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cosmicjoke · 4 months

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That analysis post about why Levi likes tea so much reminded me, with this panel, of something I also don't think people fully understand. Which is why Levi was so angry at Erwin at first, and why he was so out for his blood.

It's because he threatens Furlan's and Isabel's lives here. He orders his men to hold their swords to their throats, simply because Levi had refused at first to give him his name. Levi's belligerence on that front is rooted, I think, in how Erwin and his men are treating him and his friends. Having them down on their knees, in the filth and mud, with their arms bound behind their backs, making demands of them all the while. It's made worse when Erwin orders Mike to push Levi's face into the sewage. And that's what it is. It's sewage, not simply mud. You can see it coming out of the drain pipes. Levi was deeply upset by this, and understandably so. Putting someone's face into a puddle of sewage is a ghastly thing to do, especially when one really considers what the consequences of something like that could be. There's all sorts of diseases one could contract from inhaling that kind of filthy water. But it's what happens next that I think really drove Levi to wanting to kill Erwin.

Isabel is certain that the scouts are going to kill them in the above panel, and in a show of defiance, tells them to just get it over with. Furlan's face is frozen in fear, sweat trickling down it, because he feels the threat is real too.

But look at Levi's face.

Where before he'd only been angry, here, he's horrified, shocked and frightened. He realizes, suddenly, that Erwin isn't just capable of humiliating them, but seemingly willing to take their lives if he doesn't comply. He's threatening the only two people Levi has in his life. The only two people he's ever been able to call friend, and really, are more like his family. The two people he's done all he can to protect in the dangerous world of the Underground City. Basically, the two people he lives for.

I think some people tend to think Levi wanted to kill Erwin over wounded pride. Even just calling what Erwin did, before ordering his men to hold their blades to Isabel's and Furlan's throats, a case of wounded pride is an understatement, I think. He thoroughly humiliated Levi and his friends, and treated them inhumanely, as if they had no rights or autonomy. But it really wasn't that which drove Levi toward wanting to kill Erwin. It was that Erwin presented himself as a threat to his family.

#Levi Ackerman #Furlan Church #Farlan Church #Isabel Magnolia #Erwin Smith #No Regrets #ACWNR #attack on titan #shingkei no kyojin

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youre-ackermine · 1 month

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The Underground trio

Original post on X (Twitter) HERE

#levi ackerman #farlan church #furlan church #isabel magnolia #underground trio #acwnr #acwnr fanart #source: X

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mirachan-tb · 11 months

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Humanity's Strongest

#snk #attack on titan #levi ackerman #levi angst #levi squad #isabel magnolia #farlan church #erwin smith #fanart #snk fanart

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levmada · 8 months

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sorry this is rather long… one of my fav parts of acwnr

From CH2: One Arrow

#levi’s dramatic ass throwing off that cape #a choice with no regrets #acwnr #aot levi #farlan church #isabel magnolia #levi ackerman #attack on titan manga #aot.pic

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humanitys-strongest-bamf · 11 months

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"keep your filthy hands off me. you'll soil the shirt"

a choice with no regrets

#my gifs #my edits #attack on titan #aot #shingeki no kyojin #snk #levi ackerman #levi ackermann #levi heichou #captain levi #furlan church #farlan church #q

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chuuyaandreaderkilldazai · 2 months

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erwin after levi’s only two friends are brutally murdered and torn apart by a titan:

#aot #attack on titan #a choice with no regrets #shingeki no kyojin #snk #snk memes #aot memes #attack on titan memes #aot erwin #erwin smith #aot levi #levi ackerman #furlan church #farlan church #eruri #isabel magnolia #acwnr

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enby-keith · 5 months

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Levi’s soft spot for the Shinganshina trio is so fucking cute. Especially Armin. He’s humanity’s strongest soldier and might as well be invincible. He’s a killing machine. But he wanted these kids to see the ocean because the look in Armin’s eyes when he talked about it got to him and that’s just adorable.

#just now realizing Armin may have reminded Levi of Isabel #and that’s why he wanted to get them there so bad #he wanted these sad little kids to live the dream they were fighting for #because he Farlan and Isabel didn’t get that #I’m sobbing #attack on Titan #shingeki no kyojin #aot #snk #Shinganshina trio #EMA #eren jaeger #mikasa ackerman #armin arlert #levi ackerman #isabel magnolia #farlan church #no regrets #ova

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vialesanaaa · 10 months

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"Please believe in us."

