#snk 65

[sailorspica]

okayyy so what prompt did you pick for YH week?

OKAY so this is a fic idea i've kicked around for months only coalescing thanks to this event! i think the top ones are the day 2 prompts royalty and sun and moon. it's a pre-canon AU inspired by three things:

sanctuary by cerasium, a Gorgeous bittersweet eruri kidfic with alive!! kuchel

E.T.

sers barristan selmy and brynden tully

it will push my cherished yumihisu-kenuri parallels agenda, but at its heart it's boringly detailed speculation about the reiss family that features kenny as a kind of 80s coming-of-age movie villain, e.g. an adult who has beef with children. the seed of it all is, yet again, meta questions: how are annie and ymir So Good at spying on the wallists? what would the royal government have done if they discovered another titan shifter before eren (a pre-850 annie fic angle for anyone 👀)? and what the fuck was historia actually doing on the "reclaimed land" she stayed on before the cadets, since i doubt she was unsupervised?

then there's tons of fanart of the ackermans as knights and yumihisu as a knight and her queen, so of course for Me (us) i think of how to fuck with chivalry + how asoiaf's wide variety of knights criticize that institution and the larger one of monarchy. kenny's loyalty is to uri, while he fucking hates rod and was weary of frieda, so in my self-indulgent little heart i wonder if he could have warmed up to frieda as a kind of no-bullshit uncle advisor, given how honest (if cruel) he is to historia in chapter 65:

also i like to imagine kenny and annie as weird frenemies like arya and the hound

#☉ #myrtlesandasphodels #snk 65 #yumihisuweek2024 #💛💛 #♀

[momtaku]

Skingeki Fly + Bad Boy

I'm rising from the dead to say how surprised, overwhelmed and delighted I am with the Shingeki Fly package I received this week. When I ordered, my only thought was an obsessive need to own the Bad Boy manga. I don't think I was even clear on what else was in the package so imagine my surprise when a giant 15 pound box landed on my doorstep. I'll probably never open the eren necklace or mikasa scarf, but art book and storyboards are gorgeous and I am grateful to have them in my collection.

Some quick thoughts about Bad Boy since there are some solid translations around. I love the addition. I'd wanted to know the exact moment of Levi's awakening. I think it confirmed long standing speculation involving Levi's age and the timing of his abandonment by Kenny. Levi being a sassy smartass since childhood has also been 100% confirmed.

One final point was that Kuchel would own something valuable from above ground. In chapter 65 we met Granda Ackerman, who judging by the window and lighting, was living above ground. He was wealthy enough to own artwork and keep fresh plants in his room.

It makes for nice continuity I guess to confirm that Kuchel had valuables from her youth.

And lastly of course the glimpse into lumberjack Levi's post canon world 💕💕💕💕 Sign me up for more stories about Levi, Gabi, Falco and Onyonkapon! I translated bits of the art book with my phone app, and in one interview passage it seems like Isayama is saying this would be our final look at the series, but we can always hope!

#snk chapter 65 #bad boy #shingeki fly #levi ackerman

[lenok993]

Ackermystery

Now or never

#snk 93 #snk 102 #snk 103 #snk 112 #snk 118 #snk 130 #snk 65 #snk 63 #snk 136 #snk 23 #snk 108 #snk 9 #mikasa ackerman #levi ackerman #rivamika #ackertalk #snk 137 #snk 138 #snk 139 #aot #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin

[fortheloveof-ichiruki]

Everyone when Levi shows up: It's THE ACKERMAN!!!

Mikasa: *being an Ackerman too

#ifykyk #snk final season #snk spoiler #snk new ep #aot final season #aot spoiler #levi ackerman #mikasa ackerman #rivamika #levimika #ackerman #mikasa #eren #levi #snk 65 #aot 65 #aot spoiler 65 #snk spoiler 65

[soraekii]

my boy armin was ✨ SHINING ✨

here's the speedpaint for this one!

