#i know im supposed to write a bleach review but sorry not sorry

[mieltheboss]

Some serious stuff about SnK time location

Time location in SnK is a very confusing topic. We don’t have any official information (as far as I know). We can see that people are living primitively – so there are many theories, that everything’s happening in middle-ages. I’ve heard about ‘different planet’ or ‘alternative reality’ too.  But I’ve always thought  that it’s distant future. Third era – that’s why it’s year 800-something, no 3000-something. It’s not said that the Earth has to develop forever. What if there was a happening, that destroyed all humanity’s  achievements?

Firstly, I’d like to overthrow the theory about SnK taking place in the past or on a different planet.  It’s quite impossible, because there are some little hints, which say that it’s future Earth.

For example – Armin found a forbidden book as a child, didn’t he? The book was about geography. There was much information about the outside world. So it had to be written at times when outside world was something usual or by an illegal traveler. Whichever option you choose, you have to agree, that information this book included was  about the Earth – ‘sand desserts’ or ‘ oceans with much salt’ are surely Earth’s thing.

I’ve already convinced you, that things are happening on Earth! But there aren’t many ‘different planet’ fans, so it wasn’t a lot. Now – I’m going with an argument against ‘it’s past not future’ theory. Remember Eren talking with Pixis, before he turned into his titan form to save humanity by moving a rock? Pixis said, that ‘Humans who disagreed used to fight against themselves at times’.  He’s talking about wars, isn’t he? And Eren seemed quite surprised when he heard that. So these are facts that come from some forbidden literature, maybe. Pixis seems to be a person that would read forbidden literature.

And the 3rd era thing! Things are taking place in year 800-something. So if I want to stay with the theory of  it being future, it has to be 3rd era. And there are theories about 3rd era being counted since first titan appearance – sorry, guys, but no. First titan appearance is said to be about 100 years before the attack on Shinganshina. Which means – even if titans have been living in our world earlier, people don’t know about it, so they can’t count since then.

I cleared up that field – now let’s come up with a new theory!

I started talking about it with my dear friend who doesn’t have a tumblr account, so I can’t make her an ad. We argued about some things – she believed there can’t be any power that could possibly destroy everything we’ve invented – what happened with our architecture, inventions, religions in SnK world? I believed that if there’s something more powerful than human (God probably), Isayama could have used it as an excuse of making our biggest inventions disappear. And that’s where our – but mostly her – theory have found its base.

She told me, that I’ve missed an important point. That not only God is more powerful than humanity. The nature is too.  ‘You can’t imagine the power which is under the lithosphere’ she said . ‘You know that continents used to move, don’t you?’ - she added – ‘That they’re still moving?’. And I realized what she was going to say.  ‘What if the lithospheric plates hit? Much, much harder than ever before?’

‘AND ALL THE TECHNOLOGY BURNT IN EARTH’S CORE’ – I answered using caps-lock.  

‘Yeah, but what with humans?’ - you’re asking while reading this, because you’re quite smart - ‘Remember dinosaurs? They’ve died and nobody knows how. Something enormous destroyed them all.’

Okay, they were bigger than people – but we, humans , have something more. Intelligence. And as animals we’ve got the survival instinct. These characteristics make a perfect match. So it’d be even weird, if not at least one human have survived this catastrophe! Of course, in SnK world we have much less humans than now. Because much more died than survived.

And how did titans appear? What if titans are the result of all these chemicals people found and used? What if these chemicals reacted with some humans after the hitting of lithosphere plates? What if titans are just mutated humans?

It’d make sense. Because thanks to that we could understand, how half-titans were created.  We can see in Eren’s retrospections that his father made an experiment on him, injected him something. He could have injected those chemicals which transformed humans into titans long time ago.  But why half-titans can control their titan form? Hm. Maybe first titans were the result of bodies of already dead people and chemicals? And half-titans can control themselves thanks to that they were created while being alive?

  So that’s our (I’m a very narcissistic person, at real it’s mostly hers, because I gave her only the base) theory.  I hope you see the sense in it! We think that it’s actually pretty cool and interesting. Also – probable.