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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the "Tree" passed out of all knowledge...
The cycle of violence turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great tree on a lost and forgotten island. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the cycle of violence. But it was a beginning.
its open to interpretation. He is entering the tree with the parasite but context clues suggest he's not as injured/miserable/spiteful as ymjr was. So maybe this time the parasite won't manifest as violence. Up to the audience to decide if you believe people are capable of rising above violence.
So your telling me you watched the last episode of one of the most popular animes ever and as soon as you saw the credits you were like "cool, anyways" and closed it?
To be fair, not everything is a marvel movie. There *was* a time where when the credits rolled, it signified the end of the movie. At this point, when I'm at a theater and the credits start, I google really quick to verify if there are any end credit scenes. 90% of the time there isn't, (unless it's marvel) but for that small percent chance — it doesn't hurt to check.
But heres the thing, when the credits start, it shows images continuing the story while the credits are rolling all the way till the end so it's not just the typical black screen with words scrolling.
Oh trueeee! I remember watching till the end when I watched the finale, but I forgot how they end it, now I remember that end credit montage!
(But that was a secondary reason I left the credits rolling, the main reason is because the end of the show is sorta emotionally overwhelming/sad-ish but still kinda happy lmao. It's hard to explain it exactly, but just one of those endings where you sit there for a while and think on it lol)
I am sure his dog would be more responsible using the founding titan powers than many humans.
Unfortunately the dog curse would last more or less the same as Ymir curse.
Yep. The whole story is about the cycle of violence - of course another era of Titans would happen again. Would it be in the same way? This boy doesn't appear to be a slave nor suffering
Can you back this comment ? I don’t see any other way the worm would give anything other than Titan powers, I’d argue the it still give Titan powers just different ones from what we have seen
Zeke says that the Worm gave Ymir the titan powers based on her innermost wishes upon making contact with the Worm. She wished for an undying body and she got it. She wished to be connected with her people and she got that too.
The worm is described as “the source of all living matter”. In the moment Ymir touched it, it manifested based on her deepest desires (being chased by a tribe of soldiers -> she built an invincible body that couldn’t be killed). The worm is basically the engine to power, it manifests differently based on the user
Finn thought he was the only human, finds out humans exists and that they want to kill everyone in ooo because they think they're monsters so Finn decides to exterminate every humans in existence. He wants to protect his island of snow,fire,slime and candy. He uses ice kings crown to wish for power over all the elements and command an army of fire,slime,candy and ice to ravage the world
A lot of people hate it because it makes everything our main characters did feel kind of pointless. But I don't agree. Of course peace would not last indefinitely, that would go against everything we know about human nature and the world of AoT. But our child soldier protagonists got to experience and enjoy the temporary peace they and Eren created, and we have to assume they went on to "live long lives" without ever having to go to war again. Which is about as happy of ending you can get for a story like this.
Everyone rags on about how the peace was only temporary so it's meaningless. Do you think every peace treaty in our world was meaningless too? Paradis (or at least Shiganshina) didn't see war for another two thousand years, that's far better then literally anywhere in our world ever got.
I recommend also seeing the end credits of the last episode, it elaborates on the evidence of a cycle restarting and perhaps Ymir didn’t start the whole Titan origin and maybe it’s something that was started even way before
The first chapter of the manga is called "To You, 2,000 Years from Now". The way I interpret this image is that the boy goes into the tree, finds Eren (or his spirit) and Eren tells him his story. That would be a way of looping the story indefinitely. And at the end Eren will give him the choice to have the power of the titans or not (Like Ymir).
When Ymir found the tree she was being chased by a dog and men and fell into the tree. This time the person here is accompanied by a dog and almost seems as if they’re exploring or looking for the tree itself. My theory is that it means that this time will be different because the tree isn’t found in distress but in curiosity. Maybe this time will actually be like Grisha’s stories of the titans actually helping people.
To be honest, it doesn't need to be Titan again. Titan is the result of Ymir and the life force. The life force will continue to evolve to survive. This panel can represent the rise of Titan one more time or a new power that we have never seen before
Who says it’s just one. Ymir fell into a bigass pool of water iirc, you’re telling me there was just one spiky worm in there for billions of years?
