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I think besides levi's ending ( because in my opinion it's very tragic and the saddest ending in this manga that he lost everything even his ability to walk and his eye and his fingers and all of his friends and comrades and family members )

But now I want to highlight another endings that makes me feel bad , but not because they are tragic and sad like Levi not at all , but because they are PATHETIC which it's jean and historia endings because in my opinion ? There is nothing worse than being stuck in a loveless marriage like seriously that's my nightmare seeing their endings was like a torture to me because they are weird and uncomfortable and clearly unhealthy

1 Now let's start with jean's ending first

it was confirmed that jean married mikasa and now let's see if their marriage makes sense or not

first they didn't have any dynamic they didn't talk to each other at all and even jean had to remind her that " not everyone wants to die for eren like her " because her obsession reached a dangerous level , anyway it's clear that mikasa never loved jean and cared for him , even isayama said " he is nothing in her eyes " she only USED him to not be lonely anymore and he was just a second option , anyway she's still wearing the scarf ( which it embodies her love for eren ) she is still visiting his grave and dragging her husband , her children and her children's children ( which it's insane because first he is a genocider and second those children they don't know eren so why are they visiting him ? Unless if mikasa is forcing them because remember they don't know him so they don't have any reason to visit him ) anyway we see that in the afterlife eren and mikasa are like in heaven living together or something ? I don't know what to say so eren the man who killed a lot of people for no reason will be chilling in heaven with mikasa ? And why mikasa live with eren in heaven this is not how " letting go " works , if she will go back to him then she didn't let go of him !! And why she's living with him instead of her NEW FAMILY HUSBAND AND CHILDREN this is weird… it's literally sounds like cheating or something , imagine the children feelings and trauma that their mother actually is a cheater who doesn't love their father… ( it made me feel uncomfortable because when I was a child I really wanted one of my parents to love the other and I felt bad when I realized that parent won't love my other parent ) sooo I don't know what to say , this relationship is disgusting it makes jean looks a pathetic simp who doesn't have self-respect , it's just so sad that jean is nothing but a second option and won't find someone who loves him unconditionally for who he is , his so-called wife will NEVER see how amazing he is that he gave up on his dreams just do the right thing because she is so busy visiting the genocider grave , the weirdest part is that a lot of people be like " b-but it's clear that she loved him why would they marry if she's not ? " but we need to see that !! We can't just assume the off-screen romance , if we have to assume then the relationship is officially a badly-written relationship to the point that we have to use our headcanons to justify this fucked up scenario

2 now let's talk about historia

historia is way worse , first when the characters joined the scouts they were CHILDREN they were very young , and we know that historia had suicidal thoughts when she joined ( that's why she tried to drag daz with her , she wanted to die a heroic death at least she wanted the people to remember her like this she wanted them to remember her as a good person )

anyway this scene did prove to us something that historia had suicidal thoughts since a very young age and I know that her family are responsible for the way she feels but the bullies are responsible too !! Because they strengthened this feeling into her that she's unwanted and unloved because they showed her that no one wants to be her friend… making historia marry the man who made her suicidal is very disgusting like wtf !! every time he shows in she make such a miserable face and in the end the author is trying to romanticize her story by showing us that she's smiling while celebrating her child's birthday ( he is trying to show you that the story is not so bad and this scenario is good just because he draw one panel of her smiling ) because you know it's a good thing to marry someone you don't love ( this conclusion did destroy her character development and making everything she ever stood for falls ) like seriously this scenario is so uncomfortable…

he is so graceful goddammit

casca is a very passionate character who showed different emotions ( happiness , sadness , anger , fear , love , hate ) literally everything you can imagine

Her relationships and dynamics are well-written and well-developed regardless if it was with Griffith , guts

