Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27713352-20160919182058/@comment-30133298-20161005044620

I was thinking about this the other day and even though Arauni is my favourite pairing and as much as I would love for the actual reason to be that Annie loves Armin, I believe that Annie only spared Armin because deep down she didn't believe in the mission and that he is the smartest person she would've known (I'm sure there would've been some training exercises where Armin's intellegence and skill at reading the situation would have come in to play) or that she couldn't bring herself to kill someone she had known for the past 3 years and not because of any romantic feelings she may or may not have.

I still reckon that Annie will come out of her self imposed imprisonment soon and will turn on the homeland for her own needs