you can read more about it below! it's kinda throughout...
NIER SERIES AND AOT SPOILERS AHEAD! AND MAYBE SOME LORE INACCURACIES!
Everything begins just like in canon with White Chlorination Syndrome and Project Gestalt, that was supposed to save humanity by transferring their souls into artificial shells. One of the scientists of this project - Uri Reiss - created a series of android assistants in the project.
The series was called Ackerman, due to Reiss' origin and the meaning of the surname - "ploughman", who'll prepare the soil for the seeds of new humanity. There were two models designed for their own specific purposes - Kuchel, who was wired to resemble a human, compassionate and humble, was made for maintenance of Replicants, reporting of their status, and assisting them, whilst her counterpart - Kenny- was made for combat for protection from external and internal threats so nothing can stop the project. Uri was one of the first people, who got his Gestals successfully transferred to the new vessel, so he and his Original creations kept watching over the Replicant village.
However, playing God never went well for humanity and the project proceeded to collapse on itself, Replicants obtaining their own consciousness, Gestalts going relapse and turning into aggressive beings trapped in their new speechless forms, called Shadows. Uri's Gestalt started to relapse too but due to his DNA stayed inside him, dooming both the body and the soul to painful death. Kuchel desperately tried to save the village, Kenny desperately tried to save his dear creator, but everything was already going down.
Both Shadow Uri and Replicant Uri decide that Gestalt was destined to fail and they all were fools for carrying out such a vain experiment and should've just welcomed their end. He confided that to Kenny, apologised to him that he couldn't build a Paradise in this village as he planned, and told him that both of his essences decided to leave this world, which he did, before Kenny could stop him. In the meantime Original Kuchel infects herself with a virus from grief and helplessness and died.
The events of the beginning of the Gestalt's fall caused Original Kenny's disfunction and going berserk. He destroyed every Shadow that he saw on his way but his life had lost its meaning. He used every single bit of data to emulate Kuchel and Uri's personalities within his head, which he successfully did. Although it kept him company, he couldn't forget that they were fake. And just like that he went on an eternal journey, and other Ackerman Models were lost to time. In the current timeline he is more like a legend.
In a couple of thousands of years YorHa androids lead a war against machines. The Humanity fights the Aliens. And it never stops.
The Commander of YorHa, despite his clever and inspirational words about Council of Humanity awaiting their victory on the Moon, is perfectly aware that it is all a lie and the mankind is no more. However, despite humans being a relic of the past, the civilisation such as this never ceased to fascinate him, so he accumulated a great dream of his own to stop the war and either collect enough data and ressurect humanity by replaying the evolution or finding a new civilisation in the vast open space. He is eager to understand humans, their feelings, their thoughts, so he took a human name Erwin Smith and encouraged others to do the same. Not everyone was eager to play this game so he had chosen his right-hand man's name himself and gifted it to him with the legendary swords to own.
1B, or rather Levi, is a part of redesigned Ackerman series and contains both of Kenny and Kuchel's traits. Second to none in battle, he is sent to Earth only on highly classified missions. His operator is 16O, also known as Petra, and his elite squad consists from 5B, 7D and 15D, a. k. a. Eld, Gunther and Oluo. He is in a warm though a bit odd relationships with the Resistance leader Hange, who helps YorHa with upgrades, maintenance, intel gathering and experiments, and posseses deep feeling of devotion towards his Commander. He at times wonders whether that what's true love or soulmates feel like but he doesn't think about it for too long because the twist is that new Ackermen were made to be Execution models and 1E was manufactured with the sole purpose to kill the Commander if he becomes unworthy of the title.
The newest formations of YorHa androids consist of three units: a Scaner, a Battle model and an Operator. They aim mostly on gathering intel. One of such squadrons is the one of 5S, 3B and 4O, a.k.a Eren, Mikasa and Armin. Armin is the Operator for both members of his team, however unlike them he isn't allowed to go on Earth surface (even if he really wants to). Eren is vehement towards machines and wants to win the war as soon as possible and Mikasa wants ro protect him from harm. She is a new Ackerman model, so is in fact an Execution unit 3E designed to kill 5S when he inevitably discovers something that he shouldn't. Everything here is pretty much according to the Nier canon (even Mikasa's voice, who knew that Yui Ishikawa voiced 2B, huh, I certainly didn't).
