#snk devil

Who was Ymir? What was Ymir’s titan?

Was Ymir really named Ymir? She never spoke, and it seems unlikely that her oppressirs would have cared to ask her name. So perhaps her name wadn’t even Ymir. As I though, the Eldians were indeed Germanics and Vikings, and based in this it may be that the Eldians actually gave Ymir her name after she first turned into a titan. They would probably have known what the name Ymir means: Progenitor of all Giants.

Ymir herself was not actually an Eldian. Her nation was devestated by the Eldians before being taken as slaves. Perhaps it could be that Ymir’s real name was actually Krista. I think this to be possible, considering Frieda called her Krista. After all why else would Frieda, whom knew Ymir, call her by that name? Perhaps we will get more on Ymir’s backstory. She has yet to speak as well, and we know nothing of her before she became a slave.

Many people seem to assume Ymir just willingly went back to the King. But this was never shown. Instead we know that some Eldians saw her transform. Most shifters are out cold for a while after inheriting their titans. If this was the case the Eldians may have found Ymir and retrieved her. Perhaps some would argue the Eldians to be too scared. But these were Vikings, whom may have even worshipped giants in norse mythology. I just doubt Ymir would have returned to the King on her own considering he ordered her to be ‘free’.

Ymir’s Progenitor titan is not the godess we expected. That was just Eldian propaganda to make Ymir look good. Instead she is a very large titan unlike any of the 9 titans. Because she is a combination of all 9 titans Ymir would have had qualities from each if them. It also seems tht she may be about 40 meter tall, taking into account her largest Titan: 60 meters, and smallest: 4 meters. The lack of any eyes or tunge in titan form seem to further represent her slave nature. The slaves were threatened to have an eye goughed out, and we did see their tongues being cut out.

Why was the power split into only 9 powers?

Ymir was the Progenitor. The first of all titans. Upon her death, she was cannibalised by her daughters: Maria, Rose and Sheena. We even see the Paths tree branch off into 3. Upon their fathers dying wishes, Maria, Rose and Sheena too would have probably birthed 3 children each and passed on their powers.

So Ymir had 9 powers within her. Then Maria, Rose and Sheena each held 3 powers within them. And their children, Or Ymir’s 9 grandchildren each held 1 power within them. But assuming those 9 grandchildren held up the tradition of each bearing 3 children and passing on the powers, why did it not split into 27 powers? I imagine this 4th generation of shifters would have been equally confused by this.

Here are some possible reasons:

1. The Eldian empire realised that each time the power was split, it grew weaker compared to the original Progenitor. So they limited it to 9.

2. The 9 realsm of norse mythology might be represented through the titans. So it was impossible for the Eldians to split up the 9 reals or titan powers any further, no matter how hard they tried.

3. The ‘parasite’ or source had 9 pairs of legs. Perhaps the source itself could not split itself into more than 9. The Eldians once again would have tried, but to no avail.

Are all Eldians Ymir’s decendants? Dosen’t that make them all royal?

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This was pretty confusing. Ymir herself isn’t even an Eldian, only the King and father of her children was. But I do think all current Eldians are subjects of Ymir. The Eldian empire would have tried its damm hardest to have all Eldians be part of Ymir’s blood. All other Eldians that were not of Ymirs blood would have been considered unworthy and no one would have reproduced with them. Hence those Eldians would have died out.

So then if all Eldians and titan powers are decendants of Ymir, does that not make them royal? Well I don’t think so. Being ‘royal’ does not seem to have anything to do with being related to the first King Fritz, nor Ymir. We know only a very few Eldians are ‘royal’. I think what is considered royal here is the genetic makeup of the founding titan specifically. So being royal is not a title, its genetics. The genetics of the founding titan, which was the ‘heart’ or the core of the Progenitor Titan.

Hence all decendants of only the Founding titan are considered royal. The Founding titan among two other titans wpuld have been passed down to one of Ymir’s daughters. Im going to go with Maria, since she was the oldest and hence would be the next Queen of Eldia. Maria would then have passed the Founding Titan on to one of her own children. That child would be the first founding titan, and all its children, regardless of if they became a titan or not, would have had been royal. Meanwhile the children of the other 8 titans would just be considered normal Eldians.

