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Yes I’m mentally unstable

Newt who is the sun • Thomas who is the moon

Newt who is always cold •Thomas who warms him up

Thomas who cant cook to save his life • Newt who makes dinner for them

Newt who is a cat person • Thomas who is a dog person

Newt who loves gardening • Thomas who can’t keep plants alive

Thomas who is disorganised • Newt who gets anxious if things aren’t organised

Newt who had autism • Thomas who had ADHD

Newt who loves to read • Thomas who loves listening to him read

Newt who doesn’t like talking about his emotions • Thomas who is there for him anyway

Newt who likes to sleep in • Thomas who wakes up early to run

Newt who’s leg hurts him • Thomas who massages it for him

Thomas who is always fidgeting • Newt who is the only one who can make him relax

Newt who has nightmares a lot • Thomas who holds him and tells him he isn’t alone

Thomas who has survivors guilt • Newt who tells him it isn’t his fault

Newt who has never felt loved • Thomas who loves him unconditionally

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Analyzing why Eren did the Rumbling (He's stupid and that's genius.)

There's a lot of confusion and misunderstandings of the reasons why Eren did the rumbling, due to so many conflicting factors and the mask he was using during the entirety of the final arc. In his final conversation with Armin, he gives so many reasons and yet keeps contradicting himself about everything and it only adds to the confusion, so this is my attempt to explain why Eren did what he did, and why it's founded on irrationality and how that's perfect for his character and the themes of Attack of Titan.

Eren's Motives

Three of his generally accepted motives are these:

1- To see the sight in the book, aka, "levelling" the land. His childish dream he couldn't let go of.

2- To save his friends by having them kill him (they would be seen as heroes and the titan curse would end, saving Armin, Reiner, Annie, etc.).

(The result being the end of the titan's curse)

3- Keep Paradis safe (the level of development of the world would be incredibly reduced, Eren's friends could act as diplomats, and Paradis would now have a fighting chance.)

(I'd argue this motive is just a happy consequence of his real priorities, number 1 and 2).

But the first and second motive directly contradict each other, no? If Eren wanted to do a complete rumbling and truly level the land, he wouldn't wish to be stopped. But according to the second motive, he always intended to be stopped. Not only that, he knew he'd be stopped at 80% because of the power of the Attack Titan.

So why bother doing the Rumbling at all even though it could never accomplish point 1? For his friends only then? But he didn't even know which one of his friends would survive, just that they'd stop him and end the titan curse.

Maybe everyone but Pieck could have died while trying to stop him, so his plan wouldn't fulfill point 1 nor point 2. He wouldn't get a full Rumbling to fulfill his dreams nor a happy ending for his friends.

To make sense of this, my theory is that Eren is stupid and just couldn't help himself despite the risks and impossibilities. He just had to do it.

Eren is an Idiot.

Eren has always been stupid. He tried things irrationally just because he wanted to be free and go outside the walls, believing that it would go well as he severely overestimasted himself, almost getting killed several times because of it.

He's a subversion of a shonen protagonist in a realistic world. The only reason he got so far is because so many people were covering his back and because he got the Attack Titan. This is a vital part of his character. He is average, childish, and prone to succumb to his feelings; and that's exactly what he did. Eren developed so much along the course of the series, and managed to keep control of his recklessness with rationality and discipline... but he never developed emotionally, and this was the result.

Even if he knew that the Rumbling would stop at 80%, it'd still partially fulfill his dream to see a levelled land and becoming free. At least for a moment, he'd be able to feel like he was accomplishing that goal of his and feeling free because of it.

He fought back against Armin because Eren wouldn't give up his freedom without a fight, and he wanted to know that he truly tried everything (aside from taking away his friends' freedom, which would make him a hypocrite in his eyes). Eren was a slave to freedom and was unable to give up on it unlike basically every other character in the series. (give up on your dream and die). He was the ultimate shonen protagonist, especially in his unyielding dream, and it backfired immensely. In no universe Eren was able to stop himself from doing the Rumbling, because it's what he wanted to do to get his freedom, even while knowing it'd fail. It isn't rational. He just couldn't help himself from doing his upmost to live freely, because he was born into the world and thus had a right to, in his eyes. Eren latched onto that childish idea, of never compromising, of being unable to give up on his desired outcome, and it ended up making him a mass murderer. He never grew up, and this was the result.

At the same time, though, he did want to give his friends the chance to stop him and become free themselves, which would also save them to boot. There was the risk that they died, but he couldn't help himself, and in the best case scenario, most of them would live.

Thus, no matter what, the Rumbling was the best way of fulfilling Eren's contradicting goals, not from a logical sense, but from an emotional one.

Rationalizations

In the end, Point 2 and 3 of his motivations are just rationalizations for going through a plan he knew would fail. Point 1 was the main reason he did it (even though, as I explained, it's not really the only reason, just that if he truly wanted to save his friends and Paradis this plan was one of the worse options), and the worst part is that he knew it wouldn't go his way and he did it anyways.

So yeah, he's smart, stupid, free, trapped, selfish, selfless, and that's the point? If so, I think it's a pretty interesting point to make. Eren never managed to mature enough out of being a child—he was denied agency again and again by the world, and unlike everyone else in the series, he couldn't accept that. He couldn't compromise, not on his dream, but not on his friends, either.

