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mythvoiced · 1 month

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@wellfell | ♥

Eren's back collides with the ground almost like a man collapsing out of sheer exhaustion. There's an odd air of relief woven into the way he stares up at her, the slight smile that continues to attempt to resemble the boyish charm that accompanied him, monster-blood be damned.

Boyish charm... he IS a boy.

He even goes as far as folding his hands over his stomach, somewhat below the point her makeshift weapon was now supposedly holding him in place. He doubts he'd struggle disarming her, or even getting her onto the ground in his stead.

It's true. Akina Mori is small, not worryingly so, and she has figured out how to work it to her advantage. But Eren is not only bigger than her, he's stronger, too.

The only issue is... he's probably stronger than anybody at this point. All of his friends. He thinks about it, sometimes, when he can't sleep, when he lies on his bed, stares at his hands, and wonders how often his friends put in genuine effort to not appear scared in front of him.

It'd make sense.

He wouldn't blame them for being scared.

Sometimes he stares at his titan-hands and his mother appears in his palm, and he imagines he knows exactly what it felt like, to crush her between his fingers.

But Akina... well, he can't really tell.

This is the first time in days they've spoken, and he may not be as smart as Armin, but he can do basic maths. If what he did is two and when exactly Akina stopped talking to him was the other two, he'd figure what four was.

Maybe that's where the relief comes from... being somewhat right about Akina Mori. Refusing to acknowledge that his supposing she wouldn't let her fear allow her to lower her head beneath it, was actually the hope she wouldn't.

"Or what," he shoots back, and it would be easy to pretend. Eren has often wondered how good Akina is... at pretending. She doesn't show how intensely things get to her unless you learn how to look, unless you don't allow her to unlearn being interested in her. She fits in better than he'd have ever assumed she would have.

Similarly to Jean, he supposes. Similarly to Armin, he supposes.

Maybe he's not so good at reading people after all.

Maybe there is very little he actually knows.

Maybe this as generous as Akina is willing to be... she, or the world.

Maybe that's the point. Maybe that's the reason you are who you are and can do what you can do. Maybe you're supposed to change all those things, make the world better. Force it into becoming better, if need be.

He blinks up at Akina.

He'd never force those he loves to do terrible things for him... right?

Right?

"It's a good thing," he continues, "makes you slippery. You should continue taking advantage of it."

Since you're alive. Since you can. Since you HAVE to stay alive. I'm running out of ways to mourn, I can't keep grieving someone new every day.

#wellfell #the thesis;eren #UMMMMMMMM #one of my favourite things about eren is that he absolutely does Not know how to talk to girls #but is simultaneously very good at it? like- hear me out #he's very good at connecting with girls who could NEVER be interested in him from a romantic angle #exhibit A: historia - but then he also tells girls this kind of bullshit along the lines of #'why are you complaining? you have a strategical advantage against the titans DUMMY--'#eren vc: listen BE small BE proud and DON'T get eaten #;queue

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levmada · 8 months

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super vague aot spoilers

during the table scene in season 4 eren attacked and pushed away armin and mikasa to protect them yes yes. but ever wonder what kind of gratification eren felt when armin hit him first? - because armin was fully willing to give his life during the battle at shiganshina, in fact he got himself cooked alive with the complete understanding that he wouldn’t make it. everything would be fine if eren made it to the sea one day.

reason being we are all aware of eren’s imposter syndrome. he broke down on the rooftop when he was pleading his case to save armin because armin’s intentions were always pure - eren lost his way and started seeking revenge. eren didn’t deserve armin’s sacrifice. he truly believed (and… very minor spoilers believes) that armin can save everyone.

it was made clear multiple times before season 4 that eren fuxking hates himself for being weak and powerless against the powers that be that were taking away “humanity’s” freedom.

so there was gratification in his self-sabotage at the table scene (even though he WAS acting/lying when he said he hated mikasa) for proving that armin’s love for him (platonic or not idc) wasn’t infallible. eren knew what he was going to do because the timeline of aot is linear and the course of his actions couldn’t be altered; so it was partly to punish himself too.

and as it all has to do with mikasa, maybe eren beating the shit out of armin was major overkill because even after telling her he always hated her, she was betrayed but never hostile towards him in that moment or resented him any time after. she was the very last person to be convinced that they needed to kill eren and even then she hated the idea. in paths when everyone was yelling to get eren’s attention, whenever mikasa spoke and requested to share his burden with her… eren finally addressed them.

similar to erwin and levi… eren could retain a slight fraction of his humanity because of mikasa.

which makes eren’s later claim to armin during their last conversation… and the place eren made with mikasa… fully cement his true feelings for them.

#my thesis is that aot is a story in the biggest part about love #but yk that’s an essay for another day #eremin #ema #eren jaeger #mikasa ackerman #armin arlet #aot meta #eren.thoughts

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simone-draws-sometimes · 1 month

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I just made a connection between my two favourite series Attack on Titan and Dungeon Meshi and why I love them so much

Both are stories about people who would turn their back to everything else to save their friends

Spoilers for AoT’s ending and dungeon meshi’s manga

I thought about this while rewatching AoT, the part where armin told eren “those who can’t abandon something can’t change anything, they need the ability to abandon their humanity when forced to rise above monsters”

Eren eventually decided to destroy the rest of the world and become the villain to everyone else if only it meant his friends could live in peace (though arguably he was fated by himself to do that cuz of his Titan ability, doomed by the narrative whatever whatever)

Marcille using ancient magic, Laios unintentionally becoming public enemy number 1, evading the law, making deals with demons, various other taboos and such, all to save one person’s life. Marcille and Laios also losing parts of themselves (their desires) in the process too

Something something the bond between friends something something. I love stories not centred around romantic love I need more stories like this.

