

It is said that Ymir spent about 60 years in Pure Titan form. It is also said
that Pure Titan only have original subject's spine instead of full body like
one of Nine ([see ref [25] here or search word "spine" if number
shifts](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Titan)).

So, how exactly she could recover back to complete human with brain,
conciousness and memories while turning into one of Nine? Other
transformations explicitly shown or mentioned so far generally only take less
than hour between turning human into Pure and upgrading to Nine, so it less of
a concern, but 60 years? Shouldn't pretty much of whatever was original Ymir
be long lost by then?


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How can a Pure Titans recover the full body after extended period?


There is no specification on the manga or anime about that. But it seems that
any "pure" titan as long it gets the spinal fluid of 1/9 titans is able to go
back to being a human no matter how long it takes then in their pure titan
form. Yet again, all of Ymir's people seem to see the invisible roads or at
least the people that turn into one of the 1/9 titans. Time pass different in
that place, seems to take years or thousands of years[forever]. Ymir, just
mentioned that it was like a never ending nightmare to be in the pure titan
form.

Another way of putting it is, all pure titans are female eggs, and the 1/9 are
the sperm, when of of the 1/9 titan gets eaten by an egg, it becomes a human,
no matter how long it was in that place.


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**That is outdated information.** It was revealed later on in the series that
Pure Titans are humans who transformed into Titans. _They were not absorbed,
they transformed, notice the difference_. Their body parts, brain and all,
just got bigger. Their transformation to pure Titans, however, limit their
ability to think although it does not mean that it completely eradicates their
brain. If I were to speculate, I believe something in their transformation
causes a part of their brain to be 'locked out' and can only be accessed once
they consume another Titan Shifter.

Official information about this from the manga, though, is yet to be revealed.
But what we do know is that _Titans have regeneration abilities and
immortality_. **So, no, the original Ymir would not be long lost by then.**


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In the manga chapter 115 page 40, after Zeke ...

> .. almost lost all of his lower body, his body got regenerated by founder
> Ymir in the path.

Later in chapter 120 page 17, in a conversation between Zeke and Eren, Zeke
says that ...

> founder Ymir has been here (path) for over 2 thousand years even after her
> death and making titan body for them.


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