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Speaker 1: Attack on Titan was one of my favorite series. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I had no issue with the ending. I thought it
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Speaker 1: kept with the harsh reality that Attack on Titan was
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Speaker 1: meant to be. It was never meant to have a
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Speaker 1: happy ending. If you went into this anime expecting a
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Speaker 1: good chuckle and the warm and fuzzies, then you were
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Speaker 1: watching the wrong one. This is the reason why I
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Speaker 1: thought the ending was perfect, a sad ending for a
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Speaker 1: sad series. I mean, it could have been worse. Anyone
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Speaker 1: seen the end of Evangelian. Yeah, that's essentially Attack on
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Speaker 1: Titan's ending, but even sadder somehow, And it was made
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Speaker 1: worse by the one hundred and twenty minutes of storyboards,
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Speaker 1: stock images, and constant explanation why Shinji should love himself.
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Speaker 1: It's supposed to be deep, but everyone knew that ending
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Speaker 1: sucked too bad. So everyone but alas, we're not talking
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Speaker 1: about Evan Gellian. We're talking about Attack on Titan. So
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Speaker 1: before I continue, I should offer you a spoiler warning.
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Speaker 1: I know that the anime is not caught up yet,
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Speaker 1: and so I assume that if you're watching this you
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Speaker 1: know what's what. If not, then I'll offer you a
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Speaker 1: small buffer before I get too spoily about the series.
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Speaker 1: have been watching since the beginning or at least caught
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Speaker 1: up after half the story was already told. We know
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Speaker 1: where everything went bad. The story was going as expected
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Speaker 1: all the way up to the end of season three.
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Speaker 1: During the season three finale, were shown the final battle
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Speaker 1: between the Scouts and the Warrior unit. Zeke Yeager in command,
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Speaker 1: Reiner and Berthold mustered their strength and fought against the Scouts,
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Speaker 1: but because of the quick thinking of arman Arlelt, as
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Speaker 1: well as the medal shared between all Scouts, the willpower
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Speaker 1: to march straight towards death to accomplish their goals, as
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Speaker 1: well as the guilt felt by those who survived, and
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Speaker 1: the ultimate breakdown of command as the battle drew to
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Speaker 1: a close. Everything about that battle showed us how hard
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Speaker 1: fought that victory was, and how no matter how sweet,
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Speaker 1: victory couldn't always cover the bitterness of defeat. And at
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Speaker 1: that point, even though Reiner, Berthold, and Zeke were all defeated,
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Speaker 1: we couldn't bear to watch it. No matter who won,
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Speaker 1: we would be sad because we saw that nobody wanted
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Speaker 1: to be there and nobody wanted to fight, but duty
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Speaker 1: forced it to be. In the end, we were all
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Speaker 1: rewarded for our diligence and loyalty to the series. When
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Speaker 1: the bombshell was dropped, humanity wasn't wiped out, far from it.
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Speaker 1: The entire way the world was safe from Titans, and
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Speaker 1: the people of Paradise were merely on a small island.
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Speaker 1: Their entire world was opened wide. But for some this
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Speaker 1: revelation was not the hope filled knowledge they had sought.
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Speaker 1: It merely told them that there was a new enemy,
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Speaker 1: and that enemy wasn't Titans, it was other humans. The
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Speaker 1: Titans were never their enemies. The Titans were their friends
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Speaker 1: and comrades who had had their humanity robbed from them
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Speaker 1: by those across the sea. And it was at this
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Speaker 1: point that Erin began to change for the worse. Aaron
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Speaker 1: realized that even outside of the walls, he was still confined.
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Speaker 1: He had merely pushed the boundaries. He hadn't removed them
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Speaker 1: at all, And so he began to wonder what was
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Speaker 1: beyond this. If he killed all of their enemies across
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Speaker 1: the sea, would he then be free? It all began
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Speaker 1: the moment he kissed the hand of his story Erese.
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Speaker 1: It was then that he witnessed everything, memories of the future.
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Speaker 1: Through the mixed power of the attack and founding Titan.
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Speaker 1: Aaron knew what he would do and what would happen.
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Speaker 1: He saw everything. This is one of the complaints I
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Speaker 1: have so commonly witnessed. Why did a do it? Erin himself,
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Speaker 1: during his short time with armin In the Path, stated
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Speaker 1: that he had hoped to play the villains, that the
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Speaker 1: others could stop him and be the new heroes the world.
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Speaker 1: Needed a new Hellos, and as such, Erin was essentially
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Speaker 1: playing the new Karl Fritz for Armand's Tiber. But he
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Speaker 1: then contradicts himself by stating that even if he had
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Speaker 1: not been stopped, he would have still killed everyone on
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Speaker 1: earth except for the people of Paradise. I will keep
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Speaker 1: moving forward. Erin would always keep moving forward no matter what.
