HitLowe

HitLowe is the het ship between Hitch Dreyse and Marlowe Freudenberg from the Attack on Titan fandom.

Canon
Hitch and Marlowe are shown to be opposite from each other as Hitch can be quite immature and only joined the Military Police for her benefit, meanwhile, Marlowe joined for a different reason as he wanted to stop corruption in the military and do what's right and serve justice.

The first interaction we see from them is when Annie went with the other Military Police cadets and Mitch made fun of her for arriving late, which Marlowe kind of scolds Hitch for doing it, telling that they should be more united since both girls share the same room.

During the Female Titan arc, Marlowe watches a few high-rank Military Police officers illegally sell their equipment to the market in which Marlowe decides to stand up as he believed it was morally wrong to sell items that the people paid with their taxes which soon results in him getting beat from the higher ranks before Hitch has to intervene and apologize on Marlowe's behalf.

In the Uprising Arc the two are assigned a position to hunt down the remaining Survey Corps as they were called felons and the two were responsible to catch them and bring them for punishment, The two are then ambushed by the two Ackermans by taking away their weapons and uniform which Hitch gets very angry blaming the scouts for the destruction in Stohess and that they're responsible for the 'death' of former Military Police officer Annie Leonhart, in which the two are both told Annie isn't dead and instead she's the reason why many people died, which both Marlowe and Hitch respond by being shocked.

The Survey Scouts (Connie and Sasha specifically) would tease Marlowe when he transferred from the Military Police to the Survey Corps by telling Marlowe that didn't Hitch stop Marlowe from joining the scouts that they're  'y'know what' implying they might think Marlowe and Hitch are in a relationship, completely oblivious Marlowe doesn't understand what they were talking about. The scouts then proceed (except Mikasa and Eren) to call Marlowe an idiot implying that he doesn't realize that Hitch might be in love with him/have a crush on him.

 

Before Marlowe's death his final moments were him thinking about Hitch and wondering how she might be still sleeping in but in reality, Hitch was worried and waiting for him to return home safely. Hitch reunites with the Survey Corps and asked them about how did Marlowe fight, since she already knew he died. Floch told her he fought bravely, making Mitch smile a little bit, but Floch later told her that Marlowe’s face at his end looked like he regretted being there, making Hitch really sad. She later went with her brigade with a depressed face, showing us it really hurt her Marlowe’s departure.

Fanon
this ship isn’t very famous around the Attack on Titan fandom, since both characters don’t have many appearences together, and even they don’t have many appearences in the show either, but it has its decent amount of fans since they care and protect each other, like when Hitch knocked out Jean to save Marlowe but Jean was only testing their trust, or when an official was going to hit Marlowe and Hitch got to intervene to protect him.

Many fan theorists believe that they truly might've have feelings for each other but sadly couldn't tell each other. Majority of the fans of this ship believed during Marlowe's moments that might've been Marlowe realizing he was in love with Hitch but the same time regrets it because he fell in love too late when he went to sacrifice alongside others of the Survey Corps to the Beast Titan, as he was thinking of Hitch. Even after Marlowe's death most fans believed that Hitch still had feelings for Marlowe and struggles to move on from him, since it’s shown she was thinking of him and waiting him to come back savely. Even if they didn’t have many screentime together due both are minor characters, this ship became quite popular for both Hitch and Marlowe.

The rival ship is HitchAnnie, but this is only for the femslash side with Hitch. On AO3, HitLowe is the most written ship for both Hitch and Marlo. Reddit user YakiBacki also made jokes about HitLowe with Hitch grieving her love loss.

Fandom
FAN FICTION



Trivia

 * In Episode 4 of the third season, both Marlowe and Hitch reveal they aren't each other types, however it's most likely Hitch was being sarcastic as Marlowe told Hitch she wasn't his type first due to her teasing him when they were alone in the forest.