#done after chapter 112 if I remember correctly?

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Alternative chapter 112

A/N: Chapter 112 and above spoilers!

This is also an alternate reality and my big what if...

Also inspired by this post.

Anyways, for more details, see endnotes!

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 "I'm... not a slave..."

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 "Ever since I was a kid..." Eren muttered out, the intensity in his eyes as he looked at her.

 "Mikasa... I've always hated you."

 She looked at him with shock, eyes starting to let tears go—hurt from what he said.

 Armin decided to take action and attempted to punch him but was pulled back by Mikasa, standing up—her grip on his arm tight.

 "Armin..." She said coldly—the kid who was technically being ignored receiving chills down her spine.

 Armin looked at her and calmed down a bit. He looked at her, the expression on her face was blank and cold.

 Her eyes traveled to Eren's, tears streaming down her face as she stood there, emitting a cold aura, sending off warnings to everyone to stay far from her or even try to provoke her.

 "See? All you ever do-" Unexpectedly, Mikasa stepped on the table and landed a punch on his face, making Eren fall on his back—his cold demeanor diminishing into stupefaction.

 Before he managed to get up, Mikasa was already restraining him—her left thigh between his legs and her right foot on his arm—her left arm locking his other arm tightly as her other arm was ready to punch him.

 Eren looked at her. He can feel a part of him ready to crumble down—yet remained with an unfazed face.

 "You c-" He was immediately cut off by a punch to his face. He didn't only feel her strength, but her frustration and pain. He can feel his face bleeding.

 Mikasa gave him another round of punches to his face—the other two people with them frozen in shock at the sight happening in front of them.

 While doing so, she began shouting out questions which made Eren more hurt than before.

 "Is this what you wanted?!"

 "Is this how you saw me through all the years?!"

 "Is this what I get after saving your ass from being kidnapped all the time?!"

 But the following questions had pulled a switch to him—his heart just shattered more and worse, it was all her that did so.

 "Why did you even save me that day?!"

 "Why did you even wrap this scarf around me?!"

 "Why did you even-"

 Just before Mikasa threw in another punch and continue her statement, she froze. Her blank expression earlier all disappeared into thin air. She looked at him—now in control and wary of herself.

 She looked at Eren whose face is bleeding, steaming up a bit due to him regenerating using his titan ability. She lets out a small gasp—gritting her teeth, tears escaping down her face.

 She relaxed her arm, yet she was still restraining him.

 "Why did you even..." She went to grab her scarf, taking it off.

 She lets out a raspy sigh and stood up—finally allowing Eren to move.

 She looked down and pushed her scarf to his chest—leaving Armin and Gabi surprised at this.

 "Why did you..."

 "...even come in my life...?" She mumbled out, making Eren look down at her—eyes widened.

 Armin and Gabi couldn't help but stay at their seats frozen as if waiting for what will unfold in the next second—their mouths fell agape.

 Mikasa lets go and the scarf fell—Eren letting out his hand to catch it.

 She looked at him into his eyes as if she was staring at a stranger. He wasn't the Eren she knew before—this was a different one.

 Eren hated it.

 It gave him a pang of guilt in his heart—making it on the verge to crumble at that moment.

 "I... can't believe I loved and cared for someone like you..." She looked away from him.

 "Mikasa..."

 Out of the blue, Mikasa slapped him.

 "Don't ever say my name again..." She said coldly.

 He clutched on the scarf as if he felt the urge to do something but couldn't—no, not this time, he still has his mission to complete.

 "I... don't know you anymore..."

 Eren let out a small gasp as his hands trembled holding onto the scarf.

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 "She just likes you so much that she'd snap a titan's neck into two for you."

 "So... how will you respond?"

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 He remembered his half-brother's words correctly. It was... true. He... had been an asshole.

 "I... don't know you anymore..." It was the last words he heard from her.

 All he could do was look at the scarf. It still had Mikasa's scent—which he missed a lot.

 "You know... all you've been doing is stare at her scarf," Louise remarked as Eren was just looking at it—a somber look on his face. She received no response.

 "You must miss her... don't you?"

 Eren didn't take notice, he was too focused on everything she did. How she snapped at him, the frustration she had concealed through the years.

 Despite it all, there was the pain.

 Eren just stared at it, thinking of what he had done.

 It was all for the best, right?

 To save everyone he cared for the most...

 He must destroy the enemies.

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A/N: And it's done!

Take note this is only like an alternate reality or universe or smth LMAOOO

Also, my biggest what if...

Like what if Mikasa just straight-up snapped at him after saying he hated her ever since they were children and then felt like everything she did for him to be safe was all in vain and then beat him up??

Just wanna see them in hand-to-hand combat instead of Armin and Eren because... we knew how that went...

Like instead of y'know what she did—we'll have her snap at him. LIKE MAKE MIKASA HURT AND MAD

Eren gets b!@ch slapped I'm so sorry to all Eren stans... (I still love him don't worry- QwQ)

And I just realized that my content so far are dropping into the angst category LMFAOOO-

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Anti-Fascists aren’t Nazis, They’re Vigilantes

11119Many centrist and liberal commentators, since the beginning of the year really but especially since the attacks at Charlottesville, have made an effort to compare the violent tactics of Neo-nazis, the KKK, the Alt-Right, and other Fascist groups with the violent tactics of the Anti-fascists who oppose them. But the devil is in the details.  What these commentators fail to understand is the fundamental differences between genocidal mass murder and vigilantism.

