Gabi is a good Character that should be appreciated

Stepanime69 said:
I don't understand why so many people hate on Gabi. I think that she's as good of a character as Eren. What other 12 - 15 year old would perform crazy stunts on the battlefield without hesitation and manage to kill so many enemies. Even Eren doesn't have as many achievements when fighting as a child other than the couple of kidnappers he killed. And what's most impressive is that she is not even a shifter.

MKIkawa said:

Does that even make her a well written character?

__potato__ said:
I love Gabi's character writing and her parallels to kid Eren but I still hate HER as a person.

If the entire show had followed her as the MC and then in S4 this random character say Connie or someone who I would've only met a few episodes ago shot Falco, I would hate Connie.

Stepanime69 said:
I don't understand why so many people hate on Gabi. I think that she's as good of a character as Eren. What other 12 - 15 year old would perform crazy stunts on the battlefield without hesitation and manage to kill so many enemies. Even Eren doesn't have as many achievements when fighting as a child other than the couple of kidnappers he killed. And what's most impressive is that she is not even a shifter.

Stepanime69 said:
I don't understand why so many people hate on Gabi. I think that she's as good of a character as Eren. What other 12 - 15 year old would perform crazy stunts on the battlefield without hesitation and manage to kill so many enemies. Even Eren doesn't have as many achievements when fighting as a child other than the couple of kidnappers he killed. And what's most impressive is that she is not even a shifter.

Stepanime69 said:
I don't understand why so many people hate on Gabi. I think that she's as good of a character as Eren. What other 12 - 15 year old would perform crazy stunts on the battlefield without hesitation and manage to kill so many enemies. Even Eren doesn't have as many achievements when fighting as a child other than the couple of kidnappers he killed. And what's most impressive is that she is not even a shifter.

Firewithlemon said:
I never hated her for anything she did in the story. Personally her sheer arrogance and propensity towards violence annoyed me a little, but her development felt far too rushed. She basically transformed her entire world view within the span of like 1 day and there wasn’t a strong catalyst for this change. She was trying to brag to Niccolo abt her killing an eldian, then in her next scene she was saying they were just like the island devils. I don’t mind the idea of her character but imo the execution wasn’t great and was a little rushed

Stepanime69 said:
I don't understand why so many people hate on Gabi. I think that she's as good of a character as Eren. What other 12 - 15 year old would perform crazy stunts on the battlefield without hesitation and manage to kill so many enemies. Even Eren doesn't have as many achievements when fighting as a child other than the couple of kidnappers he killed. And what's most impressive is that she is not even a shifter.

Alex_the_reaper said:

that's like praising the brainwashed 15yrs old nazi soldier for getting kills on ww2.
no Gabi deserved the hate she got for killing sasha and falling into the lies Marley groomed on her, she later had a redemption when she opened her eyes and statted thinking critically but then she went from hate target to neutral, still not praiseworthy.

monder_Killer17 said:
I’m on your side. In the end she was a girl defending her hometown, that’s why she shot Sasha. She had every right to be angry. She also had a great character development when she realized that the paradisers are not monsters but people just like the ones from outside the walls. Sadly there’s people who who will simply hate on a character for the sake of hating, without even trying to understand the reasoning and motives behind a character.

samsince04 said:
If you treat Faze Gabi as a meme(as she should be) then all is good, but as a character, her peak for me, was that moment where she realized that there are no "devils" and that she was just nonchalantly playing her part in the cycle of hatred. After that, she just got sidelined writing-wise so I don't really care for her either way.

parasis said:
i honestly think she’s a really well written character and her and falco work as a very well done parallel to eren and mikasa. and she has a very distinct character arc, i think. plus, she’s just a kid. she’s just a child. she’s not going to be the height of rationality and logic, even if she is the smartest & most highly skilled of her peers.

Suzeray87 said:

She’s 12 and shown more logic than people older than her. Don’t forget Reiner, Annie, and Bert spent years in paradis and still kept their prejudices. Lastly, with her own eyes she saw her friends die right in front of her… no other character in an active role would watch their friends and people get massacred and remain 100% calm and rational. Sasha was gonna die regardless. But Sasha’s father did get through to Gabi for her to see the world more clearly. And saw how Kaya was gonna kill Gabi just like how Gabi killed Sasha for the death of her friends. Age has absolutely nothing to do with Gabi. She’s the only character in the series to have a redemption arc.

parasis said:

that’s my point. is noone would remain calm and rational after watching their friends die. i see most of the dislike about gabi being in regards to killing sasha & i think its unfair to hate her for it when she’s obviously not going to have rational and logical responses to high stress, high emotion situations. my point is that shes also a child, and season 4 showcases that very well (e.g. the festival). i don’t agree that her age isn’t relevant, i personally think it is, because she does have typical kid moments before the attack on the internment zone.
i agree she was the one who got a redemption arc. i said i felt like she had a very distinct character arc. i like gabi. i think she’s very well written. i think that a lot of her reaction to everything that happens is indicative of her environment & her age, & i can’t demonise her for those things.

