Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25322628-20170113025521/@comment-31655854-20170404110737

I don't know I mean Eren did save her life so she may feel indebted to him. In a cruel world that made her witness her parents death, when those bandits or whatever had kidnapped her she had basically given up on life. But there was Eren to save her and give her the will to keep on living. I'm not surprised why she'd want to stay with him especially if she developed romantic feelings for him. But we can't argue on the fact that Mikasa wants to be with Eren I mean she almost gave up on life again when he had apparently "died". I think I'm just one of those guys who always falls into the trap of being on the protagonists side XD. But you are absolutely right, Mikasa's character lacks substance there's not enough development behind her. I think that her background story should have been a bit more gruesome, no offence to her parents dying but it was kind of basic, cliche we've all seen it somewhere before. Yeah Eren saved her but it doesn't equate to the kind of devotion she gives him.

It's really cool how AOT portrays Eren because most mangas develop their protagonists to being strong and independent towards the end, like they all get stronger or are already strong but Eren isn't like that he still has insecurities, he still feels weak and incapable of doing things himself. It's different which is good. Levi is the strongest man and Erens not the only Titan shifter, but he is the trump card with the coordinate so he's got that going for him at least XD.

Yh Jean does appreciate her he realises just how strong she is, and to be honest I'm actually surprised Jean is still alive I thought he'd be one to die at the beginning because he was so pessimistic at first. But maybe you are expecting too much of Mikasa. She is a woman yes and she can have desires but in the world that they live in that desire is limited. It is mostly males in AOT have the curiosity to actually want to venture outside the walls. Yes there are females in the survey corps but they aren't spearheads of the movement they are foot soldiers (well assuming Hange isn't female). It was because of Armin that Eren found out about the outside world and wanted to explore it, Mikasa wasn't there at the time when Armin showed Eren the book. Mikasa was probably brought up just to be a normal household woman.

But I think they just put Mikasa in there and made her strong just to satisfy female watchers who knows. And the time skip is four years I think as Eren is 15 when he graduates from the cadet corps and 19 after the time skip.