As for the Eldians that were used as mindless titans. I imagine it possible that the Eldian empire would have tried relentlessly to increase the number of its 9 shifters, perhaps by doing so they gave some Eldians some spinal fluid to drink. But since those Eldians did not consume the actual spine they only turned into mindless titans. The King or Queen at the time might have screamed for order, realising that the mindless titans obeyed them, and only them. Hence a new opportunity for a greater weapon was born.

The outcasts, criminals and lower classes would have been used for mindless titans. The besiged nations whom had been enslaved and raped would have produced children that were probably also used as mindless titans.

What is up with the 13 year curse? And why could Ymir not regenerate?

There could be many possible answers. Some think she could not regenerate because no one was in paths to ‘repair’ her. But this theory is based on the idea that Ymir heals all injuries sustained by shifters. None of this is confirmed or canon. I think shifters don’t neex Ymir’s help to regenerate. It seems Ymir only builds titans, with no sign of her doing any repairs. But she did repair Zeke! Zeke was different. He was dying. He was not just injured, he was actually dying. And as a royal he made a wish not for this to end here. Ymir had to save him because of his royal blood.

Secondly, if Ymir died because no one was in paths to repair her, then who even built her titan in the first place? Its a contradiction. Because Ymir was the first she may not have needed anyone to build her titan body. Perhaps the source did it for her.

Or perhaps since time is infinite and non-linear in paths, Ymir actually built her own titan after her death. But if that were the case and she could heal others, then she could have just healed herself.

I think Ymir died because she lost the will to live. Isayama has addressed that before and must have mentioned it for a reason. So possibly Ymir died because she didn’t want to live anymore. She gave her all for the King. She brought him wealth, fought and killed his enemies, extended his empire, built infrastructure, bore him 3 heirs and saved his life. And what was the thanks? Nothing, no compassion, not even a helping hand. I think Ymir thought she could win the King’s love. She just wanted to be loved. We even see her as a child watching longingly as an Eldian pair kissed. But when Ymir realised that the King would never love her, never see her as more than just a slave and tool... well what was there to live for? Not even saving the Kings life earned her any love or compassion, and so she knew that nothing ever would.

Its not clear if she died 13 years after inheriting her power, but judging from her age, and the age of her daughters it seems very likely that it was indeed 13 years. Perhaps the curse is as simple as that. But it must also be noted that when taking the blame of her people upon herself, it was 13 hands that condemed her. 13 people decided her fate and blamed her for the pigs. It is this that would lead to her accidentally inheriting her power. Another thing is the source under the tree. It had 13 pairs of ‘tentacles’ on its back which extended upward to connect to Ymir. Perhaps this source feeds from its host for 13 years before seeking out a new healthy host.

Was that Marleyan the great Hero Helos?

No. Simply put, he was not. Yes he was a captive Marleyan and he did kill the Progenito Titan, but he was not Helos. Helos story is only from 1700 years later. By then no one would have remembered that one Marleyan. No one even knew the true story after 1700 years. It was all myths and legends by then. Besides, that Marleyan would have been killed instantly riggt there and then, and so would his comarades most likely. I doubt any of them lived to tell the tale. Even if they did, while at first that Marleyan may have been hailed a Hero, he would have very likely soon be cursed and shunned. After all because of him, Marley now had to deal with 3 titans instead of 1.

Further, Helos was never real. He never existed. Helos was a story invented by King Fritz the 145th, and the head of the Tybur Family. None of it was real, as is confirmed later by Willy Tybur. Helos would also not have been inspired by the Marleyan, as no one even remembers him in the current time.

What was the source under the tree?

I really don’t know... Yams will hopefully expand on that in future chapters. But I have heard some interesting theories about it being Nidhogg, the serpent dragon under Yggdrasil. Another theory is that it some alien life form that crashed to earth with a meteor. There were also suggestions it could be the roots of Yggdrasil, but the clearer scans debunk that. Others think its still the actual devil himself, perhaps hiding his true form.

I myself really do not know. But check out other peoples ideas, there are some really interesting ones.

Are there any other spoilers in the season 2 ending?

