#eren looks good

[arlertdarling]

this is what perfection looks like btw

[tatakaeeren]

😍 New SnK official art 😍

[moonspirit]

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[mypimpademia]

Petition to stop turning characters into drug dealers and gang bangers just bc it’s a black reader fic🗣️🗣️‼️‼️

[kylermalloy]

Attack on Titan is a layered, multifaceted story that deals with many, many ideas—prejudice, propaganda, power, love, truth…I could go on. But more than anything, it’s about war. Attack on Titan is a war story. In that sense, it’s no surprise at the number of scenes that utilize fight, either as a concept, action, or just the word itself. It’s a story about fighting.

Or is it?

(It is. But it’s not about the fight. I’ll get there.)

The pivotal moment of the story occurs in season 3, when our characters go from fighting a war they don’t understand to fighting a war they do. The war itself hasn’t changed, nor the world, but now they know what they’re up against. But I’m not here to talk about that pivot—I’m here to talk about the narrative choice that was made a few episodes before that, and the thematic importance of that choice.

I’m here to talk about Midnight Sun.

The choice between Armin and Erwin has long since been a topic of debate amongst AOT fans. Whether it was the right choice, how happy or unhappy it made viewers, why exactly the choice was made, and so on and so forth. I’ve always found it to be a very simple yet effective piece of storytelling—one that walks a very fine line of displaying a core story theme and honoring the characters involved.

Interestingly, Levi, who’s historically a follower and not a leader, is the one to make this very important narrative choice. It was carefully designed, too—everything he’s witnessed so far in this season has led to this moment, and this very important decision he’ll make.

Now of course, as with everything, there’s a Watsonian and a Doylist reason for this decision to bring Armin back and not Erwin. Levi’s role in the choice is primarily a Watsonian one—he was one of the closest characters to Erwin, and he was the one to see Erwin struggle in his last moments before the charge.

Levi outright tells us his thought process after he makes the choice. After Erwin had let go of his dream, his struggle, which was as much a burden to him as a drive to continue forward, Levi thought it cruel to being him back into the world just because humanity needed a devil. It’s a human decision, and Levi made it for someone he cared deeply for.

But from a Doylist perspective, there’s a thematic reason as to why Armin was chosen and not Erwin. Obviously Levi, as a character in the story, is not thinking of what Erwin’s and Armin’s respective dreams are narratively representative of. Levi, in making his choice, didn’t so much as pick Armin as he didn’t pick Erwin. He was letting Erwin go, and he wasn’t thinking about what that would do to the story.

But I am!

Levi has been witness to both Erwin’s and Armin’s dreams, and he’s smart enough to place those dreams within the context of the war they’re fighting.

He asked Erwin explicitly what he would do when his dream was fulfilled—once they got to the basement in Shiganshina and learned the truth of the world. Erwin said he didn’t know.

Conversely, when Armin talked with his friends about after the war, he spoke of the sea. Of exploration beyond the walls, of seeing the wonders he’d only been able to read about. Unlike Erwin, he knew exactly what he would do when the fighting ended.

Now, does this mean to imply Erwin would’ve been useless after reaching the basement? Of course not. Had he survived, he would have continued to lead. But thematically, his purpose in the narrative was to drive the fight forward at any cost. We see this over and over—from the first expedition outside Wall Rose to his last charge against the Beast Titan. That’s what he represents, and that’s what his dream led to.

Armin’s dream, though, extends beyond the fight. He only cares about winning the war in that it will allow him the chance to explore and experience the wonders of the world.

Choosing Armin over Erwin, thematically, represents AOT’s fundamental view on war and fighting. The drive to win is not nearly as important as hope for the future. For after the fight is over.

Armin has always found solace and hope in things other than the war that has defined his and his friends’ lives. He dreams of the ocean. He worships his friends. He lives, as he tells Zeke in the final final final season, for the small moments with them. “Maybe I was born to race Eren and Mikasa up that hill.” That would be enough for him, even without his grand dream of the sea.

I genuinely think this choice is the closest thing AOT has to a thesis statement. This story shows us a plethora of messy situations to which there is no clear-cut solution. It displays a huge range of perspectives and philosophies without telling us what is good and what is bad. (Although it does, very specifically, tell us that genocide is bad, Eren!)

This choice in Midnight Sun, though, is more than a choice between two characters for survival. It speaks to what is most valuable in a world that seems to always be trying to kill you.

What good is winning the war if you don’t have something to hope for beyond that?

