Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-26495049-20180709185018

RuneLai wrote:

I'm not sure I like Zeke having been a good guy all along. While it's not that different from what Eren Kruger did on the outside (playing ball with Marley to pretend to be on the same side), he decided on this course of action as a seven-year-old, which I find much less believable. Even if it was a spur of the moment thing he had to live with afterwards, there are a lot of variables that I don't think Zeke could have planned on in order for his plan to work.

For instance, he didn't know Eren would someday get the Founding Titan. He didn't know there would be a loophole around the king's vow (I assume he figured it out from Reiner and Bertolt telling him about Eren punching a Titan, and Zeke guessed that Titan was Dina). So what was he going to do if none of that happened? Zeke's plan only exists because of unusual events that have happened thus far, none of which he could have counted on. Not to mention Zeke's turning of Ragako village into Titans, which was completely unnecessary if he's a good guy like he says, since there was no one around him at the time.

I personally think (and am hoping) that Zeke is in fact lying about being on Paradis' side all the while, and that his real plan is to use the Wall Titans to destroy Paradis, instead of Marley.