What do titans do

And thanks to their restricted awareness, like moths drawn to a flame, these Titans go after the only glowing forms in their entirely darkened vision. Titans survive on energy obtained from sunlight, making a digestive tract useless to their biology.

Which is why once they consume the prey's spinal fluid, they have no use for the creature, and they spit it out. Since the sun is their primary provider of nutrition, Titans can't operate during nighttime and go into hibernation mode. This is also how the Colossal Titans inside Paradis's walls remained dormant for so long. The exterior of the wall blocked any sunlight to the Titans, weakening them until they could taste the sun again. Humans and any other creature, on the other hand, is of zero nutritional value to the Titans.

Humans are only targeted for the potential freedom they could grant the Titans. Any Eldian who's found guilty of crimes against Marley is punished by being turned into a Pure Titan — a fate worse than death — and is dumped on Paradis's grounds. The idea of being turned into a mindless monster is scary enough to force the Eldians into submission. On the other hand, Eldians living in Paradis suffer greatly because of these Titans, giving Marley a petty sense of revenge. While Eren bests Armin in terms of physical and strategic prowess, Armin manages to immobilize him long enough for Mikasa to enter his Titan's mouth and kill him before kissing him goodbye.

However, this attraction ability has its disadvantages: once arriving near the Female Titan, the others tend to attack and eat its body, which can be countered with vertical maneuvering equipment. This Titan is also known for its tremendous endurance and mobility and can harden its skin at will in order to shatter blades of ultrahard steel upon contact.

During the 57th Exterior Scouting Mission Arc, Mikasa succeeds in slicing the Female Titan's fingers off, allowing Eren to rip the Titan form apart, although he had begun to merge before Levi steps him and stops the process. As indicated by its name, the Jaw Titan possesses a powerful set of jaws that can tear through almost anything with incredible ease.

Currently in possession of Falco, the Jaw Titan can move fast enough to catch some of the Nine off-guard and cause severe damage to armored opponents by crushing them between its jaws. Those who held the power of the Jaw Titan demonstrated an incredible amount of speed and agility, especially in terrains such as Titan Forests, even to the point of catching some of the other Nine Titans off guard.

However, the jaw manifests in slightly varying forms with respect to different users, such as Ymir only having hardened teeth, while Falco and Marcel's sport hardened, armored masks and jaw plating that is almost-bulletproof. Currently in possession of Eren, the War Hammer Titan can produce and manipulate structures made of hardened Titan flesh, in turn, weaponizing them in the form of spikes and blades with serrated edges.

However, unlike the rest of the Nine, the War Hammer Titan can remove its control center from its nape, connecting the Titan and the host with a long cable of flesh. This Titan can also emerge upon transformation without its operator inside its nape, which is a unique ability that the rest of the Nine in Attack on Titan are devoid of.

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Find Debopriyaa on Twitter angelusatani. By Debopriyaa Dutta Updated Oct 02, However after about 13 years later she died but the legacy of titans didn't die. Her powers along with her memories was passed down unto nine inheritors. After her death the nine inheritors conquered the nation of Marley and created the empire of Eldia. The nine shifters were splitted into Eldian noble houses.

The Fritz family was maintaning the order of the other eight houses. These powers were not gift but a curse. The vast majority of Titans had exceptionally wide mouths with an array of entirely sharp in certain instances , or entirely flat teeth which was more common in most observed titans. The vast majority of Titans had a masculine body type, although all of them lack reproductive organs. Unlike other species, Titans did not mate, and their interactions were nil with organisms other than humans; [4] their sole purpose in life was to seek out and devour humans.

They did not derive any real sustenance from humans either, as many of them did not taste human flesh for a century after the Walls were raised; but it did not affect their activity or decrease their numbers. Some Titans did not react to pain, and all would move as long as there is sunlight. Most Titans showed no signs of intelligence and acted like mindless beasts—easy to trick, distract, and deceive.

The Nine Titans were the exception: they had human level intellect due to being piloted by a human. However, some Abnormals were also able to sustain some of their former intelligence, such as Connie's mother [8] and the Titan encountered by Ilse Langnar [9] , both of which demonstrated the capacity to form thoughts and even communicate with humans.

All Titans were originally humans of a race of people called the Subjects of Ymir. Subjects of Ymir used to become Titans after being injected with Titan spinal fluid, triggering a near-instantaneous transformation.

Although the organic materials that made up the Titans' bodies appear to arise from nothing, [14] they were said to be sent from invisible paths that transcend physical space. Karl Fritz created the Colossus Titans that make up the Walls this way. The body of Titans appeared to violate several known laws of science, spontaneously generating both energy and mass.

Their bodies were incredibly light, [19] granting them human levels of maneuverability. Their extremely high level of activity and body temperature indicates the need for a massive intake of energy to fuel them, yet they apparently never needed to eat at all, though most Titans killed their victims by appearing to do so.