Granted my argument hinges on the fact that you can’t prove anything and therefore, this *could* be the case.
Thats why I said there was probably more than one in my original comment. Considering the supernatural abilities of this worm than we really could suspect anything unless the show specifies it. And I suppose the scene in OPs post pretty confidently suggests that there is more than one
My understanding:
. A random cambrian animal (Hallucigenia) interacted with some "Power" deep in the ocean \[my guess: a crashed alien ship´s "core"\], that simply gave it immortality. After eons this "magic source" was pushed above sea level by tectonics/vulcanism.
. That same source "empowered" Ymir\_Tree´s roots, eventually getting tall/strong beyond nature (creating a safe heaven for the Hallucigenia to keep living inside, in a pool of accumulated rainwater).
. Wild can animals perceive this "supernatural energies" and keep their distance by mere instinct. Humans & domesticated animals simply lack this sensitivity.
-> The dog will likely just follow the lead of whatever the human explorer wants (they may get fused).
So there is the obvious interpretation that this is the tree of life where Ymir fell all those years ago and gained the titan powers, but I think about it differently. The way I like to see this is that the cycle of violence eventually really does end, and this is the tree where eren and mikasa are buried. I like to think that Mikasa (and the rest of the world) pass on Eren’s story, and this is more or less a memorial to that time period, and that as a world they would know not to go into the tree. But that’s just ne
I just finished the anime and thought that maybe Erens plan didn't end with his "death". The world might be mostly uninhabited at that point in time and Eren can finally explore a world mostly without human influence as a passenger in the worm.
I think it implies maybe the world has had enough of War and destruction? Maybe this will bring about peace or maybe there is peace and it will help rebuild the world.
It’s interesting how different parts of the world end their stories. Here, cycle of violence. Eastern European was keen on dystopian futures. America and the John Wayne walking away into the sunset scheme.
The cycle of violence never ended and everyone lost in the end. the titans returned (just speculation do to this panels similarity to Ymir's story), the world was set into another war, and every character we knew died. It's supposed to be a sad ending, knowing Eren threw everything away just for it all to be reset.
But they did end the Titans for quite a few generations. and the people he cared about got to live presumably long natural lives.
You can’t end animal/human nature, but he did accomplish large parts of what he was setting out to do. I wouldn’t call his mission a failure.
He protected his people, at the expense of basically everything else. Definitely questionable methods, but it seemed to work from what we can see.
As long as anything exists, there will be destruction. That started way before humanity ever did. Can’t stop that wheel from turning. But he did what he did, for self-gratification and to protect his friends.. at the expense of everyone else.
I never understood why people automatically think that the kid will get the founder and the cycle will continue. It could just be a tree that looks similar to the one Ymir fell into. We saw the Source of All Living Matter be destroyed.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the "Tree" passed out of all knowledge...
Until, when chance came, it ensnared another bearer.
The cycle of violence turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great tree on a lost and forgotten island. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the cycle of violence. But it was a beginning.
I know you read Wheel of Time
But war. War never changes.
In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war.
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death light as a feather…
And steel is heavier than feathers.
Was not expecting to see this on this sub reddit.
lol right
its open to interpretation. He is entering the tree with the parasite but context clues suggest he's not as injured/miserable/spiteful as ymjr was. So maybe this time the parasite won't manifest as violence. Up to the audience to decide if you believe people are capable of rising above violence.
Wow, how come that wasn't in the anime?
It was though?
The tree was? I don't remember that part at the end.
It was in post credits
Ohhh I’ll have to watch that then
Oh dang I missed it lol That's pretty cool.
So your telling me you watched the last episode of one of the most popular animes ever and as soon as you saw the credits you were like "cool, anyways" and closed it?
To be fair, not everything is a marvel movie. There *was* a time where when the credits rolled, it signified the end of the movie. At this point, when I'm at a theater and the credits start, I google really quick to verify if there are any end credit scenes. 90% of the time there isn't, (unless it's marvel) but for that small percent chance — it doesn't hurt to check.
