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YO HELLO ANON THANK YOU FOR THE REQUEST

i’m afraid i can’t really draw pregnant people bc pregnancy as a whole kinda freaks me out- so yeah sorry hope you enjoy these newly parents eyepatch buddies levihan looking at their baby just as much tho 🥺

Ok, putting aside whatever we feel about Hange’s death for a minute, let’s look at the last Levihan bits we did get in this last chapter.

First of all...

Levi says “Have you been watching?”

Levi asked Hange to watch them in 132. So, here he acknowledges it again. And guess what? She’s there watching all this while. He also said “Seeya, Hange” back in 132 and here he gets to see her again one more time. His facial expression before it shows their panel is also sad but even slightly warm. As if looking at a familiar sight that he loves. Then we see her face. Erwin and the others are there too. They look at peace. It’s so nice to see. But Hange...her eyes are sad. Her face is full of longing maybe? I’m sure she wishes she could be there with him. That they could have spent their lives together.

Then they fade out and Levi salutes while crying with a faint smile. On the upper panel on the left, we see the wings of freedom symbol. Maybe it’s the back of someone’s cape? The last person to fade out? Maybe Hange’s?

Maybe this was the biggest plot twist in AoT afterall

They've all been watching over you Levi. They're proud of your bravery and contribution to humanity and to giving meaning to their deaths. Their deaths were not in vain because of you :')

No.

Eren might be like this,

But he’s also this.

Eren was pitted against two choices: a) Let the world trample Paradis, or b) Wipe out the rest of the world. Choice a) is bad for his people, but at least innocent lives outside Paradis will be spared. Choice b) is good for his people, but so much innocent people will be lost.

Eren is in despair. He truly believes wiping out the rest of the world is the best course of action, but he’s painfully aware that it’s wrong. He finally understand why Reiner is such an half-assed bastard, but he can’t say that since he’s much worse than him; Reiner broke down the walls to save the world, while Eren is willing to do genocide because of his selfish desire to do so. The guilt is eating him alive.

At this lowest point of his life, Mikasa came.

He wondered why Mikasa always sticks to this good-for-nothing guy, who’s about to massacre the rest of the world. What did she see in him? Why did she choose him? Depending on her answer, he might stop. This is where Mikasa’s confession plays a big role, because he was so tired of it all, he’s hanging on to Mikasa’s answer for dear life. 

Well, she ended up with this answer so he had to move on with his initial plan. But look, if you’re suffering this much, who wouldn’t want to run away? Especially with your loved ones?

If only she gave a different answer, he’d run away with her, to a secluded place where no one can reach them, forget about it all, and live the rest of their lives in peace.

Of course, this is just what Eren wished in the spur of moment, just like Armin who’s so tired, he wished to sleep 2 days straight. The alternative timeline merely shows us what would Eren do if Mikasa gave him another answer; doesn’t necessarily mean he’d be happy with it, or it’d give a better outcome. Even if this alt. scenario happened, he still wouldn’t be able to live with himself due to greater regrets.

Paradis would be fucked up, he left Armin, Jean, and Connie to fight alone, he would disappoint Historia who already surrender herself to have a child -just to support Eren’s plan; all the sacrifices in Liberio would be for nothing.

He thought it’s selfish of him to fulfill his own desire and abandon his responsibility. That’s why he chose the answer with the least regret: Genocide.

Even then, it’s not like his regret disappeared.

He regrets putting the Scouts and his friends into danger,

He regrets killing innocent lives,

so much that he imagined himself as a child reaching for his dream, to cope with his trauma.

This is where Reiner comes into play, because he’s the one who understand Eren’s situation the most.

Eren will keep moving forward, until he eliminated all his enemies.  He will keep moving forward, until someone stops him, just like how it used to be.

TLDR; Eren is a complex character with a lot of layers. They say action speaks louder than words, but that’s not always the case. Sometimes, the unspeakable words IS the true feeling. Our action does not reflect our feeling or what we wished for. So no, chapter 138 is NOT a disservice on Eren’s character. 

