Board Thread:Manga/@comment-26056057-20160509020829/@comment-26932251-20160514061207

I think more will be revealed in time that puts things in greater context. It's kind of like Keith Shadis knowing who Grisha was. That went totally over my head the first time I watched the anime but after reading the chapter where Keith Shadis is all fucking emo about his life I'm just like, "SO THAT is why in the narration he talks about Grisha! It wasn't just a coincidence that Eren, the most determined trainee there, wound up with the defective equipment."

Thinking about that defective equipment again, I do think about the fact that there might not be many coincidences in the AOT universe.

Like, thinking back on it now, why was the Reiss Family underground in that cavern anyway? Did the homelanders have some way of knowing when there was a relatively new Reiss on the beat and consequently there would be a Reiss who was weak enough to be defeated?

Woah... what if Grisha was a spy for them and he relayed information to the homelanders? "So, I suspect that the previous coordinate holder has died and that a new and as of yet unprepared coordinate holder currently holds the power. If you don't attack in the next couple years or so, you're gonna have to wait another generation."

And then maybe Grisha decided to try to beat the homelanders to the punch by stealing it for himself.

But this is all speculation, we still don't know why they are doing what they're doing.