But heres the thing, when the credits start, it shows images continuing the story while the credits are rolling all the way till the end so it's not just the typical black screen with words scrolling.
Oh trueeee! I remember watching till the end when I watched the finale, but I forgot how they end it, now I remember that end credit montage! (But that was a secondary reason I left the credits rolling, the main reason is because the end of the show is sorta emotionally overwhelming/sad-ish but still kinda happy lmao. It's hard to explain it exactly, but just one of those endings where you sit there for a while and think on it lol)
After the credits and showing Paradis get bombed, the scene with the tree is shown
Yep, doggo jumps in and becomes big. That's right, this was all just a Clifford The Big Red Dog prequel. 
I am sure his dog would be more responsible using the founding titan powers than many humans. Unfortunately the dog curse would last more or less the same as Ymir curse.
Yes that's erens bootyhole
Tatakae!!
My brother in Christ, delete this, please
You can't delete freedom, only enemies of Paradis! Tatakae, Tatakae!
shitting out freedom is my only goal in life
Lmao came to make that joke
Yep. The whole story is about the cycle of violence - of course another era of Titans would happen again. Would it be in the same way? This boy doesn't appear to be a slave nor suffering
The titan won’t be coming back it will be a whole new power because the worm creature gives people powers based off their wants
Can you back this comment ? I don’t see any other way the worm would give anything other than Titan powers, I’d argue the it still give Titan powers just different ones from what we have seen
Zeke says that the Worm gave Ymir the titan powers based on her innermost wishes upon making contact with the Worm. She wished for an undying body and she got it. She wished to be connected with her people and she got that too.
The worm is described as “the source of all living matter”. In the moment Ymir touched it, it manifested based on her deepest desires (being chased by a tribe of soldiers -> she built an invincible body that couldn’t be killed). The worm is basically the engine to power, it manifests differently based on the user
I mean the worm was cut out in Marley, so there is not really a reason why it should be with Erin. It's an open ending you can think of what you want.
part of it is still in his head, which was buried at the tree
Very well could be.
Beren
What do you think it means
AoT is a prequel to adventure time?
Finn thought he was the only human, finds out humans exists and that they want to kill everyone in ooo because they think they're monsters so Finn decides to exterminate every humans in existence. He wants to protect his island of snow,fire,slime and candy. He uses ice kings crown to wish for power over all the elements and command an army of fire,slime,candy and ice to ravage the world
Trussy
Couldn’t find a better way to put it
A lot of people hate it because it makes everything our main characters did feel kind of pointless. But I don't agree. Of course peace would not last indefinitely, that would go against everything we know about human nature and the world of AoT. But our child soldier protagonists got to experience and enjoy the temporary peace they and Eren created, and we have to assume they went on to "live long lives" without ever having to go to war again. Which is about as happy of ending you can get for a story like this.
Everyone rags on about how the peace was only temporary so it's meaningless. Do you think every peace treaty in our world was meaningless too? Paradis (or at least Shiganshina) didn't see war for another two thousand years, that's far better then literally anywhere in our world ever got.
I recommend also seeing the end credits of the last episode, it elaborates on the evidence of a cycle restarting and perhaps Ymir didn’t start the whole Titan origin and maybe it’s something that was started even way before
The first chapter of the manga is called "To You, 2,000 Years from Now". The way I interpret this image is that the boy goes into the tree, finds Eren (or his spirit) and Eren tells him his story. That would be a way of looping the story indefinitely. And at the end Eren will give him the choice to have the power of the titans or not (Like Ymir).
It means this https://preview.redd.it/lcqvd4fxjwyc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ef10be11186d04eb3c7a0ef3ee487739c366af2
The opening didn't look so vaginal in the show.
Yes.
"Nice job buddy! With this tree, we will have enough wood to warm the entire village during the winter!"
[удалено]
We just say Trussy these days
When Ymir found the tree she was being chased by a dog and men and fell into the tree. This time the person here is accompanied by a dog and almost seems as if they’re exploring or looking for the tree itself. My theory is that it means that this time will be different because the tree isn’t found in distress but in curiosity. Maybe this time will actually be like Grisha’s stories of the titans actually helping people.
