Oh Boy - This Hits In The Feels

Oh boy - this hits in the feels

I adore that radical ginger boy with my life

He's such a tragic character I want to protect him from his own fate but at the same time I want him to go even further and do what he has to...

Such a wonderful character, too bad Isayama kinda didn't care about him (then again compared to what kind of death Isayama gave to my girl Hange and what he did to all other characters in 139 I want Isayama to forget about Floch's existence and never ever publish anything about him)

Thinking again about the last 2 or so days of flochs life. He watches Erens plan come to fruition, takes leadership to try and guide his nation through the Rumbling and take it out the other side. He fights tooth and nail against the titans Zeke made, fighting until he physically can't walk, and then when he gets betrayed by thr people he thought would be most loyal to Eren's cause he doesn't panic, he mobilises, he takes action and begins to secure ports and harbours, then when he's durther betrayed by Jean, someone he looks up to, he personally moves to save Eren's plan and Paradis, to save his people. He couldn't walk only a day ago but here he is moving at breakneck pace to get to the port, hell figuring out what port they were going to, and then, still likely injured, he staves off Mikasa Ackermann, the Commander of the Scouts, TWO titan shifters in close combat, to come a hair away from destroying their ship, and even then, metred underwater, bleeding heavily, saltwater stinging his wounds, he grapples the ship and follows it for hours in the ocean, bleeding. He stays ahold of the boat all the way across the sea until they dock, then in that state he's able to walk and take aim to shoot the fuel tank of their plane almost ruining their plan before finally being killed.

I'm not Erwin's biggest fan, but he was the catalyst for that transformation, and Eren was just the accelerant. Floch had no special powers, no healing, no enhanced durabilty, no Ackermann powers. He was simply a man in a world that was built to destroy him and yet he persevered, he excelled, he is probably the closet Attack on Titan gets to an archetypical 'hero' even if he's not framed as one in the show. He never gave up, and he fought for what he thought was going to let his people live long lives.