Board Thread:Manga/@comment-26056057-20160509020829/@comment-27702860-20160514043310

Tausendberg wrote:

Well, isn't it obvious?

[[File:Yesno.gif|frame|left|This isn't an argument!

Yes, it is!]]

The idea was that the colossal and the armored would break through Wall Maria and that would cause so much damage that the coordinate holder would have to come on out from the interior to take care of business but Frieda Reiss was killed shortly after Wall Maria was breached by Grisha Yeager.

This would assume that the Shifters--or at least the non-Reiss Shifters--are working against the Reiss and Hierarchy for want of a better term. Not saying that is wrong. It just seems that neither is interested in "winning" so much as maintaining the status quo.

''Now the REAL question for me is the timing. Did Grisha know when Wall Maria's doomsday would possibly be? Did he kill Frieda Reiss in order to take the coordinate out of reach from both the homelanders and the Reiss family?''

Good question. The answer depends on "what" is in his basement. Now, he did, without knowing that attack would happen that day, promise to his son to let him see what was in his basement. This assumes he would be happy with Eren learning The Truth without being a part of it. Clearly, Grisha felt betrayed, wanted revenge, and felt taking the Coordinate and giving it to his son was the "best way" for reasons we still do not understand. Despite all of that, though he was willing to let his son in on The Truth [All Rights Reserved.--Ed.] before the attack, he was not willing to do so after.

Now, it is possible that he knew Erin would lose his memory so why bother.

Unless it's an oversight by Isayama, the timing is too perfect to be a coincidence.

Given it is the opening of the manga I doubt it was an oversight. Unless it was one of those tragic things that happen in real life. "They have not attacked in 100 years!" is like an earthquake. It will happen. Just when. However, I agree more with your speculation that they are connected. Unless, Grisha did not know, was putting together whatever it was in his basement, THEN the attack came that killed his wife, and he decided to take revenge the only way he knew. Who knows?

But yeah, Reiner, Bertolt, and Annie decided to infiltrate when the Reiss didn't show up because they were like, "what? Really? All of this damage and King Reiss is a no-show? Ok... we gotta get in and find out what's going on."

Is an interesting theory. I like it. Why are three/four--if we count Ymir--Shifters wandering about joining the human military. It leads me to suspect that Destroy All Humans is not actually the goal of the Shifters from "The Village."

Speculate. . . speculate. . ..

--J.D.