Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20151009004044/@comment-26932251-20151009072714

174.65.63.177 wrote:

Wait what? His brother? Um... I thought it was fairly common knowledge... some data points...

Both have short beards...

Grisha came from beyond the walls... So does the beast titan...

For that matter, their titan forms are both muscular and bestial (unlike all other titans and shifters, ymir is kind of bestial buit in a different way)...

At the end of the chapter where the Beast Titan beats up Reiner, there is a prominent close up on Beast's glasses, which are very similar to Grisha's glasses, round lens with nose pads (although Grisha's glasses don't have a top bar like beast's.)

And I want to stop there to focus on the nose pads... Yes the people within the walls have eyeglasses (such as Hange Zoe as an obvious example) but correct me if I'm wrong, so far nobody, in any of the canon anime or manga, is depicted as wearing eyeglasses with nose pads except for Beast and Grisha. Isayama wears eyeglasses so I think he would be sensitive to such a detail so I do think it's relevant.

For these reasons, I think Grisha is connected to Beast in some way (possibly a brother or other family member) and therefore we could jokingly call him Mr. Yeajer until we get a name.