Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-39665740-20190605213457/@comment-25933225-20190610064302

About the shifters, I have a theory: I don't think that when "Ymir's soul was separated into nine", the shifters weren't like we currently know them. I think they were all physically similar to Ymi'rs Titan, but they changed over the centuries (it's some sort of evolution). That's why some Titans doesn't look like to have particular abilities. It's because over the years they happened to be like this, but it wasn't a conscious choice from Eldia. Of course, maybe they "selected" over time because they wanted them to have specific features, but it's empiric choice, they're not really in control of it (like: we'll try to act so every generation, this shifter is getting taller and taller, giving us the Colossal Titan in the end... Even if I wouldn't know how they could have "acted" in order to reach this point. Maybe, it's nothing but evolution, without any conscious intervention behind it. So, if the Attack Titan or the Female Titan doesn't have specific features, maybe it's just because they just happened to be like this. It's not because you're born in a family where every one is good looking that you have a garantee of being good looking too. Same here, it's not because the others Titans happen to have specific features that everyone of them must have specific features. Of course, in terms of storytelling, it'd not make a lot of sense to have two Titans that don't really have specific features, but why would storytelling be the ONLY thing to decide about what happens in a story? Hazard, random happen in real life, why wouldn't it happen in stories too?

And primary, I think that the main reason those two Titans doesn't have specific features, it's because when Isayama drew them, he didn't think of them having specific features: when we discovered Eren, he was the first known human with a shifter power, that was already enough, he fullfilled his role in the story without having specific abilities. Same for the Female Titan, he designed her to be recongizable as Annie, but he didn't really planed to give her specific features. And he also introduced Titan hardening with her. So I consider that in terms of storytelling, their role were fullfilled without needing very specific powers.

Of course, all of what I said are theories and suppositions.