“It was the same as what happened to us on that day… everything was suddenly snatched away. (…) our path to reconciliation has been cut off… but, we had no other choice. Just like the day, that you guys did it… right… Annie? Please answer me… with something.”
Hello! I share this series of paintings of some of the female characters of SNK, Disney style.
Personally, I do not usually identify with Disney stories, however, I can not deny that in terms of animation, character design, backgrounds, etc. are geniuses! and then, this idea came to me 🤔
I hope you like it.
"The queen and the anti-princesses"
Acrylic on spun paper.
I adore it. It’s my favorite one visually and symbolically. It brought me to tears. Musically it’s nice but not my fave.
For my very brief, rushed analysis of it (I’m not gonna cover every shot I don’t have time but):
We open with Eren with his eyes closed.
And then Eren awake, with his eyes open, jumping into action.
The camera then pulls back, symbolic of how his world is going to open up this season with the discovery of Marley. It’s also a part of growing up and maturation, a major theme in the Uprising and Shiganshina arc: learning to expand your worldview.
They cast larger shadows, symbolizing among other things, again, groiwng up, and also what they have to overcome:
The still images are fascinating, because they are of them as children, because they can’t change their past no matter what happens in the future.
We then have adorable baby Levi stumbling around between street walls #symbolism.
Levi flipping a knife and looking at an angle that appears to match Kenny’s angle next, showing again, that Kenny is his father figure.
And also Kenny’s original shot of him with his face covered and then flipping his hat up so we see his face: a literal unmasking.
If this Erwin shot of him watching his father and his child self does not break your heart I don’t know if you have one. Erwin’s face is also resolute, signifying how he was driven by his childhood trauma to the very end.
Baby Historia, initially appearing alone, only then to be revealed to be with Frieda, opening her hands and releasing into the wider world.
Eren appears and then we see his hand reaching for himself, but he can’t grab hold. He also then reaches for Mikasa, who stares away from him up at the sky, clutching her scarf (a symbol of something that saved her during her moment of trauma, and of her love for Eren that anchors her).
The hand then reaches for Armin, looking down, and Armin vanishes and hte hand is left with blood, and if you’ve read the manga you’ll know what this is referring to. It’s also interesting that Eren, Mikasa, and Armin are all looking in different directions, which is again symbolic of growing up and forming your own individual place in the world.
More still images of Carla and Grisha and baby Eren, and then we see Shiganshina again, the childhood home, and Eren then gets to his feet to look out at the larger world, but with his back turned towards the audience. I don’t want to speculate too much but you can clearly see this as a reference to what’s going on in the manga right now, with Eren going rogue from everyone who cares about him, and not even listening to his child self who keeps trying to get his attention before giving up. This is my favorite part, and I cry.
Then we see them running as kids, but not the destination. We see the Warrior babies trying to find their way through a dark, confusing forest with a lamp, looking lost.
Historia at the fence, refusing to looking out and away, rocking as if she can’t decide whether to step forward or not, Erwin and Levi passing each other and Levi watching Erwin.
The Shinganshina trio are running and they lose a shoe, and it’s left behind, the key and then a still shot of them laughing together. The key of course is the thing that will unlock the larger world they’re a part of, a world that they all need to find their way in, and they have to keep running forward, keep fighting for that beauty in the middle of a cruel world. It doesn’t lessen the beauty of the relationships they’ve shared, but it does make it impossible for them to go back to those days. Their love for each other will never lessen, that I believe, but they won’t be able to return to the simplicity of those childhood days, and their dreams will be realized but with a cost.
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I despise her. She’s like, my least favorite character besides Gross and Zackley.
I can’t hate the kids–Reiner, Annie, and Bertolt were children brainwashed into this. They were too young to understand what they were doing–to truly understand the consequences of their actions. Gabi, Falco, Udo, Zophia–same. They’re just kids.
While I do fault Grisha’s parents and Annie’s dad, they at least love their kids. They’re brainwashed and all, but they love their kids, and therefore I have more sympathy for them. But Karina? She’s a selfish manipulating woman and I’ve seen no evidence she gives a single care about Reiner. Annie’s dad is still waiting for her. No matter how badly he failed his daughter–and he did–he loves her. Same for Grisha’s parents. Karina is just so cold, and cruel to Reiner, stringing him along with empty promises. I know she’s probably brainwashed too, but there’s only so far a brainwashed adult can be excused.
SAME. Mr. Leonhart believes in Annie (though maybe he should take a good long look at himself for forcing her in that position) and so do I. (No, I don’t think she’s going to be immediately consumed when she returns, at least I really hope not.)
And it’s been so long. Hange, Levi, Mikasa, Connie, Sasha, Armin, JEAN… I want to see them. Though I have enjoyed Reiner’s development and I really do like Pieck, Gabi, and Falco.
If there is one strong uniting factor between Reiner and Eren it is this. Both of them built their entire life’s purpose upon what were essentially childish dreams, and then neither could truly process it when reality failed to measure up to their starry eyed expectations.
This does a great job of laying out the contrasts between Eren and Reiner (who is a very tragic figure). I especially liked the analysis of Eren’s relationships with Armin and Mikasa, and may have actually teared up because I’m a sap. Thanks for this.
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