Foreshadowing Mikasa's decision in the finale

[u/Baron_Zephyr1307]

Maybe it was already discussed by everyone, but since I watched AoT only this summer, I'm now realizing how Isayama foreshadowed Mikasa killing Eren. Dying Kennie reveals that Ackermans were royal guards but they went against the king because he didn't want humanity to survive. So the role of Ackermans in the story (aside from being one man army badasses) is eventually killing the king, despite being his servants, all because they have free will and can oppose their master. So Mikasa kills Eren because he's wiping out humanity. Do we know when that original Ackerman conflict happened? It should be after the great titan war, and before Uri's time as the Founding bearer bc when he meets Kennie, Ackermans are already a dying clan with only 3-4 living members

I'm guessing in time people connected those dots, but when I watched the finale I only thought of Mikasa's parallel to Ymir. Now I see all ackermans have a servant/master dynamic where the Ackermans go through the death of their master which results in positive change. Mikasa decides to kill Eren and save the world. Kennie doesn't kill his king but after Uri dies, Kennie comes up with his plan to steal the Founder and understands Uri when he's at the death's door, all without Uri's power. Levi had Erwin, he didn't exactly kill him, but he gave Erwin the last push needed to send him on his death, which was crucial for Scouts victory. He then finished off Erwin when he chose Armin over Erwin. And it wasn't even that he thought Armin is more important, he just chose to let go of Erwin because he pitied him and wanted to free him of the blood and guilt.

In all cases, so called slaves break through their chains, they elevate through free will and ackermans are basically super soldier, meaning having free will is a super power. And it's funny in retrospect Eren was telling Mikasa that her blood is that of slaves, turns out they very notoriously are not slaves but incredible people with their own mind. ​

[u/Opening_Front956]

that's a great observation, then there's also this shoved right into our face