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I've been following your blog for a while now and I love your writing and your meta! I was wondering, do you consider Levi and Hanji's relationship to be romantic in canon? Do you consider it canon that Levi had romantic feelings for Erwin?
Thank you for the ask anon, also, thank you for ruffling my feathers a bit too :D. Iâm glad you like my writings and meta and I hope that my works continue to bring you joy.Â
The types of questions you asked up there could only lead to the types of answers that can spark ship wars. I mean the dialogue in 136 and the change in kanji for chapter 132 hinting their own ships canon were enough to have Eruri and Levihan shippers bashing each other on twitter tbh.Â
Personally, I see the romantic potential for both Levihan and Eruri in the show. Thatâs why I found myself reading a good number of Levihan and Eruri fics. (But lots more Levihan if it isnât obvious from AO3 bookmarks and my tumblr title). I mean lots more romantic potential than letâs say.... ereri
Do you consider it canon that Levi had romantic feelings for Erwin?Â
Iâll answer this one first. No. I donât think Levi had romantic feelings for Erwin anywhere on the show. Was there potential for something to bloom? Possibly, thatâs why I still read eruri fanfiction. I like exploring the possibility if Erwin wasnât a little too obsessed with his dream, maybe their relationship could have turned out differently.
In canon, by the time they introduced Erwin, Erwin had already forsaken all romance and I think whatever feelings Erwin had towards romance rubbed off on Levi and their relationship ended up being more professional than anything. Due to Erwinâs one track mind and the position he had taken upon himself. any romantic possibilities between them in canon was just harder to make happen.Â
Levi though still had strong feelings towards Erwin. Itâs undeniable. Erwin had given Levi purpose to live and direction on where to go next, what to do next so thatâs why regardless of whether canon had made it possible or not, this relationship is still very interesting to explore.Â
Erwin was more professional and cold than Levi imo and honestly, despite the cold demeanor of his best friend Erwin, Levi was an incredible softie at heart and weâve seen that side of him multiple times, when he gave Petraâs badge to that one soldier, when he stared at that one mother and child when they were on the wall ready to leave to retake Shiganshina.
We all know Levi begrudgingly wanted that soft side of him indulged and between Erwin and Hange the one more likely to indulge that softie side of Levi was Hange.Â
Which brings me to the next question.
Do you consider Levi and Hanji's relationship to be romantic in canon?Â
I wouldnât be obsessively writing Levihan fics if I didnât see it as romantic in canon. But at the same time, I donât believe Hange and Levi have been in a relationship since Season 1. My headcanon here is Hange and Levi built that relationship over time and this relationship just rapidly progressed after season 3
Itâs incredibly subtle which is one of the reasons people like to pretend it doesnât exist. Probably because theyâre trying to promote another ship or they donât wanna see romance in AOT
But I donât think a relationship developing subtly is at all a sign that it can be more platonic than anything else.Â
In fact, most healthy relationships and most relationships from a bystanders point of view, develop subtly. Like we were the bystanders in many other developing relationships in real life, I think we, the audience of AOT, were also bystanders watching the subtle development of Hange and Leviâs relationship.Â
Letâs think about how weâve watched relationships develop in real life. Â
If weâre not invested, they happen incredibly subtly. These people are just constantly together, then eventually we realize we canât invite the other without the other, then we realize we can barely get them alone, then we realize the person changed and eventually they drop this bomb saying âby the way, Iâm dating this person now.â
This pattern happens way too many damn times among my friends though and people I just randomly watch everyday that it just became so expected for it to develop into romance so eventually, when Iâve seen the formula play through, I tend to lean on the side of âyeah, theyâre probably togteher or getting there.â
Yeah, I get it, thereâs a danger in assuming that people are together. Iâve seen enough romantic relationships develop though to realize that leaning on the side of âromanticâ given specific signs is usually the correct assumption. In fact, I have earned a good amount of money irl winning bets with my friends that two people are actually together but are hiding a relationship (or possibly are in denial).
What are some of these signs?Â
The way they treat this one person is so glaringly different from how they treat other peopleÂ
Through the years, I have lost a lot of my best friends to their boyfriends/girlfriends and as the youngest child, I have watched all seven of my siblings get into a relationship and believe me, a lot of them have a certain line they would draw on what they are willing to do for their close friend or sibling and what they are willing to do for a lover.Â
I have seen people in love so willingly have their hand crushed while the person they love has their fingers set back. âHold my hand as hard as you need to.â Iâve seen my friends take a detour 1 hour away from the destination just to pick up the person they love. And hereâs the thing, they wouldnât have done it for anyone else usually, they would have only done that thing for that one person.Â
Yes, okay doormats exist. But even people with doormat syndrome, the threshold of what someone is willing to do for a close friend and for a person they love still differ regardless. In a life or death situation, I think both Levi and Hange would have fought to conserve lives but if we consider small things, like routines, groceries, small favors, I feel like Levi has an incredibly low threshold of what heâd be willing to do for a random person. But Levi still carried her groceries for her so he could meet her with Moblit in the smartpass. Levi still picked her up and waited for her in Season 2 when she was researching the rock. And for Hange, chapter 115 is all the hint you need. I honestly donât know if Hange would have gone through those lengths for anyone else but selfishly abandoning commander duties for one guy? She practically said screw you to everyone else.Â
The way they talk to each other is different.
