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#The Devils of Paradis - Attack on Titan Final Season
theunfairmaiden · 1 year
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Thinking about the time Zeke really underestimated Levi and thought turning his comrades into titans would kill him because he wouldn’t be able to kill them. Lmao what an idiot
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Toonami Weekly Recap 04/30/2022
Lupin the 3rd Part 6 EP#02 - Detective and Crook: Lily faints after seeing Lupin, while he and Fujiko escape Zenigata. Holmes vows to catch Lupin and tells Lestrade how Lupin was involved in the death of his partner, John H. Watson, 10 years earlier. At their hideout, Lupin explains to the crew about the legend of the "Raven" society and its mysterious treasure, who are then surprised to learn his connection to Holmes. When Lily awakes, she tells Holmes that she remembers Lupin from her past. Zenigata and Yata inspect Faulkner's Black Drawing Room, where Lestrade offers to work together to capture Lupin. Holmes manages to track down Lupin and his crew in an abandoned building and warns him to stay away from Lily and leave London for good. He also led Zenigata and the British police to the hideout, but Lupin destroys the building while he and his crew make their escape. Back at Holmes' house, Lily has a recollection of Lupin standing over the body of her dead father and holding a gun. Meanwhile, Albert is recovering in the hospital where his men tell him that Lupin has left England.
Attack on Titan: The Final Season (The Rumbling Arc) EP#28 (87) Part 2 Finale - The Dawn of Humanity: Several months before the assault on Liberio, the Scouts arrived on the Marley shoreline. On their way to visit Azumabito at her home, they witness the persecution received by Subjects of Ymir firsthand after rescuing a young thief named Ramzi from a mob of Marleyans. Azumabito informs the group that Marley has begun cracking down on Subjects of Ymir who escape their internment camps through use of blood tests. Hange hopes to forge peace by allying with the Subjects of Ymir Protection Group, who will give a speech the next day. Discovering that Eren has gone missing, Mikasa tracks him down to Ramzi's home. Eren questions Mikasa's loyalty to him, asking what he means to her, to which she is taken aback and calls him her family. The rest of the group catches up and they spend the night partying with Ramzi's family. The next day at the Protection Group's assembly, the representative of the Protection Group declares that Subjects of Ymir who don't view themselves as Eldian should be freed, while the "devils" of Paradis should be exterminated, which receives unanimous support from the audience. Eren departs and does not contact the Scouts again until the assault on Liberio. Flashbacks reveal Eren meeting Yelena and agreeing to follow Zeke's euthanasia plan while actually informing Floch of his real plans, Zeke telling him that Ackermans are not actually slaves who actually follow the person they save and that Mikasa is devoted to him for another reason, and Historia deciding to get pregnant in the hopes of stopping Eren's plan. Eren tells Zeke that his only reason for killing all life outside the island is so that his friends can live long, happy lives. In the present, the Global Alliance makes a futile attempt with their navy to stop Eren and the Rumbling from reaching Marley. They are easily destroyed by the Titans and Eren declares his intention to destroy the world as he and the Colossal Titans set foot on the mainland.
Shenmue The Animation EP#13 - Shenmue
Assassination Classroom Season 2 EP#19 (41) - Outer Space Time: After training for their mission, Nagisa and Karma are chosen as the two pilots to be sent into space. Thanks to Ritsu infiltrating the security mainframe of the space center, Nagisa and Karma manage to sneak aboard the rocket in place of some crash test dummies as it lifts off into space. Arriving at the International Space Station, the pair manage to convince the astronaut crew members to share their data before returning safely to Earth. Upon inspecting the data, Manami Okuda tells the other students that the chance of Koro-sensei actually exploding is less than one percent with the help of a drug. Nonetheless, the students agree to continue their assassination attempts until graduation.
Cowboy Bebop EP#25 - The Real Folk Blues (Part 1): Left alone by the rest of the crew, Spike and Jet are ambushed by members of the Red Dragon Syndicate. They are saved by Shin, brother of Spike's former subordinate Lin, who explains that after Vicious unsuccessfully tried to seize control of the organization, people connected to him are now being hunted down. Faye has a chance meeting with Julia and passes on a message from her to Spike. Spike rushes to rendezvous with Julia. Vicious escapes his execution and kills the leaders of the syndicate.
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Shingeki no Kyojin Part II: Context and Story Development
Shingeki no Kyojin Part II: Context and Story Development 
To start, I’d like to write a synopsis for people who may not know what AOT is about. However, the following paragraphs will have spoilers (as well as many parts of my next posts), so you’ve been warned.
AOT follows the story of a 10 year old kid, named Eren Yeager. He lives in the district of Shiganshina, located on the outermost of 3 walls called Maria, Rose and Sheena. People living in this society are believed to be the only people left in the world. They're not allowed to leave the walls because on the outside awaits a permanent threat: Titans. They're some kind of giants, with human-like appearance that feed off of people. As they seem to be the reason why humanity is nearly extinct, the walls protect people from those beasts.
Eren and his friends, Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert, wish to someday discover the outside world.
One day and without warning, the Colossus Titan and the Armored Titan attack and break wall Maria. Due to the chaos and destruction of the district, Eren's mother gets eaten by a titan in front of his eyes. This traumatic situation leads to Eren seeking revenge. Eventually, he decides to enlist in the Survey Corps, a military branch involved in titan combat and outside exploration, accompanied by his friends.
Spoilers ahead:
Now, I'd like to discuss how the story unfolds, because it's great and simply brilliant.
By the first season, the audience is introduced to the conflict and presents the characters. They are led to believe that the story they're watching is another fight between good and evil, humans good and titans bad. 
Season 2 is dedicated to exploring the conflict. This season holds one the greatest plot twists of the story. However, episodes before this big reveal the audience is distracted by other events. We get the reveal that Ymir is also a shifting titan in a scene in which many important characters are in danger. After all the chaos, the story finds a perfect moment to surprise us with an amazing and disconcerting twist: Reiner and Bertholdt reveal their identities as the armored and colossal titan. Then, there’s shock, disbelief and betrayal, followed by an intense fight. By the end of this season, characters as well as the audience are a step closer to the truth about their world.
Season 3 presents the characters with their greatest struggles. The audience as well as the characters get resolution to some conflicts. We get to find out about the founding titan and its importance, Historia’s story, the attic mystery, among others. Most importantly, this season approaches darker themes. The protagonists now know that titans were at some point humans and not only that, but they were eldians just like them. 
  All of the 3 first seasons seem to follow a 3 act structure: the setup, the confrontation and the resolution. However, AOT does not end there as at the moment there’s two parts of a fourth season and a third coming next year. So now, season 4 part 1 introduces new characters as well as a new conflict and also redefines the antagonist. Part 2 explores the conflict and part 3 will handle the final climax and resolution. Season 4 revisits themes that were previously established in seasons 1-3. In the first season, we understand and share Eren’s rage for titas and we actually want him to get his vengeance as it seems deserved because titans are the embodiment of evil in his world. However that exact same conflict would return in season 4 with Gabi as she hated and wanted to exterminate everyone in Paradis because they were devils in her eyes. They’re basically different sides of the same coin. What if instead the show had started stating Gabi’s point of view as it did with Eren’s?
Anyway, I won’t make this any longer. I hope I’ve given a good enough insight of how the AOT’s story develops and how it works its way out to always surprise the audience.
 Francia Durán.
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Attack On Titan Episode 88 release date in 2023 : The Final Season Part 3
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Yes, Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 is on its way. The show may never end at this rate. It's good news, though, for those who are looking for episode 88 release dates. This is especially important after the show ended in Part 2. We'll be covering everything we know about 2023's Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3. Also known as Attack on Titan Season 4, Part 3 and , also known under Attack on Titan Final Season Final Arc. Because anime is a confusing medium. Although the Attack on Titan final episode is still at least a year away we know a lot about it. This includes a teaser trailer, poster, and a glimpse at how many episodes remain. It also gives us an idea of a potential release window for Attack on Titan Episode 88. May Also Like : Annie Leonhart Aot : Everything You Need To Know Episode 88 of Attack on Titan is scheduled for release Attack on Titan has seen a series of release windows in its nearly ten-decade on television. New seasons have been released as part of the anime's traditional Spring and Fall windows. We believe the Attack on Titan episode number 88 release date will be sometime in the Winter 2022/23 window (January-February 2023). Why? The Final Season's two first parts have been released in December 2020 and January 2022, respectively. This is the pattern and there should be enough time for next year, barring any delays in production. We'll see that Part 3 should be shorter than the other two, which should help speed up production. Related : King Fritz : Everything You Need To Know Is Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 actually a movie? Some rumors suggested that Attack on Titan's Final Season might be made into a movie. This is likely to be due to the continuing success of anime movies on the big screen called 'canon', such as Jujutsu Kaisen Zero and the Demon Slayer Mugen Train movie. This is not the case. Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 is not a movie. Instead, it will consist of several TV episodes adapting the last chapters from the manga source material. Related : Carla Yeager : Everything You Need To Know How many episodes of Attack on Titan remain? Part 3 will likely be quite short, although we don't know the exact length. It's running out of material. The first season of Attack on Titan Final Season/season 4 was 16 episodes long. It adapted the manga's chapter 91 to chapter 116. Final Season Part 2 ran 12 episodes and covered chapters 117-130. There are only nine manga chapters left to adapt, which means Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 could last around 10 episodes at the current ratio of manga chapters-to-episodes. Depending on how MAPPA approaches (likely) the action-heavy scenes, that could be extended to 12 or 13. Related : Zeke Jaeger : Everything You Need To Know Attack on Titan Final Season Story: What can we expect from Part 3? First, it is clear that the decades-long conflict between Paradis Island and Marley is over. Part 3 remains a mystery. The Rumbling is Eren's world-ending move. It sees the Titans enclosed in Paradis wars and used as a huge army. Eren plans to kill all people outside Paradis, so that his friends can live happily without having to suffer the vicious cycle of revenge that will eventually lead to Paradis' 'devils. The coalition of forces from Paradis and Marley stands in Eren's path. They include Eren's "sister" Mikasa, his once-family in the Survey Corps and the rest of the prominent Marley forces. Before we reach the final showdown, there are some wildcards. Floch is the most prominent. Gabi last saw Eren's loyal lieutenant being shot, but it didn't seem to be fatal. He will likely play a significant role in the final act of the show's finale. Zeke is likely to be on the chessboard as well. Zeke is currently stuck in the Coordinate due to Eren's actions from Part 2. However, if anyone can help him out of a temporary jam it's Zeke. Jaegerists, those who support Eren, may also be affected by Eren’s continuing rampage around the globe. It could be that they support or oppose Eren that will decide how the conflict ends. In the end, Eren will be fighting Mikasa for the fate of the planet. It could be the question of his willingness to let go of his warpath that makes all the difference. Also Read : Eren Kruger Aot : Everything You Need To Know The Attack on Titan Season 4 Part 3 Episode release date is 2023 Studio MAPPA was given a place on the anime production committee for Attack On Titan's final series. A committee is a group or companies that have invested in an anime project and share the risks and rewards. MAPPA is therefore interested in seeing the Attack On Titan end as successful as possible. They should also be able to have greater control over the ending of the story. Whether the nine final chapters were adapted from an Attack On Titan movie or a Shingeki no Kyojin Season 4 Part 3 movie, the main issue was the availability of Studio MAPPA. They have grown quickly in recent years and announced in March 2022 that they would be opening a sub-studio to provide CGI art for their projects. Studio MAPPA has more projects than it can handle in 2022, so there's no doubt that. Chainsaw Man, Hell's Paradise, Jigokuraku and Dance Dance Danseur are just a few of the many projects on Studio MAPPA's 2022 agenda. Jujutsu Kaisen 0's Japanese movie box office broke all records, so it was not surprising that Season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen was also announced for 2023. The Zombieland Saga movie on aliens is also in development. Attack On Titan Episode 88 will be released in the mid- to late 2023 to maintain animation quality and give the final season a solid production schedule. May Also Like : Reiss Family : Everything You Need To Know Trailer for Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JMKbUDgbCM&ab_channel=AnimeHypeアニメ日本 By Anime Hype The Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 trailer is more in the 'teaser bracket than it was at the beginning. It gives very little away. You can also find the first poster here. It's not only a metaphor for following (quite literally!) in Eren's footsteps while they chase down the Scout, but it's also noteworthy that Levi is seen here wearing ODM gear. It appears that despite suffering serious injuries in the Final Season it is possible that he could be recovering and ready to fight in Part 3. 2023 looks set to be a great year for anime. The third season of Demon Slayer is set to premiere next year. Meanwhile, the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen is scheduled for 2023. Related And Alert Spoiler : Aot Ending Explained : Everything You Need To Know Aot Final Season Part 3 Discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHbqA3zFkpc By Daily Anime Also Read : Attack On Titan Girls : Our Top 10+ Read the full article
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Attack on Titan – 87 (The Final Season Part 2 Fin) – Their Best Shot
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Before we reach the end of everything, Attack on Titan takes a look back to a time that was never covered in previous episodes: the last time the Scouts (minus Reiner, Annie, etc.) were all together: when they first arrived at Marley’s biggest port. It’s great to see Sasha alive, Levi in one piece, Mikasa in her Sunday best making the cutest faces while eating ice cream for the first time…while Connie and Sasha chase a car to try to feed it a carrot.
