

There are several humans which can transfer into titans at will. What about
the normal titans? Hange said that titans do not weight as much as they
should. Their only vulnerable area is where the real human body would be for
shape-shifting Titans. They also look like humans, are there humans inside
normal titans as well?


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Do normal titans have humans in them as well?


Although the manga hasn't actually confirmed this, but here's a theory.

Honestly, don't read the manga spoiler if you don't want it. You will regret
it.

> As we already know, Eren and Annie are humans who can turn into Titans. In
> the manga, Ymir, Reiner and Bertolt are revealed to be able to do the same.
> There is also this Beast Titan, who is very intelligent and can speak. It is
> also able to turn humans to titans through some unknown means and give them
> orders. The manga also reveals that there are titans inside the walls. Maybe
> that would explain the last scene after the ending in the anime (the
> Colossal Titan inside the wall Sina).  
>  
>  So my theory is that the Beast Titan can convert humans into titans. Most
> are stuck in this form, and their human bodies eventually merge with the
> titan's and they become full titan, thus become unable to return to human
> forever. Some are able to break free, and they become Titan Shifters


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This was explained titans were humans at one point. The ones from the Ymir's
village were turned into them against their will.
<http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Titans>

It was also hinted at by experiments with Eren that the more he uses shifting
without resting the more he merges with the titan.

Ymir also wandered aimlessy as a titan without ability to shift or control her
actions for a while, indicating most titans are in the same situation as her.


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Regular titans have had their weak area cut into. The visible result was that
there was no human in that or any other part of the body. The weak area does,
however, correspond with the size of the person's spinal cord but that isn't
their either. The ability to transform back into human is a special power
special titans have... they can obtain it by eating other transforming
human/titans.


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The most reasonable explanation is that the Beast Titan turns them into full
titans. If you read the manga, it says the Beast Titan can turn humans into
titans without a serum. They revealed that a SERUM turns humans into titans.
They cannot break out of this form, unless eating one of the nine titan
shifters. Only 9 can change form, no more than that.


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No, because titans can't absorb people when they eat them because they don't
have a digestive system. They just vomit the people back up.


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No, the regular titans, not the titan shifters, were humans who were injected
in the back of their nape with some sort of liquid, most presumably titan
spine fluid, by the nation of Marley. It's kind of like a punishment, for
example Ymir was taken in by a religious group and got turned into a mindless
titan as a punishment due to the religion going against certain things that
are classed illegal. However, the beast titan can turn people into mindless
titans so he also plays a role in this.

Titans don't weight that much because technically they're a fabrication of the
normal human anatomy, meaning they only use what they have, the human body, to
make a titan out of it, so as the human body doesn't weight as much as a titan
would look to weight, they don't look their weight.

My guess would be that when you would be turned into a titan, your body will
change and become something new, a titan, and this is reversible due to the
fact that if a titan eats a human who possesses one of the (now 8) titan
abilities, it will turn back into a human but it will possess that titan
ability. The only reason titans eat humans is because all they know is that
eating humans is the only way to pretty much end what they're going through.


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