Realizing that Grisha Jaeger spent his final night alive weeping and apologizing to a teenage Eren while injecting him with a serum he knew would force his own son to cannibalize him is the most horrific father-son dynamic in anime. 💔😭
Love this scene. He decides that the lives of his people, not even Eldians, but Paradisians, are worth more to him than the rest of the outside world, and accepts it, based purely on sentiment, without having to rationally justify it.
EREN SPENT TIME IN MARLEY AND REALIZED THAT THE PEOPLE THERE WEREN'T DEVILS, BUT ORDINARY HUMANS JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE ON PARADIS. HE SAW INNOCENT FAMILIES, CHILDREN, AND PEOPLE SUFFERING UNDER THE SAME HATRED THAT DESTROYED HIS OWN PEOPLE.
BUT HE ALSO REALIZED THAT EVEN IF HE KILLED THE MARLEYAN GOVERNMENT, THE HATRED AGAINST ELDIANS WOULDN'T DISAPPEAR. THE WORLD HAD ALREADY UNITED AGAINST PARADIS, AND HE BELIEVED THAT AS LONG AS THEY EXISTED, HIS FRIENDS WOULD NEVER BE FREE.
HIS DESIRE FOR FREEDOM, HIS FUTURE MEMORIES, AND HIS INABILITY TO ACCEPT A WORLD THAT DENIED HIM FREEDOM EVENTUALLY PUSHED HIM TO CHOOSE THE RUMBLING.
THE TRAGEDY IS THAT EREN UNDERSTOOD THE ENEMY'S HUMANITY AND STILL CHOSE TO DESTROY THEM BECAUSE, TO HIM, HIS FRIENDS' FREEDOM MATTERED MORE THAN EVERYONE ELSE'S LIVES.
just a LITTLE reminder that this is how he canonically sounds and acts when he lets his feelings and emotions out. he’s so insane and dramatic i’m so in love with him, and i hate how people always forget about this part of his personality. my boy is so misunderstood