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The popular opinion that Erwin would have no reason to fight after reaching the basement is baffling to me.
Do people really believe that Erwin Smith would read a short heavily biased retelling of 2000 years of human history that was hidden from him and be satisfied with it? Be satisfied with “well maybe Founder Ymir made a deal with the Devil, or maybe God granted her powers or maybe she touched the source of all living matter, so she went to conquer the world for King Fritz or maybe she was using her powers to build roads and bridges or smth”? Be satisfied with the story of Helos, a single person ending generational conflict? The guy who questioned the official historical narrative at the age of 10 would blindly believe a single source of information?
Erwin has been fighting for decades, he didn’t know about the basement until the last 4 months of his life. The basement wasn’t his dream, it was finding the truth. And Grisha’s books wouldn’t provide nearly enough. Erwin would not fucking stop at that, he would want to get to the bottom of Eldian-Marleyan conflict the moment he found out about it.
Reaching the basement wouldn’t disappoint Erwin but it wouldn’t satisfy him either. He pursues the truth and is doomed to never reach it, because in their world history is used to push and justify all kinds of different narratives and ideologies to the point that The Attack Titan didn’t believe the truth even existed.
That’s why Erwin would never reach his dream. With every sacrifice, every devastating step he would take, the horizon would stay at the same distance as when he had started. That’s why Erwin needed to be freed from his chains and be allowed to rest. Not because he was about to give up on his fight, but because he would never stop.
#satisfaction is not in erwin smith’s nature#neither is giving up when things start to get juicy#if losing a limb doesn’t stop one from fighting nothing will#remember how he rejuvenates every time a new crumb of info drops#titan eren appearing annie protecting information with her life the titans are humans reveal#it’s an unquenchable thirst#erwin smith#he’s a stubborn motherfucker#anti mischaracterisation squad#attack on titan#shingeki no kyojin#meta
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late season 3 when Eren and Mikasa are locked up for being naughty tryna off Levi two questions:
- Why the fuck did Mikasa have such epic bedhead? That 1x2 brick cot of a bed barely had room to turn. By the walls, how did she manage that???
- Who let Armin in Eren's cell? Why was he in there? Armin is a good boy and was not locked up but he willingly asked someone to let him in here then be lockd back up (or did he master of manipulation get in there like hah?) and also got a whole ass DESK brought in? I'm not saying this is low key telling me in canon that he has boyfriend privileges but I'm just like huh? I love my homies a lot but I don't know that I'd willingly hang out with them behind BARS about it.
also WHERE did he sleep? did they share a bed? was he actually let out any time he wanted? did they move a desk in just for him? mikasa doesn’t have one and i feel like it’d be an oversight to give one. he also has like pen and paper?
i stg everyone either loves armin or he can just manipulate into getting anything he wants (or both)
Armin loves Eren but not that much to sleep in a cell. I think he managed to talk his way into that cell to keep Eren calm, and the tradeoff was he had to keep tabs on him. Maybe he was jotting bullshit down to appease the higher ups, but I'm like 10000% certain that desk was specifically for Armin. He was frisked, brought in and locked up and then at the end of the day sent back to his quarters.
My heart says he stayed on lock down the entire time, and they absolutely shared the bed. Eren was gonna sleep on the floor and give Armin the bed, to which Armin fussed at Eren that HE should have the bed. That went on for long enough that Momkasa's wisdom from the cell over had to intercept. She sternly told the idiots to just share the bed. Not like they never slept together before.
Thinking about this again. Like WHO LET HIM IN? Why was he IN THERE HOW COME?
Oh my god, they were cellmates
I wholeheartedly believe that Levi was the one who allowed Armin to come and go as he pleased. He did it not for Eren and Mikasa but for Armin. The boy has just nearly died and then woke up with Colossal Titan in his blood and his dead old comrade’s memories in his head. Levi was the one who brought it on him, so he didn’t want to also punish him on top of that by isolating him from his closest friends. Feels like a very Levi move, no Armin manipulation needed
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Loki: confronts Odin
Odin: tells Loki that he is his son and his child
Loki: confronts Mobius
Mobius: calls Loki a boy left in the snow (or smth like this, I ain't rewatching LS)
Loki: confronts Kang
Kang: calls Loki a kiddo/champ
No, seriously, why does everybody and their mama who try to disregard/manipulate Loki keep calling him a kid. Why.
So that when he ends up having an emotional reaction to being mistreated, it just confirms their words, proves that he doesn’t deserve autonomy and justifies their actions to steal it from him. Because children are commonly seen as property of the adults responsible for them.
