WEEKLY META: Setting

[silkycuttle]

A different character or plot/setting point will be posted each week for meta discussion. This week: 

Geographical/historical setting!

Discussion can be on anything, so long as it's at least tangentially related to the weekly topic. Reply to the first comment to vote on what next week's topic should be. 

Spoilers should be warned for, but are allowed. Creating your own posts on whatever meta you wish, your own or reccing someone else's, is still highly encouraged.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think we can rule out Asia, at least. The men who kidnapped Mikasa mentioned it as if it wasn't anywhere near the Walls. If the Walls were in Asia then Mikasa's people wouldn't have had to flee very far.

[blitzwing]

Maybe. If it was somewhere like Tibet, that would still be very, very far from Japan, where Mikasa's people were from. It's about 2600 miles distance. It also depends on the level of technology available when people fled to the Walls. If they were fleeing on foot, or on horseback, that makes any distance far more difficult and risky than if they still had cars. 500 miles for us doesn't seem that far, but walking? That's a much further distance, and much harder to survive such a journey.

About speaking of it as if were someplace far off, distant...I think that could be explained by the fact that people within the Walls seem to have no concept of pre-Wall places or identities. We know Mikasa is Japanese, but she doesn't know that. I don't think it's likely that it's in Asia, but I don't think it can be ruled out yet.