Put here one of my post on NF
If they collapsed/vaporized it would have been over 100%. However they just stopped and are still standing, there is chance it might go either way.
It's literally "Oh no! Did the main character die!? Found out next time on AoT."
From a narrative standpoint, the MC Eren (
which has been silent since a while) need to do something big. It's obvious to me that it's not quite over yet. It wouldn't be like GoT with Night King stupid ending. Eren is the MC (otherwise it would be the worst ending of all time lol. There is still 2 chapters).
This is how I see (hope) what happen next:
IMO the rumbling can be reactivated (if Zeke beast is reincarnated in Hisu child (royal blood). Then Eren can continue the rumbling with the kid (his kid) even though he wanted to prevent Hisu and her child from inheriting the beast, it would be a cruel twist of fate. Perhaps he can enter in contact with the kid via PATH ?
I think Falco is just going to evacuate the children. The alliance could stay but will be exhausted.
I don't think they will fight again.
It could just be that Mikasa will get up (if you don't fight, you don't win) for a last scene with Eren (or at least the shifters bar Falco) and perhaps she will manage to kill him (but Eren too will kill her. Double kill).
Then some time after that, once the battle is over. The worm will die from its wounds (due to Armin nuke) and the curse of the titans will be over.
If there's an unprecedented turnaround leading Eren to take the upperhand, that's how I see it. That way Alliance action would not be totally useless. It could fit in 2 chapters. Probably a cope, but after this chapter, this is the ending I want and I find it credible. It could fit in 2 chapters. For me it wouldn't be so horrible an ending like that. Probably a cope
Edit:
This chapter is less horrible than the leaks suggested, but it is still a chapter well below average (sad Zook died killed by Manlet, so Zeke seems to be the key for Eren to communicate with Ymir and be able to use rumbling.).
It was Zeke who sent the shifters (Grisha, Kruger & co) to fight for the alliance (he woke them up because everyone is connected into PATHS, death doesn't exist here). He basically became a Ymir bis.
But I don't think it means that Ymir betrayed Eren. We can see that the other Titans (including the Okapi) are still hostile to the alliance. In my opinion, she let Zeke "free" these shifters because deep down inside her, she is nice and always wanted freedom. She had freed the pigs after all.
But overall I think Ymir still support Eren.
Otherwise the alliance still shines. Most of them have their moment of glory.
Is Isayama really going to match Jean and Pieck just to make a horse-cart joke? So this dream of Jean with his wife (with black hair, Jean loved Mikasa's black hair) and his child was actually Pieck and not Mikasa?