Attack on Titan: The Second Rumbling
Zeke Yeager wakes up in his twenty-year-old body in the year 845, carrying memories of a future that hasn't happened yet—the Rumbling, his brother Eren's descent into mass murder, and his own death. Armed with knowledge of what's coming, Zeke is determined to change everything. He'll save Eren from becoming a monster, break the cycle of Eldian suffering, and prevent the apocalypse he already lived through.
But fixing the future means making brutal choices in the present.
Zeke manipulates the Marleyan military, reveals his royal bloodline, and forces his way onto the Paradis Island mission years ahead of schedule. When he arrives, he does the unthinkable—he kills his own titanized mother to save Carla Yeager, Eren's mom, shattering the timeline's original cause-and-effect. It works. Carla lives. The loop is broken.
Except Grisha Yeager recognizes that Zeke is a time traveler. And he still gives the Founding and Attack Titans to young Eren anyway.
Now there are two brothers with memories of the future. Two opposing plans to save humanity. And only one can succeed.
Zeke builds the Neo-Eldian Empire through calculated violence and revolutionary reform. He crowns himself True King, rewrites Eldian biology through the Paths, and modernizes Paradis using future knowledge. His vision is clear: end the cycle through control, protection, and careful planning.
Eren sees it differently. To him, Zeke's empire is just another prison. The Attack Titan's will burns inside him—the need to keep moving forward, to choose savage freedom over safety, no matter what it costs.
The walls hold millions of Colossal Titans. But the real threat is the ideological war between two traumatized brothers who both think they're saving the world.
This is a time-travel story where knowledge of the future doesn't fix anything—it just changes the battlefield. Political schemes, moral compromises, and the question neither brother can answer: if you could save the world by controlling it completely, should you?
Because some mistakes can't be undone. Only repeated in different ways.
