Board Thread:Theories/@comment-75.176.164.75-20160318202428/@comment-4929778-20160320132701

EternalLocket wrote: Neetaku wrote: EternalLocket wrote: I think the major flaw in this theory is that Grisha and Zeke would have to be over 100 years old. Since that's how long Titans existed. Which, technically, is not a problem for the Grisha part of your theory as evidenced by Ymir. But then that leaves Zeke who, it's hard to tell without a color image, doesn't look too much older than Grisha if they're relatives. And we currently have no evidence to prove being a Titan Shifter slows down the aging process.

Other than that, I do feel like Grisha was on his side for a while. So I feel that pretty much everything past this: "he rebelled" seems completely plausible.

Also, I think you could have edited your original post. :p While I'm not 100% sold on this theory myself, I've always assumed that characters stop aging when in Titan form (like Ymir) regardless of whether they are Shifters or mindless, and begin aging again when in human form (like Uri Reiss). If that were the case, then the First King would have never needed to die. He could have stayed in Titan form until the end of time.

Titan shifters only don't age if they are trapped as a Titan. Like how Ymir was trapped as the dancing Titan for 60 years and only aged probably at most a year. When the Titan body absorbs the regular body all that remains is a nervous system that controls the Titan. So of course the Titan is petrified as to what the individual looked like when they were first stuck. Plus Titans don't have a need to age as they are humans that are transformed through unknown methods for unknown reasons.

@A Wikia contributor/Anon True, but if aging stopped for Titan Shifters as well, they'd be even more overpowered. Think about it, a Titan Shifter who is always in their prime, always in optimal shape. An army of those types of Titan Shifters is dangerous regardless of what their abilities are. As it is now, we've only seen a couple adult Shifters with the rest being child/teenage Shifters.