Board Thread:Theories/@comment-75.176.164.75-20160318202428/@comment-27702860-20160507134201

Belated reply and speculation. Wrote a longwinded reply which could never post because I gather there is something about being in different IPs.

Anyways, it seems that Whatever it Is--the "stuff/weapon/thingy" that transforms regular people into Normal Titans--it is a wide area phenomenon and appears permanent. Could it have be a misused weapon that Various People developed to thin down the human race after Some Apocalyptic War/Event and give them a "common enemy?" I am inclined to think that. As Hanje and others note no one knows where the Normal  and Abnormal Titans come from. We gather from Ymir that a Normal Titan can live a very long time with the original human reduced to a sort of minimally conscious state. Ymir has not given any idea of what her life was before she became a Normal Titan. That just may be because the author is not interested in the subject or does not want to explore it at this point.

What is the "village" or "place" it seems that quite a few Shifter Titans come from? There seems to be an effort on some to gather all who are that. Ymir is not from there but now knows "They" want her--probably to devour her and regain her abilities. We suspect Annie is from the same place. Did she become a Shifter like Our Hero did? Did her father inject her to make her a Normal Titan to allow her to eat a Shifter--like him?--or did he just cut out the middle step? This then leads us to "what is their" goal and is it shared by someone like The Beast. For example, Bertolt & Co. were happy to snatch Ymir and Our Hero to drag them back to their "village." Awesome. Now they seem to be working under The Beast. Did their mission change? Did The Beast force them to work for him?

There will always be a problem trying to find scientific explanations for fantasy and even science fiction stories. Before it was lost to the Great Void of Al Gore's Internet, I pontificated on examples of this. For AoT, the biggest problem is the creation and loss of mass. "But! Hanje say parts of Normal Titans like weigh nothing!" But as part of any Titan they have mass. A very light and fragile arm is not going to toss boulders at Levy.

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--J.D.