Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20170508180431/@comment-14745711-20170517031617

After the Coordinate is activated it does seem to last for short period of time without further contact, since Eren was able to "order" a bunch of mindless titans to go after Reiner and Bertolt even though he was no longer touching the Smiling Titan. I wonder how long it lasts, and what its range is? Could you in theory control a titan on the other side of the world with it?

As for whether or not guy is Eren, while that would be pretty cool, I have serious doubts over it. Strategically it would be a bad, bad idea to send the Coordinate (y'know, the thing Marely is after) to infiltrate Marely. Paradis currently has very few defences against a full scale invasion besides their two titan shifters. Until they can figure out how to build accurate heavy artillery (I mean, they may have already but as far as we know they haven't), aircraft, tanks or something like that, their only defence is Eren, Armin and to a lesser extent Levi. Bear in mind the navy forces that Eren and Armin have destroyed so far weren't actual invasion fleets, but rather expeditionary fleets. An Empire the size of Marley should be able to muster a HUGE force to attack Paradis, though they will naturally be limited by the need to keep forces back to defend themselves.

Plus, the fact that the arm-band is round the wrong way actually seems to me to be evidence AGAINST it being Eren. When you are infilitrating a foreign power, you put huge emphasis on getting things like that right, it's more likely a slip up on Isayama's part, and one that'd be pretty easy to make really.

As for the Female Titan (or whatever its actual name is) if the Paradisians manage to break her out, they will kill her (probably after torturing her for info). Annie is war criminal bear in mind, and has shown pretty much no evidence to suggest she might switch sides. They might keep her alive to avoid the power being inherited by an Eldian in Marley (in which case its safer to just leave her in her crystal), but if they can find a way to make titan serum and feed her to someone to make a third shifter, it'd probs be someone like Hange or Jean (as Levi and Mikasa are Ackermans and can't become shifters). It would NEVER be Historia, because sending your monarch onto the battle field is a really bad idea in this type of warfare.

I think people may be giving the Marley Warriors too much credit as well; I have my doubts that any of them will switch sides. Zeke saying he will "resuce Eren" probably just refers to bringing over to Marley, or possibly to "rescuing" his two Titans. Reiner has every reason to hate Paradis: as far as he knows they've killed two of his friends (though just one as far as we know). The others are admitedly wild cards for the time being, but I sincierly doubt any of them will be turncoats.

Just my (very long winded) two cents.