While coming back home from a spring break trip, I binged watched Attack on Titan again. Anyways, I got back into reading the manga, and being heavily into the fandom. So without further introduction let me tell you guys what I think that’s going to happen next and my theory on where the show is going. I think this should go without saying, but if you only follow the anime then don’t read any further because…..spoilers,fte duh.
Chapter 68 to me is the ending point for the second season for the anime. Hopefully, the anime will put a little more filler during the fight with Rod. I was kinda disappointing on how un-epic it was, but I feel like Isayama needed to do this to move the story along as complaints rains in that the story is snailing along. In the end, after killing her dad you see Historia declaring that she is the true ruler of the walls.
At first I wasn’t excited at all when the plan was announce to place Historia as the rightful ruler. I thought it was going to be a switch of one pawn to another, and she would be a puppet to push the scouting legion agenda ahead. After chapter 68, I highly doubt that’s the case, and it pretty much started when she discarded her fake name of Krista Lenz.
” Krista probably would’ve been worried for everyone. Krista Lenz was a good girl. But Historia Reiss…. Historia’s parents never loved her. Nobody did. Quite the opposite. No one wanted her to be born. Her story isn’t even especially unusual. There are lots of kids like her in the underground… So? Everyone was disappointed, right? That the real me was this empty. That I’m nothing like the good girl Krista Lenz was.” – Historia to Eren
You add this with stepping up to help fight her dad, and disregarding Erwin and Levi wishes for her to hide somewhere safe. So what kind of Queen will Historia be? I think she will be a queen that’s able to rule on her two feet. I think after her character development it would be a huge disservice if she ended up a puppet, even the slightest. And this where I believe her and Erwin will bump heads. I believe Historia is going to make decisions that’s going to rub a lot of people the wrong way. Isayama, the creator of Shingeki no Kyojin said in a interview that Historia and Ymir is indeed a couple. Currently, we know that she is upset at Ymir for leaving her to go back to the “homeland.” I believe that Ymir feels like she would never be accepted back into the walls, this goes for Reiner, and Bertholdt. I believe that Historia won’t be able to discard her feeling for Ymir, so she will pardon her, but nothing is so simple in SNK. Ymir will probably request that she does the same for Reiner and Bertholdt, and the whole “homeland.” But I’m getting a little ahead of myself, so lets get back to the story at hand.
Without a doubt, the next arc has to be the basement arc, and here when shit is going to get really good. Or I hope it does anyways since we waited this a long time. It’s going to be painfully long till we get to the basement however. First they must retake wall Maria. Often I hear other tell me that they could have easily send a small team in, and receive the contents of the basement. Not so fast my friend. We must remember that Eren house in under complete rubble. It would take some time for them to clear the debris. Also there could be citizens still trapped underground. I also believe that Historia wouldn’t even allow a secret mission to the basement, knowing that her citizens are still waiting to be saved. However, I don’t throw the “small team entry” theory out window. They could go at night when the titans aren’t normally active, have titan Eren clear the rubble and snag the contents of the basement, but where’s the fun in that? lol Eren is going to play a big role in this, by using his titan armor to seal the wall. The question is: Where on earth are they’re going to find another flask of armor? I’m going with that Eren only had to ingest the contents once to gain the armor ability forever. Now he just going to learn how to use it at will. Or maybe another character will come out with the know how to create another flask of armor. Or back again to the small team to the basement, and they will have one there.
Annie, are you okay?…. Are you okay Annie?
I believe this next arc we will see the return of Annie. Currently, there’s not a lot of manpower at Historia’s disposal to launch an offensive to retake Wall Maria. Thinking of Ymir. She will verbally give Annie a chance to “redeem” herself by lending her strength, and disclosing any information she knows about the “homeland” also to reveal that titan shifters and regular humans can live behind the same walls. In which, Annie will un-crystallize herself. Also, what’s a better way for Eren to learn how to control and use his abilities at will? That’s right, from another titan shifter. Misaka….. is going to to lose her shit. And this is where Armin will disgree, and maybe, just maybe planning other things behind her back. Erwin of course will accept this gamble. I say this because Isayama said in an interview don’t be surprise if Armin and Eren don’t be the best of friends going down the stretch, and this is my reason why. Recently, we saw Eren come to terms of what he’s actually is and how he always convinced himself it was because he was special. Now he realize that he is not special, and there’s a lot more titan shifters walking around than just him. I believe, as Annie trains him he will grow close to Annie, and understand her more to the point where he wants to protect her. They will reclaim wall maria, get to the basement, uncover it secrets, then go and confront “the homeland”
That’s as far I would like to share at the moment. This post is getting longer than I thought, but I will leave you guys with some bits of other things that will happen. Here we go.
Connie will be the next major character to die, or get transformed into a titan. After seeing what the beast titan did to his home town, and his mom he verbally says he going to kill him. That chip on his shoulder will be the end of him. As I think Isayama will use Connie as an example to show how the beast titan turns humans into titans, and Hanji will most likely be drooling in excitement while this goes on lol. Sasha will be the one to put him down.
I want to say Misaka will be forever by Eren’s side, but I wonder. What’s up with the Ackerman bloodline? And will it cause a thrift between her and Eren. Personally, I ship Eren and Annie together. Eren and Misaka could totally happen, but not in the state their current relationship is in. Think about it. Eren has always been pushing Misaka away. Even though they’re step siblings, it’s still a sibling relationship, or at least in Eren’s eyes anyways. Eren needs to get over feeling like a burden to Misake by having her protect him all the time. In chapter 68, you see Eren punching himself for being pathetic. The roles needs to change, or Eren must feel like he’s on par with Misaka’s abilities. And Misaka has to stop treating Eren like he can’t protect himself.
That’s it for now. Another theory, another time.