#berumika

[big-trouble-in-little-eldia]

this came to me in a dream

[daleelahwrites]

Thoughts on Berumika?

Cute!!! 🤧 Do you like them? 🥰

Thanks for the ask, anon!!

[deerish]

[dba-92]

gonna randomly be dropping any notes, scenes, or drafts I have about my Berumika Fic-Broken Glass heals, I like having all my random ideas or scenes as different posts that way my google doc isn't so cluttered

[eyes-brainrot]

Fuck it snk x nge crossover fic

Partially based off this

Bertholdt is the 3rd child who’s forced to pilot an EVA. He’s blackmailed by being shown an injured Mikasa (NERV set her up to get hurt). Shadis or Magath has Gendo’s role.

Mikasa is the first child. She’s not a husk, but she’s disinterested in everything that’s not Armin or Eren. Later learns to open up to others outside her friend group. (Sasha takes the place of Hikari here I guess)

Reiner is the 2nd child and is tsundere towards Bert (they have a rivalry and a will they won’t they thing). And he’s from Germany who wants to be a hero.

Annie is the 4th child and one of the friends Bert makes at school after being beat up by her. She ends up in a coma after her EVA gets infected and Bert almost kills her against his will.

Eren tells Bertholdt he loves him and then his head pops off after trying to start third impact

Reiner gets mindraped and his mommy complex breaks his psyche. Bert visits him in the hospital later. 

Third impact doesn’t happens. I’m pretty sure Bert is mentally stronger than Shinji, so humanity doesn’t go sploosh. He also gets ship teased with everyone except Annie in this verse. There’s no clone shenanigans here.

[bertholdt16]

When Bertholdt needs to carry Mikasa all the way to her dorm after their long date.

Inspiration from @berumika

[kokomiin]

Sorry to bother you meatkasa but I was wonder if you could only if you want to I’m not forcing you can you do a bertholdt / Mikasa pair doodle

thank you for requesting! I have liked this pairing for a while and have been thinking of doing some more drawings of it when I have time

[ymisiposts]

Hey I just was wondering your thoughts on Bertkasa (Bertholdt and Mikasa). I thought it was an interesting idea considering how similar the two of them are and I haven't seen many people comment on it. Do you ship Bertholdt with anyone in particular?

Thoughts on Bertholdt x Mikasa:

This ship is definitely one of those rare ones and I never really thought about it before until recently. I can sort of see the similarities between the two characters and thus can understand why some people ship them.

However I personally don't ship them due to the fact that their interactions in the anime/manga are so aggressive and full of anger. Mikasa wants Bertholdt dead due to his crimes against Eldians and overall their relationship after Bertholdt and Reiner revealed their identities has been very tense. Now correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think their relationship even before the Clash of the Titans arc wasn't anything special in the first place. And to me, canon relationships matter when shipping but of course everyone has their preferences.

Now, who do I ship Bertholdt with then?

Reiner! Reibert has been my OTP for so long and I could go on and on about why I ship them but to keep it short and to prevent me from ranting; I find their relationship strong and healthy and their interactions are moslty positive. (I can write about Reibert some other time If you guys want)

Overall Berumika is an interesting and rare ship. Not exactly to my liking but it's not like I'm going to attack anyone who ships it of course. If you like it, good for you!

TL;DR:

While I can see Bertholdt and Mikasa's similarities as characters, I personally don't ship Berumika simply because I find their relationship and interactions aggressive. Nothing against the people who ship them of course.

[aboutmikasa]

Send me a word and Siri or Alexa will pick a song for me to use as inspiration and I’ll write you a drabble

I need to distract myself from everything around me right now… send me a word and your assistant of choice (Alexa or Siri) and I’ll ask them to play a song with that word… their first choice and my music preferences.

I’ll use it as inspiration to write you a short drabble for any of my ships (check the tags if you’re not sure).

You can include au/canon or fluff/smut/angst.

Be aware I listen to music in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese.

[big-trouble-in-little-eldia]

A deep dive into AO3′s Bertolt Hoover shipping tags

I got bored and I like making lists and excel sheets, so I went ahead and mined all the data from the various Bertholdt relationships that exist on AO3. The resulting statistics and graphs are quite interesting, so I want to share them!

To start, I went to AO3′s tag search page, searched for every ship that contains Bertholdt OR Bertolt, picked the Relationship category, selected Canon and Non-Canon, and sorted by chronological ascending so that they would show up in the order in which they were created.

Then, I went ahead and collected the following data: 

The canonical ship name

Characters involved

Type (romantic or platonic)

Genders involved

Number of characters in the ship

Number of fics in the tag

The order in which they were created

A link to the works and tag page

The number of G, T, M, E, and Not Rated fics

In doing so, I ignored synonym ships. Half of all of Bertholdt’s current 525 ship tags are variations on Reiner/Bertholdt. I’ve only catalogued the canon tag, or if that was missing, the most canon spelling.

Then, I went ahead and created some tables to count totals and other numbers that seemed interesting.

