In the 7th chapter of “To Have and To Hold”, Hange makes the decision to inform Levi of the Ackerman proposal. For a man who’d only ever held value as a weapon of war- defined by the strength that made him a monster- being received as *only* a man, feels a cruel reminder of such.
In the 6th chapter of “To Have & To Hold”, Hange’s hope is bludgeoned by a proposal to utilize the Ackerman’s bloodline by way of breeding. Seated alongside those entrusted to save humanity, Hange realizes those men have none of their own. The truth is a weapon in the wrong hand.