#bertolt fubar

[stormychameleon]

I'll never shut up about how cute Bertholdt is

underrated king like wtf

[grimmcheems]

Yall this took forever to finish. So glad I actually decided to continue it instead of abandoning it in my drafts🎀🗿 I love this brush so much and have been using it for a while now, I might make more arts like this occasionally bc they take forever.

Other than that, pray for me yall🙏🏽or help me manifest bc things have not been going well for me for a while. I just have not had any luck this past yr. Anyways I love berumin and the handful of us berumin truthers out here (🤭you know who you are🗣️)

😭 berumin yapping below⬇️🗣️‼️⚠️

I think this is my first actual Berumin art, wherein it’s obvious💀 all of the other ones I’ve made of these two are so all over the place and parts of aus I made, but this one is just something I did for fun a yr ago and left the sketch alone(it was so close to being abandoned fr) until I got back to it two weeks ago and decided to pull through. At first I was just gonna do a simple lineart and got carried away and then had to go all out to make everything match and make sense. It rly was a process doing the limbs and having to change a lot of the posing.

Idk what it was but I added those nails to armin on one hand and had to do it for ALL of them, it just rly played into the demon aspect so well I couldn’t resist. This originally didn’t have all the smaller details and I rly just made a lot of it along the way.

I rly liked thinking of this dynamic where Bert is more gentle/pure? And Armin is more deceptive and controlling? Idrk how to describe how I imagined it in my mind when I first made this but that’s the gist of it. Armin at first had a curious expression than the sly one he has here in the old sketches, and there was even a very rough sketch version where he’s an angel instead but I didn’t find it that appealing as a concept and I remember that sketch being so frustrating to get the wings right and I think that’s why I dropped this drawing at first.

Anyways 🗣️🗣️I LOVE BERT and MIN🗣️🗣️🎀🐢🐚

I actually like how ambiguous I left the context of this because there rly is a lot of possibilities this could go story-wise. Like, does Armin appear to Bertolt physically and everyone can see him but he’s only befriending Bert for demonic(?) purposes or is Armin manifested by Bertolt subconsciously. Is Armin a representation of Bert’s corruption? Who knows? I honestly couldn’t tell you but that’s probably why I was happy to make this more detailed than my usual stuff.

Other than that I do like the idea that perhaps Armin was a fallen angel that was casted out and became a demon? Something like that. Maybe Bert became a man of the cloth as a result of shame and guilt over something he did and that mirrors Armin’s fall from grace in how they both have to mask who they used to be???? Maybe none of this is real and this is Bert’s divine punishment in purgatory? What if there was a universe in which Bert wronged Armin in someway and Bert’s psyche takes a hit because of it?

It’s possible this isn’t even Armin but who knows?

Yall maybe I’m cooking with this actually.🤭👀👩🏽‍🦯🗿

What do you perceive this as and what is your take from just this alone? I kinda wanna know how everyone else would interpret them in this👁️👁️😳🥺🙏🏽🎀

Should I do another version of this but with concepts around demonology or something? Idk.

Btw I plan on finishing another berumin drawing I started last yr ,but based on a rly good berumin fic I read, I just haven’t gotten back to it.

[sof1eee]

"I'm so sad my favourite character didn't get enough screentime!"

Oh yeah? well my favourite characters are either dead, overhated, underrated or all of the above 💔

[bertolthooverloveblogx12]

Dear AOT artists, keep drawing Bertholdt with dark skin! Don't pay attention to the nonsense comments saying that you can't draw him like that. They just want to be stupid racists.

Your brown skinned Bertholdt is valid!

Your Bertholdt with Middle Eastern ancestry is valid!

Your Bertholdt with South Asian ancestry is valid!

Besides him looking very beautiful with dark skin (and in my opinion, much more beautiful than the version of the anime), it adds much more to his character. Please, never listen to these haters and continue doing that amazing work!

[h0-0d]

WARNINGS: Guilt, Sad

Nothing on this island means a thing.

I doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt just as bad as it did back in Marley.

Bertholdt won't allow himself to think about the guilt that is slowly rotting his insides.

[alexryudragon]

Sweet bertolt and brave wolfwood

Brave wolfwood say wow! Soulskull very good for make snowman ☃️

Sweet bertolt say yeah I make snowman and sunglasses was like you

[bertholdt-hoover-is-a-sociopath]

Proof that Bertholdt Hoover is a sociopath.

