#SnK manga spoilers

[levmada]

i've drawn a connection levihan nation

then shortly after Hange's death when no one has a plan...

[branchofcinnamon]

need them to directly show jeankasa is canon (not ambiguous) just so i can feel something.

[adhd-mess]

If this is truly the final season of snk, then we're going to see the cabin scene

im so excited

[bittersweetserenity]

SAFETY NET !

Spoilers ahead just in case you haven’t finished the series :)

My take on another way the “what am I to you?” scene could have went. I know this has been done endlessly but I wanted to do my own version regardless. This isn’t a fix-it, really, just what could have happened in the paths or something.

The first chapter is not explicit, however, later ones will be!

(This was originally titled ‘Stuck with Me’ but I didn’t like it so I’m renaming it.)

It’s been five long years since Mikasa killed Eren. Five years since she sliced through his neck with her blades, since she last spoke to the love of her life.

Mikasa’s doing as well as she can considering her circumstances. She’s taken up being the head of Historia’s orphanage since the queen is always busy with trying to make peace with other nations. This way, she can still be in the loop of what’s happening in terms of conflict but she doesn’t actually do anything to help. Without Eren by her side, none of that matters to her anymore.

During her free time, Mikasa enjoys painting. She never thought much of it, never thought that she’d even like it, but after one especially bad depressive bout, she took up Jean’s advice and gave it a shot.

“Now, I’m much better with just pencils,” Jean said as he set out some of his oil paints, brushes, and a pallet. “But painting can be very therapeutic. I really think it’ll help you when you notice things start to worsen. Of course, you can paint whenever, not only if you’re feeling like shit—”

“Jean,” Mikasa interrupted, a minuscule smile on her usually frowning mouth. “I get it.”

Scratching the back of his neck and turning away fiercely, Jean said, “yeah, of course. Sorry. Anyways, let’s get started. So, these are oil paints—”

“Who’s that?”

Mikasa snapped herself out of her reminiscing and looked to her right to see one of the orphans, Helena, eyeing her canvas with curiosity. It’s Saturday, so Mikasa doesn’t work per-se, but she never travels far lest there be some problem that the other three caretakers may need help with as they’re still learning their roles.

‘Shit,’ Mikasa mentally chastises herself. ‘I should have picked somewhere more isolated instead of out in the open.’

“Oh,” Mikasa plasters on the faux smile that she always wears when talking with the kids. “Just an old friend of mine.”

“If he’s a friend, why is he kissing you?” Helena has a mischievous grin on her face.

‘Why, of all of the children, did she have to come up to me right now? She’s far too clever for her age.’

With her patience growing thin, Mikasa keeps up that happy facade because she knows if she falters one bit, Helena will catch on in an instant. Hell, the girl probably has caught on already but is at least letting it slide.

“Well, I guess he was more than a friend, but it was never… official.”

The small blonde scrunches up her nose, clearly not happy with that answer. “Grown-ups are so weird,” she declares before wandering off who knows where.

A relieved sigh escapes Mikasa once the small girl is out of earshot. Considering that what was going on in the painting was a little more than just kissing, though one wouldn’t be able to decipher that just yet considering she’s only painted a portion of Eren’s face, Mikasa is glad that Helena didn’t question anything else.

Deciding not to think about the conversation any longer, Mikasa gets back to her painting, falling into the one of many memories of Eren that play in her mind every day. She thinks about the night that they arrived in Marley, when Eren went out on his own and Mikasa went to find him. She wishes that night could have gone the way he showed her in that long dream, if that’s even what it was. It felt too real to be just a dream, but she knows that it had to be.

Right?

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“Mikasa,” Eren’s voice is little more than a whisper, but the pain is clear as day. “What am I to you?”

Mikasa feels a lump crawling up her throat, her heart faltering in its rapid beating. She wants to say, ‘You’re my everything,’ but the words that spill from her stuttering lips are nowhere close to what she meant.

“You’re family,” she blurts out, the words bitter on her tongue.

Eren’s face is on the verge of crumbling but before he can break fully he says, “If I’m your family then why do you treat me the way you do?”

