Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20161007195718/@comment-31940900-20161010124029

Tausendberg wrote: Bertolt was something of a pawn of a pawn. The only world he really ever experienced was cruelty with respites of kindness and companionship in the service of further cruelty in the advancement of power hungry assholes' games.

I feel sorry for him, I doubt he ever had a chance.

Seeing what most of the world is like and why he is where he is makes me better understand his famous "I have no real will of my own" statement. If you think about what his life was, he was just swept along and wanting to go a different way would have only been a problem for him, maybe even gotten his spinal fluid "transferred" to someone else. The Marleyans are sick fucks, what they do to children. There is no legitimate rational premise of ethics that can defend what they have done. So I take it that's why RBA were sent to the Walls. They were Marleyans sent by their government to destroy the Walls for what I assume are racially charged motives? Kinda shines more light on Reiner's 'Evil Race' comments.

But I feel even more sorry for Bertolt now. The Marleyans probably brainwashed him like they did Zeke, making him believe these people had to die. If he didn't comply, he'd probably be branded as a race traitor and executed in front of a firing squad, fed to dogs, or maybe even another titan shifter.