Hare Psychopathy Checklist

Item 1: Glibness/superficial charm: Check. Bertholdt has shown himself to be able to manifest an appealing facade to manipulate people into trusting him, which is so good that he manages to even deceive the viewers. For Reiner, he projects a kind and friendly facade that turns out to be just a prelude for his continuous abuse of Reiner. For 104, he wears the facade of a meek, unconfident boy despite in reality being the polar opposite.

Item 2: Grandiose sense of self-worth: Check. Contrary to the common fanon assumption that he is shy and unconfident, Bertholdt is shown in canon to be arrogant and prideful. He emotionally abuses Reiner for even slightly wronging him, and is generally shown to have a short fuse and be an ass about anything Reiner does wrong (according to him). He puts himself above millions of people, including his comrades, being unbothered with the idea to kill Reiner in order to successfully kill even more people.

Item 3: Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom: Bertholdt is stated by Isayama to have a need for stimulation, spending most of his free time doing pushups in an attempt to distract his mind. There's also him sadistically toying with Armin like a cat with its prey in RTS, when Bertholdt manipulates Armin into thinking he wants to talk with him only to attack Armin while he's off guard.

Item 4: Pathological lying: Check. Bertholdt is generally full of shit and doesn't believe in what he spouts to others. See: his whole "It hurts me so much to kill your families and friends and give you unimaginable trauma boohoo" speech to Connie and Jean when they come to save Eren from him. Only to reveal that he actually sees them as inferior scum and actively wants to kill them while Armin brings up Annie. Another good example is his "I'm willing to accept any outcome" speech. Despite his high and mighty words, when the outcome turns out to be his defeat and death, he dies screaming for help and pissing himself. Bertholdt said that he would be fine with any outcome was simply because he didn't think he possibly could lose against 104 and the only possible outcome in his mind was just him killing them all (possibly including Reiner, he couldn't care less) and surviving. And when the outcome turns out not to be in his favor, he throws a tantrum and begs to be spared like the slimy coward he is.

Item 5: Conning/manipulative: Check. He manipulates or tries to manipulate other people several times. First is how easily he blends in with the other cadets, never giving them even a single sign that he’s somehow different from them. He also tries to manipulate Jean and Connie into sparing him and sadistically toys with Armin in RTS, letting Armin believe he wants to talk with him only to try to kill him afterwards, revealing that he was just trying to manipulate him.

Item 6: Lack of remorse or guilt: Check. Bertholdt is depicted as feeling some amount of GUILT for his actions (as detailed in one of the bonus short stories), but he never feels actual remorse. As I mentioned earlier, he never makes an actual effort to make things better and atone for all the deaths and destruction he has caused, instead preferring to twist the narrative in his head to portray himself as a victim of circumstances that never had a choice in the matter, convieniently completely removing his own agency and responsibility from the equation. Even when Jean and Connie confront him, he never admits any sort of responsibility for his actions, instead wallowing in self-pity, whining about how much of a poor victim is he and how he suffers.

Item 7: Shallow affect: Check. Bertholdt is portrayed as generally unemotional and the least affected one out of the RBA by the carnage they caused. He also cries the least amount out of them. He is shown to completely lack any and all regard for human life, remorselessly murdering thousands without any emotion. He admits to Armin that he doesn't feel anything for island Eldians, no malice, no hate, nothing.

Item 8: Callous/lack of empathy: Check. Bertholdt is shown to severely lack in the empathy department, especially compared to Reiner, Annie and other warrior kids. He never ever once comforts or supports Reiner, despite constantly demanding validation from him, never helps Annie either. The only instances where he shows some semblance of care for others are very clearly lies, such as with Ymir, whom he callously plans to sacrifice, or with Jean and Connie and the whole "it hurts me so bad when I hit you" spiel.

Item 9: Parasitic lifestyle: Check. Despite in theory being an equal member of the RBA trio and warrior squad in general, he tends to leave most of the work to Reiner and Annie, preferring to sit on the sidelines and contemplate his navel. In terms of emotional labor, Bertholdt isn't much better, never doing anything to better Reiner's mental state or at least comfort him but still feeling entitled to Reiner's support and affection.

Item 10: Poor behavioral controls: None. Bertholdt is a high-functioning sociopath and doesn't let himself get too out of control.