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We know the gang is there to meet with the Azumabito and weigh their options concerning Marley. Ideally they can strike some kind of peace, and Hange makes it clear that’s the primary goal to start, no matter how difficult or dangerous it might be. They know there’s a “Subjects of Ymir Protection Group” making a big speech in the forum that will shake things up…it’s not much, but as Hange says, it’s their best shot.
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While everyone else is either focused on the political talks or being fish out of water in the technologically advanced city, Eren already seems distant, with a thousand-yard stare that’s more like ten thousand yards. The ever-protective Mikasa finds him looking down at a refugee camp on the city outskirts.
He can’t help but relate to these people from whom everything was suddenly stolen. Then, out of the blue (at least for her), asks Mikasa “what he is” to her. Rather than say he’s everything and she loves him, she goes the safe route, saying he’s “family.”
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Following that is one of the most purely joyful sequences in all of Titandom: when Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Sasha, Connie, and Jean are invited to the tent of the refugee elders and their family. There, they get drunk and have a shitload of fun all night long.
When the booze runs out, they simply go get more, and bring more refugees to join the party. When Hange and Levi find them, they’re all passed out, with Eren naturally flanked by Mikasa and Armin, the three inseparable even in intense inebriation.
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Sadly, that’s the end of the fun and joy for both the episode and for Part 2 of The Final Season. Everyone gets over their hangovers and attends the forum, their purported ally, while voicing his resolve to help those Subjects of Ymir who have suffered as much or more than Marleyans, still considers the Subjects on Paradis to be “devils” and the “true enemy.” It doesn’t look like there’s much hope for peaceful negotiation, so Eren peaces out early.
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Mikasa recalls that this was the day Eren left them. As she stands on the boat in the present, headed back to the Marleyan coast to try to stop the Rumbling, she can’t help but wonder if all of this would have happened had she given Eren a different answer to the questions “what am I to you” and “why do you care about me so much.”
The answer, of course, is probably not. While I still doubt Eren meant the terrible things he said to Mikasa when they basically broke up as both friends and family, but as we see in his last talk with Historia, he believed there was no other way to stop the cycle of hate and revenge than destroying the rest of the world.
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Historia is understandably horrified by his position, and by his suggestion he can use the Founder’s power to wipe her memories to soothe her pain. But what probably haunts her most is that she, the “worst girl in the world” saved his life. Had she not, he wouldn’t be here preparing to commit mass genocide against her wishes.
Later, after Eren cuts off his own leg and stabs his eye to end up in a military hospital where he and Zeke meet, he asks his brother about the “forced behavior” of members of the Ackerman clan. Zeke assures him that Mikasa’s devotion to him wasn’t blood conditioning, but simply a level of love so intense she’d happily tear through legions of Titans for him.
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I wish Zeke’s words had come earlier, before Eren had already pretty much committed to betraying his brother and usurping the Eldian euthanization plan for an Everyone Else euthanization plan. After all, Eren is certain he’ll only live four more years, tops. But he wants to leave the world a place where Mikasa and Armin can live and be happy.
Unfortunately, Mikasa and Armin aren’t content to simply sit back and let Eren do this in their names; there’s no way they could ever be happy in a world that 1.) doesn’t have Eren in it and 2.) has had most of the world’ population wiped out by the Rumbling. But Eren’s got tunnel vision at this point. Unless anyone can get to him and give their best shot to convincing him to reconsider, this thing is happening.
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We see the beginnings of this as the largest joint fleet in human history assembles at the coastline. Their first volley of fire destroys several dozen Colossal Titans, but then the skin of the others begins to harden and that’s all she wrote; the 20,000-ton battleships being tossed into the air like plastic toys. The last line of defense, land-based artillery units, watch this nightmare unfold and abandon their posts.
As the camera pans up to the several-thousand-foot-tall Founding Attack/Founding Titan bearing Eren’s green eyes, the vow he made as a small child before an hour of scout training, when the vision of his mother being eaten still fresh in his mind, is repeated: “I’ll kill every last one of them.”
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And that’s it for Part 2. Mind you, Part 2 was not Part 2 of 2. I kinda figured that when I realized half of this episode was over and we were still in a flashback. Still, the stage is set for a Part 3, which may or may not be the final part of the final season.
Will this all come down to an epic lovers’ quarrel between Mikasa and Eren? If it does, how many cities will be leveled before it gets to that? I don’t know, but I do know the fact Mikasa should make in order to give her best shot at stopping Eren:
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nanakorobiyaokii · 3 years
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WELL, MARK ME DOWN AS SCARED AND HORNY.  AHHHHHHHHHHHー(۶ꈨຶꎁꈨຶ )۶ʸᵉᵃʰᵎ
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"𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕚𝕥 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕡"| Reiner Braun
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Pairing: Reiner Braun x f!reader
Word Count: -3k words
Summary: It's hard to hate a devil when he's the only one that can stop your pain. In which Reiner finally comes home, and you're resigned to hate him until you realize he's all you have.
TW: NSFW, kidnapping, hostage situation, angst, unhealthy power dynamics, toxic relationship, Stockholm syndrome, slight yandere! Reiner (?), canon divergent, soft smut loool, a little worship/praise kink
A/N: This fic lives in an AU in which:
The Armored Titan can see their own future memories
The Reader was taken to Marley after the reveal in season 2.
This is a multi-fic of just random moments in this scenario cause I can't commit to an actual story since I've got a wrist injury!
You weren't moved into the house until the warriors came back from their last stand in Shigashina, haggard and defeated. Only two men - no, two monsters - Zeke Jeager and Reiner Braun, your husband.
It was still unsettling to call him that. You didn't even get to have a marriage ceremony. Papers were drawn and documents were forged to ensure you had a place in Marley, but it didn't feel right. The one thing you had dreamed about and longed for for so long, ever since you met him in Paradis.
And before you could digest it, the weight of it, he was gone again.
Now the idea of it was brought to life as Reiner guided you around your new home. A small but quaint one on the outskirts of Liberio, so close to Marleyan districts you could almost pretend you weren't considered a devil. A false sense of security for Honorary Marleyans.
Despite its small foundation, the house was wide with two full baths, large bedrooms, and a family room. There was even a third bedroom, only a bit smaller than the rest, and you couldn't help but furrow your brows as you peeked into the room.
Reiner coughed, cleared his throat, and quickly closed the door. "All they had left were starter rooms," he explained sheepishly. "For...families."
Neither of you said anything else about that room. You both knew you wouldn't be needing it.
You followed him down to the hall then, noticing Reiner's shoulders were tense. If this were after training, you'd probably offer to give him a massage, laughed when he tried to hide his moans of relief, and melted into his kiss when he turned around afterward to thank you.
But that was when you were just two kids facing the world together.
"I specifically asked for two rooms," he said, turning to eye you wearily. As if you might attack him or run away. "So you don't have to worry about me."
You opened your mouth to speak but your voice was raw from sobbing the night before when you found out he was coming back. Having destroyed your home, you assumed. But the last stand had been a failure, and that gave you hope.
You wanted to scream, 'How dare you try to be a good guy? Of course I wouldn't want to share a room with you.'
But you were all screamed out, and a part of you still yearned for the idea. For him to wrap his arms around you as you rested on his chest.
If you did, would you wake up back in Paradis? Would this all turn out to be a dream?
He lead you to your room and like all the others, it was bare of warmth. Stripped of life. The twin bed against the wall was plain, with white comforters and pillowcases, a simple wooden desk and a chair against the window. The grey curtains flowed from the wind wisping into the room, the moon's light washing over you both.
If you didn't know any better, you would think this room belonged to one of the warriors. A room built for a blank canvas, a weapon, not a human being.
Wordlessly, you entered the room and dropped the one bag made for you full of armbands and clothes made of strange textures and fabrics on the bed.
You could feel Reiner's eyes boring into your back as you moved to the window. Outside, buildings lazed over the small houses and over those buildings were more of the mainland, more of the outside world...
Armin's books...
"Can you close the curtains?" You asked softly, voice sore. “I don’t want to see anything.”
"Of course," Reiner murmured, already behind you in a flash. He leaned over and closed the curtains.
"We can go shopping tomorrow," he said. “Buy you new furniture and anything else you want in your room."
Your mind drifted to the one decoration you'd managed to have in every bedroom that ever belonged to you. From your childhood home, to the orphanage, to the barracks.
The only decor you needed that was now gone forever.
A sketch of your mother.
This monster took you away and he didn't even let you bring a picture of your mother.
Rage brewed within you, so powerful you could go blind, and yet nothing came out.
Instead you stood there, eyes on the floor because you couldn't look at him.
Or you might not survive.
You needed to survive.
Help was coming.
You just needed to stay put, find a way out when the opportunity presented itself, wait for your friends to come for you.
"Y/N, I-" Reiner started again but sighed instead. “If you need anything, I'm here. Goodnight, Y/N.”
He started to retreat, turning on his heel, and oddly enough, your heart started to pound.
"Rei-erm, wait," you called hoarsely and he seemed to turn around in a heartbeat.
Strangely, you wanted to say, ‘I’m scared’. What you would do once you were alone in this strange room, you didn’t trust yourself enough to find out, and yet you couldn’t go to Reiner like you used to. Not anymore.
So instead you composed yourself.“There isn’t a lock on the door.”
Reiner, so firm up until now, regarded you with pity.“Y/N,” he said softly. “You know why there can’t be.”
 It dawned on you then, as you took in Reiner’s firm stance. It dawned on you that there was a possibility you could be trapped here for the rest of your life. The thought sent your head spinning.
You grasped the wooden bed frame to keep from swaying as your vision started to blur with tears. Pathetically, your anger melted into fear, that familiar panic that tormented you since the walls fell, now following you across the sea.
And even worse, there was only one person who could manage to make it stop.
“So you’re telling me I’m trapped here,” you said shakily.
“You don’t have to be… you could make… a life here,” He left off the implication you were both thinking of; ‘with me.’
For a moment, you almost considered it, you almost allowed yourself to envision it. A life with Reiner, the third room that you would never speak of belonging to a child, A real wedding to make up for the horrors Reiner had inflicted on your comrades to bring you here-
No, you wouldn’t go there. You couldn’t.
“Life? What kind of life, Reiner?” You exclaimed, mustering up the strength to spin around and face him. “One where I’m treated like a devil for just walking down the street? Where I have to pretend my entire home isn’t being slaughtered by people like you? You might be able to take that, but I can’t.”
He was stoic, an apologetic gleam behind his eyes, hurt etched on his face.
You resisted the urge to hold him, even as you sensed his pain in the very depths of your core. Once upon a time, you were so in love that one just knew when the other was hurt.