I love that SNK has always been about the fact that we don’t have to do anything grand or have any specific purpose in life to live a life worth living. From “he’s already special because he was born into this world” to Eren always chasing after freedom “because I was born into this world” to this chapter where Armin voices how he thinks he was born to live those simple, trivial moments where he enjoyed things/his friends, they may not seem like anything spectacular but it’s precious to him and then finally, having even Zeke who still wants to euthanize Eldians, realize that life is worth living for the one moment he enjoyed–this message has always been clearly repeated in this story and it’s beautiful.

Despite how cruel the world is, despite all the pain, suffering and actual hell they live through, there is beauty. Beauty in the small moments, beauty in people most important to you and spending it with them even doing something as simple as walking together or playing ball–it’s not significant, it doesn’t always have to be something major or even something that changed the world, but it can still be precious. And THAT right there is why this story is so powerful, so beautiful. A message that gives hope, that shows that hope exists even when the world is ending, just like how Armin says his friends are still trying to fight and haven’t given up because in spite of everyone that has died, there’s still those that haven’t.

Life is worth living because they are born into this world, because there are things they enjoyed that they still remember even if it’s trivial. Even Zeke admits that he wouldn’t mind being born again and he wishes he realized that there was beauty in the day earlier. And I think that realization gave Zeke a well ended death (I never even liked him personally, but he died well and it was meaningful).

Speaking about the characters, I feel they are absolutely who they have always been. They all play their role, they all did what they had to do. Armin. Jean. Reiner. Etc. And yes, Levi, too. I’ve seen so much criticism about Levi not making the correct “face/expression” or how he killed Zeke without hesitation, but his shock features make perfect sense to me.

This is not Levi killing the “monster” he’s always been going after time and time again, this is not the “beast” that tried to kill Levi. In these last moments of Zeke waving him over, this is Levi killing a human being. *Another* human, not a monster. This isn’t a fight the way it was all the times before, this is purely one-sided Zeke inviting Levi to kill him and simply Levi doing what he has always had to do. Zeke is truly just another sad human that Levi has to kill (one of many he has killed time and time before), and when Levi kills him it’s not a “I finally killed the monster” reaction, but a “this is another sad human I have to kill to end this war” and it’s fitting.

They are quite literally in the middle of the end of the world, rumbling and all happening around them, so even IF it’s obvious to Levi that this isn’t a battle, that this is Zeke letting him kill him without putting up a fight, Levi knows what he has to do, so he does so. Their world has always been about split second decisions, no hesitation, no regretting the choices you make but making them on the spot because it can literally be between life and death as we have seen over and over. In this case, they’ve literally said in the previous chapters that the beast titan is their goal, that “maybe if we kill Zeke, it will stop the rumbling”.

So yes, when Zeke appears, of course he’s just going to kill him without hesitation. They don’t have time to hesitate and they surely don’t have time to “talk” to Zeke. It’s not even about just fulfilling a promise or what people like to say “Levi only cares about killing the beast titan now”, it’s about the fact that they’re trying to stop the rumbling here. What he did makes sense narratively and it’s who he’s always been. Also I completely disagree with those saying Levi has lost his purpose now because Zeke is dead, so he can die. Death is not freedom. Death is not happiness. They did not all fight so that they can die.

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Aot fandom:

It works way better than Levi giving up on his promise because that was never the point of his character arc.

No thoughts. Head empty. Just Levihan.

I'm so emotional by Levi's monologue this chapter. It took us 84 years but it's finally here and all this time I knew it's going to break me. Levi is giving his all to humanity because that's what they always fought for. That's what his comrades devoted their hearts for. His comrades and their goals are still the center of his thoughts and no matter what happens he won't give up on honoring their sacrifice. That's grand, really grand. He's not regretting letting Erwin go and entrusting the duty to Armin because he knew he's going to be the savior of humanity.

It's just so emotional, for this is most likely a death flag for him and again I'm not at all ready for it; however, I'm just so glad we got to see another precious moment with all the veterans dreaming about a better world even though it was just in Levi's imagination. I also love how a special panel was dedicated to Levi's closest and most dear people aka Hanji and Erwin in his life. I still believe he deserves happiness and a life post-war. Idk what Isayama is planning. Levi's story might go everywhere but one thing I'm sure of is HE'S NEVER GONNA GIVE UP ON SAVING HUMANITY AND HONORING HIS DEAD COMRADES.