#ackerbusiness

2014 called, it wants its anti-shipping argument back.

But really, it depends on what you consider cousins. Sharing a common ancestor is enough to be technically cousins. Did you know that almost every person on Earth is within a certain degree of cousinship to everyone else? I’m pretty sure that if we went back far enough, you and me nonny would be cousins (somewhere in the 20th degrees most likely, unless you are European, then the geography makes us cousins in 10+ degrees).

Manga and official sourcebook both clearly show Mikasa and Levi to be very distantly related. 3rd cousins at the closest and even that’s unlikely. 5th or 6th cousins, once or twice removed (if you want to be technical) is the most likely answer, possibly even 7th.

Since Chapter 121 came out, much speculation has arisen about the temporal paradox. And I quickly saw theories speculating that in reality Eren is really the father of the son of history. And that this son is actually Ymir Fritz. They also pointed out that the appearance of all members of the royal family closely resembles Eren, as can easily be seen by observing Frieda.

Same face, same format eyes…. 

   The same theory also raised that the first Ackerman originated from the last Ackerman, so I started thinking “What if the first Ackerman is Rivamika’s son?” All we know about the Ackermans is that they sprang from experiments with titan science, yet we never saw any samples of such “science” since neither did the existing titan sera they were able to recreate. Then I also began to think that perhaps the first Ackerman is a child of both, as the lineage would return to ground zero, becoming pure again. So, thinking about it, I compared the other Ackermans presented to us and surprisingly they all have Levi facial features. Even Mikasa’s father (you can see more clearly looking at the manga) and Grandpa Ackerman (a closer member of the first Ackerman).

Same face in between Grandpa and Levi. Same format eyes and eyebrow in between Mikasa’s father and Levi.

  It’s also interesting to note that Levi has always been confused with Asian by fandom, even because he really looks like a I wonder if this could be some coincidence? I also always wondered why Isayama would place a man and woman as the last living members of a virtually extinct clan. That could really be just a coincidence if there were no so many parallels between the two. Isayama still bothered to make a family tree to clearly show that the two were not close relatives, at the very least this concern and make clear the relationship between Levi and Mikasa.

Why such a concern to show that they are not close enought to draw a scheme showung this? 

 Many people use this argument “Isayama doesn’t like this submission, so it puts both of them in the same place to break any hope among fans of becoming songs.” However, if Isayma wanted to completely finish or embark, following an incest line, the criteria placed as VERY close relatives. What didn’t happen, making it very clear that they are really distant, why all this worry? Everything leads me to think that it is essential for this story that Levi and Mikasa are the same clans, but the distant ones from their relationship are still absent. I also believe Isayma has not yet shown Levi telling Mikasa that he is an Ackerman, because he is saving at the right time! Mikasa always mirrors Armin and Eren his family, but Eren is on the path she can no longer follow and Armin can also go a different path than Mikasa, making him see a single day. Believing that discovering your relationship with Levi at this time will bring a more intense emotional charge between the two

So and many other things I think that if the paradox turns out to be real and Eren really is the father of Ymir fritz I think there’s a good chance that the first Ackerman would be a son Rivamika.

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-that can be immune to the subjects of Ymir. When it comes to Levi, my brother observed he can be immune to the Eldian control only because he is an Ackerman. I just thought it was fasinating but how can we know what is really important about the Ackerman bloodline? When the testing was completed do they know to protect what they made a bond to? Is that the flaw of the titan/ Ackerman experiement making bonds? What is so different between Marleans and the Ackerman’s? Isayama must tell us soon!!

I think all the Ackerscience is something that definitely needs to be given some proper exposition rather than just “they bond to a host” and “titan science made it happen.” I think there’s honestly so much more to it, and that Ackermans are somehow tied to the Founding Titan altogether. But it’s just a theory right now. I’m still curious about the nature of the bond and whether it’s something they truly choose (as Isayama has stated in an interview) or if they have no say in the matter at all (as Eren had said to Mikasa), as well as how much it actually affects their autonomy (although I don’t think it affects their autonomy as dramatically as Eren was making it sound like - Mikasa, Levi and Kenny have all exhibited they have their own very unique personalities and ideals). 

I personally don’t subscribe to them originally being Marleyan but I’m not closed off to the possibility either. Either way Levi and Mikasa most definitely have Eldian blood within them (as I doubt the Ackermans only married and reproduced within their own bloodline). 

Well…First.

Since Eren said that he “learns a lot from Zeke” about the Ackerman family in chapter 112, I believe that the information about the Ackermans told by him is not 100% true. I feel the part about “ackerbond” and the “host” thing is kinda fishy. What if Zeke has lied about something like this in order to result in that EMA talk?

Is the ackerbond thing real?

The way they’re almost always portrayed together, standing next to each other, and after every Acker-talk, the way Levi adresses Mikasa made me believe that there will be more of them. I hope there will be more of them, aspecially after newest manga events. And I’m saying this as a neutral viewer, because of all those discreet hints in anime I believed there really is something between them.

Hello anon!! Welcome! You came to the fandom at a certainly interesting time. The manga’s current arc is heading fast to Isayama’s intended ending and Isayama is giving closure to multiple important plot threads. 

The anime had its pros and cons - while Season 3 part 1 did include some filler fanservice, some critical manga panels about Rivamika were left out. Season 3 part 2 was better though, and our Ackerbowl was done beautifully. From your ask I can’t be sure if you’ve caught up with the manga’s most recent arc (this blog is full of spoilers! I always tag them snk spoilers), but Isayama hasn’t dropped the ball on Levi and Mikasa yet. Their connection is once again mentioned and is still an important mystery that I’m sure will be addressed in time, even if in an epilogue. I’ve been reading SNK for a long time and even though I know Isayama likes to build suspense around these two, he didn’t disappoint me every time Rivamika interacted or a new thing was revealed about them. The hype is truly big when it comes to these two (even for non-shippers) and it wouldn’t be like that if Isayama fed us Rivamika interactions all the time, right?