This turned out to be a lie, and she eventually chooses to return with Reiner and Bertolt to their homeland, so they wouldn't leave empty-handed. However, sometime later she reveals a kinder side, especially towards Christa.īy her own admission, Ymir's greatest fear was actually dying. She very often criticized people for being untrue to themselves, as when she berated Sasha Braus, who developed an extremely polite and formal way of speaking to hide her native accent. Ymir was initially a selfish, cynical, exploitative, confrontational, argumentative, and uncooperative girl. Ymir's interest in Historia led her to enlist in the Cadets to search for her. This girl would later reveal herself to be Historia Reiss. It was during this time that she overheard conversation between members of the Church of the Walls, and learned that a girl with a false name was forced to join the Cadet Corps. She survived begging and stealing food or money. She then began a new life within the Sheena wall.
After she opened her eyes, she finally felt free of being a mindless titan for several years. When she ate Marcel, she transformed back into human, obtaining his Titan shifter powers. Ymir and her people were injected with the titan serum by the Marleyan soldiers, and transformed into mindless titans to be banished to Paradis.Ħ0 years later, still as a mindless titan, she encountered the young Warriors Reiner, Bertolt, Annie, and Marcel. The girl and her worshippers were taken as prisoners by the Marleyan military. She was hated by the people in the city that throwed rocks on her. However, she still tried to keep her role and tried to save the people who did worship her, but she was not successful. Several years later, the people of Marley started calling her demon and even the man who had given her name claimed that he had been deceived by her. She felt so happy to give them happiness and kept her role as "Ymir". Because of her name, many adults start to kneel and worship her. He gave her the name "Ymir", a bed, food and a fancy dress. Many years ago, a orphan little girl was found by a unknown man in the streets of a Marleyan city. She is voiced by Saki Fujita in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Elizabeth Maxwell in the English version of the anime.Īt the streets of a Marleyan city, a man of the cult finds a homeless little girl and names her "Ymir" After escaping, her sixty years of imprisonment as a Titan, she made her way to the Walls where she joined the 104th Cadet Corps. Ymir was actually a fraud, as she had no royal blood and she was only a homeless Eldian little girl taken from the streets by a scammer. Ymir was named after Ymir Fritz by a scammer to present her as a member of the Fritz family to an Eldian cult. She inherited the power of the Jaw Titan from Marcel Galliard.
She is usually seen with Historia Reiss (formerly known by her fake name Christa Lenz) who is her love interest. She serves as a supporting character in the Battle of Trost District - The Female Titan arcs/Season 1, a main character in the Clash of the Titans arc/Season 2 and a posthmous character onwards.
Ymir is a mysterious character of the anime/manga series Attack on Titan. ~ Ymir to Historia before revealing her Titan powers.