Talking Titan

In life she is a young woman with cropped blonde hair and bright eyes. Her Titan form runs to roughly 6 meters, topped by a head far too large for its frame, with teeth permanently bared and blond hair echoing her human self. At times it moves on all fours.

Alone among the ordinary Titans observed for most of the story, this one produces speech carrying real meaning, addressing Ilse Langnar directly. It also displays a range of emotion utterly foreign to its kind: reverence in its formal bow, anguish as it claws at its own face, and something that may be fear. Only one other Pure Titan, Ms. Springer, is ever heard speaking meaningful words, and none other shows so broad an emotional register.

In Marley the woman belongs to a sect devoted to Ymir Fritz, venerating a girl named Ymir whom the group's leader brought in as its idol. The Public Security Authorities eventually uncover the cult, march its members through the streets alongside Ymir herself, and ship them to the edge of Paradis Island, where all of them are transformed into Pure Titans.

On the Survey Corps' 34th expedition outside the Walls, the Titan corners a fleeing Ilse Langnar against a tree. Instead of devouring her it simply stares, then stuns her by speaking, calling her a subject of Ymir and greeting her as Lady Ymir with a bow. Ilse's questions about its origins and purpose visibly distress the creature; it groans and begins tearing the skin from its own face. When she panics and runs, the Titan seizes her and crushes her head between its jaws, weeping as she dies. It is destroyed at some unrecorded point before Paradis is declared free of Titans.