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Farewell, to the boy who was looking for freedom.

Today is a sad day for all of us who read and love Shingeki no Kyojin, because, apart from other beloved characters, Eren Jeager has finally died.

An Eren who, in his last years and moments of life, was already dead. There was no sparkle in their eyes and there was no glimmer of faith or hope in their soul for the humanity that so tormented, oppressed and murdered them, which is understandable. He could only have the faith that, by sacrificing himself, leaving aside his heart, humanity, family, friends and feelings, he could leave a world where his race and his people could live in freedom, without ties, oppression or fear of being eaten. constantly.

Faith that they could enjoy that freedom and that he knew he would never get, because he was a slave to his own desire and longing. He was a slave to his destiny and the life he had to live, for he was destined to die like cattle or die as a villain.

Despite his great and selfish desire, despite having murdered millions of people and comrades having died for his cause, his motive was noble, because he simply wanted his people to live free for many years, even if he had to take away the freedom of the whole world (genocide is not justifiable, it is only a description).

That Eren we met at the beginning, clumsy, quarrelsome, weak, innocent, dreamy and gentle, has disappeared to truly become a demon, forced by circumstances, and the vital and situational context where he was born.

A demon, who has suffered for years the weight of knowing what was going to happen in the future and knowing that he would not be able to change it, despite looking for signs where, perhaps and only perhaps, the future could have changed, such as words from Mikasa or Sasha's last word.

A demon who has alienated all the people he loved, in order to advance on a path of death, blood and terror, because he knew that his companions and friends had too many good hearts to be able to participate in it. A demon who knew that the only way to be stopped was precisely by those he loves, wants and needs to live every year being free. A demon that trusted and did not take the powers away from his friends, so that they could finally kill him, even if he had to fight with them and, perhaps, some of them will die. A demon who trusted in the goodness and kindness of his friends, he trusted in their values and principles, to the point of knowing that he was going to be killed by them sooner or later.

And I think that seeing Mikasa for the last time, and being the one to free him from such a cruel fate, was a relief, because he knows that she, despite not having stopped loving him, has finally accepted who is the person she loves and who he has become, knowing that his actions could not be allowed.

Finally, Mikasa has accepted who Eren Jeager is, has accepted her feelings and has accepted that she is the one who should kill him, even though she is thinking about him for the rest of her life, even if Eren tells her to forget about him, it would be a cowardly act where she would run away from reality. She wants to keep the scarf of the person who saved her and always keep remembering him, just as she remembers Sasha and the rest of the people that she appreciated and lost along the way.

Eren Jeager is and will be a benchmark of continuous struggle, determination, honor and freedom for many of us. As well as a reference of how ideals end up enslaving us and distancing us from those we love. We could say that Eren is the figure of the search for freedom, and maybe also of freedom itself, but only those of us who know him know that he has never been free as he wanted. Really, the only way that Eren could achieve freedom is by dying and living in the hearts of all those to whom he gave back that freedom that was taken from them since they were born.

Eren have died broken, shattered, desolate, dejected, afflicted, feeling guilty and surely, although it sounds contradictory, sorry for all those deaths that he has caused, which were necessary for him. Even though his friends have had to kill him, he has died being loved by them. I cannot imagine the psychological and emotional breakdown that he has had to go through to reach these extremes.

A great character has left us, has achieved his freedom, ceasing to be a slave to himself and, surely, he can rest in peace, together with his mother who will be waiting for him after so many years.

I hope that the time loop has been suppressed, and the image that Isayama showed us in an event about the vignette of the final chapter, on the way to the birth of the first child born being free thanks to the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers of the Survey Corps, sacrifice of millions of innocent people, sacrifice of the last Legion's soldiers and the great sacrifice of Eren Jeager. Here it gives way, or I hope, to the beginning of a new era based on the same freedom that so many people struggled to achieve and did not get to know.

You have already achieved your freedom, Eren. You can rest in peace. Just as Mikasa will never forget you, neither will we.

May the wings of freedom, that you longed for so much, take you far.

Sayonara, to the boy who was desperately seeking freedom.

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