In ch.112,many of the claims Eren levels against Armin are written to be also relevant to Levi as he's faced with his duty.The story indirectly questions and reveals what influences Levi's similar judgement about Eldia's old,but new enemy,Eren:
Love.
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@fantaspiral !
See what I mean. To Eren understanders,this page is nothing but shock value not a relationship detail that keeps carrying weight between them and helps us see how unmotivated Eren actually was,how the story framed it as a bad thing,and how Levi loved him more than Mksa could
Nothing and I mean nothing will ever make me feel the way Levi does when he tries to kill a military officer with his glare bc eren is fking bleeding out there for this,and he complains about losing money?!Levi spent the entire day wallowing in depression because he’s losing EREN
@fantaspiral it's impossible to genuinely examine the integrity of the writing of eren's nature without his relationship with levi and his feelings and you can't reduce it to a single page from a million years ago
@fantaspiral show they weren't delusional😂 but twistedly, they misuse it as proof anyone who says the ending was retconned just doesn't have their level of media literacy... I think that because they didn't discover it by using their own brains,they can't think critically about it
@fantaspiral Thank you! It's fascinating to see how a piece of that subtext was discovered by one of them and now it's used for intelligence signaling but they just sound like ereri shippers in 2013 who were obsessed with eren's real nature and pointed to levi saying he's a real monster to
Ymir choosing to die because she was unloved by the king created what the story called 'the curse of Ymir’.this cursed all of the Titan shifters to die just like her after 13 years of wielding her power. So the narrative’s need for an expression of love that contrasted with the king’s was intended for reversing eren’s Titan cancer. For him to get the life Ymir couldn’t
Mikasa was so ill suited for the role that isayama had to retcon the curse of Ymir into being about eliminating the Titans, and for it to happen,mksa unalived eren. So a plot point and a storyline with an age gap that isayama custom built for levi to save eren’s life by letting himself feel and finish his arc, was mishandled by mksa and turned into being the thing that takes eren’s life
eren waited for Levi,he only wanted to talk to him. so he couldn’t gain the military’s trust like Levi was banking on and the time he bought for eren ran out
Levi was called out by the narrative in the same chapter this was happening
In ch.110,what zeke accuses Levi of seems to exactly coincide with and explain Levi's month-long wait for Eren to cooperate with the military and Eren's own month-long wait for Levi to come—Levi is assuming Eren's feelings.Notably,this is being framed as Levi repelling love
Hange only called Eren a pervert because Levi,the actual pervert,claimed that Eren’s odd behavior was just him jacking off.
(Hanji also confirms my analysis of Levi’s deeper psychology in this scene )
In ch.110 zackly wants to put eren on his fetish machine before getting rid of him and I can’t help but think it’s an indirect consequence of what Levi said to hanji to rescue eren from their pestering.
he didn’t communicate with emotional honesty not back in ch.89 and not in the last time he saw eren when he kicked him,thinking it would save him from zackly again. It feels like a narrative punishment for not trying to save eren the right way
If Levi’s character was written with any integrity and not like he suffered a brain damage that made him forget eren and that titans weren’t the real problem, his only reaction to eren sacrificing himself would have been checking into a psych ward
Levi and historia ended up living their worst nightmares, but isym slapped a smile on their faces like it’s some Black mirror horror so the average fan would just believe they were okay with living lives that undid and contradicted their arcs and what they really wanted
Historia being content with her situation was actually even portrayed in ch.112 as a rose colored delusion Levi’s mind cooked up to rationalize to himself sacrificing a mother-to- be along with (his side of )humanity,
just so he could selfishly keep his beloved eren alive
So many of the pairings that parallel Ereri feature one person looking out a window with a broken heart, hoping against all odds that the other will just appear
@vxonth Hi🥺Their coping was so insane and they gaslit EL shippers into believing EL’s age gap had no place in snk and now we see the wannabe clowns scrambling to forcefully compare their ship to a “gross pedo”relationship(Ymir -king) because it’s the only thing that justifies canonicity
Levi's moping continues after the assembly too. I recall nobody in this biased fandom knew what was wrong with him but the context was right in front of them. Their media literacy vanished the moment EL was involved
Nothing and I mean nothing will ever make me feel the way Levi does when he tries to kill a military officer with his glare bc eren is fking bleeding out there for this,and he complains about losing money?!Levi spent the entire day wallowing in depression because he’s losing EREN
Levi tried to slow down the SC’s efforts to retake wall Maria for the sake of Eren.
this is one of the moments where we see Levi starting to put Eren before humanity because Eren is not a price he’s willing to pay
This gathering was organized following the “survey corp’s” achievement of creating a titan guillotine by using eren like he’s some inanimate object. A scene before that, shows us what this success takes to get to and its true cost…. Eren practically tearing himself apart