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.
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Isayama said that if Hange lived they'd not have settled like Levi,Gabi and Falco. I think they would have started to work om what they wanted the most. In an interview Hange said that they want to study human's history. But I don't think Hange would have been able to do that right away because tye state the world is in...also they'd still be the SC commander so I don't know how that would've worked. Would they've taken the path Armin jas taken to achieve peace?(I mean yes they wanted peace but would they try to achieve that the same way). Also since they told Levi about living together...when the war was over how would things happen between then would he bring that up or act like it was never said?. I know that this is a stupid question/wonder since the story didn't and was not supposed to go that way.
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.
so the two of them definitely wouldn't acknowledge it directly if you ask me. the rest is up to interpretation, or simply coming up with plausible scenarios lol. hence... fanfiction :)
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.
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Truly cannot imagine how vulnerable and powerless levi felt in that forest with hange. Having no choice but to let them take care of him. And i know hange was all he had but he trusted them 100 percent to make sure he’s taken cared of im sobbing
the way they made him lay back down after he woke up immediately asking where zeke is and he LET THEM😭❤️if it was anyone else (who was still alive…?) i think he would’ve been a lot more cagey/reluctant
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
noticed levi is facing left so only the left part of his face is visible. could an identical tear track line of water be streaming below his right eye……?