And I came to a theory of what is happening right now. In my opinion, Eren is not trying to push his friends away in order to protect.



Nor he is controlled by Zeke, Attack Titan and whoever else. He is truly furious. And you can see it by the look in his eyes.

The chapter is called “Ignorance”. In the sense it is described in Eren’s monologue I got that he means not only the unawareness of his friends, but also their idleness and lack of free will.

Basically, he says that Mikasa and Armin behave like slaves and do not realize this, they do not fight for freedom, but only observe or silently execute commands. They themselves do not take initiative (by the way it all started ever since childhood, e.g. them choosing to enter military after him).



He openly says that he despises it and considers such people to be nothing more than a livestock.

Ever since the beginning of the story we can clearly see his anger while witnessing such cases. He is the one shouting at Hannes that they are like birds in cages, and that walls will not be there to protect them forever, that they must do something aside from drinking. He challenges his friends about their choice to go to the MP, claiming that it’s the choice of cowards who do not want to change anything.

Even more, they all kept silent when Eren agreed to be eaten by Rod Reiss when he turned 120 meters. All except for Mikasa just because she was his personal slave of her Ackerbond, and Historia.



Historia was the only one who was not stupidly silent, but offered a completely different plan without sacrificing Eren. But sacrificing her personal feelings.



And as they are under Marley threat, instead of finding some normal plan so as not to sacrifice Historia, their friends silently agree with Historia-beast-titan-breed-machine. He is the ONLY ONE who defends Historia. Eye for an eye, you say? Don’t think that’s the case. I don’t want to talk about whether they have feelings for each other here (they do though). But Eren definitely respects her. She is the one who tatakaes. Therefore, she will always have his support.



He will not allow anyone to offend her, will not allow to break her life and become a breeding machine. And he is already sick of his comrades’ eternal ignorance.

Therefore, I believe that when in chapter 108 he says that they are all important to him and he does not want to sacrifice them, he suddenly realizes that this is not quite so for them. They all are prepared to sacrifice Historia as stated a bit before their ride.



I think that is why he blushes. Blushes in sudden anger (we see his unkind look later).



And now it is clear that he is desperate. And angry. Yes, he acted too harsh. But he is sick of this sh*t.

That’s my opinion on what is going on.