#shingeki no kyoujin fanart #shingeki no spoilers #attack on titan #aot #armin arlert #armin fanart #armin aot #snk s4 #snk #aot snk #aot s4 #aot s4 spoilers #snk armin #snk art #artists on tumblr #artist for commission #digital artist #shingeki manga #snk 65 #warhammer #armin snk

[rennohara]

Queen Mikasa Ackerman (season 4:final season) appearance TODAY! 👑🌹

#queen #mikasa #mikasa ackerman #its time mikasa #attack on titan #attack on titan season 4 #attack on titan episode 65 #attack on titan episode 5 #mikasa aot #aot s4 #art #my art #anime #fanart #anime art #aot #snk #shingeki no kyojin #snk mikasa #snk fanart #snk manga #snk s4 #snk anime #mikasa fanart #shingeki no kyojin mikasa #attack on titan mikasa #shingeki no kyoujin fanart #shingeki no kyoujin #shingeki no spoilers

[iamnightduchess]

Reiner & Mikasa Visual Key Arts (Final Season)

animated *gif below

#snk #aot #shingeki no kyojin #attack on titan #進撃の巨人 Attack on Titan #snk final season #snk visual roster #snk key visual #reiner braun #mikasa ackerman #reiner x mikasa #ReiKasa #snk edits #snk spoilers #snk ep.65 #snk key art #ReiKasa edits #ReiKasaverse #ReiKasa sovereignty

[wetdabi]

me enjoying the snk ending pretending eren doesn't exist

#i literally haven't cared about him in like 65 chapters IM SORRY #snk spoilers #snk 139

[gregorykampf]

This girl is thick.

#snk #aot #snk season 4 #aot season 4 #thick #shingeki no kyojin #attack on titan #sasha blouse #aot final season #snk final season #snk s4 #snk ep 65 #jean kirschstein #snk episode 65 #aot episode 65 #sasha braus

[sailorspica]

dare i argue...

kenny has a very interesting, consistent morality that isn't all that aberrant compared to most of AoT's main cast.

he is our main source of ackerman lore, whose fallen status within the walls directly telegraphs the position of eldia in the larger world, so on closer inspection, kenny, levi, and mikasa are more than a bit analogous to grisha and the warriors. in kenny's case, i think most of the elder jaegers. hear me out:

my ongoing beef with the uprising arc anime adaptation includes this scene with kenny's grandfather. confoundingly, WIT cut significant length from grandpa's explanation about the ackermans' persecution at the hands of the MPs, but gave kenny a line that... is ghostwritten by zeke jaeger.

in the manga, kenny discouraged kuchel from carrying levi to term for reasons he doesn't verbalize (snk 65)

in the anime (aot 43), my subtitles say "I swear, ain't no point being born in a craphole world like this where there's not a single dream worth pursuing."

the dubbed line is "who'd want to be born into this piece of shit world anyway? there isn't a dream you could have worth suffering through it."

btw i think WIT giving kenny like, 5x more lines with the word "dream" is fucking cheesy and childish; i could see how this mindset is challenged immediately by carla in bystander, but does kenny have to be the one to say it? we get that from historia and alma and ymir already! plenty of characters express thoughts of regretting being born, but this and zeke's are particular to eldians and ackermans, not individuals

but what grandpa ackerman says about this "deal" between the ackerman patriarch and the crown echoes grisha and zeke's propaganda bedtime stories. the first generation born within the walls hoped that ignorance would spare future ackermans, and eldians left behind when the walls went up hoped compliance would save them from... paradise, conscription, what have you. historical omission and revision: neither fucking worked! that ackerman patriarch died pointlessly, every eldian sacrificed to marley's imperialism from foot soldiers in the trenches to the warriors and proto-warriors, ksaver's generation and older, died pointlessly.

much like the warriors, i don't think any of the above excuses or downplays kenny's wrongdoings, but contextualizes them:

he's a serial killer

as far as we know his Ripping was mostly MPs. as of this scene in ch. 65, the latest were lurking outside a dying old man's home, whether that means they monitored the eldest living ackerman closely, or they were there to jump kenny. point is, killing cops is uhhhhh cool. i don’t care he becomes one himself later. the old 2nd wave feminist adage of “the personal is political” applies to any gender, really, and we should all take police violence against vulnerable populations personally, so whether you frame kenny’s kill count before joining the MPs as self-defense or vengeance, there’s a net positive of fewer MPs terrorizing the streets of the interior and the underground.

he abandoned and/or abused levi

my guess is without his anime-only Zekeism™, kenny’s concern before levi's birth is more specific to kuchel’s circumstances, and also informs his abandonment:

raising a child would make kuchel’s life even more difficult;

the underground and moreover a brothel are no place to raise a child;

as his reaction to levi not knowing his last name goes, living as an ackerman is a curse unto itself (the zeke and ksaver conclusion), even if kenny’s relationship with uri has improved his circumstances;

my most charitable and extracanonical thought for this man is… i wonder what happened to his and kuchel’s own parents. how else do you lose track of your sister like this? did they feel abandoned themselves? did kenny already doubt kuchel would live long or be strong enough to protect a child (maternal mortality, which fellow MP nile dawk brings up in 108)? when he said “i’m not cut out to be some kid’s father,” did he also think that of kuchel? or did he think he also failed as an older brother—kenny and kuchel as grisha and faye...

