Board Thread:Manga/@comment-34196931-20190808205129/@comment-25279441-20190811075435

Chapter definitely felt shorter, primarily due to the first like fourth of it being all freeze frames as time went still and like the first third didn't even have any dialogue. But the actually revalations and context we get in this chapter is definitely very interesting food for thought moving forwards and puts down cards for interesting plot threads leading into how things may end.

Learning that Ymir herself is a slave was something I theorized in the past, though her being one without free will even in her current state is something I did not anticipate. I believed she would've come from a slave upbrining but suspected the freedom theme would be a part of what came to be, but the fact she probably was and still is a slave is very interesting. It really makes me hope that the story will actaully explore what had led her to this current existence, cause there had to be a will or some kind in the past.

I REALLY do not want Zeke to somehow turn a new leaf. I do love Zeke as a character and to be honestly, out of all the plans on the table, Zeke's is by far the most rational in the long term and it does show he values the greater good for the entire world. Even if he begins to see other things in a better light, such as seeing Eren's drive for freedom being completely of his own, I really do not want this to suddently skew his perception about the greater good for the world. Depending on what Eren's plan actually was, I dearly hope Zeke's stance when it does get revealed still factors in the above.

I genuinely do not think Eren himself factors at all into the memories being shown, they are Grisha's being called upon by Zeke, Eren is merely there on the ride. Now given it seems some of these memories are very much new to both the brothers. I suspect Eren pull Zeke into the next memory which may either be something new or something like Grisha as the Riess estate, pleading to Freida not out of his nationalist ideology, but for his family.