Is It Just Me Or Does Mikasa Get Some Of The Most Unnecessary Hate Out Of All The Female Characters In

Is it just me or does Mikasa get some of the most unnecessary hate out of all the female characters in snk (and fandom hating on female characters in general)

as observed by a she/her pansexual black woman on the internet, NO MANGA SPOILER

I really try to stay out of fandom politics especially since the ship wars in major series I like get tend to super ridiculous and out of hand for a fictional animated series (I need to go back to hq where literally everyone ships everyone and is chill about it fdfsd), but the amount of hate Mikasa gets is so extra??

Like when it comes to her haters, they literally criticize everything she does and I wish I was exaggerating on that. Maybe it’s because I’m a Mikasa simp and I’m just getting irritated for no reason, but that’s just how it looks to me.

Like, first people want strong female characters and when they finally get one it’s been nothing but complaints because they aren’t strong in a certain way or something. And when it comes to people that dislike Mikasa specifically, a lot of them are, strangely enough, Ymir and yumihisu/yumikuri fans when their dynamic is literally parallel to Mikasa and her relationship with Eren, and I’m not even an EM fan when I say that (and I’m not dissing yumihisu either, I love the ship so much when I first joined tumblr my blog was literally called yumikuri4ever prior to Historia’s name reveal). I personally like Eren and Mikasa having a more familial dynamic but I’m not against the ship, I literally want everyone in this series to be happy but apparently Isayama is allergic to happiness and I can’t deny how much they care about each other (also I’m a sucker for rare pairs apparently in every fandom I’m in, AruMika fans where y’all at lmao).

But like, most of Ymir’s character has to do with how much she loves and wants to protect Historia and no one complains or calls her possessive when arguably Ymir is more possessive of Historia than Mikasa is of Eren. And I can’t help but wonder if it is because they’re a same sex relationship or not because Ymir is honestly more of a forward Mikasa when it comes to her feelings towards Historia. And this isn’t to hate on Ymir or Historia, because fandom knows, there is enough pitting awesome female characters against one another for no reason.

But people have called Mikasa pathetic to even useless (bitch where) to a stalker because of scenes like the 3D gear scene (omg y’all she was 12 let her be, what 12 year old wouldn’t want someone they adore to want to also stay by their side after literally losing everyone else important to them in gruesome horrifying ways that they witnessed) to demonizing her for wanting a peaceful life off the battlefield with someone she cares about deeply to her her actions in chapter 138 and making everything black and white when SnK has always been a story about morality being gray and everything being more complicated than straight up good vs evil.

Like, idk, it feels like female characters I like always get unnecessary hate, like Sakura Haruno from Naruto with people still labeling her like she is the same 12 year old fangirl she was in part 1 and completely ignoring how much she’s changed and has quite literally become the strongest female character, canonically in the franchise, and bringing up old shit like how she crushed majorly on Sasuke and how she worried about her hair on missions or how she always had to be protected by Naruto and Sasuke in part 1. 

Like, damn she was 12 and had a crush and society completely normalized having child soldiers that had no business being shinobi and is literally the same as Ino and Hinata in terms of the crush thing but they don’t nearly get as much hate as Sakura. 12 year old girls, even in series like Naruto or SnK, worry about their hair or if their crush likes them back and how to impress them and ironically enough, I see a lot more hate towards Sakura/Mikasa from other women in the fandom like did y’all forget that when you were a little ass kid how you would get about your crushes??

It honestly feels like the more feminine-leaning demographics of a fandom are the ones that are the MOST vocal about their hatred of a particular female character and less forgiving of any mistakes they commit, even if a male character does the exact same thing. Because, at least for me, it feels like a lot of people that hate characters like Mikasa and Sakura are usually women or those that identify on the more she/her end of the gender spectrum and they are irrationally critical.

(And that isn’t to say that there aren’t guys that don’t dislike Mikasa or Sakura because there are. I’ve seen plenty of Sakura antis that are guys that lowkey don’t know what they are talking about.)

But I feel like a lot of the specific criticisms that these girls get are from a more feminine lens that are completely unforgiving of any flaws, mistakes, or character quirks a female character may have that perhaps the antis just personally disliked also being at one point in their lives and vehemently reject it in certain female characters that do the same thing. But then they turn around and get all sad and sympathetic if a male character does any of the same things that they hate in female characters. Having any sort of vulnerability and femininity in female characters isn’t a cardinal sin that will get you sent to one of the circles of hell the last time I checked.

Then there’s the whole pitting Sakura and Hinata against each other thing… and now people are doing that in the SnK fandom with pitting Mikasa and Historia against one another and they’ve literally been shown to be good friends in the series ijfc all over ships really? Like comparing Mikasa/Sakura and Historia/Hinata during a couple of Eren’s/Naruto’s lowest point moments and who told him what he just wanted to hear vs what he needed to hear when they both did something for him those moments in their own way that are indicative of their characters, chill out and stop comparing them.

I’ve even seen some people saying that it’s because Mikasa is a ‘silent oriental badass beauty’ and a female character as to why many people do happen to like her. Racist as hell word choice aside because that alone is a post and a half, that’s blatantly incorrect. These people have even said that Gabi is so well-liked because she’s a girl. Like, when Gabi was first introduced in the manga she got so much hate for quite a lot of her appearances and one of my friends even pointed out that now that Gabi’s in the anime, she is literally constantly almost always trending every Sunday on Twitter because people hate her that much when she’s literally female Eren, a very beloved character in the fandom who happens to be an attractive white man. Like, where are they seeing this Gabi love at because I honestly have yet to really see it here on Tumblr and Twitter.

