

In attack on Titan, what's the point of the shifter Titans becoming soldiers?


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In attack on Titan, what's the point of the shifter Titans becoming soldiers?


For the most part, it's for stealth and infiltration - if Annie, Reiner and
Bertholt had walked into Shiganshina and asked to join the survey corp in
Titan form, the first arc would probably have gone a lot differently!

As their main objective was to find and capture the 'coordinate', they had to
maintain a low profile and draw as little attention to themselves as possible.
Gathering information on the situation inside the walls was made much easier
by remaining human.


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Pretty heavy spoilers below:

> In 845, Marcel Galliard, Bertholdt Hoover, Reiner Braun, and Annie Leonheart
> depart from the mainland and initiate Paradis Island Operation. The goal of
> the mission was to infiltrate Wall Maria, Rose and Sina in an effort to
> recover the Founding Titan. However, while they knew the individual in
> possession of the Founding Titan was a member of the royal family, they were
> unsure of the exact identity. Thus, this operation relied heavily on the
> infiltration of the military ranks in order to gather intel and ascertain
> the identity of the Founding Titan. For this reason, Annie, Reiner, and
> Bertholdt each secured a position in the top ten recruits of their training
> class, which allowed them to freely choose which division they would go to.
> The original plan was to infiltrate the ranks of the Military Police where
> it would be easier for them to determine which of the royal family members
> was the Founding Titan, but the plan is then revised when Eren is discovered
> to be the Attack Titan, and Reiner and Bertholdt join the Survey Corps (the
> division Eren chooses) in order to gather more information on the titan-
> shifter.


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