Board Thread:Manga/@comment-31940900-20160614173614/@comment-26932251-20160615221228

Look at Page 45... Bertolt doesn't look angry, he doesn't really look scared, he kind of looks a bit like a doll. He looks to me like someone who realizes that they're out of time.

I think the story with Bertolt that we've seen is that he's slowly been stripped of his humanity to become the ultimate monster because after all this is the strongest we have ever seen Bertolt both in his generated explosion and the fact that as the colossal titan he was able to stand freely. But now that he's lost all of his humane tendencies and he's lost his monstrous capabilities, there's pretty much nothing left. I imagine that he'll be fairly apathetic as he gets executed.

The only ambiguity about his fate that I can see right now is that much earlier in the series they talk about extracting Eren without killing him by cutting him at his arms and legs, so that is something that Eren would think of doing... Despite Eren's previous proclamations, Eren apparently cut off Bertolt at the arms and legs, which was probably very deliberate because it's the cuts are too perfect to be a coincidence. If he just wanted to kill Bertolt outright then he would've aimed his blade strikes wherever and that could've likely destroyed Bertolt's spine and probably mortally wounded him.