Greetings Readers! I have finally come around to making a page for my Creation of Titans theories, really it should have been made sooner but I have been a bit preoccupied. Back in November 2014 I had a series of posts that I called the Creation of Titans series, each post reflected on a different possibility of how Titans may have been created. The possibilities were generalized instead of specific so I could cover more ground faster, and now they are all in one page!
Everyone wonders how Titans were created but no explanation has been given so I decided to use my lack of scientific knowledge and what I had observed from watching the show, to create my own list of theories on the creation of Titans. Each theory is based on three different distinct possibilities: Evolution, Creationism, and Natural Ability. When I say creationism I am including the possibility of a higher power and through scientific methods (made in a lab); also Natural Ability is a combination of both Evolution, Creationism, and something else all together.
Theory 1: Evolution
The theory of evolution was made famous by Charles Darwin and expresses that life evolved through natural selection (picking a mate to reproduce with based on traits). How does this apply to Titans? Well if you ever thought about what gave Titans their physical traits, than you come to believe that Titans inherited those traits overtime. If one of mankind's ancestors created a separate branch of hominids that had carnivore traits and a "conscience" than the hominid specie would eventually evolve through natural selection, picking physical traits like size, and strength; which would give Titans the strength and size you see in the Anime. The show explained that the Titans do not need to eat, drink, or have bowel movements, these traits would also come from another part of natural selection.
If the hominid Titans (that's what I'm going to call them for now) were living in a unfriendly environment for life, than they would need these select traits. Natural Selection strikes again! Naturally the hominid Titans would be mating with those who could preserve food and water in their bodies, and those who's bodies could use it efficiently, which would give them the natural ability to go long periods of time without food or water. With hominid Titans with negative traits dying off the ones with positive traits live on (The strong survive and the weak die), Titans as a species become genetically stronger and pass on these traits to the next generations. The show expressed that the Titans do not reproduce, but Titans may not reproduce through traditional methods, it is highly possible that they are asexual (reproduce without a partner) since there is only one gender of Titans (which is Titan).
To sum up what we have so far (which is a fair bit), Titans originally a branch of hominid that developed their physical traits through natural selection and also developed their lack of need for food and water through natural selection due to their environment, which it is also highly likely that Titans are also asexual. What we have not explained yet is their ability to regenerate, this really stumped me, since I don't believe it is from rapid cell generation. Rapid cell reproduction is when your cells reproduce extremely fast, this is usually due to a cellular mutation, which is very similar to cancer. Sounds like it could be the answer, but it isn't. With rapid cellular reproduction it could quickly heal any wound, but your cells shouldn't stop reproducing, they should continue to reproduce without end and would quickly lead to the deformity of Titans followed by death. Which is the part that stumps me, but we can probably assume that Titans have something similar to rapid cell reproduction.
So overall Titans came to be due to evolution, mainly due to natural selection due to their environment, and their regenerative ability is similar to rapid cellular generation.
Theory 2: Creationism
First I should talk about the creation of Titans through creation of God(s), and then I will move on to Titan creation through Science. In the Anime religion plays a huge role in politics with both the government and the military, but surprisingly their is only one religion, The Wall Cult. Or at least that seems to be it's name on the internet, it's not surprising that there is only one religion due to the fact that there is only around 1 million (estimate) people within the walls. But the religion/cult gives no explanation for why their are Titans only the wall, which is said to protect mankind. Anyways for the theory lets say that there is a god, and the god decided to create Titans through whatever method, and released them on the earth. Which in the anime it did say that Titans suddenly appeared out of no where without any warning what so ever, and the Titans killed most of the human population. And since the Titans only targeted humans and not anything else we can say that they were created to exterminate humans. So taking the facts that Titans only kill humans and that they suddenly appeared, we can pretty much assume that this would be a pretty reasonable theory for the creation of Titans.
Now on to my favorite part! What if the Titans were created through science? Well if that is the case then , who created them? Not the government, Never (sarcasm)! If Titans were created by the government within the walls than they were suffering from insanity and were not very bright, the Titans literally annulated the human race and confined the survivors within the walls, there was literally nothing to gain from the act. Which if the government did create Titans than they must have also created human-titans as well, which did destroy three portions of the walls, wait was their plan to exterminate the human race? If they created Titans why didn't they also release them inside the walls as well, or at least left the gate open when they released the Titans? Probably because they are not the cause of Titan creation, which leaves us to the "other kingdom", which would have the same story. Exterminate the human race, confine us within a group of walls which the hybrids that we have also created can destroy, celebrate our success in destroying humanity. This sounds just as likely as the first, not very likely, its also the same story for every country. And it probably wasn't the work of a secret society... or at least a sane secret society, since their goals would probably be control the world or exterminate the human race... maybe it was a secret society.
So under the impression that it was a secret society they would have to be wealthy, powerful, and smart; which they could than successfully research, create and release Titans from various locations around the world in a controlled manor. This would also explain Dr. Jaeger's incredible insight about the movements of Titans; but again moving on. If it wasn't a government nor a secret society, than maybe an alien civilization, and when I say alien I mean both foreign or "alien" civilization. But they would have to live off world, so the possibilities are endless and also very likely, since they could both monitor and protect themselves from Titans. Which the Titans would be able to transported to earth through pretty much any logical method, so if Titans were not originally from earth than there are an unlimited amount of possibilities on how they got their.
Theory 3: Natural Ability
While I was thinking of possibilities on how Titans were created a question kept on pestering me: what if there was another way for Titans to be created? Which after some thought the most likely answer was that they were originally humans, I know that this theory has been probed a lot on the internet but I believe I can give a little depth and shine some light on the theory. We all know that Eren, Annie, and others (will not be mentioned due to spoilers) have the ability to become a Titan; so far the post popular theory on the topic is that they were given a drug that turned them into Human-Titans, but what if they already had the power to become a Human-Titan. If they all inherited the ability to become a Human-Titan than one or both of their parents are also Human-Titans. When Eren first turned into a Human-Titan he was on the brink of death and the first few times he turned he was unable to control himself and acted like a regular Titan. So in theory Titans are people who have the ability to become a Titan and lost control, making them unable to turn back; and acting on instinct instead of thought. I don't exactly know if the limitations of Human-Titans in Titan form in terms of survival, but we can also assume that they do not age, nor need food and water.
I am sorry for going off topic but I believe that I should explain the entire theory and branches to make sure I don't accidently make the theory too confusing. Anyways, in an early episode of the anime it was explained that Titans suddenly appeared and humanity lost almost all knowledge of the outside world when they entered the walls, so Human-Titans and Humans could have been living side-by-side until some sort of incident occurred that forced a large amount of Human-Titans to turn into Titans. I am not sure what the incident may have been, but my best guess is an attempted genocide to kill all Human-Titans, but what ever the reason, the result was a extremely large portion of Human-Titans turning into Titans and losing control. With hundred of thousands maybe even hundreds of millions of Human-Titans losing control and killing every human they see, the human populace had to leave everything behind and run to safety. In all the confusion it would be safe to say that a few Human-Titans secretly disguised themselves and migrated behind the walls with the other refugees. And as a result they would be forced to hide their true identities in fear of the deaths of themselves and their families, which would result in Eren and others living behind the walls.
So in the end Titans were actually a kind of human that other humans tried to eradicate, due to the current technology in the show the attempted genocide would have to happen before the discovery of muskets, and around the discovery of canons. I know that this theory seems only half finished but whether the Titans were created through Evolution or Creationism would fill in the gaps in the theory.
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