Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180808084355/@comment-36307699-20180811075517

Thinker224 wrote: I'll just put this out.

I genuinely like Gabi as a character in the context of this series. She's is our point of view from somebody on the "opposite" team. She's an extremely selfless individual who is extremely prideful and protective of her people and is truly seeking to give her people a better life.

Yes, she's loud and her actions may be malicious from the point of view of siding with the Pradisians, but all her actions in a sense, come from a place that is genuinely good, from a point of view. Hell, I find her a lot more captivating than Eren was at the beginning of the series, her goals at least have a greater point to them as opposed to Eren who was basically driven by rage.

Yes, she is a class example of being biased my Marley's propoganda, but that's sort of the entire point.

That being said, I like looking at this whole grand situation from the overall view. People like to say Marley are the "bad guys" and Eldians are poor oppressed people, which is true for the past 80 years, but then you kind of think of the fact that Eldians have kind of been the oppressors of the world for probably the last 1900 years. I mean the entire reason King Fritz and Tybur staged the Great Titan War, resulting in the complete collapse of the Eldian empire was because they felt sorry for Marley. That is the whole point of attack on titan. Isayama didn't wanted to create a hero vs villain story. In attack on titan, everyone is a hero and villain at the same time. Their world isn't black and white, it is grey.

I think that how gabi was put in is good. It gives us a different perspective on what life is truly like on the other side, and how she will have to deal in a situation when residing within her enemies territory. Gabi grew up in that world where stories of her ancestors and their enemies, the devils of paradise are evil. Granted I can understand that a lot of people don't like her because she killed one of our favourite characters Sasha. Don't forget, she lost two of her friends (Zofia & Udo); witnessing their deaths while watching the community being attacked by paradise military. How would a girl, being trained to fight and with a personality on not wanting to back down as her friends and people getting slaughtered. That person would grab a gun and attack.