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Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender Relationships: Bato/Hakoda (Avatar), Hakoda/Kya (Avatar) Characters: Bato (Avatar), Hakoda (Avatar), Kya (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar), Katara (Avatar) Summary:

Hakoda and Bato are two friends who grew up together, fought together, played together and didnt just fall in love together• they fell in love with each other.

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Honestly I just love to make snk related art. I love Mikasa so much and I’m planning to draw all my favourite characters from the show, who’s your favourite? ❤️❤️❤️

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Okay so hear me out here. I know I'm connecting two really different fandoms here but I can clearly see a parallel between Zeke and Eren from Attack on Titan and The Darkling and Alina from Shadow and Bone. Actually, the similarity in the way their relationships work is uncanny.

For people who haven't read the books let me briefly get you all caught up. So, we're set in a world where people can either have powers and summon stuff or be normal and not have powers. There are multiple and different powers, not relevant here, but their leader is basically this one dude called "The Darkling" who has the ability to summon the darkness and do despicable things cause he's a monster. Summoning the darkness is said to be the strongest summoning there is, BUT it's opposite, the sun summoning, is just as strong.

Now, this is a spoiler for the end of the books but the darkling is thousands of years old so he's had an incredible amount of lifetime to practice and perfect his power.

The only set back? Back in his early days his power got out of control and he created the shadow fold. A huge piece of land covered with shadows and monsters living inside. During the first book, his whole thing is his need to find his opposite power and destroy the shadow fold (cause obv, you can't destroy fire with fire now, can you?).

Now let's go to Alina. Alina grows up as an orphan with her childhood bestfriend Mal (as normal people). At some point, around 18yo, she is forced to go to war and work as a cartographer, her unit working for the darkling while they're entering the fold. Things unravel fast and Mal almost gets killed so Alina subconsciously, unleashes a huge power just to protect him.

Now did you guess it? Alina is the sun summoner!! The only one with power strong enough to challenge the darkling. Long story short, The darkling takes notice of her and he takes her to her palace to work her power and eventually help him "destroy" the shadow fold.

Now let's go to the main part, their relationship

The darkling keeps Alina for himself. He motivates her to practice her powers and eventually help him conquer the fold. Without realizing, Alina falls in love with him and he becomes all pedo and really possessive cause she's what like 18? and he's what like 3thousand? Now, anyway, the darkling treats Alina as an equal (as he should). He gets emotionaly vulnerable with her acting all amazing caring person.

spoiler!

he's not.

In reality he's had an awful childhood, always on the run, manipulated by her mother. Horrible mother to begin with but does that excuse his actions. Well, no. Not to me. At least not all of them.

Anyway let's move on. The Darklinf manipulates Alina into working with her. Now don't get me wrong, the Darkling is Thousands of years old and I get that he wanted Alina cause he felt the loneliness but omgg COME ON NOW YALL.

By the end of the first book, The Darkling has successfully put Alina under his command by putting on her an amplifier to control her power..

Surprise surprise HE is the bad guy. (omg now way how could he)

Noone is surprised that an emotionally manipulative narcissist is the bad guy.

Turns out he only wanted her to expand the fold and kill more people not destroy it. OHHHHHH yeah makes so much more sense tbh.

Now let's connect all that to Eren and Zeke

idk if you get where I was going with this cause I'm awful at explaining but I haven't finished the anime isn't finished so I don't exactly know what goes on the next chapters (should I read the manga? hmm maybe I will honestly)

But let's briefly connect everything

Protagonists- Eren, Alina

Antagonists- Zeke, The Darkling

Zeke The Darkling

- Awful Childhoods ✔ ✔

-Manipulated the only person ✔ ✔

with the power to help them

-Became close with them by ✔ ✔

calling out to the relationship they had with them

-Started out as a noble cause, ✔ ✔

ended up betraying them anyway

-Cared about them. Or did they? ✔ ✔

- Only cared about their. ✔ ✔

power, not them themselves

There are way more parallels and things to analyze but I really gotta go study so yeah imma drop it for now.

ALSO read shadow and Bone yall or my favorite, "Six of Crows" by Leigh bardugo.

They are genius books and Leigh is fucking amazing

[momtaku]

Hi Mom! What do you think about the whole idea of nature vs. nurture debate being the core theme of AOT?

I’d never considered it a core theme, but if there’s a debate going on, I’d argue with team Nature.  