This is something I notice in real life too. Most people wonât notice when they themselves do it but itâs incredibly obvious for listeners if the listeners look out for it. The tones of peopleâs voices change when theyâre talking to someone they love. For a lot of people, sometimes their voices get a little high pitched. For others, sometimes their voices get a little softer. Just watch when youâre talking to a friend and suddenly their SO calls. (It might not apply to everyone but I find this incredibly common.) Not just tones, speech patterns change or tendencies too. In front of that one person, sometimes people are a little more selfish. Like maybe, they donât usually say what they want to eat but when the one person asks, they would answer because suddenly they know what they want.Â
With Hange and Levi we have the âletâs live togetherâ and the âdedicate your heartâ respectively.Â
These are two expressions/phrases they would have not used with anyone else. There was probably more in canon, but these are just the most glaringly obvious ones with two pivotal scenes that blatantly show that Hange and Levi do have signs of the above. Â
Hange and Levi who are generally very selfless all business people, are suddenly only selfish with the person they love. Hange with âletâs live together?â An injured Levi deciding to rest and sleep despite the fact that they were in a war because Hange was nearby to take care of him?
Those two were suddenly selfish when they were alone with one another?
They are constantly together.
Okay, irl, you can see this when you have all your friends ride in a car together and somehow, itâs always them taking those two seats next to each other. They leave the classroom together. They leave every single dam room together. And it could be subtle or not but they always wait for one another. Yet if one person is not there, theyâre the type to just go ahead and leave without giving the room behind them a second look. When someone wants to buy something, the other always has an excuse to come. And oh my god, when you call your friend in the middle of the night to hang, that person is always in their dam house or in their dam room, no breaks.Â
And Hange and Levi have their equivalent of this.Â
Levi literally picked Hange from her lab in Season 2 while she was injured and he had no need to.Â
I think I have made a post where Levi and Hange are shown constantly together but lemme make some points. Even early in canon, why were Hange and Levi introduced riding next to each other, theyâre not even in the same squad. Why were they riding out the gate together? Shouldnât Levi have been with his squad and shouldnât Hange have been with her squad?Â
Yeah sure, maybe they just decided to ride together. But why were they next to each other in the Ilseâs notebook too when they went out the gate? And even when they were going to take back Wall Maria, Levi and Hange were next to each other in the lift, they were back to back on Wall Maria.Â
Like the only expedition where they werenât riding together was when Levi had to protect Eren yo.
âTheyâre both leaders of course they were togetherâ Mind you, Leviâs position in the military is a special one. Heâs the captain of a special operations squad and not at all a squad leader so he shouldnât be riding next to Hange if it were by âleadersâ and in the retake Wall Maria, if they were divided by âleadersâ why didnât Hange take the lift with the other squad leaders? Why wasnât she back to back with the other squad leaders on top of Wall Maria?Â
Why did she pick to hang out with Special Ops squad Captain Levi of all people, in every. Single. Damn. expedition. Scene.Â
And donât even get me started on post Season 3 man. Theyâve been inseparable since Erwin died. Â
They literally come in a set.Â
And you kinda realized your friends are in love when you wanna invite one of them out and you realized you kinda have to invite their special little friend by default.Â
And Hange and Levi are just like that too,Â
Hange and Levi have always come in a set. In fan art, in those advertisements, Hange and Levi are always next to each other. In those fan audiobooks, smart passes, there are always Levihan crumbs. Attack on Titan Chuugakkou was literally a testament to the canonicity of Levihan since in that show, they didnât even hide anything, Levi and Hange were always next to each other. (I think Hange actually ended up living with him towards the end?) Post Season 3, I donât even think there were many seasons where Levi and Hange were apart and when they were apart it was more of for duty than anything else.Â
Hange was always with him when she could, despite her duty as commander. Given their circumstances, they wouldnât even be together a lot if they didnât make the effort too.Â
Especially towards the end, 126 - 132, the few times Hange did leave Levi behind were for commander duties but Hange never left Levi for the lulz. And also, in 132, Levi was magically able to walk when Hange finally left him behind, and Levi could barely walk in 132, yet he still pushed himself to stand up, walk toward her and attempt to stop her.Â
In fact, Hangeâs first scenes were next to Levi and Hangeâs last scenes were also next to Levi âSee you later Hange.â
And I think the huge efforts they put to being together despite their circumstances says a lot already. Hange and Leviâs treatment of each other and their being together constantly in general is a huge testament to the canonicity of their romance.Â
Sure, there were no âI love yousâ. But really, before our irl friends who were in love actually came out to us, maybe months or even years after weâve watched them be joined at the hip, were there really âI love youâs between them or did we all just place bets on it because they were just being too glaringly obvious about it in how they treated each other?Â
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