#acwnr #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #levi ackerman #farlan church #isabel magnolia

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lucysarah-c · 5 months

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Why the idea of Farlan and Levi as roommates is so hilarious to me? I feel Farlan wasn't even close to being intimidated by him or anything. I imagine they moved in together when they were very young; in my head, Farlan is older than Levi by two years, so perhaps 18-20.

Farlan is just that cocky. They moved in together with plans of "making it big," like when you move in with a friend, both daydreaming of becoming stars in New York. He didn't know about Levi's obsession with cleaning, or at least not that it was THAT bad until they shared a roof. Farlan is talking to someone and would bluntly say, "I need to go back home and mop because otherwise my wifey would kill me." "STOP TELLING PEOPLE I'M YOUR WIFE," Levi retorts.

Or Levi arriving home, realizing the door is locked, and starts to insist. "I'm busy, Levi!" Farlan would reply, but it's obvious Farlan has a girl over, and Levi would simply say, "Farlan, open the door! I was out all day for fuck's sake!… I want to take a shit!"

My best mental image is both of them sitting down around an old pot under a roof leak collecting water (a luxury in the underground) so they can cook noodles. "How many do we have?" "We have a handful of each…" and they have to cook all different types of pasta together because they are so broke. They are just so chaotic.

100% Levi is the roommate who says, "WHAT WILL YOU DO THE DAY I LEAVE THIS HOUSE!?" with full mother rage.

#aot #levi #shingeki no kyojin #levi aot #snk levi #attack on titans #captain levi #snk #levi ackerman #attack on titan #shingeki no kyoujin #farlan church #levi ackeman #acwnr #shigeki no kyojin #shingeky no kyojin #shingeki no kyoujin levi #attackontitan #attack titan

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ackerbootytobbi · 26 days

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🪽29 Days Left🪽

"Have your eyes remained clouded?"

"Will you kill me and return back to the dark underground?"

#levi #levi ackerman #attack on titan #aot #levi aot #loml #aot manga #aot official art #farlan church #isabel magnolia #erwin smith

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cosmicjoke · 4 months

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As Above, So Below

Levi holds the girl secure against his chest, her head cradled to his neck, and moves quickly through the back alleys and side streets of the district, toward his and Furlan’s home.

He already knows what Furlan will say, and he doesn’t care.

The girl was alive, and that’s all that mattered.

He could help her. He would.

He’d found her, passed out from hunger, half-drowning in a puddle of sewage. He’d checked her, like he checked all the children he came across. Most were already dead by the time he found them. The ones that weren’t, Furlan was most usually with him, and he would tell Levi no, and Levi would settle then for leaving food or coin.

But she was alive, and Furlan wasn’t with him, and so he’d taken her.

But not before wandering the neighborhood for a good hour, asking about, asking if she belonged to anyone. No one had laid claim. He had no thought beyond her immediate rescue.

She’s as light as a bag of bones in his arms. He knows she’s hardly more than that.

He already knows what Furlan will say, and he doesn’t care.

“No. Levi, no.”

Levi ignores him, laying the girl down on the floor. He pulls his cloak free, bunching it under her head for a pillow. He checks her pulse again. Thready, but it’s still there.

“Lee!”

Furlan stands over him. Levi can feel the weight of his gaze, accusatory. Disappointed.

“She needs help,” he finally answers, and hears Furlan’s sigh of frustration.

“She’s already dead,” Furlan snaps. “look at her! Lee, you can’t keep doing this!”

“She’s alive,” Levi says. “she’s not dead. Don’t say that.”

“She will be soon enough. Levi…” Furlan’s voice softens suddenly, pleading instead of angry. His hand rests on Levi’s shoulder. “look, I know it hurts you. But listen to me. We can’t afford this. We can’t afford another mouth to feed. It’s bad enough, you throwing away half our haul every time we come across some starving kid. You know most of them don’t make it, even when you help them.”

Levi frowns, checking the girl for bruising, lifting her arms carefully, rolling the tattered sleeves of her shirt past her elbows. No track marks, which is good. Means she isn’t an addict, at least.

“She’ll make it,” he answers.

Furlan growls in frustration, tearing his hand away.

