What are your thoughts on the argument "levi n mikasa are cousins"? (I still ship rivamika and i see them as more of sharing the same last name/distantly related than cousins)
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.
So yes, they are related. Very, very distantly. Whether or not it weirds someone out is up to them but people trying to say “You can’t ship them because they’re cousins/it’s incest” are just wrong in the practical sense. I’ll take those people seriously when they can tell me who their 7th cousins are.
