Holy shit, I knew Ymir was a cuck but she's not even a character. The Eldian king is just pure evil that doesn't even manipulate her or anything, not a character either. Such a fucking lazy origin story. It's so easily fixable, too: The king was a weak, fragile child who was looked down on his entire life. He ended up murdering his siblings and took over the Eldian tribe vowing to do the same to the entire continent. Later on he unintentionally save Ymir during battle and spares her, not because he cares but because he doesn't care for her fate. For him she's lower than animal, blood not worthy of coating his sword. She flees from the battle into the tree, gets her powers. He then manipulates her into believing she owes him everything and that he's merely helping her fulfill her destiny as a warrior, an attack titan meant to battle on his behalf to conquer the world. In reality, she's still just a slave being manipulated, and on her deathbed she realizes it when she sees the...