#if anyone has other series like this pls recommend #mikasa eren and falin Marcille shippers stop right there #ik there’s some kind of ‘more than platonic’ relationship #but this is my analysis and I get to decide the thesis #attack on titan #dungeon meshi #simone says

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jaegersdevil · 14 days

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cw: little suggestive

"how are you wearing jeans right now?"

you look down at your criss-crossed legs and shrug, focusing back on your laptop.

"no, seriously," eren rolls around on your bed next to you as you type. sighing, you look over at him. eren lays on his side with his head on his bicep, green eyes sparkling.

"haven't really thought about it since i got home," you mumble, clicking around for the journal article you were in desperate need of to finish writing part of your thesis.

your boyfriend groans and rolls toward you, smooshing his face into your thigh. "can't you stop writing for like 5 minutes and give me a head scratch?"

you shake your head, even though you know he can't see, and continue pressing the keys.

he lifts his head up, his freshly cut hair flopping over his eyes. bringing a hand up, eren tucks the strands behind his ear and sits up.

"take these off," he pinches the fabric of your jeans.

"what?" your head snaps up at his sentence. "take what off?"

eren nods at your lower half, and you feel your face warm. "why?"

"you need to be comfy, and i will not allow you to wear your outside clothes in my bed."

"later."

"la-" eren rolls his eyes. "later? no."

"please," you glance at him. you're hunched over your laptop and eren is 95% sure it's not good for your posture, but he knows better than to pester you right now (except for those damn jeans).

"baby," eren whines.

"why are you being a child?" you giggle, mindlessly scrolling through a paper.

"mi mi mi," eren imitates before he scoffs and turns his back to you, tucking his right arm under his head and using it as a pillow.

you shake your head to try and stop yourself from laughing. "eren."

your boyfriend hums flatly. "sleeping."

rolling your eyes, you save your work and close your laptop quietly. eren hears you moving around but says nothing.

"not giving you a kiss until you-"

"fine!" you yell, standing on his sheets in your t-shirt and underwear, jeans in your hand.

eren turns over, cheeks pink and smile wide. "you are so-"

you throw your jeans at him, the pants slapping against his head and staying there as you jump and sit back down on his bed.

"damn," eren laughs, throwing them onto the floor. "if you wanted me to get in your pants so bad, you should've just said so."

"fuck you."

"please."

#im laughing at myself for thinking of this #who gave me a brain #found this in the drafts so here you go #eren jaeger x reader #eren jaeger #attack on titan #attack on titan x reader #eren jeager imagines #eren jeager x reader #aot x reader #— ann writes!

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sailorspica · 1 month

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imo the funniest thing about aot is its germanness is shallow, if anything it appropriates/bastardizes western and northern european cultures in a similar way to FMA (ymir is norse and sticks out in a potpurri of anglo and germanic names except for literally just jean), hence my crusade to add more slavic names to fanfiction like rico brzenska and uplift its (east) asianness

all of my reading of parent-child relationships here are grounded in how filial piety and various asian family ethics perpetuate abuse: children are expected to forgive everything (annie, reiner) and give care (pieck, connie); pay for their parents' crimes (the grice boys, rod referencing grisha's "sin", the marleyan military's dangling of "eldian atonement"); carry on their legacies (the fritz king's will, erwin's guilt toward his father)—oh, the very premise of children cannibalizing their parents, which sounds like an L for the parents but is the opposite, the kid is even more physically beholden to them than simple birth, inheritance is more of a burden than a boon. arguably zeke and historia's massive refusal of this piety / redirection to other causes (ksaver's suicidality, the zackly junta) lead to the rumbling, or cement the circumstances for eren to do it at all

said it in my big dumb astrology post but here's the shortest version of my paradis = japan thesis statement: [link]

diversity and "purity" in the world eldian diaspora vs marley's "ethnic cleansing" propaganda: [link]

how i approach iseyma's handling of of anti-jewish policies and canards: [link] [link]

i write about parent-child and cross-generational relationships in attack on titan all the time, because i do this all as a filipino with the twin cultural diseases of confucianism and catholicism ruining my life and health well into adulthood: [link] [link] [link]

...and then there's the tiny japanese visuals, like eremika's tokito sibling-style firewood backpacks, jean's omelet is an omurice bento

in general you'll find these annoying ass political readings tagged #—hermeneutics!!, and my larger aot tag is #aottxt

#thought i should compile #aot meta #attack on titan meta #aottxt #♃#aot politics

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animebw · 6 months

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Short Reflection: Attack on Titan: The Final Chapters

The impossible problem of reviewing the ending of Attack on Titan is that there's way too goddamn much to talk about.

How could there not be? After ten years and close to a hundred episodes, after almost single-handedly jump-starting anime's mainstream takeover back when the first episode dropped in 2013, after so many twists and reversals that completely flip your perspective on what kind of show you're ever watching, Attack on Titan has become, fittingly enough, one of the most colossal media properties on the planet. It's a story that bursts at the seams with ideas and messages and Things Worth Talking About, and far from putting a nice neat bow on things, the ending somehow only explodes further outward with discussion-worthy topics. I can pick out at least four separate moments just from the final 30 minutes that could support an entire thesis paper all on their own. I could talk about its portrayal of fascism and genocide, its ultimate statement on the nature of war, its portrayal of trauma bonds, its observations on the cyclical nature of generational violence, whether or not it's ultimately hopeful or cynical, how the characters' final choices echo all the way back to their first appearances... and I still wouldn't cover everything meaningful there is to talk about in this two-part two-and-a-half-hour showstopper finale. I could spend all week writing analyses of Attack on Titan's ending and there would still be more to cover. Even trying to figure out how to tackle this monstrosity feels as overwhelming as staring up at the Colossal Titan itself.

