Monday, December 22, 2014

The Human-Titans Part:4 (Attack on Titan)

     Welcome back readers, and thank you in advance for reading this post! So in my post The Creation of Titans Part:4 I mentioned that I would later write post on a theory about how Titans were originally humans, but this is not that post and you will have to wait a bit longer. In this post I will express a theory that I have on how Human-Titans became... well Human-Titans, so this will be slightly different from Part 1-3 of this series which explains the powers of the Human-Titans in the Anime; but it is still in the same category. Just like all my other posts this theory is based on the facts given to us in the anime not the manga, so please keep that in mind!

     Back to the theory; as I have mentioned earlier the theory is on how Human-Titans gained their ability, which has nothing to do with Dr. Jaeger and drugs those facts and theories are beside the point... well... sort of. We all know that Annie and Eren are both Human-Titans and that Eren was injected by a drug after the Titans' first attack on the wall, some people say that the drug that was injected in Eren made him a Human-Titan, others do not. But if we use the facts given to us the drug did not turn Eren into a Human-Titan, not for a few years anyways. He first turned into a Human-Titan after he was eaten and lost his "humanity", that's the key point, he lost his humanity. He then turned into a Titan and started killing other Titans without concisely knowing, later all he had to do was draw blood to become a Titan, but that still wasn't enough. During his stay at the Scout Regiment's headquarters he took part in experiments on how to turn into and control himself as a Titan, there they analyzed that to become a Titan he must both draw blood and have a clear goal in mind. Which was proven incorrect in episode 24 when he couldn't turn into a Titan to fight Annie, he had to lose part of himself, a part that made him "human". Which could also could also be considered losing part of his humanity, and coming back to the experiments with the Scout Regiment, all he needed was to draw blood and a goal; which he did not lose his humanity during the experiments. All these facts do is spin us in circles until we can't think anymore.

     But what if we are thinking about this too linearly, maybe the method to turn into a Titan changed, but if so when? Well when Eren was eaten by a Titan he had: drawn blood, had a goal, and lost his "humanity"; well what if this triggered his ability. Since Eren had a huge desire to kill Titans and he lost his humanity, it may heave triggered his Human-Titan ability and became a Titan with an uncontrollable desire to kill Titans. After Triggering his ability for the first time, the method to become a Titan may have changed, and with this change it became easier for him to turn into a Titan. So now that we have established a possible reason for how he triggered his Human-Titan ability, now we should figure out how he becomes a Titan after his first transformation, which is actually pretty straight forward.

     Throughout all of the episodes we know without doubt you have to draw blood to become a Titan, but what other conditions have to be met as well? From the events surrounding Human-Titans throughout the series, I am 100% sure we can rule out anything that happened during the experiments with the Scout Regiment; which leaves us with facts not theories (ironic considering the post). While Eren, Armin, and Mikasa were surrounded by soldiers after returning from there retreat during the Battle of Trost, they were fired upon; Eren then became a Titan to protect Armin and Mikasa. He obviously had a goal in mind and accomplished it, during his encounter with Annie when he was beyond the walls he also had a goal in mind, same goes for his fight with Annie within the walls. But the even with a goal he couldn't turn into a Titan during his fight with Annie, so having a goal isn't enough or is not part of the equation. If we look at these three events again Eren had a strong desire to protect others, but he did not have this same desire to protect others during his fight in the forest since the ones he wanted to protect were already dead, so a desire to protect others is not it either. Weirdly enough faith comes to mind when I think about these three events, not "faith" as in religion but faith as in belief (not religious belief), he believed that he could use his ability to complete his goal. When Mikasa, Armin and himself were about to be executed he believed that he could stop the cannonball in his Titan form, while fighting Annie in the forest he believed that he could beat her and win (he also believed it before Levi squad was destroyed). When Annie was running ramped in the city he came to believe that he had to fight her and win; when Eren was supposed to carry the boulder and seal the hole in the wall, he believed that he was capable of doing it (he wavered but still came through). Funny enough even though I said we can completely disregard the experiments with the Scout Regiment, when Eren was unsure that he could turn into a Titan he didn't, but afterwards when picked up the spoon his arm turned into a Titan's arm (He knew/believed that he could pick up the spoon). So if my theory that you have to believe that you are able to succeed and draw blood to turn into a Titan is true, than every other Human-Titan out there follows the same rules.

   All in all we have a theory for how Human-Titans became Human-Titans and we know how Human-Titans change forms. To sum up the theory the Human-Titan must draw blood and lose their humanity to unlock their ability to become a Titan, and after unlocking it they must draw blood and believe in their ability to accomplish their goal in order to turn into a Titan. I find the second part quiet funny since it sounds like a cheap motivational slogan that your superior at work would say to new employees, or a principle would say to the students during an assembly. I hope you enjoyed this week's theory and I hope you will continue to read future posts on my blog, it doesn't feel right saying this but if you could recommend my blog to your friends it would really help (helps more than you know). Also if you would like to leave a comment about anything down below feel free, you don't even need an account, also I check my blog for comments almost everyday so if you would like to ask me anything I will be able to respond quiet quickly. I hope you enjoyed this week's post and remember this is only AVirginTheory!

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