#but i wanted to dump some thoughts about armin idk

[the-last-thread-of-my-sanity]

I picture Armin as the kind of person who had to learn the hard way that you don’t have verbally justify everything.

I see him as a child and a young teen in this fiery state of being angry (despite seeming so sunshiny all the time) about a lot of things. About the government within the walls, about what happened to his parents, about his own weaknesses and perceived inadequacies- but unlike Eren he isn’t goading people into arguments or placing value judgments on other people all the time.

But if someone goads *him* into an argument?

Oh, he will make it worse every time. Because he’s an over-thinker and by extension an over-explainer and no- you can’t walk away yet, he hasn’t finished giving you an in-depth full scope breakdown of how he arrived at this conclusion! Come back!

And maybe it gets him into trouble when he’s talking to people who either don’t care as much, or are dedicated to misunderstanding him- like bullies or more shallow cadets.

At some point by the time he moved onto the Scouts, though, he learned to pick his words and disputes more carefully and hold his cards closer to his chest. He doesn’t have to justify himself to everyone all the time. He doesn’t have to prove himself right in every instance if there’s nothing to gain from it.

I think he watches and learns from Erwin and Hange, and even to a certain extent Levi. Erwin in the way he calculates and leaves so many things intentionally unsaid as a tactical advantage. Hange in the way they are able to explain things concisely when the time calls for it and be confident in their own ideas even if no one else supports them yet. And Levi- being perceptive as ever, but practical- he doesn’t feel the need to rush to the answer or even know all the details in order to deduce quickly and act.

It’s interesting to think about Armin’s subtle growth as a leader and a strategist across the course of the story but especially in the way that it mirrors his own self-worth and how he grows apart and away from Eren in the way he finds solutions to problems.

Yet he never loses this innate urge to ‘talk things out’- and that ultimately helps him surpass even some of his mentors in some ways and prepares him for the political life that awaits him in the Post-Rumbling world.

[grimmcheems]

Art dump 1 🚮🎀✨

I don’t have anything for Halloween so………art dump.

Was cleaning up and getting rid of some arts I didn't see myself continuing. Ik they don't look great but I like to share my ideas and how much potential they had before I abandoned them. A lot of these are like concept sketches and stuff I was fixated on at the moments I made them. Some of these are rly old, some of them younger like a yr old….a couple were initial sketches of ideas I have semi-related full arts of that I've actually posted in my acc later on.

Like the Ryouko yakuza one and Hinami on her chair. Those were the first sketches I made of those ideas (the yakuza Hinami AU I have) but I never got back to them and they were very old and I did not feel like trying to improve them, I chose to keep them as like archival sketches instead.

The Raditz one is related to an au I haven’t drawn yet but it’s basically an au where he lives and decides to change for goku (as he’s the only family he’s got left), in the meantime he enjoys the time he spends with his nephew but don’t let chichi find out he was left alone with him. She’s still mad about his kidnapping and takes a longer time accepting him.

Monster high bc I loved Toralei when I was younger and I know nothing about Clair but loved her design when I came across it. I drew them together after watching some clips of her and thought they’d get along if they ever met. I’ve been wanting to draw HooDude VooDoo because he’s adorable and deserves to be loved, but don’t hold me to it I’ll prolly never get to it.

Grell and Will bc 13yr old me could always sense their weird dynamic and I wanted to make something where Will reciprocates. I also had a huge crush on him but didn’t mind sharing him or was bothered at the thought of Grell with him😔🎀I was originally gonna draw Grell with her iconic short hair but when I made this it was rly hard and I got frustrated and gave up and gave her long hair instead. I also had the fattest crush on short hair Grell…..maybe it’s the glasses with the two💀😔🗿

Ballroom/cruel god/trolls are unrelated and sketches I made when I was bored and had rly good ideas but I didn’t end up going through with them in the end. I love Jeremy and Marjorie.😭💖

Lastly the Eren and Armin. Idk, I made this with the context of some fics I read at the time. A lot of them had to do with Armin’s struggle to understand Eren and Mikasa’s decision to keep him alive and he ends up hating Eren to some degree. It’s a bit hard to explain exactly what I was going for since the fics had context for it. I just wanted to interpret Armin’s resentment towards him and attempting to harm Eren in some way(but his younger version) in order to keep him from becoming his s4 version. Like time travel stuff but not rly, it’s all in his mind and the only way he can keep himself from having a violent outburst towards him.

Ik I’m a yapper and that no one is probably going to read all this but I always like to provide context for my drawings, even if they seem convoluted, I literally cannot bring myself to just post something without context. I need to yap about my fixations and what I based it off or I’ll go insane.