I think it's really clever writing to hide all these layers behind Eren, even though the confusing explanation did end up making a lot of people wrongly excuse his genocide "because he did it for his friends", even though he straight up admits he wasn't, he just thought he was.

In truth, he killed 80% of humanity because he wasn't mature enough to pinpoint his irrational motives founded in the trauma of living trapped in walls with the physical manifestation of being trapped embodied by the titans. (A systemic analysis of Eren coming in another post!)

I do admit that actually understanding that all of this was Isayama's intention though, if I even got it right, was completely convoluted and confusing and could've been written way more neatly; but I still love the ending, because it shows us that Eren is doing the most Eren thing imaginable through the Rumbling—showcasing his stupidity, rashness and average nature, which was always a huge part of his character that I'm glad wasn't forcefully taken out of him because of his "cooler" role in the last season.

If there's one thing I've always loved about Eren, is how human he is. How imperfect he is. And his actions are, without a doubt, the embodiment of what it means to be an irrational being with a brain that tries to rationalize everything—a being that would kill 80% of humanity for his dreams, while risking his friends' lives, while also deeply wishing to save them.

I guess that his character (and humanity) can be summed up by Mikasa quite well, don't you think? Because in the end, even if he's stupid, he's also kind. He's cruel...

hey yall i'm just here to remind you thomas betrayed WCKD and decided to send himself into a maze he knew he could not survive in for newt because he wanted to save newt — be there for him, so he won't feel so alone and bad in that place and so another suicide attempt doesn't happen — after seeing newt trying to kill himself. “i'm coming for you, newt.” NEVER forget that.

this felt right

happy birthday eren you little shit❤️

Jeje my muse

Ouch

Ele fez... ele fez o L...

Jeffeey

i gave him eyelids so he can wear his emo eyeshadow

Hmmm....evil lion

*In a tiny voice*

Every time I want a deeeaaAAALLLLLL!!!!I

binary star - a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to each other (ex. sirius, the dog star)

more astronomy au content who cheered !! i say as i look out to the silent crowd

The HTTYD universe's ecosystem must've been so damaged when all the dragons dissappeared.

"but people wanted to hurt them!" people want to hurt wolves to, but we don't send them all to an isolated cave because it would destroy the ecosystem.

In fact, "dragon" is just a collective word for multiple species so they really fucked themselves with that one.

In conclusion, the third movie was stupid.

Can you draw kuro with garfield plushy please??? They're kinda alike lol

silly cats

to this day, this is my favorite cat video

self-love/self-hate

Can we talk about, how Levi is trying to adapt to a new country and just get himself used to not always being on alert for danger and be himself ?

Levi, who, since his birth was always fighting for food, care, survival. And now after 30+ years like that, he has to get used to just...be...himself. And not the strongest soldier, not the one everyone relies on, not the captain, just Levi Ackerman.

Happy birthday, Kuro! Here’s a link to another one of my birthday headcanons posts for him (with bonus Tsubaki)

And now for some other ones!

He makes his tea in the microwave then wonders why it’s not as good as when Mahiru boils water on the stove

For his birthday, Tooru will try and get time off to take him out to his favorite ramen place. Kuro gets adorably shy about it and actually is reasonable with what he orders. Mahiru thought he’d have to scold him, but maybe a spoiled Kuro is actually a certain type of privilege? (He has no idea he’s the same way)

He takes really awkward photos when he tries to smile for them. He’s not really one for selfies, so it takes him a while to get the hang of it. Lawless stares really hard at niisan’s wobbly photo smile then slams it as his background image

His vtuber model is a gift from Gear, who does rigging for fun. Kuro thinks he’s crazy but doesn’t say it, just accepts the summons to game when it appears and he has time

Much to Mahiru’s surprise, he both knows how and is skilled in preparing animals to be cooked. Mahiru himself is kind of squeamish about some of the work so it makes Kuro feel useful. Unfortunately, it gives Tooru the idea that a family camping trip might be fun

He will not learn to drive. He refuses. Cars are scary, driving is scary, the people driving other cars are scary. It’s too much responsibility. Just give him a bike or like. A horse. Horses are cool. He likes horses.

He will absolutely still get behind the wheel and figure it out if he has to. Once he starts thinking about it as an emergency measure for Mahiru’s sake, it’s… Easier. He’s still terrified out of his mind but He’ll Manage

Sometimes when he’s bored and nobody is available to play with him he’ll get inner sloth to use the other controller by “giving it” to his coat

He shares a birthday party with Tsubaki so they both get two. One with their little families, and one with their big group of friends/family. It’s still… So amazing to him. That he has a family who was glad he was born.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BOTH OF YOU!!

I love both of them so much 😭🫶🏻💕💕

Bedtime? Do you mean the best time to read the hottest and the dirtiest fanfiction you can ever have found in your life, be obsessed with it for weeks straight, and still be able to wake up early the next day? 🤔

My dudes it is bedtime. What do you expect me to do? Just fall asleep like a normal person?

beanie baby dragon is crossing your dash

🎄✨

“Let’s watch a Christmas movie!” I say, pulling out a dvd of Dreamworks’ hit 2011 short film Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury

After finishing the manga, I really want to know his story, because Envy is one of the undisclosed characters, which is a pity. I hope Tanaka reveals at least something in the guide book