Attack On Titan: How Old Ymir Fritz Was When She Died - Screen Rant

Ymir Fritz dies at a tragically young age in Attack on Titan - but how old is she? As the original Founding Titan and the source of Eldia's strength, no character is more important than Ymir Fritz to Attack on Titan's history books. Only in the second half of Attack on Titan season 4, however, does Ymir's truth finally come to light. An ordinary girl to begin with, Ymir's life crumbles when the Eldians invade her rural village. Deprived of her voice and forced into servitude, Ymir's trajectory changes when she's chased through a creepy forest by the Eldian kingsguard, stumbling into a mysterious tree trunk that houses the even-more-mysterious foundation of Titan power.

Capable of transforming into an unstoppable giant with claws the size of a house, Ymir Fritz is no longer made to muck out the pig pen. Instead, she invades enemies, builds civilizations, and bears King Fritz's children, soon developing a dark, twisted love for her cruel master. So, when a disgruntled spy launches his spear toward the King's chest, Ymir doesn't hesitate to shield the blow. Ymir could've called upon her Titan healing powers to survive and carry on serving the Fritz family forevermore. Instead, she ascends to the mysterious Eldian plane known as the Paths... where she survives and carries on serving the Fritz family forevermore.

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Unable to talk and possessing no family beyond her own children, Attack on Titan can't reveal much in the way of personal information about Ymir - but viewers can at least figure a rough idea of her age. When she inadvertently fuses with the weird Titan spinal cord, Ymir looks approximately the same age Eren Jaeger was when Wall Maria fell in Attack on Titan's first episode. Eren is confirmed as 10-years-old here, suggesting Ymir must be the same, give or take a year. Ymir and Eren being 10-years-old when they each inherit the Founding Titan makes thematic sense too, strengthening their bond ahead of the day Eren convinces her to finally break free. Due to the Curse of Ymir, we know Ymir Fritz died exactly 13 years after becoming the Titan progenitor, and that makes her roughly 23-years-old when she dies protecting the King.

Dying as a 23-year-old fits Ymir's chronology following her capture by the Eldians. She transforms into a Titan at 10, spends 8 years or so dominating Eldia's neighboring countries, bears King Fritz's children at 18, then dies at 23 when her own children are around the age of 5. Based on how subtly her physical design evolves through that period, Ymir is very unlikely to be older than 23 when she's speared through the chest and sent to the Paths.

Speaking of the Paths, it's strange how Ymir dies as an adult in her early twenties, but reverts back to a child for her posthumous existence. The regression likely happens because Ymir was that age when she inherited the Titan power. The Paths exist independently of time, and upon losing her physical body there's no reason for Ymir to stay an adult. The likes of Eren and Zeke might stay the right age, but since the Paths don't play by normal rules, the Jaeger brothers won't necessarily keep their adult forms as they continue hanging around Ymir's world.

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