Conspiracy theories on 'Attack on Titan'

“”I’d argue with how peaceful Eren’s life is. If you mean raised in a background where he wasn’t forced to join the military and lived in a culture of martyrdom, then yes, his background is relatively more peaceful than… let’s say Reiner’s or Ymir’s.

But considering we’re talking about a boy who‘s heading straight in trouble…

“Eren… I don’t care how bad they are or how much you hate them, you need to think past just charging into a fight!“ - Ch. 50

And it’s not just Carla saying that, but Hannes as well when he remarks Armin and Mikasa had to drag Eren away from trouble.

The point is, while he grew in a relatively peaceful background compared to Marley warriors, he had the freedom to pick options and he chose to oppose the ones being in the way. And now he doesn’t stop: he’s fully responsible for his actions there.

Ever since the reveal in Chapter 88, as well as the common knowledge that the more a Shifter uses their powers, the more of an effect it has on their body, I’ve been meaning to talk about this but never got around to it. But now, it’s here!

We’ll be taking a look at a full list of all of Eren’s canon titan transformations/titan shifts and will keep a counter in order to estimate the total at the end. Keep in mind there have been off-screen shifts, for instance in the training with Hange, so we can estimate the minimum amount of transformations. Here we go!

Mikasa and Levi both lost their families in 844

Mikasa found her liege 

Levi found his liege too

Both of them achieved the full potential of their ackerpower

It was a rainy day…

This is from Eren’s dream in Episode 1 of the anime. As we all know it differs from the manga, and with Chapter 89, it’s safe to say it may have been a message from the future (considering he also sees Carla getting eaten in this same dream). However, is it just a random windmill inside the Walls with the obvious “Oh okay, Titans will break in, we know that already”? No, I don’t think so.

I’m going over the editing of Part 3 right now and I found this during re-reading:

This is Sasha’s village. And.. this is the only place in the manga where I’ve conveniently seen a windmill be placed. Could it be that the dream was a warning for the Clash of the Titans arc? @guyinlovewitheremika already pointed out that it’s not exactly the same as you don’t see the rest of the houses around the windmill, and this windmill is made of wood instead of stone. However, I still think this is appropriate.

(About this ask)

Well, the choices in your hypothetical scenario are connected: if the Beast Titan is eliminated, what’s left of the recruits will be saved, because Zeke is actually the last threat the SC is confronted to. Thanks to the thunderspears and Eren’s combat techniques, Reiner is easy to handle. Zeke however not only outwitted Erwin at the beginning but he can easily defeat Reiner in hand-to-hand combat. The final scene of chapter 70 showed… finger traces?

Zeke defeating Reiner - Ch. 70

So… a while ago during the one of my usual readthroughs, I noticed something in Chapter 50 which I’ve been meaning to talk about.

When Eren first uses the Coordinate, they are at a pretty desperate situation like Levi later says. Mikasa is hurt and can’t fight, Eren doesn’t have his 3DMG on and is pretty much done at that point, but the thing about the 3DMG is… they’re on a plains land. Sure, they can use the Titans, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make here.

They are literally in the middle of a grass field. Grass. Grass. And then… after Mikasa and Eren run away… there’s this shit right here:

….Wait a second… what the… O_o

Why are trees growing there?! What the hell?! Where tf did those come from?!?!

Okay, this is immediately linked to my theory that Titans are plants but more specifically… this flower/plant thing has been foreshadowed so much at this point, that I’m betting my money on the theory that the Source of all Organic Material is a tree/plant of some sort. Because 1) @falcon94ssy ‘s analysis, including the constant talks about bloodlines like here:

The flowers in Eren’s dream, the flowers inside the Titan in Episode 9… there are references everywhere. Titans only moving during sunlight and regenerating limbs?

Oh and 2) Isayama REALLY likes Norse mythology. It wouldn’t surprise me if the World Tree was the source of all organic material at this point.

According to the Marleyan history book that Grisha’s father had at the time, Ymir Fritz made a contract with the devil 1820 years ago, and there was a great Titan war 80 years ago, when 145th King took the power of the Progenitor Titan.

