Eldians called her a *God* Marleyans called her a *devil* King Fritz called her a *slave* But Eren knew she was just a *human being* who wanted to be *Free.*

So in the end Ymir had all the control and she just needed some really hardcore therapy to get over her toxic lover.

Eren: "You're just a human being." Ymir: "Thanks, not that it matters, anyway time for you to die for me."

At least Eren understood Ymir like no one else could.

The backstory of AOT is simply one of the most unique and intriguing I've seen in fiction.

"You're not a slave, nor a goddess! You're just a normal girl!" *- Eren Yeager*

You’d think Ymir would give Eren that revive like she did Zeke after everything Eren did for her. Instead she turns him into a bird.

Eren was a slave to his desire for freedom... The irony...

Ymir has been waiting for Mikasa for 2000 because she can kill what she loves. Ymir loves the king, but she not only does not stop his domineering, but also cooperates with him and drives Mare to hell. That's why Ymir was waiting for Mikasa to deny her "Love = Obedience". Moreover, Ymir knew from the beginning that Mikasa would appear 2000 years later through the "Path". So, Ymir was interested in Mikasa and had been observing her since she was little. The cause of Mikasa's headache was due to Ymir intervening in her memory.

Conclusion of AOT: Ymir is not only the founder of the titans, the founder titan, but also the founder of simping , the founder simp.

Eren was nothing like King Fritz and Mikasa is nothing like Ymir. It still doesn’t make sense, but I’m here to support this video because the editing is 🔥

Eren said he was free, but died as a slave of a girl that created a whole cenario that offed 80% of humanity and one of my favorite mc, eren.

Because of Eren and Mikasa, Ymir finally understand what love really means - love is about letting go of the person you love, setting them free from the cages they belong to, even though it hurts.

I don't know, why but every time in anime our main character explains us about our own free will, there is no such thing as pre-destined. Then they are told, "hey man you were destined to be here, to be who you are right now. " 😅😅😶

I like endings that crush our understanding and perception. They piss us off but they’re very entertaining. I also like when the writers aren’t slaves to the fans. We have to keep in mind this is their story and we choose to be along for the ride.

"You're just a human being" ...who developed unparalleled superpowers, transcended death itself, and lived in a timeless void observing eternity while pulling the strings of reality to manipulate the universe as she saw it. ...that is literally the definition of a fucking God, Eren.

Yo that ending when the boy comes across the tree in modern time is just one of the coldest and deepest cliffhangers off all time

I always thought that Ymir would end the titan curse if Eren had made the sacrifice to go full rumbling, even if it had killed his friends in the process.

Imagine if Ymir Fritz didn't save the king from that spear.

Eren called himself free, but died a slave to protect his homeland.

When Eren woke up at the beginning, he saw a bird. Birds where always used to symbolise freedom in this anime. So I guess he truly became free.

The worst part about inheriting the attack titan is that because of it's ability to glimpse into the future, the inheritor loses their own free will and becomes a slave to the memories of the future. It's funny because apparently the Attack Titan should've been a representation of Ymir's will to be free.

Imagine if Mikasa, Armin and the others didn't choose to stop Eren and the Rumbling.

*Ngl, Yelena's face is the stuff of nightmares😨*

In my opinion, Eren and Mikasa did represent King Fritz and Ymir., however Eren and Mikasa are also representative of the two parts of Ymir. Eren represents her desire to be free through any means necessary, whilst Mikasa represented her desire to be loyal and obedient to the man she loved. To shorten it, Eren represents freedom by causing others agony and Mikasa represents slavery by causing herself agony. Eren and Mikasa were the two choices she had. Evil or Good. To sacrifice or to be sacrificed. In the end, she chose the good option to let go of the man she loved to save many others because she saw Mikasa was strong enough to do it. Was it the right option? What is truly good or truly evil? As Levi said, we don't know what the right option is, we must all make that decision for ourselves.

She smiles because Ymir, just like Mikasa is an Ackerman, and seeing Mikasa prevailed over her will and seeing her free from being slave to Eren elates her. Ymir failed to do the same to herself with King Fritz.

Imagine being a slave to freedom lol

The real villain here is Ymir. She is the whole reason Eren went to do the rumbling and for his internal conflicts he has had his entire life. Same with the persecution of the Ackermans and is the reason the Marleyans ended up as enemies with the Eldians. I understand her suffering with the king and all, but she allowed genocides to happen over her mental state. I feel so horrible for Eren and Mikasa.

