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Do you have an interpretation of Eren's face when he remembers the scene of the scarf?

Hello,

Mmh, yes but it’s, as you implied with this ask, an interpretation, only an opinion maybe. We don’t have words from Eren himself on what he think of Mikasa and the reasons behind his viciousness towards her so it’s still to be nuanced.

But I think this face :

can be connected to this one :

to this one :

But also, maybe especially, to this one :

To put a precise word on it, it’s imo a feeling of guilt.

Eren is someone whose main motor overlaps around two things : quest of freedom, and quest of revenge. The latest chapter particularly drew on this latter and on how, while we thought that Eren's thirst for revenge had been extinguished since Marley's arc and since he came up to the conclusion that his enemies were as human as himself, this desire’s still at the center of all his actions. In fact, even over his pursuit of freedom.

It's not "his" freedom that the kidnappers were going to steal, but Mikasa's at this time. Yet, he acted like it were his revenge for being nabbed because the need for revenge was kind of urging, even though it wasn’t of his concern. Being someone who exteriorized a lot his emotions, he needed a way to vent all his own rage against the very act of stealing freedom,

something that was sleeping in him as he said to Armin, since the realization of being trapped.

But why be pissed off as if it were himself ? Because Eren has also, paradoxically, an immense capacity for empathy, to the point of going to risk his life to save a little girl he didn’t even know and offering her his home when she didn’t had one. And I think there’s also something to see in the intent that was behind all of Eren's cruelty in kidnappers' murders, but also behind his cruel words to Mikasa:

“I wanted to save her”. And by help Mikasa through Eren’s paradigm, I think we can get : “give her back the most important thing of the world : freedom”. But to help Mikasa currently it takes nothing more than crushing her and step on the promise of chapter 50 and all the moments of heat spent together, including this famous moment of wrapping the scarf and offering his home. Because this is the only way he has found to get her away from the hell he's heading towards, as he knows she would follow him otherwise.

His gaze includes a sort of bitter renunciation imo, something like "there’s no undoing that”, the gloomy ascertainment of the sacrifices (i.e. the beauty of eremika) he had to make for the path he took. There is a feeling of culpability for crushing all this, because even if he’s thinking it was necessary for whatever he’s trying to achieve, the necessity doesn’t erase the cruelty.

I also think this feeling of guilt toward Mikasa could be more complex, but the following is probably more overthinking so don’t take it too seriously either.

What if all that Eren had said in chapter 112 about the Ackerman wasn’t completely a lie? The part on the headaches and awakening maybe, but was the part on the link to the hosts completely wrong? After all, Kenny as we saw him was just chasing the trace of Uri until the very end, thinking of him in his last moments, setting up a twisted project and a whole rebellion group to take the original titan just to continue to live somehow with him. Levi, after loosing his host and the purpose Erwin assigned his life to, didn’t try to live for himself but only for a part of Erwin, a tiny bit of a portion he left him when he died. And Mikasa, just as she believed Eren dead, only stood up again by finding a way to continue living only for him.

So there's probably truth in what Eren said, not to the point where he exaggerated it, nonetheless the story of host is standing up.

And so, how does someone who cherishes so much freedom can feel, knowing that he has taken away the freedom of the closest and supposedly the most important person of his life, forcing her to go into hell with him when it's not even her own will ? That's why I particularly supported his expression when he told Falco that going to war is indeed terrible, and the worst is that there are people who don’t even go in there because of their own free will. The free will is something that came in the epicenter of the chapter 112, and seeing his pained face when he told that to Falco, it’s not impossible that he were even thinking of her at that moment. I mean, look at the face he had when Mikasa throw Armin on the table by pure reflex :

The mournful look he had at the scene of the scarf in 121 could be both due to a feeling of guilt by remembering he destroyed recently in Mikasa all the well-being she could get from that moment by telling her he hated her, but perhaps also to his belief of having imprisoned her at his side.

But once again, this is just a theory, questionable until we have Eren’s real thoughts on all this.

Thank you very much for the ask, it was interesting to do !