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“Canon Eren” allows himself to be stopped and because of this Paradis is destroyed. Prior to this Eren stated multiple times the only way to destroy the cycle of hatred is to wipe out the people who caused it, which would secure Paradis freedom. AOT No Requiem keeps Eren’s character motivations in tact somehow more than the Isayama somehow.

“Canon Armin” comforts Eren as he’s about to destroy the world, when in reality he should be strongly against Eren, regardless if he’s trying to set him up as a hero. He’s literally committing a genocide yet Armin decides to accept it, and chooses to share his sins with him. AOT No Requiem doubles down on Armin’s convictions when it comes to his core values.

obviously everyone knows about the final chapter of high school castes and how it made it into the movie.

On one hand, we have Mikasa, who liked the ending. On the other, we have Armin, who didn't. Isayama predicted EXACTLY how his audience would react, which archetype of fan would react in which way, and also what his tastes in fiction are.

Mikasa is a goth girl. She is emotional, theatrical, artsy. She doesn't read theories from fansites and she just enjoys the experience. Mikasa doesn't mind that not all the mysteries were solved and that too many things were left up to interpretation. She represents perfectly those who liked the ending. They tend to be people who by nature are more emotional, theatrical, artsy. art kids and theatre kids. people from tumblr and pinterest. to them the logical consistency of the story is secondary, if not tertiary, to how the story made them feel. and because the story made them feel good, they will absolutely scramble themselves to answer plot holes and mysteries in ways that blatantly contradict canon. just look at the posts from the other AoT subs, where the majority liked the ending.

Armin is a nerd. He is a hardcore fan, who reads theories and analyzes every line, scene, and panel in the story. He wants all questions answered, all potential plotholes sealed, all mysteries revealed. That these weren't done bothers him to no end. To him logical consistency is primary. Armin represents ending dislikers like us. To us too many things didn't make sense, too many questions were not answered. How a story makes us feel correlates with how logically consistent it is. We do not desire things to be left up to interpretation, in fact many of us call that bad writing. We analyze things thoroughly and we make a science out of art. if a plotline is forgotten, if a piece of foreshadowing is not fulfilled, we don't like that.

And finally, Eren is obviously a stand-in for Isayama. He shows his appreciation of us, and leaves us with one last wish. That if he ever decides to write a sequel, he wants us to enjoy it with him.

He leaves open the possibility for a sequel or an alt-ending, though that "if" in there means that there is also a chance that he won't write one. However, I do hope that he does

Funny in an r/titanfolk way, you know what I mean right?

I think besides levi's ending ( because in my opinion it's very tragic and the saddest ending in this manga that he lost everything even his ability to walk and his eye and his fingers and all of his friends and comrades and family members )

But now I want to highlight another endings that makes me feel bad , but not because they are tragic and sad like Levi not at all , but because they are PATHETIC which it's jean and historia endings because in my opinion ? There is nothing worse than being stuck in a loveless marriage like seriously that's my nightmare seeing their endings was like a torture to me because they are weird and uncomfortable and clearly unhealthy

1 Now let's start with jean's ending first

it was confirmed that jean married mikasa and now let's see if their marriage makes sense or not

first they didn't have any dynamic they didn't talk to each other at all and even jean had to remind her that " not everyone wants to die for eren like her " because her obsession reached a dangerous level , anyway it's clear that mikasa never loved jean and cared for him , even isayama said " he is nothing in her eyes " she only USED him to not be lonely anymore and he was just a second option , anyway she's still wearing the scarf ( which it embodies her love for eren ) she is still visiting his grave and dragging her husband , her children and her children's children ( which it's insane because first he is a genocider and second those children they don't know eren so why are they visiting him ? Unless if mikasa is forcing them because remember they don't know him so they don't have any reason to visit him ) anyway we see that in the afterlife eren and mikasa are like in heaven living together or something ? I don't know what to say so eren the man who killed a lot of people for no reason will be chilling in heaven with mikasa ? And why mikasa live with eren in heaven this is not how " letting go " works , if she will go back to him then she didn't let go of him !! And why she's living with him instead of her NEW FAMILY HUSBAND AND CHILDREN this is weird… it's literally sounds like cheating or something , imagine the children feelings and trauma that their mother actually is a cheater who doesn't love their father… ( it made me feel uncomfortable because when I was a child I really wanted one of my parents to love the other and I felt bad when I realized that parent won't love my other parent ) sooo I don't know what to say , this relationship is disgusting it makes jean looks a pathetic simp who doesn't have self-respect , it's just so sad that jean is nothing but a second option and won't find someone who loves him unconditionally for who he is , his so-called wife will NEVER see how amazing he is that he gave up on his dreams just do the right thing because she is so busy visiting the genocider grave , the weirdest part is that a lot of people be like " b-but it's clear that she loved him why would they marry if she's not ? " but we need to see that !! We can't just assume the off-screen romance , if we have to assume then the relationship is officially a badly-written relationship to the point that we have to use our headcanons to justify this fucked up scenario

2 now let's talk about historia

historia is way worse , first when the characters joined the scouts they were CHILDREN they were very young , and we know that historia had suicidal thoughts when she joined ( that's why she tried to drag daz with her , she wanted to die a heroic death at least she wanted the people to remember her like this she wanted them to remember her as a good person )

anyway this scene did prove to us something that historia had suicidal thoughts since a very young age and I know that her family are responsible for the way she feels but the bullies are responsible too !! Because they strengthened this feeling into her that she's unwanted and unloved because they showed her that no one wants to be her friend… making historia marry the man who made her suicidal is very disgusting like wtf !! every time he shows in she make such a miserable face and in the end the author is trying to romanticize her story by showing us that she's smiling while celebrating her child's birthday ( he is trying to show you that the story is not so bad and this scenario is good just because he draw one panel of her smiling ) because you know it's a good thing to marry someone you don't love ( this conclusion did destroy her character development and making everything she ever stood for falls ) like seriously this scenario is so uncomfortable…

Also i posted this on my YouTube channel lmao https://youtu.be/4g1PGDP6kvI?si=OWb8zZ33NCrXLZZt