“Come dance with your son in Hell!”

Grisha arrived in Shiganshina from Marley in 832, started working as a doctor and then saved the city from an epidemic that broke out there, an event mentioned twice in the story. He saved a load of people including Carla, her parents, and Hannes' wife.

We can roughly estimate the year when that occured, keeping in mind Grisha lived in Shiganshina for 13 years, since 832. Eren was born in 835, three years after his arrival, so we can assume Grisha and Carla married in 834. With those in mind, the epidemic must have broken out in 832-833 and stopped by 834.

Here's the idea: considering the illness was limited to Shiganshina only (thus the term "epidemic" instead of "pandemic") and it broke out so soon after Grisha settled in the Walls, we can safely assume he was the cause of it. Grisha carried germs that he himself was immune to due to Marley's advanced medicine compared to Paradis. However the population of a secluded area sealed off from the outside world couldn't have possibly come in contact with them any other way and couldn't have developed immunity to them. Therefore it makes sense why the reaction to it was so serious.

So Grisha was only picking up after a problem he caused. And he couldn't even tell anyone about people outside the walls so he kept to himself that it was his fault (if he even had any suspicions about it, that is).

like, what other song can make that claim?

The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing

So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do

The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)

How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

going "yeah sure i'll sing to the glaze lilies" and deciding, of all things, to do a short refrain of barbara's song, and then sucking at it so bad they upset a whopperflower

keeping the fatui disguise mask and subtly putting it on when paimon isn't looking and then standing there silently waiting for her to notice

literally keeping their mouth shut about the holy lyre being tenuously Fake Repaired, Not Really Though like it's their little conspiracy secret with venti that they have to keep from an entire convent of nuns. plus barbara. and the traveller has carried this secret with them through to inazuma and beyond. what single detail about this isn't funny as hell

so all the non-mondstadters are wondering why the traveller’s unassuming maid friend is literally covered head to toe in roses and some of the mondstadters are vaguely aware what the roses imply but have no idea why she considers so many secrets so important, and noelle is just being totally normal about it but on the inside she’s just like. please. please nobody let slip anything else. i am running out of spaces for roses.

venti has figured out noelle knows she knows he’s barbatos and keeps trying to bait her into saying something because he thinks it’s hysterically funny. noelle however will not be bullied. she keeps getting flustered thinking he doesn’t know she knows. this criss-cross of secrecy is the funniest thing venti has ever heard of and he doesn’t even care that his cover is technically blown

...and then the Knights hire a homunculus. Why? Hexenzirkel recommendation. Also the flirty Cavalry Captain has the symbol of Khaenri'ah burned into his pupils. Also there are at least two vigilantes operating in the dead of night. Also the Abyss Order keeps stealing your library books.

And now an adorable flaxen haired kid shows up, a dead ringer for the Academia's ultra secret archive files about the heralds who showed up right before the Cataclysm. And they can use the Elements without a Vision. Oh and accompanying them?, there's a giant humanoid Seelie in a diaper which nobody else seems to think is unusual.

#And oh look that adorable little kid that hangs around the knights sometimes is a near immortal elf-child #Who is also a child of a member of the Hexenzirkel #and you’re pretty sure that that drunk bard who hangs around the square sometimes is in possession of a fucking Gnosis #And that young fortune teller woman who came to the library for help with her taxes once… also has connections to the Hexenzirkel #And a while back there was an eldritch priest-person you’re PRETTY sure you recognize from the academia came by to perform an exorcism #on that sweet little girl covered in bandages #WHO #by the way #has some corrupted-abyss-Fatui-delusion-shit going on #yeah mondstatd is a magnet for trouble and Lisa minci needs a break

It could be worse, right? At least the homunculus's kitsune-looking assistant isn't connected to anything eldritch. (is she trying to create a synthetic Hypostasis out of plant seeds? and succeeding? no, look away, Lisa, look away.) The Ragnvindr seems to have history with the Fatui but history, past tense— oh gods he's the Darknight Hero, how has nobody realised, if you bang your head on the wall maybe you can make yourself forget...

And the deaconess with a soap opera backstory only has clinical depression—that's awful but it's not eldritch at all!, maybe you'll invite her to tea with you and her estranged sister. The little wolfpup boy with the Electro Vision is sweet and you can satisfy your latent love-of-teaching by mentoring him on simple 101 stuff. (Ignore the dead demigod stepdad situation. Ignore the traces of rifthound in the woods.) Noelle's there-when-you-need-her schtick might be clairvoyance but that's someone else's problem. The Adventurers Guild kids are just normal, slightly batty (hehe) Vision wielders. Sure, Oz's existence is a thesis project in of itself, and sure, Bennett's bad luck is an oddly persistent— I'm sorry, what? Nobody knows who his parents were? He was found where? In a what?!?

The sign next to Touya's bed says 「おねむりくんはやくよくなって」 (onemurikun hayaku yokunatte)

Hayaku yokunatte = get well soon

Onemurikun is the honorific prefix o + nemuri which means "sleep" + kun, a suffix often used for younger boys

To celebrate the upcoming opening to Pre-Order "Song of Resistance" Fan Novel, here's the illustrations I did for "Poisoned Dreams"!