Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-39665740-20190605213457/@comment-43781716-20190910192115

Well, that's just it: we don't know if the Attack Titan would be female. We have to work off of what we do know.

1. The Female Titan's official name is the Female Titan. Even the Marleyans, who had it for at least 80 years, called it that. Surely that carries some weight. And Isayama himself has implied that the Female Titan is its official name.

2. You mention human-shaped titans. Well, isn't the War Hammer Titan also a human-shaped titan? Wasn't Willy's sister a woman inside a male titan? The reason why I think royal blood affects the titan form is because Frieda Reiss went from having a male pure titan to a female titan. Because of Zeke Yeager's special abilities with his royal blood, it isn't far-fetched to assume that royal blood makes exceptions for titan rules, especially when bonded to the Founding Titan IMO, that makes more sense than saying that the Founding Titan can innately change gender. Also, "human-shaped" titans and weirder looking ones shouldn't have any bearing as to the gender being displayed.

3. If the Attack Titan could look female if a woman inherited it, and if the Female Titan could look male, then why would one titan be called the Female Titan? If others could look female, how would they distinguish the Female Titan from appearance alone? Even in the historic drawings, there is always one female titan. All the others are depicted male. I think it isn't a stretch to say that the Female Titan is ALWAYS a female in titan form; for example, the Colossal Titan is always large, the Armoured Titan is always armoured, etc. "Female" is an adjective in this context, basically saying that this titan is always female.