(1/2) What do you think about Marco's death and its impact on the RBA trio? The saddest thing for me - and likely RBA as well - was how Marco - after figuring it out and as a result, being left to his fate of getting eaten alive - still not cursed those betraying him's entire family line or condemn them for their abhorrent crime, but instead just begging for an answer from his supposed fire-forged comrades - WHY??

(2/2)… F*cking haunting, man! No wonder RBA trio, individually or as a whole, got really messed up after that. In a way, you could say Marco’s genuine kindness to-the-very-end save humanity by completely wrecking the enemy’s psychology which lead to them makings critical mistakes later, at the cost of himself.

Grim, dude.

Mixing metaphors, Marco’s death really cements the cracks among RAB. Reiner throws Annie under the bus to show her who’s boss, Bertolt watches (while Reiner ignores him and Annie only brings him up to try to get herself out of it), and Annie hates what she’s accepting and them .

These kids are not a tight bunch, and then Marco steps in and forces them all to face the intimate parts of the wrongness they’ve been embroiled in.

This one incident is a microcosm of their lives inside the walls, and as much as it eats away at all of them, it’s something that plainly shows what they can expect from themselves and each other.

And yeah, Marco being such a genuine human being makes it that much worse. People joke a lot about his pure goodness, helped along by his lack of time with us, but that’s part of the tragedy. Marco is a good person who lives inside the walls. RAB can’t tell themselves that they’re slaughtering devil spawn. This is a good, decent human being, and they murder him on a mission that has already killed thousands of people who might have been just like him. This is, unarguably, what their job entails.

They all hate it. And outside of psychological breaks, they don’t get to run away from how much they hate it anymore.



Then they have to keep going.

It’s a small miracle that they get as far as they do, really.

Thanks for the ask!