Reiner had held your face in his hands before the survey corps expedition as if you were a precious treasure he'd been searching centuries for as he reassured you, 'If you need me, I'll know.'
Such a thought had comforted you then. When you'd been slammed into a tree by the Female Titan, the rest of your comrades killed. You thought you would die in the clearing but Reiner had showed up just like he'd promised.
And now he needed you, you could feel it, and you resisted every part of you that wanted to run to him.
“Do you think I want this for you?” He said darkly, voice strained. “I hate it too, Y/N, but dammit the right things don’t always feel good,”
He closed the gap between you before you could react, cradling your face in his large hands, hazel eyes teary. ” you don’t know how many ways this could’ve turned out for you, how many ways I’ve had to save you.”
You froze, you were so close that your breaths mangled together. And you longed for him, you longed to bury your face in his chest and sob, but how could you find comfort in the person who’d hurt you in the first place?
“Reiner,” you breathed, tears welling in your eyes, tears you loathed because they weren’t entirely forged from anger. “I will never make a life here,”
You took a step back then, imagining the faces of all the ones you’d lost so you could keep your composure as you looked him in the eye. “And I will hate you until the day I die.”
“Hate me, I deserve it, and I’ll make sure you have a lifetime to do so.”
He started out of the room, leaving your heart and mind in pieces around you. There he was, talking to you about things that you didn’t understand, talking in codes and secret languages. It used to drive you mad on the island and it drove you mad now.
Save you? How was destroying your home and kidnapping you saving you?
You ran to the doorway. “Just drop the act, Reiner! You didn’t save me, you’re not a soldier for humanity, you’re a devil!” You cried. “So stay away from me!”
And then, worn out from trying to be strong, “I-I can’t believe I ever loved a monster like you.”
Reiner paused in the hallway, his back to you. And you saw the way he crumbled even as he seemingly tried to hide it.
“Neither can I,” he said. “I really am nothing but a filthy devil.”
You were supposed to feel satisfied, you were supposed to feel in control, but instead you were left with an ache in your chest. 
Slowly, you closed the door.
Your heart- what was left of it - shattered as it shut and you sank down to your knees in sobs.
Crying without any tears.
Crying for your friends so distant from you now.
Crying for the silly cause you had once believed in. For humanity.
Crying for the devil you once loved.
It wasn't until you went to unzip your bag for the odd, yet soft clothes Marleyans used as pajamas that you found the sketch.
The sketch of your mother.
A treasure that only a devil would've remembered to grab for you that day Wall Rose was breached.
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Reiner was contemplating over the rifle in his closet, how it would be so easy to shut down the guilt roaring within him, when he heard the knock.
Loud, forceful, again and again and again. In a frenzy.
He knew that knock.
He sensed what it meant.
Reiner opened the door to you, eyes red, sobbing, gasping for breath. "Reiner," you managed. "Help me, make it stop, please, you're the only one that can make it stop."
Without hesitation, he gathered you in his arms, let you cry into his shirt. And he marveled for a moment at how familiar you felt even now. How your body melted into his in that perfect way as if you were made for him
It was cruel. The one person he’d hurt so badly he couldn’t stand it was also one of the people that still gave him a reason to stay. You needed him, even if you didn’t welcome the idea, even if you loathed it.
Because you had been in his memories, happy and free, dying and tormented. If he left this earth, who would protect you from the doom he foresaw waiting for you?
"Shhh, shhh," he whispered, stroking your hair as you sobbed. Just as he'd done so many times before when you would grow anxious before a mission. "I've got you, sunshine. You're safe here, I'm not gonna let anything hurt you."
His heart pained at the irony of it all. From the very beginning, he'd been uttering soothing lies. Yet he continued because lies were the only way he knew to make it better.
"Just take deep breaths for me okay, baby? I promise you're okay. I'm here. I'm right here."
He felt your body relax, your heart hammering in your throat galloping down to a slow pace.
Your cries turned to sniffles, but you still trembled in his arms, clinging to the collar of his thin, long-sleeved t-shirt. And all was still, and for a moment, you both could pretend that nothing had changed.
“Please, Reiner,” you said shakily then. “Please let me go home.”
He stiffened.
“Please,” you pleaded, voice raw from crying. “I’m begging you. If you love me, you’ll let me go home.”
His arms tightened around you and he grimaced into your shoulder.
“Please-“
“Don’t speak,” he said firmly, swallowing hard. “You know I can’t. This is your new life now, and the sooner you accept it, the better you’ll be.”
Your heart sank, but all you knew to do was to cry into his shirt again, nuzzling your head in his chest as if you could bleed through each other. You never felt so trapped.
“It’s for your own good,” he added, only causing you to sob.
“Please,” was all you could manage, over and over again, hoping he might hear you. See you.
Instead Reiner's hands moved from your back, trailing down to the hem of your shirt as he murmured into the night, "I'll make it stop.”
You didn’t know why you let him undress you, crying into his kiss, gentle and soft, wet with your tears.
Maybe it was because you needed him to fill the hole in your heart. To empty you of the pain and confusion coursing through you. To replace the foreignness of this house with something you knew.
The familiar sensation of his touch.
Reiner might’ve broken you, but he was the only one who could make it stop.
He trailed kisses down your body, from your neck, to your shoulders, your breasts. Then he coaxed you to the bed, whispered, “Let me take care of you.”
For a moment you felt numb, drained from all the turmoil, and then Reiner was between your thighs. You laid there limply at first and yet somehow you started to respond, your hips bucking up to meet him, hearing your moans as if they weren’t yours.
And you welcomed the pleasure, got lost in the ecstasy, because if Reiner had to break your heart then let it be sweet. Because it reminded you of the days of hiding in closets and stealing time near the lake during Cadet training.
“You are, so beautiful,” he mumbled, staring down at you as you writhed beneath him. You couldn’t help but weep again. He’d told you that the first time too, before you knew.
The pang in your heart started to grow more insistent, louder than the fading high. You didn’t want to feel it.
“Reiner,” you gasped.
“I know, baby, I know,” he murmured into your neck, peppering kisses along the hollow all the way to your collarbone. “I’m gonna make it stop, I’m gonna make you feel so good.”
He guided his need to yours until you blended into one. The fullness of him seemed to fill the emptiness of your home. You wrapped your legs around him, pulling him deeper, grasping at the familiarity of being connected.
Reiner thrust into you, deep yet still somehow gentle as if he knew how delicate you were. How fragile. “You’re doing so good,” he whispered in your ear. “You’re taking it all so good, I’m so proud of you baby.”
The rush of pleasure and sorrow was too much for you to think clearly. Tears continued to stream down your cheeks and you dug your nails into Reiner’s back as he quickened his pace, your need more desperate as you both tried to outrun the pain.
He sat you up on his lap, hoisted you up as if you were a god to worship, kissing down your neck to your breasts. And again he wiped away your tears, whispering to you that somehow he could make it okay.
And for one sweet moment, it was okay. It stopped, and nothing else mattered. Nothing but you, and him, and the sweet pleasure rushing through you as he buried his head in the crook of your neck.
You nearly believed you were two cadets fumbling around in the moonlight, nervous and eager and in love. You nearly believed nothing had ever changed.
Then pleasure seeped from your body, ebbing away until you were left with the pain that remained.
You were both panting, mangled in one another, and it was so comforting and yet frightening all at the same time.
Reality was back in the form of Reiner’s eyes of gold staring back at you, gleaming with the tears of a sinner.
“I’ll do anything,” he whispered. “Whatever-whatever you need, tell me what I can do to make it right.”
Reiner knew he was selfish. He needed to believe he was doing the right thing. That he was saving you. That with every bit of pleasure he brought to you, he could make you better, and through saving you he would save himself.
But it was a lie. He couldn’t fix what he had ruined in the first place.
In your silent tears, he heard those same three words, the ones that haunted him, “Let me go,” you managed shakily. “R-Reiner, please.”
He regarded you, the girl who’d he’d watched grow strong through his memories of the island be reduced to a frightened, unsure mess again, just as he’d first left you when he broke down the walls of Shigashina.
The simplicity of being with you was gone, and now he too was reminded again of what he wanted to stop. His reason for wanting to die.
And yet, you were alive. You were alive, and that was all that mattered. That he’d stopped the worst of his memories from ever happening.
So those three words were like hot iron searing his chest each time you said them, but resolution still saturated his own, “I’m sorry, princess, I can’t.”
He saw the desperation in your eyes, frozen there, since the day he’d taken you. “Then you can’t,” you whimpered. “You can’t make it stop.”
You started to cry, squeezing your eyes shut.
So Reiner did the only thing he knew to do, he took you up in his arms and turned you to the side so that you were crying into his chest. His arms wrapped around you as you trembled with sorrowful fatigue.
In the morning you’d get up and go back to your room, ashamed, thinking he was asleep. Neither of you would talk about what happened. Even when you’d come to him the next night, broken, and begging him to make it stop.
FIN.
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aotopmha · 2 years
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Attack on Titan season 4 part 2 episode 9:
1) Magath's appeal to 2000 years of oppression is comparatively weightless not only because he doesn't know (or care) it was caused by shitty leadership enslaving foreign people, but because it ignores actually relevant present circumstances.
It's not unfounded because the consequences are still there and felt in the present, but blaming Italy for what the Roman Empire did has a lot less weight than blaming them for what the fascist movement did and even then circumstances change and as they change, new conflicts arise dependant on context.
2000 years of history shouldn't be relevant when a nuke is breathing down your neck and you need to act now.
But that history also is actually used as an excuse to do bad, keeps people from acting and most importantly needs to be understood to be learned from, so it should be addressed.
2) Man, the desire to talk is such a true and real component of the conversation in this episode.
Several conflicts in human history would've been much less destructive if the 'force of good' in the conflict wouldn't have been so soft-hearted.
It's like the counter-balance to the actions in the previous episode and Annie points this out perfectly.
If you can't reason with Eren, what then?
In this case, the hesitation comes from personal ties with Eren.
In other cases, it's faith in humanity that things can be resolved by talking or fear of the enemy.
And we've seen the positive and negative consequences to all of these elements in this series.
If Annie and co would've talked during training, perhaps Paradis would've learned of their circumstances before Eren was worn down by his experiences and Erwin was killed. Perhaps then, the more slower approach of building understanding and more allies would've been possible to happen.
There are multiple times when characters trying to reason or hesitating with the enemy have all lead to creating an advantage for the enemy, especially if you look at them in a vacuum.
When Annie didn't kill Armin.
When Eren hesitated fighting Annie.
There was Hange and Jean hesitating to immediately kill Reiner when he was captured.
There's even smaller ones like Jean hesitating to kill a member of the MP attacking the scouts.
But it all made sense from the perspective of their characters.
But the coup lead by Erwin mostly consisted of very smart politics and minimal sacrifices.
And diplomacy is what brought together the current alliance. It has bargaining chips and circumstances backing it, but it worked.
Finally, as said, there was the aspect of people succumbing to fear, which the Jaegerist movement demonstrates in this arc, but has been the main element the story has been emphasising when fighting oppression since the start.
At first it's fear in the face of Titans, then it's fear in face of people who are Titans, then it's fear in the face of an oppressive regime and then it's all put together.
Fear is probably also the biggest motivator in this series.
Nobody wants to fight the Titans because they are scared to die.
Eren is scared everyone he cares about will die.
And then many other elements are thrown in the mix to make a war and the conquest of a nation happen.
Many things can give a country motivation to invade another, to name a few, perhaps its strategic location, maybe resources on the land or even just principles of conquest and the need for greatness.
There are plenty of excuses to draw from: in this story's case it's the standard claim of being attacked first and 'destroying the devils on the island to save the world'.
For a war to happen a country spurs its people with some form of propaganda.
And for that war to be won, hesitation of your enemy because of naivete or fear is necessary, just as much as economic weakness.
In general all of these elements can have so many aspects and nuances to them, I'll just leave what I listed here in relation to this story.