“Levi, even if you save this girl, what the hell difference will it make!? The Underground is filled with starving children! What difference will it make, you saving one in who the hell knows how many?!”

“It’ll matter to her!” Levi finally snaps, agitated as he stands, facing off against the older boy. “I couldn’t just leave her there, Fur! She’s alive!”

“Yeah. And?” Furlan steps closer to him, glaring down at him. “Levi, you give half our food away to every kid you come across out there. You give them our money. Oh, don’t give me that look! You think I don’t see you slipping coins to those kids every time you think I’m not watching? We’re barely scraping by week to week. Did you think about that when you decided to take this girl in off the street? You won’t be able to support her and keep up your little acts of charity out there, too. I won’t let you.”

Levi snarls, turning away, back to the girl.

“I’ll figure it out,” he mutters. “I’ll get us more money.”

“How?!” Furlan presses.

“I’ll pull more jobs. I’ll get us the money, don’t worry.”

“What, by yourself?”

“Yeah,” Levi says, eyes fixed on the girl. On the shallow rise and fall of her bony chest.

“God, you and your bleeding heart, Lee! As if it’s that easy! What about our crew? You know we still need to pay them, don’t you? We can’t afford this!”

Levi grits his teeth.

He knows Furlan is right. Knows they’re barely able to get by as is. That he was putting a bigger strain on them by trying to help every little brat he came across out there. Knew most of them ended up dying anyway. He just couldn’t… he couldn’t leave her when he knew there was something he could do.

What the hell good was his strength if he couldn’t use it to help people?

He wishes he could explain to Furlan. Wishes he knew how to put it to words.

That day, when he’d rescued Furlan, and he’d realized he could help… really help. That his strength could be used for something better than keeping his own, miserable self going…

He hadn’t known that before.

Nobody had ever told him.

Kenny hadn’t told him. Hadn’t shown him. Hadn’t shown him anything but how to hurt and kill. And that’s all Levi had thought he was good for. Hurting and killing and keeping his own, miserable self going.

But then he’d rescued Furlan, and he realized he could help. His strength could help, instead of hurt. He’d discovered that all on his own.

Kenny had been a liar and told Levi otherwise. But Levi had found the truth all on his own.

So fuck you, Kenny, he thinks. He could help instead of hurt. He knew that now. It didn’t have to be just hurt.

“Fur,” Levi says, voice quiet. “I can’t leave her. She doesn’t deserve that.”

He turns, looking up at his friend. His first and only friend.

“I’ll get us the money. I swear. I won’t let nothin’ happen to us. You know I won’t.”

Furlan looks tired, mouth turned down at the corners.

Finally, he sighs, shaking his head.

“I’ll make some broth,” he says, resigned. “she shouldn’t eat anything that’s gonna’ be hard for her to digest. Not until her body’s adjusted.”

Levi feels the tension go out of his shoulders, relief washing over him, powerful enough to make his head light.

“… Thank you, Fur,” he says.

Furlan doesn’t look happy, but he doesn’t protest anymore. Just tells Levi to get the girl up onto the couch, to fetch water, see if he can get her to drink any while he makes the broth.

Levi nods, picking the girl back up, careful with her as he carries her to the couch, careful as he lays her down.

She’s so young. Maybe twelve, thirteen years old. He can see beneath the filth of her hair that it’s red. She’ll have lice, but that’s okay. They have soap for that. He’ll be able to comb it out.

Her eyes flutter open, green fogged by the bleariness of hunger, dry lips parting as she tries to speak. They crack and bleed, and Levi frowns.

He remembers.

He knows what she feels.

“Wh-where…” her voice comes out a rasped whisper.

“You’re okay,” Levi tells her, and takes her hand, holds it tight in his own.

Her eyes search for him, but don’t see, too crushed by the exhaustion of desperation.

Levi lays his palm to her forehead, checking for fever. Her skin is cool, though. He doesn’t think she’s ill with disease.

“Can you hear me?” he asks. “Do you think you can drink?”

Her lips work, the column of her throat bobbing as she swallows. And then she gives a single, shallow nod, and Levi feels a swell of hope in his heart.

He clasps her hand again.

“Okay,” he tells her. “just hang on.”

He stands to fetch her a ladle of water, and sees Furlan, looking at him from across the space. The older boy turns away quickly, back to the pot he’s heating over their small coal burner.

