#snk 119

This question has been haunting us for a while, so this is my theory.

In ch.119 we saw Gabi shooting and Eren’s head was blown. But later we see his titan forming. It didn’t have any flesh or other traits required to look like a normal titan.

We thought that Eren might crystallize himself or somehow use the power of War Hammer, but as we see, Eren’s titan was formed from HEAD, while Lara transformed from bottom to top. This means that Eren DIDN’T use this ability of War Hammer titan and his body IS NOT in a crystal.

So where’s Eren’s body? How his titan was formed? My answer is...Eren’s titan was formed AROUND his blown HEAD as Gabi said in ch.136. She also said they might see him again if they DECAPITATE him.

To prove my point, let’s look at chapters shown after Eren’s transformation. In ch.123 and ch.132 we DID see Eren’s human head. If you look closely, we see titan marks, flesh connected to his head and a hole from where Eren’s neck bones are coming. It WAS NOT his titan head, because here the picture of it.

Eren’s titan got long ears, no eyebrows and scary face, while ch.132 Eren has human ears, eyebrows and normal face.

manga spoilers under the cut

I’m seeing several posts claiming that Mikasa asking about Eren in SnK 125 is somehow “character devolution” or that Mikasa has somehow regressed into tunnel vision on Eren’s safety and nothing else. This could not be further from the truth.

Because, unlike in her youth, “what about Eren?” isn’t a worried afterthought about one soldier’s wellbeing.

Now, it’s the question that everyone’s avoiding.

Ever since SnK 112, everyone except for Mikasa has caped for Eren in some way or another—whether it manifest as Armin being unable to grapple with the idea that his childhood best friend could commit these atrocities, or as Jean and Connie begrudgingly wanting to see the best in a comrade and friend they thought they’d grown to know.

During all of these exchanges, and over the course of these chapters, Mikasa hardly participates—she observes. She sometimes asks questions that challenge their beliefs. Pieces are slowly coming together for her, and she undergoes a powerful inner struggle as she tries to process her past traumas and what she’s unfortunately always known about Eren, in a more plain light than anyone.

Contrary to everyone’s claims, I’d argue that Mikasa is the one framing the conversation, for lack of better phrase, in terms of “Eren the Destroyer” rather than “Eren, our friend”. Mikasa is the one who acknowledges him as the immediate threat of genocide he is—whereas Armin’s reaction and his actions thus far suggest that he’s the one struggling to separate their personal relationship to Eren from the issue at hand. Mikasa’s question to him is more than “how do we stop the apocalypse”—it becomes a hard-to-cope-with question about what this means for their childhood friend and for all three of them.

Additionally, unlike everyone else avoiding the question either out of sheer hopelessness or because they don’t want to answer it, Mikasa is the only one who seems to believe it’s even possible to stop the rumbling. She’s the only one who doesn’t see him—or the planet—as a lost cause, and focuses on stopping the crisis rather than picking up the pieces afterwards.

Her clarity and ability to assess the situation is as important as her attention to Eren has been.

For much of her life, and with no small amount of difficulty and heartache, she has been preoccupied with keeping Eren alive, struggling with his mortality. With the painful idea that Eren is not unbeatable. And, even in this outrageously powerful, virtually omnipotent state... I guarantee she still sees his mortality, like she always has.

Remember when I once wrote a character analysis about little Falco and the meaning of his titan form on chapter 119?

I want to share this again and also share my thoughts for his new Titan form.

Falco was the first one introduced to us when the Marley Arc began in the manga and now he is also the first character we see in s4 trailer along with the falcon that is flying around the battlefield.