Board Thread:Theories/@comment-34172004-20190508085746/@comment-25933225-20190513145337

From my perspective, Ackerbond is not a choice, at least when it's created. And as long as the Ackerman isn't aware of this bond, his/her actions will be mostly directed by it. It's instinctive. As we saw with Mikasa and Kenny, they're protecting Eren/Uri no matter what. We even saw Kenny being agressive with Rod because he just spoke about Uri, who's dead for a few years. So, as long as they're not aware of their "bond", they probably won't question themselves about their unconditionnal behavior towards their host.

The term "slave" used by Eren is pretty accurate, and volontarily brutal, because I think (and many people think that) that he used this very aggressive term (along with his speech) in order to help Mikasa to get away from her bond, to become a free person. And now, she's aware of that bond, she's probably questioning herself. That won't necessarilly end up with her being totally rid of this bond, but it's a first step. By the way, I don't think that there is a strict rule about "how to get rid of our bond". For Mikasa, Eren had to force her, but there might be other ways (The host ordering something too awful for the Ackerman's perspective, etc...).

Plus, Levi saving Armin instead of Erwin shows that the bond isn't the same for every Ackerman/host couple. If it was Mikasa instead of Levi, and Eren instead of Erwin, she would have done everything she could to keep him alive, while Levi chose to free Erwin from this "hell", by letting him die.

About the Ackermans who turned against Karl Fritz, here are a few possibilities: being an Ackerman doesn't necessarilly mean that you've triggered your bond with someone (Mikasa's father, maybe Kenny's grandfather, Kuchel), which mean that you could oppose the royal family without any problem related to the bond. And the bond can probably be "broken", as Eren tried to do with Mikasa's Ackerbond. Maybe Karl Fritz ordered his Ackerman bodyguard to kill the others Ackerman, he couldn't, turned against Karl, etc... We've got a lot of possibilities.