Board Thread:Manga/@comment-26056057-20160509020829/@comment-26932251-20160515021006

I think I know the homelanders' motivation.

So far we haven't had revealed how many titans exist in the world, if there are new titans coming into the world, and where the new titans come from.

I ask myself... what could be so bad that they could feel justified doing the things that they are doing...

Then along comes Zeke who is able to make new dumb dumbs.

I put two and two together... Zeke comes from out there and he has the ability to make new titans... If we presume that new titans are coming into the world then with the information we have now I feel I can make an educated guess that '''the homelanders are the source of the new titans. '''

More specifically, I think that for some reason the homelanders are compelled to sacrifice their own to make new titans to help keep the people of the world within the walls imprisoned. That's a horrific concept no? Can you imagine seeing your family or yourself sacrificed to live an eternal nightmare (going off Ymir's testimony) as a dumb dumb all to keep a bunch of people you regard as scum imprisoned forever?

From what I can see, that's the best motivation I can come up with for why the homelanders might want to see the wall people exterminated, they just don't want to have to keep being made into titans anymore.

And they might want the coordinate to control all of the titans that exist now so that they can live in the world in peace. From what we can see of Marcel being eaten by Ymir's dumb dumb form, even the homelanders with their very powerful titan shifters are not beyond being threatened by them.