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Levi and the most irrelevant topics about his character

I have been seeing so much discourse in the fandom lately so I wanted to clear a few things up. I think Levi and his great character gets lost in all the pointless discourse.

His sexuality

Oh boy, you people make me irritated with this one. It was never confirmed or brought up simply because it doesn't matter, it is irrelevant as it gets especially for a character like Levi.

One thing I see poeple often bring up a is an "interview" where Isayama supposedly says that Levi like tall people and I would like to make one thing clear, that is an answer with no written down evidence or an actual translation. There is a version where Isayama says "does he like women?" And then there is another version which says "the type of women he likes?" Among 30 other translations and some fans saying that this was never even said, you cannot take this as canon, let alone give someone a screenshot from a random article online to convince people into your headcanons. This interview, be it fake or not, is not canon evidence and shouldn't be taken so seriously. In canon? Levi showed no interest in either genders. Using offical art as evidence that he is straight or gay based on way he is sitting standing or how he dresses is the dumbest thing ever and I don't even think I have to tell you why.

Bottom line: Levi has no confirmed sexuality, he could be straight, bi, gay, pan, ace etc. It is irrelevant to his character and wouldn't change a thing about him. You're free to headcanon Levi as you like just don't push it onto canon when none of us know and quite frankly, shouldn't care that much about it.

Ship wars/ships/Levi's love interest

Again, another topic that people take way too seriously. Ship wars for Levi shouldn't even exist but he is among the most popular anime characters so I suppose naturally they will. Levi doesn't have a canon love interest and no matter how much some push thier ships into canon, it won't change that fact. The shipping fandom is having fun most of the time and you actually going into thier spaces to hate on them is stupid.

Shipping community is huge and most poeple are having fun. You cannot group a whole shipping fandom into the toxic bunch which I see so many poeple do. No Eruri's, Levihan's, Rivetra's, self interests etc. aren't all bad because you saw one toxic fan send hate to people who don't ship or ship a certain pairing. People seem to forget that the person they are attacking over FICTIONAL CHARACTERS is an actual person, with hobbies and emotions. Sending someone death threats or hat over a ship they ship or don't ship makes you an asshole and shouldn't be a thing.

Fun fact: Japanese fandom has a name for poeple discussing Levi and his love life. They call it "landmine" because it's so irrelevant and poeple get so worked up over who he should/shouldn't be with rather than just acknowledging the story and his character for what it is.

Bottom line: Levi has no canon ship or a love interest. Headcanons are fine and having an opinion is too but pushing it onto canon and hating on poeple because of ships is not a way to go.

The sub or dom debate

Do I even have to explain to poeple why this is stupid?

It's mostly discourse around Levi x reader writers on here and other platforms. I am a Levi x reader writer, I have a separate blog for that but as I said many times before, those things are just my little fantasies and I never push those into Levi and his actual character. I see so many get worked up when someone sees Levi as a Dom or a sub and someone doesn't agree. This is fanfiction, it is not an analysis on his character. We don't know how Levi is during sex or if he even had sex in the first place and the fact that people actually get so worked up over it is ridiculous. This is super irrelevant, has zero baring on Levi and his decisions in canon. I have my headcanon, we all do but let's not pretend like we actually know anything about Levi in this context because we don't and it's the last thing we should focus on. None us are right, it is not that deep that someone sees Levi as a sub while you see him a Dom, trust me, this shouldn't be in discussion, it had nothing to do with canon. And who even actually cares? How does this affect Levi?

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Levi is a great and complex character, the fact that people let all his qualities get lost in such discourses is upsetting. We can't decide these things because we emotionally attached ourselves to a headcanon or a ship. Levi is not something because you "feel" he is, remember facts over feelings. Worrying about these irrelevant things makes Levi's character get lost in pointless and never ending debates.

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Panels like these hit different when you know Levi and his backstory. I am not sure if Levi ever told anyone about his mother before Falco and Gabi. He sees a starving woman with a child and gets reminded of his mother. Kuchel, Levi thinks about her often, she is the person he loved the most. I think that he took after her in more aspects than just looks, Levi is a giver, he is extremely selfless, he fights for people and doesn't ask for anything in return. While it was somewhat selfish of Kuchel not to abort Levi giving the circumstances she was in, she took care of him and gave him everything she could. Who knows how many times she starved herself just for Levi to have something to eat, the woman with that baby reminded Levi of what his mother went through just to keep him alive. It also shows the empathy Levi feels for other people. Levi's biggest strength is his heart.

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Levi and his selfless nature deserves more, he cares, and he cares so much. The biggest mischaractertion of Levi is that he doesn't care about his comrades or that he only cares for one character, which is far from the truth and disrespectful to his actual character. He lost so many friends/comrades, and the gulit he probably feels for surviving is huge. Levi remembers all of them, he carries a burden and promises to avange them, to prove that their sacrifice had meaning.

One panel that I love is this one where he apologizes to Hange because he feels like their deaths were his fault, that he failed, and he couldn't save them. Levi felt like he let Hange down despite the situation not being his fault, and Hange wasn't mad at him at all, they understood that if he could've saved them, he would've.

This one hits on a different level, his empathy really comes through here. He feels gulity once more, realizing that the titans he has been killing were human all this time, I think this took a huge toll on him. Levi doesn't enjoy killing, he is a skilled soldier, that doesn't mean that he takes pleasure in it, it's his job and in his life he had to kill or he would be killed, he has no other choice. Levi values all life the same and to see him get reduced to someone who is selfish and cold, isn't fair to him.

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"You know he had a big influence on the way I think..." We don't talk about this enough, it explains even further why Levi is the way he is. Kenny had the biggest influence on Levi and rather poeple like to admit it or not, Kenny was not a good father figure to Levi. People stick to Kenny's line of "that midget is my pride and joy" sort of in a cute fathelry son way but that's not at all for what it is.

Kenny is more reefring to Levi and his skills, Kenny taught Levi how to survive in the underground and when he saw that Levi was capable to fight on his own, he left. And I think Kenny takes pride in the fact that he is the reason Levi is skilled. While I get that people want Kenny and Levi to have this great relationship, Kenny didn't even tell Levi that they were realted, at some point we know that Levi thought that Kenny was his father. I think Levi's self judgement and seeing himself as a weapon comes mostly from his upbringing by Kenny because he was raised as a weapon, not a child.

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This panel hurts me. Yes, it's part of Levi having abandonment issues, but it also suggests that Levi thinks he is forgettable, and that makes me so sad. He doesn't think of himself as someone who people will remember or put first despite him always putting others before himself.

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Ugh I love men

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This is why I think it's ridiculous to call Levi's blunt and rude behaviour a "facade".

He says it himself, he just has a nasty mouth, it's how he is. A person can be both you know? Levi is kind and caring, he is also rude at times, it's just who he is, he wasn't taught otherwise. Levi isn't less kinder because of his bluntness.

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Oh look, a chair

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