Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20171208191536/@comment-32003216-20171209042330

Dingman wrote: Call me crazy, but I'm not totally convinced that anyone is actually dead, Willy, Reiner or Falco. Hear me out.

It seems that the survey core (with the help of Zeke?) is taking careful steps to incompcitate the shifters. This is really logical. They might be able to break through the conditioning...nobody seems to actually beleive that Marley has their best interest at heart, or beleive the story. Also, in this chess game, you don't want to give up control of an important player. If a shifter just dies...the power will randomly travel to another Eldian. Technology might be making them irrelevant...but all 9 (8) titan shifters on one side? That's still powerful.

Also, let's be real...clearly Eren is a total boss now. He's learned to control his titan powers to a level that we haven't seen yet. In this chapter we see two things we haven't seen yet.

1) Eren regrows a limb or stop a limb from growing on command

2) There was no explosion when he transformed, no bolt of lighting from the sky like all the other times.

Part of me thinks that he pulled Reiner inside of the Attack titan as it was forming. Or at least did something to make sure that Reiner and Falco weren't killed. Also...Willy? well, we all know Reiner has come back from worse than that.

I think Eren is sizing up the board and will address the leaders of the world in the next chapter. He now knows where the Armored and War Hammer Titans stand in the coming war. He took the Cart and Jaw titan out of commission, so he could at least talk with them. Zeke seems to be in the know to some level. And the rest of the titans - Colossal and Female...well we all want to see Annie back in action.

Reiner ultimately wants atonement for his actions on Paradis, I think Eren is going to offer him that. Willy is bent on winning over the world and is willing to sacrifice the whole island to do that. So...I'm fairly certain Eren will put that shifting power in someone else. Unless Willy was decoy the whole time and wasn't the actual shifter. I think there's a theory going around saying the actual shifter is the really tall Tyber guard.