I think these are all great things to bring up because many times people don't really think about all of the bad in people being human, too.
Wars happen because people are people.
This story is empathic to these bad things in humanity as well as the good and I think for this section of the episode, Annie's quote before the events in Stohess is the most appropriate:
"It takes great courage to go against the flow. I want the people swept along the flow to be considered human, too."
Many read this as her trying to excuse her actions, but Annie has made it really clear she doesn't really care about herself that much: she has pretty strong self-loathing backing her reasonings.
In hindsight especially, I think it's about not even necessarily empathising with her, but understanding the position the Eldians in Marley are in.
As human as the bad parts of humanity are, they also shouldn't be something to hide behind or excuse or hand-wave.
That's the tightrope to walk when humanising the bad parts of humanity.
And I think this series generally does a pretty good job with this – and ultimately this is one of the reasons I love this story with all of the issues I take with it.
I just find any story with that kind of framing interesting. Instead of giving bad and good qualities the story values, it says all of it is part of the human experience.
3) I think, once again, this episode also does a pretty good job of balancing perspectives out.
Magath and the Marleyans are given a word and their flaws are listed.
The Eldians are given a word and their flaws are listed, too.
Both of which Yelena dishes out happily and then is also given a few words by Jean.
Pointing out possible self-righteousness is very good in my eyes – it's another separate aspect of the alliance to address because no matter the reason, murder is not okay.
If the story didn't point out this aspect and give that humility to the perspective of the alliance, it could justify Eren pretty easily.
It also balances out the 'save the world' element last episode ended up on.
This is why I don't understand the outrage from certain people about that scene. It's exaggerated to be a point of positivity, but is immediately taken down a notch by the narrative in the following material, which asks, okay, that's well and good, but what does 'saving the world' actually entail here?
The fact of the matter is that almost everyone around that campfire has killed someone, regardless of what their reasoning (and yes, some of them did it in self-defense and absolutely were victims, like pretty much all of the Paradis Eldians), but the important part here is that getting high and mighty about justice could lead to killing that isn't about doing the right thing or self-defense.
And I think Eren is that example. At this point what he is doing is just indiscriminate murder no matter how much it is for his friends.
I said I loved the character and thematic material in this material the most when it first came out and I think, again, this chapter being essentially made into a single episode helped a lot with the pacing of it.
It helped the feelings stew and for you to stay in the moment much more and I think that's probably the biggest flaw of this final stretch of the story.
It often doesn't let you sit in the feelings of a moment.
I'd argue this episode made good material into pretty great material, even.
Yes, much of it was spent with images of trees and very limited animation, but I think from the directorial standpoint focusing on the more abstract helped to focus on the nuances and feelings of the writing.
It's limited animation used in a very effective way in my eyes and as much as the ending of the Evangelion TV series frustrates me, it used this type of directing to create a similar effect.
It just wasn't as effective to me because the dialog was a lot more muddled.
I hope they do this with the ending – add a few points of directorial nuance (like when the tension in a scene rose, the editing became more haphazard) and give some scenes more time to breathe.
I think the ending also needs some additions in the writing itself, but even altering some of the pacing would make a big difference when I look at how much of a difference this episode had just by having a specific style of direction behind it.
Yeah, I honestly kind of actually loved this episode and I did not expect this at all.
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DEVILS PARADISE (part one)
MASTERLIST | JEAN KIRSTEIN X FEM!READER
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synopsis: growing up in marley, y/n learnt the devils of paradis are her greatest enemy. though they shared the blood running through her veins, their mere existence led to constant discrimination against y/n’s people. knowing all of this, y/n enlists in the marleyan warrior program; a program designed to turn eldians like herself into titan shifters. however, joining the program leads y/n to the devil’s paradise, and she realises the truth marley so desperately hid from them.
warnings: spoilers for season 4, blood and violence. reader has hair long enough to be tied up, but only in a flashback.
notes: i’m leaning toward this being a 5 part series at most with jean as the love interest, but i’m not too sure, it might be shorter or longer than that!
word count: 2506
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"When you become a Marleyan Warrior, you'll make all of us proud here in Liberio, Y/N." Her mother spoke, pulling the child's hair back as she tied it with a crimson red ribbon. "You'll show them that we aren't like those island devils."
Her mother spoke with disgust as she mentioned the Eldian devils of Paradis. By now, Y/N knew to keep silent and agree with her mother about everything.
"You'll become one of the Warriors for me, won't you, Y/N?" She glanced down at her daughter, a stern expression on her face.
Y/N nodded her head, smiling up at her mother. "Of course."
It was a decision completely out of Y/N's hands, she could only train as hard as she could and hope for the best. But in her mother's eyes, the best just wasn't good enough. It was never good enough.
Looking back, Y/N could hear the words "this is the only way" repeating in her head over and over again until she began to agree with it too.
The only way for the Marleyans to see her family as just a little bit more human, was if Y/N were to become one of the warriors.
Earning that red band and becoming honorary Marleyans was the only way to be happy.
Y/N leaned against the wall of the courtyard her and the others in her Warrior training unit were waiting in. The tip of her shoe digging into the ground in front of her as she stayed buried within her thoughts.
With the previous warriors terms coming to an end, she had heard from the army that she was a prime candidate for one of the Titans, it was almost guaranteed at this point considering the Warrior unit had been narrowed down to the 8 of them.
But soon, one of them would be left behind, while the others are turned to Titan shifters.
“Did you guys hear? We’re attacking Paradis Island in just a few years,” Zeke spoke from where he was sitting, before chucking an apple in Marcel’s direction.
“Huh?” Y/N breathed out, raising her head to look over at the older man.
“It’s almost time for us to inherit Titans,” Zeke continued. “Out of the eight of us, they’re picking seven!”
Y/N looked back at the ground for a moment, the 10 year old’s shoulders becoming stiff. Yes, she was almost guaranteed to receive a Titan, but if something happened and she failed to earn the title of honorary marleyan’s for her family…
“Yes! I can finally be Marleyan!” Reiner spoke excitedly.
“Huh? Why so excited?” Porco glanced over at him. “If anyone’s the worst, it’s you.”
Reiner’s head snapped in the boy’s direction, his hands clenched into fists. “Excuse me?!”
“What’s your strong point?” Porco continued. “Your strength? Your brains? Your aim? Combat ability? Nope. The only value they see in you is your loyalty to Marley.”
Y/N kept her gaze off the two boys, knowing Porco was right. The only thing that made Reiner appealing to Marley was his unrelenting loyalty.
One day, that wouldn’t be enough.
“I’ll slaughter the island devils real good for you, sir!” Porco mocked.
Reiner stepped forward, grabbing Porco’s wrist, causing the boy to drop the apple he was holding. “You making fun of our mission?! Or maybe you’re a stray Restorationist?! You are, aren’t you?! I’ll report you to the Commander!”
“Report this, you little shit!”
When Y/N finally lifted her head, Reiner was already on the ground. And Marcel was holding his brother back from attacking the boy again.
“Hating the island doesn’t make you special!” Porco told him. “Have fun waiting 13 years alone!”
Knocking his brother away, Porco began to storm off, causing Zeke to finally stand up. “Let’s go, Pieck, Y/N.” He spared a quick glance at the girls standing near him.
Pieck, older by just a few small years, was much like a sister to Y/N. Looking out for her during their time in the program despite the fact they were possibly competing for a place.
The raven haired girl took Y/N’s hand, gently pulling her along to follow after Zeke. It was a habit Pieck had taken up after noticing Y/N’s tendency to space out when things got too quiet.
“Don’t cry too long or the Commander will chew me out,” Zeke called back to Reiner, who remained in the dirt.
Y/N glanced over her shoulder as Pieck continued to pull her along, her eyes falling onto Reiner as Bertholdt helped him onto his feet.
Becoming a Warrior was a privilege, Y/N knew that. But why would anyone want to shorten their life to a 13 year term dedicated to fighting Marley’s enemies?
Y/N didn’t want to die in 13 years, she’d rather take the hatred from Marley for the rest of her life, like many others had done before her.
If she had a choice, that was exactly what she would do. But it was too late now.
In a few years, she would be an official Marleyan Warrior, headed for the devil’s island to attack their self imposed century long quarantine.
Y/N’s eyes flickered up to the sky, as a bird flew overhead leaving her to wonder what the island devils were doing in this moment.
Did they really deserve what was coming?
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The weeks leading up to Y/N being sent to Paradis all passed by in a blur, whether it was the shock of finally being an honorary Marleyan or the memories of the former host that kept her awake at night, Y/N wasn’t sure.
All she knew was that she was on Paradis Island, headed with Reiner, Annie, Bertholdt and Marcel to break through the wall that kept the devils safe from the Titans Marley had filled the island with over the past century.
Did they really deserve what was coming? Did they deserve it? Did they-
“Y/N, can you?” Bertholdt held the can in Y/N’s direction as he whispered.
Y/N carefully took the unopened can of food from his shaky hands, peeling it open before handing it back. She had been doing it for him the past few nights, his hands too shaky to even open a simple can as it came closer and closer to the day he would kick through the wall.
It couldn’t be easy being the successor for the Colossal Titan, a god of death.
“You alright?” Y/N questioned quietly, taking note of the fear in his eyes.
Bertholdt quickly averted his gaze, letting out a hum as he nodded his head.
He was always quiet like this, and Y/N found it oddly calming. It was a nice difference when compared to the louder members of their unit back in Marley.
It was nice because it reminded her of Pieck, who had stayed behind with Zeke to protect Marley while the others attacked Paradis.
“We didn’t cover much ground tonight,” Marcel commented as he poked at the fire with a stick.
“Can’t do much about the clouds.”
“Will the King really not use the Founding Titan, even if we break the wall?” Bertholdt asked, remembering what they had been told in preparation for their mission.
“What’s the use asking now?” Reiner glanced at him. “Trust Marley’s research.”
Y/N stares at the fire in front of her, one hand coming up to rest against her forearm, right where the material band showing her status would be sitting if she were back in Marley.
It felt weird to not have that constant reminder that she was nothing but Titan shifting scum.
“That’s right. We can’t turn back,” Marcel nodded. “Tomorrow, we reach the wall… and then…”
Y/N remained silent, a shaky breath falling from her lips. Right, tomorrow they would be breaking through the Wall. They’d come face to face with the people they were sent to kill.
It’s not like they haven’t done it before, they were sent to destroy an enemy base as part of their Titan training.
But those people had been actively trying to harm Marley… the devils hadn’t done that in over a century.
Reiner’s eyes scanned the group, a shocked expression painted over his face. “Huh? What? Are you having second thoughts about killing the devils? Have you forgotten what they’ve done?!”
Y/N hugged her legs close to her chest, refusing to look in Reiner’s direction or answer his question.
It was impossible to forget the sins of the Eldians, it had been drilled into their heads for years now, after all.
Reiner stood up quickly. “We’re the world’s chosen Warriors sent to punish the island devils!”
Marcel averted his gaze. “I’m sorry.”
“Huh?”
“Reiner, I’m sorry. You were never meant to be chosen as a Warrior,” Marcel continued.
Y/N’s head shot in the boy’s direction, her eyes widened. She couldn’t say it was a surprise, no, Reiner was the weakest of the warriors in their unit.
Maybe it was a shock?
Marcel’s voice came out like it hurt him to finally admit it. “I talked you up and criticised my brother to influence their decision. I… just want to protect my brother.”
Tears began to fall from his eyes. “I’m sorry, Reiner… I’m sorry!”
Y/N turned to see Reiner’s frozen form, unmoving and engulfed by shock— it was the same thing he did when he watched Marcel get eaten by a Titan.
Frozen, unmoving, and engulfed by shock.
Y/N could still hear Marcel’s screaming, as the other warriors ran for their lives.
Her chest felt heavy as they finally came to a stop, her knees giving out beneath her as she fell to the grass. Teardrops falling against her clenched fists.
How long had she been crying for?
