Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27281341-20190611045326/@comment-27281341-20190611113010

Razzylada wrote: What can I say but: your analyzis is very very good and you care a lot about details, symbolism, and you must have passed a lot of time making it. I wouldn't have much to say against this, it's well argumented. However, I have a little problem with one part, but it's only my opinion, and doesn't necessarilly contradicts your analysis, as it's mostly a "feeling" about it:

It's about Mikasa having a child with Eren. Even if the parallels and the symbolism you mentionned are good and very interesting, I just don't really see her having a child with Eren (yes, it's more a feeling rather than an actual argumentation). How could she end up having a child with him? She's clearly not the kind of person to have sex with someone for the pleasure of it, she probably needs feelings, so there is a need for them to have a lovestory. There are not that many chapters left, so building a lovestory between Eren and Mikasa now would be a bit short, especially as the 3/4 next chapters might take place in the following hours of chapter 118, leaving even less chapters for it, and considering how their relationship currently is... I think Eren voluntarily hurt Mikasa to destroy her "addiction" to him. Giving them a lovestory would be creating a new kind of "addiction" of Mikasa towards Eren, I'd find disapointing.

Tho, a child between Jean and Mikasa would be more likely, in my eyes: it has already been showed that Jean has an interest towards Mikasa, and the fact that Mikasa is trying to stop her "addiction" to Eren opens the possibiliy of her finding love.

Another possibility could be to have an "arranged child", a child here only for political reasons, but it's a bit weird considering Eren and Mikasa having some sort of "arranged wedding".

For the parallels between the half-sbilings, you forgot one: in the two "couples" of half-siblings we know, the dark haired ones are holders of the Founding Titan, and the blonde ones are holder of the Beast Titan (Zeke) or thought to be the next one (Historia), wich mean that the older half-sibling of those "couples" gives his/her Titan to the younger half-sibling of the other couple of "half-siblings".

One last thing, your analyzis is excellent, but maybe, in the future, it'll show us that overanalyzing is not necessarilly a good idea. I think that many parallels were thought by Isayama, but a lot of others weren't, and are unvoluntary: it's easy to make parallels, but if they weren't thought by the writer, then they can't be considered for the future of the story. And for the parallels thought by the writer, they might be nothing more than parallels, and are not necessarilly hints for the future of the story. And it's difficult to know which parellels were thought by the writer and which ones weren't.

So, as a conclusion: you're very good at analyzing, I try to analyze a lot too (like I did with my theory "The source of all living matter = the Coordinate?", even if I went not as far as you did in terms of analyzis), so I totally understand why you made this. I don't necessarilly consider you theory as a possible end (I have mines), but it's something I will keep in mind because of how well done it is executed, and it's a very consistent theory, so I don'texclude it. Thank you for reading it all, i know it's kind of big. For Mikasa and Eren's relationship, i just thought that Mikasa has always been in love with Eren and the fact that the relationship is tested now of all times confirms, to me at least, that their future encounters will important to the development of the story. Going by how the scene where Mikasa leaves the scarf was portrayed, with Louise staring at it, i am getting the feeling that it's not going to be the last we see of it. So, yeah, if Mikasa and Eren do have a family in the end, more character development is needed, but, in my opinion, this development has already started.

As for Jean. Well, i went over the reasons of why it can't be him. I mean, it's not impossible (nothing is), but it seems to me highly unlikely, since the relationship between him and Mikasa has been the same since the first day they met. Mikasa is clearly not interested as of yet and no development has beem made so far in the story. If the story had more time, then i could see it as more likely, but now we are very close to the ending and there is not sufficient time to develop their bond.

Of course, since i am not writing the stroy nothing can be excluded. Until the series end, everything is possible.