Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-39492511-20190519172631/@comment-25933225-20190519193940

That would have been a heartbreaking scene. The chapter where Eren and Mikasa are fighting to save Armin gave me tears (and even Connie, on one panel we see him crying and saying "See you soon Armin", that was litterally heartbreaking).

I think that saving Erwin would have been saving a very competent soldier, but I don't know how he would have acted against Marley.

Eren and Mikasa would have been destroyed by Armin's death, at least for a while, but they'd be forced to move forward. They've already faced Carla's death, Marco's death, Hannes's death. They've known dozens of people who died, and they still moved on. Maybe they'd have buried Armin on the beach they discover in chapter 90, that would have been a suited place for him to rest. Maybe Eren wouldn't have hesitated to kill Reiner during the battle of Liberio/Revelio, as a revenge for Armin's death. Hundreds of theories are possible;

Erwin would have been a tough opponent for the Yeagerists tho (unless he drinks the wine, making him as vulnerable as Pixis).