Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20161007195718/@comment-5774380-20161008054550

This is something I forgot to mention in my previous post. We always wondered why the Reiss Coordinate users invariably refused to reveal the true history of the world to anyone, even to their own family. I thought it was in order to protect them from the cruel reality that they were “descendants of the evil”, but that was not actually the primary reason. The true reason is that they were trying to prevent the massacre that would follow if the Eldian knew the reality of their encagement.

While the Eldian were told that they lived in a post-apocalyptic world roamed by Titans with them as the only survivors, the reality was that such apocalypse never happened and the world is alive and well, with people living comfortably outside, and the Titans only exist in that tiny island where they are confined like livestock. But even worse: that encagement and all the suffering, frustration and deaths it has brought is senseless because they are only being punished for the sins of their ancestors and they always have had the power to escape at any time.

The problem is that even if the ancient Eldian were evil, the Marleyans have demonstrated to be equally evil, condemning the descendants of their tormentors to remain cornered and cannibalized by their own people for eternity in revenge for crimes they didn’t commit; so if the Eldian knew this, there’s no way they could forgive the Marleyans and they would want to be released immediately and make them pay (which seems to be what the Ackermans and Asians wanted), once again massacring a race they already subjugated for 1700 years in the past.

So the only way to put an end to this circle of cruelty would be to prevent the Eldian from knowing the truth and keeping them encaged, erasing their memories, spreading the false story that the world is uninhabitable and even considering taboo to express any desire to go outside. This is the only way that two races that have nothing but hatred for each other could live in “peace” (the “true peace” believed by the First King).

So the question is, now that the Survey Corps know the truth, how are they going to handle this knowledge? How are they going to reveal it to the people and prevent that uncontainable anger and thirst for revenge from leading to a new human-human extermination that the Reiss wanted to avoid? Is that even possible?