It s easy to forget how, back in the very first episode of
Attack on Titan, the total destruction of Shiganshina was a plot enacted by a few children the same age as Eren and his friends. The only thing that differentiated our heroes from the villains that ruined their world was the overwhelming power of the Titans that Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie had been gifted – or cursed – with. Of course, neither the audience nor the protagonists could have ever guessed that then, and years would pass before Reiner and Co. were eventually revealed to be the wielders of the Armored, Colossal, and Female Titans. By then, the campaign against the Titans was in full swing, and the dark implications of the Warrior Unit s origins were used mostly to fuel the conflict brewing between the nearly grown brothers and sisters-in-arms. A sad and tragic twist of fate, yes, but one among many, more important for what it meant for our hero s perpetual fight, and not so much the turncoats of the Scout Re