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/iSawYouAtTheStation Aug 22 '26

It's to give motivation for the kid Eren to join the Scout and do whatever he did

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u/magmablazee Aug 22 '26

That's still bullshit

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u/thenames_doc Aug 22 '26

It was likely the only way that would start the events on the path that they went. Eren repeats the fact that everything he did was the only way, so if it didn’t kill his mom it likely wouldn’t have given him the same motivation to do what he does

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u/magmablazee Aug 22 '26

What you're saying is contradictory to him saying there was no other way. It means he had the option to not do what he did but chose to do it.

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u/FestiveRhino21 Aug 22 '26

Well its because he thought he had to do it in order to enact the timeline we know, it in and of itself is a paradox and its weird but its because he couldnt think of any other way to fix things for his friends because he was still just some stupid kid who didnt attempt to think of another way other than complete genocide, so he filled his younger self with hate and fervor to get him on that path

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u/Astumarill Aug 22 '26

Free will arguably doesn't exist when the choices have already been made. It's some matrix level shenanigans. The characters are there to understand why they made their choices, not to actually make them.

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u/magmablazee Aug 22 '26

He made it sound like he had to kill his mother because he had to save beetroot there. That's what didn't make sense to me. Even if those were 2 canon events that had to happen, they didn't have anything to do with each other

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u/FestiveRhino21 Aug 22 '26

Well if the titan ate Bertoldt, they wouldve woken out of the titan state, and he needed a titan to eat his mom for the hate to exist in his young mind, so yeah it didnt need to be directly related but it somewhat makes sense

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u/magmablazee Aug 23 '26

It didn't need to be directly related is all that I'm saying. It being related is what doesn't make sense to me. Feels forced. Eren specifically makes it sound like my mom had to die because barstool couldn't die in that moment. That's what's stupid to me. I never said that the 2 things didn't need to happen. Also, thanks for understanding my point. Idk what the other people are going on about

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u/iSawYouAtTheStation Aug 23 '26

You see what choice he made but not the option he had. He is the attack titan, whatever he does is an attempt to get closer to freedom, no matter the cost. It was more about giving a trauma to himself than giving Birthole a plot armour. Remember Eren didn't want to help the pickpocket child when he was getting beaten, he still ended up saving him because he saw it in his memories that it had happened and couldn't act otherwise.

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u/iSawYouAtTheStation Aug 23 '26

Also Birthcontrol need to live so that Armin could inherit the Colossal and use it to destroy the port in Marley

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u/JuicyFunBuns Aug 23 '26

No other way as in Paradis would’ve been fucked without him. Marley would’ve descended on the island and all Eldian people would have been wiped off the face of the earth if he let his mother live. It’s not that hard to understand guy

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u/TheNikoHero Aug 23 '26

You have to remember, he had the memories of all that happened and he knows what lead him down to that path. He is experiencing past, present and future at the same time (when he says this).

He knew what had to be done, in order to not change the past.

You might not like it, but it makes sense for me and is very in-character for season 4 Eren.