shingeki-no-kay:

People find it very easy to criticise Eren and compare him to the likes of Mikasa and Levi

But he’s just a teenage boy with no amazing skills like Mikasa or Levi, all he has in his human form is sheer determination

He’s not naturally talented or strategically intelligent like Armin, Jean or Erwin

He’s not physically strong like Annie or Reiner

He can’t even control his damn Titan as well as the other shifters can

Not forgetting that this kid has lost limbs, had the shit beaten out of him, guns and canons aimed at him, been eaten by a Titan, almost kidnapped by a Titan, stepped on by a Titan, fucking crushed and impaled by concrete and wood

And he carries on refusing to die

Which is what makes him the perfect protagonist.

he refuses to give up that is the most important thing ever