Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160408232143/@comment-26932251-20160414212936

Hey guys! I think I just figured out the homelanders' underlying motive!

So I was thinking about Zeke's comment (I forget which chapter, the one where we learn his name) where he says something along the lines of that they are 'cursed'. And that's an interesting commentary considering how much power the homelanders appear to have.

Simultaneously I was pondering the open questions of... how many titans are there in the world? Is it a finite amount? If there are no new titans created could all of the titans gradually be exterminated?

And then it hit me...

What if the homelanders are 'cursed' in the sense that THEY are the source of new titans?!

Riffing off of my go-to theory that the world within the walls is in reality a prison maybe the homelanders are in some way compelled, every time members of the wall people military kill a mindless titan, to have to give up one of their own to be made into a mindless titan, so that the last layer of defense against 'escape from the prison', the seemingly unending horde of mindless titans outside the walls, never decays.

I mean, I sit here and I wonder what could be so terrible about the Homelanders' lot in life that they could feel justified in committing the massacres that they have, and the possibility that maybe the First King in some way compels them to have by now sacrificed hundred or thousands of their own people to be made into mindless titans seemingly for the rest of eternity, well, the shoe fits.

If I may be so bold, I can call this the Tausendberg Unified Theory of the world of Attack On Titan.

Why does the world within the walls exist? To imprison pathological people and their descendants for all time and to perhaps form an environment that gets them to live peaceful lives and live in a sustainable culture.

Why do the titans exist? To keep people within the confines of the wall and to limit most people's curiosity to only the world within the walls.

Why does the Survey Corps engage in its quixotic missions? To allow the mindless titans to kill off the most willfully curious of the population and simultaneously serve as a frightening example to the rest of the population of what happens when they go outside the walls.

Do titans reproduce or get created in some way? Titans themselves don't reproduce but are instead made from human beings that are derived from a stock of people outside of the walls known as 'the homeland'. They are compelled to this role in some way possibly related to the coordinate. Speculation; The First King "cursed" the homelanders in such a way that the mindless titans will kill off the homelanders if they do not sacrifice some amount of their own to be made into mindless titans

What motivates the homelanders? They want the coordinate to reset the mindless titans on the terms of the homelanders and then they want to kill off the people of the world within the walls so that the status quo is no longer relevant.

Thoughts?