This page is full of spoilers. But while one spoiler is not avoidable without blacking out her actual regains, I tried to at least blacken out story elements so if you have been spoilered already about that big one, go ahead.
First: Enhanced speed. She doesn't really know about that though, just thinks other people are oddly slow, and will have a rough awakening should she ever gain her titan form back because that will take the speed away from her human form.
Blaine's first echo happened about a year after she had arrived in Locke city. At that time she was working as a courier for a ring of drug dealers. It was usually fairly easy money, and during her first months in the city she had gotten herself in some dependencies due to debts acquired before she had gotten the hang of how the streets worked. So she needed the amounts of money that it got her. Children were good couriers, because the police would be less likely to suspect them... right until they caught one by chance. The same day, they started a large-scale raid, targeting specifically children that looked vaguely like they were in the trade.
They also stopped Blaine. With a few pouches on her, she knew that there was no way that they would just let her go should they actually search her. Not only would that get her into trouble with those paying her to get them from A to B, the police would also check her background and either send her home or put her in an orphanage. And that seriously was the last thing that she wanted.
So she rammed her elbow into the officer who was holding her, slipped out of the loosening grip and ran for it, shoving the pouches into her mouth as she rounded a corner - she knew that they could technically be swallowed, even if it was dangerous, and was ready to do that should they catch up. But unless they really got her, she would do a damn and actually swallow them, because that was just needlessly dangerous.
The running away from people with something in her mouth that she was determined to not swallow despite of the fact that that would have made running easier triggered an echo: Enhanced speed, which her titan form possessed in her earlier life and which she used to run away from the scouting legion in the forest of giant trees while having Historia in her mouth.
Second: Her hands are now durable enough to claw centimetres deep into materials as hard as stone. This sadly doesn't come with the strength to do that yet.
This thread, specifically the bit about titans fighting on the side of the good ones, resonated with using her titan form to fight for the "human side" during the battle of Utgard.
Third: Minor healing, shortening down healing rates by the ratio of twenty-four to one, but otherwise not going past normal healing levels. Steam rises from the wounds while they heal, no blood is visible.
This thread, specifically telling the a loud, shorter and much younger person "Hold it" and for a moment adding physical means to stop them effectively, resonated with this moment in the chapter 46
Fourth: The memory of a blond girl of twelve years in simple civilian clothing, looking a lot like![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
betroth, and the fact that the girl's name is Historia
When carding Chloe, Blaine also asked her name. This was the second time that the blond introduced herself to Blaine/Ymir with a name that was not "Historia", and called upon a knowledge she had in her past life when meeting "Christa" for the first time: That her real name was Historia. Not a part of this memory are: The knowledge that Historia was hiding her real name in her past life and used a different one; the knowledge that the girl in her memory is Chloe's reincarnation. For all Blaine knows, they could just as well just look similar.
Fifth: Superior healing. She will now be able to heal basically any wound, broken bone or other injury within less than an hour, without it leaving much in way of scarring or pain. With training, she will be able to trigger and hold off or halt the process consciously, but that should take a good while. For now, it will set in upon the injury happening and stop when the healing process is done.
Event echo
Sixth (2; December): The physical changes needed to deal with 3DMG. The ability to utilize 3DMG. Does not include the actual gear, nor does it give her the mental capabilities to deal with it - most prominently, she is still deadly afraid of heights.
Angela dying in this thread and Blaine using her death to advance resonated with the tail end of the battle in the Trost district. There are differences, like that Ymir actively kills a human for that purpose here, but the similarity is striking enough.
Seventh: The complete memory of this conversation, excluding anything outside of the bubble of herself and Bertholdt. Aka yes to content, view of Bertholdt and emotions, but no to scenery, what they sat on or the fact that there should be two more people in the memory.
Telling Angela that she does not even remember killing her vs telling Bertholdt that she does not even remember whom she ate. Comes with the memory of her own, Bertholdt's and Eren's name.
Eight: This plus the two pages before it sans Christa's intervention. Her group finding a traumatized Armin in Trost, interpreting the situation Ymir-style and fighting with Connie.
Verbally applying the term "cadaver" to Anthony where he can hear it - in this case telling him that he will make a beautiful one if he stays this naive.
Nine: One of the military cafeteria glass/cup-type things.
Due to being in Locke over the Christmas holidays.
