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Current state of the snk fandom:

Eren rly said: ok sounds like a good plan

Isayama how dare you?

Ever since Hanji became the commander Levi called her by her name, now I noticed he's back to his old nickname for Hanji, "shitty four-glasses", right before Hanji's about to sacrifice herself for humanity 😢

very gay

they gay

Volume 29 cover

Eren Jaeger’s Final Words

So there are many people unimpressed with the final statement given by Eren’s character, either finding it inconsistent with the build up to this point, or too ambiguous a motivation for trampling all over the world. I’m not really here to talk about the quality of the story, whether it was good or bad, because I don’t really care. However, I think it’s fascinating what the text is trying to say about Eren’s character and his motivation. 

This is why, “I don’t know, shrug” is both an answer and not an answer to why Eren did what he did in the end. For making my point in this analysis, I’ll be talking about Eren’s character from Marley on showing both the Eren that appeared before Reiner, the one that talked to Zeke, and finally the one Armin saw are all the same person. 

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"Eren, you are free."

today i want to present you Gabi ‘i don’t fucking care about Falco’ Braun:

yeah

she doesn’t give a shit about Falco just at all

bonus:

Eren wants to forget. Mikasa chooses to remember.

If Eren really did send all these alternative universe visions to Mikasa, he wants to turn her back so she won’t follow the same bloody path as him. Eren sees their desire to be together as selfish one, because instead of fighting alongside with others and doing something great, they are choosing to live a peaceful life in mountains.

Eren loves his friends, but he is ready to sacrifice his love and humanity for a greater good. He doesn’t want them to remember him and bring them so much pain with his actions. He wants them to forget him so they won’t suffer as he did, when his close ones died.

But Mikasa sees it as the motivation to keep fighting and saving. She chooses to live so she will remember and the memory of her loved ones won’t die with her.

“Once I'm dead, I won't even be able to remember you. So I'll win, no matter what. I'll live, no matter what!”

Actually, before I thought that it was either because of her triggered anxiety, when she loose people she loves or when Ymir/Eren changes something in the timeline, but now it’s because Eren sends her alt. visions that should stop her from following him, but she still continues to move forward and stay by his side. Since she chooses to remember, Mikasa is technically opposing him and when she does, Mikasa gets a headache.

Mikasa’s selfish desire to be close to Eren saved so many people from Yeagerists and titans. Mikasa could simply die back in time and let herself be eaten by a titan. But her desire to love and remember pushes her to fight and simply live. Because of her Gabi wasn’t killed, Louise and her mom weren’t eaten by a titan, Kiyomi and her people didn’t die from hands of Yeagerists and much much more.

For Mikasa, love is a motivation. For Eren, love is a sacrifice.

Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls and It Dies...

Or, why I am pretty optimistic about the fates of Jean, Connie, Gabi, and all titanized people this chapter, which is also an excuse for me to talk about SnK’s allusions to Russian literature. 

There are strikingly parallel ideas The Brothers Karamazov and Attack on Titan, as well as parallel plot points and imagery to the point where if it isn’t deliberate, it’s uncanny. (NB: before people yell at me about comparing a Japanese and Russian work, Isayama has used Russian names since the start of SnK–Shiganshina is a Russian name.) In particular, there are narrative allusions to a portion of the novel known as “The Grand Inquisitor,” which is a short story within a novel. The central thesis of “The Grand Inquisitor” is as follows: 

nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. 

This parable is told within the story by Ivan Karamazov, a character whose intellectuality is his gift and his curse. He tells his brother Alyosha that the motivation for creating this parable is precisely the evils done to children (oh look, a major SnK theme) and specifically cites an example which was unfortunately taken from real life in Russia and which Isayama has an uncanny parallel:

I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when every one suddenly understands what it has all been for. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer. But then there are the children, and what am I to do about them? That’s a question I can’t answer… If all must suffer to pay for the eternal harmony, what have children to do with it, tell me, please? … if it is really true that they must share responsibility for all their fathers’ crimes, such a truth is not of this world and is beyond my comprehension. Some jester will say, perhaps, that the child would have grown up and have sinned, but you see he didn’t grow up, he was torn to pieces by the dogs, at eight years old…

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Nssssssssss

I normally am not crazy about anime original endings but I will accept this due to the fact her death was unnecessary.

I mean he could’ve at least been with a veteran for his ending.

The only Anime Original Ending that I‘m hoping for.

Sorry to all my erehisu shippers this is funny asf it was fun while it lasted tho 🤪

Accept it already guys lol

It’s Sunday y’all so you know what that means

I had this saved and it was too good to not post it

Because of all this political bullshit going on I haven’t had the chance to check out the snk spoilers (not that I want to 😬), the new season of the promised neverland, or the new season of beastars.

(if the theory about SC coworking with Zeke is true)

Mikasa: Are you really going to make deals with this dick?!

Eren: Carefully, Mikasa he's my brother

Mikasa: He is a dick

Eren: Still...

