User blog comment:Fire Eater/So what's the REAL reason we've been following this story?/@comment-26495049-20180714235436

You should rejoice, for Sasha has lived for 50+ chapters longer than initially planned by Isayama. Did you know that Isayama initially wanted to kill her off back in Season 2, when she saved that little girl from her village? His editor got so upset when he saw her death scene that he broke down and cried in the bathroom, which convinced Isayama to keep her alive then.