Shingeki no Kyojin Hangout Thread

[Duffman]

What i'd like to know is what is the connection with the sun.

[Fayte]

Because people want to know the origin and/or purpose of Titans.
Hanji based her titan knowledge on two very primitive titans.
Is Ymir a born titan or was she an experiment?

Plus, of 3 incidents that occurred so far involving Ymir.

Ilse's notebook:
Ilse is running around in the plain fields documenting her experience with titans. She encounters one and it starts speaking to her. That titan says "Ymir's people," "Ymir-sama" and "Great" and it bows in front of her. So maybe this titan knew Ymir or it is from a civilization called Ymir (?) If you notice, Ilse looks like Ymir. Then the titan tries to speak again, it can't, it gets frustrated to the point of inflicting self harm and then kills Ilse.

Ymir's background story:
She has to beg for money. Why? How? is she alone? is she homeless? did she escape from her hometown? (that's kinda implied but left to interpretation).
She cares about her name and her heritage very much. But we don't know at all what her heritage might be. She has conflicting feelings; she is proud of her name and where she comes from but at the same time she is rejecting some part of her past that she doesn't like at all.
Why was she called Ymir? Is her name the name of a certain titan-human civilization?

She distracts Connie from thinking about that titan that looks like his mom. It's as if she wants humans to know as little as possible about titans.

The canned food she found in the castle:
She can read the label. Why can't Reiner? Why is there canned food with another language in the castle? Did humans bring it there? Who's castle is it?

I don't know...So many questions.... it's fascinating and somewhat fun to figure out the puzzle

Thanks for laying this out for me. Makes more sense now.