User:The Lord of Silence

He hewed the hills and carved the mountains,

the ground he broke for silver fountains,

that cast the stars across the sky,

and then left the world behind to fly,

above the void and past the air,

to dance about the lady, fair.

About me
I'm yet another student crossing his fingers and hoping he manages to find a career in his chosen field. I study history and languages, most particularly the history of warfare. I mean, what's cooler than knights, samurai and giants armies? I say that I study languages, but apart from rudimentary Latin (sine dubio non grammaticus ego sum*) and a frail skeleton Japanese, I only speak English.

I have a tendancy for having a very cynical and realist outlook on life, as is common among my personality type. All the same, I hold strong principles in regards to respect and kind treatment of other human beings. So, if I come off as grading or sarcastic sometimes, please remember I'm not trying to be mean; that's just my INTJ talking in its brutally honest way.

I like to think I have some creative capacity, though, if I have any real artistic talent it has so far slipped my notice. I like dreaming up various worlds, particularly alternate histories. I have in recent times also developed a tendancy for playing with other people's worlds, because I've found that while I can dream up very detailed worlds, I'm a disaster when it comes to setting a story in them. 進撃の巨人 is a world I've done some fiddling with in the past, and have recentlycome back to toy with again, my attention being recaptured by the release of Season 2 of the Anime.

*Roughly meaning: I'm certainly not a language teacher

SnK Fan-Fiction
My first ever foray into the dark and sticky world of fan-fiction was actually with SnK. It started out as a piece of what I call "experience writing", which is basically self inserts that are never meant to be read by anyone other than the author. However, I started to develop several various ideas for the self-insert's backstory, gave him his own name, and suddenly it had turned into my first true fan-fiction, which I published online: Humanity's Cage.

It actually grew into a 22 chapter "book" the ran the length of Season 1 of the anime, going from the Fall of Shinganshina to the defeat of the Female Titan at Stohess. The whole thing wasn't written in a very pretty way, and was stuffed with forced dialogue and plot holes, but I enjoyed it so much that I wrote a second "book" that covered the Clash of the Titans and Uprising Arcs. It was at this point that I started to run out of steam; the story was only halfway done (by my original estimates), and I was starting to notice more and more problems with it as I went. The third book has yet to be finished, and possibly never will be. If I ever return to Humanity's Cage, I will likely need to reboot the entire thing, and I'm not sure I've got the resolve for that.

More recently though, a second, somewhat more indepth project for an SnK fan-fiction began.

The Last Reich


Being the history nerd that I am, the similarities between the society on Paradis and 18th century Germany stuck out to me. Now, they are not actually all that strong, as when you inspect pretty much any aspects of either society closely, you find them to be pretty darn different. All the same, it was an idea that appealed to me. After watching Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, I became fixated on the idea of early 20th, late 19th century technology and society in a non-steampunk fantasy setting. I began to apply this idea to Attack on Titan, and created various rough designs of uniforms, artillery, tactics and various other kinds things in my trusty sketchbooks.

The idea drifted to the back of mind after a while though, buried under other more pressing concerns (like schoolwork and making a million and one Undertale sketches). More recently however, the idea has resurfaced.

In the earlier days of AoT (back before we knew about Marley etc) there were some people who suggested that the Walls might be located in Germany. So I decided to make a setting where they were: The Last Reich.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">I've attempted drawing comics before, but the sheer amount of time needed for colouring, shading, adding effects etc, always put me off. In this case I have decided to dispense with such things almost completely. The Last Reich will be hand-drawn (I'm faster hand-drawing than digitally), scanned, tidied, have rudimentary shadows added, and that's it. It won't look as nice as something made by a professional, but it's gonna be a fan-fiction, so most people won't expect it to be.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">The Last Reich is at the time of writing, still in its infancy, and the first chapter-working title: The End Begins at Sunrise-is not even finished yet. Still, I am hopeful that this will be the project that I finally complete! After all, there's a first time for everything, right? In addition to the graphic novel (I think that's a more appropriate term in this case than comic or manga), I'm planning on making some sort of online lore database, propably a wiki a bit like this one. It would have lore on various things not clearly covered in the graphic novel, such as the organisation of the Imperial Army, how the ODM System was developed, the social and legal position of various Auslanders etc. It would also have character biographies, a time line and summaries of the events of each chatper once it was made.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">But hey, it's possible none of this will happen. Nonetheless, I intend to progress forward, and hope my drive does not give way.