I was going through the list of birthdays in aot and found some funny/interesting things:
Mikasa's dad and Yelena have the same birthday (January 21).
Carla's and Grisha's birthdays are only 3 days apart (Grisha on January 26 and Carla on January 29)
Mikasa and Falco also have the same birthday (February 10)
Annie and Kiyomi have the same birthday (March 22nd)
Eren Kruger was born on April 5th, the first chapter of the anime was released on the 6th and Jean's birthday is on the 7th.
Willy Tybur and Niccolo share a birthday on July 23rd (my birthday too lol), and Sasha and Dina on the 26th. Like Carla and Grisha, Sasha and Niccolo's birthdays were also separated by 3 days aw
Reiner was born on Zeke's 8th birthday (August 1st). Do you know who else was born on the first day of the month? Miche (November 1st) who died in an unbelievably cruel way at Zeke's hands :D
Levi was born on Christmas (December 25th), I like to think that there is an equivalent of Christmas on the walls, he is our baby Jesus. Ramzi's birthday is one day after Levi's :( (Dec 26)
Uri was born on new year's eve (december 31st) y Beyonce a day before (December 30).
Zeke didn’t get to reconcile w his mother in the same way Eren didn’t in the end, and that’s so lost to interpretation. I really wish we knew more about what he and Dina’s relationship was like bc Grisha overshadowed so much of Zeke and Eren’s respective purposes that it like… kind of eclipsed the significance of their mothers to them? :’o
Another reason to hate Chapter 139 is the reveal that Eren led Titan Dina to his mom in order to keep her from eating Bertolt and the fact that he messed with the minds of his friends. They already a good reason for Titan Dina to ignore Bertolt and go to where Carla was. Right before she was turned into a Titan, she told Grisha that no matter what she would always find him. So her Titan form could have clung to the desire to find Grisha and when she was inside Shiganshina, she could somehow sense that Grisha’s home was close by and that was why she was able to find it so quickly. I also think that they should have kept it where the only time Eren interfered with the past was when he told Grisha to stand up and kill the royal family like he did because he was afraid that things were about to drastically change when Grisha suddenly decided to not kill the royal family. Since I also prefer Erehisu, it could be added that Eren was desperate to do what he had planned in order to protect Historia and their unborn child.
The Yeagers used to have one of those singing Douglas Fir trees with the creepy eyes which scared the piss out of little six year-old Eren. Years later, Zeke found one on ebay and wanted to see if it still creeped his brother out. It very much did.
OMFG NONNIE!!! THE BLAST OF NOSTALGIA THIS BROUGHT ME!
my granma had one of these and I actually loved it lol She also had multiple dancing/singing Santa's. I never really coincided her always decorating outside and inside for Christmas with my love for the holiday.
aaaaaanywho this idea is hilarious!
The whole Jaeger clan is under one roof for the holidays, including Dina (cause we love healthy dynamics with exes). Zeke buys the little tree and keeps it in his luggage until super early Christmas morning. Eren always sleeps in now that he's older and doesn't wake up until Carla comes to get him up usually.
Zeke's set up his phone before sneaking in to set up the tree on Eren's nightstand. The Tree is motion and voice activated so he's gotta be careful not to set it off till he's back behind the camera. Then he says the voice command and it lights up, turns on and starts blaring Jingle Bells!!
Eren startles awake. the song and the sound of the tree's animatronic movements have been nightmare fuel for years and then he turns to see the horrifying creature near his bed and starts flailing and screaming, getting tangled up in his sheets as he tries to scramble away.
The rucous causes the parental units to wake up and come down the hall to see what's up. Carla's first with Dina and Grisha close on her heels. Zeke is losing it laughing. Dina pops him upside the head as Carla moves past him to go to Eren. Grisha is pinching the bridge of his nose.
Once Eren gets a handle on what's going on--Tree still singing with all this commotion--he's breathing heavy but after Carla comes in and turns on the light he notices Zeke in the doorway and we know our boy is easy to anger and he's lunging for his brother prepared to put the blond on a tshirt kill for his antics. Zeke is still laughing while Eren attempts to strangle him. Dina and Carla are telling them to cut it out and Grisha is so done he just walks away.
I didn't realize there was an (imo) even scarier version of the tree (2nd one). And some shots of the two Santas my granma had. Also, I cannot believe someone built a FULL SIZE singing fir tree!
