a young erwin facing the gate at shiganshina, embarking on his first expedition. blue eyes stare straight into the fourth-wall "there are people out there, on the other side"

historia identifying with "christa" to the point of seeing her life as fiction. picking out all the archetypes and symbolism in her surroundings.

levi lamenting the absurd nature of the world he lives in. as if reality were designed purely to play with people's expectations and feelings.

eren spiraling on himself, disillusioned by freedom and imagining an enemy. a higher power in control of his every action, word, thought and feeling.

yeah