Board Thread:Off topic/@comment-120.152.155.2-20160320012357/@comment-28958062-20161031225510

JinxTheFunhouse wrote: I dislike every ship in this series. One of the things that makes Attack on Titan so great is that it is a serious, depressing, apocalyptic series and there isn't any romance developing. In fact a lot of soldiers refuse to find love because they've sent too many people to their deaths or think they are going to literally be crunched and torn apart in a giants mouth soon.

But then these kids come and try to make it all mushy and take all the seriousness out of the series by saying "ooouu I just wanna see Eren and Levi rolling around in the bed sheets"... what? Anyone like that probably has no real appreciation for the series (or the character development) and only likes to manipulate the characters in their own way. I guess that's the really serious shippers

It's a depressing apocalyptic series and there isn't any romance developing that's why the fanfics are exactly the opposite the fans cope with this depressing series by adding exactly what doesn't exist in the series.

Why do you think most of the fanficion are AUs? that's because it really hard to write a canon fic that isn't as depressing as the original series.

It doesn't mean the fans don't appreciate the series, the fanfictions is just their way of coping with the series.