[ JESUS CHRIST THIS HEADCANON IS REALLY GOOD "Hanji’s father had been in the Scouting Legion for her entire life. He was a bit eccentric, but she was always close to him. As a kid, she used to anxiously wait for him to come home from expeditions, because he would always tell her stories about the different titans he would see. Her father would talk for hours and hours on end. He was very much scarred from all the death he’d seen, but he told romanticized stories to Hanji as a coping mechanism. He also wanted to shield her from the horrors beyond the walls. Seeing her bright-eyed and excited kept him going. But, as she got older, she became less and less interested in the romanticized stories. She grew to know of the real horrors that the soldiers encountered at the hands of the titan beasts. She realized that the interesting titans that her father told her about growing up were truly cruel, mindless, murdering monsters. It upset her when her father would go on and on about him feeling like there was something more to be learned about the titans. He believed that there had be to other ways of combatting them other than simply killing them. He longed to study them. Hanji didn’t share this sentiment in the slightest. There was nothing to learn from them, in her eyes. You kill them before they kill you. That’s it. She was confused as to how he could believe the way he did when he saw first-hand how they killed his comrades, who would never return home to those crying relatives she saw as the Scouting Legion paraded back. But, she knew how much his story-telling meant to him. So, she listened to him anyway, even if she didn’t agree. Hours and hours, she would just let him talk to his heart’s content, while she mostly only pretended to pay attention to him. One day, the Scouting Legion returned home, only her father wasn’t with them. It wasn’t until the Commander came to her house and spoke to her mother solemnly with a salute that Hanji knew. He wasn’t coming coming back. Ever. She would never hear his laughter or his stories again. In that moment, her hatred for the titans was blinding. She vowed to join the Scouting Legion, against her mother’s wishes, so she could kill every one of those beasts who killed her father. And she did. With white-hot rage, she killed every titan that she could get her hands on. She salivated with maniacal excitement with every kill. She had convinced herself that this was what her father would have wanted for her. He would have wanted her to join the Survey Corps and become one of the strongest killers. She even dreamed that one day she’d rise to the rank of Major, like her father was. That was what he wanted from her, she thought. It wasn’t until one day, after a fierce battle, when she laughed and kicked the severed head of a titan across the field that everything changed. Why was it so light? In her wildest dreams, she wouldn’t have guessed that these fearsome giants would be so light. Why? Did anyone else know about this? What does that mean? And what else did she not know about titans? Then, she thought back to her father and his burning desire to learn about them. Was this why? Was this what fueled it? In that instant, she realized that this was what her father would have wanted her to do in the Scouting Legion. This was what the Survey Corps was about to him; finding out and learning about the beasts beyond the walls. Not about merely killing them. He was never able to solve the mystery of the titans, but perhaps, Hanji thought, she could. From that day on, she swore that she would complete the dream that her father died trying to realize. That’s what her father really would have wanted. " ]
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:31:24 +0000
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