we only get kenny’s POV of his time with levi, which lasts about five pages of chapter 69. my point is, levi whump revisionism tends to give him annie leonhart's canonical childhood, for which there is no evidence in chapter 69 or in bad boy.

of course, filling the blanks of kenny's pedagogy is grim, and popular fanon isn't unreasonable at all. there's no nonviolent way to teach violence, which kenny calls "the only tool he had" and likely thought of as the only thing he could offer levi. removing levi from the underground didn't seem to cross his mind, either, which could point to a pessimism that people kill people, above and below—the ackermans were wiped out on the surface, after all. but i actually find the understanding of their relationship to the royal family as feudal in the japanese sense helpful here: would bringing him along set levi's path for him, one in service to the reisses? cruel as it was, kenny guaranteed levi's freedom.

he's a cop

okay, this is where the manga gets a little ambiguous/inconsistent with chronology. when kenny gets the anti-personnel squad, he says he’s “never been part of the military before”—he’s actually following levi’s footsteps here, a criminal recruit far outclassing these graduates of the cadet corps. however, to historia, he identifies himself as part of the first interior squad in 845. the fuck?

what is more certain is after he meets uri and becomes his bodyguard 😏, he joins this "assembly" or "council" of nobles and wallists. "bodyguard" does not sound like a role in which kenny would wander the walls doing extrajudicial murder like sannes. when levi and hange interrogate sannes, he proudly lists his own resume (snk 55), which includes killing armin’s parents, erwin’s father, and historia’s mother (the 2nd worst thing to be in the walls is blond), so besides alma, kenny doesn't seem to be included in these panels of the first interior squad "bloodying [their] hands" for peace within the walls.

i think a reasonable conclusion is kenny joined the first interior squad after uri's death in 842, and this squad is so elusive as to be legendary to the average MP. there is probably some translation subtlety with "squad" and "section, " so my understanding is the anti-personnel squad is either part of the first interior squad, or an elite, separate but affiliated group much like levi's special operations squad.

i think of kenny in these three years as unmoored much like iseyama describes levi after shiganshina; the main thing guiding him seems to be his disdain for rod reiss, since he has no hard feeling against frieda. dare i say... rod is kenuri's zeke?

besides his worry for kuchel and debatable care for levi, kenny does, actually, express some of the humanitarianism that motivates his nephew, also in chapter 65 and also excluded from the anime adaptation:

"how much WE lost in those five years?! how many precious lives?!" "he don't give two shits about any of it! not his his family, not humanity, and certainly not you, historia!!

like, HELLO? who is he referring to? the residents of wall maria? the culling that killed armin's grandfather? historia's half-siblings? hell—trost and stohess, mere months ago? i think he's being genuine! this isn't a token, empty phrase, tugging at historia's heartstrings. a killer can value life, i don't think that's that crazy a thing to propose, least of all in attack on titan and least of all in the uprising arc where levi squad kills other humans (also all cops).

kenny's narration in chapter 69 and episode 47 revolves around power. his respect for uri starts from acknowledging him as "the strongest guy around," which echoes over the moment he abandons levi—he's done his level best to teach levi to be the strongest underground, and his philosophy of proving yourself to be the strongest or most powerful doesn't belie a sense of superiority over the weak or any desire to rule; it's the logical conclusion of the oppressed. he thinks of himself as strong, but doesn't call kuchel weak, and his use of "we"—he counts himself part of humanity. his later ambition to steal the founder... makes him more similar to erwin. he just wants the knowledge, the view from up there.

but i think kenny is a little dishonest in chapter 58 before one of levi's coldest "yeah"'s of all time:

i'll kill anyone if that's what it takes to get the job done. ya kill too when it benefits ya, right?

for both men, this object "you" is not themselves as individuals, despite their posturing. it could really, really be humanity, for all three ackermans. mikasa, ten chapters prior:

there are only so many lives i can value, and i decided who those people were six years ago, so you shouldn't try to ask for my pity. because right now, i don't have time to spare, or room in my heart.

and her series-long journey is excavating her heart for humanity. the common fandom complaint that she "only cares about eren" is, to me, similarly reductive as their view of kenny. characters can lie to themselves, or reveal they're more selfless than they thought.

in conclusion:

ACAB

WIT skipped a lot of exposition to animate an extra kenny-levi fight that doesn't even make sense spatially

of course he sucks! and so do the younger ackermans! but they all suck a lot less than they think they do

kenny is also historia's uncle by marriage, in my heart

someone draw him and zeke hanging out

#kenny ackerman #ackerman clan #ackerman family #aot meta #snk meta #♃

[darth-eagle]

Thank You MAPPA & Isayama for finally give our Miss Tybur a First name, Lara:

Now I easily introduce my Cosplay of Lara Tybur to others at Event!