Or her friendship with farnese and the other characters

she is not a mary-sue she has her own struggles to overcome , and she's not centered around a specific character to the point that when you remove them she will be just gone

casca is hated because she shows the struggles of the victims in the right way and people considering it " fanservice " even though the author did focus on her psychological and mental state and did portrayed it as " trauma " and never made it look good or romantic , he showed you that this thing is TRAUMATIC it was NOT fanservice or fe*ish it was traumatic and sad and it was portrayed in the story as " something wrong "

anyway at least casca is a victim to this thing unlike mikasa who committed this thing , she " SAED " eren severed head even though he can NOT move his head away or say no… at least casca did NOT do such a disgusting thing

another difference ( unlike berserk , the story of aot did NOT portray mikasa's action as something wrong , the story treated it as something romantic and did romanticize her action )

another thing , mikasa as a character is a copycat from casca ( literally everything the backstory and the reason why she loves Griffith and Griffith's dream about living with casca )

casca/mikasa were about to get harmed by that way but Griffith/eren saved them and gave them blanket/scarf and they start to fight for Griffith/eren , and the cabin scene is literally " inspired " or to be fair ( copied ) from Griffith's dream about living with casca

like seriously I can't with mikasa's fans anymore 😭

In my opinion ? I think miche zacharius or whatever was his name is the biggest wasted potential in aot , I really wanted to see more of his character but nahh the author had to waste him , I feel like he is very interesting , imagine what he could have done with his sense of smell

I don't know what is the reason even though she died too early ( seriously like after 5 seconds of being shown ) but I kinda loved her ? I wanted her to live so much when I first saw her ( she didn't sadly ) but I really liked her for some unknown reason… she was kinda brave if you remember her

those characters are my favorite characters in attack on titan

Levi and mikasa are NOT the same , just because they are both ackermans with dark hair that does NOT mean they are the same ( those similarities are only superficial similarities ) which it's a thing any normal person will notice 😭 but if you really focused and were paying attention , you will notice that they are supper different than each other

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1 backstory

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Levi has one of the best backstory and it helps in the worldbuilding of attack on titan and reflects on the corruption of the government how for example they abandoned the undercity people and it explains why Levi helped historia when it comes to the orphanage his past AFFECT him

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when it comes to mikasa it's very simple ( some human traffickers came to kidnap mikasa and eren saved her ) that's it as simple as that , and we don't see her past affecting her ( do you remember when I said Levi helped the people from his past the UNDERCITY Children ) mikasa didn't do a thing about the human traffickers we don't see her talk to historia for example about this so historia will order the military police to search about more of the human trafficking , and she herself doesn't remember her past a lot she doesn't even remember her family ( while Levi he does talk about his past especially in THE MANGA OF SEASON THREE when he remembered Kenny and how he was only a child when kenny left him in the underground ) but mikasa I don't see her past affecting her a lot

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2 dynamics

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When it comes to levi he has a lot of relationships and interactions and a lot of dynamics with MULTIPLE CHARACTERS

( his mother he remembers her a lot , Kenny his uncle and the complexity of their relationship since kenny is the one who raised him yet abandoned him and joined the military police and now Levi has to fight him since he joined the scouts " this complexity is so beautiful like will they fight each other and how they will solve their problems and what do they feel about each other now since they are fighting in different sides " it is a very beautiful relationship , his friendship with farlan and Isabel , his comradeship with erwin and hange , his first squad and his second squad , lets not forget his rivalry with zeke , and the way he start to develop his relationship with falco and gabi and a lot of dynamics , interactions , relationships and connection to the people around him )

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while mikasa ? she doesn't even have dynamic with the man she loves , she didn't develop the way she thinks of him or view him she didn't decide to look at him in a different way , she didn't develop her relationship with Levi even though they are both ackermans that's mean they can find something in common , she didn't develop her relationship with kyomi even though they are related yet she didn't feel any curiousity towards her and the asians even though those are the people of her MOTHER SIDE OR HER MOTHER LINEAGE yet we don't see any relationship or interesting dynamic , lets not forget that she doesn't have conversations with armin outside of eren !! Like seriously they don't interact with each other unless if it's about him !! ( at this point I feel like eren is a mutual friend between them rather than them being an actual friends towards each other outside of him too !! ) and lets not mention how her parents doesn't affect her character ( unlike every character in attack on titan their parents had such a big affect on them and how they think ) but not her , she does NOT even remember them , she never visited their grave not even once !! I don't remember a panel of her visiting their grave ( I don't think they have one because you know eren is more important than her parents you know 😭 ) and yet she visits eren grave the most ( even in the extra pages ) while her parents ? Not even a single panel of her remembering them or visiting them whatever , her friendship with Sasha came out of nowhere ( actually it's not even a friendship it's just them being drawn in the same panel or standing close to each other ) this is not how friendship works , do you know how is the real friendship ? Take for example Levi and hange or sasha and connie this is how friendship works by having a meaningful conversations and more interactions to each other ( and Sasha and mikasa don't have that like seriously just because mikasa pulled sasha hair to make them wake up that doesn't mean they are strong friends or something ) her friendship with the warriors doesn't have enough building especially annie like what !?!?!

