Regiment Registry || Issue 1

𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

Greetings, cadets!! I've been a member of this Amino for quite a while now, up to and including serving as the Agent for a time, so I thought it was long overdue that I participate in this Icebreaker challenge! I tend to be a bit long-winded in answering these sorts of things, so I'll be starting off with just the first question for this blog and we shall go from there XD

𝐐𝟏. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧?

Truthfully I was not initially impressed by Attack on Titan and kinda did my best to just avoid it whenever possible. Back in the circa 2014 era when Season 1 hype was high, I seeing all the merch everywhere (by which I mean, at conventions or in shops like FYE and such where the weebs would congregate) that usually featured the Colossal Titan or sometimes random pure Titans and I just found it all to be incredibly ugly and off-putting to look at. So, based on that alone and no actual knowledge of the series whatsoever, I had it in my mind that I did not -- and never would -- like AOT.

Well, fast forward to 2017 and Season 2 had just been released. After such a long wait from Season 1, fandom hype was at peak again and my own baseless opinion that it wasn't worth watching began to waver. And so, stuck alone at home one day with nothing better to do, I finally caved and put on episode 1, fully prepared to be unimpressed. (I wasn't much of an anime fan anymore at that point anyway, apart from ing interest.) But, as I am sure must be painfully obvious by now, I was very much mistaken.

I ended up binge watching at least half of the first season that day, catching up on the rest quickly enough over the following days and then jumping in to watch the new Season 2 episodes as well, most of which had already been released by that time. By December of that year, I was beginning to make plans for my Erwin cosplay and created my cosplay Instagram in February 2018. At that point, I was thoroughly entrenched in the fandom and have only got myself in even deeper since then.

Attack on Titan rapidly became my only fandom that I actively engage with. In addition to cosplay, I also am a roleplayer, artist, and big time collector (primarily for Erwin merch, in particular).

To make a long story short, I think this pretty much sums it up: