Ymir Fritz

Ymir Fritz (ユミル・フリッツ) was the first person to obtain the power of the Titans. She was a slave of the Eldian king who abused her power to bring prosperity to Eldia and devastation to Marley and the rest of the world. Thirteen years after awakening her power, she died protecting the king, and her corpse was cannibalized by their daughters, Maria, Rose, and Sheena. Her powers then split into eventually what is known as the Nine Titans.

Upon her death, Ymir was transported to the Coordinate, where she molded Titans out of the sands, and obeyed the royal family whenever they sought the Founder's power.

Human
Ymir Fritz was small in stature with light hair. As a slave, she wore simple clothing with a cloth headband, sash belt, and leather sandals laced above her ankles. After entering the favor of the king of Eldia in adulthood, Ymir wore a sleeveless dress with thin bands around each arm.

In posthumous illustrations depicting Ymir Fritz, she is shown as a young girl wearing white robes. In the book Frieda Reiss reads to Historia, Ymir is dark-haired, whereas in the book Mr. Yeager reads to Grisha, she is fair-haired.

Titan
Ymir Fritz's Titan form was enormous in size with light hair, a feminine figure, and long protruding ribs. Her Titan's face possessed no apparent skin, musculature, or eyes, leaving only a skull visible.

In posthumous illustrations, Ymir's Titan form is highly romanticized with more human features.

Personality
Frieda Reiss describes Ymir as a kind girl who was always thinking of others. In reality, she was a slave with no will of her own. She submitted to the Eldian king in life, building him his empire, destroying his enemies, and bearing his children. She even sacrificed her own life for him. After she died, she remained obedient to the Eldian royal family.

History
Over 1,820 years ago, Ymir Fritz lived as a slave to the Eldian tribe. One day the tribe's ruler called all of the slaves and announced that one of them released the villages pigs. Under threat of punishment if the culprit did not come forward, Ymir was singled out by her fellow slaves as the culprit.

As punishment, Ymir was released from her servitude and subsequently hunted down in the wilderness by the village's warriors for sport. Wounded and desperate, Ymir took shelter in a nearby tree, only to fall into an underground pool of water housed inside the tree. While in the water, she came into contact with a mysterious creature which attached itself to her and triggered her first transformation into the Founding Titan.

After gaining her ability, Ymir returned to her former master and served him again, using her Titan to cultivate land, build bridges, and destroy the forces of Eldia's rival, Marley. To "reward" Ymir for her service, Eldia's ruler took her as his concubine and together the two had three children: Maria, Rose, and Sheena.

After serving the king for 13 years, Ymir died while thwarting an assassination attempt on his life. After her death, Ymir found herself inside a mysterious land, unable to do anything but obey the will of her descendants as they inherited her Titan abilities.

Mythology
Some time after her death, Ymir's existence was hailed as a god-given miracle. Many would claim that as the Founding Titan, she used her Titan power to cultivate barren lands, build roads across the lands, and raise bridges through the mountains of the world, though these claims could never be supported. On the other hand, after the fall of the Eldian Empire in the Great Titan War, the new Marley government would spread slanderous legends that Ymir's power was derived from the "Devil of All Earth."

Many centuries later, Frieda Reiss, a descendant of Ymir, would visit her half-sister Historia on the farm where she was raised. During some of her visits, Frieda told Historia the story of Ymir's deal with the Devil; however, in this book, Ymir was named "Krista." Frieda advised Historia that she must be lady-like, as "Krista" was. She spoke of "Krista" as being an altruistic girl, and urged Historia to be loving and beloved like her when she is grown. However, Historia did not remember these visits, since Frieda always used the Founding Titan to erase her memories after every encounter. Historia would only recall vague images of "Krista"'s story in the years to come.

Return to Shiganshina arc
Some years later, when the Survey Corps discovers Grisha Yeager's basement, they find three journals. Within Grisha's writings, he recounts his childhood when he was told the story of Ymir and her people by his father. Grisha writes of joining the Eldian Restorationists in the nation of Marley several years afterward, learning of the supposed great accomplishments achieved in Ymir's time. Together with the resistance, Grisha declares that they must venture to Paradis Island, where Ymir's descendants had fled eighty years ago, in order to retrieve the Founding Titan and bring back the nation of Eldia.

Unnamed final arc
While on the verge of death, Zeke Yeager would awaken in an unknown land to discover Ymir molding his damaged body with earth.

During the assault on Shiganshina, Zeke and his younger half-brother Eren Yeager are able to make contact with each other before awakening in the path. As Ymir approaches, Eren demands she lend him her strength but his pleas are ignored. Zeke subsequently reveals he has nullified the vow to renounce war through Ymir who only obeys her own descendants before using her to restrain Eren. After Zeke shows Eren the memories of their father Grisha, Zeke realizes that Eren was responsible for Grisha's actions against the Reiss family and that his ultimate goal is inevitable. In a desperate panic, Zeke orders Ymir to sterilize the Subjects of Ymir, and Ymir approaches the Coordinate of converging paths to fulfill Zeke's will.

Trivia

 * is a primeval being in Norse mythology who is the progenitor of all jötnar (giants). "Ymir" also means "the scream." Both are appropriate to Ymir Fritz, as she was the progenitor of all Titans ("giants" in the original Japanese) and possessed the power of the Founding Titan, which is used by screaming.
 * In Frieda's storybook, Ymir is named "Krista."
 * The summary at the beginning of Volume 22 claims that Ymir Fritz is the "progenitor of the Eldians." However, this is untrue as Eldia existed before Ymir, and Ymir herself was not even an Eldian.

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