Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160908231942/@comment-24407809-20160910212459

30325dh wrote: If Isayama is putting it exactly how it is in the real world, if you look at 1800s photos, light hair was still light and dark hair was still dark. Same with everything around in the photos. But just like CaptFredricks said, I'm not completely ruling out what you all are saying. I'm only still not convinced, definitely not about the part of Eren and Zeke being brothers. I do feel now that picture is very likely of their ancestors. Even if the man does have a Grisha hair style, it doesn't mean that's him. People can change their hair of course. I've noticed in animes they like to make ancestors look like the character in question a lot of the time. Isayama likes to make us think one thing then it ends up not being the case. I feel he intended to make us think it's Grisha, which seems to be the popular opinion, but it's going to end up not being him and something along the lines of a relative.

The problem I have with this theory is that it wouldn't make much sense for Grisha to try to tell Eren that humans are still thriving outside the Walls... By showing him pictures of their ancestors. Grisha's explanation to Eren would have to be something along the lines of:

Grisha: "Eren, humans are still alive outside of the Walls, and they are thriving and living refined lives. This picture isn't of them, though, this is a picture of our ancestors. Yes, I know it doesn't make much sense for me to show you a picture of people who were alive a long time ago to try to illustrate my point, but I didn't feel like searching for anything more recent before I came to visit the Walls."