She couldn’t tell, not when she was too focused on escaping the mindless titan that devoured Marcel before their very eyes.
She choked back the sob that threatened to fall from her lips as she realised what they had done; they could’ve saved Marcel, they should’ve saved Marcel, but they ran.
And they lost the Jaw Titan.
Marley was going to kill them, they weren’t even going to reach the end of their 13 year term. They were going to die for failing the mission before even reaching the walls.
Would it even be worth it if they came back with the Founding Titan but not the Jaw Titan? They’d still be left with the same number as before.
Y/N’s eyes widened when she felt a hand press against her back, though she relaxed just slightly as she realised it was Bertholdt.
He looked just as terrified as her.
As Annie caught up to the group, she immediately kicked Reiner, causing the boy to start screaming as he moved away in fear.
“Not bad,” Annie spoke, her voice coming out almost breathlessly from the running. “This is a first. You actually beat me… in a long distance race…”
Y/N wiped her tears away as she pushed herself up, looking back in the direction they had come from.
“If we took out that Titan we wouldn’t have lost Jaw,” Annie told Reiner. “Shit! Now Marcel’s gone for good.”
“They said there wouldn’t be Titans this far out,” Reiner whispered.
“We’ve gotta go home,” Annie averted her gaze. “Let’s find Jaw and leave. They would’ve changed back to human. Besides, without Marcel to lead, this mission is doomed.”
“Do you… do you think they’ll just come willingly?” Y/N breathed out, still trying to catch her breath.
Though just as Y/N moved to follow Annie, Reiner began to yell. “We can’t!”
Y/N turned around, her eyes widening as Reiner held his outstretched hand in their direction. “We can’t go home! We’ve gotta continue the mission!”
“Oh, yeah…” Annie’s eyes narrowed in his direction for a moment. “If we go back now, you’ll just get eaten by the next Warrior.”
Reiner began nodding his head.
Y/N looked away from the boy, biting her trembling lip gently. Porco was the next warrior… he would see Reiner’s memories, see his brother getting eaten…
“You think only I will?” Reiner spoke up, causing the other three to turn back to him. “That only I’ll get the blame for running away? You guys are certain you won’t get eaten, too?”
Y/N swallowed the lump forming in the back of her dried throat, an uneasy feeling returning to the pit of her stomach as she stared at Reiner’s grim face.
“Catching Jaw won’t be easy either. If they used its power and ran, our titans could never catch up.”
“They can’t control it right after becoming-”
“You controlled the Colossal Titan, no problem!” Reiner cut Bertholdt off. “Anyways, we’re doomed at this rate! Without the Founding Titan, there’s no going home!”
He was right, Y/N realised. None of them could catch up with the Jaw Titan, and if they returned empty handed, they would all die.
“Back there, if you were a fraction as calm as you are now, we wouldn’t have lost Marcel or Jaw,” Annie stated. “But you’ve got no problem intimidating us to save your own ass, huh?!”
Walking back toward Reiner, she let out a shout as she kicked the boy in the face, sending him flying backward onto the ground.
“How about you come clean to Magath?! Tell him, “it’s all my fault!” Honorary Marleyan, my ass!” She shouted, continually kicking him over and over again. “Chosen warrior, my ass! Marleyans, Eldians! They’re all liars! Everyone only thinks about themselves!”
Y/N remained silent, knowing Annie was right. The predicament they were in now could’ve been avoided had Reiner remained calm back then.
Marcel died saving him, after all.
If Reiner had just sucked it up, if he just didn’t let what Marcel said get to him, they would’ve been long gone before the Titan even woke up from its slumber.
“Should we… should we stop her?” Bertholdt glanced at Y/N.
Y/N stared at Annie who kept kicking Reiner in her anger, before she looked to Bertholdt and shook her head. “Annie’s right.”
“If you feel guilty, just die! Take all the blame and die!”
With that, Annie began to walk away, leaving Reiner face first on the ground, blood pooling on the grass beneath his face.
A perk of being a Titan shifter was that they could all heal from wounds like that.
Y/N’s eyes widened as Reiner pushed himself up, jumping at Annie and holding her in a headlock. “Reiner is dead,” he spoke. “If we need Marcel, then I’ll be Marcel.”
Y/N’s throat went dry once more as she stared at Reiner in fear, her hands shaking at her sides.
“Please, stop this…” Bertholdt muttered, tears falling from his eyes as he watched.
“This is the only way we’ll be able to go back home!” Reiner kept his grip on Annie. “Let’s go back… together… to our hometown!”
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This scene absolutely broke me.
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Still don’t know if I’ll ever finish/change this or if I’m content with where it’s at ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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ineedbooks15 · 3 years
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His Solace (X)
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Summary: Levi finally receives intel about his sister after months of not knowing about her. Marley sends out their first survey ship. 
Word Count: 2.3K
Warning: Spoilers for Season 4 specifically episode 9 (Brave Volunteers). 
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It has been exactly two weeks after (Y/N) gave birth to her son, and ever since his arrival to the world Zeke couldn’t help but remind himself about his plan. As much as he wanted to stay with (Y/N) and Kaito, he knew that his plan needed to be set in motion and soon. Luckily for him, the first scouting ship is preparing to leave today. With some of his comrades on board, Zeke is confident that his message will be heard. 
After making sure that he had everything to give to Yelena, Zeke made his way to the nursery. There he saw (Y/N) holding Kaito in her arms. (Y/N) was making silly faces which were successful in making Kaito laugh. Once seeing Zeke at the doorway, (Y/N) came up to him. She transferred her son into his arms.
“Do you have everything ready?” She asked. 
Of course, Zeke has told her what he was going to do. Well, he only told her he was planning on making contact with Paradis Island but he wasn’t about to tell her about the Rumbling. After spending so much time with her, he knew she would be against the elimination of the human race no matter how much he would try to explain that it was for the greater good.
“Zeke?”
Zeke snapped out of his thoughts. “Yes. Your letter is in my pocket as well as the photograph. Yelena assured me that she will hand deliver it to your brother.”
“She better not lose them.” (Y/N) muttered as she looked down at her son as caressed her son’s head. “They need to know that I’m okay.”
“Don’t worry. By the end of the week, your brother and your friends will know that you are alright and that you have been blessed with a child…. Wish I could see their faces when they see the photograph of Kaito.”
(Y/N) smiled at the thought. She too wished she could witness their reaction when they see Kaito’s picture for the first time. She could only hope to see them soon.
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“Hello, friends from Marley!” A voice yelled out from shore. “Welcome to Paradis Island! I’m Hange, here to greet our guests who’ve come so far across the sea! Now, step this way and join us for some tea!” The overly kind woman gestured to the people beside her. “By the way, we’re already friends with this guest that arrived before you! Isn’t that right, Niccolo?”
The guest she was referring to was a nervous young man who had his hands tied behind his back. Even when it was nightfall, the look of fear was obvious to everyone on the ship. The short man behind him made sure to point his blade at the captured soldier as Hange swung her arm around Niccolo’s shoulders, giving him a friendly side hug.
“Captain!” Niccolo yelled out. “Forget about me and shoot these devils!”
“What are you saying, Niccolo?!” Hange asked, her forced smile breaking.
“He’s tired of your shitty skit.” The short man named Levi said, stating the obvious.
The captain of the ship glared at the devils in front of him. “Niccolo! Understand  this, you devils! Marley doesn’t mingle with filthy blood!” He pointed his gun at the devils. “Go drink your pig piss with your filthy friends!
“Haa? Hey! You sure you wanna be rude to us?!” Hange yelled back. “Can’t you see the Titan behind you?!
The crew members looked behind them to see the 15-meter Titan glaring down at them. Just moments ago, it proved its strength by carrying the ship out from sea and onto shore. Would they test its patience as well?
Despite the Titan behind them, the captain continued to point his weapon to Hange and Levi. “We’ll never yield to you devils! Say hello to this!”
A single gunshot filled the air. 
No one moved, not knowing what to do. Everyone had shocked faces as they witnessed one of the crew members shoot their own captain.
“Hands up, Yelena!” 
The tall woman, Yelena, pointed her gun to another crew member. “Drop your weapons.”
At her words, the unsuspecting crew members were surrounded by armed weapons. Hange, Levi, and everyone else were surprised to see this twist of events happen in front of their eyes. 
Yelena took off her helmet. “Hange, I’d be happy to accept your invitation. Let’s have tea. I have good news to share with you all.”
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Inside the main tent, Hange was staring down the barrel of the gun. Her curiosity showed no bounds as a pull of the trigger could spell out her death. 
“Ah, I see!” She exclaimed when seeing the number of bullets in the chamber. “So that’s how it shoots a bunch.”
Levi, on the other hand, showed no interest in the weapons. His eyes never left the two people in front of him.
“That’s standard-issue in Marley.” Yelena explained as she sipped her warm tea. “The Marley army has 20,000 soldiers per division. With 50 divisions, that’s 1,000,000 soldiers.”
With this information, Hange stopped fiddling with the weapon.
“There’s also the navy with three fleets, each composed of 21 battleships. They’ve made tremendous progress in new weapons and aerial warfare as well.”
“Aerial…?”
Levi tsked before kicking Hange from under the table. The look he gave her said: “Don’t freak out or they’ll think we’re weak.” Hange responded with her own look: “I know!”
“In other words,” This time it was the dark-skinned man that spoke. “Vehicles allowing one to attack the enemy from the sky.”
“Huh?!” Hange quickly stood up, completely forgetting what Levi advised her. “From the sky?!”
“Oi.” Levi warned.
With a bit of sweat on her face, Hange asked, “If Marley had such capabilities this whole time, why haven’t they attacked in over a year?”
“There are two reasons.” Yelena answered. “One being the Pure Titans released here. Even with the latest weapons, they would hinder a land assault. They were used as a tool to confine Eldians within the walls, but in turn, they’ve protected Eldia from invasion.”
“Yeah. Well, ain’t that funny?” Levi asked sarcastically.
“Though dawn is coming soon, and that’s when Titans are active.” Yelena noted as she looked out the entrance. “But if we’re way out here, sipping on tea outside the walls, you must have killed all the Titans roaming around. Is that true?”
“And what if it is?” Levi asked. “You gonna report it to Marley?”
“No,” Yelena said, her face changed into one of surprise. “It blows away my expectations.”
“And the second reason?”
“Currently, Marley is at war with multiple nations. They can’t be bothered with Paradis. You defeated the Warrior unit, the pride of Marley, and captured two of their main weapons, the Colossal and Female Titans.”
“And yet one of them took one of our own.” Levi sneered as his glare intensified.
Yelena disregarded Levi’s comment. “Marley’s many enemies took notice and were quick to unite and declare war.”
“If you guys are secret agents who infiltrated Marley, I’m guessing you came from conquered nations?” Their silence was enough for Hange to confirm her hunch to be true. “Oh, I’m right?! If you’re going up against Marley, I bet you’ve got big backers!”
Yelena set down her tea. “We’re not secret agents or anything of the sort. We were powerless. Marley took our homes and forced us to be soldiers. We were close to losing hope at ever striking back. Until we met him.”
Yelena’s mind played the moment where the Beast Titan saved her. 
“A Titan that people of the world feared, calling it a devil. But I saw something completely different… A god. One that gave hope to the powerless.”
Levi rolled his eyes at Yelena’s words. If she was referring to the Beast Titan, then she must be delusional.
“Under Zeke Jaeger’s command, we shot our superiors. We’re the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers. Our goal: To free the Eldian people.”
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As the meeting reached its end, Yelena placed two separate envelopes on the table.
“One of these envelopes contains Zeke Jaeger’s term on how to free your people. But this one,” Yelena slid an envelope towards Levi, “Is from your sister.”
Levi tried not to react outwardly at her words but he couldn’t help how his heart raced at the mention of his sister. After a year and a half of not knowing if his sister was alive or dead, he’ll finally have some type of closure.
“Is she…” Levi couldn’t even finish his sentence. The thought of his sister actually being dead… Were the contents in the envelope her final words? 