Ten: The memory of Bertholdt carrying her through the forest of giant trees, but without audio and without Reiner and Eren - though she can logically conclude that there must have been at least a third person. Included are, most importantly:
Bertholdt managing to carry a second person with their 3DMG, her threatening Bertholdt under risk of her own life, the knowledge that "Historia" is coming for her, being surrounded by giant trees, and that something about all of this caused her strong, conflicting feelings and brought her close to tears.
Due to a moving snake statue encounter.
Eleven (2; January): Her 3DMG & her trainee uniform.
Due to a Blood Keys encounter.
Twelve: More or less connected memories of what she saw from start to end while moving towards the supply house in Trost using her gear: Titans eating people and being slewn; the houses, streets and the walls in the distance; those trainees that were somewhat with her, and that they wore the uniform with the crossed swords. From the angle of the memory, it would be obvious that she was moving with the help of the gear as well.
Using her 3DMG for the first time.
Thirteen: Her tastebuds reset to her canon ones, aka everything ever will taste overly spicy/sweet/salty/etc to her for a while to come.
Julien lost his ability to taste spices, which makes him horribly overdose on them. Ymir used to live in a society where spices were very rare and expensive, but she also lived as a thief in the capital for a while and I'm sure she got her hands on some luxury food there at one point which would have contained whatever spices were available in the capital city. The spiceplosion of Julien's cooking echoed with the perceived spiceplosion of holyshitthisisnottotallybland of that stolen food.
Fourteen: An extension of her eight echo: The memory that her relationship with Connie was always like that, and his name.
Butting heads with Killian, specifically these words.
Fifteen: Her titan healing is now complete, aka she can now regrow things.
Chloe leaning over her while she lies on the ground, steaming from the healing process resembled the scene at Castle Utgard, where she regrew limbs that way
Sixteen: The visual memory of jumping down towards the armored titan, who had Bertholdt and Eren in the papoose on it's back, while carrying something that moved in her mouth.
Encountering the term armored titan for the first time.
Seventeen: The complete memory of talking to Reiner in Castle Utgard. Doesn't come with the actual ability to read/write the language on the can. (Note about the linked translation).
Hearing "Reiner" for the first time.
Eighteen (2; February): Her titan body up to her neck, but not above the neckline of an average T-shirt. Only the physical looks and internal consequences, notably neither the strength of it nor the ability to live without food. Secondly, she'll start to grow back to her titan height, at the rate of a centimetre per day, speeding up to 2 centimetres per day after the first month. Whenever she regains the ability to shift, her human body will be back to her normal height, but the titan body will keep growing at that rate until it has reached it's original height of roughly 7 metres.
Seeing half-titan Ryan for the first time.
Nineteen: Her titan teeth.
Seeing Julien's changed "teeth" and discussing that they replaced his normal ones.
Twenty: The knowledge that the world inside the walls was going to end, and that the only way to survive was located outside of them.
Talking about the end of the world with Fuuma and discussing what actions one should take about that.
Twenty-One (2; Event): The ability to partly emerge from the neck of her titan. Her titan strength.
Proximity to Wise Snake (Event Echo, Season 1 Finale)
Twenty-two: The ability to shift
Being outnumbered by the enemy while fighting in titan form, and coming out of it alive.
Twenty-three: The knowledge of how to kill a titan.
Someone asking "how do I kill [this being much larger than I with a hard to penetrate skin]" (in this case Miriam asking about the snakes), which would echo with the explanations to that end that they got during the theoretical lessons of soldier training.
Twenty-four: The ability to use the blades of the 3dmg/the ability to use the side of the 3dmg that pertains to combat and killing.
Being in the air above the being above with help of her 3dmg.
Twenty-four (2; August): The memory of losing a fight to titans (at castle Utgard, but the context is lacking) and re-emerging from her titan, up until she's held by Historia.
And the injuries that she retains during this battle. They'll show in real time, too
Plot echo (head cultist sign)
Twenty-five: Her full titan appearance. She already has most of it, but there's little bits lacking still - this echo basically brings her titan to canonical dimensions and looks.
Plot echo (First teleporter usage)
Twenty-six: Losing her mind aka becoming a dumb titan that's only out to nom humans and lacks intelligence past that of a deviant titan (aka one who is hard to predict). The second half of the echo is the ability to sense humans and that she is attracted to them in a "wanna eat" way.
