PLAYER.
NAME: Ivan.
CONTACT: bondrewd or eren#2832.
ARE YOU 18 OR OLDER: Yup.

CHARACTER.
NAME: Eren Yeager.
CANON: Attack on Titan.
AGE: 19.
CANON POINT: Marley Arc (before the festival begins.)

BACKGROUND: He's cool enough to have his own wikipedia page.

PERSONALITY:

The world's a cruel place. Eren exists as a product of his environment; without such extenuating circumstances, he would not be the person who he is today. Born into a world where humans were kept in line by terrifying giants just outside their gates, his most earnest desire was to see what the world freed from this menace. In other words, liberty.

Childish dreams can't get you anywhere all on their own, however. He only got as far as the young age of ten before his life as he knew it was torn from beneath him and turned into a living hell. His town lost, his family brutally killed before his eyes, and the freedom he sought falling ever further from his grasp was enough to make him swear vengeance. His tragedy was one of many countless others, and so was his anger. But would anyone else make it as far as he did in the same situation?

What defines Eren on the surface is an almost suicidal determination to keep moving forward, despite it all -- no matter how rough things get, no matter how fruitless your efforts might seem, no matter how cruel, callous, and uncaring the world may be, there's enough inherent value in fighting in the face of all that. Existential dread be damned. Victory lies at the end of this road, and you have to walk it first to even have a chance at reaching it.

It's that sort of resolve that can get him to grit his teeth and bear whatever obstacles he might face, it's what pushes him to the peak of his abilities, to the top ranks of his class, to victory. Without that sort of resolution, his side of this seemingly hopeless war wouldn't have a future -- but he paved the way with his own blood and tears.

He's the sort of guy that could bear the weight of the world on his shoulders without a complaint ever leaving the confines of his own head. From the start, he was ready to bear it all on himself without realizing what a lonely, painful life that might be. His self-denial would be the death of him if he didn't have anything holding him back.

What most see of him isn't any of this, however. What belies his outer self is one matter, his treatment of others is another. For the most part, he's courteous, respectful, and even at one point was considered eloquent. He has the capacity for making dramatic speeches, and most of the time is reconsidering things within his own head, giving way to lengthy, insightful monologues. If there was ever a more reflective person, you would have trouble finding them.

There's something to be said about being a soldier: it's bullshit. And in becoming a soldier, you're basically learning how to live with all that bullshit. There's so much bullshit that you'd need wings to fly above it. Eren's initial behavior about getting shit done at the earliest opportunity found its place within the military complex. He settled in nicely.

That in mind, there's always some sort of issues. When it came to the recruits, there were obnoxious braggarts that just couldn't help being the most outright selfish pieces of shit -- well, he didn't have it in him to hold back. He argued. He definitely had the capacity to argue. Eren's temperament wasn't the sort that could let someone get away with leaving their defeatism sit in the air. The worst part was that the fucker in question wasn't gonna have a word of it, and almost smugly remained ignorant as ever. What an asshole!

For Eren, rather than a ticket to the easy life, being a soldier was a duty. It was a responsibility to the people they owed their well-being to. Everything they ate, what they wore, and the very chance to take the fight to the enemy was all thanks to the citizenry's tax money. To avidly spit on that was an offense to not just him, but to the very foundation of what made them all soldiers.

It's that very same desire to argue against immoral behavior that sets the stepping stones for his motivations. If the world was a cruel place, he would want to see it be merciful. If there is no freedom for the people inhabiting the walls, he would want to see them able to live freely. There existed definite evil within the world, and he would dispense justice to those vermin.

This deeply set moral foundation was enough to give him the willpower to save a little girl from her kidnappers at the young age of nine. They were murderer-slavers that were going to sell her into the black market to perverts. They deserved what they got -- what Eren gave them was a taste of their own medicine. But at the same time, there's some part of him that recognized an issue there.

You see, there's a caveat to this determination and moralistic thinking of his. It necessitates the presence of an enemy. This worked well as far as those monstrous, fully-functional mindless villains went, but when it came down to fighting humans? His greatest teacher? His dearest friends? It becomes many layers more complex than that. His solution was to rationalize it all as part of his duty as a soldier.

If Eren puts the greatest value on personal freedom, then the most reprehensible act one can commit in his eyes is taking the freedom of others away. It's that he's been fortunate enough to lack the information to make a complete judgment on his enemies that he can still bear to live and fight another day. His enemies, after all, deserve it for what they've done and continue to do. He has to kill them. But at some point or another, he'll have to face the facts: you can kill humans, but you can't kill human nature.

POWERS:

-trained military. As it would imply, he's got years of practice with all the rigorous discipline and knowledge that comes with it. He's lived most of his life as a trooper. Every soldier is trained in the vertical maneuvering gear, a sort of grappling hook that flies in conjunction with pressurized gas that spews out from a mechanism contained on the lower back. In order to perform maintenance on it, soldiers are trained extensively in engineering. Notable other skills include unarmed combat, horseback riding, and strategy. He himself is particularly skilled in hand-to-hand, making top of his class with it.

-regeneration. He can regenerate everything from his balls to his brain given enough time. The caveat is if his spinal fluid is leaked, he's dead for good.

-titan shifting. Triggered via wounds, he can explosively summon and pilot (from within) a fifty-foot-tall Zyzz clone emo giant. It, too can regenerate.

-coordinate. Though it's generally used for mind control, its full power is implied to be godlike, with its influence reigning outside of time and space. Eren, for the most part, unintentionally uses it to view the memories of those he has inherited Titan shifting from to the point where it's as he himself has lived their lives in some capacity (most notably being his father and his namesake, Eren Kruger). However, it mostly stays clouded in mystery until further explanation of its power levels comes up in the series. (NOTE: None of this will apply to the vast majority of characters that will show up. It only affects a very specific niche of people that exist only in Eren's series alone. Even then Eren can hardly use it on his own for anything beyond accessing memories.)

SAMPLES.
1ST PERSON: texting with Prompto + Cheris
3RD PERSON: log with 9S + Ashitaka

MISC.
SUITABILITY: Eren's done nothing but war his whole life, he's resigned himself to the fact that his fight will span the length of his life from start to finish, he's also got this funny thing going on where the will to fight for freedom will influence him beyond space and time...you get the idea. He's a soldier through and through, COST fits him like a glove.
ITEM: His maneuvering gear.
CHARACTER @ID SUGGESTIONS: @kruger.
HOW DID YOUR CHARACTER JOIN COST? I'd say he lost his memory of the event.