u/LoudResearch1331

The war changed many things.

Even rest carries the shape of what we've endured.

Artist's account:

https://x.com/i/status/2057375089738588257

Happy birthday, Kuchel. Thank you for doing your best under impossible circumstances, and for still managing to instill kindness, compassion, dignity, and humanity in Levi. Even in such a harsh world, that part of you lived on through him.

Artist account:

https://x.com/i/status/1263086574226436096

A Marley AU perhaps?

Anyways, absolutely love this beautiful picture of little Mikasa being taken care of by "Big Sis" Pieck in Marley.

I'm thinking the artist took inspiration from Kimetsu's Kanae Kocho / Kanao storyline... Or at least that's the vibe I'm getting.

Artist account:

https://x.com/i/status/2026569436753453481

https://x.com/i/status/2056614911846048025

Sacrifice.

Leaving our hopes in all your hands.

Artists Account:

https://x.com/i/status/1631693045329715202

The sounds of a creaking bed....

Haunting. Incredibly dark.

The implication is awful, yet considering Levi’s childhood circumstances, it’s entirely possible he was exposed to realities no child should have to witness.

Apologies if this is upsetting.

https://x.com/i/status/2056173792678850959

I like the idea of Mikasa opening a small flower shop sometime after the war/Rumbling.

(Idea for an AOT slice of life anime perhaps? 🤔)

Artist account:

https://x.com/i/status/2035606161278541910

Just a silly Pieck fan post for fun, no serious character debate or deep analysis necessary 😉

(I personally think the cart Titan itself is adorable in a creepy way 😅)

Courtesy of :

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYZ9S1KTiOm/?igsh=MXRkcmJrMWE5bHo3YQ==

The last vigil before the long road home

Artist account:

https://x.com/i/status/2027931327576871040

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Levi: Don’t get used to this.

Dog: gets used to this immediately

Levi would adopt a dog the way dads refuse to adopt pets.

Artist account :

https://x.com/i/status/2039002864530661573

...Between Farewells and Reunions

Artist account:

https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/113210556

For those who can, and if it's meaningful to you, hug your mother a little tighter today. Tell her you love her. That you appreciate her. Tell her thank you... for the countless things she’s done that you may have taken for granted.

Artist account :

https://x.com/i/status/2053325517064175880

Levi’s grief,

Not emotional absence.

Nor simply emotional restraint.

From his childhood in the Underground to the Final Battle, it took many forms.

Shock. Rage. Guilt. Exhaustion. Numbness.

But feeling grief and being able to process it are not the same thing.

His losses were barely confronted before he was forced onward again.

Levi didn’t lack emotion, far from it. He lacked the luxury of fully grieving.

His expressions across the series tell the story of someone who felt loss deeply, but learned to compartmentalize it because survival demanded it.

There was always another battle. Another choice. Another death waiting.

He kept moving forward not because he felt nothing, but because he never had the time to stop.

And the final salute to his fallen comrades...

Perhaps for the first time, Levi truly allows himself to grieve, not as humanity’s strongest soldier. Not anymore.

But simply as a man... carrying everything he lost.

From his mother to Furlan and Isabel, from Kenny to Erwin, from Hange to Eren.

Even Zeke.

Wanted to show appreciation for one of my top favorite characters, Onyankopon.

He's not really discussed so much.

He's so underrated and truly awesome.

He had no Titan powers, no Ackerman abilities, no plot armor, just operating on courage, intelligence, and especially decency.

He helped Paradis modernize with outside world knowledge, treated Eldians like actual human beings when much of the world saw them as devils, opposed the Yeagerists, and helped repair and pilot the flying boat in the final battle, and therefore the alliance would have never reached Eren if he hadn't.

He also gave a beautiful line about people being born different because that’s how they were meant to be. "It's more interesting with a mix of people....We exist because we were wanted."

He represents cooperation, empathy, anti-racism, and the idea that not everyone outside Paradis was hateful.

