i never could understand what exactly made me feel so uneasy during this scenes sequence. everyone seems to like it, and i just feel off
and only recently i realised exactly what concerned me so much — it is how natural levi seems in this environment, how natural he seems doing it — reacting, processing, dodging, killing. and not just titans — human beings
before this, we got used to humans killing titans, to levi being so good at it, moving so smoothly and swiftly, sure and confident. but now the dissonance comes to me because he's not killing titans here
this realisation hurts me so much, because for levi to become this skilled in this, he had to get used to it first. other characters are used to killing titans, levi as well, but others aren't used to killing people, but levi is. the mere idea of him getting used to it to the point of this situation becoming his second nature is so painful
like, other characters hesitated to kill, armin literally threw up after taking someone's life for the first time, and levi just did it with ease that terrifies
he moves so beautifully, agile and elegant, deadly and lethal. it's exhilarating, but horrifying. he settles into it in the blink of an eye, like it's where he belongs, like it's his second nature, he knows exactly what to do and how to do, and he doesn't hesitate for a moment. and it's so scary, but it's more sad than scary 🥲
what did he have to do to survive in the underground? how often had he been in this exact scenario, in a scenario that seems so ordinary to him he knows what to do every second of it? how many lives had he taken before coming up to the surface? taking even one life changes you forever, and levi had killed dozens of people even before marley — had been forced to do it, otherwise, he'd been killed himself
i am 25, and it hurts me to comprehend that levi came to the surface at approximately the same age — meaning he had to do these horrible things when he was younger than i am. i still feel like a child sometimes, and levi had been a literal child when he took a knife as a weapon for the first time. who knows how old he'd been when he killed for the first time. who knows how old he'd been when killing became ordinary enough for him he became a natural
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