Give Your Hearts

but can you prove it

anonymous: You only view your soldiers as cannon fodder.

“Every single one of these men is worth more alive than dead. I do not wish for their deaths, but risking their lives is the only way forward.”  

anonymous: do you feel any responsibility or warmth for the younger soldiers in your command? do you feel you have to be a role-model for them?

“Responsibility, yes, as I feel towards all of my subordinates. As Commander, I owe it to my soldiers to lead competently, and towards the goal we are all fighting for, but that is the extent of my responsibility. Anything beyond that is a dangerous road to go down.”

“People don’t join the Survey Corps for fun. We’re ridiculed within the walls, and we experience terror beyond what you can imagine outside of them. The soldiers that join our branch do so because they want to achieve something, freedom for humanity, and they entrust their lives to me to get that freedom. If I got attached and selfishly put their lives above our cause, or sheltered them like children, I would have failed them.”

but can you prove it

@alphahydrii​: Erwin did you finish the milk and leave the bottle in the fridge? (I k n o w  you did)

“We never consider ourselves murderers of those we fail to save. Even as we were, those of us who joined the Corps knew the terror of the titans - we wouldn’t be fighting to rid the world of them if we didn’t understand. Death comes with the job. Clearly he must have known that as well.”

but can you prove it

anonymous: I heard that Erwin is actually two Levi-sized people stacked on top of each other under a trenchcoat.

“I can assure you that my head and all my limbs are, at the moment at least, firmly connected to the same single torso.”

“Now that I’m thinking about it though, Mike...”  

anonymous:  You killed your commander, didn't you?