I know the genie is out of the bottle and you can't go back but dear GOD I hate the mainstreamification of fandom so much
I do NOT want authors or showrunners or actors to acknowledge us or talk about fanfic or fanart or fan theories! I do NOT want people asking questions of the canon creators and getting them answered (make up your own answers, like god intended!) I do NOT want companies making jokey advertisements aimed toward fandom!
I know that fandom was never entirely underground but like... I miss that fourth wall existing, you know?
okay i fucking love this cover, specifically for the symbolism
Levi isn’t this injured anywhere in this volume, or even the battle. and Isayama isn't the type of author to "clickbait" as such.
so Levi's injury appears to lie in his shoulder... as if he had wings... (“wings of freedom”!!) (“So your wings are the real thing after all, Levi.” -Erwin in ACWNR)
one of his "wings" has suffered a blow for effectively ordering Erwin and a bunch of screaming new recruits to ride to certain death. he literally and figuratively has blood on his hand. one hand, because Erwin is the one who ordered the recruits to charge, making them a pair.
During final salute scene where Levi cried and said goodbye, Erwin's song "Hope of Mankind" played.
I know 😭 I've just picked up on this. The song playing is actually theDOGS, but you're 100% right because Erwin's character song Hope of Mankind is an arrangement of this track. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go away and cry in a corner.
Getting emotional over how much the world changes in Armin's life time. I mean, look at Shinganshina earlier in the series
An old fashioned town with barely any room to breathe in between the wood-and-cement houses. Surrounded by suffocating high stone walls.
Then look at it without walls
Then, years and years later, it's a sprawling city-scape. Armin gets to see his little home town expand and grow, skyscrapers beginning to tower up above. How much technology must grow in a single lifetime...
Seeing the “wings of freedom” for the last time, and seeing it showing Levi while fading out, can tell you a lot.
Levi represented the “wings of freedom” from the very beginning.
He is a symbol of hope, strength, and freedom. He is strong, free and never was a slave for something or someone, even when he was living in the underground city, in a place that was full of criminals and people -majority of them- have no dignity or morals and do anything in order to survive; he was free, strong, having morals and principles.
You can see what Levi represents, all in the way Erwin looked at him there.
Hope, strength, and freedom.
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He always flies so high in the sky, just like a real “wings of freedom”.