But perhaps that's only fitting. Over the years, Attack on Titan has remained one of the boldest, bravest, most staggeringly ambitious properties to ever come out of anime, swinging for the fences as relentlessly as the Beast Titan's rocky barrages of death, never taking the easy way out of an impossible question or desperate situation. It's survived a sea-chance in the landscape of the medium that it itself helped usher in, gone through so many permutations of genre and form and production, yet never once lost its luster. From the first sight of Eren's home being destroyed to the final, haunting shots of this finale, Attack on Titan has been one of the most important anime of all time. So of course its finale would demand just as much of us as the rest of the show. Of course it wouldn't be satisfied if it didn't go out with one last jaw-dropper outing that blew everything you thought you knew out of the water. Of course it would close out its domination of the anime sphere just as inescapable and undeniable as when it first stomped on our screens 10 years ago. After the incredible journey it's taken us on, I wouldn't expect anything less.

Still, I've got to try and say something. This is the end of one of anime's defining properties, the epic conclusion to a story that stands head and shoulders above all its contemporaries. I can't let that occasion pass without commemorating the way it chose to close things out. Just know that this review in no way captures the full extent of my thoughts on the finale, in no way portrays all the countless whirling ideas it inspires in me. There will be time in the future, perhaps, to explore all its nuances in more depth, to give proper space and weight to the thousand component parts making up this massive whole.

For now, though?

For now, I simply want to celebrate the end of one of my favorite anime series of all time.

For brevity's sake, I won't spend too much time on the first two hours of breathless action that make up the majority of these two super-long episodes. There are far more interesting things to talk about in the final act, and I simply don't have time to dig into anything more. All I'll say is that this final battle was Attack on Titan operating at the absolute peak of its powers, and it was truly something to behold. For all the chaos that's historically plagued this series' production, Wit and Mappa alike, this was an absolute masterpiece of a climactic showdown. Stunning action fit to stand with all the series' most iconic moments, heartwrenching grief and tragedy in the face of armageddon, characters barely escaping death and facing down the apocalypse with all their strength, refusing to yield against impossible odds no matter how many walls stand in their way. I can't count the number of times I cheered in delirious glee or broke down in tears from the sheer majesty of it all. As spectacle, as mission statement, as payoff for ten years of escalating action and human drama, it's an unimpeachable triumph.

And then we reach the denoument. The battle ends, the day is saved, the war is over, the bloodshed has stopped, the centuries of pain and suffering the world has endured finally takes a long, haggard breath of fresh air. The Rumbling has been stopped. Eren has been defeated. Peace, at long last, has prevailed.

And then the show throws one more curveball.

Ever since the manga ended, I've been hearing how much manga readers hated it. I've seen every insult under the sun slung its way, seen it called the worst ending of all time, an insult to the series and everyone who loved it. But I've always had my doubts. Considering how Loudly Wrong so many of these people were about many other things, how many of their criticisms seemed to boil down to being annoyed at Eren not being venerated as a gigachad and treated like the deranged psychopath he actually was, I had a sneaking suspicion the hate was overblown nonsense. And while I've heard the adaptation changes a few lines here and there to maybe make some of the final scenes less clunky, if the finale I watched in the show was anything like the finale in the manga, then I can only conclude my skepticism was right. Far from destroying the story or insulting the fanbase, this ending is one of the single most audacious and ambitious ways I've ever seen a mainstream anime conclude. It's an ending that could only come from a creative spirit dedicated not just to writing a cool story, but creative capital-a Art(tm). And long after the Twitter salt of the moment has faded, it will linger in my mind as the punctuation mark that seals this series' legacy until the end of time.

It's maddeningly hard to discuss why without spoilers, but I'll do my best. In short, Eren's plan actually kind of ends up succeeding... in a way that only reveals how pointless it was to begin with. The world is left irreparably scarred by the Rumbling in ways that we are told and shown, in no uncertain terms, will only ensure the cycle of violence will continue long after the concept of Titans themselves have faded from memory. The best way I can describe it is a dark subversion of Lelouch's famous gambit from the finale of Code Geass. In that show, Lelouch took all the world's evil upon himself to give the world a common enemy, sacrificing his own life to unite the warring nations in a desire to defeat him. Here, Eren does much the same thing... but it only leaves the world more broken and insecure than when he started. All the madness he inflicted, all the carnage he wrought, and in the end, all he accomplished was guaranteeing an uncertain, unstable peace that we have no way of knowing how long it lasted before things once again fell to ruin.

On the surface, it's a bitter, bleak ending that spits in the face of all our heroes' hard work. And yet, it's also the most strangely honest portrayal of humanity I've seen in a long time. What this finale gets right about Eren- what all those screaming fanboys were so pants-pissingly angry about- is that he's not some maniacal genius or machiavellan mastermind. In his own words, he's just a garden-variety idiot, an ordinary person with ordinary fallibility and biases and prejudices who was given far more power than he could handle. Right up to the end, he was a scared, lonely boy wearing the hollow shell of mature, stoic rage as a shield from the pain he could never process. He was weak. He was foolish. He was immature and scared and completely unequipped to handle the incredible responsibility of holding the world's fate in the palm of his hand.

Now you tell me: what end result could such a person achieve, if not this ugly, imperfect half-measure?

The truth is, violent individuals in our real world aren't grand schemers like Lelouch who always have the answers and make everyone dance in the palm of their hand. They're people like Eren; flawed, broken, consumed by hatred, making irrational decisions off imperfect assumptions and forcing everyone else to deal with the consequences. Eren doesn't fail because of character assassination, or because the mystical future sight be picked up from the Founding Titan told him so. He fails because no matter how many times he runs through the future in his head, his hatred leaves him incapable of seeing any path forward that doesn't involve annihilation. His fate was not set in stone by intangible destiny, but by his own inability to accept a peaceful path when his heart screamed endlessly for blood. This messy, transient, tenuous peace is the best that someone like him could hope to accomplish. It's a miracle he ended up with a result that good, and that's only because his friends were brave enough and strong enough to stop his hatred in its tracks before it could completely swallow the world whole.