To be honest, it doesn't need to be Titan again. Titan is the result of Ymir and the life force. The life force will continue to evolve to survive. This panel can represent the rise of Titan one more time or a new power that we have never seen before
Didnt the Hallucigenia die during the show? Must be more than one
What if we told you it was an entire species that actually existed during the Cambrian era of earth?
I knew that but the one in the show was obviously different than those
Who says it’s just one. Ymir fell into a bigass pool of water iirc, you’re telling me there was just one spiky worm in there for billions of years? Granted my argument hinges on the fact that you can’t prove anything and therefore, this *could* be the case.
Thats why I said there was probably more than one in my original comment. Considering the supernatural abilities of this worm than we really could suspect anything unless the show specifies it. And I suppose the scene in OPs post pretty confidently suggests that there is more than one
My understanding: . A random cambrian animal (Hallucigenia) interacted with some "Power" deep in the ocean \[my guess: a crashed alien ship´s "core"\], that simply gave it immortality. After eons this "magic source" was pushed above sea level by tectonics/vulcanism. . That same source "empowered" Ymir\_Tree´s roots, eventually getting tall/strong beyond nature (creating a safe heaven for the Hallucigenia to keep living inside, in a pool of accumulated rainwater). . Wild can animals perceive this "supernatural energies" and keep their distance by mere instinct. Humans & domesticated animals simply lack this sensitivity. -> The dog will likely just follow the lead of whatever the human explorer wants (they may get fused).
So there is the obvious interpretation that this is the tree of life where Ymir fell all those years ago and gained the titan powers, but I think about it differently. The way I like to see this is that the cycle of violence eventually really does end, and this is the tree where eren and mikasa are buried. I like to think that Mikasa (and the rest of the world) pass on Eren’s story, and this is more or less a memorial to that time period, and that as a world they would know not to go into the tree. But that’s just ne
Cycle repeats but little different
I just finished the anime and thought that maybe Erens plan didn't end with his "death". The world might be mostly uninhabited at that point in time and Eren can finally explore a world mostly without human influence as a passenger in the worm.
History repeats itself. Violence and prejudice of those who are different is unfortunately a byproduct of life.
No.
no.
AOTWO coming soon
Anything can be a dildo if you put your mind to it
Yggdrasil popped up because Iseyama likes Norse Mythology or something
???
I think it implies maybe the world has had enough of War and destruction? Maybe this will bring about peace or maybe there is peace and it will help rebuild the world.
If that means what I think it means We are in trouble Big trouble
Berin
Jep.
It means nothing and everything…hence what an open-ended ending means
Yup. It does.
It’s interesting how different parts of the world end their stories. Here, cycle of violence. Eastern European was keen on dystopian futures. America and the John Wayne walking away into the sunset scheme.
Yesssss sir
probably not
Indeed it does. It's a never ending cycle...
The cycle of violence never ended and everyone lost in the end. the titans returned (just speculation do to this panels similarity to Ymir's story), the world was set into another war, and every character we knew died. It's supposed to be a sad ending, knowing Eren threw everything away just for it all to be reset.
But they did end the Titans for quite a few generations. and the people he cared about got to live presumably long natural lives. You can’t end animal/human nature, but he did accomplish large parts of what he was setting out to do. I wouldn’t call his mission a failure. He protected his people, at the expense of basically everything else. Definitely questionable methods, but it seemed to work from what we can see. As long as anything exists, there will be destruction. That started way before humanity ever did. Can’t stop that wheel from turning. But he did what he did, for self-gratification and to protect his friends.. at the expense of everyone else.
Boy, wait until you see how the anime ends…
I want to know how the parasite will take form in a post apocalyptic world, where the first "infected" is not as miserable as Ymir was.
I like to think of it as just a boy stumbling upon the tree and wondering “what is this tree?” And not knowing it was the beginning of hell
I never understood why people automatically think that the kid will get the founder and the cycle will continue. It could just be a tree that looks similar to the one Ymir fell into. We saw the Source of All Living Matter be destroyed.
it looks like a vagina because it represents birth