That doesn’t sound right, because it would mean that there were 145 people who had the power of the Progenitor Titan (144 Fritz Kings + Ymir Fritz) in 1740 years, which is exactly 12 years per person. The power of the Progenitor Titan was at the Fritz/Reiss family the entire time, and we know that they did a succession every 13 years in the walls:

So they should have done a succession every 13 years before 145th King. If that has been the case, than it’s been approximately 2000 years since Ymir Fritz ‘made a contract with the devil’.

I don’t think there’s a simple way to show these calculations, so warning: Numbers will be shown!

I’ve answered a question about her saving Reiner and Bertolt a while ago, also being tied to her leaving Historia as a consequence.

Considering of what we know about the walls and what Eren could be capable of, she probably thought of the Eldians able to threaten Marley not to approach any further unless the wanted the colossals to crush them. Peace can be made that way and leave “hope” inside the walls. 

Yet Ymir’s line of thoughts was kind of… strange:

Ymir realizing why Reiner and Bertolt wanted Eren - Ch. 50

She was outright starting at Historia when she mentioned the word walls, knowing full well any bad usage of the coordinate would mean death for her. So why didn’t she help Bertolt and Reiner pry it away from careless hands such as Eren’s? 

I’m lowkey thinking she was somehow hoping for Historia to take back the power, so peace would be ensured, which is weird because Ymir isn’t the kind of person who would see others as sacrificial lambs, even for the sake of peace.  

Then there’s this whole letter business, something Reiner had to make sure it would come in Historia’s hands. That implies her plans have changed because something happened during these two or three months. She wrote that letter knowing Reiner and Bertolt would come back to retrieve Eren and probably knowing there was a possibility she couldn’t make it. Nevertheless she ensured Reiner and the group would rescue Historia from the future conflict, would victory be theirs.

So before I start, we don’t quite know how old Grisha was when he and Dina were sent to the island. However, in this photo, you can clearly see that Grisha is still young and not quite as bearded as he was when Carla fell for him…. anyways.

However, we can make it out from the current timeline that we have. The year is 850 at the present time in Attack on Titan. Eren is 15 years old and Shadis met Grisha outside Wall Maria 20 years ago. That makes 830. The previous event that we know of is exactly what the picture shows: Zeke betraying his parents in the year 823. Grisha, as you can see here, is still relatively young. Now, let’s skip 7 years further.

Doesn’t quite seem like Grisha is still a young man, does it? You can cleary tell that he has grown up in other ways than growing an awesome beard. Overall, he looks more like an adult, if that’s the correct way to describe it (I’m not sure)

But now, here is what needs to be considered. We know from Ymir that turning into a mindless Titan freezes your biological clock. She spent 60 years as a Titan before eating Marcel and turning back, resuming her life in her early tweens before she entered the wall. With Grisha, as I said, you can notice the difference between when he was supposedly turned into a Titan after being betrayed by Zeke and when Shadis found him after he had supposedly just eaten a shifter. (Note: Keep in mind there are three books that Eren and the others need to read through, as well as the fact that the story will be further continued in Chapter 87 without a doubt, so there may be some things we don’t know here)

To me, this translates into Grisha having to explain some more. For instance, the fact that there’s no way that he was turned into a Titan immediately after being exposed, because when he turned back, he was much older. Also, when Shadis found him, he was still had some sort of temporary amnesia as if he had just turned back into a human not long ago (We still don’t know who he ate to do so). He couldn’t have stayed outside for years either because even as a shifter, I don’t think you can go on without eating for that long. And like I said, the possibility of him hunting and surviving on his own is low since you’d think that either the SC would have spotted him earlier or that he’d have some proper recollection of himself, which was not the case when Shadis found him.

One thing which I’m not quite sure of is how he had the photo on him which he left in the basement. Didn’t the MPs check him and throw him into prison before he was released? You can obviously see on this panel that he can remember more clearly who he is and not just his name. In fact, all he had were clothes on him (Still not quite sure how those remain intact even after losing your whole body when turning into a mindless Titan… censorship reasons maybe lmao)

My only guess is that there was something more to the part after he is betrayed. There’s simply no way that he would just be turned and boom, sent to Paradise. There is definitely more to the story before that happens, seeing as he grew older, plus like I said, he has stuff to explain in the following chapters, including the continuation of what I just mentioned as well as how to use the Coordinate, which Eren remembers him saying when he gave him the key to the Basement.

Although there is a lot more to know, it’s nice to finally be able to put some pieces together.

resemblance? foreshadowing?

probably just my imagination, heh