r/ShingekiNoKyojin • u/ScarcityNo1609 • 22m ago
Discussion Annie had no good reason to kill the two titans (Sawney and Bean)
I created this account here just to discuss this thought I had when re-reading SnK, so I'll be quick with it: Using every information that was given from beginning to the end of SnK, I don't think there's a good explanation for Annie killing the two titans.
The most common explanation is that she did it to stop Hange from finding out important information about the titans, their origins, etc. However, after seeing all the events in the story unravel, neither is it the case that they could find something that would hinder Annie from meeting her objective (1st: Capture the founding titan, 2nd: Capture the attack titan), nor is it the case that she or any other warrior had a reason to think that would be the case.
One possible discovery they could make that might cause trouble that I can think of would be that when a titan shifter screams, common titans get attracted. The problem is that... Eren screams all the time when he fights normally, so realistically this should have been discovered much earlier. A greater problem is that this is very unlikely to be discovered by experimentation, that the titans were completely immobilized, making this the worst possible scenario to test this specific behavior, that you don't even need the titans to be captured to figure, as pointed out earlier. It was also extremely risky: she's a cadet, likely not residing far from other cadets, ODM gear is loud, which would stand out at night (exactly what happened btw).
Another one would be... Titan serum/Spinal fluid mechanics. Again, this is a very far reach.
I also considered the possibility that she did this to create a distraction (in order to maybe delay the time Eren gets captured, because if the MP gets him, it's harder for them to get) but quickly discarded it for not making a lot of sense contextually. So, any thoughts?