Board Thread:Theories/@comment-39492511-20200429172238/@comment-1327106-20200429234355

I doubt they'd change her death, because that would involve changing all the ramifications around her death. For instance, people get mad at Eren for forcing the Survey Corps into following his plan, indirectly leading to Sasha's death. While you could replace her death with, say, Connie's, that creates a different can of worms.

Kaya and the Blouse family wouldn't occupy the same space in the story anymore since Sasha would be alive and well (no debate whether to forgive or to hold a grudge) and Gabi wouldn't be able to see how she ruined other people's lives without knowing better.

It's not like you could swap Sasha for Connie and make Connie a surrogate brother for Kaya since he doesn't have that relationship with her. And then you'd have to cut Connie kidnapping Falco and trying to feed him to his mother.

And of the named characters, Connie is probably the easiest to swap with. You might be able to kill off Jean instead, but that doesn't solve the story problem.

Sasha's death and how it affected people is critical for Gabi overcoming her brainwashed upbringing so it's important that she gets to know someone like Kaya, so she realizes she's hurt this person and her family without intending to because she thought she was doing this great and patriotic thing.

You'd have to build out a new storyline with other characters who we've never seen (whereas we've met Kaya and Sasha's dad before) to get the same effect, and it probably wouldn't be as powerful because they'd all be a bunch of strangers. I mean, sure, Connie has his mom, but his mom isn't going to be able to make a good case for why Gabi did a bad thing.