Eren x Ymir Fritz

Eren x Ymir Fritz is the friendship between Eren Jaeger and Ymir Fritz from the Attack on Titan fandom.

Canon
The first time Eren and Ymir Fritz meet is in the Paths realm. During the assault on Shiganshina, Eren and his half brother Zeke are able to make contact with each other and activate the Founder before awakening in the Paths. As Ymir approaches them, Eren notices her presence. Zeke explains that she is in fact the Founder herself. He then asks Eren to go ahead with his plan. Eren refuses and demands that Ymir lend him her strength, but his pleas are ignored. Zeke subsequently reveals he has nullified the vow to renounce war through Ymir, who obeys only the royal family, her descendants. She promptly restrains Eren with her chains.

Eren manages to break free from his chains and reach Ymir before Zeke. Then, he embraces her and begs that she give him her power so that he can "end this world." He assures her that he is not going to force her hand, recognizing that she is neither a slave nor a god, but a human being with free will. Eren presents her with two options: to wander the Paths forever, or help him with his plans. As Zeke desperately tries to stop them, Eren asks Ymir if she was the one who called him to the Coordinate, musing that she has been waiting 2000 years for him to arrive. Ymir begins crying.

Back in Shiganshina, Eren's head reconnects with his body. And as everyone looks on in horror, Eren activates the Rumbling with the help of Ymir. As Eren converses with his friends in the Paths, Ymir emerges next to Eren in the Coordinate, symbolizing their cooperation. As the Warrior unit along with members of Survey Corps engage numerous Titans on top the Founding Titan in an attempt to reach Eren at Fort Salta, Ymir appears and is briefly seen by Armin Arlert who speculates she is the one summoning the previous incarnations of the Nine Titans.

After Mikasa Ackerman swoops into the mouth of Eren's Titan, Ymir is shown to be standing in the mouth, smiling as she watches Mikasa kiss Eren farewell after killing him. Immediately afterwards, Ymir relinquishes the Power of the Titans from the world. Watching Mikasa kill the one she loves was enough to release Ymir from the love she had for Fritz who only wanted to exploit her power.

Attack on School Castes
Eren is bored, fed up and desensitized of his life, which he considers "boring". That's when he meets two little children who seem to be a part of a religious group that bothered him in the street while on his way back home, to ask him if he knows about their one and only god, Ymir. Since Eren is the only one who can see Ymir, the children, stunned, decide to kidnap him to bring him to their religious group gathering.

Eren is saved right on time by his friends, but as chaos ensues, Eren is increasingly more and more distressed thinking all that chaos was his fault. At that exact moment, Ymir appears in front of him and hands him something. Eren suddenly yells that the one and only god, Ymir, bestowed her message upon him, which will save humanity. Said message turns out to be to let people be free from suffering and to build the pure land of happiness throughout the world.

Fanon
Ymir and Eren's friendship is a very popular one within the Attack on Titan fandom that rooted for them both throughout the whole duration of the War for Paradis arc. One of the most memorable moments of the two was when Eren ran behind her and hugged her making her cry, telling her she's only a normal girl that deserved her freedom like everyone else. Another moment was when she smiled at the time Mikasa kissed Eren at the end and finally eliminated the Power of the Titans from the world, telling that she supported them and finally got her freedom.

Many fans saw the way this small, scared little girl who, after so long, was finally free from her shackles, got to chose her own destiny, and were really inspired and emotional over it. In most fanarts they are depicted as father and daughter, although Ymir seems to be older than Eren, but because of her child-like figure in the Paths, the pair is often drawn like this. On AO3, there are currently over 40 works written about the ship.

Fandom
FAN FICTION