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Warrior655 wrote: Freeman1378 wrote:

Warrior655 wrote: Anyone have possible theories or beliefs on what will happen in chapter 109?

To me, I think that most of the chapter will focus on Eren, Mikasa and Armin. We no doubt will have more of Gabi and Falco with the girl, and probably a little bit of Historia or Marley Warriors. Who knows, we might find out on what is in that Marley wine bottle (poison/titan serum). I think the chapter will probably have 4 big parts to it.

1.) The end of our current flashback train with Eren departing for Marley, Historia's situation being fully answered (baby daddy, what team she's currently on, why she got pregnant etc.), and a full answer to why Eren intiated the Battle Of Liberio or alternatively the continuing of the flashbacks with a focus on one of these elements. I personally hope this is the end of the current flashbacks but it's all up to Isayama and if he wants to save the big revalations for the volume's finale in two months time.

2.) The big thing were going to get is the resolution to Gabi's current character arc through the girl and what she represents, exposure to the normality of Paradis for our Marley runaways. This realistically is going to end in one of two ways either Gabi escapes her delusion that Paradis Eldians are demon spawn and mellows out (to what extent we will see) as a result she gains a new perspective, becomes closer to Falco, and with the help of Falco blazes forward on the path to peace (alternatively they switch sides) or Gabi has a psychotic break kills the girl, her family, and even Falco (if he gets in the way) and then countinues on her single minded mission to kill Eren. The first option I feel is 90% guarenteed to happen as Isayama has been pretty unsubtly setting this up since 105 and I think he wants to make the point that understanding that even your so called enemies are ultimately only human and that mindlessly chasing revenge will only cause more heartbreak and tragedy rather than change anything through Gabi's character arc. The other option I don't think is going to happen as it would greatly anger the fanbase and it's not even terribly unique in the current media landscape (I've watched close to 4 shows in 3 months that have had this exact same moment played out already to varying levels of sucess) so it wouldn't even be that shocking plus I think Eren has this role pegged already and Gabi is meant to be his shadow so she'll must likely end up doing the opposite of Eren because of that.

3.) Eren or Zeke make a move and we get the beginnings of a jailbreak. My money is on Zeke titanizing the mps and breaking out with the help with his volunteers (Nicolo perhaps will free Yelena and the others?). I think we will at least get one of these things on our way to an explosive finale to volume 27 and I think it would be pretty goofy to sit still any longer as Zeke has been spouting cyptic lines and stares for like 4 chapters and Eren been moping around in a cell for just as long so it feels like it's time to kick things into high gear as all pieces are in position and ready to go.

4.) A full explanation of Reiner's surprise attack plan (Objectives, routes, who's coming with etc.) and maybe some brief bits in Marley were we get to see the current mental states and goals of Colt, Pieck, and Porco. Pretty much, however we probably get more information about Historias' pregnancy in bits and pieces through a couple more chapters.

Eren will most likely break out of jail in this upcoming chapter. However it will be a question if either Armin and Mikasa get a chance to confront him or not. I hope that they do and that we get some interesting info about Erens' psyche, plus a epic Armin versus Eren. To me, I believe that Eren is most likely becoming a anti-hero. He is a good guy; wanting to protect his friends and the island. However, the military aren't seem to be doing everything right since meeting Zekes' followers. Who knows, Mikasa might choose Erens' side because she cares for Eren.

Nicolo most likely break Yelena and the others out during when MPs start turning into titans.

As for Zeke and Eren teaming up, there is a chance that it will break up in future chapters due to conflict of interests. Like I said above, Eren wants to protect his friends and the island. If Zeke starts turning people into titans (Eren won't know about it at first), Eren will confront Zeke in a massive sibling showdown. - I agree that Eren is more of an anti-hero these days of the Ozymandias variety (Watchmen's antagonist) rather than an anti-hero of the Walter White variety (Breaking Bad) as he is doing everything for the safety of his nation rather than something selfish but like Ozymandias, Eren has already done some truly awful things in the name of what's right and we might have just scratched the surface of how far Eren is willing to go to secure victory and I wonder if Eren might be willing to hurt his own friends if they get in the way of his mission as I got some chills down my spine from that flashback that made me think things might get really ugly going forward. I don't think Eren cares about the mps though and I wouldn't be surprised if Nicolo was working on his orders to spike the wine with titan spinal fluid as he probably sees them as incompotent and weak willed obstacles in the way of Eldia's freedom.

- I guess I should clarify my feelings on a Zeke/Eren alliance too. So I think Zeke/Eren are alligned with each other currently as Eren went out of his way to retrieve Zeke ahead of schedule (against the corps wishes), they had tons of time to communicate with no interference (The ball that Eren has shows this as Zeke clearly loves Baseball showing they were in contact), Historia gets pregnant at a time that conviently spares Zeke for a little longer and Eren is one of the only people that could directly influence her (I don't think she would listen to Yelena, Onyankopon, or Nicolo on a matter like this), and they have a common enemy right now in the mps who are handicapping them both. I think though that while they are allied currently that there overall goals are markedly different and the alliance will break off once Zeke reveals his true self which I don't think is pro-Paradis. Also I definitely want to see Zeke and Eren clash as it would be a pretty unique fight with Eren's WHT and Zeke's projectile based fighting, it would be like a Titan gunslinger duel which is awesome and something we haven't seen before.