Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27713352-20160922044803/@comment-30069705-20161003192718

AhmedHadi1 wrote: As neutral as ever, Eradicate.

I, though, wouldn't mind if they do end up a couple.

Same here. I, personally, do still like that ship as well. It's just, after what I've read in official interviews, I understand and accept that it might not be fit to happen, and I've been taking a closer look back at some interactions and the subtexts, and I guess I don't really need it to happen to be happy. I would like it to be left an open option in a default ending that leaves ships open though. That would suit the series better, and people could pay attention to the dynamics of every ship wthout having to worry about whether it's right or wrong.

I, myself, have more than just one ship involving Eren that I like along with Eren x Mikasa. Eren x Levi, Eren x Armin, Eren x Annie, and now Eren x Historia as well, even though we can be pretty sure, logically speaking, that those ships won't happen. Eren x Levi is just a crack yaoi pedophile ship that some fangirls like, Eren and Armin are just best friends and will start opposing each other soon anyways, Eren can't be expected to love Annie now after the whole female titan incident, and Historia is queen of the walls that Eren wants to spend the rest of his life ouside of once he can, leaving us with just Eren x Mikasa as the most logical remaining.

The author gives me the impresion that he's completely fine with that ship, but he doesn't feel the need to actually make it a thing in his own story. I could see him allowing the 2 to have a non-canon marriage/pair-up/confession mainly just to satisfy the many fans that really want it to happen though, be it in a spinoff, a video game, an OVA, etc.