CEO Of Clownery

How do I convince someone that Yumikuri is canon?

Zero Eclipse.

Ymir and Historia’s arcs are completely wrapped up in each other. Ymir’s interest is considered blatant. Historia’s is considered reading too much into things. She runs into a horde of titans just to tell Ymir her name, then actually does tell Ymir her name while she’s holding her in her arms. She has the gayest shimmery eyes when they all find Ymir in the woods after her kidnapping. She tells Ymir that as long as they’re together, she’s not afraid (though she’s not sure why…).

When Ymir leaves, Historia dissolves into complete hysterics. She’s not only upset that Ymir might be beyond her reach, it’s that Ymir left her. For Reiner and Bertolt.

“I can’t stand it… Why…? She… chose them over me… S-she said we’d live for our own sake… together… but now she’s left me behind…”

It isn’t just Ymir leaving. It’s Ymir choosing someone over her.

It’s the two of them not living their lives together.

Then the next time Historia brings it up, she flips the switch to the other extreme; what Ymir does isn’t her problem. Ymir left. The End.

Historia spends an entire arc being severely depressed because Ymir leaves her. Ymir leaving opens up all of Historia’s insecurities and emotional problems, but those are hardly new. Historia doesn’t have a clue who she really is before Ymir’s absence, but Ymir’s presence makes it irrelevant. She lives in the moment. Where Ymir is.

Her entire scene in the cave is built on her relationships with Frieda and Ymir, with specific callback to the moment she meets Ymir, and her pulling Ymir out of her own Titan’s body.

Her final decision to turn down her father comes from remembering Ymir, with the rising sun behind her.

This would already be pretty gay.

Then the other half of the equation is willing to die for her, will risk both their futures just to see her one more time, and wants to marry her.

Their very first scene together, Ymir expresses romantic interest in Krista.

Every single scene after that proves that Historia’s just as devoted to Ymir, even without knowing the words for it.

“Laughing it off when you so much as blush… I’ll never get you.”

So says the girl as she’s crying, having received Ymir’s final regret of the two of them not being married.

This is not platonic-grade relationship building. Reading comprehension suggests that this is mutual, gay af, and both participants have no damn clue how to navigate feelings even a little. I don’t know how to argue that to anyone who says otherwise, because they’re reading a very different manga.

“I don’t know how to explain it… but when I’m with you, I don’t feel scared.”