Why was Eren’s Father secretly a Titan?
So what’s up guys, Foxen here, the latest Attack on Titan episode has everyone questioning
Eren’s Father, Grisha.
According to Rod Reiss, Dr. Yeager suddenly appeared one day, kicked the crap out of Frieda
and then pancaked his whole family.
Sometime after this wipe out, young Eren turned into a Titan and munched on his poor father,
thereby getting Grisha’s Titan abilities.
However, what is the truth of Grisha, why the hell did all this stuff happen?
So let’s get an in-depth look at Grisha Yeager, this will include all the juicy details
so fair spoiler warning!
So what exactly motivated Grisha?
Why was Grisha a secret Titan?
Did he have to pancake the Reiss family?
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First off, about what Rod Reiss mentioned that took place.
There’s been some speculation about whether this is actually true.
Was Rod just twisting reality?
I’ll just say that the anime has not gotten into their conversation yet, which I will
get to later int his video.
However, surprisingly Rod was not lying, not this time.
Conveniently though, he did leave out the dialogue.
Before getting into the juicy details of that conversation, lets start at the beginning.
At least for the Attack on Titan anime.
Back in Attack on Titan Season One, Episode One we met Grisha briefly at their home.
Grisha noticed how interested young Yeager was in the outside world.
This is where Grisha brought up his basement.
Looks like it was time to show Eren his kinky stash hidden away in the basement.
Except, he would do it when he got back.
Two seasons later…as you know now.. that never actually happened.
Good old Grisha here mentioned that he was on his way for the interior for a couple days….hmm…that’s
right.
Grisha was going within Wall Sina, in other words, he was going to be very very close
to where the Ross family was located at.
Next step, take a look at Attack on Titan Season 1 Episode 2.
You get to see Grisha rushing back while crying, desperately wishing that Carla, Eren, and
Mikasa would be safe.
Notice that at this point the events of the recent episode already had happened.
Grisha had already stolen the Reiss Titan and wiped out the rest of them.
Except for Rod, he’s like a cockroach.
Continuing with Epsidoe 2..
Eren had this weird dream of him and his father Grisha.
Suddenly after waking up he had his father’s basement key.
That dream was super weird, except of course, it wasn’t a dream at all.
It actually happened, what happened was that Grisha found Eren in one of the refugee camps.
Grabbed him and took him to the nearby forest to make him a man, I mean, a Titan!
In episode 2, you could actually see Grisha with the Syringe, young Eren had no idea what
the hell was going on.
To Eren, he thought his father was going crazy.
Right here you hear Grisha pleading to Eren to go and locate the basement.
Eren then suddenly wakes up with he basement key.
In this latest Attack on Titan Season 3 episode, you saw what happened.
Young Eren got turned into a Titan by Grisha then Eren ate his Poppa.
So let’s go ahead and pause right here.
There’s been several questions about this event.
Why did Grisha steal the Reiss family Titan.
Why did Grisha not try to run away from Eren’s Titan?
There’s a whole lot more baggage and history with the Reiss family.
So to answer this, you need a lot more background.
As for why Grisha didn’t run away… this was actually on purpose.
Grisha wanted Eren to eat him, that was the whole point of turning Eren into a Titan,
just so Eren could inherit his Titan powers.
If you recall, if a Titan eats a Titan Shifter, which is a human with Titan powers, he will
gain those powers and revert back.
Which is what happened with Eren, you might be thinking a high level question.
Why the hell did all of this happen?
It’s kind of funny because this video suddenly becomes, what exactly is in Grisha’s basement
with that question.
I actually do want to do a video on The Basement so I’m going to give you a high level view
of it.
Feel free to ask questions!
Time to go back in time before Episode 1 of the Attack on Titan anime.
You’re looking deeper into Grisha, a young Grisha was born into the Yeager Family.
Grisha is actually part of this group of people called the Eldians, the Eldian people are
supposedly the only race of people that could become Titans.
Eldians in the current world exist in tow main groups, the first group is one you are
already familiar with, which is people within the walls.
Eldians here are completely oblivious of the outside world.
They have no idea there are humans outside of the walls and that they are on this island.
Technologically speaking these people inside the walls are a couple hundred years or so
behind.
The rest of the world actually seems to live in what seems to be an era in the 1900s.
From here you get into the second group of Eldians.
Eldians outside of the walls are actually persecuted and live inside internment camps
within this Nation called Marley.
These Eldians are seen as this devil race by the rest of the world.
Let me go ahead and mention that there have been several accounts of history up to this
point.
So why the world got into this state is questionable, and not 100% clear.
A good chunk of what has been told to us, the reader, actually comes from Marley propaganda
talking about how bad the Eldians, USED TO BE, anyway, as to where Grisha fits into all
of this.
One day, Grisha’s sister got brutally killed by the Marley government.
This only helped to fuel his hate against Marley ..Hm….
remind you of anyone?
Eventually, As Grisha grew up, he became involved with this secret Eldian Rebel group within
Marley, their goal was to take back what they saw as theirs and to make the Eldian empire
great again!
Within this group, Grisha eventually met Dina, who as of the Royal Blood family.
Dina was actually a part of the royal family branch that got left over on the mainland
as the king ran away with his people over to Paradise Island.
The rest of the Eldians that stayed behind were persecuted.
Hence, they felt deeply betrayed by their King.
