Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-35822279-20180714081549

Fire Eater wrote: Most of those parallels have been fully elaborated on. And I don't see them serving purpose if most of the ones named are deliberate. Instead of trying to find the alleged "cleverness" of a story that borders on incomprehensible, I'd just like to know what the state of affairs is now and where this is going.

The Grim Reminder, it means nothing. Simply a case of what goes around comes around, karma. Eren's the only monster when it comes to the Paradis Eldians because he's now killing innocents without a second thought to achieve his goals, what he did will not change the Marley minds at all about them or make them see the irony of it all. They're too ingrained in their prejudices and fears of the island. For them it's simply a fresh excuse to resume their campaign. For Paradis it's always been self-defense for survival's sake unless you're the murderer Eren Yeager. There's nothing poetic in any of this, Paradis is the victim, victims of Marleyan war crimes and the sins of their long dead ancestors. Marley is the villain. That's it. - First up Kiyomi and Zeke wanted Historia to get pregnant and bear more royal heirs so they can give the Beast Titan first to Historia and then her children (circumventing Fritz's will) in order to keep the ace in the hole of the Wall Titans in check and then basically Paradis would exclusively trade there resources with Hizuru in exchange for advancements in Air and Sea technologies but obviously this isn't the greatest option as it places a cruel fate on Historia and her children and also makes Paradis dependent on Hizuru for their technological survival that's why Eren doesn't like it and to further clarify this is the plan that Paradis is following more or less but with a few changes to the plan as they don't trust Zeke or his volunteers.

- Kiyomi also seems to have plans for Mikasa as she might try to recover her before the final conflict starts and install her as leader of Hizuru (Puppet or real).

- As I have already stated in this thread I believe that Eren's endgame is probably to destroy the world's military in a backbreaking trap, in other words he intentionally kicked the hornets nest in order to draw them out into his home turf and then burn them all thus preventing Historia's need to become a shifter in order to keep the option of the rumbling available.

- Magath and Willy's plan was to trick Paradis into attacking an international summit in order to first to drum up support for the Eldians of Marley probably in order to create a true unified army, second draw international heat of off Marley by pushing Paradis under the bus as this will show that Marley is not a threat but Paradis is thus saving them from annihilation at the hands of a slew of technologically advanced nations, third get full blooded Marleyans into the military in a patriotic fever thus easing the pressure of the Eldian unit and making Marley more self reliant, and finally give Magath total control of the military as Marley was lead by weak incompetent racist leaders while Magath is pragmatic to the point that he would choose who's best for the military regardless of their race so they lined up the weak and dumb and let Eren slaughter them.

- Reiner's motivation is the clearest and simplest as he just wants to retrieve Gabi and Falco and of course this will once again led to conflict with the Survey Corps.

- then of course we got the wild cards of Annie and Zeke as Annie could do a number of things when she wakes up (run away, try to kill Eren, join the corps, or rejoin Reiner and the Warriors.) and Zeke is still a mystery but I think he's lying and his objective is something we haven't seen yet rather than that goody two shoes crap from this chapter cause that makes too little sense with his actions.

- Overall the final arc is probably going to be a straight up brawl with a few twists here and there to make things interesting. This is going to probably culminate with a final battle between Reiner (possibly with an assist from Porco) and Eren while we see the combined the forces of the world led by Magath and the Warriors clash against the Wall Titans and the Survey Corps + maybe Hizuru (if they don't back out) but these are the only things that feel certain as hopefully there is a lot of curveballs being thrown out to keep it interesting.