Humanity's Cage

by The Lord of Silence

Matthias Quinn is a boy from nowhere in particular. The place he currently calls home is Shiganshina district, where for the first time he has begun to feel at home. But his world is about to be torn apart and nothing will be the same for him or his friends again.

13. A Side Note on the Future

A side note:

With the completion of the Trost arc I figured I should probably take a moment to explain just where I'm hoping to go with this story. It might have been better to have mentioned this at the start, but I didn't, so I might just as well go over it now.

Humanity's Cage is the first of what I'm expecting to be around four installments. This particular one will at the current count contain 22 chapters, but this may decrease or increase if I feel that a chapter is too much of a drag, or that I need another one in order to cover some more events. This installment will also be sticking faithfully to the events of Season 1 of the Anime, and will end in roughly the same place that it did. Major new events will not start rolling out until about half way into the second installment: Humanity's Strength. Things will start to become different before then, but the end results of those events will likely still be the same.

The second volume's end point is equivalent to roughly Chapter 68 of the Manga. This is equivalent in events, not in time. The Armoured Titan arc will still take place, however all other events in the time frame are far more shall we say, flexible. The third volume is Humanity's Freedom (working title) and will be totally and utterly composed of events that are disconnected from the manga and anime. If any events are revealed to be similar (once the manga is released up to that point) then it will not be by design, as I'm not actually reading the manga as it is released. The fourth and final installment is Humanity's Victory, and will most defiantly be totally original in nature, since it revolves around an origin story that I have created myself.

After the current Chapter there will be two others before the start of the 57th Recon Mission arc, after which the Volume will be completed with the Stohess arc. Once this volume is completed I will probably leave a gap between the release of the final chapter and the publishing of Humanity's Strength. This may be around a week in length, possibly longer if my interests stray in that time (I am doing this for fun after all). Also, if anyone has any complaints/suggestions, I'm more than happy to hear them so long as they're constructive. Thank you to everyone who reads this story and I hope you have enjoyed it and will continue to do so.