“She’s alive and well.” Yelena answered as if she could read his mind. “But she sends her regards for not coming here personally. She had more important matters to attend to.”
“More important than coming back home?” Hange asked, not believing in what she was hearing. She knew (Y/N) very well. What would be so important for her to not come back to them? 
“Everything is explained in there,” She gestured at the small envelope in front of them. 
And with that Yelena and her comrade left Hange and Levi alone. Hange looked at her friend and saw how conflicted Levi was.
“Do you want me to leave?” She asked him.
“...No.” Levi said.
Hange nodded. She knew Levi needed a friend right now. Ever since they got back from the basement, she couldn’t help but feel like it was her fault that (Y/N) got captured. If only she had stayed with her then maybe…
Finally, Levi grabbed the envelope and opened it. He grabbed the folded piece of paper and quickly unfolded it. He instantly recognized his sister’s handwriting as he read the letter.
Levi,
This is (Y/N). But you probably know that because of my messy handwriting. How are you? Dumb question, I know. You’re probably worse than shit without me there. I hope Hange is reminding you to be a human being and that you need to eat everyday and sleep your usual three hours. But enough about that. I hope this letter reaches you. A lot has changed since Shiganshina.
First of all, I’m okay. I swear. I’m writing this letter on my own free will. I’m in Marley. More specifically, I live in an internment zone called Liberio. Reiner and Zeke explained their reasons why they attacked the walls. Hopefully, whatever was in Dr. Jaeger’s basement explained everything. Long story short, to everyone in the world we’re devils that have committed horrible acts against humanity centuries ago. I’ve done my research and every single history book I’ve come across reached the same conclusion. I’m not sure what to actually believe but I do know the world isn’t ready to forgive and forget. I hope you all prepare yourselves for the future we’re about to face.
I mentioned this before… A lot has changed. There’s a reason why I’m not there with you right now. Believe me, I want to be there. I want to see you and Hange and the other cadets but Zeke said it would be too risky. I know you hate him but he’s right, especially now that I have a son.
That’s right. I’m a mother. Hard to believe, I know. His name is Kaito. He was born a few weeks ago. He has Erwin’s eyes. I wish you could see him, Levi. He’s perfect. He’s my new reason to live ever since Erwin has passed away. I have to stay with him. His safety is my priority. Kaito needs me as much as I need him. Please understand, Levi. Please. 
I hope we see each other soon. I miss you and everyone. Tell them I said hello.
Sincerely,
(Y/N)
Levi has to reread (Y/N)’s entire letter, hoping he hadn't misread anything. But it was there. Written on the paper plain as day. 
Son. (Y/N) has a son. He’s an uncle...
Levi passed the letter to Hange as he processed everything he just read. 
“(Y/N) has a son? Erwin’s son?” Hange asked. “Was she pregnant during the battle?”
“No.” Levi said with certainty, “She would have told us if she had known. Or she would at least told Erwin.”
“I don’t think even Erwin knew, Levi.” Hange said as she folded the letter. “If he had, he would have made her stay behind.” 
Levi, not knowing what else to say, only nodded. Noticing Levi’s silent mood, Hange tried to give him some words of comfort. 
“At least we know she’s okay, Levi.” Hange said as she placed the letter back in the envelope. “And we now know where she’s living so when we begin our infiltration we’ll know where to look. Hey. Look at this!”
Levi looked up and saw Hange was holding a small rectangular piece of paper. No. A photograph. What was engraved in the paper made Levi smile. 
The sight of his sister smiling at him with the small baby boy in her arm made Levi’s heart swell, as if it was making more room to love. The only thing that ruined the picture was the man in it. Why was Zeke there with her?  Why was she letting his hands touch her? Why was he still breathing? He knew that (Y/N) was fully capable of killing him. So why? Were these the changes she mentioned in the letter? 
“He looks like her.” Hange said as she referred to Kaito. “And she’s right about his eyes. They’re definitely Erwin’s.”
“Yeah,” Levi said as he stared at his nephew. “Wonder if he’ll act like him too.”
Hange smiled and handed Levi the photograph. “Well, we’ll just have to meet him and find out for ourselves, don’t we?” Smiling wider than ever, she clapped Levi’s back. “Congratulations on becoming an uncle!”
As Hange left Levi alone, the man sat back down while still gazing at the photograph in his hands. He’s an uncle now. The baby in the picture, Kaito, was looking at him with such innocent eyes. Levi smiled. 
“See you soon Kaito.”
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peachbearies · 3 years
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Waste it on me. E.Jaeger
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𑁍┊synopsis: Eren knew he didn’t have long to live, and time is really of the essence when the world is dying to end. So he tried to push y/n as much as he could, so he could become a monster without accepting her love.
𑁍┊Genre(s): Angst
𑁍┊Pairing: Eren X F! Reader
𑁍┊warning(s): minor anime/manga spoilers from season 4; cursing, toxic behavior.
A/N: I had this song on shuffle waste it on me by Steve aoki and thought about eren (I needed some comfort after the past chapters of AOT, minor anime/manga spoilers)
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𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞. Was the last thing on Eren's mind the farthest from it. All his mind was filled with was. Fight. Fight until you can’t fight anymore. Kill all your enemies. Freedom. It was all engraved in his mind. How could he have time for any linearity? Sitting in Marley pretending and being undercover just to reach his half brother 𝐳𝐞𝐤𝐞. Wasn’t something he was opposed to doing.
But what else could be done? He thought. The lengths he went through to achieve the freedom he always promised. From promising to kill all titans, to finding his fathers cellar, now to killing his enemies for it. Only to realize that has changed too. There are devils on both sides, each person pushes themselves into a hell to survive, for pleasure or for freedom. Eren didn’t like the thought of deceiving people .
But the unthinkable is usually the answer. Now here he was sitting in front of his old friend after four years since their last attack and attempt of stealing the founding Titan on paradis he trembled throughout his veins. “E-eren? W-what are you doing here?” “For the same reasons you had,Have a seat Reiner” eren’s voice trickled fear into his body, his hand dripping In crimson liquid silently threatening Reiner he could change at any given moment. Obeying his orders Reiner sat down in the chair, the nauseous feeling in his chest with the pang of fear in his lower back, Falco is a very observant boy he quickly realizes something is wrong after seeing Reiner fearfully obey Kruger's order to sit. “well I think I should leave now” falco acknowledges
Eren looked over at the boy “no you should start and hear this” , falco getting the aura of Reiner’s fear.
“But you guys finally found each other—“ his words getting cut off by a panicked Reiner “just do what he says, stay there it’ll be over soon”
“I wanna apologize to falco for delivering those letters, they weren’t to my family, but to my allies right here in Marley” he spoke as his legs regenerated through the steam of smoke
“The founding Titan is now in the possession of a rebel that will disrupt the peace here in Marley his name” Willy takes a pause “Eren Jeager, and he posses both founding and attack Titan, and he is a threat to us in Marley” Eren deadpans at Reiner “yeah” his stoic tone starts off “I am the bad guy, but the warrior candidates that destroyed my home inside wall Maria were also the bad guys” putting more fear into Reiner he asked Reiner. “Why was the wall breached” to which Reiner replied “to achieve the founding Titan and save the world”
。゚•┈୨♡୧┈•゚。
For a brief second the room is suffocating with revenge and fear “did you come back to kill me?” Eren looks at Reiner with a blank face. “No, I’ve seen both good and bad here in Marley so I don’t blame you for what you did, you were just brainwashed as a kid I understand what you went through”, falco in the background worried as he realizes this is Eren Jaeger the rebel eldian
As Eren is talking about his experiences in Marley, he turns to Falco and says that past the oceans and inside the walls of paradis people are all the same; there are good people like him, and those who are wicked and act selfishly for themselves. the chair flying from under Reiner as he pleaded for Eren to kill him
breaking down in guilt, accepting responsibility and regrets for his actions against Eren and those living across the ocean on paradis.
Helping Reiner to his feet, Eren sternly says “ I now understand what you did, and realized that you and I are the same, and I will continue until I’ve wiped out all my enemies” emitting a spark of yellow haloing around his frame, Reiner grabs a confused falco to protect him from the blast be hardening. Eren breaks out of the building and kills Willy, further flinging himself onto He flings himself on top of the military high command in the crowd, killing them and other innocent civilians. The war emerges and he attacks it before it can fully transform. It appears he has the upper hand until a hardened pillar impales him.
。゚•┈୨♡୧┈•゚。
Soon later Eren achieved the war hammer Titan by using the jaw Titan as a nut cracker. Now he possessed the 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 , 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧. Later a turmoil occurs, kicked by Levi, handcuffed, berated by hange and Sasha is dead. After returning to Paradis, Eren is taken to a cell underground in accordance with his arrest. As he cleans himself up, Eren mutters that Paradis needs to continue fighting.
That’s when hange walks in attempting to make small talk and get information from him. ‘Why did you attack?’ ‘Why’d you get us involved?’ Is what hange wanted to say instead they got choked up by Eren grabbing their shirt and yelling for them to make up a better plan. Hange left his cell finding his girlfriend standing outside with her fingernails up to her mouth. “You know you’re not allowed to see him right? Specially now, Eren is a wanted criminal for mass genocide” hange checks her.
“I’m aware” she bows her head “I just wanna talk, just to hear his voice and why he did it, I just wanna feel his heart, I wanna know if I could trust him” she whispered, hange sighing internally they became soft with her, they watched her grow, from be afraid of the world to being afraid of getting lost in the world, to believe with her sweet demeanor she handled Eren's snarky attitude pretty well.
Damn if you do, damn if you don’t hange thought “fine, go but the moment he puts his hands on you, you call for me okay?” They remind her, nodding she runs for the door hange looks back at her “I hope we can trust him y/n” they mumbled. Opening the door she looked at eren’s chiseled chest and abs, seeing the water drip from the sink to the floor, creating tiny ripples. On a normal day she would tease him on how good he looked, but it wasn’t the atmosphere for that, Eren gave her a side-eye with a small ‘tsk’
“So they sent you huh? , what do you want? Answers? Or are you here to grill me with assumptions too?” Eren finally faced her, in his heart it broke for her the way her eyes were looking at everything but his. But it had to be done, if not him who else was going to make the move? “If you don’t have anything to say I suggest you leave” his monochromatic tone made a tear drop down her face.
“I just wanna know why? Why’d you do it? Did you have to do it?” Eren looked her in the eyes, his eyes were no longer the jewel green she loved, they were dull, almost greyish, she wasn’t staring at the boy who wanted to kill all titans, he was now the boy wanted for a mass genocide. She thought she knew Eren, and knew that he based his actions on logic, but this felt like an ulterior motive. “Eren.. you took the lives of so many people today, and I’m all for fighting against our enemies but—“
“You’re full of shit you know that y/n?” Eren chuckled “so it’s alright to fight our enemies but no bloodshed? What else our we supposed to do huh? Pray for a miracle? Get on our hands and knees and ask them to stop hurting us? You’re a fucking idiot y/n” she was shocked by the way he was treating her right now, what changed him to be this outrageous person? “Excuse me?” she defended herself “you’re mad at the wrong person right now Eren I should be cursing you out right now!, you think killing innocent fucking people is going to solve your problems? You’re a fucking idiot if you think that!” her tears burning her chest as they dropped.
“What is the matter with you?” her eyes looked into his dull forest eyes, without giving it a second thought he replied “I've changed, and I've adapted maybe you should too” without anything more to see he turned his back towards her, she felt his love for her slipping from his soul. “Eren... I'm sorry whatever you're going through” sighing she leans against the wall “god I wish I knew what you were going through, and I'm sorry for thinking you would ever stay the same” getting up she heads for the door. Eren wipes the tears from his cheeks letting out a heavy sigh once the door closed.
“I'm sorry for not loving you enough, I wish I could tell you everything. But you'll find out in time, hope you'll be happy afterward” eren whispers looking towards the wall of his escape.
