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romantichomicide95 · 1 year

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hello :3 i was wondering whats ur least/ most fav aot arcs and plot twists?

i really liked the female titan arc. everyone i talk to abt aot HATES annie but i was lowkey rooting for her titan idk🤭

i would say anything after s3 is my least favourite arc bc i havent watched s4 or read the manga, so none of it makes sense to me.

one of the best plot twists i think was reiner killing marco and him having split personalities (?). when it was revealed i was so shocked it was so interesting i think. ALSO i love how ymir figured out that reiner was a traitor in the castles episodes bc she knew he could read the language on the food cans (pls correct me if im wrong haha) byeee <333

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Hello! Oof this is such a cool question thanks for asking.

I actually strongly dislike Annie, and still didn’t like her in the end but I think it’s fine that you do!

My favorite plot arc is probably S3 when the battle turns from Titans to people. Everything with Kenny and the MPs. Finally finding out answers to a lot of the questions the series has been building up. The battles with Kenny and his team. The animation of the use of ODM gear. (Hello the iconic “kennny” and Levis use of the gear is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen). Everything was just perfect, and than afterwards when they finally head to the basement and we get the epic Beast Titan battle which is one of my top favorite scenes of the whole show. I obviously love Levi and we all knew up to that point how badass and strong he was but the Beast Titan at that point seemed like some big Titan leader and seeing Levi take him on with ease was just amazing. If I could watch anything again for the first time it would be that fight.

My least favorite arc is the beginning of season 4 because I didn’t and still couldn’t give a shit about any of the new characters from Marley except Reiner. Super unpopular opinion but it’s just how I feel. I won’t spoil it for you though.

My favorite plot twist was probably Reiner/Berthdolt being the armored and collosal titans! The way Reiner just casually tells Eren like in the background was just done so well for me. It was like a blink and you miss it and than all of sudden shit gets serious.

I also like the twist of the titans being former humans which at the time we learned of that was just so heavy. We thought of them as these mindless monsters so to know we’d been rooting against people who were turned without consent was heartbreaking.

Also another one of my favorite scenes is then making it to the ocean. It fills me with goosebumps and brings me to tears when I watch it. It’s like from the time they were kids Armin and Eren just wanted to see the ocean. Idk it’s fucking heartbreaking. Also when Eren says “If we kill all our enemies will we finally be free”(I’m paraphrasing I can’t remember the exact quote). That moment kills me every time. Especially on rewatch knowing that he knew what he was going to do!

Anyway sorry that was so long! I can talk about AOT all day. Thanks for the question anon! ❤️

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sonofthesaiyans · 2 years

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All of my grievances regarding Sasha....

Buckle down. This is gonna hurt.....

I am going to do my best to list off EVERYTHING that I take issue with in how Sasha Braus, our beloved potato girl and one of AOT’s most iconic characters, was horrifically misused by the bastard who callously tossed her from the story at the start of season four, the timeskip season that covers the final miserable 48 chapters of the manga.

Every major and minor offense, I’m gonna try to unload here. Let’s get this over with.

* The fact Sasha returns a year after the events of the Shiganshina battle in the manga, a battle in which she was already severely injured to the point of unconsciousness and her probable death heavily teased before we came down to the infamous Armin vs. Erwin scene.

* The fact that Sasha’s redesign post-timeskip, in my opinion, did no translate well to the anime. I didn’t mind it at first, but for some reason, it just doesn’t quite feel like the girl we knew from the first three seasons.

* The fact that Megan Shipman replaces Ashly Burch, and in my opinion makes Sasha sound YOUNGER and lacks the charm Ashly gave to her character. It is a blessing in disguise though as I would’ve been furious if Ashly Burch had to record for this season. There’s only one actress fit to play Sasha, and that’s Ashly.

* The fact that up to now Sasha’s relationships with both Eren and Mikasa are so badly underdeveloped that their reaction to her demise feels entirely one-dimensional and simply doesn’t follow up naturally upon what had previously been established among them.

* Sasha as a sniper; it might make sense since she is skilled with a bow and arrow, but at the same time it just doesn’t look “right” on her, that bandolier and that gun. The whole concept of it feels off.

* The fact that we NEVER ONCE saw her slay a Titan. You know, the original threat presented by a series called ATTACK ON TITAN?

* The fact that she died in that black Survey Corps uniform, which is apparently her eternal attire in the afterlife, once again this feels very wrong, especially since that outfit came to be associated exclusively with the Yeagerists almost immediately after this battle.