But that messy, transient, tenuous result is what we're left with. All the chaos of the past ten years, and we're left not with closure, but uncertainty. How long will this hold out before the cycle of violence begins anew? How much peace did we earn through such miserable ends? What, if anything, can be done to ensure the next turn of the cycle doesn't end up like this? What better ways were there to keep this from happening in the first place?

What do you do when the answer you've been looking for only leaves you with more questions?

This ambiguity, in all its raw messiness, is the ultimate message of Attack on Titan. This is not a story where the heroes save the day and defeat hatred and save the world for good. This is a story where the heroes do the best they can and accomplish as much as they're able... and then leave us to reckon with the failures they left behind. It's not even really a nihilistic ending; as bleak as it seems on the surface, there are countless moments of hope and light that speak to humanity's desire for love over hatred. Like all the great tragedies of the world, it doesn't claim that humanity is irredeemable and we can never escape our flaws. Instead, it forces us to consider how easy it can be to fall short of our ideals, and how much pain and misery they leave in their wake. It shows us the consequences of giving in to hatred not as an inescapable fact of humanity, but as a warning of what we sacrifice when we lack the courage to prevent our darker instincts from directing our actions. It takes these characters and this world you've fallen in love with for a full decade and, rather than bidding them happily after after, asks you to carry the weight of their failures into your own life, a reminder for every single time you're tempted to let blind rage guide your own actions from now on. "This is what their lives have amounted to," the show says. "Don't let your own life go the same way."

I've watched a lot of anime over the years. Since I started getting into it back in 2017, I've tackled countless series and movies with all different kinds of endings. But I don't think I've ever seen one that so perfectly nailed this kind of hopeful, agonizing ambiguity. I don't think I've ever seen a show commit to an ending this uncompromising or pull it off so astoundingly, let alone in a series this long. And in an anime industry that more and more seeks to only pursue the safest, least threatening options, flattening this medium's remarkable creative potential with art that doesn't say anything or mean anything, the fact that this, of all ways, is how the most popular anime on the face of the planet chose to end its tale is nothing short of remarkable. Attack on Titan is a runaway success story of epic proportions, a single anime that arguably paved the way for the medium's increasing mainstream popularity. And it married that mainstream success with a story that dared to ask hard questions of its audience and send them home with a plea to see their own world a little deeper rather than half-ass a happy ending for easy closure. It's the rare mega-popular franchise that didn't have to sacrifice an inch of depth or complexity to appeal to the broadest common demoninator. And it accomplished all that while still being a never-ending thrill ride of sheer entertainment value the likes of which we may never see again.

It's easy to be cynical about anime once you've watched too much of it. Honestly, I find myself struggling a lot these days to keep the bad parts of this medium from swallowing my enjoyment of it. But in an anime landscape that too often settles for taking the path of least resistance, Attack on Titan is a soaring reminder of what it looks like to be brave. It's a series that never compromised on itself, never gave anything less than 100%, and never once lost its magic through all its ups and downs. It represents the overwhelming power that anime is capable of when it trusts its audience to follow it off the beaten path and face more challenging questions than whether Ultra-Instinct Goku can beat Gear 5 Luffy. It's an achievement as staggering and colossal as any of the titans within Isayama's pages. And this ending, in all its powerful uncertainty, only cements its legacy as one of the single greatest works of art ever produced by this medium, and one my my new personal top 10 anime of all time.

I wish I had time and space to keep talking. I wish I could go in-depth about the show's willingness to let Eren be truly pathetic in hilarious fashion. I wish I could write an essay about Mikasa and Ymir's parallels as women trapped by their irrational love for monstrous men and why that makes Mikasa's final choice so fucking impactful. I wish I could go into every last detail of that ending montage and all the implications it raises about the future of this world. But there will be time later to dig into the guts of this ending and truly pick it apart. There will be time aplenty to appreciate all the moments that make this show such a titan in its own right. For now, all I can say is this:

Thank you.

To Isayama, to all the voice actors, to all the staff at Wit and Mappa who were forced to work unreasonable schedules to bring this story to life, to every hand that touched this series and ensured its continued majesty all the way to the end... thank you. I dedicate my heart to you.

Attack on Titan is over.

It's the end of the world as we know it.

And I feel fine.

10/10

#anime #tabw #the anime binge watcher #attack on titan #aot #shingeki no kyojin #snk #aotsr

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karizard-ao3 · 3 months

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I’ll need u to elaborate on the Mikasa being hornier than Eren hc, it’s for my phd thesis

I got out my laptop just for this but I should warn you I have very little evidence to support my opinion. Regardless, here goes!

We see Mikasa being assertive towards Eren about things more often than we see him be assertive towards her. What does this have to do with horniness? Nothing, I suppose, but it is why I imagine her being a bit more forward with him about wanting sex than he is with her (at first, at least).

The way she gets jealous about the idea of him with other girls says to me that she thinks of him as a sexy piece of ass that she wants all to herself. He's too busy thinking about killing titans to think about girls (until he suddenly realizes he's in love with Mikasa).

In Spoof on Titan and Attack Junior High, she is portrayed as hornier (especially in Spoof), which makes me feel validated in my beliefs and may also have somewhat contributed to them?

I just get vibes like she's hornier. Eren would want to woo her and do everything the "right" way and she'd be like, "We can fool around on the first date. I don't mind🥰"

I also just like it that way lol.

