Board Thread:Manga/@comment-26056057-20160509020829/@comment-27702860-20160518192953

Unless I am missing that Reiner was completely in Non-Shifter Mode, as a human blowing his brains out is going to kill him. Getting stabbed in the neck while still partly incorporated is a different thing entirely.

Anyone have the issue where Levi does that to him? Because if I am completely wrong about the situation I do not want to waste everyones time. ^ ^

Whoever is "riding" the Titan--from Shifter to Poor Hapless Slob--resides in the cervical spine. They are like a parasite to a body. The "real brain" is them. The Titan body is not a "real body" in the sense that a lot of it does not function as a body should--like digestion. Granted, I do not expect AoT to be biologically correct.

So. . . when you remove the "slice"--and it has to be a wedge--from a Normal Titan, you are killing/removing the Poor Hapless Slob. I suspect in these situations the PHS is incorporated fully in the Titan CNS [Central Nervous System.--Ed.]--thanks--whereas with Shifters they can still remove themselves from the "body" as it were. So cutting them out does not kill them--though it "kills" the Titan body at that point.

But all of that is different from a Shifter wandering about the streets, annoying Crista.

--J.D.