#rivamikaendgame

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I saw this on FB and

Hmmmmm

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An analysis on Isayama and why Rivamika might become canon/ with official interview links

Partly why Isayama got inspired for attack on titan was his past relationship with getting bullied for being a smaller and skinnier build guy by bigger folks. Hence the titans preying and eating smaller humans.

This is especially seen in Levi. Small guy who is looked down upon several times in the manga for being small. These are the examples I could find, but I remember there being plenty more. 

Here we have Isayama sporting levi’s attire

Having levi’s hairstyle 

Isayama has stated plenty of times that he doesn’t insert himself as one of the characters, but I still genuinely believe he might have this guilty pleasure of wanting to become this strong and fictional character who resembles himself both in build and the way he acts. Being small, but also humanity’s strongest and defying his real life bullies. Many times, when I watch his interviews, he has a similar behavior to Levi. A very calm and collected  demeanor when speaking.

Mikasa’s inspiration (original link) 

My dude literally admitted in an old Interview that Mikasa’s design was inspired by a cute girl he saw during his part time job. He even said he felt something when he saw her. Do we see parallels here or what?? Yes, Isayama has a wife now, but let’s look at how he acts when he’s around women. He’s perhaps a bit shy to approach them. Literally. the. same. as Levi. Levi is not as vocal with his love when he likes someone. WIth the billions of stares towards Mikasa and nothing more, like again. DO YOU SEE THE RESEMBLACE? I see you Isayama. 

His Ideal self

All in all, we can high key see that Levi is someone he wants to be in real life in his own mind. Looking weaker, yet being super strong and heroic. In an interview he admitted that he sees himself more as Daz and as we all know, Daz is someone who’s passive and he wouldn’t be someone who is necessarily heroic. And at last, having the girl (or maybe the many beautiful girls in his life) he did not dare to approach when he was younger. It would make sense,  that’s why he wrote Levi and Mikasa to have such an interesting yet subtle bond (more about this later). He wishes he could get those things in real life. He perhaps wished he walked up to that girl during his part time job, translated to his own fictional world: Levi might get Mikasa. 

(let me add that there’s nothing wrong and shameful  about him possibly self inserting himself as Levi, many authors do this and as long as the self insert is not a Mary Sue, which Levi is not!, everything is completely fine) 

How Isayama depicts love in his story/ Why subtlety wins

For my feeling, Isayama is perhaps a shy guy in real life. I feel very similar to him when I write about love or envision it in my own head. He doesn’t like being upfront in his story when it comes to it. 

Subtlety is key for him once again. He doesn’t enjoy hinting at love too directly, and if he does, it’s not the pairing you believe will become canon. Er*mika for example, they are the most obvious and direct ship in the series (no hate  and shame to Er*mika shippers, but this is just my own opinion). In an interview he admitted that Mikasa is more like a mother figure to Eren and chapter 139 shows a one sided love between them. Sasha doesn’t end up with Connie as many believed, rather Niccolo fell in love with her. Jean liked Mikasa for a long time, but he doesn’t get her either, last example are Oruo x Petra and Hannah x Franz (Literally, the first couple shown in the series, died instantly afterwards) 

I’m personally also a very subtle type of person, many times in my own stories, I want the not so obvious pairing to become canon. With these types of ships, you don’t see their love shoved in your face, but it is there, through subtlety. Levi always watching over Mikasa at the side of the panel, their minimum amounts of interactions, but it’s still there. Rivamika is not a crack pairing as many who fail to understand us believe. Their dynamics are SUBTLE and slowly build. It’s a slow burn that will blow us all away in the end perhaps in the last chapter. 

Maybe I’m a clown for writing all this haha, but I believe in Isayama. It would be incredibly odd for him to waste all this potential, because for me everything fits like a perfect puzzle.