The population of people that first disliked Gabi and later on liked her, likely realized that Gabi is a kid who was brainwashed from day one to be a soldier and hate her own race and I feel like many people who identify as a minority like myself connected a lot with that (the hating your own race thing). I got one of my moms into SnK and when Sasha died she literally wanted to punt Gabi out of the airship and felt bad literally a day later for wanting to hypothetically do that to a kid after she calmed down. And I feel like Ayane Sakura’s performance as Gabi and hearing her voice and seeing her animated made Gabi a lot more initially likable and understandable than she did in the manga, I warmed up to Gabi a lot faster watching the anime adaptation than I did first seeing her ass in the manga personally.

I honestly believe that if Mikasa or Gabi were male characters, they wouldn’t get nearly as much hate as they do currently. Especially Mikasa and her relationship with Eren.

The scene in the Battle of Trost arc where Mikasa told Eren that if things got dangerously out of hand to come and find her. The infamous 3D gear scene where she interpreted Eren’s excitement to be the fact that he was happy they wouldn’t have to be separated. How rightfully upset Mikasa gets when Eren is in danger. How Mikasa was telling Eren a touching series of words about how he taught her to live with purpose when she literally thought they were gonna die.

These aforementioned scenes are all moments I see antis bring up when they are ranting about Mikasa. But I can guarantee that if all these scenes were replayed and the only thing that was different was that Mikasa happened to be a boy, there would be nothing but squeals and fangasms over such uwu cute gay moments and anyone who had a problem with guy!Mikasa’s character would be a minority that barely gets seen and occasionally complained about being homophobic or whatever. And I’m saying that as a member of the LGBTQ+ community myself. I honestly feel like if Mikasa were a boy, none of those scenes would be used negatively against her (or at least, not nearly as much).

One post I saw on a day or so ago said some shit that was so true, https://ackerbabezzz.tumblr.com/post/643759802720387072/floch-is-more-of-a-simp-for-eren-than-mikasa-yall ‘Floch simps over Eren more than Mikasa, you guys just hate women’. And seriously, that has to be it or something and I’ve just been thinking about that for a while. Female characters really do be getting unnecessarily dunked on.

Like if they’re too cold, then they’re a bitch.

If they care deeply for someone, they’re creepy or possessive.

If they care about their crushes and what they think of them, they’re immature.

If they find a character annoying initially and like them later, still a bitch that doesn’t care about them.

If they’re a badass, suddenly they’re too overpowered and unrealistic. 

Of if they were ‘useless’ in the beginning but later on become strong, they’re still useless or should’ve been strong from the beginning rather than growing into their strength and the women they eventually became.

Like damn, women can’t do anything right even in fiction and will get hated just for being women and having feelings. Like, leave Mikasa, Sakura, Gabi, and other female characters alone with your shit criticism, internalized misogyny, or blatant outright misogyny and get on with your lives. Feel free to rant in my ask box with me if you agree.

This is fun 👀

Poor floch.

Just a friendly reminder:

The only way Falco knows how to insult Eren is to not call him “mister”

Freedom as a state of mind

We know that Eren always searched for freedom. As a child, the freedom for Eren was seeing the ocean, flaming water, frozen land... The outside world for naive 15 y/o Eren was the symbol of liberty, because he didn’t think that humanity outside of the walls will see them as a threat.

When they reached the ocean, was he happy about it? No. Why? Because it wasn’t the freedom he dreamed of. The freedom he imagined was where they could easily travel and enjoy their life. Not where others will see them as a threat and want to exterminate them. Eren was terribly disappointed and his objective changed. But did he stop to pursue freedom? No. Instead, Eren decided to go even further, but he still saw it as something external.

Freedom, above all, is how you feel yourself. A person might be physically free and live a normal life, but his/her feelings and thoughts aren’t free. The example of such people are Eldians in Marley. They are physically free, but the brainwashing and guilt tripping that Marley did for decades made them slaves to the idea that every Eldian born into this world must carry the burden of past sins.

The same applies to Eren. He was always physically free, but he always was the slave for his personal idea of freedom and revenge that pushed him to pursue the fate and choices that led him to become the person he is today.

Eren, like those Eldians, put himself into the box from which he couldn’t see the full picture. He didn’t see freedom as something that can be found around him.

If you are emotionally and mentally still chained up, it doesn’t matter how free you might be, because you are still a slave to something.

Uri Reiss, who had the most powerful titan and could easily do something about the situation with Eldians, was a slave to the philosophy of Karl Fritz. He was free, but his mind was consumed with the idea of fake peace.

Ymir, who was the first Founder, even though she was “freed” by King Fritz, she still remained a slave to his idea of her. She became a slave to the world she left behind and stayed loyal to King, because he gave her a purpose.

Now, Eren, the current holder of Founder, is a slave to the fake idea of freedom. You can’t find freedom from outside, if you can’t find it around or within yourself.

THIS!!!

So FREAKING TRUE ):❤️❤️❤️!

Oh 😭❤️❤️❤️

I’m proud.

First time I saw Falco I actually thought he must be one of Reiner's relatives.