The Shifter

by The Entity

The 57th expedition beyond the walls is not far off, and the scouting regiment plans to make use of their time before the expedition, until something is found just outside the perimeter of the scouts HQ. The new discovery could throw many plans off schedule. Though it might not be as bad as originally thought. Rated T for violence and language. First chapter is A/N Intro.

1. Introduction

Introduction

Hello all lovely readers. Glad to have you here whoever has decided to read the introduction, making you slightly more informed than anyone too impatient to read through this simple heads up that I'm taking care of before starting the actual story. I'll keep it short so that we don't end up with a terms and conditions length discussion that ends up getting skipped anyways, like actual terms and conditions.

To start: my upload schedule will be nothing less than sporadic. I will go anywhere between posting two chapters in a week to disappearing entirely for a whole month. That's not to say I just won't work for the time that I'm gone, but I have a busy schedule with a number of things to do, from running a community to attending university.

Next: the fanfic itself starts some time before the 57th expedition, but after the 104th have chosen their corps. There will be sprinklings of manga knowledge, however at the same time, some things are going to be taken out. I'm no expert in the manga let alone the world as a whole mind you, so if something from the manga or non-anime knowledge isn't there or ignored, it is either on purpose or just something I didn't know. I ask to not be witch hunted for missing a detail of lore I was probably not previously certain of.

Finally: as can be figured out in the last paragraph this is an in universe alt reality where I will be messing around with lore, and taking out and inserting various things to my heart's content. In tandem with this fanfiction however, because I am only mortal and I have guilty pleasures, there will be an AU fanfiction I will also be working on which will be more about relationships between characters and more fun, less dramatic (for the most part) compared to this fic. So if you're interested in that I will be working on that at the same time as this fic. I might also start a fanfic or two for other animes as I am still only mortal and I have ideas I'd like to act on.

That should be all for now, if I have any updates they'll either be at the beginning or end of a chapter in bold like this introduction chapter. Hope you all enjoy, I appreciate any and all reviews, and have a lovely time!

P.S.: Just to get this out of the way so I don't have to repeatedly add it into every chapter: I do not own Attack on Titan or any of the characters in it, yaddah yaddah you all could have easily guessed this much on your own, I personally don't get why it's always repeated in every fanfic ever, nobody is going to mistake anyone on here as the real owners of AoT.