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Dot Pixis (Attack on Titan)  » September 13

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Part 4 of Revisiting AOT.

My hand hurts

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Dot Pixis explaining the birds and the bees:

SHLEPP IT TO THE HOLE AND VOILÀ!!!

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Cupid Pixis is going to get drunk shoot to his victims 🏹💝

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???

Did Pixis just pull this out of his butt, or was Eren actually part of this experiment and didn't know it?

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I think Eren and Pixis are both realistic about humanity.

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what’s your opinion on Erwin’s selfishness? He certainly has selfish qualities that have pushed him in the direction of pursuing a dream his father held. Where I get confused, is that there are multiple times where he puts his life on the line (plan that involved being arrested by the MPs, yelling for the scouts to advance while his arm was bitten, running directly into titans with his regiment before his arm was bitten lol)

It seems he has martyr tendencies which makes it strange for him to only be a selfish character. Both Zackley and Pixis comment on how he is not willing to die/risk his life but I always saw him doing the opposite so I wondered if you could give me clarity lol

Hello Anon, I’m not sure if I can give you clarity, but I did answer another very similar ask a few years ago, you can read it here if you’re interested: Erwin’s “selfish” motivations.   

Selfish is not the first thing that springs to mind when I think of Erwin Smith, far from it.  Erwin is no more selfish than many of the other characters, who are all driven by their own motivations, and he is arguably much less selfish than some.  Looking at you Eren Yeager.  Like many of the misconceptions about Erwin’s character, this perception stems from the fact that he is such an unreliable narrator, who sees his own actions in absolutely the worst possible light.  Erwin sees himself as selfish as he believes he is the only one who is driven by his own dream, rather than the noble goal of saving humanity.

I’ve already written reams about why this not the case at all. All the characters are driven by their own dreams; for Armin it’s see the ocean, for Mikasa it’s keep Eren safe, for Eren it’s FREEDOM, whatever that means, for Jean it’s having a normal life with wife and kids, for Levi it’s save Erwin humanity. And besides all that, Erwin’s dream of proving his father’s theories right aligns squarely with saving humanity as this is how they uncover the truth of the world. 

I also don’t think Erwin’s courage can be in any doubt.  While he doesn’t hesitate to risk his soldier’s lives, he always leads from the front.  If anything, I agree with you that he has martyr tendencies.  He doesn’t hesitate to throw himself into danger if he believes it will bring them a step closer to victory.  We see this again and again throughout the story; when he saves Eren from the Armour Titan, during the Uprising Arc, and of course, during the fatal final charge in Shiganshina. 

Zackley and Pixis role in all this is interesting too.  I’ve answered several asks before about Zackley’s role in Erwin’s downfall, so excuse me if I just repeat what I said before. 

Zackley knew exactly how to exploit Erwin’s one weakness and his insinuations were the start of a downward spiral for Erwin.  Although it’s clear that Erwin’s “guilt” had been preying on his mind for a long time, it’s from that point on that he became more fatalistic and started to see his actions and motivations in the bleakest possible light.  The tragedy is that Erwin wasn’t a fraud or a cheat, he didn’t lie to his comrades and his friends.  He wasn’t any of the things he saw himself as.  He was just a man with a dream, as human and fallible as any other, and his dream was no less valid or worthy than anyone else’s.  Erwin is the most unreliable of unreliable narrators, but his saving grace was that when the burden of his misplaced guilt and grief became to great, Levi was there, as the last bastion of Erwin’s humanity, to lift that weight from his shoulders and set him back on the right path with a clear conscience. 

I’m less sure about Pixis, he has always struck me as a very ambivalent character.  I don’t think he ever really trusted Erwin because he sees him as such a gambler.  The point Pixis is making i chapter 63, is that he will always chose to follow the plan that will save the most people, whereas he believes that Erwin will follow his own plan, regardless of the loss of life.   I don’t think Pixis is actually accusing Erwin of being a coward who only wants to save his own skin. At least that’s how I interpret this.  I’d be interested to know how this has been translated. 

Sorry, I rambled a bit there, but I hope this answers your questions!

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