Clicked Isabel And Furlan For Obvious Reasons But A Death Im Equally Never Going To Get Over Is Nanaba

Clicked Isabel and Furlan for obvious reasons but a death I’m equally never going to get over is Nanaba failing to save Gingar and feeling so helpless that in her last moments alive flashes back to her dad abusing her

Thank you sm for your response, and such a thoughtful response! Your understanding of Erwin is one of the more well-rounded takes I’ve heard; people claiming him to be either a badass or a monster, much like in the show itself. Personally I think I’ll always lean towards the latter due to his blasé attitude towards sacrifice, tho I do understand how he got there. He is a flawed and painfully human character whose heart is in the right place more times than it isn’t, even when it leads him to do some unsavoury things

That analysis post about why Levi likes tea so much reminded me, with this panel, of something I also don't think people fully understand. Which is why Levi was so angry at Erwin at first, and why he was so out for his blood.

It's because he threatens Furlan's and Isabel's lives here. He orders his men to hold their swords to their throats, simply because Levi had refused at first to give him his name. Levi's belligerence on that front is rooted, I think, in how Erwin and his men are treating him and his friends. Having them down on their knees, in the filth and mud, with their arms bound behind their backs, making demands of them all the while. It's made worse when Erwin orders Mike to push Levi's face into the sewage. And that's what it is. It's sewage, not simply mud. You can see it coming out of the drain pipes. Levi was deeply upset by this, and understandably so. Putting someone's face into a puddle of sewage is a ghastly thing to do, especially when one really considers what the consequences of something like that could be. There's all sorts of diseases one could contract from inhaling that kind of filthy water. But it's what happens next that I think really drove Levi to wanting to kill Erwin.

Isabel is certain that the scouts are going to kill them in the above panel, and in a show of defiance, tells them to just get it over with. Furlan's face is frozen in fear, sweat trickling down it, because he feels the threat is real too.

But look at Levi's face.

Where before he'd only been angry, here, he's horrified, shocked and frightened. He realizes, suddenly, that Erwin isn't just capable of humiliating them, but seemingly willing to take their lives if he doesn't comply. He's threatening the only two people Levi has in his life. The only two people he's ever been able to call friend, and really, are more like his family. The two people he's done all he can to protect in the dangerous world of the Underground City. Basically, the two people he lives for.

I think some people tend to think Levi wanted to kill Erwin over wounded pride. Even just calling what Erwin did, before ordering his men to hold their blades to Isabel's and Furlan's throats, a case of wounded pride is an understatement, I think. He thoroughly humiliated Levi and his friends, and treated them inhumanely, as if they had no rights or autonomy. But it really wasn't that which drove Levi toward wanting to kill Erwin. It was that Erwin presented himself as a threat to his family.

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Levi Ackerman

Whether it was intentional or not I’ll never get over how this soldier looks like Furlan 🥺🥺

Levi, Levi, Levi

He doesn't berate the soldier who openly disobeyed his orders and caused the Titans to attack. He doesn't punish him even though bodies of the deceased had to be forsaken. He doesn't say "I told you so" even though Dieter is responsible for the fact that Eld, Petra, Oruo and Gunter won't have a proper burial. He doesn't do any of that. Instead he gives him something to hold onto.

He offers him hope that it wasn’t all in vain.

“They say stars actually go round and round in the sky – is that true?”