Whatever happened to Annie? Did Annie die in that crystal? What's up guys Foxen here! Today
let's talk about whatever happened to miss Sleeping Beauty. If you recall at
the end of season one after losing to the combination of Eren and Mikasa
Annie encased herself in a crystal prison. After all the trouble that the Survey
Corps went through they failed to capture the female Titan.
For us this happened back in 2013. Years later you're in 2017 and there's still
been no mention of Annie. Well not unless you count the current flashback.
To complicate things even further and there's also been a time skip, so
whatever happened to Annie? Could she be dead? The recently released attack on
Titan guidebook could give hints into this so let's delve into it! The last
time you saw Annie she was in the hands of Survey Corps and they were keeping her
underground. As far as you know Annie should still be inside of that crystal.
There are some people that do think that Annie could have died off-screen. One day
a new female Titan will suddenly appear, except there won't be Annie. While I do
think that Paradise Island badly needs a help I don't see Mr. Isayama
killing another character off-screen. It already happened with Ymir and some
people were not happy about that anyway. Alright so about Annie's crystal just
being sealed up in there for a short amount of time seems strange but could
you imagine being inside of that thing for months or years? Annie definitely
did this in the final ditch effort move. After being crystallized there's really
only two main options for her. Annie was either betting on Reiner and Bert to
come rescue her or Annie had the ability for the crystal prison to break on its
own after X amount of time. The question here is how much time? They've already
been on this mission for five years. Their Titan AIDS also doesn't exactly
give them the luxury of waiting things out.
Also don't forget any had the extra goal of returning back home to her father, so
I doubt that she wants to completely lock herself up and potentially leave
herself to die. Here's what I'm predicting about this. Annie did set it
up in a way to get out of the crystal if she wasn't rescued after a certain time.
The time limit was one to two years. if the other warriors couldn't come at that
point they weren't going to. As for Annie even still being alive inside of that
crystal this is another potential strange part about all of this. Inside of
that thing Annie has no oxygen, no food, nothing inside.
How could she possibly be alive months years or even a day later? You know that
the Titan shifter powers do give them some enhancements while in human form
including the healing factor, so could Annie's healing factor be coming into
play here just so she doesn't die while being inside of that thing?
Another possibility could be that the crystal is one of her Titan abilities. The
Annie inside of that thing is still in a somewhat Titan form. This way Annie
could be in a state similar to the Colossal Titans inside of the walls. Right
now Annie as a Titan is currently dormant but not dead. Anyway I also did bring up
the attack on Titan guidebook, this does include a passage about the female Titan
that could give hints to this. They said is that the crystal is one of the powers
of the female Titan holds. This might suggest that that last moment self
crystallization is unique to her. Of course this ability being different than
the crystal hardening part. And perhaps I'm looking way too much into this.
One of the recent chapters did mention that this hardening ability was given to
Annie later on. You also saw that Eren was they would harden it but that was
only after getting that can of hardening steroids. To be fair you still
had to wait to see how it actually looks in the anime in season 3 but I got a
feeling that Eren's ability won't have that crystal look that Annie's Titan had.
Perhaps the power of the female Titan allows her to make this harder crystal
harder in comparison to Reiner's armor since he's fully covered and Annie only
had an it in certain spot anyway, for a limited time too. If have your own ideas
or theories about this crystal ability definitely let me know down below!
Another important thing to bring up is has Annie aged at all while being inside
of that crystal? There has been this idea floating around that Annie inside of
that crystal may prevent or stall the curse of Ymir. Even putting that aside
has Annie herself aged at all during the four-year time skip? Annie was 16 years
old at the time that she encased herself. Either the crystal has literally frozen
her so Annie would still be 16 years old or Annie has continued to age inside
of that thing so she's a woman now 20 years old! Of course if she was frozen but got
out after two years then Annie would be like 18. Whichever one of these actually
comes true it'll be interesting to see how it plays out in the story. Here's a
possible hint about Annie's age from the attack on
guidebook. The book notably explicitly marks the person has died.
Annie's profile does not have this. It does include her height and weight but
they are exactly the same as hers before she was crystallized. The reason
this is important is because the book does provide us with Reiner's updated
weight and height so either Annie has not aged at all and remain exactly the
same or they don't want to share Annie's update info right now. Finally
perhaps the most important part about all of this,
suppose that Annie does get out in one, two, or four years later, what happens
then? At the time that Annie sealed herself she was one of the warriors responsible
for the death of a quarter million people, Marco, a whole lot of surrey corps
members and the Levi squad. There's really only two main options for Annie. Annie
could either turn against Marley and fight for Paradise Island or she
declined and someone like the horse becomes the new Female Titan. Either of
these scenarios leads to other interesting questions. I do think there's
a chance that Annie would turn against Marley. The latest chapter explicitly
shows her disgust for them but would the Survey Corps even be willing to let
someone responsible for so many deaths join up with them? There's always the
chance that Annie could be lying to protect herself and just be waiting it
out until she gets a chance to escape. Even if she doesn't run away Annie
could always backstab them in the middle of an important battle. This just seems
like way too big of a risk if they allow Annie to live. This leads us into scenario
two. Suppose that Hange and the others conclude that Annie would be too much of
a liability you can bet that Annie would then be interrogated for valuable info,
then someone like Connie, Hanje, the potato girl or even Levi could take her
powers. I mean if Annie is not going to be using your powers to help them why
make them go to waste? Anyway here's what I see having the
higher chance of happening. Annie is going to break out of the crystal after two
years. The survey corps informs Annie of what happened. They tell her that they
know about Marley, the rest of the world, and how they're supposedly the children
of Devils. Annie has also told about the two years
that passed by. Armin himself tells her about Bert's death and how he's a new god
of destruction. After hearing about this and thinking it over Annie decides on her
own to tell them some information about Marley. The information
helps the Survey Corps but at this point is pretty outdated information
from like eight years ago. They also don't fully trust her so they're going
to assume that Annie's still hiding something more valuable. For the time
being they continue to keep any underground. After months passed by
perhaps a year later Annie on their own comes out and tells her that she'll
fight on their side. She's going to be on the Eldian side against Marley. Whether
Annie actually means it or has some hidden motives it's still a mystery,
but hey that's just an attack on Titan theory! Now let me hear from you! After
this whole discussion what do you think happened to Annie? Did Annie die inside of
that crystal? Are you going to suddenly see Sasha as a new female Titan? Or will
Annie betray Marley and fight against Reiner?
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