Thread:Razzylada/@comment-44328804-20200210030542/@comment-25933225-20200210063225

Oh, don't get me wrong, I just said why he dislikes Eren, that it's not only because of Sasha's death, but also for a few other reasons (the fact that they're justified or not doesn't matter that much, that's how he sees it), that's not my opinion on this character. That was just to clarify things up.

Basically, I never dislike characters, unless the author really mess them up (yes I'm talking about you, seasons 7 and 8 of GoT). As long as they've got a backstory that makes sense and that their actions are understandable from their POV, I won't dislike the character. I think that Eren still cares about other people, but he tries to take his distance with them because of his actions. I think he kinda feel depressed of killing all of these people in Liberio/Revelio, but that was mostly some "What must be done must be done, no matter what".

I don't buy the "Eren is the villain" thing because... I don't even buy the concept of "villains", "good guys", "bad guys", in a story like SnK. Just like in real life, these are concepts without a proper value, the world is made of humans with different motives, different POV. It doesn't mean I defend the authors of crimes or else, far from it, but I'm not a kid anymore, I know that calling them "villains" is just childish. Same goes for Eren, his motives are, as far as we know, motivated by a "killed or be killed" situation. I don't support his plan, and I think that killing 2/3 billions of people and animals for the sake of a few millions isn't worth it. But I don't call him a villain either. He doesn't want his people to die, he wanted to see if there was another way, it doesn't seem so, so he goes full genocide. And that's also the point of Isayama, he doesn't want to depict "good" or "bad" characters, he just want to tell a story. It's not his fault if people think the story is about bad guys vs good guys.

I don't know if you're right about Eren being more popular after the timeskip, it's pretty hard to tell, but I like him better now, 854 Eren is more interesting than 850 in my eyes.