Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20191008222936/@comment-33179669-20191009182249

RuneLai wrote: Verytallfox wrote: Is anyone planning on officially writing about the spine thing? It's the "source of all living matter"/"organic material"/"Devil of All Earth".

Also, that thing is like a parasite. It lives on through spinal fluid and interdimensional paths connected to people. It needs people (Subjects of Ymir) to keep carrying and passing it along from generation to generation. There's been discussion on whether it should have a page on the wiki, but it's not going to at the moment since it has no proper name and everything we would say about it would fit on Ymir Fritz's page.

We don't even know if it's a living being at all. When writing the wiki's chapter summary I referred to it as a "substance" to be as non-specific as possible. All we really know is that it's rather slimy/globby-looking. That's fair. The fact that it was in the shape of a spinal cord is what makes me think it is "alive" in some sense (definitely organic, anyway). Perhaps it is intelligent. Perhaps not. But I do believe that there is great significance in the fact that it looks like a spinal cord and that all of the Titan powers are related to spinal fluid being passed on from person to person. That can't be coincidental.