“I-I don’t treat you diff—”

“Yes, you do, Mikasa,” Eren cuts her off harshly. “And I know you aren’t purposely trying to mother me. That’s just how you show me that you care. And you care for me more than anyone.” He pauses, willing himself to make it to the end of this damn confession. “And I care for you more than anyone else.”

All Mikasa can do is stare helplessly into his eyes, jaw slack, cheeks and ears glowing red. She can’t even try to move away when Eren steps closer to her, one hand reaching to gently cradle her jaw, ensuring that she won’t look away.

“I know it isn’t fair of me to ask this of you because I don’t have much time left,” he continues. “But please, be mine, Mikasa. I’ve wanted you for as long as I can remember and I want to spend the little time I have left by your side, if you’ll let me.”

It takes too much brain power for Mikasa to form a coherent sentence, so she simply nods. She never thought that her feelings were reciprocated. She never even allowed herself to fantasize the ‘what-ifs’ that would be presented should she let herself imagine that Eren wanted her.

Mikasa wants to respond to him, but she’s still processing everything when his voice breaks through her cluttered mind. “Can I kiss you?”

A tear falls down her blazing cheek, and she forces herself to verbally respond, “Yes. Please kiss me, Eren.”

With that, Eren leans down and kisses her with such an intensity that Mikasa’s eyes fly open. Neither of them are really sure what they’re doing, but, somehow, that just makes it better. Knowing that they’re both each other’s first everything fills them both with an inexplicable amount of joy.

Eren’s mouth moves on its own accord, and Mikasa follows suit. She feels his tongue shyly prodding at her bottom lip, and she gasps, unprepared for the strange sensation.

Eren pulls away, just barely, to catch his breath, his forehead resting against hers. “Sorry,” he says. “Was that too much?”

“No,” she breathes against his mouth. “But we should probably get back inside. Everyone’s worried about you.”

Begrudgingly, Eren follows Mikasa back to the Azumibito estate, assuring everyone that he was fine and quickly dismissing himself for bed. Mikasa deflates slightly at his quick escape, but when he passes by her on his way out of the room he whispers, “Come to me when you can.”

Her eyes widen a fraction as he continues on his way out, fighting the urge not to just follow him now, but she knows that would raise suspicion. She settles down next to Armin and continues to converse with everyone for another hour or so before dismissing herself. Armin looks concerned, and Mikasa knows it wouldn’t be fair to keep him in the dark, so she urges him to follow her.

“What‘s going on?” He asks once they arrive in Mikasa’s room.

“Eren kissed me,” she blurts out. “And he told me to go to his room.”

Armin’s jaw slackens a bit at her confession. “Well, that’s good! I was wondering when you two idiots would realize that you’re in love.”

“Love?” Mikasa whisper-yells. “There’s no ‘love’ involved, Armin. At least, not romantic love.”

He doesn’t argue with her, because he knows they don’t have time for that discussion at the moment. “Well, then you realized you had feelings of some sort for each other.” Mikasa opens her mouth to retort but stops when Armin holds a hand up to stop her. “And do not argue with me, we both know we don’t have time.” Reluctantly, Mikasa stays quiet and listens to what else he has to say.

“He didn’t tell you why he wanted you to go to him, right?”

Mikasa nods in affirmation and Armin continues to ponder the situation. He has an inkling as to what Eren’s implying, but if he tells Mikasa, he knows she will refuse to go. So, he plays dumb. “Well, just go and find out then,” he says resolutely with a smile, shuffling towards the closed door.

“Wait, Armin,” Mikasa protests, following after him as soon as he begins his escape. “That doesn’t—”

“Good luck!” He calls from down the hall, quickly retreating back to the group on the first floor.

“Some help you are,” she mutters under her breath.

And with that, she’s on her way to Eren’s room.