Important to note is that the total number of fics isn’t an accurate sum of total fics that are on the archive. For example, if a single fic is tagged with both “Armin Arlert/Bertolt Hoover” and “Armin Arlert & Bertolt Hoover”, then this fic will represent itself twice in the data. The numbers are more to be taken as relative: how many fics contain this ship tag and how does that compare to other ships?

I went with ships because these are the easiest way to ensure that the fic is at least a little bit about Bertholdt. Most fics that tag him have him in the background or he doesn’t even show up in them. When at least one relationship with him is tagged, the odds that he’s relevant in the fic increase by a lot. The number of fics that have him as a main character but that don’t tag him in any relationships is rather insignificant, so this is the best way to go through Bertholdt fics and collect some data.

You can find the full sheet here. Data was captured on the 8th of January 2023. The newest ship tag at the time was Bertolt Hoover/Onyankopon and I will likely not update these stats since it’s quite a bit of work. Unless some really bad life decisions lead me to still be in this fandom in five years and data has shifted enough to see an evolution.

Find the full sheet with data here.

Let’s go through the data!

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Number of fics

When sorted by size, these are the ships with the most fics:

Reiner Braun/Bertolt Hoover (2666)

Bertolt Hoover/Annie Leonhart (465)

Bertolt Hoover/You (310)

Reiner Braun & Bertolt Hoover (300)

Reiner Braun & Bertolt Hoover & Annie Leonhart (275)

Reiner Braun/Bertolt Hoover/Annie Leonhart (125)

Armin Arlert/Bertolt Hoover (75)

Bertolt Hoover & Annie Leonhart (63)

Bertolt Hoover/Eren Yeager (61)

Bertolt Hoover/Original Character(s) (59)

Bertolt Hoover/Jean Kirstein (58)

Marco Bott/Bertolt Hoover (55)

Bertolt Hoover & Reader (40)

Armin Arlert & Bertolt Hoover (32)

Sasha Blouse/Bertolt Hoover (30)

Reiner Braun & Pieck Finger & Marcel Galliard & Porco Galliard & Bertolt Hoover & Annie Leonhart (29)

Reiner Braun/Bertolt Hoover/Reader (25)

Mikasa Ackerman/Bertolt Hoover (23)

Porco Galliard/Bertolt Hoover (23)

Bertolt Hoover/Ymir (20)

Not unexpected that RBA ships and reader ships are at the top, considering the former has always been popular and the latter is a large trend at the moment. 

I was surprised that Bertholdt/Armin is the largest rarepair considering that when I first got into this ship in September of 2020, there were about 20 fics in this tag and over half of them were either crack, didn’t contain them, or had them as background characters. It’s nice to see it boom!

Ships with Eren, Jean, and Marco are one of the first Bertholdt ship tags to be created on AO3. They used to be popular in the early days but are quieter in recent years due to a shift in character spotlight.

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Characters

Ships

The following graph shows how many Bertholdt ships each character is a part of.

Reiner, Annie, Marco, Jean, Eren, Marcel, Armin, and Reader take up the top spots for characters who appear in the most ships.

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Fics ‎

When you bring in how many fics are tagged with a ship containing each character, the view becomes quite skewed.

Because of the sheer number of Reiner/Bertholdt fics, Reiner racks in 3530 fics, representing 65,8% of all Bertholdt fics. Annie comes in second at 996 fics or 18,4% and Reader is third with 310 or 5,7% of fics.

To give a more representative overview of the other ships, Reiner, Annie, and Reader’s data were removed from this graph.

Armin (122 fics), Jean (115 fics), Marco (106), and Eren (100) are notably higher than the rest.

In the second grouped tier, we have Porco (63), OC (58), Marcel (54), Sasha (48), Pieck (41), Ymir (41), and Mikasa (27). 

In the third, we have Erwin (17), Connie (14), Historia (10), Levi (7), Gabi (5), Colt (4), Hange (4), Zeke (3), The Colossal Titan (2), and Mina (2).

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Romantic vs Platonic

The table shows some interesting data. Let’s look at that as graphs.

An interesting number when it comes down to ships: 41,6% of all ships on AO3 are platonic ships (&) and 58,4% are romantic (/). However, this also shows that the number of ships can deviate wildly from the number of fics:

If you look at the bulk of fics that are associated with a romantic Bertholdt ship, suddenly that number becomes 16,7% platonic vs 83,3% romantic.

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Fic Rating

A fic can only have one rating. There are five ratings available:

G, or General Audiences, for fics that can be read by anyone

T, or Teens and Up, for fics that contain slightly more mature themes

M, or Mature, for fics that contain mature themes or mild sexual content

E, or Explicit, for fics that contain explicit sexual content, violence, or gore

Not Rated, for when the author doesn’t think the fic fits neatly within one category and they leave it open

For every ship, I went ahead and counted how many fics there are in each category. Check out the full sheet for every ship’s percentages.

