Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25322628-20170113025521/@comment-31641135-20170406210340

Firstly, before I go on my rant I’m sorry of I get anything wrong or badly explain my thoughts in this as I’m not good at explaining myself nor have I read the manga so everything is going off what if researched, seen other people say, the anime etc. so I’ve most likely missing certain things or got stuff wrong which is stated in the manga so I’m sorry in advance.

Anyway, getting into this. I sort of think there will never really be a solid ship. This is mainly because I just don’t see it being a focus point that would be included as it’s not really what the story is about. Yes, there may be hints to it and different ships or relationships could be touched upon in the future but my main point is I doubt there will be an official relationship as its simply not a romantic type of show let’s face.

It would be odd for it to suddenly turn into a romance out of nowhere unless it had an end meaning or goal. For example, let’s say Eren and Mika are together this could help to create conflict and make the story more interesting as they may end up separating with Eren going to fight for freedom and Mika staying behind to defend the island Paradise I think it’s called I dno. This would make things more interesting but in a way, takes away from what the story is which I think would be a bad thing. If the love was kept at the end then that would be great after everything is resolved it would be a nice ending to a wild journey.

For me personally, my ship as people seem to call them would be EreMika. This is simply because I see it being the most likely and kind of logical thing to happen given their past and relationship. Firstly, you may support other ships like Eren and Levi, Jean and Mika etc. which if you do I respect your opinion but one thing that no other charter has with Mika is the bind her and Eren share due to her past. No one will ever be able to live up to that moment which is why they have such a strong connection in the first place.

Given this one thing I’ve always wondered was why Eren did save her as of what I know in the anime he said he wanted to make sure she’s safe and that which fair enough but he’s never met her before and most likely only heard of her on the day Eren and the Doctor went to visit her so there would be no real connection for him to go out his way to save her if that makes sense. So, if its stated in the manga plz tell me I’m interested.

Now with the most common complaint, I see with this relationship is the whole incest thing. I think it’s not incest what so ever as there simply not related in any way and yes, she may have lived with him for like 8 months I think it was but I believe it was never officially stated that she was adopted by the Yeager’s which wouldn’t make her officially family if Eren even says she’s not his sister when he’s in one of his angry moods and Mika never refers to Eren parents as her mum or dad so neither of them sees themselves as family if I’m making sense. Now comparing this to the RivaMika as people like to call it that to me is more incest as their blood related and in my opinion, Levi is more family to Mika than Eren is simply because there related by blood.

Another thing that people say about this ship is Eren never shows any love feeling towards Mika as she as shown to him or at least hinted. Like when she opens up and cry’s when she sees Eren alive and was the first time since Eren's parents were killed when she cried so she obviously has strong feelings for him if she only showed them there even before discovering Eren she was practically going to kill herself as she was so lost without him.

There also times where she’s comforts him more than others or shows more emotions towards hi e.g. after the first fight with Annie when she goes into pissed mode and later Levi tells her not to let her love for him get in the way as it was also said by another when Eren lost control trying to move the rock which she blushed both times and was stuttering which if they were classed as family she would react like this and she only shows these kinds of emotions around Eren or when it has to do with him.

I know some people use the point where Eren saves Mika from the titan the first time he changes as evidence he cares about her but I simply think it doesn’t back it up. The only reason he went there was to kill the titan she just happened to be there. Later he even says he doesn’t remember turning into a titan or what happened like when he accidently hurt mika so maybe at the time he could have possibly gone directly to save her but as I’ve seen no real evidence to back it up I don’t believe this backs ups Eren romantic feelings towards Mika.

The main reason, however, why I think there been no real evidence of Eren showing obvious feelings towards Mika is because the opportunity hasn’t arrived yet. Every time mika saves Eren she's always opening up and shows lots of caring emotions towards him yet mika is never really been in that situation for Eren to show is feelings. That is where season 2 comes in mainly chapter 50. This is the key moment and the bets opportunity for Eren to show his feelings and be the one to protect Mika instead of the other way around like it always is which when animated will, in my opinion, will be the biggest evidence for the ship becoming cannon.

Also, I may sound a bit harsh saying this but I think a big part why Eren was so angry all the time and the reason why people have a big problem with his attitude and why he’s never has shown emotions towards Mika or really anyone else is that he hasn’t had time to get over his mum’s death. Now I not saying Mika has as she clearly is still haunted by them years after but she’s had longer to deal with them and I think it wasn’t as bad compared to how Eren's mum went out and how she was killed and eaten in front of him, of course, that’s up for debate which one was more emotionally impactful so ill let you lot decide that.

Because of this and straight after the armour titan coming through wrecking shit and then joining the cadets then finding out you’re the thing you hate, nearly killing your future wife wink wink, watching his entire squad get killed before him then Annie’s revealing he’s been through a lot more and has had to deal with much more shit which only adds fuel to his anger. That’s why I think he will be calmer in a sense in season 2 due to his finale fight with Annie in season 1 when he remembers his promise his mother and comrades deaths etc. to turn into titan Eren and then his pissed or mode which I think was his time or way of dealing with everything that has happened. Even after when it’s just him and mike in the room alone he says it felt good getting beat up and letting go which I think basically means he needed that fight and feeling to finally let go of what's happened to him and to leave it behind him.

Two other thins give seen which kind of support the ship are the red string of fate and something to do with Asian tradition. Going with the Asian one first I read somewhere that it's common in the Asian culture it might have been specifically around those times like I said before I don’t really know but you will usually be made to marry someone from another family in a sense are forced to marry someone and be with them. The person whoever it was made the point that Eren was specifically going there to meet Mika for the sole purpose of meeting his meant to be future wife as the two families were good friends as stated and it would further back up the choosing especially with what’s seems both Mika and Eren's lack of friends as I’ve never heard of any friends Mika had in her childhood excluding Armin later of course.

Now the red string of fate. This is some old Japanese legend I think where two people are connected by an invisible red string which no matter what they go through is always destined to be together in a romantic way e.g. like having a soul partner since birth and no matter what you are destined to be with them no matter what. This string will commonly be in a form of item that people will have sometimes in a way to portray in story’s e.g. clothing. gift, jewels etc. I believe it is stated that Mikasa’s scarf is supposed to represent the red string of fate thingy which in turn as Eren gave her it makes it in a sense already cannon as there destined to be together that is of course if I’m right.

Once again, I’m sorry if this is badly written and I’ve probably got tons of stuff wrong so peace.