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Speaker 1: But the issue with his desire to destroy all of
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Speaker 1: humanity is that we witness his conflict in this earlier on,
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Speaker 1: in which he acts as if he's unable to change
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Speaker 1: fate and that he doesn't want to do it. And
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Speaker 1: from here we're shown a theme within the series. All
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Speaker 1: the characters are a slave to something, and this echoes
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Speaker 1: in the drunkenness speech of Kennyakerman. All men live their
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Speaker 1: lives drunk on something, he had said. Well, we're also
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Speaker 1: shown that all men are slaves to something too. Arman
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Speaker 1: is a slave to his responsibility, Mikassa is a slave
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Speaker 1: to love much Awimir had been was a slave to
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Speaker 1: his depression, and Marley and He was a slave to
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Speaker 1: her own violence, and Erin himself was a slave to fate.
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Speaker 1: So what then did Erin have no choice? As he
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Speaker 1: marched forward, striking Arman and insulting Micassa, alienating his friends,
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Speaker 1: leading others to their deaths, and trampling the world. Did
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Speaker 1: Erin ever have the chance to stop? That's something we
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Speaker 1: simply cannot know. So many theories pervaded this ending in
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Speaker 1: Erin's true heart of hearts, but one thing is for sure.
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Speaker 1: He kept moving forward until he was dead, and that
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Speaker 1: death came at Mikasa's hands. And from that point all
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Speaker 1: men were free until they found that they could not
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Speaker 1: handle their freedom and put their shackles back on, their
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Speaker 1: shackles of hatred. And ironically, it was arin Enzik's formation
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Speaker 1: of the Yegorists that put these shackles back on, and
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Speaker 1: in the end, the curse of the Founding Titan would
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Speaker 1: be reborn. But I just can't help but wonder if
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Speaker 1: there could have been another ending hidden somewhere, a possible
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Speaker 1: path that could have been followed that would have possibly
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Speaker 1: led to a better explained, or at least mild more
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Speaker 1: happy of an ending. So this is what I want
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Speaker 1: to look at now. So let me explain something I
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Speaker 1: saw from reading the story and began to wonder myself.
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Speaker 1: I first want to start with a personal theory of mine,
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Speaker 1: and from there, I believe we can build a new
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Speaker 1: story of it by looking through a very particular looking glass,
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Speaker 1: and to get to the beginning, we must ironically start
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Speaker 1: at the end. Aaron's motivations and mentality, as well as
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Speaker 1: the relation to this, can only be explained if we
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Speaker 1: look back from a specific point in time. The founding
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Speaker 1: Titan is a creature of incredible power. The Attack Titan
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Speaker 1: is also incredible. But it's my belief that the Attack
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Speaker 1: Titan was created to be incredible, not by accident, but
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Speaker 1: by design, and I believe that design surpasses causality. For
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Speaker 1: those who have seen One punch Man's recent arc involving
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Speaker 1: Ghero as well as Sitama his feet to travel time
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Speaker 1: and land a punch that was never thrown, you'll understand
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Speaker 1: my idea. The Attack Titan's ability was orchestrated from the future,
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Speaker 1: not the past. Yes, the Attack Titan's ability was born
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Speaker 1: at the death of Amrror and the consumption of her
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Speaker 1: flesh by her daughters ew but I believe, like so
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Speaker 1: many others in the series, this was designed from the future.
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Speaker 1: It is revealed that the Smiling Titan, Kadisha's first wife
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Speaker 1: that ate Karla Jaeger, Kodisha's second wife, just dealing with
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Speaker 1: the Homebreaker. Yeah, was actually by Aaron's design. The Smiling
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Speaker 1: Titan was originally meant to eat Berthold, but Aaron manipulated
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Speaker 1: the Titan through the paths which exist outside of space
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Speaker 1: time to cause the Titan to target someone else. Essentially,
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Speaker 1: Aerin's mission was started solely by Erin. The revenge he
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Speaker 1: sought was to be on himself during the future. Imagine
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Speaker 1: if you were a time traveler who had created a
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Speaker 1: time machine from blueprints you found one day, and then
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Speaker 1: you used said machine to go back in time and
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Speaker 1: plant the blueprints you found in a place where your
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Speaker 1: past self could find them. That is what it is.
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Speaker 1: Erin has set himself on this inescapable path because of
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Speaker 1: how he's screwed with causality. But here is the issue.
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Speaker 1: If Erin is solely responsible for these things, then does
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Speaker 1: this mean that he could have at any time decided
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Speaker 1: that it would not happen. Why does he feel so trapped?
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Speaker 1: It's because he is. Urin isn't the only person who
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Speaker 1: possesses this power. Erin's usage of the Founding Titan isn't
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Speaker 1: only himself. The Founding Titan is also controlled by one
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Speaker 1: other being, Ymir Fritz. Yimir Fritz is herself a slave,
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Speaker 1: and during the entire time she was a slave, she
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Speaker 1: waited for someone to save her. That person ends up
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Speaker 1: being Erin, who teaches her how to be free. And
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Speaker 1: from here on, it's insinuated that the entire battle that
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Speaker 1: takes place on Erin's back is solely orchestrated by Amir.
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Speaker 1: Aaron states that he didn't do a thing, He just
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Speaker 1: kept moving forward. If Erin didn't do it, then who did.
