Re: Attack Om Titan
Thomas
While all of the Nine Titans could receive memories of past inheritors, the Attack Titan could also receive memories of inheritors yet to come.[8] Zeke Yeager described it as "the power to transcend time."[9] These memories led those with the Attack Titan to move forward, fighting for freedom.[8][10] Eren Kruger received memories of Grisha Yeager telling his son to protect Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert, although he did not know whose memories they were.[11][12] Grisha Yeager knew of the Founding Titan's bloodline restriction from the future memories of his son, Eren.[13] Grisha also saw the Rumbling, and, horrified, begged Zeke to stop Eren.[14]
Eren saw that he was able to reach the Coordinate in the unknown land after seeing the future from Grisha's memories.[15] However, just like how memories from the past were often incomplete, memories from the future were incomplete as well: Eren did not know that Ymir Fritz only obeys those with royal blood.[16]
The Attack Titan, like all the Nine Titans, was brought into the world after the death of Ymir Fritz.[17] Though this Titan was presumably caught up in the conflict of houses between the eight Titans of the Eldian Empire subservient to the Founding Titan, it is said that the Attack Titan always fought for the freedom of Eldia no matter the day and age.[10] During the Great Titan War as Marley gradually gained control over seven of the Nine Titans, the Attack Titan evidently never fell into Marley's hands and remained on the mainland while the Founding Titan remained overseas on Paradis Island where King Karl Fritz relocated the capital.[18][19]
In the year 819, an Eldian spy in the Marley Public Security Authorities named Eren Kruger inherited the Attack Titan from an unknown predecessor.[20] During the thirteen years he held the Attack Titan, it is unknown how often he used it, if at all, until the year 832 when he brought Grisha Yeager to Paradis Island. At the borderline, after the Eldian Restorationists were turned into Pure Titans and sent to wander the island, Kruger made use of the Attack Titan to destroy the Public Security Authorities and their ship before disposing of all evidence of the event. Afterward, Kruger entrusted Grisha with the mission to obtain the Founding Titan from the King of the Walls and passed on his Attack Titan.[21][22][23]
After holding the Attack Titan for approximately thirteen years, Wall Maria came under attack by the Warriors of Marley; Grisha Yeager decided the time had come to negotiate with the Founding Titan or take it by force if necessary. Arriving at the Reiss Chapel, Grisha pleaded with Frieda Reiss for the sake of Eldia and the Walls, but his cries were neglected.[25] Although insistent about taking the Founding Titan by force, Grisha is unable to until he is pressured to by the future holder of the Attack Titan: his son Eren Yeager. Goaded on by the memories of his family, his comrades who died before him and the mission he was entrusted to fulfill by his predecessor, Grisha used the Attack Titan and overpowered Frieda, stealing the Founding Titan and killing her along with the rest of her family, except for her father, who escaped.[26]
Upon returning to Wall Rose where the refugees from Wall Maria were arriving, Grisha found Eren and took him into a forest where he injected him with a Titan serum.[27] As a Pure Titan, Eren ate his father and inherited both the Attack Titan and the Founding Titan, though he could not use the latter due to his non-royal lineage.[28]
For five years, Eren Yeager lived his life unaware of his possession of the Attack Titan and the unusable Founding Titan until the year 850, during the battle of Trost District. Upon being caught and eaten by a Titan, Eren's injuries and burning desire to slaughter the Titans trigger his first transformation into the Attack Titan.[29] In a nearly mindless state, Eren wanders Trost as the Attack Titan, slaughtering twenty Titans[30] throughout the day all while avoiding bringing harm to the human trainees around him. His first Attack Titan eventually exhausts itself, and Eren emerges with healed wounds.[31]
Completely clueless as to the nature of Eren's Titan power, the Trost Garrison takes Eren into their custody and question him about his Titan nature.[32] When it becomes clear that the Garrison soldiers present cannot be reasoned with, cannon fire is used against Eren, but he successfully accomplishes a partial transformation of the Attack Titan and protects himself and his friends from the blast.[33] Upon Commander Dot Pixis' arrival in Trost, the military decides to make use of the Attack Titan to seal the breached gate of Trost.[34]
Upon reaching the boulder needed to seal the breach in Wall Rose, Eren's next transformation goes awry when his Attack Titan falls into a feral state and attacks Mikasa Ackerman before incapacitating itself.[35] Eren's Titan lies dormant for a short time before his childhood friend Armin Arlert manages to communicate with Eren himself through the nape of the Attack Titan, and Eren regains control.[36] Carrying a massive boulder through the streets as members of the Garrison and Training Corps defend him, the Attack Titan seals the hole in the Wall, securing humanity's first victory against the Titans.[37]
Some time afterward, Eren joins the Survey Corps after his change of custody is made official in a military tribunal.[38] During his first month in the Survey Corps, Eren's Attack Titan is subjected to a variety of studies by Squad Leader Hange Zo. At this time, the Survey Corps discovers the dependency of the Titan's power upon a fixed goal in mind before transformation in addition to the cause of an injury.[39] After the month's passing, the Survey Corps sets out on the 57th Expedition Outside the Walls. However, the expedition is sabotaged by the arrival of the Female Titan. Within a Titan Forest, Eren, in pure rage, transforms into the Attack Titan to battle the Female Titan after she killed the members of Levi's squad. Eren assaults Annie with his Attack Titan but is quickly defeated.[40] While Eren is later rescued from the Female Titan,[41] the expedition is cut short and is considered a failure.
