User blog comment:Neetaku/A (Better) Rewrite of Attack on Titan/@comment-1327106-20181010022738

As always, I like your rewrite suggestions. Spreading out the deaths and giving them more meaning gets a thumbs up from me. There are just a couple things that stick out at me.

I'm not sure about using Dieter for the role you gave him, it could have been anyone, but without making up a character entirely, he works well enough. He would just have to do a little more growing up and I'm not sure we see enough of him in the anime to justify Levi taking a shine to him. I got the impression he was still fairly new to the Corps himself.

The other issue is having Franz, Hannah, and Floch all survive the Beast Titan attack in Shiganshina, because if that had happened in the manga I'd be like "Come on, Franz and Hannah make it out of all the random people who could have survived?" Even though you plan on killing one of them later, on first read that would look like incredible plot armor for the lovey dovey couple to both survive.

Maybe they could join post-RtS or be part of Hange's squad (just too far back to get vaporized by Bert's Colossus transformation) or given some specialized task to keep them out of the line of fire until you off Franz in Marley, which I think is an excellent idea and a much stronger relationship to break apart than the one between Connie and Sasha.