Ate RK!!! I beg you for a Beast Titan!Hange drabble in these trying times pls 🙏 (only if you have time tho)
Anything for you, Ness!
Summary: After Armin had been taken captive by the hoard of Titans, Levi came across the most shocking revelation: that Hange Zoe was alive and well.
It could have been worse. They could have died from the march of the giants; Hange would have been lost to him forever and Levi wouldn't know how to move on. Mikasa pointed it out once they entered the hallowed frame of Eren's Founding Titan; she could have sworn that Zeke Yeager wasn't the one controlling their once formidable enemy.
So when the Commander came out of the Beast Titan's nape, the Captain was absolutely sure that nothing else would ever be the same.
Hange staggered as they made their way through the severed ligaments of their Titan body, their eyes sunken with claw-like marks on their cheeks. Their cape was gone, and the sleeves of their white shirt were frayed and tattered, but it was them, alright. In flesh and blood.
And the Captain himself was in awe.
"Hange! Is it really you?"
"Yes, it's me!"
Levi wasted no time clambering up the enormous Titan body, and as soon as he caught his beloved in an embrace, he wept.
"Shit, it's you, I can't believe it." He turned to face Hange once again, the dirt streaked across their faces, but they were more beautiful than ever.
His eyes held nothing but steadfast love for the Commander, and despite the pain that reverberated throughout his body from all the injuries, he couldn't think of anything else but the joy of seeing Hange alive.
The roars of the other Titans brought them back to their current situation. They were still trapped, and Armin was yet to be found. But Levi had his strength with him. The Commander's presence was enough to revive his fighting spirit, and he'd fight until the end, so long as Hange was right beside him. With his blade still intact, he reached out his free hand towards them.
Hi Jazzy! Don't mind me casually stalking your blog because dear lord your hashtags are the best things I've ever read in my life. Can I please request a heart-touching, soul-shattering paragraph on what our lord and saviour Hange Zoe means to you?
hi ness!! why would i ever mind a queen like u stalking my blog omg (sweats frantically about ppl perceiving my tags tho 😵💫😵💫) but i … oh WOW oh WOWIE WOWZERS IM GONNA DO THIS?? IN GONNA GO OFF?? IM ALLOWED TO JUST TYPE AND TYPE ABOUT HANGE RN??? okay *cracks knuckles*
Why ✨✨Hange Zoe✨✨Is The True Ruler Of The Milky Way Galaxy And Why I Love Them A Lot.
first of all. first of fucking all. beyond anything deeper. hange is just hot. okay. hotter than the fucking magma under the earth, hotter than a crisp scorching hot day in the mf arabian desert. hotter than fucking satans asshole!! Very Hot. im in love with their nose and their EYES oh dont get me started on the eyes they’re the most beautiful like brown?? wine?? colour and the way they’re shaped and the lashes are just so HGDJSKSJDJ ugh ✨✨✨✨✨ MARRY ME IMMEDIATELY HANGE SO I HAVE CONSENT TO STARE INTO THOSE EYES ALL THE TIME💍💍!!
i also love how fucking passionate they are and how empathetic she is and in everything that hange has and will ever do for that fucking survey corps has always been for the benefit of humanity. hange zoe wholeheartedly (imo) embodies the idea of the survey corps: “if theres something you don’t understand, learn to understand it.” hange is so aggressively curious and thirsty for knowledge and understanding and i just LOVE LOVE LOVE this about them! She is extremely mf smart, and surprisingly Very Good at combat/fighting (and strong too wtf? remember dangling pastor nick, a grown ass man over the wall? with one arm? one fucking arm?) and they are an AMAZING leader as well??? and super respected in the survey corps??? like okay go off king!! also am in Love with how they are just Wholeheartedly, Shamelessly, Unabashedly, Truly them-self no matter what or who they are around. hange zoe actually gives no fucks. they’re aware that people have many opinions on them, good or bad and she fully does not give a single shit about it. they’re eccentric and loud and passionate (lmao uh also repressed anger issues) and just weird™️ and if people have a problem with that hange would just probably be like “lol ok. im going to keep making meaningful contributions to humanity while u sit there with an Opinion™️ abt me and wipe ur ignorant and useless little ass 😳” and thats just so admirable !! how sexy of them!! thats the level of confidence and ‘not giving a shitter abt what ppl think of me’ type of attitude EYE want to achieve. i love this bitch so much!!
hange is kind and funny and friendly and always greets people for who they are with no expectations or prejudice (like with levi, eren, historia etc). hange is so so many things, so many AMAZING things and i could sit here, bbq sauce on my titties, tequilla bottle in my hand and just go on and on and ON about this glorious fucking lines on a page character from an anime/manga. hange is literally the goddess that gave us all light and food and prosperity and chocolate and garlic bread (garlic bread slaps) and we all just…. exist here. as lesser beings than THE hange - and you know what we just have to except that!!! <333
A conversation about Levihan fanfiction between Ness @glassesandswords and RK @djmarinizelablog.