I don’t think so. There is already a clear shot of the unleashed Colossus titans in there, but that frame was already used in season 3 when the restorationists discussed the rumbeling. The panel of the 9 titans with a godess looking Founder was also already in season 3, as were many other shots.

But I have seen some people get confused about the titans coming from the ocean and attacking a town. Just to remind some people, that was the battle of Lago. The humans travelling out into the dessert was also part of the battle of Lago. It was said that the survivors fled to the dessert, where titans arose and killed them. That would represent the shot of the titans rising with the sun. So really none of these images are about the future or the rumbeling.

Numerous depictions of the Devil of all Earth have been realeased. Strange that Isayama would take this history as the most likekly to be true.

The Devil of all Earth is really focused upon, while other possibilities for the source of the titans, such as the source of all Organic matter is being hardly acknowledged.

The significant importance placed on the devil may indicate that this is the true history. Especially since the anime hardly even mentioned the source of all Organic matter. Isayama seems to place a lot of emphasis on the devil.

This can be a shame since it would mean Marley had been at least partially truthful of its titan history. The Source if Organic matter would have clearly outlined Marley’s lines and corruption.

(In the book her name is Christa, probably changed from Ymir in order to conceal and hide the true history from the people inside the walls.)

It seems Isayama is going with the devil deal as the truth. Interestingly enough, it was never clear if Ymir was offering up the apple to the devil, or if the devil was offering her the apple. This has now been answered at the final exhibition with a video of Willy Tybur’s Speech.

The devil is actually the one offering up the apple to Ymir, whom accepts it. Prior to this, many had assumed that Ymir was actually offering up the apple to the devil in exchange for powers.

This could mean that the apple itself was the source of all Organic matter. Ymir did make a deal with the devil, whom offered her up an apple containing the source of all organic matter. By eating this apple, Ymir obtained her titan powers. But then what did she offer the devil in return for this power?

This theme comes very close to the Christian bible, in which the devil offers up an apple to Eve.

Ymir may have been tricked the same way Eve was, eating the apple only to learn its consequences to late.

“When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate...” - Genisis 3:6

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman: “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden?” And the woman said to the serpent: “We may eat from the fruit if the trees in the garden, but God said: “You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.”’ - Genisis 3:1-3

Perhaps the deal was the same as it in the the Bible. In exchange for death, Ymir will recieve incredible power. Power she can use for good, such as building bridges and cultivating the wastelands, and for bad, such as wars and eugenics practiced by her successors. In exchange for this she will be cursed to die. Die after just 13 years, and then even in death she will be tortured by living in limbo (paths) to watch her successors and people use her powers for oppression and eugenics.

We see Ymir as a young, poor looking girl in paths. Perhaps she waa just young and naive, making her easy to decieve by the devil. After all Frieda described her as a kind and caring person that always looks out for others. Surely this mess is not what Ymir wanted for her people.

As already said in a previous meta, Ymir Fritz is of Scandinavian/ Germanic descend and so are the Eldians. If you want to know more about Ymir and her name, see my meta on Ymir Fritz.

This is not really a meta, but more so a collection of ideas from around the fandom. I take no credit for the first part and just wanted to do some analysis myself.

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Isayama has already provided plenty of norse mythology to snk. In a previous Meta I examined Ymir’s connection to Eve and the Devil of the Judeo-Christian Bible, which was also strongly referenced.

The tree of life

We learned that the centre of paths where all single paths meet at the coordinate, looks just like a tree. This is a representation of the Norse tree of life. (Yggdrasil) It makes sense for there to be so much norse mythology, considering that Ymir Fritz was a Germanic Scandinavian.

Need I explain more? Paths is what connects all Eldians to one another. Further, the 9 realms in norse mythology actually represent the 9 titan powers that split from Ymir’s soul.

We all know that Ymir is suffering greatly in paths, doomed to a mindless state of existence in which she creates her subjects titan bodies of sand.

Also the dragon is rather interesting. If Isayama continues down this road, could the dragon represent the Devil of all earth, creating chaos to all Eldians.

So much to unpack here. Eternity, just like Ymir. She is stuck in paths for all of eternity in a realm not bound by space or time.

Its interesting that Yggdrasil survives all, including Ragnarok. More interesting is how two humans were protected during the fight of giants.

