Board Thread:Manga/@comment-26495049-20161020222547/@comment-29958651-20161024074938

Tdfern14 wrote: I don't exactly buy this Devil of Earth hocus pocus, plus why would Ymir except the power of Titans from the devil? Was it because she was tired the oppresive regime of the Elodians by the Marleyans (similar to the Ancient Egyptians enslaving the Jews). Or was it becuase she was surrounded by war and famine and people dying so she wanted to use the power to end it (kinda like Kaguya from Naruto who ate the Chakara fruit to gain power to rule the world). Now here's an issue - what was the real reason, why Ymir accepted such power? Tdfern14 proposed a good topic for discussion. As for now, the whole devil offering Titan power seems to be a variation of the biblical myth of Adam and Eve. If this theory would be proven, it would mean that the real reason why Ymir Fritz had accepted Titan Shifting abilities was just become of pure infinite power. Adam and Eve accepted the apple due to gain the infinite wisdom (after eating apple they can distinguish what is good and what is bad, so they can reach an ability originally belonging only to God) so the Titan powers seems to be a variation of the apple offered by a snake. The resemblence between these two metaphores is quite clear :-) But the original intentions (what she wanted to use this power for) of Ymir Fritz are still a mystery. A war? A famine? A long-time conflicts with Marleyans? Honestly, I don't know. I'm quite sure that the whole true history of the outside world have to be retell once again in order to discover the true identity of the devil, so only after that we will know the real context.