Reiner “shitty gorilla” lol and it seems she calls herself joou-sama (queen)
Gothkasa looks at Historia’s paper and says “Your paper is almost blank” and Historia scold her “d-don’t look without my permission, please respect other’s privacy“, Jean “borrows” Eren’s but he only wrote numbers in it. Baka couple www
Lunch time breaks and they can’t write anything, Erwin says they only have 20 minutes to eat.
When Reiner looks at Historia small homemade lunch, she says she’s on a diet and he asks her weight immediately (how rude lol) and he’s willingly to help her to lose weight.
Historia says her parents are not reliable, so she has to be independence. (prepare the lunch herself?)
Armin asks her with this small ration, would she be hungry soon? And Historia replies: “Excuse me, your lunches are weird and cheap, i have so many high-class food items in my lunch” she even says her mango is imported “from the other side of ocean” lmao
Armin has a character bento box (made by his grandpa?) with peanut and butter and chips? and Historia recognizes right away that’s a character from Majimojirumomo(?) anime, she has a hidden otaku side lol
Jean doubts that Historia is also an otaku just like Armin, but she denies in confusion, it’s just the grandson of her butler is into anime and she watch it sometimes lol Reiner is agree that there’s no way Historia can’t be an otaku because she’s a high and mighty queen bee.
And then she distracts them to end the conversation with “let’s hurry and eat, EREN is about to finish his lunch” lololololol and Eren: “EH? Nani?” 😂
Eren is eating bread, Gothkasa describes it with a bunch of gothic-style words but when Historia says his bread is burned (she means this isn’t good for his health) he replies he’s hungry so whatever is ok.
Reiner gives Eren advice show-off muscles scene of a strong captain and he drink protein for his lunch.
Gothkasa cook a black magic smelly soup, no, pasta with squids ink
Jeanbo has bento from his mom, she comes to his school to give him his lunch box that he forgot. Armin compliments that his lunch is looking tasty, he says “of course, it’s my mom’s cooking—shuddup!!… nom nom… agrr it’s bad… it isn’t delicious at all”
And Historia reveals his mother-complex so he can’t stop making himself look so stupid, I can’t understand well but it seems Historia insults Jean by being a mother-complex (mazakon), he blamed his mother but without her, he can’t do anything? and Historia and Jean have a fight after that.
Reiner stands up for Historia, she is irritated because he’s trying to act as her boyfriend
At the moment, Eren leaves the room and goes to toilet because his stomach hurts, “Restroom again? What’s with you, bastard!!!”
Erwin comes back and gives Jean a special detention. But they don’t know if Eren can handle “his business” peacefully after that…
Snk 107, Historia’s pregnancy and the stupid hate
We don’t know anything about Hisu but…
◾In a life, it is possible to have loved several people.
◾In a life, it is possible to be bisexual.
◾Yumihisu still canon and maybe the relationship between Historia and her baby’s father is canon too.
◾Circumstances are unknown. Maybe she wasn’t consented, maybe she was, we don’t know.
◾Stop this stupid war. Please.
Akjaai