Board Thread:Manga/@comment-29544173-20170509051932/@comment-31962575-20170509115949

I will start of this discussion by saying Ymir is my favorite character and that I really hope she is still alive, because I don't think her character developed nearly enough to what it should have. That being said Marco's death hasn't even been shown and he was a semi important character, and this is a story where important characters will die which is something I'm not used to in anime/manga. So I am biased but I hope I'm still thinking rationally.

So in chapter 93 where it was first revealed Gaillard had obtained her memories and titan powers he never explicitlly said he ate her. It did have the scene in your 3rd point on why she's dead. However, I can't believe that he only touched her and got her memories, because he also has the titans power. On that point we don't even know if he did because he just said she wanted to give back her brother's "jaw", which could mean many things or it can even be a mistranslation kind of stretching there.

My only theory that she may be alive is that as sorry as she probably feels for eating his brother and can't see her just giving up on life and Historia. Rewatch season 2 episode 5 of the anime and you'll see my theory on that. As for the Gaillard getting her memories and possibly her titan power, I'm hoping its possible to gets someone's powers and memories by just somehow ingesting someone's spinal fluids without killing them. Whishful thinking.

Love to hear other's opinion if me and the origanator of this thread may be on to something or I need to get a new favorite character.