Talk:Thomas

Status
Whether it's more likely that Thomas is alive or deceased, I believe he should stay as unknown due to all of the chaos that's hit the Survey Corps after his final appearance during the Clash of the Titans arc.

While it's entirely possible that Thomas switch out of the Survey Corps after the whole Ragako incident, it's just as possible that he could have died in two big events that followed his last appearance. When Eren was rescued from Reiner and Bertolt, Jean says that out of the 100 soldiers (Survey Corps, Garrison, and MPs combined), only forty returned and the Corps lost most of its seasoned veterans. If Thomas did not participate in this or made it out alive and didn't transfer out, he definitely would have died during the Battle of Shiganshina (only eight or nine out of the original 100+ soldiers are left, right now). He could be alive or dead, but we can't say for sure on either side, so I believe he should be categorized as Status Unknown until something (if anything) is revealed in the future.

Oh, it's already been changed back. Fair enough :o --GodKingReiss (talk) 07:13, June 15, 2016 (UTC)


 * I disagree. This is just like the Hugo discussion we just had. Even though it is super likely someone is dead, we don't get to decide that. Thomas hasn't been seen in any danger, the last we saw of him he was okay. We can't say "well maybe he was a part of this thing". We have to see a corpse to list someone as dead, and we have to see danger directly affect someone to list them as unknown.--JinxTheFunhouse (talk) 06:59, June 15, 2016 (UTC)
 * But we're not listing him as dead; we're listing him as unknown; specifically because, as you said, there's no way to determine if he's dead or not. The problem is, there's also no way to prove he is alive. We know he took the news of Wall Rose's breach to Erwin in Ermich District, and that's it. Did he die during the mission to recover Eren from Reiner and Bertolt? (There were a lot of casualties) If he did survive that, then there are only two possibilities for him: either he quit the Survey Corps for some reason (in which case he would be alive and safe behind the Walls... unless he was killed in a mugging, lol), or he would have participated in the Expedition to reclaim Wall Maria, and either died from Bertolt's Bert Bomb (that name's starting to grow on me), or died from the Beast Titan's rock barrage. Or maybe he died in a freak accident in the 3 months between the Uprising arc and the Return to Shiganshina arc.


 * Also, if you want to bring in the Hugo discussion, I'd just like to point out that he is also listed as unknown for the reasons Thomas is listed as unknown: we never saw his corpse and so can't determine if he is alive or dead.--Neetaku (talk) 07:10, June 15, 2016 (UTC)


 * Hugo is listed as unknown because he was attacked and we never saw his corpse. I'd just like to loop back to where I said "We have to see a corpse to list someone as dead, and we have to see danger directly affect someone to list them as unknown." because I feel like that was kind of over looked lol --JinxTheFunhouse (talk) 10:02, June 15, 2016 (UTC)