what do you think about chapter 110? "you must've been real popular with the ladies" and "don't assume people's feelings."
Do you think there is any connection to lvh? I've read that actually the connection is only with Petra, but I'm 70% sure it's from his fans in general (including Nifa).
The message I got going forward was "don't assume people's feelings", I thought it was preparing us for 126, or giving a hint of his feelings before 126, but I'd like to know your perspective….
Maybe your translation have some problems. The original:
Zeke：お前モテねえだろ。勝手に人の気持ちをわかったきになるなよ
You should be unpopular(with the ladies). Don’t feel like you understand other people’s feelings
わかったきになる here just means that a person thinks (wrongly) he understands anything.
Obviously, Zeke was just trying to say that Levi is ignorant and arrogant.
As for the connection with “unpopular” . Well, my opinion comes from my experience, it may not make sense for you
In the stereotype, the so-called cis-man, especially male soldiers, are arrogant and dull. They can only think roughly with some principles, but can't understand or feel the sensitive hearts of other human beings, while women’s hearts are relatively sensitive and delicate.
For example, a friend of mine had to give birth to a child alone, because her husband works in another city, she turned to a psychologist for help because of loneliness and anxiety. But her husband thought that she was just too frail and modern psychology was just a deception.
Well, my friend is not angry either. Her comment is: he is just a typical cis-man. Seems like she's used to it.
Or like Marlo scolded Hitch for keeping him from battle, lmao
Levi said that Zeke had no sense of guilt at all, he didn't truly care about human’s life, which angered Zeke. So Zeke implied that Levi was also just a man who was self-righteous (like his father), thought arrogantly that his simple brain could judge other complex and delicate heart.
Of course, Zeke's judgment is wrong, and his own arrogance... lmao，you know.
So what Zeke said is: such a dull and arrogant man must often irritate relatively delicate and sensitive people (like ladies), so he won't be loved by any women, lmao
This is the logic Zeke’s word implied. In my environment, people often joke with similar words. I guess this is also some kind of common-view which transcends the cultural difference, so the word mansplaining becomes popular, lmao.
But Levi's reaction was also funny. He was really annoyed and defended himself: I've been popular, too
It was not usual to him, even Kamiya was surprised and amused. I feel it just implied that he likes women, otherwise he wouldn't care about such words.
As for whether it connected with Petra, I think it's possible, but more than that. After all, if you're loved by only one woman, you wouldn't say you're "popular". This shows that many people loved or admired Levi in the past. It may also express his nostalgia. Isym likes to highlight that now Levi is an uncle who can't understand the younger generation, but he was the hero or “treasure” of everyone in the old SC(including Hanji).
