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₊˚⊹ 𝓒ri | 19 | toy merchant performer

[choccolateebar]

About me !

hiiii i think it’s time i properly introduce myself!

my name is cri! i’m 19 and i live in italy!!

my favourite colour is GREEN! if i buy something i always try to get it in green (in a pretty sage shade if possible!).

if you’re not new to my blog you might have noticed how i love yapping. at the moment my content is mostly aot analysis (with a focus on the marleyan warriors), fan fictions and au!

my favourite aot characters are my n.1 annie, reiner, berthold, armin, pieck and gabi!

no gabi hate is accepted here.

in my free time i like to write, crochet, read, roleplay and play board games! i also have an obsession over identity v (which im currently boycotting), the sims and stardew valley!

my favourite books are the picture of dorian gray, frankenstein and wuthering heights.

i am a feminist. most of my analysis will focus on how being a woman impacts the perception of a character and the judgement on their actions. no misogyny is allowed here, this is a safe space for everyone, but especially for women, queer people, non-white people and disabled people.

i am about to start sociology university, so that’s a big part of me. i am no one without the principles i stand for.

also, english is not my first language, so i apologise if something i say is not very understandable.

thank you for your time ^^

[choccolateebar]

one thing that i love about annie is that she allows herself to cry.

growing up with a father like hers and then training in the warriors unit was a very harsh experience. annie is seen as an emotionless woman and yet she is the warrior that cries the most out of everyone.

she cried when they took eren from her, realising that she killed a big amount of people for nothing and that she couldn’t go back to her father because the mission wasn’t done yet.

annie is a very strong and independent woman and crying isn’t seen as a weakness in her eyes. annie cries, annie gets frustrated, annie gets mad.

also in this scene she feels SO upset that not only she is crying, but the titan itself. i think it reflects well enough how deep her pain is.

she cries when she gets defeated and realises that she needs to crystallise herself to survive: she doesn’t know if her comrades will save her or when she’ll have the occasion to get out safely. she thought she could finally go home and see her father, but her only wish (and reason to keep living) now looks so far.

as i said before, annie is seen as an emotionless and cold character. yes, reiner, berthold and other characters also cry, but the fact that SHE also does it is the demonstration of how deeply she actually feels things and how her nonchalant behaviour is just a way of trying to protect herself from her own actions.

[terracyte]

ymir and bert siblingism saved my life

[choccolateebar]

if there’s something i wish we had more screen time about is the relationship between annie and pieck.

imagine being a girl in the army and there’s only one other girl with you. even if annie was pretty avoidant with everyone i feel like with pieck it was a little different.

if you look at this panel pieck has her hand on annie’s shoulder. we never see annie having much physical touch with the others, yet it seems like pieck is allowed to. everyone is behind her and they’re not trying to follow but her friend is right with her.

also none of them had female parental figures while growing up. experiencing girlhood alone must have been difficult, but with each other it was probably a little better. i imagine them discovering new hairstyles together and trying to make them army-approved.

they both fought for the same reason: their father. this somehow probably brought them closer.

in general i wish we had more time dedicated to the warriors’ dynamics and past :(

[popscorn01]

on the verge. on what i don't know!!!

[joogios]

In the end the biggest Isayama failure for me was not spending more time on Marley. It should’ve been fully fleshed out as well as the Warriors’ lives in there. At least a half-season of proper Marley shit. We could’ve had good rep of a literal segregated state with state sanctioned police brutality and enforced racism and propoganda taught right from nursery. George Orwell 1984 type style manipulation and paranoia of your own neighbours and control of information and distrust inbused into ordinary life. Contrast all the colours of Paradis Island-the forests and the rivers and the sunsets-with the oppressive grey of Marley and its big buildings blocking out the sun and its grey stone blocking out any wild nature from emerging.

[choccolateebar]

Zofia being Annie and Udo being Berthold means so much to me. Reiner left Marley with them and Marcel and he came back alone. Now think about it, among the children who died first when Liberio got attacked? Zofia and Udo.

