so many people anti hyping anime onlies and i’m here chilling. can’t wait for the best stretch to be animated see u guys in 2023
this takes away from a key part of who eren is, a boy attempting to become free by being able to experience anything he wants without restraints. his memories rob him of that, and his future memories trap him even further because everything he sees happens with 100% accuracy. +
‘what am i to you’
eren’s self loathing at its highest and it really came through, goosebumps
you can even view floch as similar to shadis when he was first a soldier. flochs was swept up by the ‘flow’ when he first became a scout but now that switches to an attempt to make a personal impact - ‘I will be the one to save eldia’. its these things that make him interesting+
this is why mikasa would be classed as ‘special’. even when protecting eren it was always due to her own feelings which often went against what eren actually wanted, hence this episode where she fights the symbolic extension of eren (the yeagerists literally worship him) is key.+