Really love that the heart clarified Jindosh was quiet and reserved when he was younger. Without that little bit of insight, we would all probably have assumed he was just as cocky and loud mouthed. But, no, he was a very withdrawn and maybe even timid young man who BLOSSOMED into an insufferable ego maniac and that’s just… such a glow up ✨
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“Depression turns you into a series of nouns, without the adjectives and without the verbs. You don’t remember where you misplaced your descriptions, your actions … You become: bed, shower, socks, coffee, keys, obligations.”— A Series of Nouns
Sometimes the anime drawing things out works really, really well.
In the manga, the above exchange is a single panel, framed in such a way that it’s almost a throwaway conclusion to Historia and Hange’s conversation. The focus of the scene is on Ymir’s situation, and besides reading subtext into ellipses, Historia’s own history is reserved for a later day.
In the anime, everything takes just a little more time. Pauses that your eyes flit over become tangible seconds of material.
For the first time in five years, someone calls Historia by her name. And it hasn’t fully bloomed as a storyline, but the seeds of that significance are everywhere in the extra moment it takes Historia to respond to Hange.
HELLO and MERRY CHRISTMAS @thetidewaters! i have spent many hours scribbling and (mostly) fiddling with the hue slider to get this picture to look cohesive and I think i have?? succeeded?? anyway. This is She Who Knows Ten Thousand Things, aka Ten, the twilight caste. I am a big fan of twilights, probably because i play one but also, theyre just fun.
