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No, I actually don't think you guys understand how tragic yumihisu is.

It is rare to see people talk about the parallels between historia and ymir as characters. The desire to be wanted, to be good and selfless for the people because you want to be loved and you think that to be loved is to be of use. The need of wanting someone to understand and for them to choose you (in a way, these two end up choosing the other even if ymir leaves she still voices her guilts of not being able to marry christa).

Two people held to an extreme and unattainable path of ruling people but struggling with how to deal with their acquired powers. The two put on a pedestal effectively, dehumanising them but overall consistently rebelling and reclaiming their humanity, whether that be through their shared selfishness or desire to live their life however, they please.

Ymir, the girl who was forced to take on the name simply because she looked the part and was given power by the people that she was not born with VS Historia, the girl also posed with the choice of becoming queen and reclaiming the power that she was born with and was destined to have.

Ymir, being the catalyst to drive Historia to be 'selfish' while Historia is the catalyst to drive Ymir to be 'selfless'.

Experiencing your lover's woes after you believe they left you behind and chose their path. Being haunted by your lover through your own destiny, not even knowing that they went through the same thing and only having a letter to cherish them by.

#aot #attack on titan #me whenever a ship has parallels : 😧🥹#ymir #historia #yumihisu #aot ramble #the way this relationship is so poignant to their character arcs #being haunted by your lover and feeling their woes as she dies and the only thing you have left of her is a love letter #the desire to be wanted and loved by someone #they make me sick #overall ymir and historia are really underrated as characters and their character arcs together and separately was so good #its been a while since i watched and read aot #but their storyline still haunts me to this day #and they're literally so underrated

another AoT ramble because it's got me in a chokehold!!

i personally don't believe eremika are doomed. doomed ships are left unresolved, cut off. one person doesn't know how much love the other held for them and often believe they were nothing more than just a 'friend' to said person.

eremika is quite the opposite.

these two paid the price of loving one another in a world which doesn't allow softness to bloom - and that's what sets them apart from the rest. yes, mikasa has spent more years sitting by eren's grave than she has standing next to him, but she still knew - and he did too - how deep their love ran. imagine having this gutting burden of being the Coordinate placed upon your shoulders as a child, and your only anchor is a girl you killed two men for at nine, just so she would live. that same girl later on becomes your appointed executioner whom you found a way to create an alternate reality for where everything is calm - and you plant those memories in her mind just before going on and lying about hating her your entire life.

who in any sense of 'doomed' would find a way to branch the current reality just to see their beloved happy? exactly, no one.

i also believe they're not doomed because mikasa lived a long, maybe not as happy - but still safe and peaceful life after eren's death, just as he wished. they reunite in the afterlife (as shown in the "Itterasshai" video on YT) and get their happy ending. in every other universe, they're together. happily.

another thing: mikasa had the strength to behead him purely thanks to how selfless she is, and because of those "memories" eren gave her. she knew, thanks to the cabin AU, that eren loves her just as much as she loves him. it gave her the strength to collapse her own world - just for the sake of what has come to be left of others' worlds. yeagerists can cry about it, but that is NOT doomed. it's incredibly beautiful in its own way: eren finally got to rest after being someone everyone relies on, and mikasa's constant suffering over seeing him destroy himself would come to a stop.

in the end, mikasa chose the world over eren, but eren chose mikasa over the world by giving her that long, peaceful dream. her living a long life was her ultimate act of love for him - carrying his memory so he wasn't truly gone, even if it meant she had to endure the loneliness.

eren wasn't ever a monster or a martyr; he was a boy who broke the world so the person he loved most could finally be safe in it. to call that 'doomed' is to fundamentally misunderstand the cost of his freedom -and hers all the same.

#aot #aot ramble #aot eren #aot mikasa #mikasa ackerman #eren yeager

Since the only titan resembling somewhat of an animal is the beast, and it's owner it's actually quite the hairy guy. My theory is that modern Zeke would be a furry. In this essay I will-

I was writing an extent summary on my liking for Reiner, his characteristics and personality traits and how he evolved in the franchise. And suddenly without warning my dear loving iPad turned off.

Ah, I had a drawing prepared too...I'll continue tomorrow, my apologies. But the Reiner praise has to be written perfectly

Just finished season 3 of aot and I'm so happy that I decided to keep watching this time around. Around 2 years ago I began aot but barely made it through the first 3 episodes, simply because the story seemed rather superficial and I'm not a fan of gore so I didn't believe it what was the show for me, even if it got better, I didn't believe it to be worth it if it wasn't my style. However I tried again this Christmas and oh my god. This started as a rather simple "superficial" story about attacking titans and has now turned into a tale about the dangers we face when people stop recognising each others humanity.

In war, specially through intergenerational trauma one can lose the sight of the humanity of those on the other side, those who wrong us. This is exactly what has happened in attack on titan, and the titans have just turned out to be the PERFECT allegory and VISUAL representation of this very thing. We are introduced to the titans and the horrors they commit, neither the characters nor us wonder about the morality of killing them, they're a threat and they're not human. Except they are. Not that they know this *at first* of course. However because we all physically saw them as something completely different there was no remorse in the killing, it's a literal visual representation of what happens when we see others as inhuman, as something such as titans. When you see humans as such things like titans, or bugs, coackroaches, ants etc what real lasting evil is there in murdering them? Even brutally? That's how many of atrocities of war come to be.

This is what Jean then brings attention to, how they've viewed titans for their entire lives is how Marley views them. Having seen the rage of characters such as Eren's towards the Titan's, how can we not understand the other sides equal rage, to them killing them is no different as killing titans was to us in the first seasons. I just absolutely love the progression of this series, and how at its core its really a plea for us to recognise each others humanity.

Anyway no spoilers for season 4 please!! If I have just absolutely embarrassed myself with this rent for the missing context of season 4 let's just pretend I didn't.

#attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #aot #aot season 4 #aot season three #eren jeager #armin arlert #mikasa ackerman #rambles #ranting #aot ramble

AoT ramble cuz people pmtfo

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From a morally ambiguous, survival-first framework, Eren’s logic makes sense. If extermination of your people is on the table, preemptive annihilation becomes a brutal form of deterrence. It’s the logic of nuclear doctrine. It is literally saying, "if I don’t end this, my people die.”

From a moral philosophy lens, say deontology (duty-based ethics), genocide is wrong regardless of outcome. The intentional killing of innocents violates moral law.

From utilitarianism (maximizing overall well-being) it still collapses. The suffering inflicted outweighs the claimed benefit. You can’t math your way into global extinction being net positive. What makes Eren compelling is that he believes the future is fixed.

The determinism (the philosophical and scientific belief that all events, including human actions and decisions, are inevitable consequences of preceding causes and natural laws. It implies that, given the past, only one future is possible, challenging the notion of free will) angle muddies agency. If you see a future and act to fulfill it, are you choosing freely or are you trapped in a causal loop? The series continuosly keeps asking that with almost every episode. On the contrary, if the story started from Marley’s perspective, Eren would look like an apocalyptic villain from page one.

The story isn’t posing the question of, “Is he right?" Its looking for an answer to, “At what point does survival turn into self-deification?”

Eren says he wants freedom. But absolute freedom without restraint becomes domination. And domination is the same logic used against his people in the first place. The cycle doesn’t break, it simply mutates.

#aot eren #AoT ramble #no cuz y'all don't understand the difference between morally gray points and strictly moral ones