Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190908104148/@comment-1327106-20190914173722

It's a little more science fictional than AoT usually gets, but because we had Kruger hearing about Mikasa and Armin, the groundwork for seeing the future and thus affecting the past was laid out back in Chapter 89.

So learning that the Attack Titan's special ability was to see future memories was not really pushing it for me. It's was just confirming what I already suspected.

It's not surprising that seeing the future is going to affect a person's behavior. We don't know what Kruger saw specifically (though it would be nice if that comes up at some point), but it was obviously from the future, and he mentioned Armin and Mikasa to Grisha, who no doubt remembered those names when he met the two for the first time.

You could reasonably argue that the reason he took in Mikasa at all is because he knew from Kruger that he's supposed to protect someone by that name.

Because of Chapter 89, I feel like there was juuuuust enough groundwork laid that Chapter 121 was not too much of a stretch. Instead, the part that was giving my brain exercise was cycling the parameters for how the memories were coming together.

Like I didn't realize that the reason Grisha never sees adult Eren in his memories is because he's literally seeing Eren's memories through Eren's eyes (so unless Eren is facing a mirror there's no reason for Grisha to see him). This probably would have worked better in a novel, but in a manga you rarely draw first person POV, so we have all these scenes in Grisha's memories from angles that never Grisha nor Eren is actually experiencing these events from.