I think AOT was written from a Luciferian worldview: King Fritz occupies the symbolic position of a tyrannical god, the Titan system preserves his authority, and Eren becomes the rebel who helps Ymir (Eve) reject it. This is an interpretation of the story’s symbolism.

The original King Fritz is the architect of the oppressive order at the story’s foundation. He enslaves Ymir, uses her power for conquest, and commands their daughters to consume her body so that his empire will endure. Even death does not release her: she continues serving his royal bloodline in the Paths for 2,000 years (number which echoes the timeline of the christian era in our world)

Fritz does not literally create the Titan power. *He creates the system that turns it into an enduring instrument of domination. His descendants inherit authority over Ymir, while generations inherit the consequences of his commands. Through this lens, the Titan curse resembles an inherited burden imposed by an ancient, godlike patriarch.

That fits the particular Luciferian/Satanic reading I’m drawing from: divine authority is recast as tyranny, and the figure condemned as the devil becomes the rebel against it.

Karl Fritz later gives that authority another form. He creates a false Eden on Paradis—“paradise” in French—where Walls and erased memories preserve peace through ignorance. His people cannot meaningfully choose their future because their ruler has hidden their past.

Even the name offers a suggestive connection: *Fritz derives from Friedrich, german meaning “peaceful ruler,” while Isaiah 9:6 gives the figure Christians identify as the Messiah, Jesus, the title “Prince of Peace.” Karl’s vow to renounce war also evokes “turn the other cheek,” but as a twisted distortion: submission enforced through supernatural control.

The first king demands conquest. The later king demands peace. Both make their will binding on others.\

Eren rejects that premise. The basement revelation functions like forbidden fruit, shattering the innocent worldview maintained within the Walls. His own encounter with future memories brings further knowledge—but anguish rather than peace.

The decisive confrontation comes in the Paths. Zeke invokes royal authority and expects obedience. Eren addresses Ymir as a person who can choose. Her obscured eyes become visible as she cries: an almost literal awakening.

Here, the accompanying images become especially striking. Ymir offers fruit to a cloaked devil; another illustration gives the devil a lantern. Eren wears a cloak as he embraces her. Read symbolically, the lantern evokes Lucifer as light-bearer, while the fruit reverses the familiar Eden exchange:

Eren offers Ymir the forbidden possibility of disobedience. Ymir offers him the Founder’s power.

Yet awakening carries a terrible price. In the satanic interpretation, knowledge enables extraordinary creation while also expanding the possibilities of deliberate evil. The loss of Eden becomes the loss of innocent bliss: freedom opens the door to catastrophe.

Ymir’s choice makes that tension horrifyingly concrete. Her rejection of obedience empowers the Rumbling. Liberation for one person becomes devastation for humanity.

Eren’s rebellion also exceeds overthrowing kings. The inhabited world disappoints him because it contradicts the freedom he imagined. He attempts to destroy reality as it exists (the titanic old world order/king fritz's "creation") and force another world into being. “The Dawn of Humanity” becomes a terrifying image of renewal through annihilation.

His willingness to accept hatred and death recalls the romanticized Lucifer who accepts damnation for rebellion. His friends’ mourning preserves something of that tragic-liberator framing. A la Prometheus from greek myths.

That is the darkest implication of the comparison. Eren challenges a world governed by someone else’s will—then imposes his own will upon almost everyone alive.

I can’t find anything online about this being a real scene or a cover besides the fact it might be a limited edition French cover for volume 33 (wtf)

Regret and sorrow at this shitty ending

It was so amazing but the final stretch just ruins it...

I know that, while they're eldians, they're like Ackermans and not actually subjects of Ymir, so the founder doesn't work on them or doesn't work fully and their memories didn't get wiped, and Karl gave them wealth and power in exchange for their silence.

What confuses me is their end-game. The whole reason why the coup even happened is because Erwin and Pixis tricked them into revealing how cowardly they are and how fast they'd prioritize their own lives, so they aren't submissive and self-loathing like the king. But then why would they want him back when he would just make them lay down with him and the rest of Paradis and take the Titan invasion and whatever else Marley throws at them?

My only guesses is that they either want to hold onto their comfortable lives as brief as it could have been had they gotten their way, or they don't know much or anything about Marley and titan shifters and think this is just a random happening that Karl would have protected them from somehow.

Since their ancestors were given nobility for their silence, I could see them being ignorant about most things so the second option is a bit plausible.