Levi feels a pang of guilt.

Furlan wasn’t wrong to be worried.

It was hard enough, just surviving as was. Just the two of them. Another mouth to feed would only make it harder.

But Levi meant it, when he said he wouldn’t let anything happen. He would do whatever it took to protect Furlan. To protect their crew.

He would work himself into the ground to make up the extra cost. To make sure none of them went hungry.

He swears it.

He swears.

Her name is Isabel Magnolia. That’s what the girl tells him when she’s strong enough to speak.

She had a mother, but she died not long back, and Isabel hadn’t known how to survive on her own.

Levi listens to all this with a kind of resigned understanding. It was the same story for so many of the parentless children running the streets of the Underground.

It was the same story for him, until Kenny came along.

Kenny hadn’t been there much, Levi remembers.

Every few weeks, he would come by, spend a few days, teach Levi what he thought he should know, and then leave again. On and on, until one day, he just never came back.

So, Levi understands.

And Levi thinks he could do like Kenny, and teach this girl to survive.

He thinks, better still, he could take care of this girl, the way he takes care of Furlan, and make sure she never has to learn the things he did.

The weeks pass, and Isabel grows stronger. Who she really is begins to shine through. A pistol of a girl with energy to burn.

She takes to calling Levi “Big Bro”, and Furlan teases him over it with the relentlessness of vengeance. But Levi can tell even Furlan has begun to grow fond of her.

Levi won’t say, but quietly, there comes a sense of warmth, that the girl looks at him that way.

He wonders if this is what it might have been like, to have a family. A big brother and a little sister.

That’s how he thinks of them, he realizes.

His family.

He smiles to himself at night, when no one is around to see.

Fervently, he prays, to whatever god there might be, that he’ll always be able to protect them.

#Levi Ackerman #Furlan Church #Farlan Church #Isabel Magnolia #attack on titan fanfiction #fan fiction fan fic #writing

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stillackerman · 8 days

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Sad Levi comic...

Why am I like this? He suffered enough

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lostcauses-noregrets · 3 months

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I read somewhere that farlan wanted levi to join his gang but levi didn't? Is that true?

If it is, it makes me wonder why he agreed to follow erwin without putting up too much of a fuss. Would the loss of his only friends and the fact that he got to escape the Underground contributed to levi's decision to stay in the survey corps?

There is indeed a No Regrets side story where Farlan tells Isabel the story of how he tried, and failed, to get Levi to join his gang. It's funny and cute and you can read it here: No Regrets 8.6.

However, the reason that Levi chose to follow Erwin and join the Survey Corps wasn't because he was looking for a new surrogate family or a place to belong. What Levi was looking for was a purpose, a cause to turn his strength to. That's the one thing Erwin had that Levi lacked. Levi recognised that Erwin had his sights set on a higher purpose and that's why he decided to follow him, even though he didn't immediately understand what Erwin's vision actually was. This doesn't really come across at all in the anime, which absolutely mangles the end of the story, but it's there in the visual novel. This is the famous "What a man" monologue.

What a man—Levi thought to himself. When he'd gotten caught in the underground, he'd felt humiliated. He had thought that Erwin was brimming with an air of superiority as he looked down at his catch—but now, Levi knew that he'd been mistaken. That kind of quarrel about superiority or inferiority had never concerned Erwin even in the slightest. He was, after all, fighting a more important war against the titans—no, perhaps, it was against something even bigger than that. Fixing his sight on that something, he'd carried on fighting, trying his hardest to defeat it. Levi thought—he'd been obsessed only with his pride, limiting his horizons only to that, and had then lost important friends as a result—with his current self, he definitely had no chance at winning against this man. If that's the case— "All right… It looks like you have something that I lack. Until I know what that 'something' is, I'll go with you." Having made his choice, Levi stood up. And then, catching up to Erwin, he began to trod through the heavy rain that obscured everything before them—Towards the hope surely left somewhere in this broken world, he began to walk.

Isayama also harks back to this in the Answers Fanbook and in the manga when Kenny asks Levi what he is a slave to, and the answer is being a hero. Levi is driven to put his excessive power to use and Erwin provides him with the perfect cause to turn his strength to. "Let's save humanity together."

#asks #levi ackerman #erwin smith #farlan church #acwnr #snk

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