From a very high level, far removed from the realities and context of street demonstrations and political organizing, it is easy to look at the violence that occurs between fascists and those who oppose them on the streets, to see the violent tactics and rhetoric of both sides and to hear both sides claiming that it is they who advocate for peace, and to conclude that there is some kind of equivocation between the two, that both groups are merely two sides of the same coin of political violence.  To see both groups as engaging in terror tactics against each other or various other political enemies and, from a position of detachment, superficially conclude that both are violent terrorist organizations that need to be destroyed. But the reality, which people who have participated in these counter demonstrations peacefully will attest to, is that the nature and character of the violence done by each side is very different.  For one thing, even when on the attack, anti-fascist violence is ultimately defensive in nature.  The goal of anti-fascist violence is to protect people from the violence of the fascists and it is usually reactive.  Anti-fascists do not generally organize demonstrations independent of fascists.  They organize demonstrations in response to fascist demonstrations or activities.  We do not see, for example, anti-fascists pro-actively organizing a demonstration in a town when the fascists aren’t doing anything, and when they do and the fascists aren’t there it is generally peaceful. It is true that many of the same people credited with violence at other demonstrations, such as anarchists who use Black Bloc tactics, will participate in anti-fascist actions AS anti-fascists.  They, however, are not “antifa” in the broad sense, as we saw in Charlottesville where there was no Black Bloc to be found.  The anti-fascist action in Charlottesville, if I remember correctly, was primarily organized by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, a politically moderate socialist organization.  Anarchists are certainly an element at these demonstrations and in anti-fascism, and it is absolutely the case that there are left wing groups have in the past committed acts of terrorism.  But the only acts of “terrorism” that have been committed by “antifa” so far have consisted of street fights with nazis, civil disobedience, and some minor property damage connected with the aforementioned street fights. The same cannot be said of the fascists.  Not by any measure.  According to Politifact since September 11th of 2001 there have been 106 people killed by far-right extremists, 119 people killed by radical islamists (who are also far-right extremists) and 8 people killed by black supremacists.  Absent from this: people killed by anti-fascists.  In lower level violence, according the the Southern Poverty Law Center in the month after Trump was elected there were 1064 “bias motivated” incidents reported to them.  23 of these were against Trump supporters.  13 were debunked later.  315 were against immigrants, 221 were against black people, 112 were against muslims, and 109 were against LGBT people.  6 of the total incidents reported were anti-white, 4 of which were also Trump related. So they are non-comparable yes, but why?  Certainly far-left groups HAVE committed acts of terrorism in the US, though I should note that, even Forbe’s count going back to 1992 places it at 10 to 1 between far right and far left groups, excluding islamists.  Older folks may of course remember the string of bombings, hijackings and shootings in the early 70s in the US which killed 184 people and injured 600, many of which were in fact carried out by left-wing groups such as the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground, and others by left-wing nationalist groups like the PLA and FALN.  So the potential for left wing mass murder does exist.  It would be naive to claim that anti-fascists are not capable of carrying out acts of mass murder against fascists, as the communists did in Germany during the rise of nazism. The difference is in the nature, purpose and targets of the two groups.  Fascism is an ideology that advocates for the ethnic cleansing, through expulsion marginalization or death, of all ethnic groups considered inferior by them.  It holds that the primary purpose of the state is to preserve the purity of the national culture by eliminating deviant or unassimilated elements, eliminating ethnic “enemies,” and seizing the resources of other cultures by force.  Anti-Fascism is the stance that Fascism is evil and needs to be resisted by whatever means necessary, and that the police cannot be relied upon to resist Fascism. While there is a set of political ideologies associated with Anti-Fascism, Anti-Fascism less resembles and ideology itself.  What it looks like, more than anything else, is vigilantism.  A group of people, who believe the law won’t help them, organizing to protect their community from perceived threats.  The only policies anti-fascists call for is “don’t let the fascists march” and “do something to stop these hateful people from hurting folks.”  Whereas the fascists call for things like “expel immigrants,” “make america white again,” and “stop the jews from replacing us,” all of which are pro-active and aggressive policy proposals meant to further their agenda of a national purge.  Fascist violence tends to further those goals via terrorizing and murdering minorities and anyone who would speak up for them.  Anti-fascist violence tends to further their goals by making the Fascists terrified to rally, speak in public, attack people or otherwise terrorize minorities. If the fascists were replaced with ISIS, and ISIS marched openly in the streets of an american city and beat up on people, and then a group of people in black masks showed up with sticks and got in a street fight with them, those people in the black masks would be called “patriots” and “real americans” and their credentials would never be questioned, even if people questioned the ethics of vigilantism.  If we replaced the anti-fascists with ISIS, that is if fascists marched openly in the street and then ISIS showed up with their flags and got in a fight with them, then we might see the same situation as now, with the media reminding us over and over that “both sides are bad” and they would be correct.   But neither the numbers nor the actions of anti-fascists so far indicate that this situation is the second scenario.  Anti-fascists aren’t beheading random white people, or bombing civilians simply because they are American, or rounding up people and putting them into concentration camps.  They are, by and large, showing up where-ever the fascists actually are and then fighting them specifically.  The perception that they are like ISIS, that “both sides are equally bad” depends entirely on the assumption that the potential of left-wing terrorism is the same thing as actual right-wing terrorism, or else it depends on the assumption that the fascists are not as bad as ISIS despite all the numbers to the contrary.