One of the reasons why machines are so hard to fight is that they keep evolving. Humanoid machines, a new kind that appeared only recently, are the strongest of them and the most dangerous. The first of them, Ezekiel, is just as the Commander deeply fascinated by humans and wants to rebuild humanity from machine lifeforms, not knowing of it being a fruitless attempt. Other humanoid machines are called Reiner, Annie and Berthold and name their group The Warriors.
Almost all of the machines are connected to the Network, created by Ymir, a machine without a physical form.
I really don't know how to integrate the Logic Virus into the story but a similar attack exists in the plot, wiping each and every YorHa unit exept the Ackerman units from Earth. The story is very patchy here but Mikasa kills Eren (who probably was used by Zeke to spread the Virus) to save everyone but it is too late so she deserts YorHa and takes 5S' corpse with her. Levi kills the Commander driven by the desire to let him die peacefully and quickly before the Virus turns him into a beast. After that he goes for the Warriors alone (save for Resistance's help) but comes across the Original Kenny and gains one more ally.
Levi, Mikasa and Eren posess unique weapons and I've written characteristic stories for them, so here they are (ignore the Virtuous Contract and Cruel Oath in the picture).
"Wings of Freedom"
Levi's double swords, given to him by Erwin.
One blade is named "Black Wing" and the second is "White Wing"
BW:
/once upon a time there was a boy with an insatiable curiosity. his world was surrounded by walls but he didn't cease his attempts to breach them/
/one day a black-feathered bird showed up in front of him and proposed to lend him its wings in exchange for a price. the boy was shimmering with joy and agreed./
/years later, the winged man went beyond the walls leaving a trail of corpses covered in black feathers behind him. the guilt was tearing him apart but the price was far from paid/
/the wings were barely visible on the blood soaked ground. and as the life kept draining from him, the winged man closed his blue sky eyes and whispered
"im finally free"/
WW:
/in a far away land lived a boy with a strong love of knowledge. he lived behind tall walls but never stopped trying to go over them/
/once a white-feathered bird flew to him and offered him its wings for a certain cost. the boy was shining with delight and took the offer/
/over time, the winged man left the walls dragging a train of bodies covered in white feathers behind him. the sorrow made him colder and colder but it wasn't enough./
/the wings blended with the white sand and as the life kept filling up his body, the winged man opened his ocean eyes and quitely asked:
"is this freedom?"/
"Blood Oath"
Mikasa's large sword.
/he asks her "will you stay by my side?"
"i will, of course" she says
she is loyal to him but is he loyal to her?/
/he asks her "why do you fight?"
"to protect, of course" she says
she is fighting for him but is he fighting for her?/
/he asks her "do you love me?"
"i do, of course" she says
she loves him more than everything in the world but does he love her the same?/
/he doesn't ask her anything anymore. his body is motionless and covered in rust. she hugs him warmly.
Hello! I'm sorry to distract you. I wanted to ask you on Twitter, but I can't. I am blogging on eruri for Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians. I would like to ask: can I publish your work? I'm pointing the twitter link to the author.
yeah, sure, go ahead!
if my work can help and ease somebody's day it'll bring me only joy!
i didn't want to write about it in the post with the picture buttttt
u see, i've always known that internet is an amazing and immensely hateful place but why would people on tumblr tag the pairing it their hateposts? like, ok, your opinion is valid, even if i personally resent it but in rare or dead pairings (like erasermight which is relatively both) these posts are much more noticeable, than in more active pairings. sometimes when i try to get my "love substitute" trough binge-browsing arts and fics i end up with my insecurities boosted up instead. and i can't even find a rational reason to call a pairing with two consenting adults disgusting to justify at least some of the hateposts! is it the age gap? or just somebody not liking all might? or plain, simple and common "boo-hoo my fictional pair is better than your fictional pair and you are the baddie for liking what you like"? sometimes, logic in internet is so inexistant my brain hurts.
same goes for endhawks. somehow in my top three bnha otps two are with massive age gap, i don't know why, don't ask me.
i don't even want to start a debate, i'm just tired and wanted to complain for life and death and love and birth on the planet fucking earth's sake.
the most important thing i wanted to say is if your otp makes you feel good then it's valid. don't let anyone discourage you or make you think you're immoral for liking things you like.
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