Board Thread:Manga/@comment-30632294-20161129075531

Hear me out...



This theory started to form in my head when I read about the progenitor titan and how her powers were split into 9 titan powers when she died. How did they do that? How were her powers divided in the first place? It's not possible for 9 mindless titans to all eat the same person at the same time...and yet the progenitor titan's powers were somehow split in to nine seperate titan shifter powers. The only explanation is that there has to be a way to create a new shifter without the trade of an old shifter, otherwise it would mathematically impossible to create 9 shifters from a single shifter.





So as I've been thinking about this, I've recalled three specific facts or observations from the manga.





1. Marlayans taughts us that mindless titans are created by injecting titan spinal fluid in the arm or neck of an Eldian.

2. Eren and Armin showed us (among other conversations) that a mindless titan will return to it's human form once it has consumed a titan shifters human spinal fluid.

3. Rod Reiss clearly states that the mindless titan does not need to consume the entire human body of the shifter, just SOME spinal fluid.





Here's where this all comes together...





<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:rgb(255,255,255);">If titan shifter spinal fluid creates a in a new titan shifter, than it would stand to reason that the spinal fluid the Marlayans inject into the Eldians could be from a mindless titan. If titan shifter spinal fluid makes a titan shifter...mindless titan fluid makes a mindless titan. Its also possible that mindless titan serum is made by harvesting the spinal fluid from a shifter's titan spine rather than their human spine. Either way, I think the difference lies in whether the spinal fluid is harvested from the human form...or the titan form. Titan shifter spinal fluid gathered from the human spine can change a mindless titan in to a shifter, spinal fluid harvested from the shifter's titan form's spine creates a mindless titan.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:rgb(255,255,255);">If this theory is correct, all the Corp needs to do is harvest an injection of Eren's spinal fluid and toss it in to a random titan's mouth. The titan will revert back to it's human form and BAM, new titan shifter.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:rgb(255,255,255);">Now this could, potentially, be way too IMBA...as you just start doing that over and over again to create new shifters, so just for kicks, let's suppose that there is a 9-shifter limit. Like the progenitor titan's power can only be split 9 ways...Eren is currently in posession of two of those titan powers, which means they could use his spinal fluid and "extract the buried titan shifter power" in him so to speak.

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:rgb(255,255,255);">A bit out there. but I am constantly bothered by the fact that there could be another shifter on the Eldian's side if it wasn't for the stupid will of the First King. Marlayan's still have 6...but splitting out Frieda's power from Eren could be a game changer. They did it once...with the progenitor titan...why not do it again with Eren? <ac_metadata title="What if the Survey Corps could create a new Shifter wholesale?"> </ac_metadata>