Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-29752445-20170415172945/@comment-29752445-20180806060007

RuneLai wrote: Kenny knows that you need to eat the person with the power to get it, but he doesn't know it's tied to bloodline. He actually sulks over it in the manga when he finds out.

Until that point, the implication is that he was working with Rod to get Eren and get the transfer ceremony going, and then he would swoop in and eat Eren himself (until he found out it doesn't work that way). I see.

also, it turns out that you weren't completely right about kenny.

Kenny did not know that reiss's family were destroyed. rod reiss actually hide it from them, because he was afraid that if they knew his family has been wiped and that the power of the founding titan was stolen, he wouldn't have power over them.

Also, it turns out the interior squad/the assembly did not know of historia and alma until rod went to them, hence why they ask alma and historia if they are related to rod reiss (when they capture them).

and the reason why rod reiss wanted historia spared and sent to the army, is because he knew he needed her royal blood, and kenny did not know it is needed.

That also would make sense why kenny would be forced to listen to rod, since he still thinks they have the power of the founding titan in their possesion.

only after eren shifsts for the first time, is when rod starts to reveal the truth about what happened to his family, to the interior squad, because he needs eren and historia captured to get the power back.

here is the source to everything:

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