Soldier Salute [repack] | Attack On Titan

Take it. Use it. Don’t let it be for nothing.

Viktor nodded. He looked at the smoke rising from the funeral pyre. Then he faced the remaining soldiers—twenty-three hollow-eyed men and women—and raised his own fist. “Present hearts.” attack on titan soldier salute

Before the fall of Wall Maria, the Garrison, the Survey Corps, and the Military Police each had their own sloppy gestures—a nod, a heel-click, a lazy palm to the forehead. Discipline was weak because the enemy was abstract. Titans were monsters, yes, but they were distant. A threat behind three concentric rings of limestone and mortar. Take it

That changed after the disastrous Shiganshina Retrieval Operation of 831. Viktor nodded

Mikasa stood apart from the others. She didn’t speak at the funeral. She waited until everyone else had left, their fading footsteps crunching on the gravel path.

“What are they doing?” he whispered to Mikasa.

Then he stood. Walked to the surviving recruits. Raised his fist.