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Speaker 1: Amir is the only other person in this battle capable
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Speaker 1: of controlling the Founding Titan. So moving back, we would
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Speaker 1: realize that while future Erin manipulated past Erin, we should
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Speaker 1: also assume that Yamir Fritz manipulated future Erin. To do so,
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Speaker 1: she created Erin. She needed someone with a heart burning
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Speaker 1: for freedom, and so she used future Erin to create
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Speaker 1: past Erin to set him down a path that would
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Speaker 1: inevitably lead to her being free. Have I lost yet?
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Speaker 1: If I'll be honest, I lost myself for a second there.
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Speaker 1: But the TLDR version of events is that Amir is
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Speaker 1: freed and because the paths exist in neither the past
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Speaker 1: nor future. Emir can freely manipulate the past and future.
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Speaker 1: She uses the person who saved her from her slavery
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Speaker 1: to create the person who would save her from slavery,
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Speaker 1: and she manipulates him to her own ends. The hatred
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Speaker 1: Aaron has was planted by himself, who was manipulated by
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Speaker 1: Emir to put it there. So in this way, Erin
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Speaker 1: is in control of himself. Yet he is also a
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Speaker 1: slave to fate, and this is further insinuated that he
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Speaker 1: was slowly being manipulated by Amir in a subtle way.
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Speaker 1: There is one scene that's shown in the manga that
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Speaker 1: occurs during the plane ride heading towards Erin. All of
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Speaker 1: the Scouts and Warrior Unit declare their desire to save Erin,
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Speaker 1: and the moment they say so, Erin immediately interrupts their
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Speaker 1: conversation through the paths and declares that he won't let
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Speaker 1: them save him. They must either kill him or give up. However,
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Speaker 1: they notice one thing. Erin is no longer an adult.
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Speaker 1: He has taken his child form, just as Emir had,
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Speaker 1: and furthermore, his eyes possess these same dark lines that
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Speaker 1: Amir has. This confuses everyone, including the reader. At that moment,
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Speaker 1: Erin's age becomes a jumbled mess as he's suddenly standing
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Speaker 1: atop the Founder's head. He isn't seeing the destruction. He's
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Speaker 1: merely seeing the sky and feeling the wind free like
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Speaker 1: a bird. Now I'm about to get even weirder. Remember
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Speaker 1: when I said Amre created Erin. A deeper part of
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Speaker 1: my theory takes that literally. We know one thing, and
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Speaker 1: that is that the founding Titan can revive dead Titan shifters.
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Speaker 1: In the final battle, we see the return of Bertholdt
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Speaker 1: as well as Grisha Krueger and Mystic Sarver. With the
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Speaker 1: help of Armin, they break their hold on the Founder
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Speaker 1: and return to life to aid their former allies in battle.
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Speaker 1: They use the power of the Founder to come back
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Speaker 1: to life. The Founder has power over life or death.
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Speaker 1: I'll go out in a limb here and even say
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Speaker 1: that it is my belief that Erin himself is the
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Speaker 1: reincarnation of Amre Fritz, born herself out of her desire
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Speaker 1: to be free. And this isn't as crazy as it seems.
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Speaker 1: We've already shown that a Titan shifter lives on within
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Speaker 1: their titan and these shifters can give over memories and
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Speaker 1: even personality traits to their successors. This explains why Armand
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Speaker 1: developed a sudden devotion and love for Annie Leyonheart was
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Speaker 1: the one in love and Arman merely took this in.
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Speaker 1: But on a deeper level, knowing how the Founder and
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Speaker 1: Attack Titan can deal with space, time and causality, I
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Speaker 1: posit that Erin himself is the literal reincarnation of Emir
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Speaker 1: Fritz and this isn't so crazy. We're also shown at
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Speaker 1: the end of the series a bird who wraps the
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Speaker 1: scarf around Mi Kasa's neck, fulfilling the promise Erin made
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Speaker 1: to always wrap it around her neck. So apparently Erin
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Speaker 1: reincarnated as a bird now, and that further could explain
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Speaker 1: why people decided that these Scouts would have the wings
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Speaker 1: of freedom. Aaron designed the bird to be the ultimate
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Speaker 1: symbol of freedom for them. So with all of this
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Speaker 1: in mind, what will we think? Is there a better
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Speaker 1: ending hidden somewhere else in this story? Is it possible
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Speaker 1: for us to find a better ending? There possibly could be.
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Speaker 1: You see, even though Erin is manipulated by Amir up
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Speaker 1: to this point, he's still in control of himself. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if it's true that Erin is the reincarnation of Emir
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Speaker 1: through the power of the founding Titan, then he still
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Speaker 1: possesses free will. So let's roll this back a little
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Speaker 1: bit and begin our new ending. Eron Jaeger finds himself
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Speaker 1: escaping the hands of Rhiner by hardening his titan's body.
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Speaker 1: He manages to get out and finds himself running across
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Speaker 1: the streets of Shaganshina. This was the town where it
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Speaker 1: all started, and poetically, this was where it would all end.