“I really do love you, y/n. I'm sorry to disappoint you”
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shi3mihaza · 2 years
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No, AoT is not fascist
I’m sure we’ve all of us at this point have heard of many claims about attack on titan being fascist and not just on here on tumblr but on other social media’s as well. 
Back in 2019 an article titled “the fascist subtext of Attack on Titan cannot go overlooked”.  Having read this article multiple times and being a long time fan who’s re-read the manga and looking as deep as I can on this situation I’ve come to the conclusion of... No.
I’ll be explaining why I think that... there is one thing this article did indeed get right though. It has heavy ww2 imagery because anyone saying it doesn’t would straight up be lying to themselves.
Ok lets get into it
Of all the things about attack on titan is I can say is that it has shown no indication of being pro-fascist.
If we’re to start it off we should at least do it starting with Marley, the nation of Marley is shown to be a living hell for eldians. 
They were treated like trash got to the point where they were fed to dogs. The oppression doesn’t end there either and gets expanded upon in season 4 with the Marleyans manipulating the eldians by using the sins of their ancestors to justify 
However one of the worst parts of it all is the fact that they use the eldians to fight their wars and they even have child candidates who train and inherit the titan power to fight their war, it’s not like they because they want to, they fight because they need to. 
Eldians aren’t even treated like humans they’re treated like animals.  Which is one of the reasons why some of the characters feel the need to fight, it’s so that they can win the war and finally get the treatment of a human person. 
For other characters such as Gabi, Falco, Udo, and Zofia and at first Reiner want to fight due to how much propaganda they were filled with at a young age. Marley oppressed the Eldians using fascism and this was never once shown in a good light, this is supporting fascism how??
There are a lot of victims of Marley’s propaganda like Gabi or Reiner but let’s talk about Gabi first. 
Gabi is a 12 year old child solider who was raised with Marleys horrible propaganda for what was her whole life.  With this she hated eldians more than anything.
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Repeatedly calling them devils and even became so absorbed within the idea that the arm-band is the only thing that separates her from the eldians on paradis, so when Falco takes it off so that they can blend in on paradis she get irrationally angry, to Gabi that cloth determines her place in world, it means everything to her. 
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Gabi was narrow-minded and stubborn and refused to believe anything that went against the claims of the Marley. 
When she finally met a good person on paradis she used the argument again while on Marley no one might’ve questioned it and the argument even worked however when Kaya heard of this she snaps and retaliates with question, one Gabi could not use the same excuse for... she didn’t have a answer. 
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The world Gabi knew was shattered. As her time in paradis went on this view shifted from a narrow-minded and stubborn view to one where she learns the wrongs of her actions. 
When admitting to killing Sasha, Kaya makes an attempt to kill her but she’s protected by Mikasa some who was also close with Sasha. 
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While past Gabi probably would have made some racist remark like “I knew you were devils !” or would’ve left her for dead, she doesn’t and instead she winds up saving Kaya and admitting to be a devil herself while feeling regret.
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Similar to Gabi, we have Reiner who believed he was a “good eldian” and that he had to atone for his sins. When he inherited the armor he was sent on a mission to paradis and just like Gabi the more he was around everyone the more his world view began to shift. 
If AoT was fascist yams could’ve made it so that Reiner didn’t have any regret for his actions, but he does when he was there he made friends and met people that were good people, good people that lost people they cared about because of him, not only does this make him feel guilty during the 4th season he’s completely broken and has suicidal tendencies. 
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He only has one reason to live by this point and it’s to protect the ones he cares about. Similar to Gabi he was Narrow-minded and stubborn and refused to believe anything that went against the Marleys claims, but when he saw it first hand that they’re not like the people Marley painted them to be it makes Reiners character arc take a shift, and as the series goes on it shifts continuously.
As for the yeagerists they’re a group of people who believe that Eren will be the one to stop this oppression against them by destroying the world by committing mass genocide. From there they can build the Eldian empire and anyone who resists will be killed...
The yeagerists is what happens when you get consumed by revenge so much so that they even think of it as a reason to justify a global genocide.
However, literally none of this was glorified. 
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As the manga goes on you will see how corrupt this group gets from beating up the commanders, betraying their very own military, and to the extent of killing those who resist.
The manga may have shown where they’re coming from yes. However, this is never shown in a good light, because it’s just like the Marley, they’ve become so consumed into their mistreatment and hatred to the point where everyone outside their walls doesn’t deserve to live. 
These characters feel that their action are justified with the simple reason that “Marley started it first” they without even knowing became the evil they swore to destroy.
That’s supporting fascism how???
To conclude the answer is, no AoT is not fascist. All the fascist characters either go through a character arc where that fascist world view is completely broken down and learn that it only causes pain or they just straight up die. No fascist in AoT stays a fascist. 
All fascists in AoT are never portrayed in a good light and always evil. Does it have fascism in it ? Yes. Is it ever shown to be the answer to anything ? No, never.
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miss-owl-eyes · 3 years
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hey!! Don’t feel pressured but when is the Pieck fic due to come out? I’m so excited!!! :9
That’s actually really funny, because I just finished writing it! Sorry it took awhile, I had a Hange one I had to brainstorm as well! @thatonesaltysailor
⋇⋆➶Don’t Go➴⋆⋇
⋇⋆➶Pieck x fem reader, smut➴⋆⋇
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❀𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘬❀
❀𝘈𝘖𝘛 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘬❀
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❗️SEASON 3 SPOILERS❗️
Content: makeout, fingering, slight mommy kink, friends to lovers
♡ 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘶𝘵 ♡
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Nothing would have prepared you for what happened to you- not only was there an attack on paradis by the beast titan, but now attacks from Reiner and Bertholdt. A few of the other scouts along with yourself watched as Hange nearly slit the throat of the traitor, Reiner. Blood leaked from his throat and you could only watch as the commander let his rest against a wall next to you, his once-was friend who couldn't leave him like this.
The silence only lasted a few seconds before a quadrupedal titan just off a wall, opening its mouth and jumping at the two of you. Your eyes widened and you clung to Reiner's shoulders as the red-eyed beast came closer, most likely to kill you.
The darkness faded to a dim light as your eyes opened slowly. You were in a room you didn't recognize. Sitting up, you patted your chest, checking to see if you were in heaven, but you weren't. All you had on was your white shirt and a white jacket with a red band on the left arm.
Your surroundings had made themselves aware, the room was made of stone and eggshell white walls with wooden floorboards and a matching wooden bed. The room looked familiar.
There were two faint voices outside the closed door, it sounded like a man and a woman. Curiosity got the better half of you as you inched out of the bed and came close to the door to listen.
"We need her here, she has information for us." The female said, there was a tad of desperation in her voice. "I know you want her to live, you need to consider the possibilities of risk. She could betray us and everything could be blown." The male's voice was calm and tactical, slight worry in his voice. "You're lucky I didn't kill her when she was passed out..." a chill ran down your spine, you could've been killed? Just where on earth were you?
"She's not... she's not just some island devil, Zeke," the male was named Zeke, apparently, "she's Y/N, I know she is, they look almost the same." A sigh left Zeke's lips, and you could only assume he had his hand against the bridge of his nose.
"And what if she is? We can't do anything about it... chances are they've stripped her of her old personality? She's not the Y/N you once knew, Pieck."
And then it clicked, why the room looked familiar, why the jacket looked familiar; you were in Marley. Pieck was your old childhood friend from 10 years ago, back when you were 11 years old. The two of you were best friends, the only females that were friendly (Annie wasn't, we all know this). You two planned to be warriors together, to "kill the island devils" and "bring honor to the females of Marley". It was a silly dream, but back then it's what gave you hope, the hope you had before you left.
No more did you want to sit and remember your old life, you wanted to see Pieck, see how she looked, how she was. The door let out a creek that halted the conversation between the two as you peeked out. The pair stared at you, eyes wide and you only looked back. "Hi, it's um.. it's Y/N.."
the silence was deafening, their eyes were trained on you as yours were on them. "Well I sense some tense energy here," Zeke finally spoke up, breaking the icy silence, "I'll leave you two to talk." He walked away, leaving only you and Pieck together. She was gorgeous to say the least. Long, beautiful black hair, a tired expression on her face that had satisfaction written all over it, and a crutch under her arm.
Moving to the side, you offered Pieck to come into your temporary room. She agreed, placing herself on the end of the bed and falling backwards. You sat down in your spot from earlier, still faintly warm.
"It's nice to see you, Y/N... it's been a few years, hasn't it?" Her voice was smooth and sweet, it was comforting in its own way. "It's nice to see you too, Pieck..."
The silence returned, you knew the questions that were coming, where did you go, why were you on Paradis, etc etc. It didn't take as much time as you wanted it to, you knew Pieck would be the one to ask first. "Y/N, why did you leave me alone..?" Her voice was sad, her eyes were sad looking into yours.
"I left because I was tired of the life here. I was weak. I couldn't fight, I didn't want to throw my life away and live for only 13 more years just to defend this island! So... I snuck on one of the boats, and left." You honestly admitted. It was hard, seeing Pieck's face turn from sadness to pain. You never meant to hurt her, you were a selfish child back then, you didn't know.
"Y/N..." her voice was lower, eyes looking everywhere but yours, "I missed you. I wanted to know where you were, I needed you here. I didn't mind taking care of you, I just wanted you with me, to become a warrior with me! I wish that you-" the thoughts ran wild, you couldn't listen to more. You regret it enough, becoming friends with the "devils" and leaving your hometown friends. You cut her off before she could continue, "Why do you care so much Pieck? Why did you care so much? I was weak, you carried me everywhere, I wouldn't have survived training if you weren't there! You should have given up on me a long time ago!"
Warm tears began to seep down your cheeks, it was painful. Painful to see your old friend be in so much pain because of you, listening to her wishes from all those years ago. You didn't want to hear it anymore, you didn't want it. No longer could you help yourself as the tears fell onto the bedsheet below you as you weeped in front of Pieck, your hands moving up to cover your face.
The darkness you could see was removed by Pieck's hands pulling your hands away from your eyes. The two of you made eye contact, her soft, gray eyes staring into yours, hands still interlocked. "Y/N, I liked you back then. Not only as a friend, I loved you," her hands squeezed yours when she said the word "love", "I didn't want you to go because I had a crush on you... I wanted to be a warrior together so we could be together and die together, just be together-!" There was a certain sparkle in her eyes as she spoke about her old crush on you.
"Y/N, I know you're a changed woman like me, but I haven't abandoned my feelings for you. I knew you were comforting Reiner, I knew it was you, so I took you. It was selfish, but I couldn't let you go again." All you could do was stare in awe, the woman you were best friends with loved you, and she never stopped loving you either.
No thoughts ran through your mind, only the pure confidence to do something. You wrapped your arms around her and pulled her into your chest. In no way did she hesitate to wrap her arms around you and look up into your eyes. "Pieck, I've loved you too. I missed you every single day." You stroked underneath her chin while she looked up at you. Happiness was all she could feel, seeing you again, holding you, loving you, it was too perfect. "I love you, Y/N, don't ever leave me again."
No words were spoken, only the longing stare into each other's eyes, passive smiles on your faces while you giggled. Now that you knew Pieck felt the same way you did after finally being reunited, there was only one thing left on your to-do list.
Reaching down and holding onto her chin, you leaned down and pressed your lips against hers. Without hesitation, she pressed back, her lips moving in sync with yours. Her hands wandered up and down your sides, yours tracing and tracing circles over her back. Her lips were sweet and soft, it was almost like her lips were made for yours.
Only a few minutes of kissing and feeling each other up passed, but even in such a small amount of time, your shirts, skirts, and jackets were in a heap of clothing. Hands ghosted over each other's sides, pulling and groping at flesh and each other's breasts while tongues brushed over each other and tangled together. The two of you were in an embrace of only yourselves, it was pure bliss.
One of Pieck's gentle hands slid underneath the waistband of your undergarments, tracing her fingers up and down gently. Her tongue slid underneath yours before pulling it into her mouth again. A quiet whimper left your lips as her finger gently rubbed small circles at your sensitive clit. Your bare chests rubbed together, creating a warmth between both of you.
