Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-39463658-20190515010536/@comment-25933225-20190601225726

Omnichr0matik wrote: To be honest, that makes a lot of sense about titan powers being transfered during conception or at least directly after. There's A LOT of Norse (and other) mythology underlying much of the overal plot of AoT. If you've ever read the Tibetan Book of the Dead, it tells of various routes of reincarnation for a dead soul. The red, smokey light is the path back into reality through the womb. The bright, white light is either the way to higher realms of existance or the path out of reality and into satori (or nirvana or any of the other various names for spiritual perfection; i'm not exactly clear on which). Still, it stands to reason that considering the amount of borrowed mythology in the series, it would work something like that. As for the children making it to 13 years or beyond remains unclear. Perhaps the power is aquired during gestation, but remains dormant until adolescence or maybe just until the inheritor has the physical endurance to accomodate the transformation. Very interesting! It makes even more sense now, as I was just making supposition. From my point of view, the most logical moment would be when consciousness appears in the foetus, because directly at conception it might be a bit too soon: that's only cells. But maybe there is something related to the mother if her future child received a Titan power: like, she might be a partial holder of the power until the foetus reaches a specific moment of development or until birth. By «partial holder» I'd say that it means she is a bit affected by the Titan power because of her baby having it, like she could have a better regeneration than most of humans, or she's more likely to receive memories from previous shifters, etc... I don't believe in what I say, I've just theorized it. But it's a little theory that I put here, and you do what you want with this XD