Listen to the interview on Youtube/Google Drive or read the transcription below.
Ness: When did you get into AOT and Levihan?
RK: I started Attack on Titan in 2019. I saw the anime first around the third season. I got married and then the pandemic happened, so I figured I wanted to do something that I would enjoy during those times. That's when I started writing fanfiction. Apparently, there's already a huge readership for Levihan, especially when I discovered the authors like @fanmoose and @TundrainAfrica. They were pretty much the pioneers of the fanfics in the Levihan fandom.
SOS is actually my first Levihan fanfiction. It's pretty much like a comedy, because I needed something to distract myself from the angst. And then I wanted to try my hand in rom-com, so I came up with Free-Falling. That was the fic that I was able to finish before publishing the first part.
And now here we are.
Ness: I wanna fangirl about Free-Falling. What goes behind the research for the fics that you write? In Free-Falling, you have a lot of terminologies that are related to skydiving. How did you come across this idea and how did you go about in writing it?
RK: For Free-Falling, I was particularly interested in those moments of skydiving, so I watched a ton of Youtube videos of people just jumping out of the plane. If I were to write a scene about this, how would I describe it? How would I describe the stunts, the sounds and sights? What's the feeling of free-falling upon jumping out of the plane? They just go together, you know? Being able to visualize and imagine how Levi as a skydiver would actually fall in mid-air...
I also researched a lot of skydiving terms--what do they call the gear that they use? When they do a parachute land, how do they do it? I also looked up the science terms that Hange uses: What are the things that PhDs usually talk about, aside from getting stressed out? I even Googled Physics thesis papers and dissertation titles!
I do that for all the fics that I write. In Handle with Care, Levi is a lawyer, so I'm trying to figure out all the appropriate legal terminologies that a lawyer would use. In the story, Levi handles the case for Erwin. What happens when someone drafts an appellate? How does one handle a case?
In Surf Town Summer, I try to imbibe the tropical beach vibes that remind me of the Philippines. There's a lot of imagery for the clear waters, white sand, and blue skies. With Levi being a surfer in that story, how do you subscribe the stunts in the water? It's the same thing with Free-Falling: what's the feeling like when he's together with Hange?
It's really up to us as writers to indulge our readers in a world that they can believe in. How do we guide them throughout the story that we have created ourselves?
Ness: I could feel my adrenaline pumping when I was reading Free-Falling! Have you ever gone skydiving yourself?
RK: (laughs) No. My husband--he's been trying to invite me to go with him. Hopefully, when things get better around here, we could try it out. There's actually a skydiving center near our place here.
Ness: That's amazing! Can you tell us more about Down with the Gold?
RK: So Down with the Gold is actually an Erurihan fic. We have Erwin, Levi, and Hange as treasure-hunters in this jungle where they meet different clans and tribes. They meet the Warriors and the Hunters and then they get involved in this entire treasure-hunting mystery. I don't want to spoil too much right now, but all I can say is please read it and support it if you can.
Ness: I'm excited to read it! It's Eruhan and Levihan in one!
RK: I love treasure-hunting stories. I've watched too many adventure films that inspired it. I'm excited to finish the entire story. I have friends who have given me plot points on how to roll out the story; they have given me advice on what to do for the next chapters. I'm always thankful for that.
I think that's the wonderful thing about being an author and being friends with fellow writers and artists.
Two of my friends, @ackermela and @zoevihan on Twitter, made fanarts to go along with the fic. Please check them out if you can.
Ness: You have 20 works in Archive of Our Own. Which one are you most proud of? Do you have a list of your top 3 or 5 works?
RK: A lot of people are more familiar with my multi-chapters as I try to update them once a month, so I'm gonna focus more on the one-shots. I don't really look back on those once I publish those fics.
So one of the earlier Levihan fics that I've written is Sycamores. It's a post-canon Levihan story where Levi and Hange finally meet in the afterlife. It's actually tagged MCD but I swear it's a happy-ending story. Please don't be too scared of the tag! Just read it. It shows how these two try to find each other in another lifetime. I'm not gonna spoil the story if you haven't read it yet. You can check it out on ao3. Rika actually read it and she even left a super comprehensive comment about the fic. Hi, Rika! aka @pinkweirdsunsets
We wouldn't be this tight-knit of a community if it weren't for her and this server that she created.
Ness: Rika's amazing! This is a Rika appreciation segment. And also a Rika slander (affectionately).
RK: And also gotta yourself credit, Ness. I've read most of your meta essays that you've written on Tumblr. I love reading how you depict Levi and Hange's relationship and how other people in the fandom see them, whether in canon or in AUs. I enjoy it when people are able to make a spin-off from their relationship and create an entirely different world in their stories.
Ness: Do you have any particular writing rituals? Do you listen to music while you write? If so, what do you listen to? Or does it change according to the genre?"
Sometimes I usually stream my WIPs while I'm on the Discord channel. You guys are more than welcome to hop in and vibe with me.