Stayed compassionate and principled, even while potentially losing his own homeland in the Rumbling.

And without him, a lot of the story’s biggest turning points don’t happen.

He really stands out in a story full of morally gray characters.

And SOMEHOW on top of all that, this man survived Yelena’s deception and antics and is apparently still stuck supervising her even after the Rumbling 😭 The man is a saint.

Genuinely one of AOT’s best people, and he deserves waaaay more appreciation.

Please add if I've missed anything and what you like about him!

**Reposting again since I used a bad pic last time, sorry😓*

kind of inspired by another post.

All the trios I could think of (and one honorary mention quartet)

Some lost members. Some changed members. Bonds broken, rebuilt, or left behind.

Bittersweet. Unexpected.

Did I miss any other trios? Please let me know!

And which one(s) do you like?

**Reposting again since I used a bad pic last time, sorry😓

kind of inspired by another post.

All the trios I could think of (and one honorary mention quartet)

Some lost members. Some changed members. Bonds broken, rebuilt, or left behind.

Bittersweet. Unexpected.

Did I miss any other trios? Please let me know!

And Which one(s) do you like?

Nothing new,

kind of inspired by another post.

All the trios I could think of .

Some lost members. Some changed members. Bonds broken, rebuilt, or left behind.

Bittersweet. Unexpected.

Did I miss any other trios?

Which one(s) do you like?

Also wanted to add the quartet of Gabi, Falco ,Zofia and Udo but forgot!! 😭

Nothing new,

kind of inspired by another post.

All the trios I could think of.

Some lost members. Some changed members. Bonds broken, rebuilt, or left behind.

Bittersweet. Unexpected.

Did I miss any other trios?

Which one(s) do you like?

Also wanted to add the quartet of Gabi, Falco, Zofia and Udo, but forgot!! Sorry! 😭

Something that always gets me about Levi is that as a child, after losing his mother, he likely believed Kenny was his father. The only "parent" he had left.

The trafficker outright asks if he’s Kenny’s “illegitimate child,” and what’s interesting is that this seems to snap Levi out of that blind rage/trance he was in.

Up until then, his Ackerman powers awakened and he’s acting purely on instinct and fury after hearing his mother degraded. But that comment makes him pause. Hearing that struck something in him.

His mother died. Then this man appears, takes him in, teaches him how to survive, becomes his entire world in that brutal environment… and then leaves too.

So for years, Levi is carrying that abandonment believing his father walked away from him, just like life took his mother.

And what’s also especially sad is that the only thing Levi explicitly says he had left from his mother was her memory.

Those traffickers can beat him, insult him, treat him like trash, and he endures it. But the second they reduce his mother to “a whore” and talk about exploiting him because he inherited her “talents,” something absolutely snaps.

Because until that moment, she was the one remaining piece of family he had and is being desecrated.

And he protects her memory with violence because, in a way, that memory is all he has left.

Then years later, Kenny dies and casually reveals the truth: I wasn’t your father. I was your uncle.

If you look at Levi’s face in that moment, he looks genuinely stunned. Gutted, I daresay.

Because what does that revelation do to a person who spent his whole life building his understanding of abandonment around that relationship?

Suddenly the story changes. Kenny didn’t leave his son, he left his nephew.

Which maybe should hurt less.

But somehow it hurts Levi differently. A kind of disappointment.

He was never actually wrong to see Kenny as family. Kenny was family.

Just not in the way he thought. Not in the way he'd secretly hoped.

Levi’s whole life is marked by losing the few people who ever resembled family.

And for someone who acts like he doesn’t need anyone, his story says the exact opposite.

Beneath Levi’s stoicism is someone who deeply, deeply longed for family and belonging... even if he’d never admit it.

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You know how it is… you see a comment/post like this and suddenly the pouty face + tears start forming...

Be honest , which character has you looking like this when you see a "certain" take?

Doesn’t have to be your favorite, just the one that activates your inner defender ⚔️❤️

Let's keep it friendly! no character wars are necessary 😉