Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200206201905/@comment-27125793-20200207071447

Now that I think about it, it's possible that Hange and Levi each missing an eye is a form of symbolism. Specifically, how they've each looked at the whole as if they only had one of their eyes open and were unable to see the entire picture; their perspective was lacking.

Both Hange and Levi, while not careless, did believe they had more time and options than was actually true, and both were, in their own ways, stuck in the past, stagnating. They didn't adapt adequately enough to the new information of just how big the world was, and just how much it hated them. Even all the development Paradis experienced during the 4 years was mostly due to the effort, knowledge and skills of others, from Zeke to the Volunteers to the Marleyan POWs to the Azumabito's. Eren, for all his extreme actions, was fully aware of exactly how precarious their situation was.

If we were to look at it from the perspective of keeping Paradis protected, they were still the same complacent people that audaciously believed they had the ability and right to decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of people, putting their lives on the balance on little more than a gamble. Sure, it worked for them then, but the chessboard was flipped on its head with the new discovery of the outside world, and that same attitude only served to make them ineffective, bringing them closer to the very same people they overthrew. That's exactly what Hange realized this chapter, and their decision to not give up is what ultimately brought them back to the forward-moving path, even if it meant allying with Marley.