Item 11: Promiscuous sexual behavior: None, thankfully. At least in this one regard we can safely say that Bertholdt is clean. Not counting him being a creepy stalker towards Annie, though.

Item 12: Early behavior problems: Check. Even as a child, he was shown to be callous and unaffected by the carnage he causes, unlike Annie and Reiner, who are shown to be greatly traumatised by what they did.

Item 13: Lack of realistic, long-term goals: Check. He doesn't seem to have any goals in life beyond "retrieve the coordinate and return home, preferably also involving full-on genocide". Unlike Pieck, he doesn't care about what would happen to his fellow Marleyan Eldians after Marley gets what they wanted or when the other world develop weaponry able to defeat titans. He doesn't care what happens to anyone in the world after he dies.

Item 14: Impulsivity: Check. Bertholdt is shown to have an extremely short fuse, lashing out at Reiner for having friends outside of him and Annie, calling Armin slurs for trying to distract him by lying about Annie being tortured, and is generally an ass toward Armin in RTS for no reason except to have a little fun before he kills Armin.

Item 15: Irresponsibility: Check. Despite being a part of a squad, Bertholdt never does anything to help others, even if (as is the case with Bertholdt's complete lack of emotional support contributing to Reiner's failing mental state) it directly threatens their mission. He never admits any sort of responsibility for his actions either, blaming his atrocious actions on the orders he's “forced” to follow (classic Nuremberg Defence) and the world itself.

Item 16: Failure to accept responsibility for own actions: Check. Bertholdt never accepts any responsibility for the lives he's taken, preferring to blame the world instead.

Item 17: Many short-term marital relationships: Seems to not fit at a first glance, but another version has this as “Inability to maintain stable relationships”. Which fits Bertholdt to a tee.

Item 18: Juvenile delinquency: Check. He's already been remorselessly murdering people by dozens by the time he turned twelve.

Item 19: Revocation of conditional release: Even when people give Bertholdt an opportunity to atone for his actions, Bertholdt would go out of his way to backstab others, such as with Ymir in Utgard arc, cowardly letting her die so he could live and with Armin in RTS.

Item 20: Criminal versatility: Check. Bertholdt committed an extremely wide range of crimes throughout the series, including but not limited to genocide, mass murder, invasion, terrorism, cannibalism, mass destruction, mass property damage, mass arson, mass conquest, conspiracy, treason and espionage. For every “positive” you score, there's 2 points. You have to reach the score of 30 to qualify as a psychopath. Bertholdt scores 36 fucking points, having almost every single psychopathy symptom from the list. This is more than enough to safely conclude that Bertholdt Hoover is, by all measures, a sociopath.

[woowooberu]

my baby

[bertholdthooverisapieceofshit]

Bertholdt never ever once comforted or supported Reiner. He just bled validation out of him, verbally abusing him whenever Reiner did something that Bertholdt disapproved of. He was the only warrior that fully supported Marley's cause.

[bertholdt-hoover-is-an-abuser]

Bertholdt never cared for Reiner and Annie. They, to him, were just accessories to the plan, and disobedient ones at that. Bertholdt lusted after Annie, but lust =/= love. He never cared about her as a human or saw her as her own person, he just viewed her as a blowup doll. Remember, Bertholdt is a sociopath, and sociopaths are incapable of actual emotional attachment or seeing other people as something other than tools. Bertholdt never cared about Reiner either, he never supported him and made him do all the emotional work in their so-called """"friendship""""".

[stormychameleon]

girly pop... eye shadow tutorial when

[grimmcheems]

Crimson King stuff🩸👑

Yall this has taken me forever and I’m still not fully satisfied with it but I don’t see myself working on it any longer bc I wanna get to other things, plus I’m getting back into coloring so ik it looks different (prolly shouldn’t have taken a break from coloring oop) anyways this is just more of my Armin Crimson King AU with details and stuff.

At some point I thought I drew Armin’s eyes too “narrowed”(?)/tired bc for some reason he looked like Levi bc of the dark eye circles but I figured it’s just the tired look in his face that made him look like that and I thought it really got it across that Armin rly does not sleep in this.