Next chapter

[touyahoedoroki]

[tsukidrama]

hi! same anon. thanks so much for answering all of my questions! i hope it’s ok that i have some more?

when reader and papa first met at the battle of heaven and earth, what was she like? i know even in trnt she still has some negative feelings towards papa for what he made annie go through, so what was she like towards him before she actually got to know him?

are any of the other animals besides cinnamon and the cats named? I like to imagine reader and annie naming each and every one of the chickens and then forgetting who’s who

what was reader like when hange died?

im so sorry for all of these questions i know you said its fine but i just kind of feel like im bombarding you 😓

have a good night!

of course i don't mind! though the first two questions don't have very interesting answers. i genuinely have a lot of fun answering these and i like it when people are curious!!! continue to send asks forever if you want to. i will never get tired of talking about TRNT.

i've gotten this question before, i think? they really don't interact that much! Annie does introduce them to one another in the aftermath of the battle but he's never met any of the Paradis kids, so nobody particularly stands out. on Reader's part, she's definitely not thrilled to meet him. and she doesn't particularly like him going in but she knows that he's important to Annie, and that being with Annie means being okay with her dad. so she swallows her feelings in favor of just politely nodding and smiling, shaking his hand, and introducing herself. Papa hasn't seen his daughter in years so he's more focused on catching up with her rather than grilling her about who she's dating. i don't think the idea of her dating someone even crosses his mind until it happens. that's his baby, yknow? the image he has of her in his head is from when she was a child. even if they were hugging in front of him i don't think Papa would immediately connect that to her being romantically involved with anyone. plus, after that big battle everybody had a lot of other things on their mind.

i don't think he's that observant so he doesn't even really notice anything after reader and Annie move in together. have you read off the beaten path? particularly this one and this one since they deal with the early dynamic.

yeah, the other animals have names! i don't list them in the story because there would be too many names to keep track of. i don't think i've ever sat down and come up with names for them and i doubt i will but they obviously exist in canon. any suggestions from the people? lmao

Papa would only know the cows' names since that's what he deals with, but reader + Annie know them all. they have all their little markings or feather/coat patterns memorized, as well as their mannerisms. you might be surprised how distinctive of personalities farm animals can have! after a month or two of seeing them every day they become part of the family.

as for hanji's death: initially, i mean, basically the same reaction as everyone else? she'd be devastated and crying and shit, but i don't think she would spiral too incredibly badly. more than anything i think reader's biggest takeaway would be that all this fighting just keeps killing people she cares about. she realizes that death is the only thing coming for the people who are involved in war.

honestly it didn't hit me until now but... hanji's death might be what pushed reader over the edge into being so eager to detach herself from Paradis. there are very, very few people left for her. she's got no family left alive and like everyone, she's watched people she's known for years slowly being picked off one by one. hanji dying just pushes her to the point of not wanting to be involved in anything having to do with war - or peace/diplomacy for that matter.

that's definitely part of why she doesn't go back to Paradis. she doesn't want to see places that she associates with people who are now dead. and it also doesn't help that things would be awkward with Historia. what happens from the raid on Liberio all the way to the finale changes reader's mind about "going home," and i think she's so caught up in the fairytale feelings of having Annie back that she doesn't even realize she left Hisu behind until it's too late. and with a newborn baby, too. it's not reader's best moment but hey! girl has got issues.

this will come back in TRNT at some point actually, but shsh sh ssshh spoilers ....

[dragoncarnage]

Had a dream where AOT’s s4 p3 was a movie and i watched it and they forgot to adapt the part where hange dies so hange just kind of randomly disappeared halfway through the movie

[crimsonsx96]

no me duele... ME QUEMA ME LASTIMA! 😭

source:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNJSBFR6/?k=1

[esli-art]

Sasha seeing Hange in heaven 😇

September 4th 2021

[inkinthetypewriter]

AOT FINALE SPOILERS ⚠️⚠️⚠️

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[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

hajime isayama: i am too shy to draw kisses uwu

hajime isayama: [gets married]

hajime isayama:

[tonya-the-chicken]

Jeankasa (my OTP) became canon but in a way that made me wish it didn't fr fr

[aastarions]

reposting cause i added the manga panel this is more cursed than it looks 🤧

[kariighost]

THE SWEET SMILE SHE GIVES HIM!!!! I JUST KNOW LEVI LOVED HER SMILE SO MUCH. In a place so dark and cold and violent, he probably thought his mom was an angel 🤍

and their little tea time together??

My heart truly breaks for Levi all over again. No wonder he loved tea so much, when every time he drinks some he probably thinks of this.

I just love him so much.

[reneacaye]

Levi idolized and love his mother's posture...😞

[touyahoedoroki]

eren wants to be itachi so bad