Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-35822279-20180714045854

Side01Winder01 wrote: @Freeman1378 - Eren went AWOL because Hange and the Corps were not going to attack Marley and were commited to following Kiyomi/Zeke's plan which would put the fate of Paradis squarely on Historia and her progeny (AKA death by proxy of being a shifter + being a walking WMD) and Eren didn't agree with that. This could mean two things which is that Eren is unwilling to compromise Historia's freedom in exchange for security simply because he believes everyone is entitled to freedom or less likely but still possible is that Eren is in love with Historia and is unwilling to sacrifice her because of that (This could be the reason why he understood Falco's motivation easily as Falco trains to prevent Gabi from shortening her life and Eren might be willing to burn his soul away in order to protect Historia) but both of these are just personal theories on why Eren is willing to go to such lengths for Historia's safety. That's actually a very good point. A lot of people found it strange how romantically observant Eren was in deducing Falco's feelings for Gabi, considering before the timeskip he was utterly clueless when it came to romance (one example being he completely misunderstood Connie and Sasha's implication that Marlow and Hitch were a couple). His newfound understanding would make sense if he'd experienced some romance himself during the timeskip. And it's entirely possible that Eren and Historia became close after he was the only person to vocally stand up for her during the meeting (which could be a parallel to Grish and Dina now that I think about it). Yea there is a lot of parallels between Historia and Dina as both usually have short blond hair, they are royals, they are the last female members of their families (Reiss/Fritz), and Dina was titanized by Kruger so she wouldn't become a breeder for Marley and ironically Historia is being used exactly like that by Paradis at the moment. Also you are exactly right in the similarities between that scene where Eren stands up for Historia and Dina/Grisha's intial meeting as I literally thought the exact same thing when I was reading the chapter. It would undeniably be an interesting path for the story to go down to parallel the two Yeagers and there royal counter parts because as George Lucas said "It's like poetry, it rhymes" and that is a principle that Isayama has adhered to so far in this story.