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Speaker 1: The yarn of fate had been sown, and Aaron knew
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Speaker 1: that they had been sown by himself. To this moment,
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Speaker 1: he kept moving towards the carcass of the Beast Titan,
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Speaker 1: where his brother called out to him, his hand held out,
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Speaker 1: Aaron kept moving forward. Don't stop now, just keep moving forward. Fight. Fight.
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Speaker 1: As he comes to the end of the street, his
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Speaker 1: eyes dart to the right and he notices the lens
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Speaker 1: flare of a massive sniper rifle. A rifle bearing anti
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Speaker 1: Titan rounds in them. Before he can do anything, it's
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Speaker 1: too late. The bullet leaves the chamber with a thunderous crack,
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Speaker 1: and for a moment, all time seems to have stopped.
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Speaker 1: Aaron's neck is pierced by the round, and it feels
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Speaker 1: as if his life has just come to an end.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps it did. Perhaps Aaron at this moment has died.
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Speaker 1: His head goes flying as his brother screams out and
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Speaker 1: uses those baseball skills mister Casarver taught him to catch
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Speaker 1: his brother's head in the world's most morbid game of catch.
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Speaker 1: But in that moment, the power of the Founder has
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Speaker 1: been activated within the paths, Aaron meets with Zeke and
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Speaker 1: realizes Zeke is within chains. He states, it feels like
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Speaker 1: ages since the moment Aaron's head had detached, yet no
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Speaker 1: time had passed. Does time even exist in this world?
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Speaker 1: Perhaps not. It's at this moment that Zeke stands, having
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Speaker 1: broken his chains. Due to Zeke not being the Founder
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Speaker 1: yet possessing royal blood, he manages to break the chains
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Speaker 1: that Carl Fritz had placed on the Founder, and perhaps
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Speaker 1: this was the first step towards Ymir's freedom. It's then
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Speaker 1: that Aaron turns and witnesses her walking towards them with
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Speaker 1: a pail full of water. It was as if she
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Speaker 1: were still in her home village, living life as best
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Speaker 1: she knew. How Yet she remained a slave of the
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Speaker 1: king even in death. For a time, his brother takes
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Speaker 1: Erin back through time and shows him his life up
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Speaker 1: to this point to prove that he had always been brainwashed,
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Speaker 1: a pawn of Gricias. Zeke at this point was only
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Speaker 1: half right. Erin had always been brainwashed and a pawn
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Speaker 1: of someone else, but it wasn't who he thought. It
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Speaker 1: was himself and the siren call of the Founder Emir.
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Speaker 1: Here it becomes apparent to Zeke that the Founder and
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Speaker 1: the attack Titans share a strange connection. Gharisha can see them,
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Speaker 1: he can speak with them. Zeke is surprised when he
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Speaker 1: finds Grisha unwilling to enter the chapel and kill the
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Speaker 1: Ree's family. He takes so much time, years even to
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Speaker 1: muster the courage, and it's only after Shaganhin is invaded
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Speaker 1: by Titans that Grisha makes his decision, but his nerves
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Speaker 1: aren't there. He goes in to kill the Rie's family,
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Speaker 1: but he can't do it. This is when Erin interferes
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Speaker 1: with his own timeline, essentially orchestrating the events that led
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Speaker 1: to his current being. Zeke is in awe as Erin
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Speaker 1: kneels over. Isn't this what you came to do? Gharisha
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Speaker 1: kills the Rhe's family, and then Garisha cries out, Erin,
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Speaker 1: is this what you wanted? It's then that Zeke gets
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Speaker 1: an ominous warning from his father that things would no
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Speaker 1: longer go the way he wants, and that he has
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Speaker 1: no idea what Erin is up to, but he needs
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Speaker 1: to stop him. Suddenly they're back, but this time it's
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Speaker 1: Erin who's in chains and Zeke planning to make his
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Speaker 1: ideals a reality. Zeke would not yet know that his
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Speaker 1: fate is already decided. Aaron breaks free of his chains,
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Speaker 1: pulling so hard that he rips his thumbs off. Rushing
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Speaker 1: to a mirr, he would tell her that she had
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Speaker 1: been waiting for him, hadn't she She guided him there
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Speaker 1: to free her, and now she was freed, gritting her teeth,
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Speaker 1: tears in her eyes. Right now, for the first time
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Speaker 1: in over two thousand years, she was free, and the
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Speaker 1: first thing she wanted from that freedom to destroy Those
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Speaker 1: who had so long used her as a slave, kicked her,
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Speaker 1: called her a devil. She had loved King Fritz, but
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Speaker 1: she had regretted not having the power to kill him
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Speaker 1: when she could. This is actually true. This is why
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Speaker 1: Yamir was so pleased when Mikasa killed Erin. Mikasa and
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Speaker 1: Erin was seen by Yamir as a mirror to herself
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Speaker 1: and King Fritz. She was only pleased when Mikasa killed Erin,
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Speaker 1: and all those two thousand years of hatred had created
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Speaker 1: the very thing the people insulted her as. Right now,
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Speaker 1: she was a devil, and she was going to make
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Speaker 1: sure to validate every single one of the people who
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Speaker 1: had called her that, before grinding their bones to ash
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Speaker 1: below her feet. It was then that the strange centipede
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Speaker 1: that had formed the nexus of Titan power pulled itself
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Speaker 1: from Erin's body, just grip his head. From there, the
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Speaker 1: founding Titan's body was formed, a sick recreation of the
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Speaker 1: status with which Erin's body now was. If Erin's current
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Speaker 1: body was nothing more than a head attached to a
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Speaker 1: spine with the shining centipede making its home within, then
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Speaker 1: his founding Titan form should be the same. With a
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Speaker 1: single roar, all titan hardening was commanded to fall. This
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Speaker 1: brought down the walls as Rhiner's very armours seemed to
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Speaker 1: explode from his body. Erin begins to march, Consumed in
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Speaker 1: a whirlwind of hatred. What was left of his humanity
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Speaker 1: began to dim and flicker like a candle's flame under
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Speaker 1: a heavy gust of wind. A Mer and Erin begin
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Speaker 1: to feel the same. They begin to connect through mutual
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Speaker 1: madness and bond as if they were the same person.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps they would become the same person. Perhaps they were,
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Speaker 1: perhaps they always had been together. They begin to march,
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Speaker 1: their massive form, dwarfing even the army of Colossus Titans
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Speaker 1: that began to emerge from the walls. The walls had
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Speaker 1: once been the subject of Amir's shield against their enemies.