First off, the number of ships that have at least one fic per rating. For example, G’s 50 means that 50 different ships have at least one fic that is rated G.

Interestingly enough, E is the most represented rating among the differing ships, followed by T, then M, G, and Not Rated. But the statistics are generally well-balanced.

Second: the number of fics that are tagged with each rating.

In terms of fic representation:

T > M > E > G > Not Rated

Note that just because a fic is rated E, that doesn’t mean that the content of that warning applies to the Bertholdt ship, for example when they’re tagged as a side ship in another character’s ship.

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Number of partners

General

Most ships (41,6%) consist of Bertholdt and one other person. 30,4% has two other people, 13,6% has three other people, 4% four, 2,4% six, and 8% can’t be counted because the character can be plural, for example Original Character(s).

Despite the decent number of 3+ partner ships, an overwhelming majority of fics is about mono ships, namely 86,7%. 9,3% is three partners, 0,9% four, 0,1% five, 0,6% six, and 2,5% can’t be counted.

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Romantic

Looking at solely romantic ships, there is a notable increase in 3 partner ships.

Percentage-wise, the number of fics for mono ships is even higher than in the global numbers. Mono ships represent 92% of all romantic Bertholdt fics. Three partner fics are 4,7%, four are 0,6%, five and six are both 0,02%, and 2,6% can’t be classified.

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Platonic

There is a notably small amount of 3+ platonic ships compared to the others.

However, the number of fics that contain a friendship between three characters is higher. Two platonic partners accounts for 60,5% of all platonic fics, three for 32%, four for 2,1%, five for 0,3%, six for 3,3%, and others for 0,4%. The uptick in six characters is probably due to the number of RBAMPP fics.

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Ship composition

Romantic

M/M, M/M/M, M/F, and M/M/F have the largest amount of ships.

There are more M/M romantic ships than there are M/F ones. Notable is how the number of M/M ‎fics is about 5x higher than the number of M/F fics. Only one M/X ship and two fics exist.

When it comes to ships with a total of three partners, a funny pattern emerges. While M/M/F only have about the third of the amount of ships that M/M/M has, it has almost 3x the amount of fics because of M/M/M. M/F/F has only one fic, which goes to his ship with Ymir and Historia.

Looking at 4+ partners, there aren’t many ships. Still, despite being represented by only two ships, M/M/M/M sticks out above the rest, which is due to RBJM being paired pretty often.

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Platonic

2M, MF, 3M, and 2MF are the largest platonic ships.

The gap between MM and MF ships is smaller for platonic ships than for romantic ones. Still, M&M dominates in terms of fics, with almost 4x the amount of fics compared to M&F.

3+ platonic partner ships show a large skew due to RBA ships as well: 278 fics are M&M&F and the next highest number is M&M&M&M&F&F, mostly inhabited by respectively RBA and RBAMPP. That’s almost 10x as many fics as the next item! Hence why it’s been removed from the graph.

Notable is that there is no RBAMPPZ relationship yet.

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I kinda of lost the plot at this point and have run out of information to showcase

If there’s anything else you’d like me to make a graph out of, I’d love to do so. I can pretty much compare every data point against every other data point.

(Go and populate the smaller ship tags!)

[bipabrena]

This is a sketch of a work I have in mind for BeruMika: an incredibly rare ship that I happen to adore <3

It’s obviously a work-in-progress. I sketched this, got lazy and left it this way, but I’ll probably finish it tomorrow or some day lol and maybe colour it if I find the patience to. I’m new to digital art, so I have no idea how things work yet.

[deerish]

I am compelled to share this extremely violent Berumika fight scene. Well, it started off as a fair fight anyway.

[shindianaify]

This might be random but if youre still taking requests can you do berumika?:)

Random requests are the best!

[multikasa]

Double prize !!!

Two drawings of our dear @maagicmiss, a beautiful and cute modern Au and exciting but very interesting ship to add.

Mikasa deserves a harem

Thank you very much for continuing to participate with your drawings !! If you want to know about their work go to the original profile!

Multikasa week 20202 // Roommate or First date. OR BOTH !

First one is some cute domestic reijeankasa ! Reiner’s snores are terrible and could wake up the dead lmaoo Tho, JK love him a lot 🥺

Second is the Jeankasasashareiberuannie that we needed in this timeline lol Jean’s a human very proud of his SOs lol He brags a lot to his bff Marco and Connie

I know such "large" ship are not that popular but i find then cute and fun :’)) Its not like its hurting anyone ahah

[bertholdt16]

Years of being together, the couples had finally decided to get married and live a peaceful life after they escaped the reality.

The God of Destruction and The Goddess of Death are now officially married.

Inspiration from @berumika

[zeebs-jeebs]

ok but consider this

bert and mikasa used to sneak away from their friends to enjoy alone time together. not anything remotely sexual, but just so they could just be together. storage closets, in the stables, behind the mess hall. so when it's all over, mikasa cant stand to be in any of these places bc someone she loved and trusted betrayed everyone. she can't believe she fell in love with a monster.