Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
I've chopped an immeasurable amount of firewood with an axe, and I can tell you that there's a very good reason why an axe remained a weapon as well until firearms started to replace everything else, apart from ceremonial use. If you need to get through something tough and resilient, and stabbing isn't an option, I'd take an axe any day. There's also a reason beheading executions were performed with an axe, unless something like a guillotine was used.
This is a completely ridiculous statement, because you assume that an axe is just an axe.

There's a huge difference between a woodsman's axe, a battle axe, and an executioner's axe. They have different weights, different balances, and even different edge types. Yes, any one of them COULD be used for the other in a pinch, but it's not ideal.

Point is, humans have been designing weapons specifically to kill titans for seemingly centuries, and for whatever reason, they've determined that overgrown box cutters, and not axes, are the best way to do it.

Quote Originally Posted by neflight86 View Post
As far as these two bring "natural" Titans, in their flashback with Ymir, neither were likely able to transform to save their friend, so the likelihood of there being some artificial titan-ification is strong for them, too.
That, or they simply weren't aware of what they were yet. Since transformation requires a very specific set of circumstances.