remembering this insane line from episode 3 because like...the audience hears Eren's internal monologue in that scene, and...that's not what he's thinking or feeling. at all. and she delivers the line so straight, so deadpan that no one around her even knows how to react.

from the beginning, Mikasa was confident about two things - that Eren was a good person, and that he loved her. Both of those things almost turned out to be true, but one of the main themes iterated again and again in this story is that the higher the abstractions in which you've invested yourself carry you, the farther you have to fall.