Galadriel: And for you, Legolas, I give this bow of Lothlorien. Do me a favor and after the war show it to your father so he can see what real elvish crafts look like.
Hi Anon! I’d be careful when it comes to shipping in the SnK world actually. Without mentioning the discourse and ship wars in the fandom (I’m pretty sure I’m exposing myself by answering you actually), Sensei showed that killing a lot of his characters was totally his thing, which makes it hard to hope for canon romance.
Anyway, I always rooted for Springles but if you’re caught up with SnK, well, you know it’s not happening.
Ymir/Historia always was a pairing I considered to be more or less canon even though Ymir is already dead and Historia has been put in rather… complicated situation with the latest chapter. Even though they will never end up together in the flesh, I tend to think that their feelings for each other are real.
I know there are other popular pairings like Reiner/Bertholdt,Armin/Annie,
Levi/Erwin
but first of all Bert and Erwin are dead so :// and, while I don’t mind these pairings, I kind of doubt that Sensei will ever truly give any of these dynamics a romantic subtone.
My appreciation of Levi/Erwin legally forces me to look at the Zevi pairing critically (especially since I don’t trust Zeke at all) and I’m not sure I will ever want to swim in these waters tbh. Zeke/Yelena is interesting (to me) though, especially from her (almost fanatical?) point of view.
More seriously, Ymir/Historia aside, I think the only pairing that has a slight chance of ever being addressed in canon is obviously EreMika, not that I have high hopes for both of them to survive the ending or that Sensei will give the fans what they want in the first place.
To delve a little more into the subject of Eremika though, first of all I stare deeply at anyone who would read my answer and consider that I should be tried for supporting “incest”.
Let’s get real, folks:
they aren’t blood related, period. So you may or not like the pairing, that’s your right and I don’t mind either way, but using fallacious arguments never makes any point and that’s just sad (Mikasa, play ‘Vogel im Kafig’).
Otherwise, the reason that I think Eremika might eventually get its shot at being given canon romantic subtones is that we’re already halfway there, because Mikasa’s feelings aren’t really a secret to anybody, except to Eren himself.
There again, some fans might be tempted to quote Mikasa blushing and saying that “Eren is just like family”, but you don’t try and kiss your family when you think you’re about to die (ch50), just saying. xD
So it’s not really a question of whether he might even reciprocate her feelings or not when he hardly realizes what everyone else has known for ages.
I know that some fans who don’t like Eremika tend to vouch that Eren is not interested in her in that way, but personally and considering the narrative so far I think it’s way too soon to tell. His reaction to her words in ch50 was clearly not dismissal, on the contrary for me, which is why I think that aging them both can only be a good thing if we’re ever going to address the subject.
Look at the Marley arc, okay Sensei did say that Eren was under the influence of other people’s memories when he caught on Falco’s crush about Gabi, but the same influence could help him realize about Mikasa’s own feelings for him for all we know. That or she’s bound to try and tell him again anyway.
That was from the characters’ point of view. Narratively speaking now, I also think that Eremika makes a lot of sense for different reasons that @aspoonofsugar already explained in this very well-written post!
TL;DR while Ymir and Historia will sadly never come to be together I personally consider them canon, but otherwise the pairing most likely to get canon should be Eremika in my opinion.
Things between Casca and Guts really took a huge step forward after Guts left her and everyone else behind for a while to follow his own goal, which coincidentally led to a series of unfortunate events for their band of mercenaries. And it’s after Casca confronted him on the subject that they ended up realizing their mutual feelings.
I mean, do you see the little parallel there with what Eren’s latest shenanigans? So maybe Isayama-sensei is targeting a similar approach, which is to say that as long as Mikasa doesn’t really confront Eren about leaving everyone and her behind, he can’t possibly address her feelings for him again.
Anyway, the difference between Guts and Eren is that Guts (also being 19 at the time) was
never
dense about love, he just didn’t think Casca could love him back until that moment where they let it all out.
It’s just to share the idea. It may not happen like that, heck it may even not happen at all, but I felt like mentioning it just in case! Enjoy Anon!
Hey Anon! I don’t write meta, I write theories but no worries, I haven’t forgotten (if we’re talking about the same post of course). :3
It’s just taking me some time to figure out what’s the best way for me to explain what I want to say without sounding like a super biased reader since that’s really not who I am. xD In fact, I only ship because of canon content so I have to make that rather clear otherwise the post will not make any point. xD
Besides, the topic of shipping is a tough one because ship wars are a thing and, as much as I love AnE, I have never been that involved in the fandom and as such I have no idea what the discourse tends to be (and I am kinda never in the mood for mean Anons).
Anyway, no worries Anon, I will write this post just like I said I would! Have a nice day. :))
Hello Anon! Well, considering Frances’ discussion with Vincent…
…it seems indeed that it’s best if there is a spare to the Watchdog’s heir, just in case something happens.