There is talk about a new world, this could possibly imply that Eren does indeed create a ‘New World’, a world free from the curse of the titans, where humanity can enjoy freedom from the becoming, or being eaten by titans.

The nine realms have been compared to the 9 titan powers. 9 is a significant number in norse mythology in a number of instances. All these 9 titan powers are supported by paths, just as is the case with the 9 realms and Yggdrasil.

As for the next part, this is not based on any metas I saw. I thought of this myself, so feel free to disagree or add your insight.

Ymir Fritz in Norse Mythology

There is another aspect to Ymir Fritz that I forgot to add in my post about her. In Norse Mythology, Ymir too used autogamy (self-fertilisation) to produce his offspring which will be known as the ancestors of giants, and Ymir the Progenitor of titans.

Like Ymir Fritz, Norse Ymir produced 3 children (2 male and 1 female). With Fritz we know that she produced 3 girls: Maria, Rose and Sina before her soul created the 9 titans after her death.

This adds on to my next point. The Ymir of Norse Mythology did not die a natural death. He was killed by Odin and his brothers. It was after Ymir died that the 9 realms were created, just like how the nine titan powers were created after Ymir Fritz’s death. It may be that Ymir Fritz two was killed off after 13 years, rather than dying naturally.

The Norse Ymir was then mutilated, with his corpse being used to to create the worlds, and the 9 realms. In a similar fashion Ymir Fritz was cannibalised to create the 9 titan powers.

I also find it interesting that the paths look just like the Nordic lights. It seems Isayama based his design on them.

The Norse lights have been prominent in Norse Mythology with a strong focus on the afterlife, especially when dying in battle. Another explanation is that of the northern lights being the mythical Bifröst- a rainbow bridge of light connecting two realms: Asgard (realm of the gods) and Midgard (realm of the mortals).

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Sorry for this messy as post. I really wanted to do a proper meta this month, but I have been so busy with moving houses and university work. Still I know a few of you follow me mostly for my metas, so I tried to at least put something up (shitty as it may be). When I’m free I will get back to writing proper metas again. (Its late and im tired and did not spell check this, so sorry)

I already have my next meta planned: The 9 titans

This post focuses on Ymir Fritz and is the third post in my series on the devil of all earth. (Holidays are nearly over so soon you won’t have to deal with the sudden influx of metas. XD)

Ymir Fritz- meaning

Fritz is a medival German name, and is short for Frederick, which means ‘Peace-Power’.

Ymir on the other hand is a scandinavian name, deep rooted in norse mythology. Ymir means ‘Mythical Giant’, which also accordingly makes Ymir the progenitor of all giants.

Further it is described that people by the name of Ymir have a deep inner desire and to give to others by sharing money, knowledge, and experience, as well as creative and artistic ability. This description does match up to that of Frieda Reiss when talking about Ymir as a kind girl that cares for everyone around her.

From the name we can assume that Ymir Fritz was Germanic/Scandinavian. This makes sense in the regard that most Eldians have German first and last names. The Eldians were probably scandinavian and germanic before they started rulling the world.

Ymir’s early life

Based on the clothes we see Ymir wearing in paths, we can assume that she was a rather poor girl. This would make sense. After all it seems she took up the devil’s offer in order to assure her family and her people could live a better life. It is possible that they were in a depression due to constant wars, famine and poverty or illness.

There are other theories that suggest she was a royal, but no royal would be desperate enough to go out and agree on a deal with the devil. This girl was desperate for change, for a better life for her people.

The Fritz family probably did not start out as royal, but with the later power of the founding titan it would make sense for the Fritz family to have taken up the role of leading the Eldians and becoming their rulers.

Meeting the devil

It may or may not have been by accident that Ymir found the devil. I think its more likely that it was the devil that saw Ymir’s desperation and offered up his services to her in a similar manner to that of Satan and Eve in the Bible.

Ymir was still a young girl, kind and naive. She would have been very easy to manipulate.

“I have heard innocent voice. I’ll sing out with my girl. Go to the meeting place, sing alone. Rolling stone. Come morning, everyone laugh again with me.”

