User blog comment:Fire Eater/What would you do different?/@comment-28958062-20180215212216

My style of writing and Isayama's style of writing are quite different.

The story would have been something else entirely even with the same premise.

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An example.

Annie would have not been the female titan and she would have lost an arm as result of the accusation.

Praticaly Annie had gardered some information about his father for Eren, was trying to hand it Eren but Mikasa instinctly saw it as an act of aggression and cut her arm off but since Annie wasn't the Female titan she almost ended up dying on the spot and Eren was the only reason she didn't as the Survey corps wanted her to die and cover it up to avoid being investigated themselvers.

This would have caused some development on all three main characters, Mikasa would have started to train with Levi to get a better hold of her insticts, Armin would have learned to do not denunce a comrade to superior based on assumptions and to always second guess himself, Eren on the other hand would have been stronger in his position and believes as it sinks into him the idea that the Survey Corps aren't the heroes he made them out to be as child plus it's the start of him pushing away Mikasa and Armin.

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The very same lesson Eren learned from Annie turning up to be the Female Titan is repeated to him by Reiner and Berthold later so I find it kind of redundant to repeat it twice when something else could have been done with it.