Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160109013258/@comment-72.77.67.84-20160109233214

Abbysfun wrote: Tausendberg wrote: Remember Reiner's split personality? Ymir talks about it when they are in the giant trees after kidnapping Eren. She theorizes that apparently Reiner, as a result of the demands and stresses of going deep undercover at a young age for so many years, had apparently taken on the identity of a 'soldier', someone who is actually part of the world within the walls and accepts the motivations that such a person would have, and a 'warrior' who is a homelander. Reiner the warrior killed Marco with such conviction but Reiner the soldier was shortly thereafter shocked that Marco was getting killed. Oh yeah!!! Ok. Thanks I get it. Bertolt wants to "END IT", because of what the last 5 years have done to them. He, Reiner, Annie, and whoever that friend of their's was who got eaten by Ymir when she was still a titan, came to exterminate the race of human that live inside the walls. One of their own kind, The First King Titan, placed all of those humans in the walled cities using 50-meter class colossal titans as the catalyst to create the walls. What that titan did was something that it should not have done but did it anyway/ Why? To protect a large number of the human race from the titans? We might find out from Zeke about the real reason why The First King did that. Whatever relationship between titans and the humans who live outside the walls is (such as Eren's father Grisha) we'll probably find out in the basement. But the Homelanders (I'm guessing their the humans/shifters who live outside the walls) see something in the walled humans that appearently makes them "evil" or "vile" and seek to undo what he created.

I have no doubt that we'll find out why they see walled humans like that and why they want to wipe them out. When the Trio first arrived at the walled city of Shiganshina, which is the border between the outside world and the walled city, they destroyed the outer and inner walls without hesitation and within a small amount of time as a sign of how important achieveing this mission of theirs was. No hesitation, no going back. Now, back to the last 5 years thing I mentioned at the start. They then began to live amongst the walled citizens and even trained among them to not only hone their skills to suvive inside the walls, but to also lower suspicion and learn about their enemy to came to destroy. But, living with them, growing up with them and training with over those last 5 years, started to make them feel attachments to them and see them as friends.

The "Warrior" persona is the Reiner who wants to fulfill his goal of wipping out the humans inside the walls, even if it means killing a teammate, in this case Marco. And, it could very well be, by letting his friend die, and hearing him call out to them that they weren't done talking (probably as a sign that he was still confused and angry as to their actions and wanted an explanation and making them look like cowards letting a friend die to preserve their goal), made him feel such guilt, that his split personality was created at that point. Which could explain why Bertholt and Annie were so shocked by his reaction and words.

Which explains why he's so mentally unstable. The determined "Warrior" is in constant battle with the caring "Soldier". And at times the "Soldier" will talk like the "Warrior" and act like nothing's wrong with what he's saying due to this personality conflict. That explains why he bluntly and calmly told Eren all that stuff in Chapter 42, to Eren's surprise and Bertholt's shock. The "Soldier" also seems to forget certain things the "Warrior" did that made the "Warrior" feel guilty.

Seeing his friend becoming so unstable and guilt-riddon from spending too much time in the walls and among the people they were sent to wipe out is one of the main reasons why he wants all of this to "End". As well as hating to have to sacrifice someone they saw as a friend who was angry at why they were doing what they did to him before he died and seeing the girl he loves stricken with so much guilt and saddness for doing something so horrible just to achieve their mission. He wants all of those things to end and not have to see something like them happen again, because it's too much for him and the others to bear. "The walled city and it's people NEED to be destroyed." is practically how he sees his goal. This could very well explain why he says that "Someone has to get this blood on their hands." Finally "ending it" means they'll no longer have to do this mass suicidal killing that they hate themselves for doing.

Whatever is going on outside the walls, whatever the true goal of the titan shifters is, is something so important, and that no matter how sickly it makes them feel and guilty...they HAVE to do this. That THEY are the heroes and the humans in the walled city are the VILLAINS.

The next chapters better have some explanations because I'm starting to feel about 5% bad for the Trio. Annie maybe, but not Reiner or Bertholt.