The two of them REALLY resemble Annie and Berthold: Zofia has blonde hair and bangs, she is also sarcastic like Annie and not overly friendly while Udo has black hair and is the tallest, he is also insecure and clumsy like Berthold.

The choice of killing them is very smart, it’s like Reiner lost his friends once again and couldn’t protect them, leaving Gabi and Falco without their comrades like it happened to him.

I wish this clear parallel was more discussed in the fandom :(

[choccolateebar]

the way you use armin and bert interchangeably in your ship discussions is odd cause they do not have the same relationship with annie. Dont mean to be a hater but it’s always on my mind when beruani fans try to give beruani aruani’s dynamic. Its obviously alright to ship what you want but its something ive noticed for a while

hello anon! i see why you think that, but the post wasn’t about berthold or armin at all: it was about annie and the way she would approach motherhood. my post was referring to all the fanarts where annie has children, it doesn’t matter if with berthold or armin. what i said about them is that they both would make sure that she didn’t move around a lot, i never said their dynamic was the same. my thoughts were entirely about how she would feel about pregnancy, not them.

i like beruani simply because i was very attached to it when i was 12, but now that i am almost 20 and i am able to think critically i understand the ship is one-sided and how they barely interact. this doesn’t mean i can’t enjoy the content about them because as i said, i really liked them back then.

also aruani is actually my favourite ship in aot but i don’t have to tell this to anyone to justify my headcanons lol.

thank you for your comment anyway!!

[choccolateebar]

I keep seeing those BEAUTIFUL fanarts about annie and armin/berthold with their hypothetical children and i have some thoughts about annie being a mother.

I feel like she would be very uncomfortable with the idea of being pregnant: her body has been used as a weapon for someone else her whole life and the thought of carrying a child in her belly would remind her of that somehow. Her body changing a lot for another human being would make her go crazy.

Annie never had a positive parental figure until she came back to marley and tried to fix the relationship with her father. She wouldn’t know AT ALL how to take care of a child both emotionally and physically, especially because unlike Reiner she didn’t even got to train the children so she has ZERO experience with them.

Also in the show is clear how annie gets easily annoyed around children, and I understand that was a stressful situation but I feel like she would’t be very patient. She would absolutely love her child but Armin/Berthold would need to step in for many things. If the baby won’t stop crying Annie WILL actually lose it in no time. I picture her being a better mother for an older child or a teenager, not newborn or toddlers.

Annie would keep training even after the rumbling, she wants to stay the strong woman she has always been. A pregnancy would not allow her to move around a lot and that would stress her out a LOT. Being forced to stay in bed and rest all day (because Armin and Berthold would definitely keep her away from moving a lot like she usually do) would bring her into a very bad pregnancy/motherhood experience.

I’m sorry if my English was bad, it’s not my first language but i tried my best :(

Also, this is my personal opinion on the subject, others are completely fine and i would love if you decided to share them with me. Thank you <33

[leviismybby]

[malewife-levi-ackerman]

pisses me off when people are like "Annie was really doing all that just to get back to her abusive dad" yeah she was! do you know why. because she was a teenager who had been abused and indoctrinated and trained as a child soldier for her whole life, and the only thing that kept her going was knowing that somewhere, someone wanted her. even if he was a shit dad for 99% of her life, the last thing she remembered of him was him apologising and asking her to return to him.

yeah she selfishly killed a bunch of people, but in this fandom that's somehow only a bad thing when a teenage girl does it. riddle me that

[kknyxt]

Annie & Reiner

30 min sketch but I kinda like it

[s1lent-princess]

hating gabi bc you love sasha too much is so weak like my favorite character is bertholdt and you will never ever NEVER catch me hating on armin. skill issue

[ereami0]

ironic how the most destructive titan is given to the most gentle people.

[soggyskinflaps]

idk man

[paochit]

[spicy-chicken-leg]

Saw this shit in a vision . They are operating at joint 20% mental clarity and are all about to cry . They are doing their best