@Lelliitedoll omg i’ve actually started reading your rock!au and i’m already so obsessed with it 😭 everything you come up with is genuinely peak, so the thought of getting more chapters AND halloween and christmas fics?? i’m seated.
bertholdt standing behind reiner in every frame like his personal shinigami except instead of guiding him to the afterlife he’s just silently watching this man make the worst decisions imaginable
@iindulgentt LITERALLY isayama really said “my favorite character deserves happiness” and then made reiner crawl through seven layers of hell to earn it. but honestly seeing him finally have a life that isn’t just surviving the next disaster feels so deserved… bro finally gets to just exist
@ottertholdt LMAOOO i’m still figuring out how to interact with people here and make friends 😭 sometimes i just say whatever is happening in my head and hope for the best
@iindulgentt EXACTLY. isayama gave reiner all the narrative favoritism of a y/n but none of the actual benefits. bro gets one kiss and then spends the next decade collecting trauma like they’re pokemon cards
@rosehollow_amor for those relationships to actually shape them. we get women who are narratively important, but rarely women who get to be important to one another.
sorry for the mini essay btw 😭 i apparently had a lot of feelings about this
@rosehollow_amor yes, and i think the problem is that aot often gives its women parallel arcs without letting them meaningfully intersect. mikasa, annie, historia, ymir, sasha, etc. can have rich individual relationships with men, but they rarely get enough sustained interaction with each other +