Board Thread:Manga/@comment-31940900-20160725184739/@comment-27321453-20160922215628

Fire Eater wrote: Bertolt's actions led to a holocaust that saw most of Wall Maria's citizens killed and who knows how many between it and Wall Rose. The dude has generally been shown to be detached, uninterested in fighting when not called back to the cause of the Homeland, and was remorseful about Carla's death and his part in it. Would've been great to find out why such a weakwilled, otherwise unassuming guy still felt obligated to commit the acts of mass murder he did. Never would've come close to justifying it, but it would've explained Bertolt's nature in full. It's exactly why the Hometown have opted to give Titan powers to and send kids this time around, because they're easier to manipulate and shape and way more susceptible to feed ideals into than adults. Reiner did say "we were just kids... we didn't know anything. If only we didn't know that these bastards existed... then we wouldn't have become these half-hearted pieces of shit."