This right here is actually part of the reason why Grisha wasn’t a huge fan of the Reiss
family a decade later.
So, Grisha and Dina eventually got married and had a kid.
This gave birth to Zeke Yeager.
Later on, Grisha heard about this Titan Warrior program within Marley.
This involved Marley enlisting young Eldian kids to take on Titan Powers.
Eventually, this would be used to launch an attack on Paradise Island.
In other words, what Reiner, Annie, and Bertolt Titans.
However, just as Grisha was going to get killed.
Eren Kruger appeared, He went ahead and wrecked the marley soldiers that were stationed on
the island.
Eren at the time was secretly the holder of the attack titan.
You may know him as the rogue titan.
Which is basically the titan that Eren has been using since season 1.
Kruger was an Eldian himself that had secretly infiltrated the Marley government.
Ultimately part of his mission was to retrieve the Founding Titan.
Which was the Titan held by the Reiss family within the walls.
Unfortunately, Kruger’s time was running out.
Which is why he left his mission to Grisha Yeager.
So right here let’s pause a little bit.
Here’s a little of a side note about why Eren Kruger didn’t carry out the mission
himself.
For titans there’s something called the Curse of Ymir.
The important part about this, is that anyone that inherits the Titan powers will die after
13 years.
This is what I meant about Krugers time running out.
Anyway so Grisha agreed to take on Kruger’s Attack Titan and his mission although , it
was really like Grisha had many options.
Grisha then made his way inside of the walls and lived as a doctor for a while.
Eventually Grisha met Carla, then had his second son, Eren Yeager.
You may be wondering a couple of things now, if Grisha had a time limit, why the hell did
he wait so long?
It seems like Grisha waited for the very last moment for himself before confronting the
Reiss family.
Let me mention that a lot of Grisha’s life post-getting inside of the walls is still
a mystery.
For sure he had to find out the hard way that the king was only a proxy… naturally he
would have to spend a good chunk of time locating the true royal family But I’m sure you’re
thinking it too, did digging into this info really take 13 years?
So yes, even now there is still a lot of speculation over this.
Anyway, now you are back to the first episode of Attack on Titan.
You heard about how Grisha was going to go into wall Sina to do some checkups.
Or so he claimed.
Let me say that I actually do think this is the case.
Since I kinda doubt Grisha was going into wall Sina to confront the Reiss family.
However, in episode 1 you saw the Colossal Titan and the warriors launch their attack
on the walls.
After hearing about this, I’m sure Grisha knew all about what was taking place.
So whatever time he had for himself just got moved up.
This was when Grisha rushed over to the Reiss family and confronted them.
You saw part of this in the Season 3 anime, however there was no dialogue!
Let me fill in some of the gaps, when doctor Yeager found the Reiss family in their crystal
cave hideout, Grisha revealed himself to be an Eldian himself who came from outside of
the walls.
Grisha desperately pleading asking Reiss and Freida to wipe out all Titans, however, due
to the King’s Will which is connected to the Founding Titan within Freida, nothing
was done.
This right here might have pushed the desperate Grisha over the edge.
He was either going to convince them by force or just take the damn thing for himself.
Keep in mind that Grisha already didn’t have positive feelings for the Reiss family.
Which may have been part of why he killed off the rest of them.
He could have also been Grisha in some type of rogue mood, you know as you’ve seen something
similar from Eren’s Titan.
Anyway, eventually Grisha found young Eren, took him to the woods, made his ass into a
Titan, and sacrificed himself for Eren to get his Titan abilities.
At this point notice that Grisha had two Titans within him.
The Attack Titan, also known as that Rogue Titan you are familiar with, and the Founding
Titan that he stole from the Reiss family.
Also note that before Grisha got munched on he gave Eren the mission to go to the basement
along with the basement key.
Right here there’s a couple things you might be wondering.
Why didn’t Grisha just do it himself?
Lazy Bastard!
Or why the hell did Grisha not give Eren more of an explanation, or at least some notes
before logging off this cruel world?
Also, why did Eren not remember any of this?
For the first question, this has to do with the Curse of Ymir I mentioned earlier.
Its likely that Grisha was at the end of his time.
Although there are some questionable parts about this hwole thing if Grisha was really
on his final year.
Couldn’t he maybe have waited another day?
You know try some stuff down in person?
Or how about just one more hour?
Grisha also didn’t look like he had rapidly aged like other past holders on their final
year.
Something here seems fishy.
If you’re curious I actually have touched on this on a video discussing the Curse of
Ymir and its validity that you could check out!
As for the second part, why did Eren not recall any of this?
So here’s the reason, the details of this Titan stuff is still somewhat vague and not
completely clear.
However, they have mentioned that this Titanization process does damage one’s memories…Hmm..very
convenient.
So back to the questions of the video: Why was Grisha secretly a Titan, and why did Grisha
kill off the Reiss family.
It turns out that Grisha always had this resentment toward the family on Paradise Island, over
a decade ago Grisha was actually given this Titan and secret mission from Eren Kruger.
After locating the Reiss family, Grisha actually pleaded to them.
However they still wouldn’t act.
This is why Grisha had to get forceful, perhaps Grisha killed them off due to his anger, or
him losing control of his Titan.
Which would have been similar to what happened to Eren’s Titan.
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I’ve Actually seen a lot of hate coming out for what Grisha did, or the complete opposite
claiming that Rod is a big ass liar.
So what do you think, was Grisha justified?
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