Thread:Obvious One/@comment-27315896-20180702200014/@comment-30139490-20180912231100

You aren't bothering me in the slightest. As for Eto, she hasn't been confirmed dead nor alive. Therefore, I say it's left to readers imagination to conclude it how they wish. Which is my most hated trope of storytelling, if I might add. I consider it beyond lazy and indirect way of saying: "I'm incapable of concluding my own story properly. You do it for me." This thing in particular is unfair when it comes to Eto. Simply because she was, I dare to say, the most well-written character of this franchise. And story crapped on her so badly. She was brought back in the most ridiculous way. The Reiner meme to be exact. All of which ended up being for nothing. Does she get her revenge on Kaiko that motivated her through her entire life? No. Hirako is one to do so while she is shown on floor = left up to reader's imagination to guess her fate because the author couldn't do so himself for his major character that he was writing and building since part 1. Which is what made her Reiner like asspull, even worse. Because it was all for nothing in the end. Her middle finger panel, the only "relevant" thing she has done upon coming back, might as well be a middle finger to the readers who wanted her character back and/or were fans of her. "Up to the reader's imagination"-is the biggest comfort one may get on this or any matter. So, if you want Eto to be alive, then she is alive. Canon has decided that whatever you wish is canon for you. I'm sorry for not being able to provide you the potential comfort you may have needed, but I'm afraid I'm incapable of doing something that author himself didn't bother to address properly without going the classic lazy route: up to the reader's imagination.