Plot echo (2; First wolpertinger encounter)
First: Enhanced speed. She doesn't really know about that though, just thinks other people are oddly slow, and will have a rough awakening should she ever gain her titan form back because that will take the speed away from her human form.
Blaine's first echo happened about a year after she had arrived in Locke city. At that time she was working as a courier for a ring of drug dealers. It was usually fairly easy money, and during her first months in the city she had gotten herself in some dependencies due to debts acquired before she had gotten the hang of how the streets worked. So she needed the amounts of money that it got her. Children were good couriers, because the police would be less likely to suspect them... right until they caught one by chance. The same day, they started a large-scale raid, targeting specifically children that looked vaguely like they were in the trade.
They also stopped Blaine. With a few pouches on her, she knew that there was no way that they would just let her go should they actually search her. Not only would that get her into trouble with those paying her to get them from A to B, the police would also check her background and either send her home or put her in an orphanage. And that seriously was the last thing that she wanted.
So she rammed her elbow into the officer who was holding her, slipped out of the loosening grip and ran for it, shoving the pouches into her mouth as she rounded a corner - she knew that they could technically be swallowed, even if it was dangerous, and was ready to do that should they catch up. But unless they really got her, she would do a damn and actually swallow them, because that was just needlessly dangerous.
The running away from people with something in her mouth that she was determined to not swallow despite of the fact that that would have made running easier triggered an echo: Enhanced speed, which her titan form possessed in her earlier life and which she used to run away from the scouting legion in the forest of giant trees while having Historia in her mouth.
Second: Her hands are now durable enough to claw centimetres deep into materials as hard as stone. This sadly doesn't come with the strength to do that yet.
This thread, specifically the bit about titans fighting on the side of the good ones, resonated with using her titan form to fight for the "human side" during the battle of Utgard.
Third: Minor healing, shortening down healing rates by the ratio of twenty-four to one, but otherwise not going past normal healing levels. Steam rises from the wounds while they heal, no blood is visible.
This thread, specifically telling the a loud, shorter and much younger person "Hold it" and for a moment adding physical means to stop them effectively, resonated with this moment in the chapter 46
Fourth: The memory of a blond girl of twelve years in simple civilian clothing, looking a lot like
betroth, and the fact that the girl's name is HistoriaWhen carding Chloe, Blaine also asked her name. This was the second time that the blond introduced herself to Blaine/Ymir with a name that was not "Historia", and called upon a knowledge she had in her past life when meeting "Christa" for the first time: That her real name was Historia. Not a part of this memory are: The knowledge that Historia was hiding her real name in her past life and used a different one; the knowledge that the girl in her memory is Chloe's reincarnation. For all Blaine knows, they could just as well just look similar.
Fifth: Superior healing. She will now be able to heal basically any wound, broken bone or other injury within less than an hour, without it leaving much in way of scarring or pain. With training, she will be able to trigger and hold off or halt the process consciously, but that should take a good while. For now, it will set in upon the injury happening and stop when the healing process is done.
Event echo
Sixth (2; December): The physical changes needed to deal with 3DMG. The ability to utilize 3DMG. Does not include the actual gear, nor does it give her the mental capabilities to deal with it - most prominently, she is still deadly afraid of heights.
Angela dying in this thread and Blaine using her death to advance resonated with the tail end of the battle in the Trost district. There are differences, like that Ymir actively kills a human for that purpose here, but the similarity is striking enough.
Seventh: The complete memory of this conversation, excluding anything outside of the bubble of herself and Bertholdt. Aka yes to content, view of Bertholdt and emotions, but no to scenery, what they sat on or the fact that there should be two more people in the memory.
Telling Angela that she does not even remember killing her vs telling Bertholdt that she does not even remember whom she ate. Comes with the memory of her own, Bertholdt's and Eren's name.
Eight: This plus the two pages before it sans Christa's intervention. Her group finding a traumatized Armin in Trost, interpreting the situation Ymir-style and fighting with Connie.
Verbally applying the term "cadaver" to Anthony where he can hear it - in this case telling him that he will make a beautiful one if he stays this naive.
Nine: One of the military cafeteria glass/cup-type things.
Due to being in Locke over the Christmas holidays.
