Also, if anyone knows why Armin suddenly got transferred memories from Eren despite not being royal blood, let me know. That's been bothering me a lot and I haven't seen any explanation for it anywhere.
3 years ago | 3
In my opinion, the panel reflects what is weighing on Armin’s mind. It’s about the people who died for him to be in the position he’s in, and for him to have the opportunity he has to fight Eren at this juncture. That includes the people he had a hand in killing (Daz and Samuel), as well as the previous commanders who gave up their lives for him to take the lead here and now. It’s about the pressure and stakes he feels to make sure he gets this right, to make sure he does them justice and makes their sacrifices (and his sins) worth it (by stopping Eren). I don’t think the imagery behind Armin reflects what or who Eren is thinking about (or who he assumes Armin is thinking about). In fact, if Eren knew who Armin was going to think about when he said it, he may not have wanted to say it at all, because it was partly him saying this that pushed Armin over the edge to have the conviction to oppose Eren fully. Eren thought guilt-tripping Armin would get him to align with Eren’s perspective, since that is part of what motivates Eren to keep moving forward in the direction he is going (because he’s gone too far to turn back now and risk letting all of those who died for him and at his hands to have done so in vain). But it didn’t work how Eren had hoped. And I personally really liked how that played out, in part because it revealed that Eren’s assumption of how him saying that line would be taken was flawed, and potentially reveals that he didn’t quite understand Armin as well as he thought he did, which I find kind of sad. I also like how it kind of parallels Mikasa and how she feels like maybe, somehow, she has misunderstood something about Eren all this time when she asks herself “what part of Eren had I been seeing” in 123. As much as it hurts to see, it makes you realize that maybe this core friend group that we thought was so strong actually had some fundamental misunderstandings that lead all the way back to the beginning.
3 years ago (edited) | 0
Why did you instantly interpret Hanges inclusion in that panel as a statement by the authors that Hanges death will be meaningless if Eren does not win?? Have you considered the fact that that whole panel is meant to just simply illustrate Armin doubting himself and everything that the alliance are fighting and dying for? Armins face is riddled with fear, he became genuinely afraid for a split second that what Eren is telling him could in some way be true. He was doubting himself. That is why Hange is included there aswell, to imply that he is indeed thinking, that in the possible case of Eren actually being right, it would mean that Hange was wrong and died for nothing. This panel seemed almost like a callback to when Armin was greatly disturbed and scared by everything that Eren was explaining to him in the table scene. It's not meant to be an actual statement being made in the story that's supposed to strengthen Erens argument, at least that is not at all how I saw it when I read the chapter.
3 years ago (edited) | 3
The art style is really amazing, but in the context this panel is used is so unfitting. I completely agreed with you that Hanji should not be in the panel, but that same goes for Erwin as well. Armin always feels the burden of living up to the legacy of the great commander, but if you closely follow the series, you can notice that Armin only thinks of Erwin Smith at very crucial point in his life, when he needs to push him forward to obtain his goal by sacrificing something dear to him. As far as I can remember, Armin thinks of Erwin at the point when he was preparing himself to be ready to sacrifice his own life to save falco and at last in the final battle when Armin was still doubting about killing Eren as their only option. In the two cases, one thing is common, Erwin was looking at Armin as if ordering him - Why are you starting? Your goal is infront of you, move forward. But in this panel, this is not the case. Eren clearly started that all lives of the fallen comrades of Survey crops were in vain as Armin chooses the humanity outside the world over his own country. This completely twisted the moral mantra of the Survey crops. This group always devoted their hearts for the betterment of humanity not just for only an island. Even in the story, out of 4, the three living commanders of the Survey Crops were ready to sacrifice their lives in order to protect the common people out the walls as much as possible by stopping the Rumbling and in the afterlife scene of Hanji, it is shown that the great commander Erwin also praises Hanji for being so much devoted towards her duty as the commander, this again hammer homes the fact that Erwin is also against the idea of destroying humanity for the sake of Paradise as they all vowed "Shinzou Wo Sasageyo". So, this panel is just too much out of place for me and further twisting the main idea of Survey Crops and only there just to criticize Armin for not any valid reason.
3 years ago (edited) | 1
Those Yeagerists are Samuel and Daz former 104th Training corp scouts that they(the alliance) just killed a couple of chapters when trying to get the boat. You don't need royal blood to see transferred memories as Porco only saw Marcel's memories when Porco and Reiner touched as titans Historia in the anime got Freckled Ymir's memories from touching a letter Eren was able to see Ymir's memories just by touching Zeke was able to see Eren's and Fathers memories with the Founder Eren has the founder so it can just be explained with Paths when Armin touched him These are the people Armin is thinking about because they died because of him or because they lost theirs lives to for him to keep living.
3 years ago (edited) | 0
Ya know what I can't wait for? Everyone not named Eren or Historia to be fodderized in this fanfic. I can respect the work put into this, but this entire thing is making/writing things in a way that almost feel like they're to spite Isayama and the people that were ok with the og ending. Not only that, I wonder if this team remembers that Armin is the narrator of the story, because if/when they kill him off thats gonna take some explaining.
3 years ago | 1
Pff I knew it. That is just again shipping. Give me a break. If Eren wants to destroy the entire world there is no reason to continue the story. Eren being stopped is the only reason why you should continue the story. There is no place for love in this story either. Especially because it doesn't change anything. If he doesn't want to fight Armin take away his powers. If that counts as taking away their freedom so does killing them. If Eren wants them rather then then killing then that's just not logic. Also, he would risk Paradies by doing this. That is just forcing the plot. Instead they could have just said that the founding titan has no influence on the other eight shifters. After all this is Fan fiction so there wouldn't have been a problem with that. There solved it.
3 years ago | 2
Jemma TeaLeaf
Lots of thoughts on AOTNR. Still not sure if I should make a video on it because it's only 2/3 completed and as we all know, the heat didn't come until the final chapter of AoT dropped. Still debating because I seriously have so many thoughts...
But one thing I can say for sure is that everyone loves this panel, and that was my initial reaction, but then I suddenly hated it. It would've been fine if it was just Erwin and Armin, but Hange should 100% not be there. The team clearly doesn't understand Hange. She/They DIED to get Armin to a point where he could STOP EREN. She did so happily in the hopes they would stop Eren, so Eren saying that the she died for him will have meant for nothing is SO WRONG. Her death would have ONLY meant something if Armin stopped Eren.
And the guys on the top right corner tried to kill Armin. They were Yaegerists. Don't know why they were included in this panel either.
Erwin makes sense. Erwin died knowing nothing about the outside world and played a heavy importance in Armin's mind. They should've just left it at that.
3 years ago | [YT] | 17