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i think you entirely missed the point that it was ZEKE who initially brought the idea of tyber declaring the war (zeke also sided with eren so it was probably erens idea as well which was basically confirmed when they talk in the airship to hange ) eren met ramzi BEFORE he became hobo eren and he said to ramzi that FUTURE WONT CHANGE so eren basically KNEW willy was gonna declare war and i think you even missed a CRUCIAL MID CREDIT TITLE CARD stating 'PARADISE THREAT THEORY' most of the world HATED paradise BECAUSE OF what ELDIANS (erens people 2000 years ago ) did to them while some more people got terrified because of EREN'S DECLARATION OF WAR erens attack in liberio solidified their assumptions of them being a DEVIL and its crazy how you just ignore marleys hate here and only focus on what eren has gone through to me its just IGNORANT AND DUMB you casually ignore how eldians (king frtiz) massacred with the help of titans tons of traditions, religions 2000 years ago tyber even said that those massacres cant even be half of todays population (in aots world) and to top it all off YOU AGAIN CASUALLY FUCKING IGNORED EREN'S CONVERSATION WITH RAMZI

technically, the people of Paradis had mostly a good life. It was called "Paradis" for that reason, the King wanted the Eldians to have a peaceful time, before judgment day. For the past 90 years, the people inside the Walls lived in relative comfort, enjoying their mundane lifes, free from the sins of their ancestors. The only ones that suffered at the hands of the Titans where the scouts, who ventured beyond the Walls. Things only got real bad in the last 10 years, after the attack on the Walls, the beginning of the end. Outside the Walls, the world suffered at the hands of the Eldian Empire for 1900 years, killing more than 3 Rumblings and destroying entire civilizations. In the last 100 years, they continue to wage war and die at the hands of the Titans, now under Marley. The world is probably like this as the result of living under the cruelty of the Eldian Empire for so long, they learned how to rule from the way they were ruled. The humans have legitimate reasons to fear and hate the Eldians, as Eren himself pointed out, they were indeed giant cannibal monsters. Humanity understood that, as long as the Titans/Eldians exist, they will always be under the threat of the return of the Eldian Empire. Truth is, trying to pick a side kinda misses the point, both races have had great injustices commited upon them (cycle of violence), both were trying to survive, but they are placed in a cruel scenario where coexistence was almost impossible to achieve by them. The FT probably has the power to fix the problem, but Eren can't see past his own choices. People conclude too fast that the outside world is comically evil, but we know that they know that most people of the world are just normal and innocent. Just because Kyiomi and the diplomats of the rest of the world are bad at their jobs, it doesn't meant that Eren shouldn't have tried to negotiate a peace, instead of launching the Rumbling the second he gained the power to do so. Yes, Eren did want to save the people of Paradis, but the Rumbling isn't necessary to protect Paradis, it's overkill and too extreme, destroying Marley and the world's most powerful military should have been enough. The Rumbling can't be something that is justified by the story, which is why it makes more sense if it's primarily the result of Eren's selfish dreams, and his inability to let go of them.

@@pedrolanna1551 THIS !

I made my own comment about the whole thing. I disagree with the video for the reason that Eren definitely was not “free”. He did not choose to go down that path- it was chosen for him. Sure, maybe it was a manifestation of himself in the future that caused this, but if he was free he would not have been stopped. He has full control over all eldians as the founder, and yet he gave his friends a chance to stop him. This not only meant he was not dedicated internally to destroying the world, it meant he would even kill his friends who were his number one priority in order to do it. This is nothing like Eren, who protected his friends in the beginning. My man Eren was not free at all, and I think he does a great job explaining who Eren was, but not exactly what was guiding/controlling him.

Manga’s drawing in the early stages isn’t good Anime is the best format for watching Aot Manga is even more gruesome

@@AM17titan noted. Thanks.

