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Gabi didn't arrive in Ellipsa with much. Besides some clothes, all she had to her name when she arrived was some writing materials such as pens, pencils, paper and an old, half-broken typewriter. Along with it, she has a box that she keeps tied closed with a small yellow ribbon. Inside the box are her personal writings, a mix of types and handwritten. What follows are those writings and any progress she manages to make on them during her time in Ellipsa.

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I. The Great Titan War
- King Fritz the 145th
- The Tybur Family
- The Fabrication of Helos
- Retreat to Paradis
- The threat of the Rumbling
- The Vow to Renounce War
- King Fritz's Roar

I gotta start here, cause this is basically what led to everything (unless I wanna go all the way back to the Founder Ymir, which.......I don't, thanks for asking!). What's left of Marley's military archives didn't really have much outside of the propaganda version of history. At the very least, I was able to find a transcription of Willy Tybur's play, which is really good, 'cause my memory of that night is one long awful exploding blur at this point. What sucks is that besides interviewing the Scouts, that's pretty much all I've got. Turns out that since they just passed everything down through the Warhammer Titan, the Tyburs didn't write anything down! And now they're all dead, so I can't exactly go interview them.

Maybe there's something more I could use from Karl Fritz's side, some kinda archive or journal or something on Paradis Island, but I dunno how I'd even get that. I asked if Queen Historia might be willing to give me something like that or if she might even be willing to do an interview with me. Reiner seemed to like the idea of me meeting her. Armin mentioned that Levi's uncle worked with the previous King of the Walls. But I'm not asking Levi about his uncle.

II. The Paradis Island Operation
- Marleyan Warriors
- King of the Walls
- Fall of Wall Maria
- Attack on Trost District
- The Attack Titan, Eren Jeager
- The Female Titan
- Battle of Wall Rose
- The Coordinate
- Coup against the King of the Walls
- Battle of Shinganshina District

The good news is, I have first-hand accounts for pretty much all of this stuff. Plus, there was some stuff in the Marleyan military archives about the operation from Marley's perspective. Armin says they were writing reports on everything pretty scrupulously from the Scouts' side too and he said I can have access to all of it...if he can get his hands on it himself. But even if he can't get those for me, Armin's mind is a like a steel trap, he's recounted a ton for me already and I think all of it is pretty accurate. I should have everything I need to give a pretty complete picture of all of this.

The problem is I....dooooon't know how to write it. Do I just. Recount the events like a neutral party or do I spend more time on all of the people involved? It feels like I gotta spend at least some time writing specifically about who Eren Jeager was, but like. How long do I spend on someone like....Marcel? Or Levi's squad? "And then they died because this titan ate them or smashed them" just....doesn't feel like enough but if I try to write about every single person who died, this thing will be a thousand pages long.

Ugh. Maybe I need to split this into two books.

---CRAP, I forgot about Grisha Jaeger stealing the Founding Titan, I gotta add that to the outline....

III. Paradis-Marleyan War
- Anti-Marleyan Volunteers
- Paradis Infiltration
- Mid-East War
- Willy Tybur's Declaration
- Attack on Liberio
- Jaegerist Uprising
- Eldian Euthanization Plan
- Second Battle of Shinganshina

Okay, well this is starting to get into the stuff that I was actually there for, but I spent most of it still being. Y'know. Super angry and super racist and the more I think about it I'm pretty sure I was walking around with several undiagnosed concussions for a huge chunk of it? So my recollection probably isn't the most dependable. Armin has been a huge help piecing this stuff together, he even quoted some letters that Eren Jeager wrote him by memory, and I do have some reports from the Marley military archives to fill in some holes too.

The main problem is, this is where the order of everything gets super confusing because this is the part with the most secretive bullshit plans and double crossing going on, thanks, Zeke! I dunno how to. Space all of it out, so it's like. Coherent. Cause it certainly wasn't at the time. And I'm trying to write a history book here, not a thriller with all kinds of crazy plot twists. So do I just reveal everybody's crazy plans up front at the start of this section, or what? I dunno. Guess I just have to try to write it a couple different ways and see what feels best.

IV. The Rumbling
- The Paths & The Founder Ymir
- Eren Jeager's Declaration
- Warrior-Scout Alliance
- Jaegerist-Alliance conflict
- Military Counter-Efforts
- The End of the World
- The Battle of Heaven and Earth
- End of the Titans

....does "The End of the World" sound too dramatic?

I mean, that's basically what it was.

Obviously, I have first-hand accounts for everything that happened on Paradis. The Marleyan military archives have some data on attempted counterattacks. It was mostly concentrated on a naval front in Liberio that didn't really do anything, but there was some other attempts here and there that I was able to get some notes on.





I took a trip to a refugee camp a while back and interviewed as many people as were willing to talk to me. I have a huge stack of notes of everything I talked to them about. I haven't looked at it a single time since I got home. Gonna have to do that pretty soon I guess.

This is definitely gonna be the hardest part to write.