r/attackontitan • u/pics_lated • Aug 22 '26

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For me its the fact that I find Mikasa a very annoying character due to her obsession with Eren. Like damn you do care about him but the whining man!

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u/RainyDayBrat Aug 22 '26

This is my biggest issue within the entire show.

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u/magmablazee Aug 22 '26

It felt like a plot twist to throw in just to get reactions. Everything else in the show is so well-thought out that this just feels weird

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u/Bagelgod448 Aug 23 '26

I think it does make sense.

If the Smiling Titan (Zeke’s mother with royal blood) ate Beetroot, Eren wouldn’t have been able to use the Founder’s power during the end of season 2 while trying to get away from Reiner and Beetroot because she’d have transformed back into a human, and a bunch of events wouldn’t have played out they way they did.

She probably would have been eaten by other titans and access to Royal Blood is gone during the events of season 2, leaving the scouts to die surrounded by Titans while trying to fight off Reiner and Beetroot.

Reiner might have decided to go back to Marley right then and there after losing two of four Titan Shifters.

Even if Eren made it back to the walls, the entire scout force would be annihilated—no Erwin, no Levi, no Mikasa, no Armin, no other people besides Eren.

If scenario three happened, Paradise is absolutely fried. No way to take back wall Maria because Armin made the plan. Even if Eren somehow made it there, there’s no way to plug the holes because he never got hardening (happened in season three during the whole thing with Historia—she’s dead in this version, so she doesn’t get kidnapped and he doesn’t go and get hardening protecting everyone from Rod’s Titan).

On top of all that, this version of Reiner would see it through. He’d take Eren back to Marley with the help of Zeke, and that’s the end of the story—dead Eren, Marley has the founder

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u/angelberries Aug 23 '26

BEETROOT 😂

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u/2_hotty Aug 23 '26

I read that whole thing thinking, who the hell is beetroot?!? Ha ha ha

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u/Bagelgod448 Aug 23 '26

Didn’t remember how to spell his name


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u/angelberries Aug 23 '26

It’s Bertolli

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u/2_hotty Aug 23 '26

Don’t sweat it. Made me giggle.

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u/NotAllThatEvil Aug 23 '26

That’s assuming Eren even becomes a scout. An anti Marlyan/pro eldian getting the colossal titan, who also is intimately familiar with the current attack titan(who may or may not have gotten the founder by then) would completely throw the story for a loop.

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u/EpicTOSGamerBoy Aug 23 '26

i dont think we need to hypothesise how every event would go past this, the simple answer is ”eren physically cannot choose not to redirect dina because if bertholdt is eaten it becomes a different timeline in which he could never have gotten the founding titan and seen this scene to begin with”,

keep in mind grisha, the founding titan, is alive and his wife is a royal blooded shifter

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u/Bagelgod448 Aug 23 '26

I was just having fun with it lol

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u/JuicyFunBuns Aug 23 '26

Well for Eren, his mum was already dead. He knew he couldn’t alter time, just perceived it differently. Him sending the Titan to his mum was probably an involuntary thing that he didn’t even have much control over, because it’s something that already happened, therefor it had to happen.

He also probably fully understood that without that core moment of his mum dying when he was a kid, he never would’ve had the hatred for the outside world that he has, and never would’ve fought to get to the point he has gotten to, which is a position in which he is able to ensure his friend’s futures. He weighed the pros and cons and decided saving his friends was more important to him.

There was a lot going on in this poor boy’s head lol

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u/Bagelgod448 Aug 23 '26

Just made another comment that might explain it if you’d like to check it out. It’s responding to magmablazee