alright, so i made a post about this in december that was more or less a joke but the actual things i brought up in said post were true. so, this is the serious version of that post and it’s more or less me saying ‘if you’re fanon-based, i will not interact with you’. sorry for the harshness, but fanon really grinds my gears and i’m an advocate for individual comfort; just like you’re not obligated to follow me and like my interpretation of levi, i’m not obligated to cater to you.
these are the main points for me:
his name is not rivaille and he is not a lance corporal. both of those misconceptions come from translation errors and i literally will drop everything if i see either of those in a thread. his name is levi and he is referred to as ‘captain’ by his subordinates. as a second half of this, he’s not french and he doesn’t know how to speak french.
as far as i’m concerned, in his canon he’s only said the word ‘brat’ once, and he was specifically referring to eren, mikasa, and armin when he said it. this isn’t a term he just throws out to everyone every 5 seconds.
levi isn't a walking curse machine. he knows how to construct sentences without cuss words in them; *gasp* shocking, right?
for the love of all that is good and holy in this world, levi will never be abusive especially to someone he supposedly loves. i cannot tell you how many levi's i've seen write him this way to his significant other, and it makes me want to burn everything.
as of right now, i’m under the impression that levi and mikasa are not related by blood; after all, it was explicitly stated that she was the only asian alive, no? so logically if that’s the case, they can’t be related because levi’s not asian. if they are related through familial bonds of some sort, the most logical thing would have been that someone was married into the family, going off the assumption that surnames work the same way in snk as they do in real life so lmao no. levi is not her uncle or whatever unless isayama says so.
levi is naturally abrasive; things he says are really blunt and acerbic. it’s not intentional. he doesn’t do it to purposely anger people or to come off as condescending; he’s socially inept and doesn’t really know how to have normal conversations with people, so you have to be patient with a character like him.
levi doesn’t go around beating the shit out of people without reason. we know, through one of the more recent chapters, that he has a history of violence growing up. however, just like real people, characters can develop too. levi doesn’t do things without a valid reason; think about it. when you see him as an adult, and he lashes out, did something provoke him first? is something, i dunno, threatening his livelihood?
people wildly misinterpret the courtroom scene towards the beginning of his character introduction, and it pisses me off. people seem to forget that 1) if levi hadn’t done it, eren would be dead, 2) levi didn’t actually want to do it and he definitely didn’t like it, and 3) erwin told him to. ties into the above, he doesn’t beat on people for no reason, and he doesn’t get off on it.
now, tying this into the last point as well, levi doesn’t follow erwin ignorantly. erwin knows what he wants and how to play his cards, and he has purpose; levi respects purpose. it’s as simple as that. levi is able to interject at any given time if he wanted to.
levi has shown no real interest in being romantically inclined with anyone. now i don’t say this to shit on people’s ships because i have one of my own for him; HOWEVER, in his canon he is unlikely to get into a relationship. there are multiple reasons for this that i can disclose if you’re curious, but the most obvious one is this: he’s constantly trying to survive and literally no one in their little squad has time for flings when there’s always something on their asses.
he lived in filth all throughout his young life from what can be discerned, so what makes you think he’s going to want to continue living in dirt even after he already left that environment. he just wants to keep things clean. it shouldn’t be something that is too blown out of proportion; there may be a deeper meaning behind it, but that is all conjecture until isayama tells us why he compulsively cleans.
AND i will add more to this if i see fit, that’s all i wanted to address for now. if you disagree and stuff, you don’t have to keep following, because these are the points that my levi is based off of. i won't take it personally, i just want to be comfortable.
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