So, the most exciting thing to me in this episode, was how Eren showed himself to public. Like, it was epic, but he didn't even kill a lot of people. He didn't kill Rainer and Falco only because it's pointless and there was door behind Falco, when Eren transformed,the building behind scene didn't crush and he probably didn't kill Will either, because Will is a titan and cannot be killed just like that. So the whole point of episode was just Eren being a huge DRAMA QUEEN

Every time I read this chaper,where Eren scares Rainer as hell, I`m thinking of Levi somewhere looking at this,wiping a tear and saying “that`s my boy”

To all the subjects of Ymir:

My name is Eren Jaeger. I am using the power of the founding titan to adress all of ymir’s subjects.

The hardening of all the walls present on Paradis island has come undone. And all titans entrapped within them hace started marching. 

My objective is to protect the people of Paradis, the place where I was born and raised. However, the world wishes for the annihilation of the people of Paradis. 

The hatred that has been swelling up for so long will certainly not end, until not just the paradisians, but all of Ymir’s subjects have been eliminated. 

I reject this wish. The wall titans shall trample all earth outside of this island underfoot. Until all life existing there has been exterminated from this world.

the face of a person who has to be enemy with someone they once considered their friend

tfw you trained so hard so that titans won't be able to kill you only to find out that it'll be a kid who'll end up finishing your existence

Jean: EREN I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!

Armin: What did he do this time?

Jean: Read this

Armin: *reads chapter 105* WTF HAPPEND TO SASHA!!!!!

Jean: Eren happend

Armin: I give you my full permission to kill him

A month…

Sasha is alive!!!!!!!

Me if I was Mikasa (correlating to chapter 112):

Eren: “Mikasa, I’ve always hated you.”

—————-(next day)—————

*Mikasa is walking the halls when Jean appears*

Mikasa: “jean!”

Jean: *points finger at himself* “me?”

Mikasa: “yeah. Eren made me cry.”

Jean: “THAT SON OF A BITCH WHERE THE HELL IS HE-“

About Cages

!spoilers ahead for those who haven't watched the second episode of aot season 4, part 2. as well as manga spoilers!

Ok ok, just wanted to say before hand that if there is any grammar mistakes or errors, I apologize beforehand because I'm in a rush to write this all down before I forget it.

I wanted to talk about one specific scene in this episode where it cuts to Falco, Gabi, and colt hiding out in an abandoned house. When Gabi slides down the wall we see this shot here.

Cages. Specifically bird cages.

This part of the anime comes out of chapter 118 of the manga here.

In these two scenes (cropped and editted), there are no cages at all. Not even one. So it was MAPPA's artistic choice to include the cages. And like, it was a good choice???

Literally holds so much symbolism here, literally and figuratively. Everything in AOT is a cage and I love how MAPPA solidifies that symbol by including bird cages when in the manga panel where there was none. They could have just animated this scene as it was drawn in the manga but they didn't. Love the creative route MAPPA took for this.

After this scene above, Gabi says something along the lines of, "We kept repeating the same mistakes over and over again." I loved this line being said by Gabi herself as the camera looms over the three of them, the cages sitting along with them. Such good cinematography

This is the only cage that is open. I looked at the other instances where these cages were shown and there were none (from what I saw) that showed an open door. I think MAPPA did an excellent job showing rather than telling the audience that message in that frame. Adding these cages amped the episode for me.

[Will probably edit this later to fix and add some stuff later.]

Attack on Titan Chapter 115-Hanji’s POV

The pathetic fallacy of a downpour was not lost on Hanji. In fact, it was perfectly fitting. Paradis collapses, the skies cry. There was nothing too unnatural or out of the ordinary about that, all things considered. So why, then, did a sickening feeling of dread seem to be lingering in her stomach?

The group of horses plodding on, each looking as miserable and forlorn as their riders. The Yeagerists…if someone had told her such a group would exist four years ago, she’d deem them crazy even by her standards. The entire group, come to think of it, was rather cult-like in its deification of the Jaeger brothers, whose true intentions Hanji didn’t trust in the slightest. This had been cemented by her confrontation with Eren. Vague as it was, it had still been the most the military had gotten out of him since the return from Liberio.

Still, in order for whatever plans that the faction might have to work, Eren and Zeke had to make physical contact. Granted, avoiding that was becoming harder by the minute, but if she could make contact with Levi, there was a chance, however small, that they could overpower the Yeagerists long enough to get away with Zeke, before transferring his Titan power.

Of course, that was assuming they didn’t kill her and Levi once they arrived. A million things could go wrong, but somehow, she had to still hope that-

The sound of a distant explosion shook her from her thoughts. Around her, the horses were panicking, their riders looking no less spooked. She was aware of everyone trying to figure out the source, but she had no need to do so. Despite wrapped up in her own thoughts, Hanji had placed the sound as one all too familiar to her. “That was a Thunder Spear…”The feeling of dread inside her was suddenly amplified “Zeke should be in custody much further ahead of here…what happened?”