A few days later, the Survey Corps corners Annie Leonhart, inheritor of the Female Titan, in Stohess District, and she transforms into the Female Titan once more as a last resort.[42] Eren battles her a second time with the Attack Titan,[43] though the raid comes to an end when Annie uses her hardening ability to encase herself in a crystal-like substance to avoid capture.[44]
The next day, Eren joins the Survey Corps' efforts in dealing with the sudden Wall Rose invasion. At this time, Reiner Braun and Bertolt Hoover reveal their respective identities as the Armored Titan and Colossus Titan.[45] When the two transform into their Titan forms, Eren battles the Armored Titan with the Attack Titan.[46] Despite initial difficulties,[47] Eren's Titan gains the upper hand using Annie's martial arts techniques and nearly defeats the Armored Titan until Bertolt's Colossus Titan cuts the battle short in a last-resort effort to capture Eren.[48] In the subsequent mission to rescue Eren, the Attack Titan is not used, but instead, Eren manages to unlock the power of the Founding Titan for a brief moment after making contact with a Titan of royal blood.[49]
During the week after the invasion, the Survey Corps goes into hiding as Military Police Brigade action against them increases disturbingly. Research on Eren's Attack Titan continues in the wilderness, where they observe that repetitive transformations in a short amount of time lead to decreased physical and mental strength in the Attack Titan.[50] Sometime later, Eren is captured by the Reiss family,[51] who desire to feed Eren to Historia Reiss in order to regain the Founding Titan for the royal family. While captured, Eren witnesses his father's memories of using the Attack Titan against the royal family as well as the moment where he ate his father to gain his Titan.[28] During his rescue, Eren ingests a Titan serum labeled "armor,"[52] and the Attack Titan gains the ability to harden its skin in a manner similar to the Titans inside the Wall and Annie's Female Titan. This armor ability is used to protect Eren's friends from the collapse of the cavern beneath the Reiss Chapel,[53] and Eren uses his Titan to toss a bundle of explosives into the gargantuan Titan form of Rod Reiss.[54]
After Rod Reiss' defeat and the crowning of Historia Reiss, Eren's hardening power is used to create an Executioner from Hell where the southern gate of Trost District once stood. The new anti-Titan weapon is a success, though it takes a heavy toll on Eren's health for a brief time after emerging from his Titan.[55] Shortly afterward, the Survey Corps sets out for the ruins of Shiganshina District in order to reclaim the lost territory of Wall Maria. Eren's Attack Titan uses its new hardening power to completely seal the breach in the southern gate of Shiganshina,[56] but the mission is interrupted by the sudden appearance of the Beast Titan and the Armored Titan, beginning the battle of Shiganshina District.[57] The Attack Titan battles the Armored Titan a second time, with this duel ending in Eren's favor.[58][59]
Before Reiner can be killed, Bertolt comes to his rescue and wards off the recruits of the Survey Corps[60] before transforming into the Colossus Titan.[61] Eren attempts to attack the Colossus, but he is kicked into Wall Maria and is briefly incapacitated.[62] Armin once again brings Eren back to his senses, and he formulates a plan for Eren to defeat the Colossus.[63][64] As Armin distracts Bertolt, Eren's Attack Titan falls to the ground near the breached north gate of Shiganshina and hardens itself. Thinking that Eren has succumbed to a concussion, Bertolt thinks nothing of it[65] but soon realizes that he is seeing the hardened shell of a Titan and not Eren's true Titan, and in the moment of vulnerability Eren in human form strikes at the nape of the Colossus Titan, pulling Bertolt out of his defeated Titan form.[66]
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