This is a verse of season 2’s ending song: Yuugure no Tori. It has to be one of the darkest songs in all os snk, followed by old pictures of Ymir Fritz and the devil. I think that this particular verse may actually be from the devils perspective, since it talks about someone hearing an innocent voice. This may be the devil overhearing a young and innocent Ymir. Further this innocent voice must be that of a girl as pointed out in the next line. “Go to the meeting place” could refer to the place where Ymir and the devil first met. The next line about lauging the next morning almost seems as if the devil is laughing mockingly with others at Ymir, for entering a contract she did not fully understand. After all the devil had tricked her. The devil did not want to help Ymir, but enslave her for his own personal goals. Her and her people are now the perfect tools for any devious plans the devil might have had.

Just look at the devil. It looks like it is grinning after it handed Ymir the apple. The apple that had been passed on to Ymir must be the source of all organic matter that Eren Kruger mentioned. After ingesting this apple she gained the power of the titans. (Much like Eve gained the knowledge of good and evil after eating the fruit offered up by Satan.)

Why did Ymir accept the offer?

The devil promised Ymir immense power, power which she could use for good. With this power, Ymir could help her people prosper. Whatever wars, famine and disasters were affecting them could now be solved by her new power. To the Eldians Ymir became a “god given gift”.

(Also why does Ymir have breasts in her titan form despite being just a girl? Well if you look at Annie Leonhard’ts female titan, she too already possesed large breasts in her titan form while still a young child around the age of 10 or 11. So it seems a shifters titan looks like a mature adult, no matter the age of the actual shifter.)

This is exactly what Ymir sought to do, use her powers for the good of her people. With the help of Ymir’s Progenitor titan she could cultivate the lands, build bridges and ensure her people prospered.

Yet there was also a dark side to this power, which should be obvious since she obtained it from the devil. Perhaps Ymir was naive enough to believe that none of her successors would ever use her powers for the bad of humanity. Or maybe she never even knew that she would have successors to her powers. But the power recived by the devil did end up corrupting the Eldians.

The curse and death of Ymir

One clear condition of the contract seems to be that of the 13 year curse, now known as Ymir’s curse. She was doomed to die after just 13 years, and so are her successors.

But during her remaining 13 years Ymir did grow up and give birth to 3 girls, Maria Fritz, Rose Fritz and Sina Fritz. (Karl Fritz would later name his 3 walls after Ymir’s children.)

It has become evident that titan shifters age at a more rapid pace than other Eldians. The clearest example of this was with Uri Reiss, in which he went from being a young adult to looking like a man in his late years. Zeke also looks much older than he actually is. Even Reiner and Bertholdt look like they were in their late teens at the age of 13 and 14. Hence being a shifter seems to accelerate the aging proccess.

So 13 years later Ymir died, but another condition of passing on the power was to be eaten.

This painting may very well be of Ymir Fritz’s corpse. (Her hair could be whitish because of the rapid aging process) The man behind the children could have been her husband or father. There is no manga panel of this picture yet, so its purpose is yet to be explained in later chapters. But the skeleton is still most likely that of Ymir Fritz.

Around Ymir there are 9 vase’s, each seemingly filled with her drained blood. The only people eating from the corpse are 3 young girls, which could be Ymir’s daughters or perhaps siblings.

Now about the cannibalism. I do not think Ymir was cannibalised to obtain her powers. The people around her may not even have known that her powers could be inherited. It could simply be that the cannibalism was ritualistic in nature. Which does seem to be the case as the image shows everyone dressed up in robes with candles around. Ritualistic cannibalism can include family members eating the remains of their loved ones.

The intersting thing is the 9 vases filled with blood. To pass on a titan, a shifter’s spinal fluid has to be ingested. It could be that the blood had residue of the sounal fluid. There are 10 people in the picture, so it can be assumed that 9 of them got one vase each. That may be how Ymir’s titan powers split into 9 individual titan shifters.

Ymir may have promised herself to only use her powers for good, but perhaps she did not know that her powers would be passed on by accident during the cannibalistic ritual.

Ymir in Paths

“Spend with me. Blow tomorrow. Every single day it is next to you.”

“With me, with me, with me, with me, Yeah.”

