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)]

If it's an analogue world, then isn't it entirely possible that the land masses are different from ours and trying to place the world is simply over-thinking things? I've given up trying to place the setting historically – technology, clothing, buildings, etc. are all a mishmash of very different eras that makes little logical sense. tbh I don't think there is an answer to where and when, only what makes more or less sense and what Isayama thought was cool and wanted to include/needed for plot or streamlining reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I was thinking that, actually, after leaving the above comment.

It'll be interesting to find out precisely how the canon world does and does not align with our own.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's my operative theory too - it isn't supposed to be our world exactly, more like a parallel world with similar but not entirely comparable characteristics when it comes to landmass, ethnic population breakdown, technological history, etc., based around stuff that Isayama liked.

Any other theory I try to come up with has way too many holes to function.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, I really like the idea that the government lied to the population (maybe without even realizing it) and there are plenty of enclaves of survivors scattered around the world. And probably in a lot of those enclaves the survivors think they're the only ones!

I have an idea for a huge spinoff fic set in our own world, in the Mediterranean Sea, in which some survivors had established an enclave on the Mediterranean islands, concentrating in the Ionic/Adriatic/Aegean area (South Italy and the lower Balkanic region including Greece, basically).

We're not told what happens to Titans in water AFAIK, but I assumed they would float, but be unable to walk on the sea bottom or swim due to how their body is so light and how they need sunlight to survive, so the survivors had come up with a very cool system of nets to block them. No 3dmg, tho - the world I had in mind wouldn't be very technologically advanced. I was thinking to have the invasion start around the time of the Lepanto Battle because it's a cool historical setting and I really like the idea of Muslim Ottoman Empire and Catholic European Mediterranean superpowers suddenly needing to work together to keep the enclaves of survivors alive and peaceful and possibly reconquer the mainland.

I have come up with a complex cultural setting and a possible plot and everything, but I'm entirely discouraged by how huge such a thing would be. But it's a nice mental chewing gum, imagining how a settlement would work in your region/area in your century of choice.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

If you ever write that, please link it here!