Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20191008222936/@comment-37493549-20191015091324

Klaroliner7 wrote: TK, SunWarrior - how come the two you are debating for days (!) about what is the right way to debate on AOT, and not the plot itself? I don't mean do get between you two - you seem to have much fun from this discussion, but let me ask you two - What the both of you (the light reader, and the heavy reader) think that Eren actually wants? I mean, truly. Ever since the Marley saga, the dude wants something! It's not like he lost his sh*t all of a suuden... So whats the matter with him? You can see this thread alone that I do in fact debate plot points rather than just repeatedly call the author silly and ridicule all the legitimate discussion. I got a new perspective on the nature of the relationship between subjects of Ymir and the royal blood just earlier in this thread for example. I just feel the need to say something when this clown appears multiple times in every single thread just to say that he's bored of anything that's not people physically fighting each other and thinks the author is silly.

What Eren wants is unclear. I think he has the interests of the people of paradis at heart. At the start of the series his goal was to kill all the titans to free his people from their oppression and enable them to explore the world. After he realized Marley was the source of the titans and thus the oppression, he took action against them. Which included destroying their ships to protect paradis, eating the warhammer to weaken them while strengthening himself (and you could say by extension, paradis), kidnapping Zeke for similar reasons, and ultimately attacking the military leadership in liberio in a pre-emptive strike as a sign to say he accepts Marley's declaration of war and is ready to destroy them.

The gist of his character is that he's willing to kill anyone that threatens his freedom (even as a small child), so the obvious idea of using the rumbling to decimate the other nations such that they're no longer able to threaten paradis militarily would make sense. Whether this goes as far as him wanting to re-establish the eldian empire is unknown, though that is possible. He may see doing that as the only way to keep the eldians scattered throughout the world safe from the tyranny of Marley or any other such nations out there.

This stuff is all rather surface level and obvious though, it wouldn't surprise me if there's a twist in there somewhere regarding Eren's true motivations. After he ate the warhammer I initially believed part of Eren's plan was going to be eating all the other titan shifters to reassemble the original titan in order to wield its ultimate power for some purpose, but I'm not so sure about that angle anymore.