A Definitive Deconstruction of God: Materials, Methods, and Results

by LivianLynx

In which Zeke Yeager and Hange Zoë write to each other about the voluntary experiments carried out on Bertholdt Hoover and the Colossal Titan. [Canon divergent collection of correspondence that explores titan shifter biology, worldbuilding, and in-universe science—as well as how fellow researchers on opposite sides of a conflict can turn into allies]

15. To Hange — 3 January, 852

Commander Hange,

A happy New Year to you. I wish you a fruitful year wherein all of your questions lead to satisfying answers and our nations achieve the peaceful existence we are owed.

Great news that you have gotten started with your testing. As I read your letter yesterday, you had me wondering how far along you had gotten into your build-up. Bertholdt is strong and resilient. He should adapt quickly, even more so when he knows that he is contributing to our noble cause. Hopefully, he has had a pleasant birthday celebration. Let me know how he likes his gift.

The boy's resilience came to show in the reports you attached. He will not always remain unaffected once areas with more nerves are targeted, but his base compliance and comfort look promising.

I have read through your reports and found them to be fascinating. Not only for the results you have shared with me, offering a peer-reviewed repetition of the experiments Marley carried out—but also as a general insight into how Paradis opts to document its scientific findings. We have been separated for over a century, and Marley has made a lot of progress since. It established a method to test and document its findings, and the lack of said clear structure in your reports may pose a detriment to your wish to publish.

Should you find the time, it would greatly enhance the scientific value of your work if you were to restructure your reports to have the following segments: abstract, materials and methods, results, discussion. Do also carefully note down both the date of each experiment and the times during which it took place. When you compose all of these documents into a larger paper, this will offer an overview of each experiment's most important components and you mitigate the risk of skipping over something.

Anything you write, I can look over. Perhaps for the sake of our mutually limited time, you can write one such report and send it over. I will gladly review your work.

Yours truly,

Warchief Zeke Yeager
3rd of January, 852