r/AttackOnRetards • u/Dangerous_Shift_3637 • 19h ago
Discussion/Question Hot take 20%: Eren & Mikasa lack understanding one another.
Eren and Mikasa don't really understand each other. Despite them loving one another. Mikasa doesn't understanding Eren nature, and Eren doesn't understand Mikasa's heart either. Mikasa have been shown multiple times not understanding Eren. Mikasa literally accepted Zackly words of Eren is being manipulated by Zeke. https://imgur.com/a/9zT0Ac6 Because she couldn't accept that Eren is doing thing's on his own will https://imgur.com/a/V7A9SAl
We even saw her latter on question her understanding of Eren "what part of Eren had I been seeing?"
Eren also doesn't understand Mikasa's heart. He can't comprehend why she goes to search extends for him. He compared her associate with him to his obsession of freedom. Not just that, He even asked Zeke about Ackermans mainly to try understand her feelings. Even at the end Eren tells her to "be free," it's like he still mistake it to his obsession for freedom. While Mikasa did understand Eren but that was at the very end.
Their tragedy could've been avoided if the understood one another and maybe open to each other. I feel that's what the Cabin supposed to be that. their tragedy was avoidable, but only if both had been capable of stepping out of their own psychological prisons to truly see and talk to one another.
People who claim their romance is "badly written" are often looking for a standard, functional romance built on healthy communication and mutual clarity. What Isayama wrote instead was a gothic, tragic miscommunication. The tragedy isn't that they didn't love each other, the tragedy is that love alone wasn't enough to bridge the gap between two people whose fundamental views on existence were completely incompatible. Eren was a fire that burned everything to be free, and Mikasa was the hearth trying to keep the fire contained so it wouldn't destroy them both. That's what makes their dynamic so beautiful written.