Yea for the people who say eren was like king fritz, he didn't use mikasa as his concubine or some shit._. yea he was aggresive sometimes but thats on his anger issues and jelously of her. he did truly love her its just in ymir's eyes she wanted eren to be the monster and to destroy the lives of others in order for her freedom to be free. no matter how bad it sounds its the truth, but she is human like eren said and just wanted to be free from the toxic love she had for her king.

just bc ymir didn’t make the titans with genitals doesn’t mean she was innocent and i don’t think anyone thinks that she is 💀there was just no need for an eldian in their titan form to reproduce. it was like an extra precaution to make sure there was the least amount of titans possible

But wait… doesn’t that mean Ymir could manipulate her actions from the day she died and cause herself to not take the spear for fritz

Ymir: *gets killed and is still obeying her slave master/husband* Also Ymir: IMA RUIN THE WORLD FOR SOME THERAPY AND PERSONAL SATISFACTION!?

I do have to admit though that the fact that Mikasa is willing to give in when she and Eren are fighting Levi about choosing choosing Erwin over Armin Is pretty cool foreshadowing of her willingness to kill Eren. I just wish he didn’t love her back. It’s so sudden and undeveloped imo.

This stuff will never maked sense no matter how you try to explain it

What if Ymir... didn't release the pigs? 🐷🐖

So none of this would have happened if some little girl didn't free a bunch of pigs from a pen.

11:45 they don't have to be entirely the same. Simply have some kind of similar projection in their life. Just as you said, she needed Mikasa to kill someone she loved, but Mikasa's relationship with Eren was nothing like Ymir's. The similarity being love. Where Eren is nothing like king Fritz, but became a monster like him

TWIST: Eren takes Ymir's place in the paths, and someone else will inherit the power to free Eren over and over again. Its a vicious cycle that requires a sacrifice to be enslaved.

Good video as always 👍

Thanks man I had a understanding but you made it alot more clearer

Its even more messed up because if he made one of them his concubine its was either shortly before or shortly after ymir death since in the picture on his death bed they look the same exact age as when she died

While I do think the ending doesn't make much sense looking at Ymir's actions, I think I can live with the explanation that Ymir became a broken individual after her endless suffering. So much so that her actions, thoughts and needs cannot be comprehended by humans and their logic. I think Isayama tried to imply this when Eren, who related to Ymir more than anyone in the series, stated that even he did not fully understand her heart.

"you're not a slave nor god your just a human being your the founder you're free to choose"

This is the video that FINALLY helped me understand the show! Thanks to the ABD team 🎉🎉🎉

Honestly, Eren is a badass. He knew that this is what ymir wanted, for him to die by mikasa. That’s why he acted like the bad guy, to protect his friends, and make sure freedom was instilled because if mikasa killed him ymir would have been happy and the Titans would no longer exist. Sadly for Eren, ymir played him and caused more pain and suffering. Tho this story is heartwarming at the same time it’s fuking maniacal

I wonder, what would've happened if Eren killed his friends and finished the Rumbling?

This breakdown is tuff!! And made me understand a lot better

God damn your quality in both your speaking, scripting and editing is so much better than it was a few years ago. Good on you

In the end Eren remained a slave to his impulsive emotions.

I really hope the anime going too do a better ending , because this manga/anime deserves a awesome ending.

Its waer Luv the videos by the way💖💖👍

GreaT video

Dammit I had completely forgotten about the ending why did you do this lol 😭

Isayama be like:- *Korega Requiem da.* You will never be able to reach the truth no matter how many times you try to understand my story.

I have no words. Your analysis is amazing

Here bro👍🏾💯

Damn ABD! I would like this video a million times if I could! it all makes sense now.....Thanks for the breakdown and this video was 🔥🔥🔥

“All I ever wanted to do was do right things. I never wanted to be the king, I swear”

DUDE THE INTRO IS SO SMOOTH

on another note, man you explained really good thank you

I think its stupid that she even died from that in the first place "being the most powerful titan" a spear took her out. I mean we seen much worse injuries to the others and they healed from it. I know for them to die they have to have their head cut off, I guess you could say that spear went through her heart though maybe that could be game over too but they really never said it before. Although Eren took a piece of lumber to the chest while facing the female titan but I guess it could be argued it wasn't in the heart.

Basically, Mikasa did what Ymir couldn't. And that was let go of 🥒🥒🥒

Mikasa being the person Ymir has waited 2000 years for is the same asspull as Arya killing the Night King.

You describe it so much better I love it

Lemme get this straight……. Sooo AOT is literally the story of a shorty who did the most cause she couldn’t leave her toxic relationship ……

Bro I keep up constantly with your content and I think there are 2 or 3 other content videos you made that explain this in full detail ,the first time was in a 20min to almost an hour long video debunking how the attack on titan manga ended and why the ending made sense and the motive behind the ending because the author of the story got some sort of inspiration from Game of Thrones' series' ending ,and who is Ymir as well as the reasoning why Eren started the rumbling another video even included the haulucigen and its orgin where you made a recent video explaining in honestly the most legendary way the entire timeline of attack on titan.

