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[takaraphoenix]

FLASHBACK ORIGIN STORY! I LOVE A GOOD FLASHBACK ORIGIN STORY! *^*

ALSO I LOVE THE CHARACTER DESIGN THERE BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST TELL THAT MICAH IS GLIMMER’S DAD, RIGHT FROM THE GET-GO??

Seriously, he is the perfect middle-ground design between Castaspella and Glimmer, showing how Glimmer came from Micah/Angella while showing that Micah and Castaspella are definitely siblings?? It’s good design.

(And Glimmer has her dad’s excitement ;-;)

[ghostmartyr]

Hello! I really love reading your thoughts and theories about snk, and I'm curious: do you think there's a chance for Historia's pregnancy to be fake? Is there such a possibility?

Hi, thanks! Yeah, this is one of the blogs on that theory train. Featuring this thing.

Immediately after the chapter where Historia’s baby bump is revealed, characters discuss at length that the timing is suspicious. In-universe, it’s theorized that she gets pregnant on purpose to screw up killing Zeke. Directly after the benefits of Historia having lots of kids are discussed, the people who would receive those benefits are all frustrated that she’s actually pregnant.

All Is Not As It Seems is practically baked into the full text of the material.

What would make the most sense, then, since Historia has offered her verbal agreement to take on the Beast Titan for as long as it’s necessary, is if she really did just fall for NPC Farmer Guy and whoops that’s poor timing.

Only the story explicitly goes out of its way to show that even that explanation doesn’t add up. Nile’s story of Historia and NPC Farmer Guy’s romance most strongly highlights Historia’s distaste for her supposed paramour. A distaste which hasn’t changed by the end of 107.

Additionally, NPC Farmer Guy is notable in that he is specifically indebted to Historia. His only known character trait is guilt.

Then we have Historia.

Historia is the bastard child of the royal family. She grows up knowing she’s unwanted. Her character arc reaches it climax when she decides she won’t continue the cycle of sacrificing people to keep the Founding Titan’s powers alive.

This current arc has shown none of the thought process that leads to her openly defying the choice her own arc leads her to make. If she is pregnant, her unhappiness points to it being plot-related. If it’s plot-related, that means she’s throwing her own child into her personal hell without so much as a thought bubble. Eren and Hange are given more time angsting over the moral conflicts of the choice.

I find the writing’s assertion that Historia has agreed to do this to her child wanting. Historia has a whole arc where she learns to curb the impulse to sacrifice herself. Her life belongs to her. Having her drop that flies in the face of her entire characterization up until now. Having her subject her child to the hell her parents put her through also flies in the face of everything she is as a person.

The manga is asking us to believe that this is the choice that she has bowed her head to. All without a single thought bubble. Since the reveal, I think she might have had more panels in the fake preview sections than the actual manga.

Historia’s involvement in her pregnancy subplot so far could literally have her replaced by her rocking chair with zero change. That has never been how Isayama writes characters. From day one, even if he takes them strange places, he’ll have clear lines of characterization explaining why.

No explanations for this make sense. And again, it is a direct counter to the very last bit of character work Historia was part of. Quoting her arc is honestly one of the fastest ways to explain the things wrong with the story the manga is selling (see how I chose not to do that here).

So altogether, I’m inclined to think that it’s a red herring.

[reeeyachi]

I'M SPREADING THE LOVE FOR SK8R BOI

[justine-the-guillotine]

@ Florida my hair has had enough humidity pls can we have a break

Hashtag I took 30 pictures of what I thought was me smiling but no this is the only one that came close

[astraxh]

Hey quick question, are you greek orthodox?

Yep ^

[iheartnewt]

it's 5 am here and I can't sleep.

So, I've changed my theme AGAIN! XD

[fwabio-blog-blog]

Cat: Move tail.

Panels from the introduction of Roxibald "Rocksy" LeBrawn.