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As we see from the Manga

> when Eren ate his dad and when Armin ate Bertolt, they immediately
> transformed into a shifter-titan.

But when Eren gets eaten in Season 1, how is it that the titan who ate him
never transformed. Plus Eren was inside his stomach for a while before he
transformed and killed him.


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If the titan transformation is immediate once a titan eats a shifter, how did Santa Titan not become a shifter when he ate Eren?


The proper requirement to gain the powers of a shifting Titan is to drink the
spinal fluid of the Shifter. This is revealed on chapter 65. The "Santa" Titan
didn't gain any powers because he ate Eren whole.

> When Eren ate his father, he bit him on the waist, severing the spine and
> getting access to the fluid. Armin bit Bertholdt on the head.


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On top of drinking the spinal fluid, the shifter also needs to die at roughly
the same time. Otherwise the power would just shift into a random eldian baby.
This is why, when the beast titan gives his spinal fluid to a bunch of
different towns people and government officials in the walls, they don’t turn
into the beast titan when he activates them, they turn into regular titans, so
it’s a bit of a process, but that’s ultimately why the titans eat people. It’s
in their nature to eat and kill humans until they eventually eat a shifter.
It’s not a conscious decision, but more of an instinct because they all
ultimately come from the same being, and so they all have a shared knowledge
that they act on without any will to control this. We see only two pure titans
who fight this instinct off but neither of them are able to for long.


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