Board Thread:Manga/@comment-32932631-20170823192148

I have the (probably) very unpopular opinion of wanting a very bad ending. I want everyone I've grown to love to end up dying, and for the "bad" side to win. I just feel there aren't enough shows with bad endings and I feel it just fits with the show for the main characters to end up dying. I don't want a super happy ending of "everyone won, the evils were defeated, we can see the outside world, yay" and I don't want a normal ending of "we sorta won, the evils were defeated, we can go see the ocean and stuff but people died so it's not really happy". I want a really sad ending where Armin can't even see the ocean (I haven't read the manga but I read most of everything on the wiki, so maybe he already saw it, I'm not sure), and Eren dies attempting to protect Armin and Mikasa but ends up failing.

I want Historia to find out that Ymir is dead and end up giving up and dying. I want Reiner to attempt to help the Eldians on Paradis because he's going to die anyway and end up getting killed by the Eldians on Paradis because they still think he's the enemy. I want Connie and Sasha to die trying to defend each other. I want Annie to break free from the crystal, only to find out that her childhood friends are gone and that she's alone, and then in a last attempt to survive she teams up with the Survey Corps, and then is killed by Marley (preferably, by Reiner and/or Zeke).

I just think Isayama is considering making a happy(ish) ending, unlike what a manga/anime like Attack on Titan should have. The Survery Corps are rapidly gaining power, as they now have the Attack Titan & Founding Titan (who now knows how to harden his skin), the Colossal Titan, both the Ackermans, and they will likely have many other new tricks up their sleeves now that there was that 4 year time skip. I don't want a happy ending. That would be cliche and definitely not fit with the theme of the rest of the manga/anime. I want a finale that will leave me bawling my eyes out harder than I did at Hannes' death.

Don't get me wrong though, most of my favorite characters are still alive. I just wanna cry because it means that it was written very well, because I don't really cry at games/shows/books/etc.. I didn't even care for Hannes but his death made me cry. It also made me actually like him as a character which made me cry even more because he was gone.

I wasn't sure exactly where to put this though, so I decided to just put it in the Manga board. I didn't put it in the Theories board because this is what we want the ending to be, not what we think the ending will be.  