Ten: The memory of Bertholdt carrying her through the forest of giant trees, but without audio and without Reiner and Eren - though she can logically conclude that there must have been at least a third person. Included are, most importantly:
Bertholdt managing to carry a second person with their 3DMG, her threatening Bertholdt under risk of her own life, the knowledge that "Historia" is coming for her, being surrounded by giant trees, and that something about all of this caused her strong, conflicting feelings and brought her close to tears.
Due to a moving snake statue encounter.
Eleven (2; January): Her 3DMG & her trainee uniform.
Due to a Blood Keys encounter.
Twelve: More or less connected memories of what she saw from start to end while moving towards the supply house in Trost using her gear: Titans eating people and being slewn; the houses, streets and the walls in the distance; those trainees that were somewhat with her, and that they wore the uniform with the crossed swords. From the angle of the memory, it would be obvious that she was moving with the help of the gear as well.
Using her 3DMG for the first time.
Thirteen: Her tastebuds reset to her canon ones, aka everything ever will taste overly spicy/sweet/salty/etc to her for a while to come.
Julien lost his ability to taste spices, which makes him horribly overdose on them. Ymir used to live in a society where spices were very rare and expensive, but she also lived as a thief in the capital for a while and I'm sure she got her hands on some luxury food there at one point which would have contained whatever spices were available in the capital city. The spiceplosion of Julien's cooking echoed with the perceived spiceplosion of holyshitthisisnottotallybland of that stolen food.
Fourteen: An extension of her eight echo: The memory that her relationship with Connie was always like that, and his name.
Butting heads with Killian, specifically these words.
Fifteen: Her titan healing is now complete, aka she can now regrow things.
Chloe leaning over her while she lies on the ground, steaming from the healing process resembled the scene at Castle Utgard, where she regrew limbs that way
Sixteen: The visual memory of jumping down towards the armored titan, who had Bertholdt and Eren in the papoose on it's back, while carrying something that moved in her mouth.
Encountering the term armored titan for the first time.
Seventeen: The complete memory of talking to Reiner in Castle Utgard. Doesn't come with the actual ability to read/write the language on the can. (Note about the linked translation).
Hearing "Reiner" for the first time.
Eighteen (2; February): Her titan body up to her neck, but not above the neckline of an average T-shirt. Only the physical looks and internal consequences, notably neither the strength of it nor the ability to live without food. Secondly, she'll start to grow back to her titan height, at the rate of a centimetre per day, speeding up to 2 centimetres per day after the first month. Whenever she regains the ability to shift, her human body will be back to her normal height, but the titan body will keep growing at that rate until it has reached it's original height of roughly 7 metres.
Seeing half-titan Ryan for the first time.
Nineteen: Her titan teeth.
Seeing Julien's changed "teeth" and discussing that they replaced his normal ones.
Twenty: The knowledge that the world inside the walls was going to end, and that the only way to survive was located outside of them.
Talking about the end of the world with Fuuma and discussing what actions one should take about that.
Twenty-One (2; Event): The ability to partly emerge from the neck of her titan. Her titan strength.
Proximity to Wise Snake (Event Echo, Season 1 Finale)
Twenty-two: The ability to shift
Being outnumbered by the enemy while fighting in titan form, and coming out of it alive.
Twenty-three: The knowledge of how to kill a titan.
Someone asking "how do I kill [this being much larger than I with a hard to penetrate skin]" (in this case Miriam asking about the snakes), which would echo with the explanations to that end that they got during the theoretical lessons of soldier training.
Twenty-four: The ability to use the blades of the 3dmg/the ability to use the side of the 3dmg that pertains to combat and killing.
Being in the air above the being above with help of her 3dmg.
Twenty-four (2; August): The memory of losing a fight to titans (at castle Utgard, but the context is lacking) and re-emerging from her titan, up until she's held by Historia.
And the injuries that she retains during this battle. They'll show in real time, too
Plot echo (head cultist sign)
Twenty-five: Her full titan appearance. She already has most of it, but there's little bits lacking still - this echo basically brings her titan to canonical dimensions and looks.
Plot echo (First teleporter usage)
Twenty-six: Losing her mind aka becoming a dumb titan that's only out to nom humans and lacks intelligence past that of a deviant titan (aka one who is hard to predict). The second half of the echo is the ability to sense humans and that she is attracted to them in a "wanna eat" way.
Plot echo (2; First wolpertinger encounter)
