As peeved off as I am that we never got to see Zeke’s teenage-adulhood commitent to workplace racism + discrimination in the form of his rise to power in Marley I do think it is a funny detail that the premise is about “freedom” and Eren’s out there manipulating his family’s memories and actions left right and centre Grisha Kruger Zeke’s own mother Dina etc etc etc and yet Zeke is (presumably) the only person exempt from this. Eren doesn’t know what his half-brother went through. Grisha once within the Walls doesn’t know what his first son went through. Dina turned into a mutilated murderous Smiling Titan doesn’t know the fate of her only child, the only one in the family to look like her. The viewer doesn’t know what the once main antagonist went through. Zeke is a character that keeps secrets and cannot/does not get close to anyone and yet the only “freedom” he can get is the retaining of his past and his own memories in a world where even those can be manipulated.
