Board Thread:Theories/@comment-39665740-20190601183755/@comment-39665740-20190602203031

RuneLai wrote: Of course all of this is theoretical, but I would say no, because Karl Fritz made the pack with his Titan, so it's not just what the First King wants that is the problem. It's that the Titan itself is enforcing the will of Karl Fritz.

I think an Ackerman/Reiss child could ignore the Founding Titan and go ahead spilling all the secrets they wanted, because that does not involve the use of the Titan itself. But asking the Founding Titan to use its powers in a way that would not align with the First King's wishes would not be possible. Youŕe actually making my argument for me. Suppose youŕe theory is correct and the Founding Titan is imposing the Kingś ¨pact¨ on the inheritor. This implies that the Coordinateś power is the thing that suppresses the will to act, not the ideology itself. By that logic, anyone immune to the Founding TItanś machinations would, therefore, be free to act of their own volition, disregarding that of the Progenitor and the King. I´ve also read that any Coordinate inheritor is free to disseminate information at their discretion, but many (if not all) choose not to do so for their own personal reasons; their reluctance to share whatever secrets they´ve inherited along with the Titan has nothing to do with the Kingś Will or the Founding Titanś power. Also, an inheritor doesn´t communicate with the Titan they posses, as they are essentially the same entity until death and redistribution; the Titan and itś host are mutually exclusive. In other words, an inheritor not only has full control over the powers of the Titan or Titans they posses; once they inherit the Titan(s), itś power essentially becomes THEIR power and not the Titanś independently. At least thatś my understanding of the relationship.

Personally, i think the biggest hole in my theory has more to do with the inherited memory of the previous Titan incarnates. As far as we know, a personś personality and ideology is derived almost exclusively from the sum of their experiences. By inheriting the memories of others, oneś entire identity would change to some degree, radically or at least marginally. A perfect example of this is Frieda Reissś transformation from a loving, caring young woman, into a dogmatic, paranoid and volitile figure. It may be the case that any royal inheriting the Founding Titan and the memories of Karl Fritz could therefore be considered, at least to some degree, Karl Fritz reincarnate; his memories wouldn´t just include his experiences and ideology, but all the rationale behind it. Of course, this somewhat contradicts the fact that only royals are affected by the Kingś WIll and not anyone inheriting the Progenitor. Maybe it has something to do with ancestoral cellular memory, like in the Dune series.