Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

Oh my god gently caress Eren so much.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Kerning Chameleon
Apr 8, 2015

by Cyrano4747
come on tumblr, before your lovely porn artists flee to newgrounds, where's my erenXfloch otp fanart

I SAID, COME ON!

Meltdown on tumblr right now is soooooo good.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Kerning Chameleon posted:

Meltdown on tumblr right now is soooooo good.

Link?

Kerning Chameleon
Apr 8, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Type in "snk 112" into tumblr search and

just

read

do this for every snk chapter release until the end of the manga muhahahahaha

U-DO Burger
Nov 12, 2007




obviously eren suddenly remembered he's in a stable time loop and burned all his bridges to change the future and save mikasa and armin

ETURNA
Jul 3, 2006

Narayan
I just want to see Levi annihilate Zeke and Eren. I hope it happens.

Kerning Chameleon
Apr 8, 2015

by Cyrano4747
I think my all time favorite AoT moment is relevant here (for you, I keep this in my heart all the time):

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Armin is currently writing the world's greatest diss track. He already hit his mark with the quickest retort he could come up with. Imagine what he can do if you give him time.

Kerning Chameleon
Apr 8, 2015

by Cyrano4747
Also, buried under the EMA stuff, but I want that Floch face for my avatar. You know the one.

In It For The Tank
Feb 17, 2011

But I've yet to figure out a better way to spend my time.
So here's a question: Eren's heading back to Shiganshina. Why?

Tfw there's another secret in the basement.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

HEAVYARMS

RatHat posted:

Yeah but there have been hints for a while that there's time fuckery going on with shifters' memories. So maybe it's a fate thing, and her Ackerman blood knew he was going to become a shifter.

It has nothing to do with him being a shifter and everything to do with her imprinting on Eren.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
God I feel for Levi.

Lost so much to save Eren, and now he's losing it all again...

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
Boy oh boy....I gave Eren too much credit. Act or not, what an awful thing to say

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty

Shinjobi posted:

Boy oh boy....I gave Eren too much credit. Act or not, what an awful thing to say
I legit don't think he's in control right now, I think someone else has taken over but has access to his memories.

And boy, this cliffhanger is pretty much just "yep, levi's super OP, so we have to throw literally dozens of titans at him when he's unprepared to even be a threat"

Beefstew
Oct 30, 2010

I told you that story so I could tell you this one...
Even if he's faking, Eren is still a genocidal maniac, terrorist, and war criminal who exploits, betrays, and abuses his friends and loved ones. He's irredeemable.

Asuron
Nov 27, 2012

Captain Invictus posted:

I legit don't think he's in control right now, I think someone else has taken over but has access to his memories.

And boy, this cliffhanger is pretty much just "yep, levi's super OP, so we have to throw literally dozens of titans at him when he's unprepared to even be a threat"

It’s more like even if it’s not enough, Zeke still gets away. Levi will just barely be able to cope with that but even if he does Zeke will be able to get out in the open and then what are you gonna do

JahRoo
Oct 22, 2010


There have been a few instances of Mikasa and Levi trying to kill Reiner and Bert and being unable to for ~reasons~ which people might've assumed was sentimentality but it definitely seems like it was the Ackerman loyalty blood kicking in and stopping them from killing a shifter.

Viridiant
Nov 7, 2009

Big PP Energy

JahRoo posted:

There have been a few instances of Mikasa and Levi trying to kill Reiner and Bert and being unable to for ~reasons~ which people might've assumed was sentimentality but it definitely seems like it was the Ackerman loyalty blood kicking in and stopping them from killing a shifter.

Didn't Levi kick the poo poo out of Zeke, who has royal blood?

I think Ackermans definitely have a tendency to imprint on people, but not necessarily on those with royal blood. For instance, the one Levi imprinted on was Erwin.

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
Also didn't Mikasa explode Reiner's head with a spear?

Viridiant
Nov 7, 2009

Big PP Energy
My guess is that what Eren told Mikasa is only half true. Ackermans certainly imprint on people and develop an instinct to protect them which also awakens their powers, but who they imprint on has less to do with blood and more to do with who they develop feelings for.