That's all. I've really got nothing to support my claims lol

#ask me things #my asks #answered asks #eren jaeger #eremika #mikasa ackerman #is mikasa hornier?#i think so

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aruanimess · 4 months

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I was reading @diam-etrical's inspired by The Hunger Games AU (which by the way is amazing and you should go read it if you haven't already) and had some thoughts on Peeta and Armin as mirror characters, mostly in terms of what this comparison brings to Armin's characterization (since I obsess over aot at the moment), which I decided to share with y'all.

So Armin is and isn't Peeta Mellark. They're both highly intelligent, skilled orators and perceptive. They have the ability to read people and to sway them in their favor. Also, especially in comparison to their more self-centered love interests, they both have a strong sense of morality.

However Peeta's thesis in the beginning of THG (which follows him throughout the story and shapes his character arc) is the line "If I'm going to die, I want to still be me," which is fundamentally antithetical to Armin's maxim "someone who can't sacrifice anything, can't change anything" (in the context of Erwin losing his own humanity for the greater good). What's more, Peeta's story proves Armin's philosophy wrong. Peeta very clearly defines the outcome of the games by his commitment to his beliefs and principles, by preserving what makes him human and when that is lost (in mockingjay), we as readers but also katniss as a character in the story, mourn this side of him and understand it to be a loss too great.

The thing is though, Armin's story also kind of proves him wrong (to a degree). On one hand, Armin is incapable of letting go of Eren and the image of him he remembers from his childhood: the strong, brave Eren who fought for justice. Ultimately, this inability to accept that Eren has changed is what clouds his judgment concerning Eren's motivation until it's too late. On the other hand, Armin ends up disagreeing with Eren that the Rumbling was for the better (I'm disregarding the "thank you for becoming a mass murderer" line because I interpret it to be for Eren's benefit--meaning that Armin was trying to comfort his best friend at that point). His last actions in the story are about him being opposed to Eren who deemed the outside world worthy of sacrificing for the greater good of the Paradisians. Therefore, even Armin himself by the conclusion of the story is not willing to sacrifice everything.

And yet, Armin is not entirely wrong. Armin makes great sacrifices to achieve peace and to do the right thing. He is willing to risk his life, his friend's lives, the chance to be with the woman he loves, Eren (both in the sense of Eren's life and in the sense of Armin's idea of Eren). Armin is even willing to besmirch his own reputation (in his eyes) by naming himself Eren's killer; it is a burden he's willing to bear for Mikasa, but also to pacify the Marleyans. These sacrifices are crucial in order to prevent perpetual conflict.

In the end, Armin's quote is more about compromising than about giving up your humanity and empathy.

So the main takeaway from paralleling these to characters, at least for me, is that there are things that are worth sacrificing (toxic beliefs, your personal comfort, an oppressive status quo) and things worth preserving (ideals, life, love). Violence may be necessary to enact change, but in order to maintain the positive impact you created, you need to be able to drop your weapons and find common ground.

#armin arlert #armin meta #aruani #guys I'm losing my mind #deranged ramblings #long post

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lunaticereh · 1 year

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The thesis

Eren, a student, is writing his thesis on the serial killer Levi Ackerman. He is alone with him in a room when he interviews him, having asked the cops to leave them alone.

"Does it turn you on, to kill those people?"

"No, it's you that turns me on."

"Excuse me?" - Eren blushes as Levi lights a cigarette.

The serial killer spits out the smoke as he looks at Eren. "Look at you, you're gorgeous. It turns me on to imagine life leaving your beautiful green eyes. But before that, I will fuck you. At first you'll tell me you don't want to. But my cock will end up in your beautiful little ass, and you'll ask for more. "Faster," you'll ask. "Harder," you'll beg. And I will answer your request. I'm sure you love being choked. While I'll rearrange your insides, I'll pull your sumptuous tie back and tighten it. I'll pull on it until you ask me to stop. You'll cum so hard you'll shout my name without even realizing it. Once I fill your wonderful hole with my cum, I'll kill you. Then I will have reached the seventh heaven."

Eren gulps, flushed, his pants tight. "There's a flaw in your plan, Mister Ackerman."

"Oh yeah? Which one?"

Eren leans forward, takes the cigarette from the serial killer's hands and puts it between his own lips. He spits the smoke into Levi's face, smirking. "You won't kill me, because you know you'll never find a better fuck than me."

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#rivaere #levi x eren #serial killer levi #smut #top levi

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mythvoiced · 6 months

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@wellfell | continued

That's the thing about Eren, isn't it? There's so much more to him than what he becomes when what has filled the years of his youth (still uncompleted, and yet already so tarnished) catches up to him. It sways like a gentle breeze, whatever else might be part of his personality, beyond what trauma had forced into his demeanor, beyond what anger issues he allows to guide him, solely because he believes himself to be righteous in his anger.

That's the thing about Eren.

That, and the fact that he doesn't know a damn thing about any of that.

Or any other aspect of himself.

Eren Jäger is simply one of those kids.

Those who look death in the eye, listen to it crush his mother's bones, and then refuse to look inwardly ever again, lest the reflection of his broken soul might replay what had shattered it.

So, he sits there, eats his half of the bread and doesn't mind, doesn't really care about dissecting Akina's silence, the pause before she picks at his- her bread. He doesn't care because this is what he takes for granted in life, looking after others, looking after comrades, looking after oneself to remain alive. It's not done out of the kindness of his heart, he at least would argue, but because it simply makes sense.

It's stupid for Akina to skip meals, for Akina to starve herself, for Akina to listen to Ymir, someone even Eren has recognized to be full of shit and spread it around herself simply because she can, because it gets a rise out of people - even Eren had managed to put her into that box, enough that her words had never bothered him personally, unlike Jean's who hit too close to home for reasons unknown to him, or Mikasa's who- or Armin's-

It's stupid for Akina to care about all of that when there are other things they should be caring about.

It's stupid to give up on oneself, to give up entirely.

