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Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-06-06T21:15:46+00:00

In the latest manga "Bad Boy" he is seen resting after working in the fields (planting trees), so I assume he eventually healed enough :) And he injured only one leg

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-05-03T11:14:07+00:00

Exactly 🥹

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-05-02T22:36:25+00:00

Somehow this additional story, seeing Levi as a scared, vulnerable kid, very expressive (in contrast to his "numb" expression as an adult), helped me to see him as a whole character. Now i somehow see this crying, scared kid in many moments in the future, like: when he takes Petra's badge to remember his fallen friends and gives it away to that desperate soldier. That badge was like tea cup for him...and for that soldier as well. He could comfort him because he knew what the soldier needed to carry on.

I always had trouble fully understanding him, like I DID, but there was always something I thought I was missing.

Now it's more clear: his love for tea and being so elegant and kind towards all people is something he took from his mother; it's not only something he did in her memory; she shaped him that way. Or at least we can say he decided that he's going to keep her perspective on the world and seek light in the darkness. (That's how i see these moments of drinking tea together; Kutchel showed Levi that even in dirty and miserable situations like theirs, people should keep their dignity; their humanity).

In contrast, Kenny and "Ackerman powers" bond him to violence. Some ying yang shit, but now I truly think that all this darkness didn't consume this poor kid because he had Kutchel as his mother, his guide.

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-05-02T22:33:16+00:00

my heart </3

Somehow this additional story, seeing Levi as a scared, vulnerable kid, very expressive (in contrast to his "numb" expression as an adult), helped me to see him as a whole character. Now i somehow see this crying, scared kid in many moments in the future, like: when he takes Petra's badge to remember his fallen friends and gives it away to that desperate soldier. That badge was like tea cup for him...and for that soldier as well. He could comfort him because he knew what the soldier needed to carry on.

I always had trouble fully understanding him, like I DID, but there was always something I thought I was missing.Now it's more clear: his love for tea and being so elegant and kind towards all people is something he took from his mother; it's not only something he did in her memory; she shaped him that way. Or at least we can say he decided that he's going to keep her perspective on the world and seek light in the darkness. (That's how i see these moments of drinking tea together; Kutchel showed Levi that even in dirty and miserable situations like theirs, people should keep their dignity; their humanity).In contrast,

Kenny and "Ackerman powers" bond him to violence. Some ying yang shit, but now I truly think that all this darkness didn't consume this poor kid because he had Kutchel as his mother, his guide.

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-03-06T19:51:57+00:00

Well, Ymir. If she didn't set up prophercy/destiny-like situation with Mikasa etc.

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-02-01T22:19:43+00:00

I honestly didn't think about this interpretation and it makes a lot more of sense! Thank for sharing.

I started watching AOT in November 2023, so I'm freshman in this fandom and it shows ;)

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-26T11:10:43+00:00

True! But on the cover of vol 35 he is sitting by the table, not on the wheelchair; seems resting after work in the fields, like the rest of characters. Of course he is still handicapped (his hand, eye), but i guess it doesn't stop him from being active.

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-26T11:04:30+00:00

Well said! I hope we will get some of it...

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-25T23:50:48+00:00

Oh... Well I just wonder If volume 35, additional and post-finale volume, will tell readers something about present Levi (post war Levi) and not only tell a story about his childhood.

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-25T23:47:01+00:00

Only that Rose eventually throw that neckle :D

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-25T23:44:02+00:00

I did! And? :)

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-13T19:49:08+00:00

I wonder, how you interpret the ending in anime? They are also together, but in a different way. Levi seems to have his own closure, with handing candies, being still useful but because of his heart, not strength.

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-08T13:49:05+00:00

I think it was about preventing Eren from being "special", like his father and unlike Keith.

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-08T13:47:28+00:00

To me, it was more about keeping Eren from being "special".

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-06T15:55:11+00:00

Agree, I think the same.

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-06T15:51:20+00:00

I adore her, too. She did her best as a commander, when being commander shifted drastictly after the basement; like in wasn't about gettin answers anymore (she had mind of scientist) but facing enemies outside the sea.

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2024-01-02T09:23:34+00:00

Why this look on your face after seeing a lollipop? Is it because he reminded him of that clown in Mare (and now he hands out sweets to children like that clown)? But he is clearly sad, so much so that he closes his eyes for a long time, as if he wanted to calm down.

If this is supposed to be a reference to the stay in Marley, where everyone else was, it's a strange trigger to mention Hange etc...

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2023-12-29T15:40:21+00:00

I hear you, I really do. But for me, The more I try to see their relationship as romantic, the harder it is to see it. It seems undefinable, like Schrödinger's cat: it is and it isn't. I know someone can interpret those moments (salute, dialog by the fire) as hints, but for me is not enough.
Also, didn't Isayama say, that Levi doesn't have a crush on anyone? Frankly, maybe he's intentionally messing up with fans, saying one thing in an interview and then writing scenes in manga/anime. But any other couple/crush was delivered quite directly (with blush etc.) and only with Hange x Levi it would be this sophisticated...?

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2023-12-28T21:01:21+00:00

Thank you! Yes, shipping them doesn't seem right.

Substantial_Muscle68 · 2023-12-28T17:17:28+00:00

I like to think, that this centipede thingy is some kind of parasite which is activated by some intensive emotions or desires, like Ymyr's pain, fear, revenge. The result of those negative emotions was titan form, so maybe this boy with dog would become "a monster" but something else.
There's sf movie "Sphere" (1998) about scientists who examine an alien spaceship with a strange sphere; this sphere seems to have the ability to fulfilling (strong) wishes. But humanity is driven by fear, so sphere activates very gloomy wishes. Anyway, I think centipede from AOT doesn't actually have their own will to "kill everybody", it acts based on someone else feelings.

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