Board Thread:Manga/@comment-44423638-20191116092718

This is my first time doing something like this, so please correct me on anything I left out or cited incorrectly. Thanks.

I'm a bit late on this question and I've skimmed and seen a few people ask a similar question on the discussion on Chapter #122 "To You, 2,000 Years Ago". Majority of the chapter is a flashback on the origins of Ymir Fritz. When she dies, her three daughters are forced to consume her entire body because of King Fritz's fear of losing the powers of the titan.

Instead of a mindless titan eating a shifter kind of thing, we are shown the gruesome act of consuming a shifter while still a human. All that needs to be consumed is the human spinal fluid and from what is shown, there is enough fluid to supply 3 people. That means that Ymir's daughters had ~1/3 of the Titan powers each if no one else was involved in the consumption. Then at some point, the process was done again and again until there were the Nine Titan Shifters we know today. But why stop at nine? Did it stay there because of the number of houses currently possessing these powers? Let's ignore this possibility since that's not what I'm after.

We know that a titan shifter contains enough spinal fluid to distribute their powers to at least 3 people (although this might vary person to person). So if Maria, Rose, and Sina each had 3 people  evenly consume their spinal fluid, there would be nine shifters (each holding ~1/9 of Ymir's power). Same thing, if those nine shifters each also had 3 people consume their fluid, there would be 27 shifters, ~1/27 of Ymir's power. Continue finding 3 to the power of x and soon there could be a whole army of titan shifters. But these titans will most likely be bland, normal power titans very similar to mindless titans because of the small distribution of Ymir's power. This is only finding the supposed "maximum" using 3, there may be even more spinal fluid that more people can consume to create more shifters from one person. There may be a shifter who can only provide enough spinal fluid for 1 or 2 people, it varies. Sorry I got a bit mathy there, it was the only way I could think of explaining it like that.

This idea is probably flawed somehow in something I didn't notice and that's fine. I just got curious and wondered if this was possible. Also, sorry if my explanation and concept wasn't good, I have trouble conveying my thoughts into words in persuasive writing. Thanks for any feedback and response, I'm glad for joining in on the Fandom Wikis.

TL;DR: Can multiple titan shifters be produced from one shifter by consuming an equal distribution of the human spinal fluid? If so, can this create an army of titan shifters? 