Gabi X Reiner

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Yolette Langevin

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:49:09 PM8/3/24

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Would you agree that the difference between reiner and gabi is that the narrative didn't allow reiner to be on the right side (meaning he still fought to restore the founder for Marley) despite having figured out the truth about the island while it allowed gabi to immediately follow the right track of saving innocents no matter what?

I'm not sure I'd phrase it quite like this because in my interpretation Reiner didn't "figure it out" for a while. It was a gradual process where duty and a wish to change something was at first the focus and allowed him to ignore the human loss, but as he grew to like everyone in the military, it gradually became harder to ignore.

He, Annie and Bert saw the destruction they caused, but the true moment when Reiner in particular really seemed to acknowledge that their enemy is human just like everyone in Marley or the world was in Trost when Reiner's mind broke and the guilt became too much for him to ignore:

I guess the difference to me is that Gabi wasn't completely broken before her arc happened. Her circumstances didn't let her stew in the horrible things she did and she was given another perspective before the weight of her actions could break her (in the case there was something that could undo her brainwashing after she'd done something on the level Reiner did).

Reiner is sort of the broken, tired perspective, while Gabi is the fierce, naive one and I think there is room and necessity for both for contrast and making narrative points. They're both a little bit different redemption arcs.

I've seen the argument that Gabi is an unnecessary character because Reiner, Bert and Annie already had basically this very same arc, but I feel like her character and Falco's really help to particularly put Reiner and Eren into perspective.

But I think that is pretty much what you mean because technically yes, Reiner continued to fight for Marley despite his realisation in Trost and his already changing perspective before Trost, but after Trost it wasn't because of willful ignorance or him not acknowledging the truth, it was more of a duty thing/for his family/mom.

On a side note, I'm really stewing the story for myself right now and going back through it and I think the extra pages of 139 did a really cool thing with Reiner and Eren because in the end neither of them really didn't remove the cycles of violence from the world and guess what, the biggest thing both did was genocide/massmurder.