i like doing the orin duel last in yves’ playthrough bc it’s like theee climax of her story and also so she doesn’t get time to process her trauma bc I fight the brain right after hehe 🤭. but anyway throughout act 3 yves doesn’t just get her memories back as the bhaalspawn, she also gets the slow revelation of how she became one.

bc yves used to live in the lower city and she was one of the kelemvorite mortarch working in the graveyards before she got turned, id imagine current yves came across people she knew before, as well as visited the mortuary (where she spent the most time in) and found her old journal detailing her life - or lack of- after she got turned. yves managing to slowly piece together her past ; she was a kelemvorite cleric - at least that part of herself is true - but she tried to look into the ritualistic killings by the bhaalists and got killed bc of it. and then, to spite kelemvor, bhaal took that dead cleric’s flesh and face and moulded it with his to make his very own bride -> durge yves. she’s made for the sole purpose of worshipping him instead of her death god and killing for him. and when she’s killed enough in his name, he’ll consider that dowry sufficient and claim her, fully making her his.

anyway, yves’ revelation that she died and was remade against her will, and she’s essentially just wearing a dead girl’s face, and she defiled her own god and twisted his teachings in the worst way possible likeeeeee … the spiraling..!! and the meltdown …!!!! the NEED to claw at her own skin bc existing in it disgusts her. and now she’s seeing small fragments of the horrible things she has done for bhaal, and the killings she performed, and perhaps the worst thing was she remembered that she liked it. and the ecstasy that came through her whenever she did it. and when she tries to pray to kelemvor again now that she has her own mind back bhaal literally stops her heart from beating as a reminder that he holds her leash.

so when the time comes and she has decided that she’ll rid of all the bhaalspawns (and then herself), and when she’s duelling orin, I always make yves cast divine intervention to finish orin off bc it’s like her calling out to kelemvor and offering herself to him again. and when he answers her call and she denies bhaal, she’s finally granted the death she was denied of, and finally finally she can return back to her death god.

until withers is like lol no you’re not done yet

after the revival I think yves is like 🧍‍♀️ a bit shell shocked and lost. but she doesn’t have time to reevaluate herself when there is a nether brain to fight and she’s helping dismantle the very thing she crafted with gortash. and in the end she lets wyll go with karlach to avernus because she thinks he’s better off without someone like her, and after the little party they’ll have I imagine yves quietly leaves. she joins the other clerics who are helping clean up the aftermath. she doesn’t say that she was part of the group who helped saved the city, only claimed that they helped her in one point, and she doesn’t keep contact with anyone and generally tries to avoid them - out of her own shame and her own guilt.

she keeps the memories with her though - even the most disgusting and horrible ones, and with time she wrangles through them and learns to reconcile. she accepts this strange life of hers now, and she tries to help and do good just so when she finally finally reunites with the god of death again, the scales are at least tipped to her favor.

My not so hot, rather pessimistic take about the upcoming finalest final of AoT is: there will be absolutely no changes in the manga adaptation. We will get the necrophilic kiss, we will see and hear pathetic, whining Eren. Sadly. The only thing I'm hoping to know is: how the hell did Mikasa reach Paradis with that rotting, severed head in her arms?

Honestly I am still in coping mode, still in disbelief that the story would actually end like… well, that. And if so, once again, at the very least we will get Levi and Mikasa alive and well, about to reunite again and selfishly I will take that even if Isayama doesn’t redeem his writing 😭

And HONESTLY??? Zero clue how she did it. Maybe she put him in a plastic bag for the flight back home 😭😂 hELP

I’ve never thought of that, tho. His head would absolutely still be bleeding and rotting. Now for fun I am imagining when Mikasa and Alliance reconvene directly after that (you know they had to at some point) everyone’s reaction to Eren’s head would be… interesting, probably. Armin got emotional of course. But LEVI??? CAN YOU IMAGINE??? I’m sure he’d feel some emotion too but can you feel the disgust 😭😭 Although I do think Levi would hold that in momentarily, the same way he did for that soldier who died (he shook his bloodied hand) and same with Kenny who coughed blood in his face when dying.

I imagine after some time passes and he interacts with Mikasa — especially when Mikasa heals from it all — it will be a point of interest he’d poke fun at as they reminisce. “Tch. Still can’t believe you cradled a filthy corpse across seas. Made the plane smell like shit the entire way.”

If the anime does just stick with the manga, I at least hope we get a post-war reunion scene between the leftover alliance. I know they’re all kinda scattered around the world in those scenes but I’d be happy if it ended with actually showing all of them together at the reunion/Eren’s grave.

Speaking of which… I highly doubt Mikasa would be able to keep the head of Eren and leave with it tbh. From a national security POV that would not slip/they wouldn’t risk Eren still being alive or being revived to start the Rumbling again! So quite literally Mikasa shouldn’t have been able to or allowed to leave to Paradis with it.

SORRY, THIS IS A CHAIN OF THOUGHTS NOW bc now I’m wondering how TF people of Paradis would have accepted Mikasa and them back after 1) they betrayed Paradis and 2) after Mikasa killed Eren, aka Paradis’ only hope. 10000% they would not be allowed back, right? (At least not immediately) Or if they are it’s probably just because of Historia — even then, Paradis citizens would be up in arms about their return. Could see assassination efforts on them to be completely honest. 😅

So many weird things about the ending but again… GIVE US RIVAMIKA REUNION!!! But maybe in London and not at the grave 😭😂

Ok I’m done LOL

I still think AOE has high chances of happening… WE SHALL SEE!!