Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30503334-20200617162615/@comment-37687990-20200715140611

Jumbernaut wrote: Still, with an arm and a leg missing, we would expect that Eren wouldn't be able to Titannize from inside the bearded titan's stomach, as his body should be regenerating. It's not that it feels impossible for him to titannize in that condition, but it makes this specific situation even more absurd and Deus Ex Machina like.

What bothers me is that, since events like this can happen, then the ritual to transfer the titans by the royal family shouldn't rely on this process. We know Ymir's powers were transferred after she died. Even if they didn't remember that, in all these years of war, the royal family must have seen titan's hosts die and cannibalized their bodies to get their powers. When the time comes to transfer the powers to a new host, why didn't they just kill the host first, or at least wound them in a way they are sure to die in minutes if they don't regenerate themselves, and then turn the next host into a titan, to make sure the previous host/king won't have to stay alive inside the other titan for an hour or more?

It just feels like they could do this in a better way. Eren wasn't healing, as we would've seen smoke from his wounds, plus he didn't even know he was a titan. Since he wasn't healing, he was able to transform with a purpose in mind as well. It's not as if the wounds would even start to heal right away anyways.