#titan transformers

i wrote ALL this stuff about how Erwin will probably die here because it could serve the story, and assuming him leading the men to their deaths means he’s also going to his death.

and how I previously assumed that Erwin could’ve been a potential candidate for the extra titan serum which NO ONE has discussed yet, and I’ve pointed out EVERY chapter for the last several months.

And because he’s inspirationally leading the troops to their deaths I assumed that he’s out of the running for the titan serum.

but something JUST occurred to me.

All of what’s happened doesn’t mean Erwin couldn’t have ALREADY taken the extra serum!!

This could all be partially an “act” because maybe only him and Levi would know he’s now a titan transformer, and then it’d truly be a secret and last ditch plan. He could inspire his troops, them not knowing that he would not die with him.

and possibly escape

Now, one flaw just cropped up while typing this out and it’s that, “if Erwin already took the serum, then wouldn’t his arm be regenerated?” which okay, but maybe Levi being the one choosing who takes the serum, KNOWING they CANNOT lose an asset like Erwin has been this whole time, would insist Erwin takes the serum “if they’re losing this battle”

So, maybe he’s going to be a titan, just not yet.

cuz it ALSO occurred to me in this flurry that when Eren was inject with the serum he was a normal “unintelligent” titan. We saw in the flashback that his features were way more exaggerated like average titans, only after eating his father (a titan transformer) did his form become more proportionally human in his titan form.

So lets assume that any injection to a non-titan person will result in your “normal” titan, and they MUST eat a titan transformer to gain “the power”

We can also assume this is true based on the interaction between Historia and her father. He wanted to inject her and have her eat Eren. She most likely would’ve been an average titan until eating Eren.

So using the serum MID BATTLE would be the ONLY choice because they are currently FIGHTING titan transformers. All Erwin would have to do is make sure is only surrounded by titan transformers, inject himself, and hope that as a titan he will manage to eat one of them.

Or maybe so much as get his troops to cut SOMEONE out of their titan before all the troops are dead, and then Erwin would inject it while almost right next to that titan.

Then in almost an instant they’d not only have a 2nd titan on their side, but he’d become the titan transformer they need him to be.

Now it WOULD be risky for such a choice because if Erwin does not manage to inject himself

then the serum would be lost

BUT, they’ve already pretty much accepted that they’re all going to die right here and now, unless SOMETHING changes.

So yes it’s risky, but they’re so far in over their heads that this “risk” might be their ONLY HOPE at getting some people SUCH AS Eren back to wall Rose ALIVE.

Also, this entire time I was so sure that someone has to have taken the serum before this battle, but I had a HUGE oversight, not considering that whoever takes it HAS TO EAT A TITAN TRANSFORMER to be of ANY use. And the only living transformer they have in custody is currently encased in a couple feet of diamond. So they’re all so smart and analytical that they would’ve figured that fact out and decided “okay, we can’t use this UNLESS we KNOW we’re going to be in contact with transformers,” and even then, they have to precisely time when they use it cuz if they use it too early the transformers could kill them before they get to eat one of them.

So, I’m like 66% sure this might be the direction Isayama’s going to take us.

and okay, it’ll take SOME fun out of it if I’m right

BUT THIS IDEA SOUNDS SO LEGIT FUCKING EXCITING THAT I’M SHAKING WITH ANTICIPATION OF THIS BEING WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.

SO

i’ve been assuming that the current showdown WILL ultimately result in Eren somehow getting to see the basement, and whoever remains of the titans and scouts goes their separate ways.

BUT

what if eren is SUCCESSFULLY CAPTURED this time?

what if instead of getting to see what’s in the basement, Eren is brought back to wherever the titan transformers live? (this is what I thought would happen when reiner and bert caught him the first time) can’t believe i didn’t think of this theory again for so long.

What if rather than finding out the truth through his father’s POV, he finds out the truth through the “enemy’s” POV. 

What if the titan transformers have a way to restore Eren’s memory and we find out what Eren’s “dream” in chapter 1 “to you 2000 years in the future” actually MEANS??

He could get captured, the scouts could find the basement, Mikasa and Armin would know where the house was. They could find out everything Grisha knew, and wanted Eren to know, while Eren is captured, and they’d want to try to save him, even if it’s a fool’s errand, and THIS is where they’d really need the titan transforming serum cuz to venture outside of wall maria to find the titans’ base, they’d need that kind of manpower.

ANOTHER thing occurred to me

the beast titan makes “unintelligent” titans (how? we still don’t know) but he does. they’ve always wanted to tear down the walls, presumedly to get to the ruling family, what if unintelligent titans didn’t exist until after the walls were built? They turned all the humans remaining outside the walls into mindless titans they could use to keep whatever they want inside the walls from going anywhere?

So rather than the “wrong” titans existing cuz of some conspiracy or experimentation, they’re the result of the “real” titans using humans as their personal weapons, making them into “titans.” So maybe titans and humans always coexisted, and titans always existed, and we’ll get into some kind of greek myth territory in this world with what titans are. I mean, people making human sacrifices to “gods” or “titans” kind of lines up with the whole “eating people” thing. Maybe the titans ruled the earth until some titans (reiss family) disagreed and started all this shit, and the titans who were betrayed made the incomplete titans out of humans, but then the wrong titans discovered they could become real titans by eating the original titans, essentially becoming “gods” in this world. I’m equating titans to gods in their world, for this theory

one: the titan serum, it occurred to me that maybe levi nor anyone else will “choose” to be the titan. maybe on the way to wall maria, somebody will suffer a fatal blow and be minutes or seconds from death, and to save them, levi injects them so their body can regenerate?

if that happens, then literally anybody could become the titan

two: i wonder if the titan transforming community, when people are dying of sickness or old age, or are already dead, if the community finds a wandering titan to feed the dying or dead person to, and through that consumption a new titan transformer is made as someone else is returned to human form for the first time in a hundred years?