Ymir:frees a pig Eren:destroys the world cause of a pig

I feel it makes sense that Eren went forward with it all because it would wipe out titans from existence by freeing Ymir whilst letting the people he loved live a happy life

so basically this was a whole puppet show :/

I honestly didn’t like the ending. After everything Eren went through they still did him dirty smh.

Very useful video, and somehow managed to make me calm down after eren's sad death.

i've been spoilled thx!

Man I just really wish eren could live..

How did a god die by a mere spear when reiner got stabbed in the heart and neck by levi and fell HALF THE SIZE OF THE WALL and still survived?

Omg ure intro ha sall my favriote characters ure so awsom3 I'm glad u exist 😇😇😇

sup my g

The memories of past users isn't only for the attack titan, didn't the armoured titan have flashes of previous users

There's no no way, Ymir's daughters were way too young for THAT.

Didn’t yah already make a video like this

imagine being one of the first to kill a titan and survive, only for you to hear the titan you killed to appear later on as you grow old

Both of Eren and Ymir need a psychologist then Mikasa. 😂

Mikasa, at the end, became a necrophile :/

EARLY AS POSSIBLE

This video is 24 minutes, and I’m about to learn so much in this anime, this is about to become my most well-known anime

Eren was a slave to freedom 🤯🤯🥲🥲

Ymir could have survived the stab she got in her chest but no longer had the will to live, she wanted to die

Because she got to see what being loved looked like

This video is clutch af

Imagine if Ymir did not die what would happen 🤔🤔🤔👀

Something I've been thinking about recently in regards to the royal blood is that King Fritz didn't impregnante one of his daughters as he is on their deathbed when they are still very young. I actually think that at some point in the future, either the daughter that inherited the ability that would become the coordinate or someone after her simply used the ability to alter the royal bloodline specifically. They altered it so that anyone from their direct line would be able to command Ymir. That way it wouldn't matter who they had kids with, so long as they come from their specific line they have this ability.

I just noticed his buddy that shows up in these videos is not here and it sounds like he is trying to mimick him at some point lol

The only thing I keep realizing after watching your videos about the ending is that you didn't understand anything about the ending

I’d argue that we don’t know for sure that Ymir was the first titan. In fact, I might argue she might not be. Just the first titan according to mankind’s knowledge.

Ymir had one of most tragic stories I've seen in a while

Well here’s a “hot take” I think the way Ymir went about everything was a very human thing People are people so selfishness, thinking of oneself ultimately, and making the mistakes of going back to the toxicity and/or lying So I really like the way it happened cause it doesn’t have to make sense to us it was her story and to her this was necessary “But what about the other people that died” 😑 Dude. I’m not saying she’s a hero but completely human in the way she handled things You gotta appreciate that nuance

man when you break down the show this way. Its really sad.

This is such a pessimistic view of the ending that even I, an ardent pessimist, find your interpretation rather bleak. Eren did accomplish some of his goal, not the freedom he sought for himself, but freedom for those of his friends that survived, and time for his people, the Aldeans(spelling?) to adapt to modern society/technology, so that they had a chance at a future. Looking at the amount of time that passed in the extra pages of the final chapter, I'd say The Rumbling bought the Aldean's btween 60 to 100 years of growth and development, which is more than enough time for everyone Eren cared about to live, love, have children and grandchildren, and die a peaceful death due to old age. As for Eren dying a slave, shackled to a fate that was out of his control, Eren himself acknowledged that he could walk away, but doing so would damn everyone he knew and cared about to short life of hardship and misery before an abrupt death. He exchanged his freedom for the freedom of his loved ones, and a chance for them to live a life of their choosing, which was still one of his own goals to begin with. As for Ymir, yeah, I don't really have anything to say about her. She was a woman born into slavery, lacking the very concept of freedom, and fell further down the rabbit hole by developing Stockholm Syndrome for a tyrannical dictator, doing a lot of good for her people at the expense of those of other outlying tribes and nations. She needed to she that there was something beyond her twisted love and subservience to the will of her long dead slaver, so she set up a scenario in which her stand-in, Mikasa, would be forced into a situation where she had to either let go of her love and kill Eren, or let the rest of non-Aldean humanity be crushed under the foot of The Rumbling. In doing so, Ymir was able to imagine a scenario where she was able to let go of her love and subservience to the long dead king and move on, presumably to the afterlife. Was AoT's ending perfect? No, not by a long shot, but I do think it was the best ending that it could have been, and it was in line with the themes of the entire Attack on Titan story, so I'm personally quite satisfied with how things turned out.

It still doesn’t make any sense.

I needed this explanation because i was confused about Ymir and how she kept obeying the royal family and why she did all that for fritz

None of this wouldn't happen if those hunters had decent aim. Shot ymir 2 times only for her to still have the strength to wander into a tree smh.