#levihan.thoughts

“haha, i never thought i’d hear you say that!”

from levi that must’ve been a big gesture.

in all the heaviness of that scene in 132, i’ve never thought about it in terms of the several other parallels from the rumbling arc to moments in season one (like armin defending mikasa and eren -> the remaining eldians), but it works well as a reflection of levi’s first fighting appearance.

he's forced on petra's role, because hange's death is something the others can't accept like levi can.

there's also no one truly left he can 'swear' to like hange. they've known each other for several years, and he's the last of the survey corps members that served before discovering the sea, which there's a stark difference between.

levi is also more reticent than ever, which speaks to everything he's lost and how much pain he's in.

also Call of Silence...

hange to eruri

it's not stupid?😭that's basically the basis of fanfiction... making things happen that didn't, or the author didn't plan to happen.

yes that's an answer from the 15th anniversary interview. about hange studying human history, i assume you're talking about the smartpass where hange is interviewed? just curious

there is no more survey corps after the titan curse is gone, or MP, or garrison - just the alliance, and the army of paradis. the alliance is what they're (armin and co) unofficially called during the rumbling arc, and after that, the title something along those lines. so hange would technically be relieved of duty.

however they would be expected to lead the peace alliance, taking armin's place. what's interesting is, in the last scene where they're headed to the conference? - tribunal? - it's established that armin is going to explain all that happened. and, armin's voice is the one narrating in the anime whenever there is one. it's interesting to imagine hange in that role.

since hange was given the position by erwin, and armin was given it by hange, i'm sure hange would've went about seeking peace in the exact same way. that's what they lament for almost the entirety of season 4, how they can't simply talk with their enemies in hopes of understanding each other.

whether levi and hange would acknowledge what they told levi about living together, i very very much doubt it lol. or they're not the type of characters who talk about things like that. at the time, levi didn't acknowledge the sentiment at all, simply telling hange that they could never stay out of the action. the implication is how well levi knows them, and his soft tone and expression as well.

back in the underground, whenever levi and co were doing a heist (or you know the day to day activity of running from military police), and levi was on ODM, tasked with finding isabel, her only signal was to shout with her arms raised and bent above her head in a heart shape. doesn’t matter the context. she’s in some trouble? levi or farlan gets the heart signal. it’s morning and isabel is wandering out to greet them? she stretches and gives them both a heart, and yells “MORNIN!” much to levi’s continued annoyance.

so unnecessary, so cheesy, levi is allergic to affection, etc.

but after they died, he still remembered a lot of those moments a lot, but for no reason he can really name. he gets viscerally embarrassed at the idea of doing something so dumb.

hange though never failed to remind levi of isabel in a lot of ways, especially in how silly and upbeat they were, and isabel before she died.

to some degree, hange did die after retaking shiganshina - their spontaneous and carefree spirit mostly extinguished by the trauma, crippling responsibility, and the morbid reality ahead of them.

levi notices, because he notices everything. but levi? - not that great at the whole “cheering up” skill.

but one night, they’re together, and hange is slumped on the couch in their quarters with him. exhausted, but not in the way that can be helped by sleep. it takes, like, a whole fifteen minutes of sitting in relative silence for levi to psych himself up enough to finally, maybe, put what isabel unintentionally taught him to use for the first time ever.

he never imagined he would. but it’s hange.

so he sits up on the couch, back against the side cushion and grumbles their name real shyly. he’s actually nervous. but he’s in too deep to turn back now that hange is giving him an inquisitive look.

so he raises his arms and does the stupid mushy painfully cute heart thing.

their eyes widen, and in a split-second levi decides it’s worth it. because he hadn’t heard them giggle so brightly, or throw their head back laughing like they used to in years.

it looks like this btw:

ft. Hange calling Levi edgy and Levi dropping PAINFUL foreshadowing😭

noticed hange is facing right and the right side of their face has a suspicious LINE of water below their eye, coming from nowhere near their hair