( pyrrhic. )

alright, so i made a post about this last december that was more or less a joke but the actual things i brought up in said post were true. so, this is the serious version of that post and it’s more or less me saying ‘if you’re fanon-based, i will not interact with you’. sorry for the harshness, but fanon really grinds my gears and i’m an advocate for individual comfort; just like you’re not obligated to follow me and like my interpretation of levi, i’m not obligated to cater to you.

these are the main points for me:

his name is not rivaille and he is not a lance corporal. both of those misconceptions come from translation errors and i literally will drop everything if i see either of those in a thread. his name is levi and he is referred to as ‘captain’ by his subordinates. as a second half of this, he’s not french and he doesn’t know how to speak french.

as far as i’m concerned, in his canon he’s only said the word ‘brat’ once, and he was specifically referring to eren, mikasa, and armin when he said it. this isn’t a term he just throws out to everyone every 5 seconds.

levi isn’t a walking curse machine. he knows how to construct sentences without cuss words in them; *gasp* shocking, right?

for the love of all that is good and holy in this world, levi will never be abusive especially to someone he supposedly loves. i cannot tell you how many levi’s i’ve seen write him this way to his significant other, and it makes me want to burn everything.

as of right now, i’m under the impression that levi and mikasa are not related by blood; after all, it was explicitly stated that she was the only asian alive, no? so logically if that’s the case, they can’t be related because levi’s not asian. if they are related through familial bonds of some sort, the most logical thing would have been that someone was married into the family, going off the assumption that surnames work the same way in snk as they do in real life so lmao no. levi is not her uncle or whatever unless isayama says so.

levi is naturally abrasive; things he says are really blunt and acerbic. it’s not intentional. he doesn’t do it to purposely anger people or to come off as condescending; he’s socially inept and doesn’t really know how to have normal conversations with people, so you have to be patient with a character like him.

levi doesn’t go around beating the shit out of people without reason. we know, through one of the more recent chapters, that he has a history of violence growing up. however, just like real people, characters can develop too. levi doesn’t do things without a valid reason; think about it. when you see him as an adult, and he lashes out, did something provoke him first? is something, i dunno, threatening his livelihood?

people wildly misinterpret the courtroom scene towards the beginning of his character introduction, and it pisses me off. people seem to forget that 1) if levi hadn’t done it, eren would be dead, 2) levi didn’t actually want to do it and he definitely didn’t like it, and 3) erwin told him to. ties into the above, he doesn’t beat on people for no reason, and he doesn’t get off on it.

now, tying this into the last point as well, levi doesn’t follow erwin ignorantly. erwin knows what he wants and how to play his cards, and he has purpose; levi respects purpose. it’s as simple as that. levi is able to interject at any given time if he wanted to.

levi has shown no real interest in being romantically inclined with anyone. now i don’t say this to shit on people’s ships because i may have a few of my own for him; HOWEVER, in his canon he is unlikely to get into a relationship. there are multiple reasons for this that i can disclose if you’re curious, but the most obvious one is this: he’s constantly trying to survive and literally no one in their little squad has time for flings when there’s always something on their asses.

he lived in filth all throughout his young life from what can be discerned, so what makes you think he’s going to want to continue living in dirt even after he already left that environment. he just wants to keep things clean. it shouldn’t be something that is too blown out of proportion; there may be a deeper meaning behind it, but that is all conjecture until isayama tells us why he compulsively cleans.

so i talked to victoria before popping over here to add my two cents about erwin, since she mentioned him in regard to the court room case & levi. whoops. i did digress a bit.

we’ve seen portrayals of erwin as the guy that everyone frequently misunderstands… he’s nice once you get to know him, yada yada yada. i call bullshit. that’s not to say he’s malicious or cruel, but there’s nothing in the canon that would give the impression that he would be the most considerate or compassionate friend. he forges bonds, but he doesn’t seem to be the type to put the focus on that relationship. in part, i think this is because erwin pretty much acts as the embodiment of ambition. what’s more, i think it’s also because erwin at his most genuine functions on a separate mental plane than most of society.

let us not forget that attack on titan is a war story. erwin, with all his ambition, is a leader in that war, which he does desperately want to win. considering that most every panel we see of erwin is his dedicating every ounce of himself to strategizing here and there, this is undeniable. he is a strong leader, & he is capable. although he might function on a different plane than most people, he is very charismatic, & he is very manipulative. i certainly think that erwin understands people as a principle better than he does personally - i feel like obvious charm & warmth that you might see from him, in scenes such as the one where he is talking to eren after the court case, is very much with a objective in mind. after all, that sort of warmth really does contrast to that one scene where mike and he are talking in his office, if that makes sense. i rather don’t think he reaches out personally as often as some people think he does.

that being said, he will do what it takes to be successful. his ambition is bigger than he, he thinks … & so, yes, he will manipulate those he is close to. & this is where i’m going to jump to a lot of the talk i see about erwin being right or wrong when he enlisted levi to join the corps. first of all, he was technically acting as a law figure. if he were a vigilante coming out of nowhere to make a deal, with levi, that would be one thing. but, he is acting legally ( though, just barely ). in my eyes, if the military police had caught levi & the crew, they could be executed. survey corps is a nice compromise — so i hardly don’t think it has anything to do with manipulating levi there. mind you, levi also signed on knowing that his target was erwin … & erwin was aiming for a success, though he did have an advantage in knowing that levi & co. were looking for the papers. that entire ordeal was literally a one on one battle for dominance… which ended on a stalemate. consequently, there’s no big manipulation scheme there. yet, that whole bit where erwin is yelling about titans being to blame for isabel & farlan’s deaths … yes, that’s blatant manipulation. you can see my meta of it here  … but levi is not following that shit blindly. he sees a point that erwin is making, & he also is not gonna immediately trust erwin after all that. there’s a part somewhere in canon, i think, where levi says something along the lines of following erwin  in part to figure out his angle.  i think that’s valid. erwin never offers his true angle. his every move is very political in what he does & doesn’t reveal. there are a lot of half truths coming from him.

erwin’s father died because erwin told people about his father’s theories. i think that erwin was clearly very suspicious of the government from that point, & he’s not going to make the same mistake twice. while he might have told people as a recruit that he wanted to learn the truth about titans, he’s not going to hint at his mistrust of the government or anything like that again … not until the coup. that is a missing angle that is essential towards erwin’s ambiguity … & i rather think that erwin uses this desire to learn the truth sorta of merges with the desire to defeat the titans for humanity. after all, everyone has their own personal reasons for fighting – whether it be family or poverty or intrigue or indignity which reminds them of what humanity deserves, if that makes sense.

erwin’s monologue in the recent chapter is riddled with biased. the man’s depressed, & he’s been off kilter since he lost his arm … & since he spent a while chained up in a dungeon cell. you can’t exactly take him for his word at that part, tbh. he has good intentions, but he is certainly antagonizing himself.

he sees himself as a dead man walking and has been waiting to die for a long time.

                  because i’m on break & because i’m not the most active blog on here or on  @capxre​  … i thought a good way to try & give back to the community would be to do a mini theme giveaway for the winter season. i have a lot of fun doing themes, so here’s this! i really enjoy seeing everyone on my dash, & i honestly think everyone has such gorgeous writing styles that it’s truly an inspiration. happy december!             you must be either following me at @xdeified​ or at @capxre. you must be a roleplay blog.  you must either like or reblog this post. or both. though, tbh, i’m only counting each person one time. this post must reach at least twenty notes. this ends  january 1st at 12:00 pm, central time. 

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