I'm feeling stupid to not understand this one

On Bessatsu Shounen Magazine issue 07/2021, there's an interview between Isayama and the author of Fullmetal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa. There he says:

"When drawing SNK, I was hoping for Armin to come up with some solutions to stop the war, but I couldn't make it. Maybe I should have added more pages for the ending part."

I understand it as the author saying he wanted to find a way for Armin to stop the Rumbling. If the Alliance had found a way to legitimately stop Eren, I think it would have given us a more satisfying conclusion, with Eren's character being more consistent with his "I will keep moving forward" motto.

The thing is, after the author gave Eren basically full knowledge of the future, after he comes in contact with Ymir in the Paths, and the vast powers of the FT which enable him to defend himself and shape the world in almost any way he wants, this makes it almost impossible to defeat Eren, even in theory.

They say it's a good thing to have a villain more powerful than the heroes, exactly to raise the stakes and make the heroes triumph more heroic, but even in these situations there has to be a limit, or a specific clever way for the heroes to defeat the powerful villain. Not just in AoT, but in any story where a character knows everything that will happen in the future, it's quite hard to even imagine a situation where that character will be caught by surprise (impossible?) or do something he doesn't want to do.

Theoretically, even a character that isn't extremely powerful can "win" in any scenario, if it knows everything about the future, because we assume that such a future will already be one where things will go the way the character that knows the future wants them to go, otherwise, he would not have gone along with them.

In stories where the past can be changed, this is easier to imagine/see. Instead of an immutable future that is destined to go the way "The Prescient" wants it to go (if he has the power to influence it), in stories where the past can be changed we see they change the outcome, which will lead to a new outcome they don't know yet. After they change it and see it's consequences, they can try to change it again, and they can keep doing so until they arrive at one where they are satisfied. This type of scenario can create lots of problems, and I don't particularly find it clever writing, but at least it's easy to understand.

The real challenge is indeed how to defeat an enemy that knows the whole future in a fixed timeline. I believe that it should be impossible to defeat Eren in this condition, who both knows the whole future and has almost unlimited power to act on it. Paul Atreides, in Dune, is a similar example, but Paul's prescience isn't perfect and he lacks the power to make the best use of his knowledge of the future. Paul ends up defeated/failure both because he lacked full knowledge of the future, there were only so many "moves ahead" he could see/calculate, but he also lacked the power to influence the future he saw. If Paul could indeed see/calculate every single possible alternative, every possible future for the whole universe, we assume he would pick the one that he likes the most.

So, does anyone have any idea on how such a feat could be done?

How did Bertoldt vanish without a trace? Still baffles me

So this got me thinking if a Titan shifter get a tattoo, but let say the shifter gets burn to crisp like Armin, or always getting limb chop like Zeke, after healing (depends on where the tattoo is) Will the tattoo be there.

I had this thought at 22 night 1:14 Pm.

I think a lot of us regardless of the ending wouldn't mind a prequel to the story (Specifically the Great Titan War) and Isayama doesn't need a lot to deliver on this.

Kishimoto for example made a LN surrounding everything that happened in between Naruto and Boruto alongside character specific side stories like one's for Itachi and I think he's making one for Minato right now.

This is the only one I can actually see Isayama wanting to do since it is interesting and holds no weight over the main story so he can kind of do whatever he wants with it.

Obviously the reason it would be a LN is because it feels like something that is best suited to be a LN. Similar to how Kishimoto's LN's would not work the best in a manga format.

That is of course if you even want to see more of AOT and personally I find this little detail he left but never elaborated on the best 'hint' we got of a potential side story.

Alongside that Isayama already wrote what happens if one side gets oppressed so what if everyone is just in a civil war and the story starts in war? How Karl Fritz used fear to end the Great Titan War and anything related to nihilism and war never ending themes

You know you want one of them to penetrate your walls

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I thought Jeankasa was basically canon. Why are fans still so mad about Mikasa moving on? I just cant imagine a teenage girl who never confessed her love to someone, mourning that person for the rest of her life, never marrying and having children and why should she? (I havent been active in the aot fandom except for this sub so sorry for being clueless lol)

So today a ED was arguing with me and he said that Eren in chapter 139 is acceptable since Eren has always been a cringe crybaby.

I immediately told him that everytime Eren cried before timeskip was for completely valid reasons and that's not what a cringe crybaby does.

He then failed to make any points to argue so he said that Eren is a cringe crybaby since other characters who are also suffering didn't showed similar emotions.

I found this logic quite stupid since by this logic we should consider a character intelligent if the other characters are acting dumb and only that one character is showing common sense.

What are all of your thoughts on this?

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