Another sentence from the season 2 ending song. “Spend with me.” Is that the devil mentioning how Ymir will from now on spend eternity trapped with the devil in paths? After all Ymir did die almost 2000 years ago, and yet she lives on in a limbo like state in paths. We know that Ymir is very unhappy in paths. Her eyes are blacked out with lines, which is Isayama’s indication that she is in emotional pain. She clearly does not want to be there. The sentence about it being next to her is also interesting. What is next to her? The devil? The contract, or perhaps the works of the devil? Clearly she is now trapped in paths as per her contract with the devil, seemingly unable to change anything while having to watch her successors either commit oppression and eugenics ir suffer from oppression and eugenics.

Ymir’s successors

8 of the 9 titans were passed on to random Eldians, which may have been the friends, and distant relatives of Ymir present at the funeral. One titan however was passed on to one of Ymir’s daughters. That titan became known as the Founding titan. With Ymir’s death, the Progenitor titan had split. There has been no progenitor titan since despite the ability for one shifter to collect multiple titan powers.

Contrary to popular believe, I think the girl depicted in this pucture is not Ymir, but Ymir’s daughter. This titan has been specifically adressed as the founding titan, and not the progenitor titan. Further the girl in this picture stands above 8 other shifters bowing to her. Together they form the 9 titans that had split from Ymir. Ymir herself is no longer in the murral of the 9 titans as she had already died by the time her powers had split. Even if she were, she would have probably been shown as the 10th extinct Progenitor Titan. Further this titan does look a bit diffrent from the titan presented as Ymir. Ymir’s titan had more messy curls rather than waves as well as a fringe. The titan with the horn does not have a fringe and no messy curles.

It was with her successors that the Eldians started exploring the dark side of their power, using and abusing it, such as using mass produced mindless titans as weapons to wipe out opposing forces.,

This may very well be according to the devil’s plan. After all, the devil would not have agreed to help Ymir unless there was something in it for him.

“Surely come in the morning, one day say hello.” (Ending song)

Following my post on the devil of all earth, I was curious as to who it could be.

[This meta is based on the idea that the devil of all earth really does exist and is responsible for the titans. It is also a somewhat follow up on my other Devil post]

The Devil has become more important, but we still know nothing about it.

It was assumed that both the devil and Ymir Fritz died long ago. But recently it was revealed that Ymir does still exist inside the paths dimension. Ymir Fritz is not truly gone despite having died almost 2000 years ago. We will probably learn more about her eventually.

The devil: Eren and the 9 Titans

There have been theories about Eren collecting all the nine titans to become either the Devil or a god like Ymir. I don’t believe in that theory. After all, Ymir Fritz does still exist, so it would make no sense for Eren to collect all titans to become the Progenitor Titan. But I also don’t think Eren will become the devil of all earth, as the devil may still be around.

The devil’s Identity

We have only ever seen the devil of all earth in one panel, offering up an apple (the source of all organic matter) to Ymir Fritz.

What if the devil is still around? We know way to little of the devil. It may even be that we meet the devil, or have we already met the devil. What if the devil can also shapeshift like a titan? That way the devil passing on his power of shapeshifting would make sense. We might already have met the devil in human form.

Floch bringing back the Devil

First off, lets talk about bringing the devil back. The devil must still be somewhere in the snk universe.

“The only one who can destroy all the Titans is the devil himself! And my mission is to bring the devil back to life!!”

Floch is the one that has announced his mission to be that of bringing back the devil. He thought Erwin might be the devil that needed to be brought back to life, but failed. Erwin was not the devil he was looking for. But Floch continued on. Characters around him have died with Floch somehow managing to survive. Clearly Isayama has a bigger role in mind for Floch. I believe that Floch will be the one to aid the devil and act as the right hand man for the devil’s bidding.

Since I think Eren has been discredited as the devil, there is only one other person Floch is working with: Yelena.

Yelena is an interesting character. She is neither Eldian, nor Marleyan, rather she is from a colonised Marleyan nation. We know nothing of her past and background, except that Zeke saved her. This itself is just a memory provided by Yelena. It could have been a lie, like Bertholdt’s about the hanged man in the rural village.

The Devil as a God?

Yelena’s words are very interesting.

“A Titan known and feared by the world as a devil. But he looked like something else entirely to me. A god. He took us when we were powerless and showed us hope.” - Yelena

Yelena is praising Zeke as a god while everyone around her sees Titan’s as demons. I think Yelena is the first non-eldian shown to us who views titans this way. Note how she talks about the devil, and praises him as a god.