* The fact that she DID NOT HAVE A BREASTPLATE when everybody sans Levi did. There is literally NO valid reason for why she lacked one, and so it is clear that this was a deliberately manufactured plot hole Isayama put in place that he hoped nobody would dwell too much on.

* The contrivance of the same fucking kid she gazed upon just a short time earlier just HAPPENS to be the one to shoot her barely an hour after the fact.

* The fact that she died because nobody made any effort to secure the blimp or to man the freaking gun by the door.

* Watching her expire in her own blood, to the point that it was flowing from her mouth. For me, the single most horrific, traumatizing, and downright OFFENSIVE scene in the entire series.

* The fact that her final word was “Meat”. Even here, Isayama refused to allow her to grow beyond her most famous quirk.

* Her STARE. Her lifeless, unresponsive stare. I can’t fucking stand to see that!

* The fact that a GODDAMNED KID was the one to take her down. A massively inappropriate fate for such a great character, and for Sasha it feels especially wrong that a fucking bullet did her in. And that if she had to die, she didn’t go down in any more noble circumstances. It’s such a goddamned cheap sendoff.

* The fact that the character who replaced her just happened to have the exact same skill set, and was so obnoxiously overpowered and untouchable through the whole of the remaining chapters. There is nothing Gabi did that Sasha could not have done.

* Everything flashing back to her in “Brave Volunteers”, just to remind us that yes, Isayama finally did what he was talked out of back in season two, when he should have left well enough alone.

* The fact that her entire presence in S4 from that point on is a few scant flashbacks.

* Seeing her fucking headstone. This was the one thing I BEGGED AND PRAYED I’d never fucking see. The one thing, people. The ONE THING.

* The fact that we NEVER got to see her with her mother or her adoptive siblings, and that we NEVER got any time seeing her spend time with Kaya as her big sister.

* The fact that they invented a boyfriend for her, Niccolo, strictly as a plot device for her killer, Gabi. I will say it again, ONE flashback does NOT constitute a relationship! I am firmly against any idea of NicoSasha, especially given what Niccolo was involved with even after he fell in love with Sasha.

* The fact that Jean and Connie have such muted reactions to her end. Her best friends cared nothing for her! Connie never once sought revenger against her killer, saying “I understand it was an act of war”. You know any individual who would react so passively to a loved one being killed like this?

* The fact that Isayama used EVERY opportunity to make out Gabi as a wounded party instead of the killer that she is, and that absolutely no justice is EVER sought out for Sasha by the majority of those who supposedly loved her. Everyone takes pity on Gabi, who made the choice to go on a killing spree on her own accord. Nobody ever considers Sasha’s side or her own suffering in any of this.

* The fact that MAPPA’s animation made for a disturbing level of resemblance between Sasha and Gabi. Pre-Timeskip!Sasha has no such resemblance to the little bastard, but there are moments in season four which they made them look too much alike, and that’s absolutely offensive. And unfortunately the parallels get worse....

* The fact that Kaya, Niccolo, and her own parents SPARED HER KILLER just because of her age, even HUGGING Gabi instead of seeing she was held fully responsible for the death of a loved one. Gabi is not their family, but she took away one of their own, and we’re supposed to buy this notion that they spared Gabi because “it’s what Sasha would have wanted”, something that has NEVER been stated onscreen but instead is a sentiment peddled solely by Gabi’s defenders? In reality, few would ever be so forgiving towards one who murdered one of their own family. And they milk that “children of the forest” bullshit for all its worth once again to disguise their incessant need to keep Gabi in the picture.

* THIS SCENE

.....I was absolutely seething with rage when this came out, and again when it was rerun just this week on Toonami. To show Sasha in her former glory all while comparing her to her own killer, the context of this scene is enormously offensive and a serious insult to a character much nobler than Gabi Braun EVER was.

* Every flashback going back to Sasha’s demise. They are fewer and less graphic in the anime but no less upsetting to be forced to recall such an undeserved death scene that in the end, was NOT earned by a story that was already straying too far from what it was.

* The fact that Connie and Armin actually dined with Gabi and Falco, again......THEY OWE NOTHING TO HER, and they have no problem eating with the murderers of their comrades, including Annie? Just who’s side are they truly on?

* The fact that Gabi NEVER apologized verbally for Sasha or asked anything further about her or made any further reference to Sasha after she was forgiven. I’m expected to believe she regrets what she stole from Sasha when she never even mustered so much as an “I’m sorry” at any point? I’m expected to believe she sympathizes for Sasha herself?

