Attack on Titan S4: Ashes on The Fire | EPIC ORCHESTRAL COVER

Ashes on The Fire by KOHTA YAMAMOTO. Epic Cover by Samuel Kim.

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[samuelkimmusic]

Ashes on The Fire V2 from episode 17!!!

[AustrianPainter]

Reiner: I'm sick and tired of walls

Everybody else back at Paradis: *First time?*

[naveenedoth]

Reiner: "I'm sick and tired...of walls."


Eren: "Say no more"

[set]

This story teaches us that:
Everyone is the main character of their own life.

[treyw]

S1: Reiner is a great supporting big brother
S2: You Traitor!
S3: You Bastard!
S4: I'm sorry Reiner. I never understood the pain and burden you had under all that armor.

[ExceedRed]

Reiner:
“I hate walls”
“All my titan homies hate walls”

[Isaac-tc]

Reiner: Please just let me die
Eren, Fans, Jean, Gabi, Falco Isayama: Nah

[SS-oosj]

For someone whose name is Armored Titan,
Reiner is the most heartbroken charecter I have ever seen
Ironic...

[shadeop]

Reiner is the embodiment of "You either die a villian or live long enough to see yourself become a hero."

[lorilorilorienth]

Reiner: I'm tired of walls

Eren: *very poor choice of words*

[randylistiyanto]

Other characters: Please, don't kill me.
Isiyama: KILL!

Reiner: Please, kill me. I beg you.
Isiyama: Not now.

[yourcomrade]

Reiner is done with walls so much that he's dying to die

[kilsgb]

S1: this ost is fucking epic!
S2: this ost is fucking epic!
S3: this ost is fucking epic!
S4: THIS OST IS FUCKING EPIC!

[thereaper]

Everybody gangsta until the legless man start growing his leg

[roronoa]

The level at which Reiner is broken is hard to even put into words.

Being used as a tool by his mother to raise her status to Marleyan telling him it'll bring their family back together despite her knowing full well his father wanted nothing to do with them. Which Reiner learns first hand after meeting him in person after all the years of training and perseverance he went through to be able to meet him.

After learning that his whole life purpose of reuniting his family is a lie, he latches onto the next one, being a hero, a chosen warrior who will save the world from the island devils. Yet that purpose is also shattered the very same day, learning from Marcel that he wasn't even supposed to be chosen and only was because Marcel downplayed his brother so much to the military that they chose him instead. Reiner was literally just used as a sacrificial scapegoat to save his brother. And there goes Reiner's second and last purpose.

This only worsens when the morning after Marcel is eaten, saving Reiner right after telling him that he's the reason he's even there in the first place. Reiner blanks out and runs away immediately as far as he can. A far cry from the hero he was proclaiming himself to be just a tiny bit earlier. With Marcel gone, Annie tells him the mission is basically hopeless and that he needs to take the blame and die for causing this. Reiner's sense of self and worth is already dead and gone at this point and after having his skull bashed in by Annie and repeatedly told how useless he is, his mental solution is to simply give up his own identity and become somebody else, Marcel. It's here we can see one of the origins of Reiner's split warrior/persona personality before he even started living with the people on Paradis.

Reiner was broken from day 1 of the mission.

Reiner then spends the next 5 years trying to be the best leader he can be to Bertholdt and Annie by trying to imitate Marcel as much as possible. This morphs into Reiner's soldier persona, the supportive, dependable, kind big brother figure he acts around the 104th and genuinely begins to believe he is as his dissociative personality worsens the longer he spends there. All whilst snapping out of it in his talks with Annie and Bertholdt where he acts like some tough, decisive leader to them that he was never cut out to be. But hey he fakes it until he makes it, not only convincing himself of his act but also Eren who openly admires him and wants to be like him more than anyone. Reiner gives him advice at one of the lowest points in Eren's life, to keep moving forward, this is the very same advice that leads Reiner to his current situation sat with a gun in his mouth ready to blow his brains out. It's no coincidence the scenes of him saying that are perfectly aligned with the sequence of him loading the gun and getting ready to kill himself.

When Reiner returns from Paradis, he's suffering from severe survivors guilt being the only one to make it back, especially after being the one who made them continue the mission instead of turning back, trying to take responsibility by making himself the new leader to Annie and Bertholdt. Still having nightmares of Bertholdt's defeat in Shiganshina. He's now made to raise and watch these kids who are about to go down the exact same path as he did with nothing he can do to stop it besides trying to save his cousin Gabi from suffering the way he did at the cost of another kid Falco who he obviously sees himself in. No one in Marley understands him or has any idea what happened on the island, he has to lie straight faced to his family about the "devils" he met there since if he doesn't it could get them all killed. The only time he looks even remotely happy is the little smiles/smirks he has when he thinks back on his time on Paradis, like when Porco provokes him about he acted like some strong, reliable figure when he was there, to which Reiner just smiles and agrees with him, which throws Porco off entirely. And with his family where when they start talking about how awful and evil the devils on Paradis, Reiner has to physically cover his mouth with his hand to hide his smile at how absurd and wrong what they're saying. After all even though his mind was splitting between two realities, and he was faced with the burden of saving the entire human race and leading the warriors, those years he spent with the 104th in training were without a doubt the best of his life. And that is so unbelievably sad.

Done with this long rant. Just wanted to word vomit this since I see a lot of people condense Reiner's depression to just a couple key points when there's far more layers, and negative things that have all piled on him throughout his entire life, all building up to the tragic crescendo we see in this episode with him an inch a way from blowing his brains out. The only thing stopping him being the realization that he still has a duty to watch over those kids in the 2 years he has left.


(Copied and pasted from another comment section)

[shadeop]

Hange: Wake up Reiner, We are here to talk about the Avengers initiative.

[MrMathsimon]

They nailed the music in this scene perfectly.

[samuelkimmusic]

This is NOT the official soundtrack. It's a fan-made version I arranged right after watching the final season premiere.
The score is composed by Kohta Yamamoto & Hiroyuki Sawano
This particular theme is actually used in the AoT S4 Trailer as well. They extended it so it works with the episode.
I hope you enjoy my arrangement until they release the official soundtrack!

[timassmann]

How the hell are you so fast with these soundtracks?
I mean, i'm not complaining but it is ridiculously impressive

[adityabhadauria]

I Literally saw this scene so many times and was wondering if samuel Kim would make a version for it and Then Boom!!!Rest is history....