Ness: Do you have a playlist?
RK: I do! I actually created this OPM Levihan playlist. OPM stands for Original Pinoy (Filipino) Music. This was in collaboration with my fellow Filipino Levihan friends. They helped me collate all these songs that remind them of Levihan. It's on Spotify!
Ness: What's your favorite Attack on Titan soundtrack?
RK: You know me--I like rap. So, K21 is really one of my favorite songs. Some of the kids on the server want me to rap that for them.
If you can choose between spending a day with Hange or cleaning the barracks with Levi, which one would you prefer?
I like cleaning. As much as I love Hange, I might chop my ears off by the end of the day just listening to them talk about titans. Levi can order me around the barracks all day and I'll probably learn a new cleaning solution. Maybe. I don't know.
Ness: Or you can have Hange talk to you about Titans while you're cleaning the barracks with Levi.
RK: Oh, there you go. Why not both?
Ness: What would be your relationship advice to both Levi and Hange if they were your friends?
RK: What! I think THEY need to give me relationship advice. I'm married to a wonderful person; he's the love of my life. Sometimes, Levihan really reminds me of my relationship with my husband. We bicker a lot; we tease each other a lot; but the end of the day, we love each other.
So, just keep going, I guess. Keep loving each other, that's it. Go, Levihan. Good job. You're doing great.
Ness: Let's say you can only choose a universe from one of your fics. Which one would it be?
RK: It's funny because Soo gave me this sample question before. They also gave me the answer that they wanted to hear as well. Props to you, Soo @argethara, so I'll answer Free-Falling.
Imagine being part of the skydiving squad. Being able to jump with the two of them. And do free-fall in the sunset and watch Levi and Hange kiss in mid-air.
Ness: Yes! Are there any other Attack on Titan ships that you are fond of?
RK: I like Aruani. I feel like if the canon extended past the intended story, we would have seen more Armin and Annie interactions. But hey, that's what fanarts and fanfictions are for.
Ness: What's your favorite part of writing a fanfic?
RK: You know what's funny? 'Cause whenever I write a fanfic, it's more of 30%, no, it's always 20% actual writing and 80% doing anything else aside from writing. I don't know how to feel about that.
I'd rather do anything else aside from finishing the chapter. Maybe I'll watch a movie, maybe I'll listen to some music, maybe I'll do something else. Clean the house. Anything that doesn't involve writing.
I have a full-time job, and I have a lot of things to do around the house as well, so.
Ness: How do you manage everything this, like everything at the same time?
RK: Hah! I don't know, Ness, how do you manage this fandom? How do you do it? I'm throwing the question right back at you.
But I'm sure you also have this experience as well since I know you also write stories. The moment when you finally realize how you're gonna write a certain scene. Or when I finally realize how to do the scene that I want to happen. It's like a Eureka moment, like, Yes! This is it!
Then I just let go.
Ness: Once you start writing, you just tend to forget about everything else. It takes so much effort to sit down and actually write something.
RK: You know, the best solution to combat that is to read a lot of other stuff. Read other people's stories, other people's fanfiction. And just consume any other kind of art that inspires you.
I think that's what art is all about.
That's why I like reading other people's writing, and if I enjoy it, I leave a comment or kudos.
Especially for the younger ones. I am a personal advocate of inspiring the younger kids of the fandom to pursue the art. Don't be embarrassed about what you want to do. Don't think too much about how other people will perceive it. I guarantee you that you will always find someone who will appreciate the art that you put out there for others to see. As long as it's done well with the heart, and that you enjoyed whatever you did, I'm sure people will appreciate that.
Ness: I honestly love this. Because I remember you were one of the people who commented on my fics when I first started writing, so that really inspired me, and that just made me want to write more because it really made me really, really happy. So thank you so much, Ate RK. You are the best.
RK: I tried. I try to be a big sister to everyone in the fandom.
Ness: You are. You definitely are a big sister to us. Thank you so much for agreeing to this interview.
RK: Thank you for inviting me as well! I know we've been planning this for months, so I'm glad we're finally able to do this.
Just popped in here to give you a virtual hug because you are so talented and lovely and your arts and posts make me so happy! 💖 *hugs and cookies*
hfjfjfj thank you sm Ness for taking the time to come to say this to me ;u; is really nice to receive little surprises like this from time to time. I hope you're having a great day and wish you an awesome year 💜💜 also to anyone who's reading this lol.
I saw all your spouses giving you love and I too decided to step up as your spouse and tell you that JAZZY HOW ARE YOU SO COOL ILY I honestly feel like I want to give you a bear hug whenever I see your posts pop up on my dash. You're just awesome and I want you to know that 💖
the amount of love ive been receiving in these asks this past week is SICKENING!! SICKENING I TELL U!! I AM UNDESERVING!! NESS IM METAPHORICALLY BEAR HUGGING YOU RIGHT NOW I HOPE YOU KNOW THIS!!!!!
