Beneath the Blue

And suddenly it hits you.

You’re not going to be seventeen again, not going to spend December walking beside the love of your life.

Fingers tangled, hearts quietly full, faces buried in necks, breaths syncing, everything else fading away.

And suddenly it hits you:

This is where I belong.

There’s no grand purpose, i’m just here, once, and only once.

so far that we started questioning our own existence?

Eren Yeager is one of the most misunderstood characters in modern fiction. To some, he’s a villain, a monster who committed genocide. To others, he’s a hero who was right to take revenge on the Marleyans for what they did to his people. But both of these perspectives miss the truth.

Eren wasn’t fighting out of hatred, and he wasn’t seeking justice. He was never free to make a “good” choice. He was the slave of freedom itself. A man bound to a destiny that demanded he destroy the very world he longed to understand.

From the moment Eren was born, his fate was already sealed. The Attack Titan’s power, the memories of the future, and the weight of history all chained him long before he even realized it. Every action he took, from saving Mikasa as a child to launching the Rumbling, was already written into his story. The boy who wanted freedom the most was the one who could never truly have it.

His decision to start the Rumbling wasn’t about revenge. It wasn’t even about hatred toward the world outside the walls. It was a desperate attempt to end a cycle that had no end. He saw the endless wars, the revenge, the bloodlines, the fear, and he realized that peace through diplomacy was impossible.

So he chose to bear the sin himself. To become the devil everyone would hate, so that the people he loved could finally live free, even if it meant dying as a monster in the eyes of the world.

That’s what most people fail to see. Eren didn’t want destruction. He wanted release. Not for himself, but for the generations that would come after. His genocide wasn’t a moral choice, it was a tragic inevitability. A doomed boy following a path carved by fate, believing that if he bore all the hatred, maybe the world could finally start over.

Eren Yeager is not a hero.

He’s not a villain.

He’s a reflection of everything broken about humanity: The longing for freedom, the curse of repeating history, and the unbearable weight of choice.