Board Thread:Manga/@comment-38849221-20190321163015/@comment-37493549-20200611002003

Jumbernaut wrote: But the question remains, why didn't Zeke touch Eren before? This whole post assumes that Zeke knew all along that it would be himself who would control the founder if they touched, rather than Eren. Which wasn't the case. I don't think he knew Ymir would obey him rather than Eren until they actually touched. Everyone thought Eren would be the one who controlled the founder, not Zeke. It was Eren who controlled it the previous time it activated after all, in fact he used it to kill the royal titan than had allowed him to access the power in the first place.