Armin Arlet - Blog Posts
Armin in today’s episode:
When I heard that they would’ve ran away I was like ✨relationship goals ✨ then I thought what about armin and went: 😳😐😶
Armin finding out that Mikasa and Eren would’ve ran away together and left him alone to fend for himself
Some kid at the harbor:
But seriously do y’all ever think about grisha’s reaction when he met armin and mikasa?
Onyankopon whipping that blimp:
Me after Armin killed all those people at the harbor by blowing they asses up:
I feel like a lot of people aren’t talking about onyankopon enough and that’s a hate crime
His original design 🥴:
Hajime Isayama’s design for the EMA statue.
It’s Sunday y’all so you know what that means
Not Connie and Jean trying to drown Sasha 😭😭😭
SNK s3 End
The scene here is better than the anime..
I love it 😭♥️♥️♥️
2016 // 2021
Redrew my boy Armin
I probably should have done the same scene, but I didn't
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Childhood Friends.
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🤣🤣 I totally love this!
𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻: 𝙸𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚒𝚎, 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚜. 𝙸𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚒𝚎, 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚜.
𝗦𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗮: 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚜?!
𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻: 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞’𝚛𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚜. 𝙹𝚎𝚜𝚞𝚜 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝, ---, 𝚙𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗.
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗲: 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚝𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚍𝚒𝚎?
𝗘𝗿𝗲𝗻: 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝’𝚜 𝚟𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚘𝚘.
𝗦𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗮: 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚜?
𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘀𝗮: 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝’𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗.
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗲: 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚏 𝚠𝚎 𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚞𝚜 𝚍𝚒𝚎?
𝗘𝗿𝗲𝗻: 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝’𝚜 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚢.
𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻: 𝙾𝚑 𝚖𝚢 𝙶𝚘𝚍.
I found a few interesting parallels and repeated motifs with Eren.
In both cases Armin asks why Eren would want to do such a thing, and he responds in very different ways, yet the reason is still grounded in the same fact. Eren's birth into this world.
It should be noted that when Armin asks this the first time, Eren is confused and even angry at the fact that Armin would ask such a question. He takes this as a given but he can't articulate any clear reason, and in anger he proclaims it's because he was born into this world. This time, Eren no longer feels justified or entitled, but sad and grave, and he can't even confidently say it's because he was born into this world(though the implication is clear in the flashbacks), yet he can't deny the strength of that desire, he had to do it no matter the cost.
Another callback has to do with the hope beyond the hell.
Previously Eren believed undoubtedly that hope lay beyond this hell, but after his disillusionment with the world beyond the walls, he now questions whether his struggles will lead to actual fruition or yet another hellish disappointment after so much sacrifice and strife. Eren has come to the conclusion that he'll never know unless he actually gets there. It's interesting how previously the ends were unquestionably good and so was the fight to attain them, yet when Eren says this it's in an arc that has been criticising the "keep moving forward" mentality and he's not even fully confident in the value of this end, what remains constant though-through the ambiguity, confusion and corpses-is the core drive within Eren.
"They were just there wherever I looked from the day I was born. Those miserable walls."
I think this is the most important line we need for understanding Eren. From the moment he was born Eren felt caged no matter what he did and he longed for release.
This desire was unconscious at first, but seeing Armin dream so passionately brought about the realization that Armin was seeing and believing in something that Eren couldn't, and this brings about the realization in him that he's restrained/caged from doing something.
He initially believes that this indignation from a sense of being caged is because of the Titans or oppressors but as time goes on and the circumstances change, Eren realises that this is something internal and the fact that it's something that no one else experiences is one of the sources of his tragedy: he can't communicate/share this desire.
(There's probably some symbolism in the fact that Eren confessed his truest desires to a child that didn't speak the same language)
At first, Eren associated release with the "sight" of the things in Armin's book. He believed that seeing those things will give him the release and liberty he's been longing for, though it should be noted that Eren says he doesn't care what the particular sights *are* just that he sees them so I think he cares much more about the feeling of liberation that those things stand for than the sights themselves.
So I think that even though Eren might say that he's disappointed that the world wasn't what was in Armin's book I think what he's really sad about is that he didn't feel liberated by the world beyond the walls, but because he associated those feelings with the sights in Armin's book he uses them interchangeably(I think this is supported by the fact that Eren still feels caged and empty when actually seeing those sights in 139).
The reason Eren slaughters humanity beyond the walls is because from his perspective, *they* are walls/barriers obstructing his freedom. "That Scenery" is one of the most important motifs with Eren, it's the liberty that comes with transcending or breaking a wall, but one of the ironies in 131 is that Eren is deluding himself to think that it's freedom. Eren's very nature demands that he cannot see beyond the "walls" and this is testified to by Eren looking unfulfilled immediately after the freedom panel and the fact that he still needs Armin's approval. Besides Isayama deliberately contrasts Eren and Armin by saying that Armin still believes in a world beyond the walls, with a panel of Eren's eyes closed.
Eren's tragedy is that of a man born with the inability to look past the repression of life(or you could say he was born with the ability to see restraints everywhere). I think this solves all the contradictions I thought I saw in Eren's character and addresses the "Problem of being a Slave" that Isayama once brought up.
Before I go there's one last thing I have to say about the final chapter and this motif, Eren can't see the dream Armin enjoys and he can't see the future that lies ahead, but his love for his friend(s) let's him transcend that nature by putting his hopes in them at the end. He won't ever be able to see beyond the walls, that's just how he is, but he can be at peace with the fact that his friends will.
Edit: I made this post mainly because I was tired of people rooting Eren's actions in trauma or an ideological mistake or lack of development. Eren has developed enough as a protagonist, especially by chapter 100, his "mistakes" in the Final Arc are a result of his nature, I think that's what Isayama wanted to convey.