So we know that, There’s this thing about Ackermans that there’s this one very emotionally monumental thing happens and triggers this superhuman power In them which is basically them inherenting the battle experience of the previous Ackerman warriors. Great strength of sorts and this much is canon. So, The two ackermans Levi and mikasa. Mikasa had that moment when eren asked her to fight *shouted* at her to fight and the scarf thing. So that moment was out of love. The love she has for EREN and it’s physical manifestation when she fought when he asked her to and eren was there to push that moment for her. It was born out of love sort of. AND FOR LEVI THAT MOMENT HAS NOT BEEN MADE CANON YET. Everyone ASSUMES it is either something in his childhood OR the moment when he saw Isabel and farlan die by titans. AND IF IT IS ISABEL ANDFARLANS DEATH, then for Levi, that awakening moment was born out of sheer loss and grief. Of absolute helplessness and incomprehensible guilt cause he damn well knows he would’ve been able to save them if he was there and OH GOD THAT MOMENT OF POWER AKAWENING IS ONE OF THE WORST MOMENTS OF THAT MANS LIFE full of grief and helplessness and Everyone in the world keeps going on about humanity’s strongest soldier and his insane power and everytime Levi hears people praising that and going on about his power he just can’t help but get reminded of how he got it in the first place. And that’s why he always hates it when people do. And it just makes me saaadd that Levi will always be associated with loosing. He lost everyone he ever felt like home with. His mom Isabel farlan kenny, his ENTIRE squad and FUCKING ERWIN. The man he would take orders through hell with. He lost everything. All he has ever known is loosing and he has never lost a battle, all he has lost is love time and time again. He’s only ever known grief and it is KILLING me. HE IS ONE OF THE SADDEST CHARACTERS IN ANIME AS A WHOLE PERIOD. Levi is just- SOMEBODY GIVE THIS MAN A HUG. PLEASE.