In other words, there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

[isabel-magn0lia]

Eren looks so tall next to Levi wow :0

[bbytamaki]

just stoner bf eren

// weed, some nsfw ? minors look away, high sex (consensual)

— ugh bf eren who uses your boobs to hold his pen while he takes a hit </3

— eren who rolls you one & shows up to your house with the stuffed animal the two of you claim as your child

— eren who can still function in the kitchen normally while being so gone it’s crazy (and cooks so well too)

— eren who blows a cloud of heavy smoke into your mouth through a kiss and watches you get high off of him

— stoner boyfie eren who knows every time you take more than your usual amount of his, you’re gonna beg him to beat your back in within the next 10 minutes

— bf ren that thinks you’re soooo pretty when you’re naked & looking him in his low eyes while he’s inside you :(

— bf ren who thinks you look even prettier taking a long shower and a nap with him after having such a good sesh

[jjkeremika]

been thinking a heinous amount about formula one ferrari driver eren jaeger and his reliable pit crew lead mechanic mikasa ackerman

the two are a package deal, because eren won’t drive the car unless his trusty mechanic (mikasa) has taken a look and signed off on it. doesn’t trust the car until mikasa knows every inch of the design. so every time eren gets contracted to a new team, that team gets a new lead mechanic too

and whenever he’s not on the racetrack, he’s near her, talking to her about the gear box, tires, etc. doesn’t matter. he doesn’t really care about the car at all. as long as it runs and it’s fast, that’s all he needs. but he likes that she does, so he asks lots of questions and tries to impress her by retaining random one-off facts she’s mentioned.

and he ALWAYS thanks her by name after winning pole position. thanks her, the team, and the fans, in that order. every. damn. time.

just something about greasy hands, sweat-matted hair mechanic! Mikasa with dirty coveralls and a loose-hanging toolbelt around her waist paired with clean racer! Eren in a tight-fitting ferrari red jumpsuit with fiery ambition and tousled helmet hair and a fervent need to beat everyone on the track in her honor and name. to prove the cars she makes are and will always be the best of the best

the day he wins the championship—the day he’s named f1 champion of the world—is the day he’ll get down on one knee. owes it all to her and wants to give her everything he has, dedicate himself to her and only her, starting with his last name and its ties to the championship.

[inthisvaleoftears]

oh, mi amor

[aengelren]

finally new Eren official art

[levisfavgirl]

the way levi looked good during every scene in the final ep, and the rest of the aot men… well..

[lowkeyremi]

Attack On Titan - Final Episode

GUYS... :(((

I'M NOT EVEN THAT EMOTIONAL AND THE FINAL EP HAD ME CRYING WTFFF

bro she'll never get to have this </3

[boxwinebaddie]

hi nina!! can we plz see some of the char sheet youre doing?

AWWWW!!!! this is so sweet, omg. ;-; <3

i fucking LOVE character sheets sm; it is a relic from when i first broke into writing online and used to tumblr rpg ( cringe ). i just feel like they really help you see and understand your characters and figure out what they look like, how they act, what their motivations are, etc.

but yes!!!! i spend a lot of time on them and i haven't had a lot of time...recently, so i haven't been able to work on the ones i have for The Nasty Nina Boys From ( Fine As ) Hell, but you can have this little section i started on appearance in the ravenstan one ( he has been on my mind a lot lately, i srsly love him so much, he's my baby )

i'll drop it under the cut for you <3

-uncle nina, tumblr rpg survivor, char sheet queena

[bibibbon]

Okay, let's not talk BNHA for now... I just know that you're an AOT fan, too ...

Can I ask your top 5 (or top 3) fav characters from the series? Why love them? And your top 5 fav moments from AOT?

Oh sure anon!

I will keep it short here but my top 5 favourite characters in attack on titan are

Armin alert

Mikasa Ackerman

Eren Yeager

Historia reiss

Hange

My top 5 favourite moments of the series are:

Armin and Eren in the paths

Magath and Keith's deaths (probably my favourite parallels in the series)

Jean and Eren in chapter 137

The meeting between Ymir and Mikasa

Hange's death

[muekyn]

eren seems like the type of guy to have the most interesting food preferences, mainly due to the fact that he ate so much weird shit growing up for bets. "give me five bucks and ill drink this whole bottle of soy sauce" or "give me a quarter and ill eat that dirt" type of stuff.

and because of that it completely shifted his taste buds. the things you see him eat just baffle you. he'll grab a raw onion and take a big old bite, looking you dead in the eyes as you're horrified.

eren could see something like this and be like "damn. that looks good'

[ereihisu]

its the same place… the first time they looked at kids and the second time she asked him about having a kid