Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-35822279-20180714012512

Fire Eater wrote: I don't think Historia is one of the offenders in question here. Though this pregnancy plan does suck. I don't like what it does for her role in the remaining story, but it's not character crushing.

If you wanna talk about ruined character growth, let's have a good look at Eren himself, who is becoming the kind of anti-hero that I don't think you could legit root for at this stage. I saw more guilt from Armin and the three Warriors combined for their respective civilian kills than Eren has shown in all of the last seven chapters between blowing up the festival and threatening Hange. Not to mention the eight people, Sasha included, that he got killed because he is too bullheaded to account for anyone else's well-being.

No wonder the rumors of the main trio collapsing are still running rampant. I don't think Eren is heartless as he clearly cried over getting Sasha killed in 105 and also seems to have a look of regret before transforming and intiating The Battle Of Liberio. I think Eren just compartmentalizes better than any character we have seen before and because of that he gives of an aura of apathy when in all reality he probably cares just as much or even more than any other person. The reason he freaked out at Hange is because she and the rest of Paradis haven't come up with an immediate permanent solution to Paradis's problems outside of a short term fix that only ensures repeating the mistakes of the past rather than solving the current issues at hand and also on top of that over relies on two sketchy alliances. The only difference these days in his personality is that he doesn't relish conflict like he used to (Ex. no more psychotic rants about killing his enemies in brutal fashion) and he's not as explosively emotional as he used to be but he hasn't lost his righteousness or will to save those he cares about (Ex. he clearly cares about Historia as everything he has done recently has been done for her sake). Overall I don't think Eren is too radically different these days to the man that we have seen prior to this and I don't think his character has been handled that poorly in the current story.