Pick a character in this manga and there’s almost certain to be something horrifying in their past. Historia, Ymir and Levi had childhoods that were the stuff of actual nightmares. Aside from Levi who briefly enjoyed a mother’s love, their formative years were completely devoid of kindness and nurturing yet they all three managed to grow into empathetic people. 

Mikasa, Armin, Erwin, Reiner, Grisha, Kruger, Zeke and Eren all suffered significant childhood tragedies. Some in that group grew to be terrible people. Others managed to maintain their empathy and compassion. 

Nurture doesn’t seem to play a huge role in this manga. I’ll point to Isayama’s interview where he mentioned serial killers and wrote, “If this was his nature, then who is to blame…?” My takeaway is that Isayama is saying some people are just born monsters. 

Thanks for the ask!

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How do you manage to be this firm? Zeke's emotions and his love for Eren can melt each heart of stone, and here you are saying you don't care...

Shocking, huh? It’s a good thing each chapter give me more things to bolster my resolve. 

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After 119 I don’t know how people can still rationalize Zeke’s “euthanasia” plan. He doesn’t want to end suffering, he’s angry at the world for his childhood and he’s trying to cause as much destruction as possible before he dies. Whatever genuine feelings he may have for Eren will not make up for the fact that he looks people like Mike and Colt in the eyes as they beg him for their lives (more Falco’s life in Colt’s case) and he shows them no mercy. If that isn’t cruel I don’t know what is

Bruh. Saying you understand someone’s pain before hurting them is the ultimate cruelty. It reminds me of a parent telling a child “this hurts me more than it hurts you” while intentionally inflicting pain. Assuming that his feelings for Eren compare to Colt’s is pure arrogance. Zeke is ultimately a narcissist.  He has the ability to empathize but it’s shallow and short lived and his own needs will come always first.

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Hey there. I honestly think Porco got the most dignified death in the series in comparison to other relatively important character deaths (Bert, Erwin, Ymir, Sasha, Kenny). Hell... Maybe even in comparison to ALL other character deaths. It was rather nice seeing someone go out gloating with a half-smile on their face. And upon reading back, I feel like his sacrifice for Reiner makes sense (also Falco, but this was for Reiner primarily). Their relationship led up to this. What do you think?

You know what? I’m going to agree with you. 

At this point in the manga, characters we love are going to die, so really the best we can do is hope their deaths are meaningful. The best case scenario is that they have control over the situation and die knowing they accomplished something. Porco checks off all those boxes. 

He’s a character I’m incredibly fond of so his death broke my heart, but I’m so damn proud of my pork boy. He went out on his own terms, full of swagger and defiance. “I won’t drop dead for nothing,” he said. He didn’t hesitate or cower or stop to process the memories he received. He made the decision and used the last of his strength to save Reiner and Falco  It was everything you said. It was absolutely perfect. 

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Chapter 102 page 43 is amazing now

Yep. It was no empty threat.

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Hello Mom! What about this month's poll?

Yes! The Poll!  I think I forgot to reblog it :/ 

We have 1775 responses so far. My two favorite results are that Porco is the chapters MVP and Gabi isn’t as hated as folks might assume.

You have two days before it closes so TAKE THE POLL. If you’d like to see previous responses, click here.

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My jaw dropped when I saw Erens head get blown off his body, like. Oh my god. I wasn't expecting that! What's your take? Is he dead? And do you think Eren deserved it?

If I’d seen this panel as a solo spoiler I’d have bet money it was a fake. Looking at it now, I still can’t believe it.

Do I think Eren deserved it? Hmm. I don’t blame Gabi for taking the shot if that’s what you mean. Everyone sees Eren as a threat. The only people who don’t are his closest friends and even they aren’t 100% sure. So it makes sense that it happened.

The thing is, we all know Eren can’t die. There’s no way. And Isayama has cried wolf far too many times for me to lose sleep or worry about this development. It’s shocking, but I can’t take it seriously. 

Instead, I can’t wait to see what comes next. Does Zeke catch the head? Does Eren go into Paths dimension? Does he get the chapter 115 treatment where some mindless titan births him back to health? I have no idea and that’s exciting!

I also have no idea what the 104th does now. Connie and Jean certainly saw it happen. Mikasa and Armin will notice as soon as they are done with Pieck. I expect shock, despondency and horror. Their reaction will be the same as ours but with weapons!!

I know we say this every month but I can’t wait for the next chapter. It’s going to be a painful wait to see where Isayama is going with this.

Thanks for the asks!

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