remember when sanrio collab-ed with aot and they dropped the announcement of who was paired with their figurehead character hello kitty and it was 35-year-old dead bloodstained war criminal Commander Erwin
erwin’s like “this is my guy. just a little guy. he looks angry but he’s sweet. don’t come too close though. i love my little guy. i found him underground.”
i’m not sure i’ll ever move on from levi against that rock. he was alone everyone else had someone alive to clutch. and levi was just alone staring at the ghosts of everyone he loved. crying on his own.
can’t believe people still don’t believe historia is a lesbian like ymir was the meanest, gayest, rudest girl ever and historia is consistently like “id do anything for you sweetie ☺️🥰😘😍🥵💖💘💝💓💗” like that is peak lesbian behavior. she found her butch.
levi really said “i am going to go to shiganshina tomorrow, along with everyone i care about. hanji, moblit and my squad, the kids i’ve basically adopted, are all going to ride to their deaths come morning. but you. you, erwin, must not. please.”
y’all really think erwin wouldn’t know what to do if he got the serum and use it to justify why u think armin was the right choice 😭 erwin discovered there was a mole among them before anyone did. he found out abt the king, overthrew the government and u really think he
who had it worse out of the ackermans? erwin was always gonna charge to his death or do something equally stupid but dear god imagine being bonded to eren jaeger 💀💀💀💀💀
mmm. eruri intimacy. levi lying on erwin. erwin stroking levi’s hair. reading next to each other. dozing post-coital. shoulder rubs. hand squeezes. subtle and secret. they’re in love i think.
isayama: here is a strong, developed, morally grey character so repressed by his own guilt that you won’t ever be clear on his motives. He’s endlessly reliable at huge costs - terrifying and dependable. You can decide if he is a hero or not.
twitter: show me his tits please.
i cannot fathom how isayama crafted Midnight Sun. all those threads, all that tension, all those relationships and planted plot devices and worldbuilding leading up to a 20 minute argument on a rooftop and it’s the best tv i’ve ever see in my life.
love little erwin and little levi. erwin as a sweet kid who just wants to learn and be a grown up already. levi as a grumpy kid who imprints on erwin and follows him around everywhere, fighting other kids that take the smile off erwin’s face. opposites attract.
i just love eruri so much. like the fraught, difficult, resentful yet inevitable kind but also the easy, private, peaceful kind. they love each other and i can and will cry about it
i think the worst (best) part about eruri is that if you imagine it happening alongside canon it doesn’t just explain the characters’ actions better, it makes them more poignant and tragic
i’m not really into monogamy personally but i am with eruri, which makes no sense. for them, but not for me. levi only ever loving erwin and erwin being solely focused on levi and them both being totally wrapped up in each other and jealous and possessive makes brain go brrr
i need more heroes like levi. this man was a god amongst men, this deadly thing that is sometimes the only solid hope humanity has against seemingly insurmountable odds. and he is so short and crass and physically unimpressive. isayama your mind.
he was the COMMANDER it shouldn’t have even been up for debate i know you were going through it Levi but honestly?? Bad take. Bad call. And now look what happened. we needed him bro
morning! today i’m thinking about how levi had his childhood taken from him and then spent most of the show watching other children have the same thing happen to them, and then finally once it was all over, got to give children joy instead of orders to die
i was actually isayama in disguise this whole time SM is canon actually not the show so they lived happily ever after and erwin was handsome thank you you’re welcome bye
love that the commander of the survey corps was this tall, handsome lunatic. like imagine you’re picking your branch and it’s just like all 6’2 of golden impressiveness that’s erwin smith says “dedicate your heart” and you KNOW they’re all crazy in the scouts. i’d do it.
tbf it must SUCK not liking eruri like we are such an active and talented fandom and the ship is so sexy and moving if i wasn’t into it i’d be bitter too
me after tucking myself into bed and closing my eyes: levi is obsessively clean but would get messy for erwin levi is obsessively clean but would get messy for erwin levi is obsessively clean but would get messy for erwin levi is obsessively clean but would get mess-
today i’m thinking about how erwin told pixis his history in the most neutral and declarative way, as a last minute vital means to an end. this horrid injustice that shaped his life and he spoke it so calmly, for the sake of the cause, to a colleague he didn’t fully trust
the best thing about eruri is that i can never decide who is more impressive they’re perfectly matched because they’re literally so far out of everyone else’s league
⛰Small Mercies - Epilogue⛰
It is done! This is the final chapter. Thank you for all of your love and support. Writing this has been a joy and a trial, and I am happy with the result.
erwin smith is chronically exhausted, suicidal and oblivious in the face of people’s love for him and i don’t know why i thought writing him would be fun
it’s up! and it’s 30,000 words long 💀💀💀 it’s erwin-centric and sappier than my usual stuff. it’s also canon-compliant so if you like rimming and emotional pain maybe it’s for you???
a big cat is so right for erwin. all aloof and proud and slow moving until he hunts. imperious fucker. unbothered. territorial. impressive. love that for him.
is that the forest scene? hange said “maybe we should stay here” because they are sick of the fighting and levi said “where is zeke” and that’s it? fair enough
i know it’s reductive but my main levi-is-gay proof is that a guy ran him down on his own turf, humiliated him, forced him to join the army, allowed his friends to get killed, outsmarted him at his lowest and told him to get over it and he was still like “fine i’ll follow you”
it’s interesting to me that levi’s motivations for fighting are always a bit obscured. he’s made a promise or he’s sick of his lot or he’s genuinely just a good person that wants freedom for humanity. do you ever think he feels obligated to fight, because he’s the best?
i just think erwin has a broad chest and thick arms and is long and warm and levi would fit very neatly against his chest and i think it would probably be very comfortable for them to stay like that for a bit maybe 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
🩸Kraków- Chapter 15: The History Teacher🩸
In which Erwin fucks up an Italian country villa and Levi compares being horny to a fire drill.
Thanks to
@marthawasright
as ever, and all my other cultists 🫰
favorite eruri fic tropes include:
- training fighting
- sharing a tent
- oh no! you’re hurt let me bandage you up while thinking about how mad i’d be if you died
- personal feelings thinly masked by “for the good of humanity”
- stop flirting with nobles i’m jealous
when i pause in the middle of writing smut, i picture the characters paused mid-fuck. like i get them into an incredibly compromising and non-sustainable position and then say “that’s enough for today!” and close the google doc and they’re just stuck there until i come back
the thing is about eruri is that the dynamic is so unique that it transposes so easily. AU? yeah. canon divergence? they’re still in love. theyre girls? they’re trans? yeah duh. anything could have happened and the ship sails on.
me: erwin is tough, pragmatic, and occasionally cruel and is a v morally questionable character with a lot of blood on his hands and that is not a bad thing
also me: *cries when someone makes a joke on tiktok about him going to hell*
🩸Kraków: Chapter 16 - Regroup🩸
This one was fun! Spot the succession influence i v much wrote it during that spell. Lots of Hanji for the Hanji stans. Thanks to
@marthawasright
and
@enneiav
and all of you honestly.
i love the whole “it was never the bloodline it was just love” thing, but also thinking about the ackerbond as like a genetic illness making levi go feral and unstable and so unlike his normal controlled, stoic self just scratches a brain itch ya know??