Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20161108124943/@comment-27441457-20161110005211

Sentinel00 wrote: CommonSwift wrote: Tausendberg wrote: Only Eldians/Descendants of Ymir's People are able to be turned into titans. So I am assuming Mikasa can't become a titan. Well Mikasa is Half-Eldian (through her father) so I guess it would depend if that still works or if her Half-Asian side negates it or something. Her father is an Ackerman though, who are of a different bloodline than the majority race of the walls. After all we've learned, I think we can assume this now means the Eldian race.

However, Mr. Yeager did mention that the Eldians of ancient times raped the Marleyans across the continent in order to breed more Eldian-blooded humans. This implies that the traits of the Eldians, such as the ability to turn into a Titan, were inherited in these offspring. The Ackermans had to have intermingled with the Eldians during their time spent in service to the King, meaning that it's possible that the Ackermans we see might have enough Eldian blood to successfully become Titans if given the opportunity.

From the sounds of it, it also seems like the Eldian trait of turning into a Titan and the traits of the minority bloodlines to withstand the Coordinate's effects have no correlation with each other, otherwise the ancient Eldians would have resorted to eugenics for nothing, or the Ackermans and Asians would have been influenced by the Coordinate like the rest of the Eldians.