Eren only looks up when Akina speaks again. At first with relaxed interest, the sideways glance of someone picking up on words directed at them specifically. An acknowledgement, hey, he's here, and he is actually listening, because despite everything Akina is all right in his book. Even though her blood hums with privilege, she doesn't saunter around with the naivety of someone who's never had it rough, with the arrogance of someone like Jean.

If Eren didn't know better, sometimes he wonders if Akina is simply trying to hold on as desperately as any of them are.

Not that he'd know anything about the brightness of his knuckles turned white with how hard he's metaphorically clutching matters here.

It gets an immediate rise out of him. Not as bad as things could have turned if Jean had tried to berate him, or, even worse, Mikasa, but because he instantly thinks of Mikasa and her fussing, his lips downturn just as fast, frown coming back in full force like his most practiced expression to wear.

"You sound like Mikasa," he grumbles, shoving his bread into his mouth either to unconsciously mimic her livelier eating - which eases something within him he never acknowledges, the inherent care, the inherent hero, the inherent desire to take care - or because sometimes he is that above all: a petulant teenager.

"Minus the anger issues thing," he adds, sounding like the repeat relaxes him, while glaring, as though intending to prove her right. He wouldn't say he has anger issues. But it's certainly more refreshing to have Akina throw something like that at him than listen to Mikasa come up with her reasons or Armin try to beat around the bush of is.

"That's not a thing," he's also really quick to add when he follows Akina's gaze, foot, attention, staring at the brick carcass ahead. A testament of the passage of time, that's what abandoned buildings always are. He thinks of Shiganshina, how he barely remembers how it looked like when they'd left it, how he will always remember what it looked like before they had to leave it.

He's lost his appetite.

There's hardly anything left of the bread, anyway. He drops it in Akina's plate, gets to his feet and claps imaginary crumbs off his palms. Then he grins down at her, and suddenly, maybe, for a moment, he might actually be as old as he's supposed to be.

"Scared of ghosts? Want to go check?"

#wellfell #the thesis;eren #i AM OBSESSED WITH AKINA IN THIS VERSE #the fact that i'm obsessed with akina in any verse is most CERTAINLY not helping my silly goofy brainrot #gosh the way you write Nassy Nassy know I always miss you #i'm not a 100% sure Eren would have a moment of sillies if this IS in character but i nEED them to go do this you don't understand #she's SO RIGHT let's ABSOLUTELY go into that carcass and search for ghosts dammit #;queue

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this-is-krikkit · 10 months

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KRITTT!!!! (may i call you krit?) WHAT IS YOUR UNPOPULAR OPINION OF HANGE?

(me coming here after reading your hange thesis)

hey Zen! actually if you don't mind i like Kit better for a nickname! it reminds me of a character i loved from a series i read growing up 😁

okay, i don't actually know how unpopular this is but i'm rolling with it: Hange's sacrifice wasn't entirely selfless that day they flew to their death; they actually wanted an out/to kill themself and that just happened to coincide with them helping their friends survive (two birds, one stone and all that shit). i think from what little we see of them as Commander, around the Marley Survey and then during the Jeagerists mutiny and after, shows just how crushed they were by the weight of (misplaced, imo) guilt and the impossible role they had to fulfill after Erwin died. i so wish we'd gotten to see more of them actually thriving as Scouts leader before shit hit the fan, during the 4 years long break -because seeing them so broken over a position they didn't want and still rocked as well as they could while having to handle Eren and this unknown world full of enemies just breaks my own heart.

i could elaborate more and in fact, i am currently elaborating about this in fic form over here 😁😁 *shamelessly self promotes*

thank you for the ask!!

#hange zoë #snk #shingeki no kyojin #snk 132 #snk meta #idk if this qualifies for that tag actually...#snk hc #hange zoë hc #commander hange zoë #tw suicide #tw death #aot #attack on titan #(and btw kit = kit snicket from asoue!)#asks #mutuals #luvjiro

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mitchiegonewild · 2 years

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aot: the mitchie cinematic universe

okay so im just gonna write down some of my aot headcanons in a modern setting bc like...im right. anyways:

eren and armin met on reddit

erens a reformed brony but it’s still a comfort show of his

armin defends furries (as he should)

he also got sasha and connie to go to furcon and at first he was nervous abt taking him because they thought that they would be mean about it but they ate that shit up, none of them are furries but they fuckin love them

connie gets wasted and eats baby food

jean got his license first and never stfu abt it

marco unironically prefers the cafeteria food to home cooked food

levi went to jail for a really long time when he was like 17. nobody except erwin knows why. whenever anyone asks erwin he just goes “you shouldn’t have asked that.” and stares at you until you change the topic

additionally, levi’s mugshot is single-handedly both the hottest and scariest thing ever

moblit is saving himself for marriage and volunteers to teach sex ed to hanges class

hange has not yet realized that moblit would stop waiting for marriage if they approached him in that way

eren is an AVID redditor. i’m talking 4 out of the 6 hours of his phones screen time is the reddit app. he used to be obsessed with 4chan too

historia runs a pretty popular fashion instagram account

some random guy (possibly reiner while he was in his closeted era) left the funniest hate comments when historia posted a picture of her and ymir together for valentines day. ex: “WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE TOGETHER” “MY HEARRRRTTTTT. I LOVED HERRR”

bertholdt spam reported his account so he would stop bc the second hand embarrassment...my god...