Suzeray87 said:

What I mean is that there are characters older and more mature have far less poignant self reflection moments than Gabi, what I mean her age being irrelevant I meant in regards to her character development. Both Gabi and Falco correct their own character flaws, unlike their parallels Eren and Mikasa whom displayed more maturity and logical decision-making despite being more naive than even Gabi or Falco by the end of their character journey. Viewers dislike of Gabi… and being told that’s she’s just a kid won’t get through to viewers. The author wrote Gabi in a way to expose and showcase that viewers are just as emotional and prejudice as the characters we criticize in the series.

Stepanime69 said:

I mean I think that she's well written. Her act of killing Sasha was just her exacting revenge on the people who come to invade and destroy their city. If Eren is well written when he saved Mikasa, then this is a parallel that's just as good.

Suzeray87 said:

Well you gotta remember that there were two characters with active roles when paradis attacked Marley. It was Eren and Gabi. They had parallel roles… when she did have her “there are no devils…I’m the real devil” moment it was a character shift. She’s no longer active… she’s reactive. Reacting to the environment instead of directly interfering with the environment like she was in the beginning of the arc. This is where eren and Gabi’s parallels split off. Because Eren didn’t do what Gabi just did. Because Gabi resolved her character flaws and Eren did not. Gabi and Falco’s happy ending was the happy ending that could have been for Eren and Mikasa if he (actually Mikasa too since unlike falco, never confessed her feelings) resolved his character flaws.

ghier said:

Eh… I’m not seeing the link in this comparison. What issues did Eren have as a kid that Gabi had? He hated Titans — as actual monsters that oppressed people — while Gabi hated Eldians that did nothing to her or her people … very different things. It also seemed to me that Eren genuinely understood the gravity of the sin he was committing in the end, and he did it anyway … because he just has violent tendencies?

Nah, the real issue is that he’s a f***ing idiot … to use his own words. Gabi committed the sin before she knew better because she was a kid that’s easily manipulated. That makes sense.

Stepanime69 said:
I don't understand why so many people hate on Gabi. I think that she's as good of a character as Eren. What other 12 - 15 year old would perform crazy stunts on the battlefield without hesitation and manage to kill so many enemies. Even Eren doesn't have as many achievements when fighting as a child other than the couple of kidnappers he killed. And what's most impressive is that she is not even a shifter.

Maaz_js said:
She killed sasha, that is enough of a reason to hate her. We should hate the author more tbh.

Stepanime69 said:
I don't understand why so many people hate on Gabi. I think that she's as good of a character as Eren. What other 12 - 15 year old would perform crazy stunts on the battlefield without hesitation and manage to kill so many enemies. Even Eren doesn't have as many achievements when fighting as a child other than the couple of kidnappers he killed. And what's most impressive is that she is not even a shifter.

Stepanime69 said:

That is a fair reason to hate a character. But from my perspective, I love a good villain. (That's why Dio is my favorite character) And someone has to take the role on at some point. Just like Eren in the finale.

Stepanime69 said:
I don't understand why so many people hate on Gabi. I think that she's as good of a character as Eren. What other 12 - 15 year old would perform crazy stunts on the battlefield without hesitation and manage to kill so many enemies. Even Eren doesn't have as many achievements when fighting as a child other than the couple of kidnappers he killed. And what's most impressive is that she is not even a shifter.

Suzeray87 said:

It’s not my opinion the parallels between Gabi/Falco and Eren/Mikasa… but rather a fact from the author. Just like how the point of view of the story flipped to the perspective of the Marleyans. You made one grave error with your rebuttal. You said, Gabi had no reason to hate the Eldians. But you’re wrong… and you know you’re wrong. Because in Gabi’s own eyes she saw Eren attack and kill her friends and comrades. Proving exactly the brainwashing rhetoric Willy Tybur was spewing. Then she saw the people of paradis gun down people she cared about… very similar to what Eren seen and his reaction to that very vengeance parallels Gabi. And just like how Mikasa chases after Eren who loves him and wants to protect him… so does Falco chase after Gabi who wants to protect her and loves her. I’m sorry. This isn’t really up to debate… it just is 1 + 1 = 2, the sky is blue, and Gabi/Falco parallels Eren/Mikasa and the difference between the two pairs is how one gets the ‘good’ ending and the other gets the ‘bad’ ending.