User blog comment:Neetaku/A Rewrite of Attack on Titan/@comment-1037137-20180212032940/@comment-24407809-20180212052003

What I'm basically trying to do is rework the series so that it can accomodate for Isayama's unwillingness to kill any members of the main cast. If he had kept just a few members of the 104th around post-Trost (instead of killing all of them), he could have slowly killed them off in later story arcs to preserve the sense of danger that was initially present in the series, and has since fallen by the way-side.