Entice

This is unironically why Eren turned out the way he did. Nobody on that island ever really tried to understand this nigga. He watched his mother get eaten in front of him, spent his entire childhood carrying that trauma, and somehow everyone just expected him to keep moving like none of it affected him. His father passed an entire burden onto him, the military saw him as a weapon, and everyone around him was so caught up in humanity’s survival that nobody really stopped to consider what was going on in his head. Even when he was clearly struggling, people either tried to control him or expected him to figure things out himself. And the few people who genuinely cared about him couldn’t even understand how far gone he was until it was too late. I’m not saying Eren was innocent, but I genuinely think people underestimate how much the people and circumstances around him contributed to the person he eventually became.

mikasa didn’t do anything when armin was crying after he was sexually assaulted, didn’t gaf when erwin’s death was weighing down on armin, didn’t gaf when eren broke down after he learned what his father did, didn’t gaf when eren was literally depressed in marley