i mentioned this in another post's tags but sometimes I feel like the only AOT fan on the planet who understands that the end of the Rumbling didn't suddenly fix everything and it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows after
ESPECIALLY FOR THE WARRIORS
all of them have SEVERE PTSD on top of grieving a majority of their comrades and their childhood home
furthermore, Reiner and Pieck haven't even seen Annie in 4 years and there's so much to address there
and there's this disconnect between Pieck and the other 2 because Reiner and Annie got sent to Paradis 5 years prior to Pieck so they have no understanding of what the other experienced
i really hope Reiner gets to heal his relationships with the others
i really hope Annie learns empathy
but i especially hope that Pieck gets to actually express her true feelings for once instead of keeping it all together because she's the older sister in a way
Posiren
S4 Reiner is great.
He's playing celebrity war hero while scrambling to keep his sanity intact with his bare hands. Keeps trying to kill himself but can't follow through because he feels bad for the kids that are competing to eventually cannibalize him. Blatantly picks favorites anyways. Keeps shittalking the people he loved and then attempted to kill. Enemies-to-enemies relationship with all his coworkers. The only guy that could stand him is dead.
Mommy issues. Is 21, looks 40. Might be gay.
What a man.
Mikasa is so great because if you told me that "a violent buff killing machine who turns people into minced meat, bathes in their blood, and makes out with decapitated heads"
and "a shy gentle girl whose ultimate dream is to live a simple cottagecore life while wearing ankle-length grandma skirts and cozy pink cardigans"
... were the same character, I wouldn't believe you. Yet she's real and her name is Mikasa Ackerman.
"I would punch a Nazi" also included Zionists fyi
Okay I’m sorting this out for my own purposes: My hc is that the Warriors don’t get paid until they’re Titan Holders because then at least they’re honorary marleyeans. Meanwhile this is a system that destabilises Liberio as so many of their Eldian children are sent into the Warrior System and extensively train for long hours to the point where their actual schooling on how to get viable jobs is disrupted.
Also there is absolutely financial abuse going on in there too-threatening to reduce/withold wages if the Warriors don’t comply or aren’t up to (their standards of) par.
Falco luring Levi to his birthday party like a stray cat he's trying to befriend. Happy birthday Falco! 🦅
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Wow. Just wow. You know I'd kill for a Bert and Ymir friendship. I adore that she calls him "Bertholdt-san" in canon and Junior High.