



For me , Gabi is the Goat , you know why?
It took Gabi barely a week of living among the Eldians on Paradis to start questioning everything she had been taught about them, despite watching her own friends get killed in front of her. That makes her development especially striking when compared with Reiner, Annie, and Bertholdt.
Reiner, Annie, and Bertholdt spent years living among the people of Paradis. They went to school with them, ate with them, trained alongside them, made friends, formed relationships, and experienced their everyday lives. They gradually discovered that the people they had been taught to see as monsters were simply ordinary human beings with families, dreams, fears, and their own suffering.
Gabi, on the other hand, had spent her entire life believing that the Paradis Eldians were devils. She arrived on the island with years of Marleyan propaganda deeply ingrained in her, and unlike the Warriors, she had no years of friendship or familiarity with the people there. Her friends were killed in front of her, which should have reinforced her hatred and convinced her that everything she had been taught was true.
Yet even after all of that, it only took a very short time for her to begin seeing the people of Paradis as human beings rather than as a collective enemy. Once she actually lived among them, ate with them, spoke to them, and experienced their kindness firsthand, the image of the “devils” she had been taught to hate became increasingly difficult to maintain.
That is one of the strongest points of Gabi's character arc. She didn't simply change her mind because someone gave her a speech. She was forced to confront the contradiction between what she had been taught and what she was actually experiencing. The people she believed were monsters were capable of compassion, friendship, and selflessness, even toward her.
And that is exactly what makes her different from the Warriors' situation. Reiner, Annie, and Bertholdt had years of exposure to Paradis and still became psychologically devastated by the realization that their victims were human beings. Gabi reached the same realization in an extremely short period of time, despite having her own friends killed by Paradis Eldians and despite entering the island with an even stronger hatred toward them.
Her development shows how quickly dehumanization can begin to fall apart when someone is finally forced to meet the people behind the label.