#aot 139

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1.) I’m half-and-half with Eren’s little breakdown here. For one, for the first time in forever does he behave like the old honest Eren he used to be. But in the other hand, does sound selfish for not wanting Mikasa to move on from him. Either way, it’s just personally satisfying to see him express emotions for a change.

2.) What’s also satisfying despite the context is seeing Historia with her daughter. Yes, the pregnancy did sideline her character and started some wars between certain fans, but you can’t deny that Historia being a more caring mother than her own ever was brings joy.

3.) I kinda like the idea of the surviving scouts and warriors becoming ambassadors in the end; still a bit skeptical on the latter being a part of it, but it had been three years so they probably had a lot of talking. I honestly can’t think of any other outcome for them while the world is still in little shambles, just live normal lives away from the conflict? Yeah right.

Despite the amount of times I had drawn him, I still don’t fully get him. It could be that I’m too dumb or too much of a casual fan for deep analysis, but AOT has failed to conclude his character for me.

To me Eren is a deeply traumatized individual who failed to mature. He’s a self-righteous man child. But there’s also some ancient evil yadayada messing with his head that isayama couldn’t clear up it up for me, so at this point I still don’t know why eren committed rumbling.

Interestingly, this shows in my art HAHA.

Most of my eremin art is seen from armin’s POV, eren remains either a mystery or partially seen. Eren from Armin’s POV works better in my drawings bc he’s an incomplete character, a huge mystery even, he makes no sense to me sometimes, but above all he’s a symbol of doom and rage.

(“POV” is rather vague in illustrations esp when a lot of them can be objective. To me POV applies when the drawing leans toward one character’s bias, feelings, and how they see things.)

Here’s an example of Eren from Armin’s POV:

Altho one thing I understand for sure is his relationship with armin, the way he idolizes and adores him, putting him on the pedestrian (and doom him in the process)

My Eren’s POV art:

I recently saw a post on reddit that gave me new perspective on the scene between Eren and Armin in paths and It improves it for me, so I needed to share these thoughts. I haven't watched the scene in a minute; so, sorry if I get somethings a bit wrong here. Ok, During the rumbling we see Eren's mind/conscious revert back to when he was a child. He is dissociating, and believes he is experiencing freedom. (This is not a new perspective to me, but it's necessary to mention it) During the 'Eren Armin paths' scene Armin asks Eren if he started the rumbling so that they (his friends) could stop him and be the worlds heroes. To which Eren replies yea that's right. But, Eren eventually reveals that even if he didn't know his friends would survive he would still continue the rumbling or still could not stop himself. Armin then asks why, and Eren replies that he doesn't know, he just had to, he wanted to very badly.