Board Thread:Manga/@comment-37224578-20190720011315/@comment-25933225-20190720093039

Interesting theory, the arguments are good, but I'm not into it.

If Annie had royal blood, it should have been introduced sooner. The manga will end in one year, there's no place left for this, and we don't even know if she'll ever wake up again. Considering the events of the lasts chapters, we probably won't see her for at least 3/4 chapters (she has nothing to do with the current action), which won't leave a lot of chapters, especially as there is already a lots of stuff to conclude. If she had royal blood, that'll be too much. The only interest of such a plot device would be to give Eren the opportunity to activate the Great Rumbling because Zeke would have died because of X reason. Which would be a bit useless, just make Zeke survive long enough to see the Great Rumbling, the result will be the same, and we won't need to develop everything related to Annie-being-a-royal-person (otherwise, we would have to deal with: how do we learn this? How will the Scouts/Paradise/Eren will learn this? Maybe her waking up? Too much for the remaining last chapters). And in my opinion, Annie having royal blood doesn't look like at all something Isayama has planed, that would look like like some "Uuuups I killed Zeke, oh come on, I shouldn't have, I need to find some way to activate the Founding Titan, let's invent this!". That's absolutely not the kind of thing Isayama would do. He's not the best scenarist ever, but he's far better than this.

Plus, Annie's capacities as a Titan aren't the same as Zeke's, she can call for pure Titans, but just give simple orders, unlike Zeke that can ask for anything (anything possible for a pure Titan at least) to the Titans he transformed with his own spinal fluid. If he wants them to danse, he can. Annie's power of calling for Titans is a power of her Titan. And Eren touched her multiple times (her and her Titan), as a Titan and as a human, the Coordinate has never been activated, like it did with Dinah Fritz.