And I can only say One Thing after watching this Episode #65

“IT BEAUTIFUL......”

And credits and LOVE to the MAPPA Team for showing more of Willy Tybur’s family and giving a name to his Eldest Daughter, Finne. Great to know now those are his children too!

#thank you mappa #snk episode 65 #aot episode 65 #snk ep 65 #aot ep 65 #lara tybur #miss tybur #ms tybur #warhammer titan #finne tybur #willy tybur #aot final season

[omgitsshrimp]

The way Mappa directs an action scene and the way Wit directs an action scene are so different. 4x06.

Wit studio, compared to Mappa, is so extra (in a good way). Their shots are quicker, fast paced and more dynamic. They do more hand drawn 2d animation as well(which is my preference personally), which gives it smoother consistency throughout all the scenes, there’s more cohesion.

Mappa studio seems a lot more understated, which isn’t a bad thing. They use a lot more cgi in their scenes which means they have the difficult task of trying to make it all blend as seamlessly as possible. The movement of the cg titans doesn’t always lend itself well to the power and force a scene is supposed to have. It must be very very tricky for them. I wish they would use less cg. Cg is good and useful in enhancing 2d animation but you don’t need to use it that much. But I guess that’s just how they operate.

I think I prefer Wit studio’s animation. Not because Mappa is bad, they’re amazing too. But you just can’t beat Wit’s god tier action scenes tbh. Also Wit had the advantage of setting the tone for action scenes in the series, while Mappa has the tricky job of coming after and adapting. As a viewer the tonal shift (in the action scenes) is a little jarring and sometimes leaves me wanting the hard, quick impact that Wit had.

But I appreciate Mappa taking on the responsibility and I know they’re doing their best. They’re a high quality studio, and their cgi does look good. It’s just a preference thing for me. I will always like the look and movement of hand drawn 2d animation over cgi.

#attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #eren jaeger #snk mikasa #mikasa #levi #attack on titan season 4 #wit studio #mappa studio #cgi titans #war hammer titan #mikasa ackerman #animation #attack on titan episode 65 #aot #snk #aot spoilers #aot manga #snk manga #snk season 4 #snk spoilers #aot season 4

[jayneisalone]

MY BOY ARMIN LOOKING HELLA FINE ASF

#aot #attack on titan s4 #attack on titan manga #attack on titan #snk #shingeki manga #shingeki no kyojin #armin attack on titan #armin #armin arlert #aot episode 65

[lenok993]

as for that other branch of the family

Did Kenny knew Mikasa’s dad hm?

#snk #kenny ackerman #mikasa ackerman #ackerman family #ackerman clan #so kenny knew mikasa's father before her birth #interesting #snk 63 #snk 65

[magicmiss]

The Candy Curtis case // chapter 63

Aka “old friend”

First of, if I were Jean I would much more angry but to attack Mikasa too is a bit too harsh, don’t you think ? Though, he was really hurt... They just had shared intimate moments both on the rooftop and under the sheets 🌚🥲 Second, Reiner !?? Oh lord, things are getting complicated and even more dangerous... Ymir will have a choice to make, but which one will she decides on ?

My Patreon to support my dumb ass ☎️🚬⌛️

#snk #aot #the case candy curtis #jeankasa #jean kirschstein #mikasa ackerman #1950 jeankasa au #ymir x historia #ymir aot #historia reiss #reiner braun #jean's bad habit of smoking #Ymir’s bad habit of being a lil bitch #OK OK OK CHAOTERS 65 ARRIVES SOON DO NOT PANIC DO NOT PANIC STAY CALM STAY FUCKING CAL #this chapter also mark the debut of my addiction to that color glitch effect ehe #anyways I love ymir she’s a bitch #Ymir’s also someone’s favorite character according to the survey and I love it aha x)

[smol-boiii]

🥺 Porco's raw emotions in this recent episode; and like I have been thinking how realistic yet exaggerated his emotions like screams, anger, bitterness are portrayed in the anime. Like maaannn, gotta love him!

Also, my dude Porco was like, let me attack him, the final boss, myself! Like why listen to anyone? Definitely not waiting for Zeke or pieck. I was born for this. *gets cornered*

#porco galliard #eren jaeger #ackerman #mikasa ackerman #levi ackerman #ep 65 #snk season 4 #snk