* Hearing that bastard Griez badmouth Sasha right in front of Niccolo and her friends and family. As much as I appreciated Yelena blowing his brains out, it’s another one of those scenes we absolutely did not need. Like I said, you do not dare insult Sasha in such a manner, not even if you’re Hajime Isayama.

* Seeing Sasha anywhere near Marley. Who the hell put her up to that? Why was there any need for her or her friends to be anywhere behind enemy lines, on the side where they were all targets for murder? Sasha and her crew had absolutely no cause to be infiltrating enemy territory in disguise. More disturbingly, we have no confirmation that Sasha ever saw her home again in the time Eren vanished. Was her first trip to Marley the last she ever saw of Paradis? The fact that she met her demise away from her home......

* The fact that Connie was spared over her when he contributed absolutely NOTHING to the plot. Without Sasha, his character and what little semblance of a plot he had were dead in the water, deader than Floch. Sasha was the one who wore the pants in that duo, and without her he was nothing. Why was he the one spared?

* The fact everything above was used to push GABI BRAUN forward. Sasha was literally used as a plot device for Gabi. Her friends, her family, her NOT boyfriend, her best friend, all became tools to push Gabi forward. And that makes for one of the most contrived and tasteless subplots I’ve ever seen, and not the so called “redemption arc” Gabi’s foolish defenders tout it as.

* The fact that nothing ever came of Gabi’s survival or so-called redemption, she left the story the same as she entered it, rewarded for her crimes, living the life she stole from Sasha, she sure doesn’t seem bothered or sad for her part in having accelerated the global apocalypse. Never once paid her respects to the person who might have embraced her under different circumstances.

* Seeing Sasha in the afterlife, which is the last place she should be in this story. Her final smile does NOTHING to alleviate the grief that came with her demise and we don’t know what became of anybody residing in the paths with the final destruction of the Titans or Eren’s death. We don’t know! The fact that she was the only character in the main troupe to wind up here makes her end feel that much more unjustified and unfair.

* The fact that Gabi’s fans are some of the most obnoxious fans in the entire fanbase, relentlessly placing Gabi on a pedestal with the worst onces insulting those who adored Sasha and are bitter that we were forced to watch Gabi in Sasha’s place. And more recently, the fact that certain fans who identify as Sasha fans unironically defend Gabi.

* The fact that we can’t look up anything of Sasha without constant reminders of Assassin’s Bullet, Gabi fans got their way from start to finish no matter what but Sasha fans can’t casually enjoy Sasha anymore without this recurring dilemma. Maybe some of you are slow to realize but we don’t wanna see the scenes of Sasha bleeding to death.

* The fact that Sasha I swear was the only character hit with a “MAJOR DEATH INCOMING” announcement ahead of her demise. I don’t think any other character got hit with that during the course of the manga’s monthly releases. And I challenge you to prove me wrong.

* The fact that her death was referenced in The Rumbling intro for season four, something I did NOT want to happen.

* The fact that the enormous untapped potential with Sasha was never fully exploited but Isayama pulled all the stops to force a newbie character in her place who suddenly was the game changer of everything that happened in the story. Sasha was killed off for one of the most forced side characters in the story, one who is a blatant Eren clone who happens to bear unsettling resemblance to Timeskip!Sasha.

* The fact that Isayama never once expressed any sympathy or regret for how callously Sasha was tossed aside and how the fandom just carried on without a second thought, even now with the knowledge of the manga’s badly received finale.

And to that I can only say that Isayama and Gabi’s worst and most fanatical fans, to that I say...

I can’t stress enough how much this has bothered me and that every single solitary aspect of how this was handled, the fact that it was put into motion at all, makes me sick to my stomach and has made me bitter and angry when I should have no such feelings. Not a day goes by where I don’t think of this, and no work of fiction is worth that kind of torture. In the end none of it served a purpose, none of it accomplished anything, getting rid of Sasha only served to take down Attack on Titan and I am adamant that if all of this were to go away, we’d have had a much more watchable timeskip and that much less bullshit going on against the backdrop of the Rumbling for it. But because of all this, I no longer gave a shit about the story. Attack on Titan makes me feel angry, it makes me feel disrespected, and it makes me feel betrayed.

I hate Assassin’s Bullet, I hate the fans who defend it and nothing would make me happier than to see it written out of existence and banned. I still see very valid cause to have the timeskip made noncanon due to the failures of the ending.

Attack on Titan suffered with the loss of Sasha. And in the end the price paid was simply NOT worth it. Sasha deserved better. And I’m not soon about to get over it.

The eight words I wish to one day extend to Isayama in person:

There is no Attack on Titan without Sasha.

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