Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20191008222936/@comment-27125793-20191009161939

Whalordius TDD wrote: TKGriffiths wrote:

Marco1995mega wrote: Royalty isn't a blood thing, it's a status thing. This doesn't make sense to me. Zeke never lived like royalty. His royal blood gives him no special standing in society. In fact Marley didn't even know he had royal blood. Why is he considered 'more royal' than any other subject of Ymir if it's to do with status rather than blood, since they're all descended from her? Because he comes from a more direct bloodline rather than the normal one. Yeah, pretty much that. It's not so much about official status, though it does play a part. Ymir served the First King because he'd officially been the monarch, or chieftain before that.

A lot of it depends on Ymir's own acknowledgment of the individual. What mattered was that Zeke was a direct descendant of the royal family, the family that had officially ruled Eldia. It doesn't matter that Marley didn't treat him like royalty. To Ymir, Zeke was but the First King, or a continuation of his authority, donning a different face and name. She gave her absolute obedience to the Fritz family that had ruled Edlia for 1800 years; the fact that they donned new names, both Yeager and Reiss, is not what's important. Only that they were either direct, acknowledged descendants, or maintained their status in the remnants of Eldia that is Paradis.