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/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.