Just my appreciation post for seeing Levi ending the manga along with Onyankopon. And the sad beauty of that moment.
In the face of death, Onyan dared to say the truth in the face of Floch and the yeagerists. And it's beautiful, it's one of the true meanings of "Dedicate your heart" of SC even if he wasn't an "official" member.
In its own way, it holds as much fierceness as Hange stating "GENOCIDE IS WRONG, AND THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN CHANGE MY MIND ABOUT IT!". Especially reading his last three panels and then Hange's. These two leave me so proud to have known them!!
Hange and Onyankopon - what a hell of human beings!!!
If it weren't for them, the Alliance would have NOTHING - from the formation of the alliance itself to the plane carrying humanity's last hope.
So who better than Onyankopon to appear side by side with Levi in his last panel?
Who better than this man - who truly helped Paradis for 04 years, and carried so wholeheartedly convictions about the worth of lives and sacrifices, and reminds us so much about Hange - to be the person Levi wanted to be with on the day they all (and the humanity) remembered they could have vanished if it wasn't for the sacrifice of one brave, selfless and dedicated person?
And this sequence of text is so strong:
Falbi - "those who tried to kill one another" making us remember the initial hate of Marley/ and how they grew to respect each other later;
Onyankopon - "have appeared on Paradis to advocate for peace" making us remember who, since the beginning, was friendly with Paradis/Hange; and fought to find a way to help the "devils" and to help his own people;
Scarred Levi: "they will want to know what we saw" making us remember all the horrors, cruelty, and brutal pain of the losses of his life, and nevertheless the amazing act of one person in bringing those people together and save humanity? And the UNFORGETTABLE sacrifice of this last one REALLY important person for him?
(Plus the clear events of chapters 125 up to 132 Wings of Freedom - where we LAST see the motto "Dedicate your heart" being uttered the correct way, the LAST time we see the green cloak with the wings flying in action, the LAST and ULTIMATE sacrifice of a veteran of SC/ of Hange! - how can anyone deny the really obvious connection between everything here and Onyan's look at Levi, and what seeing the airplane means for them?!)
How can people insist this panel makes nonsense, and they all don't fit together in this scene?!
Do this is so unfair to their story!
