#Ik people often associate them with pride but that's not really why

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I made an oc moodboard for june!! you can find tara’s here: (link)

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If the ghosts bosses got to be reincarnated, what do you think they’d look like in the modern age(I’m talking, like the twisted sisters, Clem(best rat boi), Fishhook, etc)?

Oh boy tough call !✨Sooo let's seeeee...

(*Low quality colouring, drawing and long post ahead (sorry), Click4Quality*)

So let's start with Chambrea and Steward. They gladly took back their human form (Yeah I see Chambrea as Latino/Arabic styled, and Steward as Australian), but less gladly the fact of having to work to not get hungry. They restarted to work in services, although their experience (as for a good part of the ghosts) got them militant, and they are fighting for the service workers to get treated/respected better and better paid (between others). Chambrea (Chãlissia) is the leading type, Steward (Stuart) follows and admires her, and struggles to push their relationship to another level. They already live together.

Then there's Chef Jacques Soulfflé. He of course oriented himself towards cooking, but understandably enough for those who witnessed his cooking, got fired several times, and refused to understand why ; so much that he actually attempted ''Hell's Kitchen'' to prove everyone wrong- and nearly caused Gordon Ramsay, who -figures- spectacularly blazed his @ss, to rage quit the emission. They actually had a private talk afterwards and Gordon decided to save cooking's honour and to give him private lessons. Never did he see a guy so bad at cooking but who genuinely absolutely loved cooking against all. Deserves an effort. Thanks to that Soulfflé got better and found a regular cook post. Yeah I got carried a bit far on this IK. X) Anyway so next-

Morty finally managed to open the cinema class he was planning to open before his death, and he's having the time of his life with this. He takes cheap and everyone in -elementals to elderly- and he is in a 'poor-populated' city part, so he has a lot of volunteers ; as an activity as for an actual class. He loves to communicate his passion with others, is a wonderful teacher open to everyone and loves creating shorts and movies with his students. Some of them actually succeeded as actors or staff or even directors, and often credit him. Although a bit wore out, he is really happy. Plus a good portion of the former boss ghosts like to help him with and star in his productions.

Krüller thought of becoming policeman, but chickened out and went on as a mall guard. He is great with children. He even babysits sometimes. And often stars in Morty's movies, as 'the police chief'. He's satisfied by this repetitive but calm life.

Johnny Deepend invested into an old gym and became sport coach. Between taxes and incomes, it isn't always easy but his easygoing, supportive and friendly natural attitude gets him a nice bunch of people following him and going to his gym. But on the side, he is also very engaged to ban competitions based on showing off the body, knowing way too well how destructive it is for the people, and actually even run conferences about that. He is determined.

Serpci has became a famous social media influencer and practically lives out of it (plus some beauty and fashion sideworks. She customize clothes.). Her Egyptian style, her beauty and aura and her pets snakes got her REALLY popular on any network- and leaves her targeted by many creeps of course, but her merciless way of dealing with them chicken them out (and actually is a way of outcome for her. Blackmail is powerful, but shhh.) She's militant for feminism, and against racism, cultural appropriation and above all, grave robbers (especially targeting archeologists). Remains of her pharaoh shenanigans, y'know.

Dr. Potter searched around and was taken under the wing of an association that fights to save true seeds (seeds that naturally grows back after harvesting and not having to be replaced each time like big corporations like to sell [as] 'necessary'.) He is trusted to keep and grow in number these true seeds, and in return he is taken care of, feed, and has his own house, garden and glasshouse. He is very happy.

The Triplets had to actually go to school for the first time in their lives, and if they managed to get to be adopted together (by one of the bosses, idk for this one), they had a very cynical bad surprise. They still perform during events, to show-off or at parties.

THAT is my human interpretation of Fishook. He lacks an arm and look as what white police arbitrarily view as the embodiment of ''''potential criminal''''; and now that he's human again, he's fucking pissed. As in -he freaking means business. By that I mean, he is entirely, body and soul, engaged to the whole 'Save Marine Life' cause. He raids awareness and direct missions, participates to everything and acts everywhere. Yeah, he works for the WWF. (He is also getting a bit of trouble about his cranky comportment.)

(Yeah, ship time. Why ? Because I can.)

Amadeus Wolfgeist and Clem turned into a couple representation of Tortured Artists ™. (I'll explain for Clem at some point in the future so it'd make sense, pinky swear.)

Amadeus Wolfgeist got his hair back (and I wasn't too sure of what colour to give it but heck it I'm satisfied), but was really pissed to learn that it's hard to make a carrier out of classical music nowadays. He yet decided to keep on it, determined as frick that he was to bring back the golden age, and became an independent compositor, freeing the stress generated from this work by private contract concerts. Despite his talent, he's struggling due to his dissuading stubbornness and is upset to not being able to afford his preferred nobile lifestyle. Clem has spawned up with an hyperactive syndrome, plus of his autistic condition, and is making the most money by having several jobs at the time. As a handyman/plumber, but also as a painter and visual artist, as he finally noticed how much interest and talent he had for that. He draws eyefooling artworks as a living, to situate. He kept his pet opossum and his emotional support duckies. Strangely enough, he hardly sleeps on his own impulse anymore.

They live together (for 'financial reasons' dixit Wolfgeist, y'knooow...) and complete and equilibrate each other. Clem is the one who -ironically- makes the most money, and deals with Amadeus's stress and irritation levels. Amadeus is Clem's impulse control, health, fashion, self-care and sleep schedule advisor.

Sometimes Clem seconds Amadeus on his banjo.

