#he really gets to shine outside his og route where he doesn't really get to interact with anyone really

[siluriforma]

The fact that Ashe in few3h can't support almost anyone outside of his house kinda echoes how Felix in fe3h epilogues has way unhappier endings when recruited outside of his house.

Especially in SB Ashe is just so defeated with his situation that you just see him moping around the camp lamenting his situation it's just really sad to see you reflexively start to pity him. He can't even find a connection or peace in fighting on the same side as Lonato, his adoptive father who he loves and respects. Ashe just looses his identity when he is stripped from his ideals of knighthood and serving his country. He becomes a husk of himself and same happens to Felix in fe3h.

Despite the fact that Felix keeps shitting on Dimitri, knights and Faerghus ideals, ultimately when he leaves Dimitri there's just no hope for him he goes the exact same path as Ashe and is unable to find peace within himself and committing his life to fighting seemingly forever. Like despite hating it he kinda ends up perfectly encapsulating Faerghus knighthood. There's a few endings where there's a happier twist but still the fact that his first response outside of BL is to start wandering around until someone willfully stops him.

I think they really represent the Faerghus in it's core.

[ghostmartyr]

Hi, Immi! Eren was in the outside world too, and yet he рroceeds to crush it with no survivors. Maybe he saw it differently? Where his friends saw cool big houses, fancy food and groundcars, he saw ghettos, scarred-for-life troopers and child soldiers. Where his friends met interesting people, Eren met slaves, slavers, his unhinged omnicidal brother and a рolitician hell-bent on destroying Paradise. Maybe, in Eren's view, the outside world doesn't really deserve to be saved or even left alone?

‘Sup.

Uh.

Here we encounter the Eren Factor.

In which we ponder what the hell Eren is even doing.

I like your read on it, and would honestly find it a really interesting story if the final act is just Eren completely losing his faith in humanity in his quest for freedom. I think Eren being unable to connect with the symbol he’s attached to would be a worthwhile trip.

Except I don’t think that’s where we’re headed. His last night with his friends is full of him finding humanity in strangers. When Mikasa finds him, he’s crying.

Eren’s denied characters their worth as humans before. He sees the slavers who kill Mikasa’s family as animals, and has no problem killing them like animals. tfw Anakin

He recognizes individuals like Falco as people. He understands Reiner now. Willy’s words still reach him.

Yet the person who disintegrates in the Reiss cavern over the deaths his influence brought about continues along this course.

Eren’s motivation is a blurry mess. We see his character shine when he calls for OG Ymir’s freedom, and there’s no sign of him holding back when he calls Zeke’s plan crap. Arguably, his actions being that of someone who’s just trying to protect his home line up.

Only activating the walls nearly destroys his home. Attacking Marley the way he does paints a target on its back. He’s routinely belittled his friends and put them at risk. Civil unrest is already waiting to boil over.

The guy’s stated intent is to protect his home.

He is not doing that.

I really do like the idea that Eren’s done and burning things to the ground just because he has no other solution left to offer, and the world has failed to impress him, so fuck it. But I don’t think that’s what we’re getting, exactly. He seems miserable, and signs point to him deliberately damaging his personal relationships.

He’s also left Floch in charge. Which, if he’s at the point of slaughtering anything cursed in the world, it’s a wonder Floch’s breathing.

I have no idea what Eren thinks he’s doing. If we add up everything he’s publicly announced he’s doing, we sort of land in a place where 2+2=fish. There is the suggestion that he understands the concept of math, but what he’s chosen to do with it is incomprehensible. For every explanation provided for Eren’s behavior, there’s always that loop of why was the route where his head got blasted off the optimal choice.

Eren vs The World is a wonderful conflict. But so far, even with The World very committed to killing him and vice versa, the main drama appears to be stemming from Eren vs Eren. Wherein Eren is just diving into choices that are making him and everyone around him deeply unhappy for the sake of the greater Eren.

Fish?