Hey y’all so I don’t see a lot of latino ocs in the AOT community due to the lack of POC in aot in general lol. I know it takes place in a more Eurocentric environment so I decided to make a headcannon to help y’all with latino ocs!
If you want to use this headcannon for your ocs like me with my self insert you totally can!!! Just please refer to this post whenever asked haha.
Sadly yes Colonization is the only way I can explain how we got over but dw I made y’all escape the white colonists :)
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Latinos or any form of native from the Americas were barely known of due to being a failed colonization/slave trade process.
There is little to no info or records on them due to their books being burned. The only info on them are physical descriptions and traits they had written down in a sailors diary.
While on the way back to Europe the natives were forced to learn Spanish or not speak at all. Their language was too complicated for the colonizers to understand. If you didn’t comply you were thrown overboard. They had to understand Spanish so they could be ordered around. The intention on bringing them back was for slavery.
(historically this did happen with the Taínos and other Natives from Northern America so don’t try and fact check me I know my ethnicity’s history lol)
These Latinos had escaped their colonizers before the walls were built and had their own secluded civilization before the Titans became an issue. Their villages can be found far outside of Wall Maria. They live in open groves within forests. These groves can be empty spaces of land surrounded by tall trees protecting them from any outside danger. Titans never disturbed them due to the deep wooden thicken encased around them.
The only people who knew or saw they existed were travelers or lost soldiers. There have been myths of the natives outside the walls but people often confused them for some primitive Eldian except with darker skin.
Their dialect was a mix of Inca, Mayan Aztec and Spanish. Since some of the colonizers had impregnated a few of the natives there had been mixed babies who had been born in the village with lighter skin. These children were considered Mexican rooting from the word mezclar meaning mixed.
(If you want just replace Mexican with whatever ethnicity you are from latin america to fit your own personal preferences)
A few soldiers/travelers who weren’t threatened either stayed behind or came back often to give them items in return for medicine. Some of these men/women stayed behind if they ended up falling in love. The children birthed by these couples were given the choice to explore outside/go inside the walls or stay in the village. A few joined the corps after hearing stories about titans.
Natives rarely found titans but sometimes found the half eaten skeletons of dead soldiers. If any ventured outside the forest and encountered a titan, they would come in groups and had one trick up their sleeve to help them kill them off.
A few villages had found old priest skeletons who had titan serum on them and books/notes on how to extract it. The latinos could translate it due to having spanish in their dialect. This helped them translate the notes because of the latin roots certain words shared with spanish. These villages found out how to extract this formula and distributed it among the newborns of their population. The formula was very diluted in fear of accidentally having them shift from the oral consumption.
These gave the children/ future population more animalistic and superhuman traits if in the zone. While hunting or in danger their senses/strength would be heightened resulting in successful catch. The only physical changes that happened were that their veins were more prominent and tiny grooves formed on their cheeks under their eyes.
Natives in the Walls were usually never seen or rarely known of. If seen locals would have just confused them with farmers who happened to work in the sun often making their skin more bronze than others.
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Ok y’all I do actually have a screencap from aot that I took a while ago that proves people COULD had traveled to the americas
Yes I do know that cactus also grow in Sri Lanka and parts of Africa but that just opens up more possibilities of POC ocs in Attack on Titan!!
If you’re just going to say racist shit about this please leave we don’t want you here lol
Enjoy!!!
