according to chapter 122, ymir was a slave and when she died, she waited 2000 years for eren to free her from being a slave? apparently she "pulled some strings" in the world so it could all lead up to eren meeting her in PATHS, just so eren could tell her that she's free.
Realizing that Ymir has a will of her own, Eren embraces her and asks her to help him rather than try to order her. As Zeke desperately tries to stop them, Eren asks Ymir if she was the one who called him to the Coordinate, musing that she has been waiting 2000 years for him to arrive.
For 2,000 years, the Founder Ymir has been waiting--a slave to those with royal blood. However, Eren's yearning for freedom gives her a choice that could shake things up.
In Chapter 55 of the manga (Episodes 39–40 of the anime), Commanding Chief Dot Pixis describes the Fritz bloodline as being "unbroken for 2,000 years." This refers to the fact that two centuries ago, Ymir Fritz became the 'mother of all Titans,' being the first human to ever gain the power of the giants from what's ...
The meaning behind the title of the chapter was first alluded to in Chapter 55, where Dot Pixis speaks of the Fritz royal bloodline (later revealed to be a false monarchy) as being "unbroken for over 2000 years." Chapter 86 revealed that the power of the Titans originated from Ymir Fritz, 1,820 years before Grisha ...
The opening scene of the Attack on Titan anime shows Eren waking up from a dream with tears. The closest argument to this incident could be the fact that Eren was seeing flashes of memory from his future self.
It's after this memory that the scene returns to Eren and Ymir. Eren tells Ymir that she doesn't have to be enslaved, that she is waiting for someone to end it all. Eren asks for her help to choose him and finish everything.
Eren learns that he has a limited lifespan as a side effect of being a holder of two of the Nine Titans' power, including the titular "Attack Titan" (進撃の巨人, Shingeki no Kyojin), along with the Founding Titan, only having 8 years left to live.
Because it is impossible for anyone to surpass the Founder, each person who gained the power of the Titans was fated with the "Curse of Ymir" (ユミルの呪い Yumiru no Noroi?), which limited their remaining lifespan to only 13 years after first acquiring it.
This confirmed exactly what Eren saw that caused him to do everything he's done since: he saw the future. Specifically, he saw this moment with Grisha and the Reiss family, including the presence of a future version of himself.
Sexuality. Whilst Ymir's sexuality is never confirmed explicitly, it is accepted by the majority of fans that she is lesbian, as her only canon love interest was Historia and there is a scene with Reiner in which it can be implied she expresses a disinterest in men.
After being brought back to Marley, Ymir willingly allowed herself to be killed and was eaten by Marcel Galliard's brother, Porco Galliard, transferring the power of the Jaw Titan to him.
in order to find the things that she couldn't find during her life as slave in a world full of memories and endless Regeneration. but she couldn't so she lost hope. Ymir smiled when Mikasa kissed Eren in Chapter 138 because she was happy to see two people who care for each other express their love.
That being said, as the founder of all Titans, Ymir has the ability to force her will onto her subject. And since Ymir can only use the Titan's power for 13 years, then every Eldian who received her Titan power would also only have 13 years to live their life. And that is the curse of Ymir.
She was a Titan for 60 years, and emerged back into human form 5 years ago. She was in training for 3 of those 5 years. She is officially listed as being 17 (on the anime's official page), so she was 12 when she stopped aging and became a Titan. She is one of the older Trainees, being 14 when she enlisted.
The choice Mikasa had to make was to hold onto her love but not be a slave to it. And that was the only way for Ymir to free herself from her slavery, let the power of the titans leave earth and to finally rest.
No, the Eldians need to consume a Titan Shifter in order to become one. If Eren dies without being eaten, then the Titan Shifters die with him.
Not only do they get better and more powerful as they practice, it "feeds" them. For that reason, Grisha, especially talented Grisha, age slower than other humans, sometimes living for centuries, assuming they continue to use their abilities regularly.
4 Perk: Pure Titans Practically Live Forever
When someone is turned into a Pure Titan, they're stuck in their current age until they're turned into a Shifter. In effect, Pure Titans are immortal.
With this in mind, Eren's laughter becomes something much more ominous. It becomes a sign of not only despair at losing Sasha but his resignation to the future. Sasha's death may have been the thing that drove Eren over the edge, forcing him to confront the absurdity of resisting his fate.
We know that a titan shifter contains enough spinal fluid to distribute their powers to at least 3 people (although this might vary person to person). So if Maria, Rose, and Sina each had 3 people evenly consume their spinal fluid, there would be nine shifters (each holding ~1/9 of Ymir's power).
Before the operation to retake Wall Maria Keith Shadis tells Eren that he first met Grisha about 20 years ago. At this point the attack on Wall Maria which coincided with Grisha's death happened 5 years ago. So Grisha had in fact been inside the Walls for 20-5 = 15 years!
Ymir was able to transform herself into the Jaw Titan (顎の巨人 Agito no Kyojin?), a 5-meter Titan. She gained this ability after she ate Marcel Galliard, a Warrior from Marley, in the year 845.
Eren has never been free for his entire life. ... In chapter 73, the night before RtS, Eren himself said to Armin that after Armin told him about the outside world, he realized he wasn't free his entire childhood life. “Fighting for freedom” isn't the same as “being free”.
Being the Founding Titan, Ymir came out as the only one among the Titans to fully possess the power of all of them. Others who came after her only hold a fraction of her power. With just her strength, she would wipe out Marley's forces completely with her abilities.