#she did kill him

[melishade]

Attack on Prime Chapter 91: She is not yours to keep!

Spoilers ahead

So there was something that I wanted to talk about for chapter 91, and it was specifically this scene regarding Eren’s feelings for Mikasa:

Eren growled in response, yanking his arm out of the god’s grip. “Fine! I do love her! She’s one of the few people I have left! And even if she outlived me, I wouldn’t want her to move on with someone else! I would rather have her only have feeling for me than anyone else!”

The energy lingering on Primus grew violent and chaotic, contorting into sharp and rigid shapes. The wings lost shape and thrashed around so chaotically before shooting up into the air. The color turned from a bright orange to a violent, bloody red. Primus’ glowing eyes mirrored that same violent color.

“SHE IS NOT YOURS TO KEEP!” Primus shouted, the new voice he spoke in dripping with anger and fury. Eren stumbled back and hit the ground as the red energy grew larger and larger, towering as tall as the glowing trees in the paths. Zeke crawled backwards as Eren was frozen by his own fear. Shit! Shit!

Now when it comes to EreMika ship and chapter 139 as a whole, I think I've expressed my disappointment with it quite a few times. Mainly due to the fact that Mikasa's main character motivation has always been tied to Eren and even though he has committed mass genocide, she still thinks of him fondly...which...she shouldn't.

Meanwhile Eren's feelings for Mikasa, at least in the manga felt like it came out of nowhere. Seasons 1-3 never really showed Eren having any romantic feelings for Mikasa. Time skip didn't really do him any favors as Eren told Mikasa he hated her out of justification for protecting her. Scenes with Eren and Mikasa could arguably not be romantic, and Eren's tantrum in chapter 139, despite it being before the final battle, definitely felt off. I've heard the arguments before, saying that Eren was just holding his feelings in because of his visions of the future. But it felt like he valued activating the Rumbling and trampling the whole world more than what his friends felt.

What I wanted to do was show a few more subtle scenes of how Eren felt towards Mikasa throughout AOP. Eren keeping and still wearing the red bracelet that Mikasa got from Hizuru for him. Eren saying he'll always need Mikasa even after he was able to take on Arcee and Wheeljack in a fight. Eren thinking that Mikasa looked beautiful when they were all free falling in Moving Forward. It's small, but it's substance that's there.

So when we get to Primus confronting Eren, he ends up bringing Mikasa for obvious reasons. The deity has seen both Eren and Mikasa's memories, even bringing up one of Mikasa's conversations with Megatron in Hizuru about her deepest desires. And Primus, rightfully so, calls Eren out for his vile behavior towards Mikasa, even though Eren does believe he loves her.

“She loves you,” Primus declared in the woman’s voice as he glared at Eren in anger, “She adores you. She would give everything in the world for you. You knew this fact. You abused her devotion and love for you and shut her out! Lied to her about everything! You were selfish to her! And somehow you mix your selfish nature towards her as love!”

Zeke was completely shocked. Wait, Eren loved her back?! Zeke noticed the dread on Eren’s face, like his biggest secret had been revealed.

“I-I,” Eren stuttered, “I don’t-,”

Primus grabbed and yanked on Eren’s arm and pulled up his sleeve, revealing the red bracelet.

“You haven’t taken this off,” Primus declared, the energy morphing into the woman’s colors once again, “This is the gift she gave you long ago, and you made the effort to maintain it.”

Adding onto this, I've brought up the fact that the Primes are speaking through Primus, and if you've read the Covenant of Primus or at least seen the appearances of the other Primes, the color coating will determine who is speaking. At this moment, it is Solus who speaks, the first half of a tragic love story that ended with her life. She has dealt with stubborn fools, mainly the other Primes, and is sick of Eren lying and manipulating Mikasa's feelings for him. Eren tries to deny it, leading Onyx to throw in his say and reminding him that he has seen and felt what Eren has felt. This is also important because Onyx has also loved Solus and lost the will to live when he learned she had died. When Eren finally does confess his feelings, it's in the same manner as he did in chapter 139. It's selfish, it's possessive, it's a tantrum.

“That doesn’t prove I love her,” Eren declared.

“You forget that I see in your spark!” Primus reminded in the gruff voice, the orange wings sprouting into the air and stabbing the ground next to him, “So enough with your lies!”

Eren growled in response, yanking his arm out of the god’s grip. “Fine! I do love her! She’s one of the few people I have left! And even if she outlived me, I wouldn’t want her to move on with someone else! I would rather have her only have feeling for me than anyone else!”*

And when Eren does, Primus taps into his rage, and Megatronus, the other half of the tragic love story is the one that takes control. The one who let his anger get the best of him. The one who's rage blinded him and caused him to kill Solus. The one who lived the rest of his life in regret, is now seeing Eren, acting like him: a selfish, possessive fool who's actions will lead to death and destruction. Megatronus' energy spills out and nearly consumes Primus. And the deity shouts the line:

SHE IS NOT YOURS TO KEEP!

Is this technically anti-eremika?…probably. I’ve always been iffy about that ship.

[acillianproblem]

NO ONE SPEAK TO ME I CANT FUCKING BREATHE

[chloesimaginationthings]

Abby and Into the pit Oswald have similar “friends”..

