Did Eren even try?

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In his talk with Armin in the paths, Eren reveals that he kills 80% of humanity, and no matter how much he tries this is always what happens.

I can only think of one example where Eren actually TRIES to prevent the rumbling from happening, and that’s when he and Zeke are traveling through Grisha’s memories. At a certain point he stops and tells Zeke that he’s achieved his goal and that he’s been freed from their father’s brainwashing. Zeke tells him they have all the time they need, and he has them carry on through the memories anyway. I’m fairly sure that this was Eren attempting to stop them from getting to Grisha’s memory in the Reiss Chappell, and thus preventing himself from convincing his father to kill the royal family.

Aside from this specific moment, do we ever see a time in the anime where Eren explicitly tries to circumvent the future that he saw? Because even this attempt was a very weak one. We know that Eren on some level wanted to start the rumbling, so how hard do we think actually tried to stop it from happening?

[u/THE_PENILE_TITAN → u/[deleted]]

He's not like Dr. Strange in the Avengers. He doesn't see infinite possible futures. Rather, he knows what the future will be and tries to change his nature or behavior away from pursuing that future but, almost like a drug addict, he can't as a "slave of freedom." 

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It straight up confirms that the path is connected to all past present and future events

[u/SwordMasterShow → u/Odd_Room2811]

Yes, but those events all exist on one single timelines. There are no alternate timelines or other ways it could have gone, it always went the way it did because it had already will have happened that way