Board Thread:Manga/@comment-26197868-20160929212832/@comment-26495049-20161201010409

SkeletonTitan wrote:

CommonSwift wrote: About Armin he was still partialy alive after getting roasted and falling down from something less of forty metres without turning into a red splatter on the roof XD

I still trying to figure out how the freacking titan shift works, so you have to bite yourself with a clear goal in mind then some entity from above send a bolt of lighting upon you to form a giant flesh Titan for you to control. Bertolt's steam could have blown Armin down 40 m to the roof smoothly. About the titan shifting, I think the titan body is made of compressed air where the molecules are altered. Maybe the flash effect happens because this happens so fast? Nuclear fusion. That's how we got the bert nuke. It would generate enough instantaneous energy to cause the water molecules in the air to condense into a titan form, which is thereafter sustained by solar energy (sunlight).

The titan shifter's DNA likely got permanently altered upon consuming the spinal fluid of their predecessor, essentially turning them into a mutant who can trigger this powerful fusion reaction when their blood is in contact with the surrounding air. This agrees with the fact that there is no known way to "untitanize" a titan shifter.

I still prefer the idea that all of this is titan magic though :D