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3 agency

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Levi definitely has agency

1 he decided that erwin should sacrifice himself for Humanity's victory

2 he is the one who made historia queen by telling her in both the manga version or the anime version to become queen so the military police won't take the rule ( and then stopping the scouts from exploring the outside world and then the old scouts their sacrifices will be meaningless ) Levi made sure this will NOT happen

3 he made a deal with that merchant ( I forgot his name )

4 he is the one who decided to give armin the serum ( not because eren told him not because mikasa was crying like if she wasn't expecting this since they are working in the literal MILITARY ) but because he doesn't want erwin to live like a monster he wanted him to die human ( and before you say he did this because eren convinced him let me remind you that he wanted to choose erwin but erwin was the one who moved his hand )

5 he saved a lot of scouts without being told

6 he was the one who decided that they should kill the military police to take back eren and historia

7 he is the one who planned the WHOLE FINAL BATTLE IN SEASON 4 AGAINST EREN WHILE ARMIN WAS KIDNAPPED

8 he in the end decided to help those children who were affected by eren's action

and a lot and a lot of decisions who were very important to the plot

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but mikasa ? not even a single decision ( even armin called her out for it and told her to learn how to make a decision by herself ) in the final battle it wasn't her decision to kill eren ( eren literally told her this in the paths , and in the real world Levi and Jean and annie told her to , even Connie bro ) if no one said ( the plan did change to kill eren ) she wouldn't come with this idea by herself I swear it ( let me remind you when she joined the alliance she really thought that they will talk to eren and bring him back she joined in hope to take back eren )

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4 philosophy

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Levi has his own philosophy which it's not giving up and surviving until the very end and not regretting your choices because you didn't know the future etc

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What is mikasa philosophy ? I read the manga and I remember that she didn't have her own philosophy and ideologues

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5 impact on the plot

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Levi has a very big impact on the plot because of his choices ( which I explained up in the post ) and with his dynamics ( Erwin and Kenny for example in season 3 they were very important in the story because of this , because the relationship between Kenny and Levi Kenny by his will gave him the serum , and levi because of his relationship with erwin he did decide what should the scouts do against zeke to take away the burden from erwin ) and lets not mention the plans he made ? Against the military police in season 3 against eren in season 4 come on now !! , most of the important decisions who moved the plot forward Levi did take them…

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but mikasa ? Her only importance in the plot was in the ending when she freed ymir ( which it's a bad writing because there was no interactions between the two , no building to this no foreshadowing literally nothing !! ) and mind you eren did free her when we saw her eyes ( but you know isayama had to regress ymir's character development so he can gave mikasa some importance )

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6 moving on

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After eren died mikasa completely stops fighting because her reason did die , she will visit the grave for the rest of her life ( without at least one panel showing us that she did move on by her talking to another character or seriously anything !! ) she will wear the scarf for the rest of her life , she will bring her husband and children to visit the grave ( and mind you her children doesn't know who is eren they never meet him so why would they go ? Unless she was forcing them because you know he is very dear to her ) she's acting like she lost everything ( she still has armin after eren died and we don't see her talking to him or interact with him !! ) she doesn't even wait for him with historia !!