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Speaker 1: Now it was their sword, a massive, flaming, instant trument
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Speaker 1: with which they could eradicate all people. Marching forward, Emir's
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Speaker 1: hatred of those who had enslaved her, her fear of
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Speaker 1: once more losing her freedom, and Erin's echo of her
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Speaker 1: sentiments drove it forward. Where Once Emir had been used
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Speaker 1: as a tool by King Fritz, now his descendant Zeke
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Speaker 1: Jeger would be her instrument, a battery with which her avatar,
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Speaker 1: Erin Yeager, could use her power as they march. They
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Speaker 1: passed through the sea, leaving a steaming cloud on the
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Speaker 1: horizon that can be seen from all directions. They would
17:27
Speaker 1: burn away this world and cleanse it. If the enemy
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Speaker 1: would steal their freedom, then they would steal their enemies
17:33
Speaker 1: lives before they had a shot to take Erin and
17:35
Speaker 1: Emir's freedom or the freedom of their kin. On the horizon,
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Speaker 1: there stood a fleet of battleships in what was left
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Speaker 1: of Marley's Port. After Arman shattered it with his own Titan,
17:44
Speaker 1: they began to open fire. To their credit, they managed
17:47
Speaker 1: to shred many of the Titans, but the end was inevitable.
17:50
Speaker 1: There was power in numbers, and Erin right now was
17:53
Speaker 1: in possession of the largest and most numerous army in
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Speaker 1: the world. He would offer no mercy. The Titans would
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Speaker 1: swim through their sad steam, evaporating anything above the sea,
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Speaker 1: be it human or vessel. Making his way to land.
18:04
Speaker 1: He would make good on the thought he had awakened
18:06
Speaker 1: the moment he kissed his Storia's hand. If he killed
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Speaker 1: everyone across the sea, he would be free. He wondered
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Speaker 1: where that thought came from. Was it his future self
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Speaker 1: telling him to fight just as he had told grisha,
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Speaker 1: or perhaps something more. Seeing the bodies of men, women
18:21
Speaker 1: and children in the footprints where his titans walked, Erin
18:24
Speaker 1: seemed to suddenly remember his time in Marlee before he
18:26
Speaker 1: had made his decision. He remembered saving the boy. He
18:30
Speaker 1: remembered the good times with his friends in the refugee camps.
18:33
Speaker 1: He recalled when Mikasa almost confessed her love. She couldn't
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Speaker 1: say it, but it had been so obvious that even
18:38
Speaker 1: someone like Aaron could notice it. Tatake, he would hear
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Speaker 1: in his head a phantom voice, the same word he
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Speaker 1: had heard when he had made contact with his Storia's hand.
18:46
Speaker 1: Tatake had said, fight. He responded in his own voice. Fight.
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Speaker 1: Every time he had a doubt in his head about
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Speaker 1: what he was doing, or an ache in his heart
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Speaker 1: for what he would do, he would hear those words
18:58
Speaker 1: in his head. It felt like the ashe ssurance of
19:00
Speaker 1: a mother to a child, as if someone were telling
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Speaker 1: him that it was okay or justified. But the longer
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Speaker 1: he thought on this, the more it began to dull.
19:08
Speaker 1: The will to fight was being overpowered by his bleeding conscience. Tatake,
19:13
Speaker 1: the voice shouted in his head, seemingly becoming more and
19:15
Speaker 1: more agitated. Tatak Aarin would growl, fight, fight, and then
19:20
Speaker 1: suddenly there he was in the clouds, as if he
19:23
Speaker 1: had been shown exactly what he was fighting for freedom,
19:27
Speaker 1: His mind began to become clouded under the illusion of freedom.
