Board Thread:Theories/@comment-37408692-20181104203631/@comment-31144234-20181106005330

+GodOfBoi

Sorry to burst your bubble, but:

"And Ymir herself has proven this curse wrong by just being alive. She shouldn't have survived those 60 years and the existince of titans in general. Weren't they all created at the same time as Ymir? Some even b4 (like the ones in the walls, they would be 100 years old). "

Wrong. The Ymir in the series wasn't the original Ymir, the one who supposedly "made a deal with the Earth Devil". She was just a beggar who was given the name "Ymir" and used in a cult. Further more, she "lived" for 60 years as a PURE titan, not as one of the nine, a shifter. Pure titans it seems can 'live" forever, it's only when one gains the power of a shifter, aka being able to switch between forms and retain intelligence does one have the 13 year limit slapped onto them.

"And do we remember that the original idea for titans was to be pretty much passed on by the royal family? Well, The Ymir Curse was one among manny ways to keep people away from the titan power."

Wrong again. Only the Founding Titan is tied to royal blood, the others were just aristocrats, and as we can see from the series, their full powers can be utilized any Eldian. The very fact that the Founding Titan was said to able to control all other titans(not confirmed whether or not it can control the nine) and the fact that the power is useless without royal blood(also keep in mind the way to bypass it was only a very recent discovery by pure accident) makes this supposed "Ymir's curse was made up to keep people away" or "Ymir's curse was brainwashed into inheritors" unnecessary. With the 13 year rule, families that keep it are not only forced to have many many children to conpensate, they are also at high risk(as we see from the Marleyan version of history) of fighting among each other and themselves for the power. Either the curse exists or the person who made it was extremely stupid and short-sighted.