Board Thread:Manga/@comment-24930713-20151109044731/@comment-26932251-20151111100925

Part of the problem trying to figure out what a Titan Levi is that it's somewhat ambiguous what 'awakened power' actually is.

Does anyone else have some hypotheses?

What I wonder is that in the anime (does it show in the manga?)  when Levi 'uses' awakened power to make some kind of extremely deliberate and hard-hitting action, there's some amount of electric arcing that happens sometimes.

For example, in episode 14 when Levi begins beating Eren in the courtroom. Right before he delivers the third blow, look carefully, there's a brief shot of his eyes and a bit of blue electric arcing happens in front of his face.

What I've been wondering for a while is... does anyone else in the AOT universe see this electric arcing? Or is this just a stylistic anime flourish?

If that electric arcing is actually happening then that means that 'awakened power' is definitely some kind of additional biological 'hardware' that gives the 'user' even superhuman strength, endurance, agility/speed, and even possibly overall intelligence (Keith Shadis describes Mikasa as a genius).

The real question is, if Levi injected the serum, ate a captured titan shifter (reiner most likely), and then became a shifter, does the awakened power "scale up" to give MechaLevi superior strength, endurance, agility/speed above all other titan shfiters or would it just give Levi the pilot his usual superior battlefield intuition but no other particular benefits?