Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200408113657/@comment-44328804-20200412025653

Drivebladesman wrote: Attackcjc wrote: TKGriffiths wrote: As for the question of when we'll see Eren again. Judging by the breakneck pace of events over the past few chapters, it's not at all inconceivable that they'll find him by the end of the next chapter. I could easily see the cliffhanger of the very next chapter being the gang's plane flying through the steam cloud and emerging on the other side to a scene of Eren performing some significant act. Whether that'll be the rumbling that we think is happening or something else, I don't know.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the founder's creative abilities (roads, bridges, infrastructure of some kind etc) has been hinted at throughout history but never explicitly shown except for the walls. Maybe even if he is flattening a portion of Marley, it could be with the intention of building something else in its place. As for what, who knows. We know that the power of the titans is based around flesh, could it be some kind of flesh based ritual? Mass human sacrifice? Who knows at this point.

Of course he could just be carrying out the rumbling like it's been described up to this point but part of me does think they must be keeping us away from his POV and obscuring his actions for a reason. I'm glad ur discussing the possibility of how Eren may not be rumbling Marley, as I feel, aside from all the other evidence against it and calling him "the big bad", the way it was left to debate with LITERALLY a giant smokescreen of titan steam is a sign we're in for a twist. Isayama wouldn't just leave it for debate like that if Eren would just rumble Marley at this point, just look at all the people twisting Hanje's PREDICTION into a fact lol the fact that all we got is a smokescreen at this point when it otherwise would've been certain that Eren is on a genocidal spree as of chp 123 is fishy to say the least, and should let people know we're in for a twist. The Liberio attack was one thing, and it was justified given the full picture. But the rumbling is something else, and it doesn't fit his development. Good point. Well, I did once theorize that Eren's real plan might be to make Paradis and the outside world team up together to fight a common threat. I did learn that humans, while normally fighting each other, will start cooperating with each other if they're under a global crisis. It reminds me of Etrian Odyssey Nexus, where the main antagonist Blot wants to resurrect a seemingly-immortal superweapon to force humanity to work together and cooperate with each other for all eternity. Start this video at the 9:53 mark to understand what I'm talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLOp7eKYelU Yeah that's what I'm thinking too. Eren knows how grey the conflict is along with how his side is being attacked for the wrong reasons. Considering Marley wasn't open to peace talks, he not only fought back against them but had to figure out a way to get them to learn the truth. If this was a black and white conflict, I'd have no issue with the rumbling, but its grey enough that Eren understands his enemy, and realized they are people just like him. That's why I find it hard to believe he will just wipe them out, even if its for the good of his people in a sense. He didn't even want to kill titans anymore once he learned they were once people.

I'm all for Eren fighting in the grey, making tough choices, etc. He's already displayed that in Liberio, and I commend him for it lol but the rumbling? Even Eren himself knows that its going too far, between everything he said about in chp 107, and how he knows the world is full of innocent people just like him. I liked how much darker he got, which a mystery behind him, but through it all, calling him a villain was a stretch, and I'd be saying that if I didn't like Eren either lol

Most agree on this secret plan over the rumbling. Let's see where it goes. Its already a sign that its something else that we got a smokescreen on Marley, not a sight of actualy destruction lol