19:30
Speaker 1: He was in the clouds, but he had no idea
19:32
Speaker 1: that he had no choice in the matter. The cage
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Speaker 1: he lived in wasn't the walls, and it wasn't the
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Speaker 1: people across the sea. The cage he was in had
19:40
Speaker 1: long been inside of him. He was right now, just
19:42
Speaker 1: as much a slave to Amir as Emir had been
19:44
Speaker 1: to King Fritz, mindlessly doing Zeke's bidding, despite being perhaps
19:48
Speaker 1: the strongest human in the world. He continued to march
19:51
Speaker 1: in the distance. He heard voices, though they spoke to him,
19:55
Speaker 1: voices of his past friends, family, allies, enemies. They would
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Speaker 1: say him, they spoke, and he felt in his heart
20:02
Speaker 1: that there were no more lines in the sand. If Reiner,
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Speaker 1: who had himself been a slave to Marley, and Mikassa,
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Speaker 1: who had been a slave to Erin, had gotten together
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Speaker 1: despite their hatred to save Erin and the world, what
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Speaker 1: did that mean was the cage he thought existed across
20:16
Speaker 1: the sea crumbling. The voice of a mere spoke, don't
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Speaker 1: trust them, never trust them. I trusted in love once
20:23
Speaker 1: it brought me to chains. They will chain you, enslave you.
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Speaker 1: You must move forward, no matter what. Let me deal
20:29
Speaker 1: with it, Keep moving forward. Erin would then break into
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Speaker 1: their conversation, and for the first time since the beginning
20:34
Speaker 1: of the rumbling, they saw Erin. He wasn't the same
20:37
Speaker 1: Erin as before, though he had reverted to a child,
20:39
Speaker 1: his mind frayed, and his visage terrifyingly similar to the
20:43
Speaker 1: one who had borne the Titans. He proclaimed that they
20:46
Speaker 1: could never save him. They must either choose to fight
20:49
Speaker 1: him and kill him, fight him and die, or stay
20:51
Speaker 1: out of his way, and so they decide to fight him.
20:54
Speaker 1: He keeps moving until he finds the last bastion of
20:57
Speaker 1: humanity's defense and fighting power, their last of hope. They
21:01
Speaker 1: launch war Zeppelins, but Yamir forms Warhammer Titans on the
21:04
Speaker 1: back of Erin and begins to shoot them down. It's
21:07
Speaker 1: then that a seaplane flies over and Aaron's friends fall
21:10
Speaker 1: down to his back. They plan to get to Erin's neck.
21:13
Speaker 1: They know that with the Warhammer he could be anywhere
21:16
Speaker 1: but they need to take the neck out to stop
21:18
Speaker 1: this thing from moving. They also know that when the
21:20
Speaker 1: thing comes out of his neck to Reattach the head,
21:23
Speaker 1: they'll need to deal with it. Armand's plan is to
21:25
Speaker 1: transform into a titan and take the neck out, but
21:27
Speaker 1: this plan is quickly ash in the wind when a
21:29
Speaker 1: beast titan from the past eats Arman up. The team
21:33
Speaker 1: fight against these titans, but they're quickly being overwhelmed. And
21:36
Speaker 1: what's worse, Bertholdt has spawned on Erin's back and is
21:39
Speaker 1: defending him within the paths. Though Arman wakes up. How
21:42
Speaker 1: did he get here? Was it merely because he was
21:44
Speaker 1: devoured by a titan? Was he dead? Perhaps someone brought
21:48
Speaker 1: him here? Perhaps he was called out to Here. He
21:51
Speaker 1: finds Zeke Jeger and speaks with him and convinces him
21:54
Speaker 1: to do what's right. Further still, he would meet Grisha,
21:56
Speaker 1: Krueger and Bertholtz and convince them to help. But Arman
21:59
Speaker 1: isn't done. He refuses to stop. He rushes deeper into
22:03
Speaker 1: the paths, where he would find Erin with Emir. He
22:05
Speaker 1: would call out to Erin and tell him to wake up.
22:07
Speaker 1: He would beg him to let him save him, but
22:09
Speaker 1: Erin would say that if he did, he would be
22:11
Speaker 1: confined to shackles his whole life. But Arman insists that
22:14
Speaker 1: Erin is in shackles right now, and suddenly things quickly
22:18
Speaker 1: click with Erin. He looks back at everything he knows,
22:21
Speaker 1: the life he had and what he wanted. He realizes
22:23
Speaker 1: that he had lost it all, but then realized he
22:25
Speaker 1: lost it all because he forced it to happen. But
22:28
Speaker 1: then again, who forced him was it Emir? Amir would
22:32
Speaker 1: look at Erin tatake. Erin would parrot the words fight.