I made some headcanons in my head that sometimes Armin and Ymir will sleep together bc the trauma and things they went through before they overthrew Marley was too much to handle and they find solace and comfort in each other. However I did not have space to actually draw that more clearly, only the little bit of them here all bloody and in cell (ik it doesn’t look like it but pretend they’re in a cell lmao). I rly tried to stay true to how armin looks like but his nose is so hard to draw ngl. I also planned on having the bruised armin be more skinny and malnourished looking but switched it out to have King Armin be that way a bit instead, I feel it makes more visual sense that he looks like he’s recovering from something bc it would make sense with context.

Btw I don’t think I ever mentioned it but Armin in this is a Tybur that Bert and Reiner bring back with them along with Ymir to the mainland. This is also why he is able to maintain his hold on the throne and have such consistent support for his and Reiner’s Rule. My earlier art has Armin with long hair but this is before he grows it out. I want to give the impression that Armin takes on a more “handsome” and masculine look in the early years of his reign before he starts to become more feminine looking overtime. Mainly to keep up with his image in the kingdom and appearances to intimidate neighboring countries. Though Reiner seems to have them covered in that department.

The relationships in this au are also very complicated and ambiguous bc I feel like that plays well into their psyche. Bert may or may not have developed something for Armin along the way. Armin may or may not be using Bert for his own reasons and twisted comfort he gets from his affections with the knowledge he has of their previous lives (will explain this later bc it will be part of the plot but won’t reveal too much bc there’s a solid plot point that is involved that instigates the whole story, but Armin is the only one that has any recollection of their lives. He sort of experiences a time regression?? Some of the other characters regain memories of their previous life as well but they’re not enough to piece together what they mean or what happened)

Ymir and Armin may or may not have shared a kiss or two in desperate moments. Reiner hates Armin and Armin hates Reiner but Reiner’s other personality adores him and Armin knows it so he exploits that about him. Very messy lol. Not a love triangle or a square but a squiggle? This story also heavily involves the warriors and Zeke but I haven’t gotten to that yet. I have an art that’s been cooking for a solid yr now for that😭

Other than that, Ymir and Armin are intially regarded as prisoners of war/spoils and are tortured for a solid year before their planned Coúp. They would’ve died if Armin did not have the knowledge of the main land and managed to convince the warriors and the Tybur family to turn against Marley. But yeah…..I’m a certified yapper.🗣️🗣️🗣️

[sof1eee]

I know it's not just me who thinks Bertholdt is definitely more stronger than Reiner 🤷🏻‍♂️

I feel like he's so much more stronger than Reiner, both mentally and physically, I MEAN COME ON HE'S LITERALLY 6'4 💔, i feel like he just mostly held back alot during training to not attract that much attention on him and also, he's like very shy.

Even Keith Shadis said he has potential but he just lack the aggression and the initiave to make a decision by himself. I truly believe if he wasn't as timid as he was, he would've took the number two spot in the cadet corps 🙏🏻, also he literally was trusted to hold the power of the colossal titan? So i think that speaks for itself 🙂‍↕️

We saw a glimpse of how strong he was in the RTS Arc, where he was left to make all the decision by himself, AND WE CAN SEE HOW STRONG AND SKILLED HE TRULY WAS. He literally DODGED Mikasa's surprise attack from behind AND HE MANAGED TO KICK HER TOO!!! Like he was strong enough to dodge and hurt an ACKERMAN, and he only injured his ear in the process. Even Mikasa was shocked with Bertholdt's strength because she has actually never seen him in his full potential.

I MISS YOU MY GLORIOUSLY KING BERTHOLDT, PLEASE COME BACK HOME 💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😞😞😞😞🙁🙁🙁🙁☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

[bertholdthooverisanazi]

Stop babying Bertholdt. Bertholdt isn't nice, or gentle, or sweet. Or a teenage boy for that matter. He's a fully grown adult man and should be treated as such. During RtS he was a fully grown man and he was the oldest of the warriors bar Zeke. Stop calling Bertholdt a sweetheart! He was the only one of RBA who was fully committed to their mission! The only one of them who wasn't broken by what he did! The only one who never felt any remorse for what he did! The only one of them that deserved to die!

Bertholdt is a coldhearted, sociopathic mass murderer and should be treated as such.

[leechingoffandoms]

Trainee Days P.1/?

// don't tag as kin / id + f/o

[h0-0d]

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒕.

𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚, 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝒃𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔. 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒐𝒏, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌. 𝑵𝒐 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍.

Armin Arlet, letter for the soiled, wicked and victim