What Eren Really, REALLY Saw (Lore Accurate)

Finally someone that agrees that Eren saw Sasha's death at that moment. Thats why he asked Connie for her last words; he saw that Sasha said meat when she died. When he asked Connie about it, he wanted to see if the future he saw was deviated or still the same, hence the crying/laughing reaction when it was confirmed that nothing was changed.

I can't even blame Eren for going insane after this. If I saw myself ending the world, I'd probably have the same reaction.

Really love this rendition, you didn’t simply just piece together the different clips as other people have done you actually made it seem like it was mysterious, haunting and confusing for Eren to witness. The heartbeat was an amazing touch.

Eren knew all the spoilers of AOT at this point, including the fact that he himself is the director.😂

To be obsessed with freedom your whole life, only to find out you're just a foil for a 9 year old girl's plan from 2000 years ago must be just about the most soul crushing thing ever.

One of the scariest, most accurate, most well made edits ive ever seen of any series i have ever enjoyed. Well done holy shit dude. WELL DESERVED SUB

I thought this was gonna be a meme but holy shit..man. this was SOOOOO well made. Great job man.

Considering Eren Just saw the literal apocalypse, his own death by the hand of his lover, mentally destroying his own fsther, cause his mother to die and so many of his friends being hurt in the process and because of him! Its a miracle he didn’t just collapse on the floor or started screaming.

That face he makes after what he just witnessed always haunts me to this day.

Using the Dune soundtrack was an excellent touch, great job!! You truly captured the cosmic-horror aspect of AoT with this edit.

This is actually terrifying if you think about it. Imagine knowing what will happen every single day going forward, while vividly remembering every single day before, not only of his life, but every single attack and founder titans before him throughout history. Knowing everything that happened and everything that will still happen until the day of his own death, at the same time, while learning that he is truly a slave to fate, he was never free to begin with.

This is the moment when Eren's personality begins to change, and he starts to lose his smile.

This is only the second one of these that actually shows what Eren would have seen. Brief visions of his future, through his father’s memories that older Eren sent him, and not just everything like many think. The Dune music is also a great addition.

I believe Eren saw much more than this. He saw all the things to come in his and his friend's lifetime (the events in the anime) but also the full future and past of the world as experienced by the paths. So he saw the immense amount of time pass just like we did in the series' end credits. This would have made him extremely numb, and made it easier for him to accept all the horrendous things to come in the short term.

I like to think he didn't see why he'd start the rumbling only that he would. This to me would be extremely tragic if we assume he was trying to avoid that future, so everything we saw him do leading up to the rumbling would be entirely pointless. Eren was never going to be able to avoid starting the rumbling no matter how hard he tried and so he was always destined to be the Devil from Paradise.

I can’t believe this has only 100k, it’s so well-made I thought it was done by a huge channel. What a gem

Honestly theres SO much I love sbout the AoT narritive but one of the most fascinating is Eren causing the Rumbling. A lot of people say "I feel bad because he saw the horrors but couldn't change it..." or, "How did he not go insane knowing what was going to happen..etc." but I think Eren, and as a result, the future he saw, is much more complex than that. Yes the Rumbling wasn't something he wanted to do, but it was something he wanted to happen, if that makes sense. When Eren apologized to Ramzi, he apologized not just for what he was going to do, but also because he wanted to do it and felt guilty for that desire. Yes, Eren was a slave to freedom, but really he was a slave to himself. His entire life he was incapable of change, so much so thay he created a paradox to manipulate his own past so he turns out the way he does. I think it's the sheer determination and resolve that he has that actually forced the timeline to have only one ending up until his death. He saw the Rumbling because that's what he wanted, and because that's the outcome he saw, that's the outcome he stuck to. He essentially forced himself into a deterministic path because that's what he wanted to happen, and it's what he wanted to believe was the only option. I truly believe that if it were someone other than Eren who could see the future, that said-person would've actually had choices, they would have seen a multitude of futures rather than just one. However, it was always going to be Eren in that position because he put himself in that postion, paradoxing himself and creating an endless loop of one-outcome. I think his death actually freed up the timeline and ironically gave people the freedom of choice and decision over their own fates.

It's like a horrible realization that not only will you do horrifying things, you have no choice but to do them, and you cannot change the fate of your people no matter what so you might as well get close even if it means doing the horrifying.

My boy got hit wit the biggest spoiler of all time

I had never made the connection with Eren’s future memory ability and Paul Atreides’ Prescience. I know it’s probably not an intentional parallel on Yams part, but I still think the similarities between the two characters is very interesting.