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Erwin: Marie, Nile Dawk's wife, is coming over for tea tomorrow at my house. Would you like to come by and meet her?

Levi: Tsk, what, she's not getting enough Nile Cock?

Erwin, stopping dead in his tracks: Levi, PLEASE--

Levi, sniggering at himself: Heheuh come on, that's funny. I can't wait to see h--

because Frieda was picking flowers as a way to congratulate him on his soon to be born baby. But Marie actually thinks this is serious so he needs to fix it. So Hannes offers to help

and by “help” I mean he has Isle write an article saying Nile couldn’t be cheating with a younger when because he only likes much older women.

But then Pixis offers to help and of course being Pixis...

he has an article written about how Nile is actially only interested in titans.

So then Zackly offers to help...

Adorable ♥ socks!!

Meanwhile Marie still won’t let him back in the house. So Erwin offers to help not with an article, but by getting Marie to let him back in to talk. But they start fighting when she’s out of the room and when she comes back....

Ok, I’m going to preface this answer by saying that I’m deeply uncomfortable with marriage being held up as the apotheosis of adult relationships. Certainly marriage works for some people, many people in fact, but I don’t believe it’s necessarily something that everyone should be expected to aspire to. Relationships can take many, many forms and I think people would be a lot happier if they accepted that.

Right, now we’ve got that out of the way, I’m curious about your suggestion that Erwin would have wanted to marry Marie and that this would have brought him all the happiness in the world.  In the manga, Erwin mentions Marie only once, when he tells Nile in chapter 53 that he was “quite taken” with her. The whole point of that conversation is to remind Nile that the life he has chosen; marriage, children, protecting his family rather than fighting for Humanity as a whole, is a path that Erwin and those who died before him couldn’t have chosen even if they’d wanted to.  The reason being that Erwin can see the bigger picture, and he knows that unless things change, Nile won’t be able to protect his family, no matter how much he follows his orders, and sadly the most recent chapter of the manga has borne tragic witness to that. So no, I don’t think Erwin could have easily married Marie and lived the life that Nile lived, because he would always have known that he was living a lie. 

Of course there’s also the Smartpass Close-Up Interview with Erwin and Levi where they are asked by a journalist what they would do when there are no more battles left to fight, what their dreams for the future are.  Erwin initially avoids the question but when pressed by Levi, who is quite obviously teasing him, he says “As for me…right. Retire to a reclusive area, or maybe have a family”.  To which Levi responds “Your kids won’t be cute for sure.” The whole exchange is obviously flippant, however Erwin does make the same serious point that he makes to Nile in chapter 53, that “the realization of our own dreams is less important than building a world for people, a place where humans can accomplish their own dreams.”  It’s an interesting interview and worth rereading, as it’s quite revealing about Erwin and Levi’s characters and their relationship with each other.

I absolutely do agree that Erwin struggled with an immense burden of guilt over all the lives that were lost under his command, and his desire to prove his father’s theories true, however I disagree strongly that Erwin was lonely.  The one saving grace in Erwin’s life was that he had a small but close group of friends who respected and supported him; Mike, Hanji, Nile, and of course Levi.  However you interpret Erwin and Levi’s relationship; lovers, friends, comrades, brothers in arms, it’s impossible to deny that they had a deep and close relationship based on mutual trust and respect.  Erwin recruited Levi into the Survey Corps, created a rank for him, they fought side by side for years, they shared private meals together after expeditions, and, if the recent USJ exhibition is to be believed, shared a room together.  Levi’s trust in Erwin never wavered, he supported him through thick and thin, eased the burden of his guilt and despair, and stayed by his side until the bitter end.  I think the fact that Erwin died with his two closest friends by his side is testament to the strength of that friendship.  So yes, Erwin’s life was tragic, but one thing it wasn’t was lonely.

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