What she says sounds a lot like what happened between Ymir Fritz and the devil. A little girl approaching the devil for help. “He took us when we were powerless and showed us hope.” This may he exactly what happened with Ymir and her people. Ymir’s people may have been in trouble after many wars, poverty and perhaps illness, so the deal with the devil seemed like a blessing. The devil gave the Eldians power when they needed it most, which resulted in Ymir bring praised as “a gift from god” (Eren Kruger)This would make the devil a god according to the Eldians.

“Anyone can become a god or a devil. All it takes is for someone to believe it.” -Eren Kruger

I don’t think Yelena is talking about Zeke in that panel. It seems more like she is giving the actual devil of all earth a pat on the back.

If we once again focus on the Bible, we see that the devil continued rulling the earth, and doing his own bidding with the help of his demons/ fallen angels. The Devil of the bible’s greatest goal was to be God himself. Lucifer wanted to be better than God, and wanted to be worshipped by the people. This seems to be the same case for snk’s devil of all earth.

We have confirmation that Yelena and Floch do indeed work together. Further they both keep an eye on one Yeager brother each. Yelena with Zeke, and Floch with Eren. It does seem that Floch has indeed become Yelena’s right hand man.

“You put yourself under strict control, and asked for soldiers to inspect you. Even today. 10 months ago, during the railway opening ceremony in Trost, the person in charge of inspecting you suddenly changed to Floch Forster. During the ceremony he took you to a nearby property. He is currently under arrest for leaking information.” -Dot Pixis

Yelena has been a driving force behind the actions of Zeke and Eren. She is the one organising everything and acts as the mastermind. It also seems it was Yelena was the one who suggested Historia fall pregnant. She has great plans for the Yeager bros, despite not really having much to gain from either the rumbrling or the euthanasia of all eldians. After all she is neither an Eldian, nor a Marleyan. Seems she has her own secret agenda.

We know very little of Yelena, but we do know she wants to watch the world burn.

“Two brothers are going to remake the world. I just want a good view of the action” - Yelena

So is Yelena the devil???

Well she sure can look like one. Yelena may just be the devil. Is she the same devil from 2000 years ago? I don’t know. Maybe the devil possesses a human host for the duration in which she/he choses to be in human form. This host, just like with the shifters might die every few years, with the devil simply possesing a new body. The devil may have possessed Yelena’s body, perhaps with, or without her knowledge. Or perhaps the woman that was once Yelena has no control over her body at all, acting only as a host to the devil who stole her body.

It would be the easiest way for the devil to roam the earth without rousing suspiscion. It may also be another explanation for why the devil hasn’t been spotted since Ymir Fritz.

Besides it would make sense for the devil to have been there all along. Isayama likes doing that. He did it with Reiner and Bertholdt as the Armoured and Colossal titan, hiding them in plain sight.

Then what are the devil’s goals? What does Yelena or the devil get from Zeke and Eren touching? I don’t know, but I do think Ymir Fritz knows. That is why she looks so depressed and pained in paths. It’s unclear if she can do anything against the devil tho, as she too is bind to the devil whom is more powerful than her.

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I wonder now, was it on purpose that Frieda or her predecessors changed Ymir’s name to Krista?

There still has been no explanation as to why Ymir was refered to as Krista. Perhaps it is because Frieda knew that the book version of Ymir is nothing like ther real Ymir.

Frieda would have known that there was no contract with any devil. Being royal and having the founder would mean she had access to the true story. So then did Frieda and the previous founding titans invent Krista, based on Ymir?

They could have created the Krista version in which Ymir meets the devil and accepts his offer. If Karl and his successors did this, and spread such information among themselves, then Karl might be justified in wanting his people killed by Marley. At least thats what he would have thought.

Creating the Krista story with the devil and then whispering such propaganda to Marley, would have been the perfect excuse for Karl Fritz to commit genocide. That may be why the Tybur family believed in the devil story, and how Marley obtained the story as well. After all, nobody knew the teal story after all this time except the royal family. In that sense it would have been possibke for Karl to have started the whole devil discourse.