Alrighty ladies and gentlemen, we are here today to posit our or others theories on the series Attack on Titan. We may go up to chpt 50, so be careful if you have not reached that point.
For those of you who are not initiated this is the basic concept:
Zombie "Wolverines" (xmen who can heal any injury within minutes)ranging from 15-150 feet tall go around eating people while an army of spidermen zip around at high speeds fighting them with boxcutter swords, and every other episode is an Uncle Ben/Gwen Stacy tragedy, as it would be written by George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones, Author) and the writing team of the "Walking dead" working in collaboration.
Go watch episode one here legally, one episode is all you need to know if you love or hate it:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/attack-on-titan/episode-1-to-you-2000-years-in-the-future-the-fall-of-zhiganshina-1-623251
For those of you who are not initiated this is the basic concept:
Zombie "Wolverines" (xmen who can heal any injury within minutes)ranging from 15-150 feet tall go around eating people while an army of spidermen zip around at high speeds fighting them with boxcutter swords, and every other episode is an Uncle Ben/Gwen Stacy tragedy, as it would be written by George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones, Author) and the writing team of the "Walking dead" working in collaboration.
Go watch episode one here legally, one episode is all you need to know if you love or hate it:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/attack-on-titan/episode-1-to-you-2000-years-in-the-future-the-fall-of-zhiganshina-1-623251
Basic energy creation and storage:
Okay, titans have no known use for eating, and from the examples of Seany and Bean they require only sunlight (and possibly water drawn from water vapor). There are two possibilities on how they store energy, they either photosynthesize and process the glucose from normal photosynthesis into ethanol, the other is that somehow they convert various solar radiation and store it in the form of heat. The first theory would explain how titans effectively evaporate, between the high internal temperature and being mostly composed of ethanol, carbon from the air and a few other materials in limited amounts they of course would burn up once homeostasis was compromised. The heat theory on the other hand explains the burning but since the only examples of heat=energy I can think of is technological and not biological, it is really hard take this hypothesis any further.
Deviations in Titan behavior, energy levels, and how cutting the neck kills them and how it relates to Titan reproduction:
Of course looking at the examples again of Seany and Bean we have the question of why one shuts down immediately after being cut off from sunlight while the other doesn?t, and if it might relate to why one can feel pain and the other doesn?t? (HUGE FUCKING SPOILER FOR THIS ONE!)
For this we have to look at Ymir, another titan shifter who had previously been a regular titan before eating another titan shifter. I believe that when a titan eats and vomits up a crystallized? slurry of human victims they are effectively laying an egg. If left unchecked after a few years the crystal continues to force the human victims together into a homogenized fluid before forming a? the closest term would be nucleus of a titan. It would effectively look like a human fetus during development, but as soon as it is finished developing a fully grown titan body grows and cracks out of the cocoon.
I believe that the differences in behavior and strength depend on the development of this titan nucleus. After decades they are able to store and use energy more efficiently, develop pain receptors and be able to recognize pain, even develop new behaviors (deviants).
I believe that Titan shifters or at least the ones who infiltrated the wall are ones that after a long development gained self awareness. The titan nucleus developed from a fetus into their full human bodies. When Ymir ate a full titan shifter she effectively took steroids that super sped this process taking her from a deviant to a full shifter.
The titan?s nucleus is essentially what provides the instructions on how the titan?s body is maintained, much like a nucleus in a living cell. Once it is gone the body quickly breaks up.
Of course all this raises the question of how Eren can become a Titan, as he definitely did not wander around as a titan for a couple years, he was born and raised human. The answer is the shot given to him by his father. He somehow gained access to either the catalyzing fluid (crystal material that makes ?titan eggs?) or possibly genetic material from a titan nucleus and injected it directly into him. Like the eggs it took years for the changes to take effect, as more than once he was injured while also having a clear goal in mind (3D gear basic training). It is possible that floating in the catalyzing fluid helped trigger his initial change.
That is what I have so far, and I know most of them will probably be wrong or very off at best, but it was fun.
Okay, titans have no known use for eating, and from the examples of Seany and Bean they require only sunlight (and possibly water drawn from water vapor). There are two possibilities on how they store energy, they either photosynthesize and process the glucose from normal photosynthesis into ethanol, the other is that somehow they convert various solar radiation and store it in the form of heat. The first theory would explain how titans effectively evaporate, between the high internal temperature and being mostly composed of ethanol, carbon from the air and a few other materials in limited amounts they of course would burn up once homeostasis was compromised. The heat theory on the other hand explains the burning but since the only examples of heat=energy I can think of is technological and not biological, it is really hard take this hypothesis any further.
Deviations in Titan behavior, energy levels, and how cutting the neck kills them and how it relates to Titan reproduction:
Of course looking at the examples again of Seany and Bean we have the question of why one shuts down immediately after being cut off from sunlight while the other doesn?t, and if it might relate to why one can feel pain and the other doesn?t? (HUGE FUCKING SPOILER FOR THIS ONE!)
For this we have to look at Ymir, another titan shifter who had previously been a regular titan before eating another titan shifter. I believe that when a titan eats and vomits up a crystallized? slurry of human victims they are effectively laying an egg. If left unchecked after a few years the crystal continues to force the human victims together into a homogenized fluid before forming a? the closest term would be nucleus of a titan. It would effectively look like a human fetus during development, but as soon as it is finished developing a fully grown titan body grows and cracks out of the cocoon.
I believe that the differences in behavior and strength depend on the development of this titan nucleus. After decades they are able to store and use energy more efficiently, develop pain receptors and be able to recognize pain, even develop new behaviors (deviants).
I believe that Titan shifters or at least the ones who infiltrated the wall are ones that after a long development gained self awareness. The titan nucleus developed from a fetus into their full human bodies. When Ymir ate a full titan shifter she effectively took steroids that super sped this process taking her from a deviant to a full shifter.
The titan?s nucleus is essentially what provides the instructions on how the titan?s body is maintained, much like a nucleus in a living cell. Once it is gone the body quickly breaks up.
Of course all this raises the question of how Eren can become a Titan, as he definitely did not wander around as a titan for a couple years, he was born and raised human. The answer is the shot given to him by his father. He somehow gained access to either the catalyzing fluid (crystal material that makes ?titan eggs?) or possibly genetic material from a titan nucleus and injected it directly into him. Like the eggs it took years for the changes to take effect, as more than once he was injured while also having a clear goal in mind (3D gear basic training). It is possible that floating in the catalyzing fluid helped trigger his initial change.
That is what I have so far, and I know most of them will probably be wrong or very off at best, but it was fun.