22:37
Speaker 1: Arman would then beg him to come back to be
22:39
Speaker 1: the same Erin he and Mikasa had played with around
22:41
Speaker 1: their favorite tree. He remembered saying that maybe he was
22:44
Speaker 1: alive for the sole purpose of being in the moment,
22:47
Speaker 1: and he told Erin that he begged him to be
22:50
Speaker 1: that old Erin. But Erin would tell Arman that the
22:52
Speaker 1: old Erin is dead. Armand would scream out to him,
22:55
Speaker 1: you brought back Berthold, Grisha, Krueger, and kasarver he should
22:59
Speaker 1: bring his old self back, and from there Armand feels
23:02
Speaker 1: himself pulled back from the paths. However, these words echo
23:05
Speaker 1: within Erin, He's caught between his hatred and his love,
23:08
Speaker 1: between his fate and his free will. Erin, much like
23:11
Speaker 1: how he broke the shackles earlier by ripping off his thumb,
23:14
Speaker 1: would do the same here, breaking free of Emir's control
23:17
Speaker 1: over him by shredding his very being outside. The neck
23:20
Speaker 1: of the Founder is destroyed by an explosion armand further
23:23
Speaker 1: destroys the body with his own transformation. Arman is walking
23:26
Speaker 1: away from the blaze when he senses Erin's appearance. Aaron
23:29
Speaker 1: walks closer to him in the form of a colossal
23:32
Speaker 1: titan in the distance. All of the scouts are turned
23:35
Speaker 1: into tightens by the shining centipede, but as Erin closes in,
23:39
Speaker 1: they prepare to fight, but Erin stops instead he offers
23:43
Speaker 1: him his hand. However, behind them, a new roar is sounded.
23:47
Speaker 1: It echoes out to cross the grounds, causing the ear
23:49
Speaker 1: drums of Armin and Erin to burst. They turned back
23:52
Speaker 1: to see a new creature forming from a bright and
23:54
Speaker 1: violent golden glow. A massive beast begins to form, its
23:58
Speaker 1: size surpassing even Erin and Armin's colossal titans. It's face,
24:02
Speaker 1: the pale bones of death and its ribcage protruding from
24:05
Speaker 1: its chest like tendrils. It would engage with them. Now
24:09
Speaker 1: at this point, I hear you asking why in the
24:11
Speaker 1: world Erin and Armin are allowed to fight Amir. Why
24:14
Speaker 1: doesn't she just remove their powers and kill them? And
24:16
Speaker 1: I actually have a good explanation for this. The answer
24:19
Speaker 1: is that Erin has shorn himself into pieces. On a
24:21
Speaker 1: spiritual and physical sense, Erin right now is still the
24:25
Speaker 1: founding Titan, but Emir is in possession of the other
24:27
Speaker 1: half of that power. She exists through the remains of
24:31
Speaker 1: the former body and is using her half to fight,
24:33
Speaker 1: and she would use it to take away Arman and
24:35
Speaker 1: Erin's ability to fight her, but she can't because Erin
24:38
Speaker 1: possesses the same power and is preventing it. Along with this,
24:42
Speaker 1: Aaron would use his power and bond with his friends
24:44
Speaker 1: to give them back their will and allow them to
24:47
Speaker 1: speak and act as they once had even while pure Titans. Together,
24:51
Speaker 1: they would fight Amir and the Shining Centipede. This is
24:53
Speaker 1: a two sided battle. The biggest threat on the battlefield
24:57
Speaker 1: is Emir, yet she is functionally immortal so long as
24:59
Speaker 1: the sh Shining Centipede remains and while Erin is also
25:02
Speaker 1: a founder, he is not the original and thus his
25:05
Speaker 1: immortality would be negated by Emir, who would not allow
25:08
Speaker 1: him to resurrect if he were killed. They would fight together,
25:10
Speaker 1: but it becomes obvious that they're getting nowhere. She regenerates
25:13
Speaker 1: so fast that none of their strikes can kill her,
25:15
Speaker 1: and to a point, Armand begins to wonder if they
25:17
Speaker 1: even can. Erin says it's possible, but to kill her,
25:21
Speaker 1: they'll need to rob her of her power. Armand would
25:23
Speaker 1: ask how they would do that, and Aaron would point
25:25
Speaker 1: back at the shining Centipede. He would tell Armin that
25:27
Speaker 1: this organism is the source of all of Emir's power
25:30
Speaker 1: and that she can be defeated if they kill that thing.
25:33
Speaker 1: So Armand makes his way toward it while Aaron holds
25:35
Speaker 1: off this massive titan. This is no easy feat considering
25:39
Speaker 1: the size of it. Aaron channels more of his stolen
25:41
Speaker 1: power to increase in size. However, this doesn't help much.
25:44
Speaker 1: Compared to Emir's body shape, Aarin is clunky and heavy
25:47
Speaker 1: compared to a relatively agile form, which puts him on
25:50
Speaker 1: the losing side. As it stands, He's doing everything he
25:53
Speaker 1: can to block her control in him and the others.