[hinamie]

cursed kids v2 ⚠️👹

i've been a jjk first years stan since day one and have been wanting to redraw the first art i did featuring the three of them

[lightdancer1]

Fanny Kaplan is one of the most forgotten yet crucial people in the history of the 20th Century:

And lest we forget in talking about the testament the reason Lenin was a corpse propped up in quasi-life for a bit before he died in the first place. A Leftist who disliked Bolshevism when it was actually there shot him. Her name was Fanny Kaplan and her gunshots were one of the most critical moments in the history of both the Russian Revolution and the USSR. Had Lenin lived as long as Stalin did he would have been the one on the spot in the Second World War. Thanks to Fanny Kaplan that didn't happen and she paved the way for the rise of Stalin and the USSR as we know it.

[cryptidjeepers]

okay im not british and i admit my understanding of british politics is not great but i found out that david tennant's speech when he accepted the lgbt celebrity ally award made british politicans BIG mad. the way conservative transphobic politicans will weaponize any part of their identity to silence criticism agaisnt them is so disingenious and shitty.

THIS is what he said. okay

and this was the reaction of badenoch and sunak

literally weaponizing her identity as a woman and a woman of colour to distract from how dangerously transphobic she is. like what the fuck. anyways i just wanted to bring this up because it's something that terfs do constantly. especially to shut up trans woman and cis male allies. not to mention david tennant is a father of a non-binary child and i believe one of other kids is queer. he's not just being a performative ally, trans rights are important to him and his family. anyways fuck sunak fuck badenoch.

[julls]

Durgetash sketchpage by wonderful @mureh ♡!! Scenes of Gortash x Durge Juria before and after "my wife has amnesia" bg3 events (⸝⸝ᵕ ᵕ⸝⸝)

[somewhereincairparavel]

Jason: *dies in an excruciatingly painful but heroic way because his dad screwed up again, saving the lives of a literal God, his ex, a random girl and his dad's fucking ego*

Zeus: um chile anyways so-

[molinaesque]

You know why these boys brought you in? 'Cause I f*cked up a poor, defenseless gang-affiliated organ dealership? Yep. Mm.

[sarcastic-clapping]

LET YOUR DAD DIE: IT'S FINE IT'S FINE IT'S WHAT HE DID TO HIS DAD.

Lestat + Claudia: Patricide & The Cycles of Violence - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022) - Catherine Lacy, "Cut" (2019) / Anne Rice, "The Vampire Lestat" (1985) / Anne Rice, "Interview with the Vampire" (1976)

[homielander]

i'm sorry but hotd positing that all women are innately cautious and peaceful and compassionate while men are rash warmongers is not a feminist win! i could see the value in everyone being hesitant to go to war at the onset of the story because it intensifies the tragedy of this house tearing itself apart, but at this stage, rhaenyra has as much reason for bloodlust (if not more) as the men on the show. it's pretty heavily implied that the shock of her usurpation killed her daughter, aemond killed lucerys, and one of aegon's kingsguard snuck into her quarters with the intent to assassinate her. most importantly, she has felt entitled to the throne since she was named heir as a child. she should be incensed! rhaenyra's inaction in the season 1 finale due to a sudden aversion to violence was already stretching believability -- this is the same woman who expressed nothing beyond mild shock at vaemond's beheading, who plotted with daemon to have an innocent man killed to facilitate laenor's escape while declaring that the realm should fear her. to have rhaenyra insist on peace at this point in the story, when war is already well underway, is incredibly irrational.

this problem is not limited to rhaenyra. alicent ordered larys to kill mysaria's network of spies and any suspected traitors in the red keep, presumably without any due process, and neither of these decisions was depicted with the gravity they deserved for a character who was once horrified by any bloodshed. meanwhile, aegon had a few extra ratcatchers executed, and not only was the direction sufficiently ominous, but we also got a lengthy monologue from otto about how it would spell his doom. it is probably pointless to bring up rhaenys because she is written less like a believable human being and more like a mouthpiece for the writers to assert whatever political opinion they believe is correct in a given episode -- but she did very much kill dozens if not hundreds of smallfolk last season. she did do that and very clearly did not care. why is she an advocate against war? for both alicent and rhaenys, there is a strange dissonance where their actions are at odds with their attitudes about opposing large-scale war for the good of the realm. i'm not saying this dissonance cannot exist, but it should at least be acknowledged.

helaena raising concerns about the losses suffered by the smallfolk might have worked in isolation, but for it to accompany everything above is exhausting. can none of these women be allowed to feel for themselves?

[tubbytarchia]

Liau drew such an awesome salmon merPearl that I couldn't help but do the same because I can't stop thinking about her (also I turned it into Gempearl of course)

[tricoufamily]

just some ivy league kids trying to figure out necromancy

[g3othermal3scapism]

Was it casual when I made the margins of your list of rules I didn’t agree with wider because I knew you write in the margins? Was it casual when I bought you a multiple-hundred dollar customized chef coat because you mentioned that you thought mine looked cool? Was it casual when our coworker started wearing the assigned uniform and I said she was ‘dressed like you’ even though everyone else also wore the uniform? Was it casual when I waited all night after the soft open of our restaurant to bring you coffee after you ignored me for weeks and got yourself locked in the fridge?

[copypastus]

Feyre's selective hearing is the origin of my villain arc.

[shesnake]

"Wait."

The Acolyte (2024) by Leslye Headland