User blog comment:YawYawYaw/Chapter 57 Predictions - RAW Out/@comment-10733658-20140506091746

Interesting chapter, that's for sure. Levi was raised by a serial killer, who seems to be a Jack the Ripper expy.

So it seems any ability can be absorbed via devouring. If that is true, it raises all kinds of interesting and disturbing questions. If eating Eren themselves or feeding him to a random Titan was an option for them all along, then BRA definitely made their mission more difficult to avoid hurting Eren. It also raises concerns about their fates, if any of their unique abilities could be absorbed by being devoured. I've seen people theorize that they may order Eren to devour Annie to gain her abilities, but I also wonder if Reibert are in danger of the same fate since it sounds like they could be replaced /and/ punished at the same time.

I wonder if the government really does have Titans? Are they just mindless ones, or have they got some Shifters of their own stashed away in the service of the true King? I'm also wondering if Eren has memories from the mysterious woman because he ate her?