((better)) - Attack On Titan Soldier Salute

Eren stared, confused. It looked like they were handing something over. Not to Shadis. Not to the crowd. To the sky.

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

Right hand. Palm open. Thumb tucked. Arm parallel to the ground. Fist pressed just above the left pectoral. attack on titan soldier salute

Twenty-three fists answered. The Salute became official three years later, codified in the Regulations of the Survey Corps, Section 7, Article 12 :

She held the Salute for a full minute. No one watched. No commander gave the order. No bugle sounded. Eren stared, confused

But the wind carried her offering out over the water, past the ruins of the walls, past the steam rising from the bodies of the last fallen Titans, past the edge of the map where the old world ended.

Eight hundred fists answered. Many of those fists would be cold by sunset. Not to the crowd

They raised theirs back. After the Rumbling. After the world stopped burning. After the surviving Scouts buried their dead beneath a single, shared headstone on a hill that overlooked the ocean—not as a wall anymore, but as a horizon.