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not to project but erwin strikes me as the sort of person who avidly studied people and human social behavior as a kid and kept like, pages and pages of notes on the most specific stuff. like he seems like he would have had a notebook filled with how expression and tone can cause the same sentence to be interpreted with different meanings, and what topics are safe for casual small talk, and how to intimidate people, etc. like all the minutiae of normal ass interactions. his mom finds his notes and is just like "erwin. what the fuck"
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i wonder what happened to levi's gang after the events of no regrets. like can you imagine being in a gang and then both your bosses (and their adopted sister) get forced to join the army. and then one boss is killed in action like almost right away and the other one is like yeah i'm actually gonna stay in the army lol peace out ✌️ like what does one do in this situation. are they still fuckin around underground during aot
#what do you do when your former gang boss is now a ultra mega famous military officer who has the ear of the queen#universally regarded as a hero highly influential most probably culturally mythologised#and you’re still fucking around in the underground#do you try to go join him because he is a The Guy Who Went Places?#do you disown him and say he has betrayed you all for sun and glory or whatever?#is he still considered ‘one of us’ or already ‘one of them’?#levi ackerman
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levi wants to be a minor supporting character so bad but god ymir isayama the powers that be keep forcing him to be a protagonist. opposite of main character syndrome. he just wants to find someone more proactive than him and go along with their plans all the time and instead he's stuck being famous in his own right. RIP levi ackerman you would have loved being a henchman or perhaps a minion
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erwin smith is one of the funniest characters of all time because everything about his visual character design screams Jock Guy and like yeah, he's strong and can fight, but like. his main thing is playing 4D chess, manipulation, gambling addiction (with people's lives), conspiracy theories, hate the government, intimidate everybody, eat hot chip and lie
like oh yeah the 6'3" 200lb blonde bombshell who looks like a male supermodel or perhaps a football player? yeah he's the resident 200 IQ plotter and schemer. he's the dude who ominously says shit like "all according to plan." he could beat you up but he doesn't even need to, he'd rather deduce all your deepest insecurities from like 2 conversations and gaslight you about them. RIP erwin smith you would have loved doxxing politicians on social media
Does anyone know any fics about Levi & Nile angst post-Erwin’s death? It’s so gruelling to think about their first interaction after Shiganshina. Nile knew Erwin longer, Levi knew Erwin better. Levi made the decision to end Erwin’s life and he is the reason Nile never got the chance to apologise to him. Nile is probably the reason Levi was in Erwin’s life at all, it was probably him who tipped Erwin off about his gang in the Underground giving the MPs trouble. So much to agonise over…
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Anonymous asked:
Tsuki, would you mind telling me the significance of the Armin’s dreams flashback panel when Levi was making his choice on the rooftop? So many years later, and the internet still manages to confuse me on something I already understood. When Isayama wrote his explanation of it in the guidebook, he talked about the Kenny panels, but not about the Armin panels, which makes me feel like it wasn’t very significant in Levi’s decision making process. Please help me!!
Hi!
First of all, meme time.
I was thinking that I didn't really understand Levi's intentions fully until 136 either, when he was thinking that he'd no regrets about choosing Armin because he had the same look in his eyes (as some other people as well, yes I know)
It occurred to me thinking about this that Isayama has been writing this story like a whodunnit, the murderer motives are revealed at the end and then we need to trace back our steps and look at the story again and slot this information in and piece the fuller picture together. Which makes the too little too late criticism make a lot of sense as well and totally valid, it's one genre written in the manner of another and totally typically Isayama confusing XDD
But anyway, back to your question. I think the part that has a significant part to play but gets forgotten is the role Armin's friends have in it as well. It was a dream he shared with his friends. They were going to see the sea together. He wasn't just fighting, he had dreams.
They fought for his revival.
Reviving Armin would be for his dream and for his friends.
But reviving Erwin would be for his duty.
The reason Levi badly didn't want Erwin to go to Shinganshina, the reason they needed him was because without Erwin they didn't stand a chance against the titans, they needed his leadership and experience. And as Flocke put it, they needed him to make the terrible decisions only a demon could, Hell still needed this man to be in it.
What a paragon of advertising Flocke.
But personally?
Maybe things would have been different if Erwin had been upset about being told to give up his dream. And really, he should have been upset or grumpy about it, but he wasn't, he was grateful, if not relieved as well. If he had been a slave to his dream, he was now freed from it. So bringing him back would mean all of the responsibilities and none of the perks.
There is an interesting thought that I've seen reflected on the japanese side a couple of times, this Erwin article¹ and OnoD², and in a way in Levi's tankoubon description, which is that Erwin was not sad about giving up his dream because he believed that Levi would undoubtably fulfill it for him. So no worries there either.
Everyone could have what they wanted. I'll say it again in case it wasn't clear that this was never a tactical decision. He used his heart here. But at the end of it, everything would be fine. Armin wasn't Erwin but he was intelligent and they had the same outlook, the same curiosity to learn and understand, and they as an organisation would manage to get there. As Isayama said in that interview:
Just that with regards to the organisational hole left by the loss of Erwin, perhaps (he) will go looking for/ask it of Armin?
I hope that made sense, just my personal opinion but hope that helps! :)
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¹This surely, are words that came from the feeling of gratitude to Levi for freeing him from this hell-like world, and from the certainty that Levi will realise his dream for him, I think.
²In the moment of saying (those things) Levi saying (doing for my sake) “I will take (the Beast) down” I smile-, by me I mean Erwin, smiles. That scene is everything, I was thinking, yes, finally I am relieved/at ease, or how should I say, he too, in dying-
That “I will die here and entrust everything to Levi”, to have been able get to such a place, for him he was satisfied is what I think
“Erwin was not sad about giving up his dream because he believed that Levi would undoubtably fulfill it for him”.
I believe that is the significance of Erwin being the only one to smile during Levi’s final farewell in anime. Everyone salutes him for doing his duty, but Erwin also smiles at him for achieving his dream for him
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