I wouldn’t say that it’s impossible for Frances to have been Vincent’s spare back during their childhood however, even as a woman, because…
Claudia being the Watchdog probably was a special case
in the first place, as there might have been no man to take on the title, which is why Victoria probably allowed her to take it on instead, as we debated here:
“if there were no surviving legitimate male relatives, the title would become extinct… Unless someone got a parliamentary and royal warrant to pass it on to the daughter.“
Following this logic, if Victoria had given the agreement to Claudia for the Watchdog’s duty, it doesn’t seem illogical to think that Frances was her mother’s second heir, the spare in case something happened to Vincent, the rightful heir. That’s even why she’s probably as strong as she is…
because she was trained to take on the Watchdog duty too, just in case.
Crack theory time (that I share with @aroturier): if our!Ciel hadn’t come back 4 years ago, we were wondering if the Queen wouldn’t have passed the Watchdog duty
on
to Frances (aka to the Midford family).
I hope it answers your question, have a nice day Anon!
Bringing this back because I really think that the reason people believe Frances was being harsh in ch132 is fallacious and this is bothering me.
Considering once again that Vincent’s predecessor was a woman because of special circumstances in the family, it must not have mattered to Claudia that she gave birth to a son and a daughter. That’s why she most likely raised them similarly: for their own protection but also should they both end up carrying the burden of the Watchdog duty.
So Frances saying what she said in ch 132 is not only her being worried about our!Ciel surviving as the Watchdog (and frankly she’s not wrong), but also her speaking as a first-hand witness: because the reason she’s so strong and has trained since childhood most likely is that she was Vincent’s own spare for the watchdog duty until he married and had heirs of his own.
Cue the discourse to Lizzie as well when she wanted to give up on fencing, with the example of her dead mother in mind cementing Frances’ conviction that being as strong as possible was one of the keys to surviving as a Phantomhive (and when you see Tanaka living this old as a close associate to the P family, there again I doubt Frances is wrong).
Abberline in chapter 143: [entering Phantomhive manor] Hey guys! Sorry to interrupt. So, um, Gregory Violet just told us that someone who looks just like Ciel was in charge of that criminal cult, so we went to find you in London to ask you about it, but we found a dead Indian man in your basement and a threat on your wall, so we have a few more questions now.
^^ yes!! Add on the dead lords from the Parliament in Bath and Ciel mentioning chaos at Westminster while also asking Seb to warn the Double Charles about it and you’ve got the perfect blend…
The Young Jump issue with the last chapter goes on sale today.
I’d like to sincerely thank the readers, the editorial department, the printing people, everyone who has ever worked on this manga, and my staff.
Including the pre-release preparation period, I’ve been drawing Tokyo Ghoul non-stop for seven years, from June 2011 to June 2018. It’s a poor work by an inexperienced author, but I’m proud to have finished it.
Although for the past half a year I’ve been writing with this sinking feeling of “It’s going to end”, now that it’s time for it to actually end, I’m suddenly feeling like I dropped my food.
I’ve been a… big nuisance to both the editorial department and the printing office, so I’d like to thank them for working with my many unreasonable requests. Things were often challenging, but I’ll use that experience to learn from and grow.
My deepest thanks to my editor. He’s become a… buffer? Between me and the outside world. It’s his fault that I’ve become like this, but it’s also thanks to him that I’ve become like this. I think he is the person who made Ishida Sui. Was it 10, 11 years? Thanks for all these years. I feel like is a lot I should apologize for.
To all the authors published in the same magazine as I, all of you inspired me daily. Thank you. Especially to Hara-sensei, my original teacher and the author of “Kingdom”, you really made an enormous impact on my life. I will be taking my leave earlier than you, but I will support everyone who’s still being published.
Thank you to my staff, who always accomodated my crazy schedule and accompanied me when I wanted to hang out. You are all good kids, I hope you have a good life. I know I’ve inconvenienced you a lot, but I’ll pay you, so please forgive me. Please wait a while longer for the last month’s salary to be paid. And next time don’t forget to bring receipts for expense reimbursement, please.
I’m grateful to have received feedback from the readers, too. I’ve read all of your letters. On the characters’ birthdays… no, even on the days with no significance at all, I kept getting presents throughout the year, and that made me very happy. Even if you just read the manga in the store without buying, I’m still grateful. Thank you all very much for supporting me.
I was bored yesterday, so I was just doodling and somehow managed to fill up an entire 31-page B4 notebook. (I mean, I did have some things to do…)
What do authors do after finishing their manga…? I guess I’d like to just draw whatever I want for a while.
Thanks also to everyone that’s ever been involved with Tokyo Ghoul in any other capacity. Really, from the bottom of my heart. I’m sure we’ll meet again.
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