She glanced to the left to see Floch studying her intently, almost as if he could read her thoughts. “I think we’ll find something if we follow that sound.” He stated, not once breaking eye contact with his former superior.

The group continued riding in silence for a mile or so in the direction of the sound. The surrounding land looked so pristine and ordinary that it was unnerving. That is, until they passed around a grove of trees. Then it was all too clear what must have transpired.

Debris and shrapnel littered the surrounding area, smoke still spiralling up in wisps even whilst being gutted by the torrential rain. Past that, the bodies of two horses could be seen, one clearly dead, the other still appearing to cling onto its last shreds of life despite bleeding out from a number of deep puncture wounds. The remains of a titan lay steaming in the distance, and body parts were everywhere.

Hanji knew the effects of Thunder Spears, had in fact coordinated their rigorous testing prior to them being considered ‘safe’ for use. But the scene before them still shocked her to the core. She quickly urged her horse forwards. If there was something she could see, something that could tell her more about what happened here…

“Commander Hanji.” A voice shouted “You need to stay still!” She chose not to respond, her eyes instead taking in the surroundings. “Did a carthorse get blown to pieces?” She wondered aloud. If so, where was the cart’s driver?

Her gaze then landed on something-no, someone-crumpled at the river’s edge, the Wings of Freedom clear as day on their cape. Without a thought of the consequences of her actions, Hanji leapt down from her horse. Upon hearing protests, she yelled out “Someone’s there!” and raced to the bank.

Upon reaching the figure, Hanji bent down into a crouch and tried to pull them upright. “Hey!” She asked, panic edging her voice “Are you alive?!” A stupid thing to ask, considering the alternative and how they looked, but if they were only injured-

Her breath caught in her throat as she saw their face.

It was maimed, almost hideously so, drenched in blood that mingled with the mud and rain. Large pieces of shrapnel stuck out of their cheek and jaw on one side, and on the other…a long gash trailed from the eyebrow to the chin, right through the eye. She couldn’t bring herself to look at the rest of the body, but judging by the blood soaking through the clothes and staining her own, it was just as badly injured, if not more so.

But that wasn’t the worst part. The worst part was that she recognised and knew this face all too well.

“Levi?”

This was bad. No, this went beyond bad. Her comrade, her friend was dead in her arms, and she couldn’t even tell what exactly had transpired. The wounds must have been caused by the Thunder Spear from earlier, that much was obvious, but what had been the cause to use it? It couldn’t have been used to down the nearby Titan, Levi would’ve used his blades for that, and he wasn’t stupid enough to be near his spear when it detonated. So what had happened?

Suddenly, she saw his eyes flicker briefly. It was over in the blink of an eye, barely noticeable, perhaps even a spasm as his body shut down-but she’d seen it, and it gave her hope. Until she became aware of footsteps approaching her and the sound of guns cocking.

“I have no idea what happened…but we got lucky.” The unmistakeable voice of Floch spoke out, from what must have been no more than a few paces away “Our number one threat is here, covered in his own blood.” Hanji froze, still holding Levi’s near-lifeless body. Another soldier came up behind her “Let’s shoot him in the head.” “He’s dead.” She cut in. The lack of gunshots briefly reassured her that they believed her-for the moment, at least. If she was going to get herself and Levi out of here, then she needed to think fast and on her feet, just like in any other mission. And in this case, she had to come up with the most believable lie she’d ever told.

“He got caught in the explosion of a Thunder Spear at point blank range.” Her eyes remained locked on Levi, refusing to look at those who were just a single shot away from ending their lives “I’ve seen similar accidents during training. But beyond external wounds, internal organs would be ripped to shreds and death would be instant.” “I can also check a pulse.” Floch stated “So let me have a look.” Hanji glared at him and tightened her hold on her friend. She didn’t have much time to react or plan further, however, as a sudden burst of steam from the downed Titan diverted everyone’s attention.

“FLOCH!” One of the soldiers ran over to them “There’s something weird about this Titan!”

Immediately, Hanji noticed that instead of being emitted from the body as would be the case with injuries, the steam was being sucked in. In all her years of studying and fanatically obsessing over Titans, she’d never witnessed this.

“Is it disappearing?” Floch asked “Did it die?” “No…” A million thoughts spun through Hanji’s head, but she fought to keep them at bay and assess the situation “Normally…when steam gets absorbed like that, it won’t disappear…” She froze as something appeared to move on the titan. No…it was climbing out of the body. A person. As they looked up, face becoming visible, Hanji fought back a yell.

It was Zeke.

Mere metres away from her and Levi.

For a second, Hanji’s gaze locked with his, fear threatening to swallow her. But it was not the time for fear, not the time to freeze like a startled rabbit. They had to fight, damn it. They had to win.

Without further hesitation, Hanji grabbed Levi and plunged into the river, frantically swimming with the current as it dragged them away.