jean loves drake and it’s everyone’s problem

the way mikasa figured out that she was bisexual was by kissing eren and annie, and then saying, “so it’s definitely not a problem with either gender, i think it’s just you guys” and that’s how two hearts were broken that day

annie and armin were each others beards but armin actually started to love annie and so she had to hit him with the “im glad you know youre pan, but im still a big fat lesbo. love u”

they broke up and then annie met hitch on a cruise, now theyre cute long distance gfs which is better for annie bc she doesnt like people hanging off of her

connie thinks he can breakdance. key word is “thinks”

sasha eats bits of everyone’s lunch

sasha also films tiktoks in the middle of class. her “we not hump1ng” dance with jean went viral and so that's how 900k people have seen jean miming sucking a shlong in the middle of honors calculus

armin is surprisingly good at dancing, he’s most definitely a quirked up white boy

mikasa has a candle collection

hitch runs the school confessional account

eren started to 'come out' as bisexual because jean found him on the r/lgbtq subreddit asking if they thought his feelings about a specific guy friend was bordering on romantic. jean ss’ed it and sent it to him, eren called him, and then jean became a god of a wingman

marco is catholic but like is super chill about it

ymir pulls over to take pictures of vultures for historia

historia and jean got high as motherfucking kites one night because they ate out of the wrong brownie pan at a party and the whole time they were just staring into each others eyes like “i love you. why dont we hang out more. you are so cool. we are divine love from the universe. we should be best best best friends.” they karaoke'd piano man together that night

ERWIN WAS A DRAG QUEEN IN HIS COLLEGE YEARS!!!!!

erwin and levi met when erwin visited prison for a psych thesis he had and they just hit it off. literally. levi thought erwin tried to insult him and then he tried to punch him (erwin was trying to ask him on a date to the commissary🤞)

mikasa and annie are autistic besties

connie is an ipad baby turned teenager

zeke is in a shitty garage band and pulled the “hope you guys like weezer” conversation, verbatim, with eren when eren was in sixth grade and he was an angsty sophomore

that was probably erens downfall tbh

one time there was a lice outbreak in their little group and armin and historia (bc theyre definitely siblings and their parents are erwin and levi) brought it home to levi. he rented a hazmat suit

also, everyone got it, INCLUDING LEVI, except for hangë because their hair is so dirty. levi switched to tea tree shampoo that day

hangë is the leader of the schools gsa

moblit used to be a church camp counselor before he realized he was queer and also an agnostic

eren and armin started dating because while they were smoking together, high off his ass, eren let it slip that he does...questionable things to Imaginary Armin during his alone time and wanted to make sure it was okay with him. armin, also high off his ass, replied that yes, it was, because he ALSO does that

historia has a crusty little white dog named bella thats her pride and joy and it fucking hates eren

reiner cries to tears for fears. slay

reiner also has an addiction to saying “you just got slayed”

bertholdt cries almost every time he gets #krissed

ymir knows this and purposefully sends him #kirssed videos

for one last #krissed hc, reiner was sobbing over his mental health issues at 2 am and decided to record a tiktok with the Space Song audio but then it turned to him being #krissed so he just started screaming (tiktok: )

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spiteless-xo · 8 months

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Hiiiii, Tiff. I'm new here on your Tumblr and I don't have an ao3 account so this is my first time commenting, even though I've been following tbaw since april (?) I think. Anyways, I got my Tumblr account back just to follow you haha.

Giiiiiirl were do I start. So first of all tbaw is the only story I religiously follow and never forget about and every fucking tuesday is like Christmas to me istg. Even back in june-july when I was busy with my uni thesis and was slowly dying lol I kept reading every chapter and it was such a joy to be able to relax and take a break and escape in the fantasy. And now check the new chapters at work. Guilty 😅

Also, apparently you also wrote that Eren camping smut fic, omfggggg it's so good, easily one of my top fave Eren oneshots.

The way you write dialogues??? Fucking amazing. The interaction between the characters... I literally get lost in that reality and feel every single one of the characters. They are so humane. The tension, the attraction, the love, the hatred, everything feels so real when your characters interact. It's astonishing.

Now, I was team Eren from the start (yes, I am an Eren girl lol), I wasn't opposed to Jean, he is my second favorite from aot, but! Eren was so fucking charming in this fic, I just couldn't get into Jean I'm sorry. He gives mixed signals and we don't approve those in my house fiehdhdj. But Eren was perfect in every fucking way, which was suspicious and now we know the truth sadly.

I can't believe that after the big reveal so many people were shitting on Eren and they switched sides lololol. Like it was kinda obvious tbh. Well not obvious, but expected.

Idc what other people think, but I do believe Eren wants to change and will do that.

Now! As for the reader. Ofc she can't forgive him that easily, I wouldn't. And I do believe they both should work on themselves first and then they could develop a healthy relationship. It would only feel fair for the reader to see Eren really change. And I still want him to be endgame.

Honestly I'm just biased cause I love him lmao, he looks like my bf 💀 objectively, reader should seek her own path, Jean and Eren should figure their shit and forgive each other and be friends again. And then we can see a healthy relationship develop with one of them and a strong friendship with the other. I just see Eren as the best fit because they have really good chemistry. Idk tho, I said I'm biased. He was so cute in the last chapter with the date I was cryiiinnnggggg. 😭 Literally a cute lil cinnamon roll djdkdhekd

Well these are my thoughts I guess?? I'm sorry this is so long but tbaw gets me so excited I really love that and I wanted to give you some appreciation. 💕

omg, hello!! 🥰💗

i can't believe you've been following along since April!!! ahhhh!!! i think i've said this before but it's so crazy to me that some of you have been following along for so long 🥺 ty for your commitment i love it 💗

thank you so much!! i put a lot of importance in the dialogue because it can say a lot more than just what the characters are saying.... if that makes sense lol like what they choose to reveal vs. what they keep to themselves adds an extra element to dialogue aside from the actual words they're saying idk idk but i'm glad you like my dialogue 😭😭

i think some people, like reader, are quite taken aback by the reality of what eren's done. it's easy to forgive him when you're only told vague details and you see him act cute, but seeing this "darker" side of him come out (even though characters have been warning us about this almost the entire story) is really jarring and it affects some people more than others.

damn, you're lucky to have an eren all to yourself!! hopefully he doesn't treat you like groupchat!eren 💀💀

thank you again so much for such a lovely message and i'm so so so happy that you're enjoying the story!! thank you for sharing your thoughts and i hope you continue to enjoy it and have fun with the rest of us as the story progresses 🥰 only 10 weeks to go!

