Frieda Reiss

Frieda Reiss (フリーダ・レイス) was Rod Reiss' eldest daughter and Historia's half-sister. She is known to appear in Eren's and Historia's dreams.

Human Form
When he dreams of her, Eren first mistakes Frieda for Historia, highlighting the sisters' physical similarity. She has long, smooth dark hair.

Titan Form
Frieda's Titan form has pure white hair, and like other Titan Shifters, is physically fitter than normal Titans. Upon transforming, Frieda has dark loops around her eyes, and her torso has a defined muscle lining, much like the Female Titan's.

The Uprising arc
She appears in Eren's dream, with him seeing her from her own perspective, while she looks into a mirror. In Historia's dream however, she actually interacts with Frieda. She teaches Historia how to read and tells her to become a kind person. Frieda appears moved when Historia claims that she wants to be like her and then proceeds to manipulate Historia's memory, telling her to forget about her until they see each other again.

While Hange and the new Levi squad attempt to search for Eren's location, Hange reads a report commissioned by Erwin on the Reiss family grounds. Hange explains that Rod's eldest daughter Frieda was loved by all in their village for her genuine character. She was even known to visit the fields to thank the farmers for their work. A tragedy struck the Reiss family the night Wall Maria fell, and when bandits supposedly raided a chapel in the village, the entire Reiss family save for Rod and Historia was murdered.

However, it is revealed through Eren's memories that the one responsible was actually Eren's father, Grisha. Grisha in his Titan form slaughtered and killed Frieda and her family while they were hidden in a basement under the chapel, getting their memories. When Eren ate Grisha, Frieda's memories were transferred to Eren along with Grisha's.

Rod later explains that Grisha entered the chapel where the entire Reiss family was located, seeking Frieda's Titan power, and they both fought in their Titan forms. Rod says Frieda contained invincible power but couldn't control it up to its full potential, and lost against Grisha and he ate her, stealing her power. Rod tells Historia that Frieda isn't dead, as her memories are still alive and he asks if she wants to see her sister again.

According to Rod, when Frieda was 15, she devoured Uri Reiss, her uncle and Rod's younger brother, below the Reiss Chapel. She used the Titan serum to inject herself and devoured his upper body. She received not just her powers, but the memories of the world before the Walls. She essentially became the "living book" of humanity and had the power to spread the information if she chose, but never did.

Before she is about to inject herself and eat Eren, Historia flashes back to when she was a child. She got a splinter trying to climb over a fence, and Frieda plucked it out for her, but yelled at her for it. Historia also goes on to remember that she would sometimes get mad and then get depressed afterwards. Rod tells her that she was burdened with the memories of the First Reiss King, saying that she wouldn't exterminate the Titans due to this. With this, Historia refuses to inject herself with the needle and throws Rod to the ground and frees Eren.

Abilities

 * Memory Manipulation: She is shown to be able to manipulate the memories of a person, when she had Historia forget about her.

Titan Shifting
Other than the regular abilities possessed by Titans and Titan Shifters, nothing especially notable was seen belonging to her Titan form as she was killed rather easily by Grisha's Titan form.
 * Regeneration: Like all Titans, she possessed healing abilities. When punched in the face by Grisha, she started emitting steam from her wounds.
 * Enhanced Strength: She was briefly capable of withstanding Grisha's attacks.
 * "Invincible Power": Briefly mentioned by Rod. He said her Titan form held an invincible power, but she wasn't experienced enough to control it. Rod also goes on to mention it had the potential to exterminate all the Titans.

Trivia

 * In mythology, the name Frieda is literally derived from the Goddess Freyja, a central character in many Nordic myths. Her name is likely one of many references of real life Norse mythology alongside such "Ymir" and "Utgard".
 * It should be noted that Freyja is part of a saga involving a war between Vanir and Aesir, where the settlement of the latter is attacked by having their walls destroyed, bearing several similarities to the world of Attack on Titan. The Aesir are the principle deities of the Nordic mythology, such as Tyr, Thor, & Odin, whereas the Vanir are a group of gods associated with fertility, wisdom, nature, magic, and the ability to see the future, with Freyja being one of the principle Vanir in the conflict, and is traded in a hostage negotiation to become one of the Aesir. They collectively oppose the Frost Giants for the remainder of the Edda's.
 * Freyja is also a Goddess involving Shamanism, which allows transformation by having one's soul seeth out the neck.
 * Frieda is Old High German (fridu), which stands for "peace".
 * Her name has also an Old English meaning (þryð), which stands for "force" and "strength".

Frieda Reiss