AND THEN, TO FINISH (because I literally, between other things, have no space left) we have Macfrights who tried to get hired at 'Puy du Fou' but got humiliated and turned off, and Phantasmagloria who tried to get hired as a DJ but nuts for several reasons. They both swallowed back their pride and ended up working at fast-foods. They both try as often as possible to play in Morty's movies. Macfrights likes to play the villain.

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OKAY ! And that was about it for my headcanons about this ask. Very long post, I know but hey ! Dare I believe that it was worth it...?

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Mikasa's headache when carla died has her saying "not this again". Initially I thought she meant "losing her family again" but when eren was kidnapped by reiner and bert she gets the headache again and this time also she says " this again"this led me to conclude that she has had headaches long before we got to witness them. They have been a regular part of her life thts why she said "this again". Ik thr are other instances like her reaction to scorched armin that dn't fit with eren's explanation

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[Same anon ] So I don’t buy Eren’s explanation, but we also have some instances where they do kinda fit with Eren’s explanation like the recent one she got after seeing Louise or the one from when Annie swallowed him. They are possibly just meant to confuse the readers. But do you think it’s possible that her headaches might be related to her Asian bloodline ? Because in Trost, when Louise saluted her, she got a headache but this was the one and only time her tatoo marking hurt alongside the headache. [2/2]

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Yes it’s normal that everything doesn’t concord with Eren’s explanations, for the simple reason that it’s bullshit. The fact that Mikasa has often headaches is actually not related to her Ackerman blood, nor Asian, but to her infantile trauma.

If it was related to the Ackerman side, we would have seen Levi suffer from at least as powerful headaches when he let Erwin die, or when he discovered Erwin’s real motivation behind his involvement in the SC. Levi put himself at Erwin’s service in order to save humanity from the titans, and he built himself for several years around this goal. Nevertheless, at the moment Erwin let slip a smile, everything shatters and we can say that Levi is forced to return to a certain independence (understand, to his older self) in what he must believe or not, since the person who had all his confidence has questioned this belief.

Nevertheless, despite this discord between the person he built around Erwin, and the person he was without him, he has no headaches. According to the case described by Eren, however, he should, since he isn’t in agreement with his host. So that counterexample contradicts his saying.

Mikasa’s headaches exist in fact, since this time :

that is to say, the epicenter of her trauma (moreover, before she even met Eren so it contradicts again his words). It was at this moment her world reduced to nothingness, cruelty and violence, which she associated with the pain that twisted her head. 

That’s why they come at times when she fears that the violence she once saw and suffered on those she loves, might happen again :

And especially in the presence of Louise, who reminds her of the mommy girl she was (and automatically, how this little girl is symbolically dead with the murder of her parents) :

The principle of trauma is to be intrusive, and to return as a memory at the limit of the reviviscence in present, at a fairly regular frequency to continue to be persistent in the psychic system of the person (as we see Mikasa sometimes lets out “This again”). That’s why there is the emphasis around the tatoo in this scene, which you associated with a pain, acts as a reminder of the old Mikasa, as it is the last thing her mother could transmit to her.

But Louise does act as a kind of contradiction between the two selfs of Mikasa, and it’s true that in this respect her role is quite complexe. 

As this panel shows brilliantly, Mikasa is torn between two faces of herself : her soldier face, the one that is led by the pride she takes in her duty of protecting people, and her Eren’s family face, the one she has set to protect Eren at all costs in repaying the debt she thinks owing him for saved her. 

In this scene, Louise call her both. 

So the importance of cognitive dissociation here is strong because it is related to the core values of Mikasa. And these two enter insistently into conflict. If Eren is certainly the young boy who gave her the warmth of a home when she needed it the most, he has also entered in her field of view the first time by stabbing someone with an anger and a violence whose terrified her. Eren basically, was at the same level of humanity as her kidnappers. And it’s something she never wanted to recognize herself, which she probably made a lot of guilt for. This is also why when Louise manages to bring out the reality of this memory in her, Mikasa struggles as much, tries to repress it before being forced to face it. And the reason for her headache, the PTSD in front of bloodbath.

It’s more interpretative here so it’s be nuanced, but I think that’s maybe one of the reasons she repeated so many times in the beginning, “I have to protect Eren,” so as to convince herself that she had to do it, not only in thanks for having saved her and given her a second life, but also to be forgiven for having first seen him as a monster.

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So I would say, for the future, that she should talk with Levi (although I am less and less optimistic that the Ackertalk arrives directly one day) or at least realize, if she’s able to finds it alone in remembering that he also told her that he had known awaken, which he himself has a life that contradicts Eren’s vomit.

If Mikasa’s arc tends to be resolved in acception of her two genetic heritages, I think it’s also tend to be resolved on a better consciousness of who she’s from an introspective POV.

Until now, Mikasa has voluntarily defined herself as the ‘patch’ of persons she had chosen to defend at the expense of the rest, someone rather egoist as she’s only focused on her interests.

But this isn’t totally true, and the story has shown it many times : she wanted to kill the female titan for her own satisfaction, she failed to kill Reiner and Bertholdt when they were a threat for Eren, she saved Gabi without even thinking about it, whereas the girl killed one of her friends. And each time she is confronted with the accomplished fact, she doesn’t seem to understand the reason for her action, because she doesn’t see herself as someone who can aspire to higher ideals than to protect those she chose. 

So Mikasa must also get to know herself better so that she can understand the reason for her headaches, who she really is, and what atavism does or does not do in what she has done so far for Eren.

Voilà, sorry for having deviated a little from the basic subject at the end !

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