@@TheRedBeardTalk np

Not necessarily the "best he could find", but rather the "future that appealed to him the most", and that future involved fulfilling his twisted sense of freedom by massacring the outside world, among other things (saving his island and his friends, etc.). This was the future where he achieves all of his goals in one fell swoop so to say. That's why he calls himself an idiot. Because he can't help but lash out and commit to the only thing he's really ever known: Violence.

@@tragicjack6815 Ah, yes, the same Eren that's crying at the thought of killing one child and that according to the people that knew best was essentially doing a suicide by Cop at the end of it all, was totally primarily motivated by just wanting to massacre the outside world. God, ending defenders make some of the most brain dead takes at times.

@@ikengaspirit3063 You forget that he was telling said child about how DISAPPOINTED he was in the outside world while he was crying to him, which was what led him to want to “wipe it all away”. Saving his friends and people wasn’t his only motivation for doing the Rumbling.

@@tragicjack6815 Yeah, he was disappointed that the outside world was so hostile to people like him that he could never do what he wanted to do. Remember when Armin was depressed, I think just after retaking shiganshina and he wanted to console Armin by reminding him of the Sea but he himself got depressed cuz he remembered his aunt was killed for wanting to see an airship?. That's what he wanted to wipe away.

@@ikengaspirit3063 He didn’t just want to erase the bad people, its not that convenient. He wanted to erase the whole thing entirely, wipe the slate clean. Sure he understood what he was doing was wrong, but his desire to see it all wiped away outweighed his guilt. He understood that destroying his enemies would cost the blood of countless innocents, and he kept moving forward despite that.

That was Eren’s NATURE though. His future was inescapable because said future was the most ideal one for him. He was in denial for a long time, thinking that there was no way he’d want to kill that many people, when in reality he actually did. The video explains this perfectly: Eren saw it as a reflection of his selfish desire, but couldn’t admit it until he finally realized why he wanted to do it. It was the future he wanted the most.

I would say that Paul is at least more "powerful" than Eren. Eren can only see the past and future memories of all the Eldians, but he can't see alternative timelines, and through these memories he sees the actual future. Paul on the other had is like a supercomputer who is able to predict with demonic accuracy what the future will be, depending on his choices, like a 5D chess Grandmaster. Different from Eren, this allows Paul to pick the best possible future he can predict. It's a bit weird to think that, even with this power, Paul can't find a good course of action that doesn't lead to a galactic jihad. I mean, was there really absolutely nothing he could have done to convince the other great houses? Couldn't he have just sat down with each of them and do the magic trick where he tells them what they had for breakfast the day before, that he knows they hid the wooden horse on that fire place thing when they were kids, that if they just do as he tells them they will be freakishly rich. Ya know? One would imagine that if someone could predict the future so well, that it would be able to use it to avoid wars, and prosper. As for Eren, it's not that he couldn't change his future, he could have, if he wanted to, and he was conflicted about it, but when the time came, he always ended up choosing that which he already knew he would choose, not because "the past/future can't be changed", but because he realizes it is what he wants. The future is determined, but it's also the results of Eren's "free will". In the story, he's the only one who has real freedom to choose, and everyone else are subjects to his will. The only thing he can't choose is his nature, he can't abandon his obsession/dream of "freedom".

@@pedrolanna1551 It's implied that Eren can see alternative timelines when he tells Armin that Bertholdt "should" have died and not his mother, implying there was another way for it to go. But whether he can or cannot see it is completely irrelevant, because at the end of the day, he'll always choose the same decisions his future self made. That's how it works.