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while Levi the man who lost everything even his eye and fingers and the ability to walk still fighting even after his loved ones died , he lost people ? He finds another ? He lost farlan and Isabel ? Here he is became close to erwin and hange , he lost erwin and hange ? Here he is developing his relationship with falco and gabi , he does NOT give up , he is still finding new people new purpose and NOT Stopping from living his life just because of a dead person because life never stops , he is helping the children who their home was destroyed by the war he is doing everything with his life helping people he does NOT know , making new friends and moving on

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7 showing curiosity

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Levi when Kenny was dying , he was very curious about his own identity he was asking Kenny what he was for his mother ( which it's Kenny sister but Levi in that time didn't know ) and is he is his father or not ?

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but mikasa she never showed any curiosity about herself and her identities regardless if it was her Ackerman identity or asian identity .

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8 desire for freedom

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when Levi was in the underground he wanted freedom he wanted to live up in the upper city and he wanted to see the sun and sky , and when he reached that he start fighting for Humanity's freedom and to be free from those walls and to know what's behind them and that's why he followed erwin because he realized that erwin can reach this through his leadership

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But mikasa ? No desire for freedom at all

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9 giving people the freedom

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Levi never forced anyone to choose anything for example he was always saying to eren ( you should make a choice ) but he never forced him into ( which choice ) he was giving eren the freedom to choose what he wants and what he will regret the least ( like what he told him in season 1 )

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But mikasa ? She was always forcing the people around her to choose what she wants ( she was forcing eren in the name of protection ) she literally tried to kill floch in season 3 for having a different opinion than her ( and Levi ) she told historia that she will kill her if she didn't side with eren , she's not free herself that's why she doesn't believe in other people freedom and having the right to choose which path they will take and what kind of fate do they want ( she doesn't care ) she literally tried to stop eren from joining the scouts she tried to take his dream away from him just because she does NOT want to !! like seriously ? She does NOT care about what the people around her want ? What is their desire ? She doesn't care she will take their right to choose away

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10 showing emotions like sympathy and empathy

Levi for example did comfort that soldier when he was dying and did hold his hand ( even though Levi hates blood ) and we all saw his reaction at erwin death and the scouts death and a lot of scenes and of course when the yeagerists did die ( because they weren't always Yeagerists someday they were scouts too fighting on Levi side too they are his COMRADES )

But mikasa ? she never showed any emotions when hannes was dying ( she wanted to kiss eren instead ) when that commander who told her " go save your lover " died she didn't care even though he supported ber by letting her go after eren

Don't ever let me talk about how she killed the yeagerists ( which weren't always her enemies someday they were her comrades you know ? ) yet she was more brutal to them than the way she was fighting annie or reiner

and Louise ? She was a CHILD brainwashed by eren , she showed eren the ADULT who committed the genocide and brainwashed Louise more sympathy than her , she didn't even listen to her words !! ( because of Louise mikasa got her scarf back because Louise didn't throw it away like what eren told her ) and instead of blaming eren she blamed Louise the child ? Wow

11 showing morality and principles

Levi showed his mortality he asked himself ( did the scouts sacrificed themselves so the souls of the innocent will be crushed like this ? ) and cared about humanity's victory to the point that he asked erwin ( is your dream more important than humanity's victory ? ) and a lot of things

mikasa never showed any morality , she simply killed eren because he told her in the paths not because she cares about the innocent people + because according to her eren did go away and she will bring him back ( and if she couldn't control him and bring him back she will simply kill him ) not because she really cares ( she really wanted to talk to eren even though eren did already killed millions of people )

12 political opinions

Levi did express his opinions about the corrupt government and the military police and shared some political opinions and helped historia in her politics ( helping the children with the orphanage )

Mikasa never showed political opinions even though attack on titan world is very political ( like seriously do you remember her saying a political opinion ? )

and yet people still claim that levi and mikasa are the same

Before the time skip ? Definitely historia she was the best ( only pre time-skip because after the time skip the author destroyed her character )

after the time skip ? Definitely gabi she did go through a good character development

I've always loved historia pre time skip because she was the most worked out female character in attack on titan , and what I love about her arc the most it's the fact that her arc has multiple themes , being free and not follow orders blindly ( she rejected her father order to inherit the titan ) and to surpassing the parents and not burdened the children with expectations and of course to embrace your existing and stop hating yourself just because other people don't love you , now here we are the author DESTROYED HER CHARACTER in a way I've never seen before , what a character assassination