JahRoo
Oct 22, 2010


There’s a specific panel during return to shinganshina where Levi tries to run Reiner through and can’t finish him off, and says something to the effect of “is that his power”. At work so can’t find the chapter right now.

Something similar when Reiner and Bert first reveal themselves and Mikasa only partially beheads Bert.

Not to say that it’s a foolproof thing, it probably only kicks in when they’re in the heat of battle and operating on instinct.

Conspiratiorist
Nov 12, 2015

17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth sixth some day
This is very interesting in the context of how Mikasa, Levi and Kenny are all people who greatly value personal freedom, and how the Ackerman family ended up persecuted for opposing King Fritz' plan. Levi in particular is always quick to point the value of one's decisions, and he's himself constantly reaffirming his choices to himself in regards to his loyalty to Erwin, his duty to his comrades, and his mission.

There's also looking back on Mikasa's and Levi's occasional headaches - his are pretty common whenever he has to plan courses of action, usually vocally complaining about such ("this lovely situation is giving me a headache", "quit your yapper, you're making my head hurt"), while Mikasa's are more rare and generally showed whenever she was in a position where she wanted to help Eren but couldn't.

U-DO Burger
Nov 12, 2007




Eren, I may have given you my blessing to commit global genocide, but that doesn't mean you get to be a jerk about it <:mad:>

Turin Turambar
Jun 5, 2011



Beefstew posted:

Even if he's faking, Eren is still a genocidal maniac, terrorist, and war criminal who exploits, betrays, and abuses his friends and loved ones. He's irredeemable.

Let's think for a moment he is faking it. The question is... why? What's his plan?
Is he trying to go deep cover and really convince his own faction he is allied with his brother, and at some point he will betray him?

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



we don't know what his plan is regardless of whether he's faking it

we do know some of the things he wanted in the past tho. like wanting to keep historia from having to become a titan, for example

ATP_Power
Jun 12, 2010

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.


The whole "Eren is possessed" theory is gaining traction with me, especially in light of this whole conversation and his reaction to Armin's accusation about his own freedom in this chapter. It seems really telling that he goes on and on how neither Armin and Mikasa have no will of their own because of the p a t h s, but acts like he's not being influenced by his own titan(s). These posts are pretty convincing.

U-DO Burger
Nov 12, 2007




ATP_Power posted:

The whole "Eren is possessed" theory is gaining traction with me, especially in light of this whole conversation and his reaction to Armin's accusation about his own freedom in this chapter. It seems really telling that he goes on and on how neither Armin and Mikasa have no will of their own because of the p a t h s, but acts like he's not being influenced by his own titan(s). These posts are pretty convincing.

whoa, yeah those posts bring up some good points. I'd forgotten about a lot of what happened just before the timeskip.

BuhamutZeo
Jun 1, 2011
Eren seems to be getting confused about some things.

Armin always tried to talk to people before taking a route that involves titans, or even violence. Hell, he tried to talk Bertold down at the climax in Shiganshina before he ever ate him.
Levi is an Ackerman and has zero qualms with kicking Eren in the teeth, and then pretty much treating him like dirt. Maybe it was for his own good in the end but Levi doesn't seem to have qualms about putting the major hurt on these titanizing assholes like Mikasa does.
And about Ackermans protecting royal blood, when Eren "ordered" Mikasa to grow some balls and shiv her parents' murderers, Eren was Joe Pleb nobody. His dad did not have a cell of royal blood within him and his dad only had the Attack Titan at the time, not the Founding Titan.

Armin and Mikasa just seem way too distressed to actually call Eren on his bullshit.

Also, I did like how Eren demoted Gabi to "That brat who killed Sasha".


Edit: There also seems to be a page missing between when Armin gets a punch in on Indifferent Eren and then he somehow gets knocked back into the bar with the MPs barging in

BuhamutZeo fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Dec 7, 2018

In It For The Tank
Feb 17, 2011

But I've yet to figure out a better way to spend my time.

