The Medicine Seller.

Zeke actually feels sorry for all his victims. He treats this like a baseball game as coping mechanism (humor as coping mechanism during war is a thing that happens in real life as well and it is historically documented). He takes his cause seriously.  Jean tried to do the same in ch 77, when he believed he had killed Reiner, and I’m sad no one noticed. 

I’m not the one supporting it, it’s a concept ingrained in japanese culture and it is clearly indispensable to understand what just happened in the narrative.Anyway

It definitely doesn’t ring false, not even in this chapter. About the hopeless ending and its links with EM’s behavior:

I was able to find the raws and Hans has a really passive-aggressive tone in the original japanese as well. Definitely throwing shade at Levi.

Your translation was more accurate with nuance “don’t get full of yourself” or “don’t flatter yourself”. I am Japanese person so maybe I am too picky 😂 I get mad when my language is translated wrong or when missing nuance

This is because a father-son relationship has been hinted between Grisha-Zeke for quite a long time now. Since many chapters ago. I think it may be hard to catch in the English translations, but in the jp raws there is an implication that Zeke is talking about Grisha when he refers to his father. He refers to Grisha very familiarly and uses a word that can only be used when referring to your own father and not someone else’s.

Since then it has been assumed in the jp fandom that Zeke and Eren are probably half-brothers, so the photo wasn’t that much of a surprise to them :)

1. be tired and empty

2. act reckless

3. embrace death

……….

Mikasa was suicidal when she thought Eren died. She had renewed will to keep living only because Eren himself told her in the past to ‘live!’ and 'fight!’. So she did.

Then there’s Kenny. When Rod told him only a Reiss could inherit Uri's memories, you can literally see the exact moment it dawns on Kenny and his face darkens. It never occurred to me the first time I read that, but that was the very moment Kenny lost his will to live, and it’s illustrated so clearly on-panel.

–“I will accept any punishment” Eren says and Hange shoots back “Of course you will be punished by military law. But do you think that’ll suffice just because you receive punishment?” Hange says clearly “I believe Erwin should have been injected” and Levi says clearly “I allowed Erwin to die out of personal feelings, and that’s why I injected you in the end” Thank god ❤️–

Eren is so scared omg look how much he jump

According to Hans’ speech and Isayama’s blog post, the last few chapters have been about inevitable farewells from loved ones and being able to accept them. Levi was able to accept it. That’s the point. I have never had any problem with his choice because Isayama is trying to tell us that life and death is a cycle, death comes for everyone, everyone has to say goodbye eventually, and you need to accept it. Death came for Erwin, Armin and Moblit on the SC side. Levi accepted the death of his loved one and Erwin was able to pass on in peace. Hans accepted Moblit’s death too. But no one accepted Armin’s death, no one let nature take its course. Instead they took Bert’s life and traded it for his. This IS framed as unnatural and means bad things are most likely on their way for humanity.

I assume you’re talking about these two panels?

I admit, I was so confused at first because of the few pages we’ve got and me trying to make a sense of the mess since… last chapter actually. But yeah, we have: 1) the CT decomposing and 2) Bertolt’s shocked expression when pulled away from his titan. On top of the CT completely decomposing, we have the last panel of chapter 83 where we can see a remote object emitting smoke.

The Colossal Titan’s carcass - Ch. 83

Also, not only that, but from this chapter’s pictures (from @yonkouproductions):

Assuming Armin wakes up between these panels, it’s easy to assume the black background is just an hallucination, as well as the CT’s carcass and the tear. On top of that, there was another source I lost, where Armin basically couldn’t remember anything involving the CT. Memories of it were also covered by Sasha’s cries of pain, as if Bertolt’s dying in probably one of the most atrocious ways was carved deep into his subconscious.

Not only that but we still need to cover a good chunk of the chapter. So Armin’s reaction is probably going to be further elongated. Especially when he was absent from the basement party.

So yeah, this is definitely an hallucination, horror-vision, with Bertolt’s ghost screaming how painful his state is. That’s really sad he couldn’t find peace with himself and for probably the whole afterlife. From what I’ve seen from bits the chapter, not a single ounce of sympathy was given for him. So Armin, I’m counting on you? Reiner’s not mentioned here and probably deserted.

The colossal titan’s head is pretty cool though, with Armin in front of it, the crying eye “you were my friend (at some point) coconut jesus ! you ate me “XD

Of course it’s Bertold! It’s likely that he started crying when he was suddenly and forcefully dragged out his titan shelf. The titan started decomposing/disappearing, but the ghost of Bert’s last emotion was basically sculpted there and persisted. Just imagine how sad he was.