bagelabao:tasty-kyuri:bagelabao:wow i just have a lot of annie feels and i am so donehigher quality
bagelabao:tasty-kyuri:bagelabao:wow i just have a lot of annie feels and i am so donehigher quality herethis fanart couldnt be more randomActually it’s not at all. I’m going to assume that you’ve watched the series and read the manga. I drew this based on Annie’s loss and failure after the female titan arc, in which she is unable to capture Eren, is unable to obtain her goal and be a warrior, and, reduced to a frightened 16 year old girl, tries to run away before being defeated by Mikasa and falling. So her metaphorical ‘death’ in the picture represents her loss and failure, which are incredibly important to her character as they were caused by her attachment to those she cared about. The green unicorn is the symbol of the military police, which is the corrupt branch of the military that Annie chose because she would be able to live a comfortable life without much fear from being eaten. The symbol of the unicorn is ironic in it of itself because it is meant to show innocence, purity, royalty, young girls and virginity and yet it belongs to the most corrupt and despicable branch of the military. Annie’s character can be related to the unicorn, or, to the military police, because she herself has a rather small, quiet and unassuming appearance, she looks like a short young blond girl, hardly deadly, but beneath this exterior is the murderous, maybe even crazed female titan, who has no qualms with killing, even taking pleasure in it as seen by her … creative ways of doing so. So here we see that Annie is hardly what she seems, much like the military police and their symbol, and yet at the same time, Annie is exactly as she seems. She’s a young child, brought up to hate the world, far away from home and without any real friends or family, scared of failure, of never going home, of facing up to what she’s done, of dying. We also see her respect and admiration and care for kids like Eren, Armin, Marlo, kids who are also pretty fucking messed up and morally grey, but when it comes down to it, who believe in something better, who are good and caring and idealistic in this corrupt world, who are different, special, unicorns. And let’s not forget the ultimate unicorn, Marco, the kid who wanted to join the mp to serve the king, for completely genuine, idealistic purposes, who was one of the only people who actually wanted to join for a good and true reason, the only one who was pure and innocent. It is implied that Annie killed him in order to take his gear, much like how she herself has long lost any part of herself that was pure and innocent, that was unicorn, and that is also the start of her downfall. Armin first suspects Annie because he sees that she has Marco’s gear, and I assume we all know how that turned out. It was Marco’s gear that led to her fall, it was her killing Marco, the only wholly pure and innocent person, the unicorn… and this comes back to doom her. That’s why I drew the unicorn spearing her, because it is symbolically what lead to her loss. The remnants of Marco’s gear that she took could even be interpreted as that lingering amount of purity and goodness that she has, that little amount which caused her to spare Armin’s life, which was also what made him absolutely sure that she was the female titan. They are upon a mountain of broken 3Dmg and limbs as a more direct representation of Annie’s sins. I really wanted to show both all of her wrongdoings piling up and finally catching up with her, but also incite sympathy, as it was her own love for the ‘unicorns,’ and her murder of the ‘unicorns’ that ‘killed’ her. Also forgive me if I sound overly defensive or something, I just wanted to use this as an opportunity to explain my thought process~~ -- source link
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