Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190908104148/@comment-33179669-20190910230948

NOTE: Apologies to those of you unfamiliar with Norse mythology, and to those of you who are experts.

I'm beginning to think more and more about the Norse mythology themes of Attack on Titan. The "time travel," which is more like projecting through time, and the point at which the series is at makes me think there may be a true Ragnarok. What's happening with the Marleyans and the Paradisians is nothing compared to Eren's twitchy urge to release death upon the world that he more or less justifiably faults as being responsible for his imprisonment. I personally think that the Wall Titans destroying the other nations would just be the beginning of Eren's wrath, but who knows. His hatred is seemingly limitless, and he doesn''t seem to care about breaking the cycle of endless torment so much as destroying everything he blames for his "imprisonment."

But all this time stuff got me thinking about Jormungandr (spelled several different ways), the giant serpent. In the general description of the Norse mythology, Jormungandr and Thor fight killing each other in their final battle, while a baby version of Jormungandr is sent back in time before Ragnarok. Will someone (or something) somehow be sent into the past? Was (or is) there really a Devil lurking about Attack on Titan's equivalent of Yggdrasil, the reality-connecting tree, or was it just Eren (or someone we didn't expect) all along?

What I'm pretty sure of, however, is that if there is a time loop, it has an ending for each "cycle." It just has to be set off in order to ensure that things go the way they're supposed to. Or if it is supposedly endless, Eren or another person will somehow break it once and for all. That's just my opinion, though.