ATP_Power posted:

The whole "Eren is possessed" theory is gaining traction with me, especially in light of this whole conversation and his reaction to Armin's accusation about his own freedom in this chapter. It seems really telling that he goes on and on how neither Armin and Mikasa have no will of their own because of the p a t h s, but acts like he's not being influenced by his own titan(s). These posts are pretty convincing.

I'm not sure if this is right, as convincing as it seems. Or at least there's more to it than just Eren being a slave to the desires of the titans.

If Eren is being controlled by the memories of his predecessors then he wouldn't be acting the way he is. Both the First King's Will and (presumably) the Warhammer/Tyber memories should be compelling him to prevent the Rumbling, not engineer/facilitate it like he currently is.

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



there's also his dad's memories too. lotta memories jumbled up inside eren at this point

would you eventually gain the memories of everyone that's ever possessed a titan, or just your immediate predecessor

Liquid Dinosaur
Dec 16, 2011

by Smythe
Hey guys, someone on tumblr noticed something...


http://siamesepolyporegoat.tumblr.com/post/180904608738/if-you-wont-kill-her-has-there-been-like

I'll spoiler it but there's something written in English in the trees.




IF YOU WON'T KILL HER. What the gently caress could that mean? And I was reading it legit on Crunchyroll. It's there, so it's for real.

tiistai
Nov 1, 2012

Solo Melodica
Just looks like the typesetter forgot the outline

e: Actually, I guess more like a random text object that was accidentally duplicated from some other file and since it's hard to see nobody noticed it

tiistai fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Dec 8, 2018

Liquid Dinosaur
Dec 16, 2011

by Smythe
Oh.

Well, that entire conversation is playing out exactly like this one scene in Warframe and I hope this all winds up with Armin letting Mikasa kill Eren, and then decides whether to drink his spine juice, throw it off a cliff, or give it to Mikasa in a jar.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

The most convincing thing about that theory is the stuff with the eyes and Grisha's abrupt and unnatural change in attitude.

Asuron
Nov 27, 2012
He had the titan for years before he started doing this stuff. I'm not buying that theory, it's influence would have exerted itself earlier on if that was the case like the King's did with the founding titan.

Just to clarify though, I think it is influencing him to a degree, but the feelings he has now are just the natural extension of the feelings he already had before he even inherited the Attack Titan.

Asuron fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Dec 8, 2018

Beefstew
Oct 30, 2010

I told you that story so I could tell you this one...
So are basically just trying to figure out if Eren is more Alia Atreides or more God Emperor Leto II?

Elijah Snow
Dec 10, 2006

some-something man
He could be bluffing just to give his titans to the little angry girl, who is (and this is accepted by everyone??) the only other angry enough character to merit it on will power alone. loving over absolutely everyone in the process, but making Armin reaffirm and accept his peaceful nature as part of himself instead of some paths bullshit, and Mikasa off to proto/neotokyo to become a ninja queen or pirate or whatever.

that's my lovely theory and i'm not bent on it in any way, this series has >always< surprised me.

Kawalimus
Jan 17, 2008

Better Living Through Birding And Pessimism
Definitely rooting for the Ackermans here, tired of the Yeagers' galaxy-brain stuff

JahRoo
Oct 22, 2010


JahRoo posted:

There’s a specific panel during return to shinganshina where Levi tries to run Reiner through and can’t finish him off, and says something to the effect of “is that his power”. At work so can’t find the chapter right now.

Something similar when Reiner and Bert first reveal themselves and Mikasa only partially beheads Bert.

Not to say that it’s a foolproof thing, it probably only kicks in when they’re in the heat of battle and operating on instinct.





This line is what always struck me as weird, and I think if we assume Eren is telling the truth about Ackerman stuff that it's the same thing. I don't think it's a power that literally stops them from hurting hosts at all, just something that activates in the heat of the moment. At least in this context it was just to stop the killing blow, not to stop damage altogether.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's at least some truth to this Ackerman stuff; Mikasa also seemed shocked when she suddenly slammed Armin down this chapter.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply