Maybe someone here can clarify all this for me but in the end I'm just really confused as to what the fuck Eren wanted. Im probably just dumb but this chapter now raises a ton of questions for me
His whole thing is that he wants to be free, then he sees the future. So why does he start doing things to specifically to that fate? Is he okay being bound to that fate because his friends will be free? He's able to manipulate Grisha into doing all these things to set up circumstances years later but his mother dying was a complete game over? If Chad Eren was a persona all along then why bother? How is this better than just being up front and working with them? But if he really needed Mikasa to kill him to break the curse, shouldn't he have done way more to actually get her to hate him? Shouldn't he have done something so the Yeagerists wouldn't be such a big roadblock for Armin and co down the line? In the end everyone is "free" so the takeaway here is that since Eren successfully followed the roadmap of destiny, everyone is rewarded with freedom? How much agency did Eren really have this whole time?
I thought I at least had a decent grasp on Eren because he developed and changed as a character. Now I just really don't know what the fuck to make of all this. I get that Eren is emotional and still just a kid but he can also see the fucking future, he's not exactly an average 19 year old