Eren’s key

growing up with a father like hers and then training in the warriors unit was a very harsh experience. annie is seen as an emotionless woman and yet she is the warrior that cries the most out of everyone.

she cried when they took eren from her, realising that she killed a big amount of people for nothing and that she couldn’t go back to her father because the mission wasn’t done yet.

annie is a very strong and independent woman and crying isn’t seen as a weakness in her eyes. annie cries, annie gets frustrated, annie gets mad.

also in this scene she feels SO upset that not only she is crying, but the titan itself. i think it reflects well enough how deep her pain is.

she cries when she gets defeated and realises that she needs to crystallise herself to survive: she doesn’t know if her comrades will save her or when she’ll have the occasion to get out safely. she thought she could finally go home and see her father, but her only wish (and reason to keep living) now looks so far.

Thanks to @imthearmored for putting the idea of men eating mer-warriors in my brain. Now I can't stop thinking about Eren not knowing about himself and freaking out the first time he growns a tail.

Some notes :

>Annie is based loosely off of a lion fish because they are too much of a menace for their size and that's fucked up

>sharks get very bad rep and also get routinely bullied by other sea menaces and that felt kinda fitting for Reiner (on that note killer whale Eren would be so funny)

He’s definitely muscular and fit of course I’m not saying that he’s not (man started training for the Recon Corp at age 12, and we’ve seen him shirtless multiple times lmao) but the fandom just mischaracterizes him soooo much. He’s not an alpha chad. He’s a teenager. He never even made it to age 20.

This also reminds me of pre-season 4 when EVERYONE was saying he would be homophobic/transphobic/racist/etc etc, people would also say he would be an annoying highlighter shirt boy that assaults women and moans in class in modern times and like… what? Not only does his canon modern self not act like that at all but like… even if it didn’t exist, did you watch/read the series with your eyes closed?? 😭