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Until this conversation between Zeke and Armin

These trivial moments might actually be precious...

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SNK CHAPTER 137 SPOILERS!!!!

SNK CHAPTER 137: LEVI ACKERMAN

arrival fallacy: “the false belief that when we achieve a particular goal, we'll finally become - and remain - happy. the truth is, the moment of achievement, although glorious, is only fleeting.”

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He would be a wonderful dad

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(Spoiler Warning: Attack On Titan, chapter 137.)

Why do people keep assuming Levi killed Zeke just because of that promise? Zeke sacrificed himself to save humanity. Levi knew that. Him and Hange talked about the possibility that killing Zeke would stop the Rumbling. Once he saw Titans helping them and Zeke waving at him all defenseless, he immediately knew what he was trying to do. That's why he had such a pained expression and didn't enjoy it one bit.

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Jeanmarco crumbs 😭✋🏻

Isayama really don't want me to get over Marco's death:)

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IM SOBBING

LETS FUCKING GO!!! JEAN!!!!

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Is it going to be love afterall?

Attack on Titan is not primarily known for being a romance. Isayama doesn’t put much focus on it and if he does, he usually hints at feelings instead of having his characters outright confess them. That is, until this final arc.

In the final arc of the series this has changed for good. Romantic relationships have become a trademark of the last 30+ chapters with no signs of slowing down. From Sasha and Niccolo to Armin and Annie, Isayama has put quite a lot of emphasis to the feelings of romantic love that have developed between certain characters. And amidst all these couples i have noticed some really interesting patterns.

Pattern no1: In every couple that one of the two people involved confesses his/her feelings in a manner that they cannot be doubted the other one reciprocates. Proof below:

Pattern no2: Love saves people from tragedy and war. Examples below:

And after all these examples we go to our founder Ymir. Ymir was never loved. She never had that kind of connection. King Fritz abused her physically and mentally. That’s pretty much the reason that the Paths exist in the form that we’ve come to know them. The Paths are the manifestation of Ymir’s longing for connections. That’s why she spent 2000 years there as a slave to king Fritz’s desires. She is still attached to that world, where she never knew true love. And what panel did Isayama choose to portray this exact sentiment?

Ah, yes, that of a couple getting married.

For all intents and purposes, the message here is clear. Love is extremely important in the series. And since the series’s protagonist is none other than Eren, it’s time to examine his case.

So what Eren does is reject these connections. He destroys his bonds with his friends and severely mistreats the two people he cares about the most, Mikasa and Armin.

And the interesting thing here is that he attacks exactly those feelings of love that they have. He questions the validity of Armin’s feelings for Annie, saying that he has inherited them from Bertolt and he claims that Mikasa cares about him as a result of some mundane Ackerman genes crap. And all that, even though he has learned that Mikasa is most likely in love with him. The final nail in the coffin was his order to Louise to throw Mikasa’s scarf away, the litteral symbol of his connection to the person that loves him the most.

Eren renounces love. He rejects it and he abandons all hope for it. It could be because he himself knows that he would never be able to see his mission to the end with his Mikasa and Armin by his side. It’s not because he doesn’t want to be loved. The exact opposite. The reason he empathizes with Ymir is exactly that. He wants to be loved. He searched for it one day before leaving the Survey Corps and sealing his fate. When he asked Mikasa “What am i to you” he was looking exactly for that. And it is exactly because of her answer that he went ahead and asked Zeke about her. I highly doubt that Eren would have tried so much to find out Mikasa’s true feelings for him, if he himself didn’t harbor feelings for her.

Eren and Mikasa are a foil to all the other romantic relationships in the story. They don’t confess their feelings in a clear manner, so it unclear to them how each one of them feels about the other and Eren, because he didn’t find love, is not saved. If he were, he would not be destroying the world right now.

Given all that, can something happen? Will there be a development that will turn this ugly situation around? I say yes. And i say so, because of this:

In the promotional trailer for the final two volumes of Attack on Titan, these two scenes were shown. Eren’s promise to wrap the scarf around Mikasa again and the moment where Mikasa regrets that she didn’t admit her true feelings to Eren when he was practically begging her to do so. Mikasa will certainly confess her feelings to Eren. And judging by the fact that Eren’s promise about the scarf is shown as well, i am sure that he will fulfill said promise. To me, that means that Mikasa’s feelings will be returned.

I mean, given the pattern presented, is there really any chance that Mikasa will say to Eren that she is in love with him and he won’t return her feelings? If that’s the case then why the scarf rewrap? And more than anything, when Mikasa does confess, can there really be any other outcome other than Eren stopping his destructive ways? In a story about beauty in a cruel world, i don’t believe that the only answer is pure violence and carnage.