#tiff.ask #moot.lya-blueberry8 #tbaw.fic #aot

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littlerosette · 6 months

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At the end of the day, Seleucus was just a good father who saw that his son was in love with his wife, and instead of preventing it from happening, let them be together. This is literally the story.

What’s more touching is that Seleucus was the only one of the successors of Alexander who kept the Persian wife married off to him at the Susa weddings. All other rulers repudiated their Persian wives in favor of more beneficial Greek political marriages, which means Seleucus must’ve held her dear to his heart. Your thesis about Grisha never forgetting Carla after her death might just be what really happened

dude totally. i don’t know why, but i have a big soft spot for grisha x carla. idk if it’s because he’s older, or she’s eren’s mom, or the fact that he allowed himself to live a real life with her, but i really like them. i usually write their relationship with the impression that she was the love of his life. i know that he also loved dina very much but idk… i just feel like carla was it for him.

for grisha and mikasa in this au, i’m imagining a relationship a little bit like viserys and alicent in hotd (minus the marital r@pe). she’s a lot closer to a daughter to him than she is a wife, so i think outside of wanting eren’s happiness, he’d want her to be happy as well.

#asks #eremika #grisha #grisha x carla #tw rape mention

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someoriginalandcoolurl · 8 months

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A little while ago, soon after I finished Attack on Titan, I read the Karl Fritz Theory (KFT) on reddit. While I appreciate the writer's dedication to the theory and the amount of effort he took scouring the manga for clues, and I do appreciate how his passion let me think about the series in a different light... I must say that the ultimate theory kind of flies in the face of the thesis of the story up to that point.

The thing about Eren Jaeger that I found so interesting was that he wasn't a "chosen one." He was sort of an anti-chosen one. The course of his story, he learns humility. He learns that he doesn't have all the answers and that he has to defer to others. He learns that his world is much bigger than he first assumes. And ultimately he finds out that others' lives are just as important as his own. That he's not "the most special," that he's just like everyone else, and everyone else has their own talents that make them unique. While that kind of falls on the wayside towards the second half of the timeskip (I believe the last 20 chapters are when the series took a nosedive, anyway) Eren's arc, up to at least the RtS arc, seemed to be someone coming to the conclusion that he's not a chosen one, and that it's fine to be a normal person, and they can still make a difference.

The KFT making Eren out to be the "specialest little boy that was predestined to get the Attack Titan from Karl Fritz (and co.)'s carefully laid plans" kind of spits in the face of the arc that Eren had. The arc that he's not the most special person in the world.

Even in the story, most of the incidental characters, and the dead, all have names and birthdays. The ones who only show up for a few panels still have those things, those things that show that they're people, not just dead bodies. To have Karl Fritz's "plans" that result in millions and millions of deaths for the "greater good" shows that all those nameless, faceless victims actually were justified in death, that their deaths were beautiful, glorious and necessary, rather than seeing death as it's always been shown in the series -- as ugly, bitter and sad.

Also, characterizing the Fritz family and the Tybur family as being martyrs for a grand cause ignores how often they let their own people be imprisoned and brutalized for the mistakes of the royal family. Instead of denouncing the evil that the royal family has done and promising to do better, the way Historia Reiss had done, they double down on their abuse. The series is very anti-"sins of the father" they believe that the children aren't supposed to take on the punishments for what their forefathers did. That said, the series is also not about how you should continue the cycle of violence because that's what your forefathers did. Do better. Don't continue the sins of the father, because then they will become your own sins.

The Tyburs and the Fritz/Reiss family all continue the sins of the father, the Reiss family more because they're forced to by the will of Karl Fritz as soon as they get the Founding Titan, but because of that, the people they're responsible for suffer. They don't want to take responsibility for fixing the problems, and instead pass the problems to the next generation, and continue to oppress and repress their people instead of working for a solution.

To claim that these families are secretly always the good guys trying to make things better, while for generations, they stood by and watched their subjects get murdered (the Tyburs), or they were the ones responsible for keeping their subjects imprisoned and ignorant (the Reiss), makes me think that they're actually the heirs of the kings that got them into this mess, the original King Fritz, who kidnapped, imprisoned, abused, and used the original titan Ymir.

The fact that Frieda tells Historia to act like Krista (Ymir), the demure and helpful mother to all the People of Ymir, whose submissiveness and helpfulness was abused and used for generations by the royal family, proves that they see nothing wrong with how Ymir was treated.

This sort of thinking, course, is refuted by the narrative. The heroes overthrow the fake government, try to bring knowledge back to the people. Historia refuses to take on the power of the Founding Titan and become a slave to the generational brainwashing of the royal family. She wants to help the people grow from their imprisonment and their ignorance.

I cannot really see how we're supposed to turn around and thank the generations of the royal families who refused to look inward and see how their own actions affected their own people negatively. The Tyburs and the Fritz/Reiss family were historically cowards, only looking to save themselves and punish the people, their "subjects," they were supposed to protect.

I don't think, historically, the series would be fine with hundreds/thousands/millions of nameless people's deaths, over the course of generations, in the name of progress. We see the deaths of so many people to the mouths of the titans. So many people forcibly turned. We know their names, we learn their birthdays, we hear their last cries of panic, it's not a glorious sacrifice for the good of the world.

It's sad. It's ugly. It's unnecessary.

And that's why I can't agree that the KFT would fit the thesis of the series.

#aot ending theory tag #attack on titan tag #KFT Ramblins

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