Let me just talk about Shingeki no Kyojin Episode 22 for a minute.

Correction.

Let me talk about Levi in Shingeki no Kyojin Episode 22 for a minute.

I’m not even sure how to start. Well, I’ll just get straight to the point.

Here, we see Levi cutting out Petra’s Scouting Legion patch out of her uniform. He is grieving for his friends, but Petra most of all. He wants to keep it as a proof for himself that she really did exist, that she really did live, that those memories he has of her are not just some kind of dream.

At first, it seems that he would actually be one of the lucky ones who get to at least have a body to bury.

But then…

…they had to drop the bodies and leave them behind. Dieter (a rookie, by the looks of it) and his friend had led some Titans into the formation because of their efforts to retrieve their friend Ivan’s corpse.

Petra’s was of course included in the corpses that had to be left behind.

And then we have this heart-wrenching moment.

Levi gives Petra’s patch to Dieter and lies to him, telling him that it was Ivan’s. We know that this patch is not Ivan’s because Ivan’s body dropped from Dieter’s horse while they were being chased by the Titans. Levi is injured, so there is no way that he would have been able to run back into the fray and retrieve the patch.

That patch was special to Levi, if only for a short time. Yet he decided to give it up and offer comfort to someone who, in his eyes, probably needed it more than himself.

And he’s giving it to the very person whose actions forced him to abandon his loved one’s body.

Even though Levi might have been angry at Dieter for making such a stupid mistake, he didn’t show it. He understood why Dieter felt the need to go back for his friend’s body. That is why he gave him the patch to offer some small comfort.

So, to answer your question, Dieter:

Yes…

…they do have…