tragicjack. Eren didn't really try to change the past/future, if he really did then he would have, since he had the knowledge and the power to do so. Like, if he really wanted to test if he could change the past and decided to kill Ramzi and all those other guys on that alley, then and there, what would have happened? If he had a gun, would it have jammed? The idea that something like that would happen is just silly. At best, Eren could have tried to kill Ramzi, but would have been emotionally unable to. This could have shown that Eren had moments of doubt, maybe even thoughts of killing himself, like Reiner, but as time passed, more and more he came to accept that the future he was building is what he wanted after all. When Eren decides to save Ramzi, he doesn't do it to try to change the past, he does it because he knows that saving him there doesn't interfere with him meeting him later. He could even have watched from a distance, checking to see if the kid would get out of there alive, to test his visions, but he takes pity on the kid and "saves" him from those guys. When the kid thanks him, he feels like crap, as he knows he's the last person the kid should be thanking. On a rewatch, one of the nice clues I think we got that tells us that Eren was accepting that future and didn't want to change it is the fact that he stopped cutting his hair. Cutting his hair short would have been one of the easiest things he could have done if he wanted to test if he could change the future. Think about it, Eren used to cut his hair shorter, but one day he realizes that a certain vision he saw with himself with longer hair must be "coming soon". He realizes that he needs to stop cutting his hair, otherwise that won't happen the way it did. It's at that moment, when he's choosing between cutting his hair or not, that he first starts to decide that he doesn't want the future to change, even when he already knows it's all leading to the Rumbling, or especially because he knows it will. A normal person that would have even tried to avoid the Rumbling or really find another way would have at least tried to test if they could change the future they saw, but Eren doubles down on the future that he saw on every chance he had, every day he chose to not cut his hair. Eren saving Beruto doesn't mean he knew or that there could have been alternative timelines, it just means he could predict the obvious, the same thing that everyone else knows, that Bert doesn't die that day, so when he saw that Dina was going to eat him if "someone" didn't do something, he just intervened and saved him. In truth, Carla's death has nothing to do with saving Bert. Carla doesn't have to die as a condition for Bert to be saved. After saving him, he could have just intervened again in the same way to save her too. What's really happening here is that Eren is realizing he has the power to save his mother, just like he did with Bert, but he's going to choose to let her die, in order to preserve the past/future, because at this point in his life, the Rumbling/Dream of "Freedom" has become more important to him than saving his mother. This should have been the emotional climax of the story, something the author was working on since day 1, the idea that Eren is the creator of his own story/hell, in a very "Shakespearean/Greek Poetic Ironic Tragedy" way. Technically speaking it's a beautiful closed causal loop that ties with the cyclic nature of the story and it's themes, but since it was probably a very hard pill for most of the young audience to swallow, the idea that Eren would cause/choose for his mother to die instead of saving her, then I guess it's why we only got 1-2 pages about it in the final chapter. Pity. If Eren had Paul's powers, maybe he could have imagined a way to save his mother, avoided the horrible massacres in his story and still find another way for him to end up getting the power of the FT, so he could use it to do all of this, but the thing is Eren isn't Paul, he can't do the 5D chess and find another way, which is why the future is what it is. Eren can only choose based on the information that he knows, which includes the future, the result of the choices he is going to make even when they are already influencing him, like self-fulfilling prophecies. Imagining alternative timelines is too much for him, so he ends up choosing what he wants the most and just accepts the consequences. It's possible that there are other alternative timelines. Eren has the knowledge and the power to influence the past and choose otherwise, but we don't know what would happen if he did. Would that create an alternative timeline or would it cause an impossible Paradox that should implode/break that timeline? If the universe is indeed "quantum", then all possible choices/timelines exist, but only the possible ones. The impossible ones simply don't come to be. Regardless, the story of AoT is the story of that "main" timeline, one in which all the choices made don't change the past.

@@pedrolanna1551 Eren can’t change the past because that would mean he wouldn’t arrive at the future he wanted. And that’s important to highlight because he WANTED that future to happen. Remember, Founder Eren can experience past, present, and future simultaneously. Meaning he was there in every point in time from the Path’s creation and every moment after that, up until he finally dies. If the order is 1-2-3, then Eren is at all three all at once, making sure events happen exactly as he wants it. He can’t change anything that prevents his birth and he can’t change anything that prevents him from getting the Founder’s power in the first place. Eren is already at the finish line, and he’s only setting up the pieces so that he reaches said finish line to begin with.