Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200408113657/@comment-44328804-20200601205706

WaterKirby1994 wrote: Yeah I expect an 80% probability of Floch dying in chapter 129 or at least being mortally wounded. The only question is to who will end up fighting Floch, will it be Mikasa or Kiyomi? Mikasa confronting him would give her a chance to call out how much he changed, although Kiyomi doing it would give her a chance at revenge. I don't expect to find out what was under that smokescreen until 130 when Stop Eren Squad gets to Marley. I'm sure that end result of Annie's Father won't be revealed until Annie returns to Marley for the 1st time in almost 9 years.

I actually considered Ymir Fritz controlling Eren as a possibility, & once considered it possible that Beast Titan could be the final enemy, although the past 10 chapters made the latter seem unlikely. Keep in mind that Beast Titan is still in Shiganshina, how the heck is he getting to Marley unless he shows up out of nowhere in Chapter 129 & joins the Stop Eren Squad? Eren is more of an "Evil Hero", a hero character willing to do absolutely evil things if necessary, than a Pure Hero.

I wouldn't say that Bertolt's memories of Marley were fake exactly just vastly different from Grisha's. I agree that Armin always had a soft spot for Annie that was intensified by Bertolt's memories, additionally he was always the type who preferred solving things peacefully, while Eren was always the type to fight things out. People like Floch are why the Eldians were seen as Evil by the entire world. Still we have no clue what Isayama's Endgame is. It could even be Armin fighting Floch considering how he was at the end of chp 128. But as for the beast titan, I'm sure he will catch up and do something that will make him the final villain, NOT Eren, who I get looks bad but there was always good reason to find it fishy, even after chp 123. It all goes back to his development and other details about him, and most readers know it and can tell there's a twist coming his way. Besides, the SC making peace with the warriors is one thing, and completely understandable one way or another, but making peace with Zeke? Do I even need to say it?

Also, the thing about Eren and Armin's primary mindsets is that they tend to see things the other way as well. Armin showed the capacity to know when to fight when talking fails, and Eren has shown not wanting to fight when his feelings say otherwise. In fact, something that I noticed about people who like to say Eren is "evil" now tend to forget completeley is how he spoke to Reiner before the Liberio attack. He was understanding, peaceful, forgiving, and most of all, he TOOK BACK HIS SEASON 2 DEATH THREAT. So him going from that to a "genocidal extremist" doesn't add up to me, nor should it to any reasonable reader here.

Like you said, we don't know Isayama's endgame, nor do we know Eren's POV which would be worthless if him destroying the world was his endgame. So there's def more to the story.