All in all, Iāll say that Iām satisfied with the way SNK ended.
What brought me to this fandom was the fact that all the characters seemed so human to meā There was no āIām gonna die here like a hero for the sake of my comradesā; they died with fear, with thoughts of āwhy me?ā and even when Carla was about to die and was glad that Hannes took her children away, she still muttered to herself ādonāt go...ā because who on earth really, REALLY wants to die alone and away from those who you love? I can say for a fact that I would have been heartbroken and would wish to have them with me at the very end.
Because thatās how we are, people. We are humans, and we are selfish and we cry and sometimes wish for things that we shouldnāt.
I have read a lot of people who said that Eren is toxic for not wanting Mikasa to move onāBut I really needed to see him being human and just wanting the girl he loves to remind him.
(DisclaimerāIām not a shipper of EM or whatever; Iām here for the story).
He did all of those things, terrible things, so that his friends could truly be free and happy while giving up the opportunity of himself being with the woman he loved; and you all are calling him a complete and utterly selfish person for thinking āI donāt want her to forget me and move onāI want her to keep loving meā ?
Of course thatās a thought that hurts; he gave up all of those things: happiness, love, friendship, honor, loyalty... And there was absolutely no recompense to him at all. (Yes, his friends are alive and free but Iām talking about his life directly).
Iām not excusing him. All those things were horrible and everyone can see that. None of it changes the fact that he ended up being the āevilā that ultimately brought them all togetherāBut thatās the thing, isnāt it? He willingly took it upon himself just so he could grant them the āfreedomā he desperately wanted.
The idea of Mikasa moving on with someone else, forgetting about him and justāleaving him (in a sense) all alone must have been really painful.
Just because someone wants to be āthe bigger personā or āa good personā *Armin laughed in the background* doesnāt magically turns you into one and, in the end, what really matters is that when being for the last time with her, Eren said he wanted her to forget about him and move on. To live a long life and be happy.
He didnāt told her āplease donāt forget about me, please keep loving meā ācause that wouldāve been just wrong and Mikasa deserves to move on and be happy in the end; we all know that she wouldāve been devoted to him (as always) had he said the wordā He didnāt.
Let the poor guy have some selfish thoughts for once in the company and intimacy of his best friend, for gods sake.
Thereās so much to say about this ending that doesnāt entirely revolves around Eren, but I just wanted to be somehow a defender of the principal reason I liked SNK in the first place.
We are selfishāeven while we want to be all altruistic and āgoodā.
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