"So cute, so precious to me, my dear Y/N..." Pieck purred, completely engulfed in pleasuring you after all these years. Her index and middle finger traced over your entrance and pulled her fingers away quickly, licking off the juices. A light moan escaped when she moved it back down, making eye contact and nibbling your lower lip.
Pieck had a special way of teasing you, she would just barely graze your pussy while nibbling your lip, heavy on the eye contact too. She's always been confident and determined to get what she wanted, seeing you unravel under her only by two fingers was no acceptation to the rules.
"You know, I always liked taking care of you, Y/N," she said, staring at your collarbone and licking her lips, "it almost made me feel like a mother..." you caught on. You weren't sure if you had the right idea, but testing the waters seemed to be a safe bet in your lust-driven state. In a poor attempt to try to see what Pieck was referring to, you let out a breathy moan, "ah, m-mommy..."
The satisfied chuckle and light-hearted smirk that danced across Pieck's face told you that you were correct, the dominant side of her showing itself to you. "I'll take good care of you, my princess~"
Two fingers slipped back and forth your entrance, so close to entering, yet so far. Pieck was completely aware of what she was doing, knowing that her praises would mix perfectly with her teasing fingers. Seeing your flustered and needy face only spurred her on, wanting to make you finally feel good.
The tip of her index and middle finger pressed and softly penetrated into your entrance, pressing against your wall and making you gasp. Pieck only latched her lips to your neck, gently kissing and lightly sucking. The soft noises that you let out encouraged her to move and scissor her fingers inside of you, touching and rubbing every corner and crevice of your walls.
The fingers inside of you along with the wet, sloppy kisses trailing along your neck slowly brought you to your pleasure. Pieck's fingers rubbed against the soft flesh inside you roughly and quickly with the curl of her fingers. Instead of moaning, all you could do was gasp, unable to be loud due to her lips latched onto your windpipe.
The pleasure that built up gradually was more noticeable, the way you rutted your hips against her fingers and squeezed your eyes shut. "M-mommy, please..." Pieck smiled, watching you trip over your words and you helplessly swayed on her fingers. "Go ahead, I've wanted to see this for years." Even during moments like these, she never failed to make you smile with her witty comments. Nonetheless, you did as told, finger-fucking yourself as she only watched and smiled, admiring your glowing beauty as your orgasm rode itself out.
Your body relaxed quickly, panting and attempting to catch your breath while shiny due to the slight layer of sweat. Pieck admired you and your body, not caring if anyone heard or saw what you two did. She threw an arm around you and pulled you onto her chest. "I hope you know that later you're coming to my room and we're going to do this all over again." You smiled and held onto her sides, legs tangled together. "I know Piecky, I wouldn't have it any other way.”
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Thoughts on AoT S4 Episode 68 - “Brave Volunteers”
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In this post I`d like to share some thoughts about AoT Season 4 episode 68 - “Brave Volunteers”. This episode adapts manga chapter 106 and some fragments of chapter 107. Like with the previous episode I think this one is also wonderfully adapted. The music, the colors and the voice acting enrich the overall experience, and there are some nice cinematographical additions. As mentioned in the previous post I have read up til manga ch 130/vol 32, so there might be story elements that I am unable to comment on. 
There won`t be a coherent theme that acts as the main structure of this post. Instead I will be going trough scenes within the order that they appear, and stop and ramble when I have something to say about a specific sequence. 
The episode begins with the SC intercepting an Marleyan surveillance ship send to Paradis. Hange comes to greet the visitors, after Eren carries their boat into the island`s shore. This sequence is comedic in the manga, but it is even funnier in the anime thanks to Romi Paku`s brilliant performance. Some of Hange`s words and sentences are overly cheerful and stretched out (”Right Nicolo-kuuuun?”). 
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She speaks fast and in a nervous fashion, desperately trying to keep her act together. This sequence is fun because at the same time it is an utter farce and connects to the more eccentric nature of Hange, but also shows genuine feelings of wanting to connect and understand something new.   
When Hange points to Eren as safety measure if the Marleayn guests get reckless, the position of the camera is from a very low angle. The point of view is of the Marleyan soldiers looking up at the form of the Attack Titan, and it puts Eren in a position of power and dominance. 
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The scene between Hange, Levi, Onyankopon and Yelena has an cool transition. We first begin by showing the youngsters of the 104th observing things in the night. Then the sequence cuts to black, being illuminated by a light shown into the dark barrel of a gun. The overall darkness and dim lights of both sequences are used in clever way, to transition into a more brighter scene. 
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I love the gesture of Hange looking into the barrel of a gun. In one hand it is dangerous while the gun is not loaded, and connects once again to Hange more eccentric side. However it also encapsulates the curiosity of a scientist, who has been given something new to dissect and understand. Such a dangerous object is observed with a delighted playfulness. It also creates a funny contrast between the dead serious facial expression of Levi, and Hange`s expression which says “look at this new awesome thing that we got!” 
Yelena`s tale/perception of Zeke uses bright, beautiful colors. Since the form of the Beast Titan is near a light source, it looks like that the Beast is bathing in a pure light or surrounded by a halo. 
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This gives Zeke an divine aura, fitting to Yelena viewing Zeke like a god. Yelena`s strong, close to a zealous devotion towards Zeke is now foreshadowed early on, as the anime has her stare into the sky like a believer, who is going trough a religious experience. The discussion scene ends as Yelena declares who they are and what the group`s goal is, slowly transitioning to show the rising sun on the horizon. Yelena`s yellow hair blends with the light source, and the Anti-Marleyan volunteer army are likely associated here with light, since they are presented as Eldias and Paradis`s hope.   
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I was a bit saddened that when they discuss the Rumbling during the meeting scene, the anime does not show the Titans actually busting trough their walls, as Eren imagines. Instead there is an image of the walls, which is a bit bland in comparison. 
The scene with the 104th and Nicolo`s sea food is adapted in a beautiful fashion. There is very little amount of music, and the overall sequence is bathing in clear blue colors. The eating area is surrounded by the sea, a clear sky and even the table is covered with a blue cloth. All of this enforces the theme of sea food, but also gives the sequence a peaceful, serene feeling. Blue can be a calming color, and the feeling of calm is precisely what this moment represents.
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It is a moment of connection between of two different people, representing two different worlds by over something as simple as food. 
It is then really fitting that both in the anime and manga version, this serene scene is followed by the shooting range sequence. Right as the final moment of Nicolo`s face lingers, the scene transitions with the shattering of a bottle as Eren shoots it. The transition is done well and I`d like to think that the shattering effect symbolizes, how the peaceful times of the past have now forever been broken. The music and overall color scheme of the sequence also communicate, that when it comes to tone this is something different than the previous one. 
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The shooting range is covered with an evening light, and the track that plays is an melancholic one. It is interesting since a good amount of the scene is used to discuss the hopeful possibility of a mutual understanding, but the music fights back against this feeling. 
The shooting`s rang`s adaptation changes things a little bit, and I think it makes the overall sequence rather interesting. In the manga the focus is more on Eren, Armin and Mikasa talking, so there are a lot of close up shots of their faces. The manga only briefly shows Eren`s targets. 
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The anime takes a slightly different approach and switches more actively between Eren, Armin and Mikasa`s discussion, and the actual target`s of Eren`s practice. Especially near the end there is a wonderful sequence. When the trio talks about the possible errors that can be found in Yelena`s plan, the camera switches to show Eren`s target: an old can. The trio is shown in the background as to remind the viewer who are talking, but it is the target of Eren`s aim, that the camera is focusing on. 
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This creates tension to the scene, since the whole time as the discussion is going, the viewer is waiting for Eren`s bullet to hit the can. This is particularly achieved by having the sequence be composed of a one long continuous shot, without any cuts. 
The other reason why I like the adaptation`s take on this scene, is how it can read. The main point of Armin`s problem with the plan, is that if Paradis uses the Rumbling as a deterrent against the world, then they will truly become the very devils, that the world perceives them as. When combined with the shooting range`s context, the scene can be read as thus: the old can that is in focus is like the world, that is being held at gun point. The Rumbling is like the gun that is aimed at the can/world, and Paradis from the point of view of the outside world, is holding them in its sight, threatening them with Rumbling. The same creation of tension can be applied here, and it is as if the world is holding its collective breath, under the supposed threat of Paradis.
The scene ends with Eren pulling the trigger, and hitting the can. I am likely overthinking this, but maybe it foreshadows the fact that in the future, Eren will become the feared devil and activate the Rumbling, leading millions of Colossus Titans to bring ruin upon the world. Here it is interesting to note, that Eren`s shot lands after Armin finishes his sentence with the word “devil” “akuma”. A quick side note, but it is a funny callback that the can is likely of similar design, that Ymir and Reiner found at castle. (I swear I`ll stop rambling about the can now.) 
There is also one more segment in the shooting range scene, that deserves attention. The end of this sequence shows symbolically, how Eren`s actions were partially responsible for Sasha`s death. This is illustrated by having Eren`s rifle shot seemingly be the one, that pierces Sasha´s body. In the manga Isayama drew new scenes to show this connection. The anime interestingly re-uses the same panels that are found in chapter 105/Episode 67. This might at first sound like a let down, but on the contrary the effect it creates is very powerful. The barrel of Eren`s rifle and its firing directly transitions to the scene, where Gabi´s shot hits Sasha. 
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Both Jean and Connie are looking into the direction where the shot came from (the camera), and the whole sequence is tainted with a bloody, red color. Because they are re-using the scene and Jean and Connie are looking into the camera, it gives the impression that they are looking at Eren, who fired the shot. The effect is heavy and the violence of the whole scene is amplified by coloring it red, with the blood coming out of Sasha`s bullet wound. 
The whole atmosphere and composition of the sequence is interesting. While the trio is effectively talking, it feels like that only Armin and Mikasa are being actively present, looking at each other while they discuss. It could be that Eren is simply focusing in his shooting (and he is), but I like that his focus gives a certain feeling of detachment, from his two childhood friends. While they are talking about the present and how to potentially fix things, Eren is gazing ahead of himself, aiming and attacking against an enemy somewhere far away. This same focus will then parallel to Eren`s current self, where he constantly keeps moving forward and grasping at the future that he saw. 
When Eren counters Armin`s words and reminds him, that they are people who can transform into monsters, the action and sound of loading the rifle, gives the statement a certain cold firmness. There is no misconception, the people of Ymir can transform into Titans. 
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It could also be noted that while aiming, Eren is essentially locking onto a single target and blocking out everything else, also likely corresponding with his current mentality. 
Sasha`s funeral is made even more depressing by the weather and usage of colors. Previously bright colors were used to indicate a happy and serene scene, but here darker colors are used to create a depressing moment. Above the graveyard there is a heavy wall of gray clouds, and no sources of light. The grayness and rain makes the moment feel gloomy. 
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This type of scenery is used widely when depicting a sad scene, and AoT is no stranger to it. There already is a scene from season 3, that uses these same elements. 
The scene between Zeke and Levi inside the carriage is a very ironic one. In the color scheme the masses are reading news papers in daylight, while the occupants of the carriage are covered by shadows and darkness. Light is used to symbolize knowledge, while darkness is associated to the lack of it. However here the positions are reversed. 
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It is the people reading the papers in daylight, who are submerged in ignorance and in contrast, the two individuals covered by shadows the one`s, who are in the know and aware how things truly stand. 
Falco`s and Gabi`s prison scene shows Gabi biting her nail, with a fierce expression. This give`s Gabi a certain primal aura, and her hatred towards Eren bares a similar primal nature, that Eren felt towards the Titans in the beginning of the series. 
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Gabi`s posture is a change when compared to manga, since in the source material Falco and Gabi come off as more vulnerable. I think both scenario`s work. 
The episode ends like the manga chapter, showing the further separation of Eren, Mikasa and Armin. All 3 are in different locations, surrounded by melancholic mood.
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