Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27713352-20160922044803/@comment-30069705-20161001160739

Even that scene in chapter 50 isn't really as romantic or shippy as some may think (or at least like to think) it to be. If anything, maybe it's ambiguous on both Eren and Mikasa's parts. There was no actual love confession to put it or the ship in stone. Mikasa didn't seem to really be going for a kiss. Eren had not only Mikasa on his mind at the time that he activated the coordinate, but also himself, Armin, and all his other comrades on the battlefield who were in absolute peril of dying, and he knew, deepdown, that he was powerless to do anything about it as far as he knew at the time, but he still just didn't want to accept that they were all going to die like that. Plus, he had just watched Hannes die right in front of him, and at the hands of the very titan that killed his mother (something he's still mad about). Plus, he was still mad at Reiner and Bertolt as well.

That being said, they could still end up together in the end if they're both still alive at that point. You never really know with these franchises. It's just I understand that even Isayama Hajime himself describes Eren and Mikasa's relationship to be more like "mother and son" rather than a "romantic relationship" (and he also says Eren will eventually move away from her once he grows independent of her), and that is a rather accurate description of their relationship. It's not too surprising if you think about it, considering they were introduced to each other at a young age and grew up together more like family since then. I honestly wouldn't put it past Eren to fall for someone like Historia (who he didn't grow up with like family but still seems to now have a strong bond with) later on instead, if he were to even fall for anyone at all (he's never even had a thing for Historia even when all those other guys did).