25:55
Speaker 1: There is no way he can control enough of this
25:57
Speaker 1: power to transform himself further. As much as he hates it,
26:01
Speaker 1: he would command his friends to help fight. If there
26:03
Speaker 1: was one thing he learned from his time in the
26:05
Speaker 1: squad Levi, it was when to trust your friends, so
26:08
Speaker 1: he called them in. Meanwhile, Reiner and Arman are attempting
26:11
Speaker 1: to get a grasp on the shining centipede. Arman is
26:14
Speaker 1: too slow, but Reiner is too light. Arman can't catch it,
26:17
Speaker 1: and when Reiner does, he can't hold on. But that's
26:19
Speaker 1: when they suddenly get the help of Grisha, Krueger, Saber,
26:22
Speaker 1: and Bertholdt. But beyond that, Aaron has managed to regenerate Zeke,
26:25
Speaker 1: who is pelting it with stones as they speak together,
26:28
Speaker 1: they managed to corral it, and Arman and Bertholdt manage
26:31
Speaker 1: to get a hold on it. They lift it up
26:33
Speaker 1: and with their titan power, begin to generate intense levels
26:36
Speaker 1: of heat, cooking the creature until it begins to decay
26:39
Speaker 1: in a similar fashion to a titan. At that point,
26:41
Speaker 1: a sudden jolt of energy would be felt through every
26:44
Speaker 1: eld in and then suddenly nothing The titan forms would
26:48
Speaker 1: begin to melt away. As this happens, Emeers titan also
26:51
Speaker 1: begins to falter as it lets out a roar. As
26:54
Speaker 1: it does so, Mikasa and Levi rush through and fire
26:56
Speaker 1: off whatever ordinance they have left into the back of
26:59
Speaker 1: its throat, blowing out the nape and causing it to fall. Suddenly,
27:02
Speaker 1: all titan bodies begin to decay. Erin would rise from
27:05
Speaker 1: the smoldering embers of his fallen titan, only to be
27:08
Speaker 1: embraced by Armin and Mikassa. At this point, Erin doesn't
27:11
Speaker 1: even know what to say. Everything he's done and the
27:14
Speaker 1: deaths of his friends he had caused strike him all
27:16
Speaker 1: at once, and Erin begins to cry. Reiner meets up
27:19
Speaker 1: with Bertholdt and Zeke would embrace his father and mister
27:21
Speaker 1: kassarver Krueger would watch this from the distance, as he
27:24
Speaker 1: would proceed to try and make peace within the Eldeans
27:27
Speaker 1: and Marlians, of which the battle has caused tensions to rise.
27:31
Speaker 1: Upon return to Paradise, Aaron and Zeke would call out
27:33
Speaker 1: for the Aegorists to stand down and know that the
27:35
Speaker 1: victory they fought so hard for had been attained, the world,
27:39
Speaker 1: having been shattered by this war, would begin to beg
27:41
Speaker 1: for peace treaties, of which Arman would help the foster
27:44
Speaker 1: alongside Reiner, bertholdt Ani, and the others. Erin and Miikassa
27:47
Speaker 1: would end up together, Sorry John, and would have a
27:49
Speaker 1: child of their own, a girl they would name Sasha.
27:53
Speaker 1: And if you think that Erin gets away scott free,
27:55
Speaker 1: you're sorely mistaken. He would give himself up alongside Zeke
27:58
Speaker 1: for trial and would be sent to life in confinement
28:01
Speaker 1: for genocide. Aaron would be put under house arrest, in
28:04
Speaker 1: which he can never leave the premises, but he's okay
28:06
Speaker 1: with that. For the first time in his life, he
28:08
Speaker 1: feels actually free. Peace returns, and slowly the world begins
28:11
Speaker 1: to rebuild after having nearly faced extinction. Nobody's in the
28:15
Speaker 1: mood for any other wars, and they begin to contemplate
28:17
Speaker 1: what's best. This doesn't mean that war will never happen again,
28:20
Speaker 1: though war would once more come and the world would
28:23
Speaker 1: be thrown into turmoil. Well, I would love to spin
28:25
Speaker 1: a yarn that ends with cherry blossoms and picnics and
28:28
Speaker 1: everyone holding hands and singing kumbayah. I just don't have
28:31
Speaker 1: enough faith in people to justify that hatred is a
28:34
Speaker 1: beast that self resurrects and can only be defeated on
28:36
Speaker 1: a personal basis. Everyone in the world has freedom, but
28:40
Speaker 1: they must choose to live in peace, and that means
28:42
Speaker 1: that while there are those who will choose peace, there
28:45
Speaker 1: are those who will also choose war. And when one
28:48
Speaker 1: chooses war, the men of peace must take up arms
28:50
Speaker 1: to protect that peace. And so though the curse of
28:53
Speaker 1: the Titans is gone, the threat to mankind will continue
28:56
Speaker 1: to exist for eternity until there are one or fewer
28:59
Speaker 1: people living on the planet. Sound bleak, I'm only quoting
29:03
Speaker 1: dot pixis here who said the same, and the original
29:05
Speaker 1: ending of attack on Titan shows us how war once
29:08
Speaker 1: more begins in the world without the need of Titans.
29:11
Speaker 1: It's just in man's nature to fight. Sad but true.
29:15
Speaker 1: It won't always be like this for us, though. Call
29:18
Speaker 1: it a hunch anyway, What are your thoughts on this?
29:20
Speaker 1: Did my ending to attack on Titan float over better
29:23
Speaker 1: than the original? And if something went down that you
29:25
Speaker 1: would change? What is it? I'm eager to know. Leave
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