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THE CHARACTER

Character Name: Eren Yeager.
Series: Attack on Titan / Shingeki no Kyojin.
Canon Point: Marley Arc, Chapter 99.
Character Age: 19.
Background:
** MAJOR SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT.
(wikipedia link.)

Personality:

The hardest worker. Eren's often described by Isayama, the author, as "a slave to the story." What this is generally taken to mean is that, no matter how hard he tries to fight against the inevitable tragedy that the story sets up, he can't go against what the author wants for him. That's just the way it is, there's no helping it. And Eren absolutely despises that.

When you think "shonen protagonist", the first thing that'll generally come to your mind is a youthful, wide-eyed optimist that's always smiling. And while these things are present in Eren to some extent, he exists almost to spite those tropes. He's youthful only because he's still a teenager, but he's carrying more trauma and weight on his shoulders than most people twice his age and acts oftentimes like a cranky old man, with all that grumpiness in tow. He's wide-eyed, but with a killer glare and sharp eyes that make you think twice about breaking the ice with him. And if he's smiling, something awfully wrong is about to happen.

Though there are a few traits mixed in there that hold true to those tropes. He's always made out to be the one who does his utmost in just about anything. His determination to flat out get shit done is a key point to his character. The takeaway from that is that even if he finds something useless, it would be even more useless to waste your time on it. There's no half-assing anything with him.

He is good to the people around him, but it's done in a manner that's more befitting of classroom students than that of heartfelt companions for life. There are his two close friends, but he's always leaving them behind because he has things that need doing, and he doesn't want them around to see. He admires the hell out of the top-class soldiers of the scouts, but is brutally shown firsthand that they're not all they're played out to be. He's very rarely intimate and shows his deepest worries only in mortal turmoil. They otherwise never escape the confines of his own head.

And then there's his sense of justice. Where most protagonists face moral crisis and become half-baked when it comes to taking measures of violences any more extreme than energy blasts and punches, Eren was shanking the bad guys at the age of nine. Oh, his morality certainly exists -- it's just that he's so very well aware of what needs to be done to save lives that he, as previously mentioned, is willing to go above and beyond in order to be moral.

Though that isn't to say he doesn't experience moral crisis. It's just that up until a certain point in his life, he had never had to consider otherwise. It comes after not only one, but two major betrayals in his life, and thereafter many bloody battles, but he later on reflects that violence might not be the answer to everything. It might not even win them their freedom. It's his fallback, his method of saving lives. It's also terribly painful for both sides of the fight. For someone who had, his whole life, fought for freedom, it's a sign of development to not only be conflicted, but to question whether or not it's the right thing.

Eren, first and foremost, is a fighter. He's got to stand against something, otherwise he becomes so aimless that he might as well be dead. A normal, ordinary life wasn't something he ever considered a possibility. He's a rebel, right down the metalhead hairstyle. There's something about struggling that, to him, has an intrinsic value. Believing that the only path to victory is one you fought for, he wants to make meaningless deaths meaningful by continuing their legacy. As long as he moves forward, there is no chance in hell that the people before him died pointlessly. Because he's there to carry on.

And though that must come off as dramatic...that's just who he is. He's fairly dramatic all on his own, with a certain level of flair and eloquency that's noted even as a young kid. Despite being a touch antisocial in his youth, he still managed to dream big and talk bigger, and was fortunate enough to be blessed with a vigor that wins people over. As an adult, this is only furthered by his own experiences in life and he becomes even more articulate, sometimes even slipping in half-truths and double meanings into his words.

Though previously described as a rebel, it's well worth noting that he's not especially against structure. He most definitely understands its necessity in any civilized society. He's not gonna complain about a system that fed him most of his life, though he will openly criticize what's obviously corrupt. More importantly, he's such a capable worker that he ranked fifth in a company of two-hundred recruits all desperately trying to get into the top ten just so they could get a ticket to the easy life in the MPs. Eren, meanwhile, got into there because he was simply that good.

Making it to the top of the class wasn't something he was aiming for particularly, it's just that to him, self-improvement is fully necessary to succeed in life. The sort of guy who could break his back working, and still get right back to it once he was out of the hospital. He did, in fact, nearly work himself to death at one point.

In the day to day life he very rarely indulges in, that workaholic attitude extends to other people as well. He's generally stern, firm, and in some areas even rigid. If people aren't playing to their strengths or are giving up from the outset, he's more than just bothered, he's often openly irritated and doesn't hesitate to use some harsh words every now and then. He's sworn like a sailor since he was a little kid. Of course, he's not all brutish vocabulary, as he's more than simply sarcastic and generally rather snarky. He's got a lot of wit, and uses it rather casually.

He gets into quite a few arguments over the course of the series, some ranging from simple slights to debates over the fate of mankind, the worth of their lives, and the true value of freedom in the face of an overwhelming enemy. He's more than just reflective, with his musings often being insightful and a window to the themes of the story that he's set in. What ruins him and empties him of all passion to fight is the truth of the world outside the walls -- ironically, the very same truth he had desired to know since he was a child.

As an adult, the conflict that had been tearing him apart seems to have settled. That hot-headedness of his is almost entirely absent, and though he remains a character within the series, the point of view has switched him from the role of protagonist to, quite possibly, the antagonist. And it's really rather easy to see why. He's always been an easy one to dislike, and even within the story itself he's readily made into public enemy number one for the whole world to see. He's easy to demonize. The same way he was ready to demonize his own enemies without knowing the whole truth.

And yet there's a level of understanding, present like always, that's given to the last remaining target for Eren's justice. He acknowledges that the motivations were good, a sort of luxury that the man himself was never afforded. By anyone. Eren was the victim of a terrible tragedy, he and everyone else within the walls. It's an act so heinous that the perpetrator had the wrong end of a rifle in his mouth just a few chapters ago. To extend the understanding that what he's done was originally connected to good intentions speaks volumes of Eren's growth and comprehension of the situation they're both stuck in.

Where those aforementioned enemies previously had complete control due to Eren himself being in the dark for the most part, with Eren in their place, he's able to set up a situation where he has completely turned the tables on his opponents and can bluff without hesitation. Threats and manipulation aren't exactly beyond his facade. He's done his homework. With his sworn enemy in front of him, he's able to keep absolutely calm and judge him the way he's been wanting to. They've both been waiting for this moment since that fateful day. The perpetrator is there to face his crimes, and Eren's there to deal the sentence as both the judge and the executioner.

Powers/Abilities:

trained military. — As it would imply, he's trained military with all the rigorous discipline and knowledge that comes with it. 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 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 spine is lethally damaged, 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. He also can harden the body and create detailed structures with it.
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.

Power Nerfs (if applicable): I personally have no intention of utilizing the coordinate in its full capacity until it's revealed in canon what that really even implies. Which probably won't be for a long time. I'd like to just keep it as a memory viewer so that I can mess around with Eren's disassociation here and there. His vertical maneuvering gear is already kinda nerfed by the need to buy gas with AC, so...I'll leave the rest to mod discretion?

Inventory:

-a really really really dirty military uniform + at least two pounds of dirt scattered over his body.
-a crutch.
-his vertical maneuvering gear + swords. (This would be his special request for weapon.)

Incentives: is "freedom" too vague a request
I suppose the Natha would know about the curse that's gonna kill at the ripe age of 23, so maybe he'd want to be cured of it if it's ever brought up. Knowing him, he doesn't really care as long as his people are freed, which they already are by virtue of being in stasis, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He'll be working to pay them back for their favor. They did save his world, after all, which is more than can be said for anyone that ever lived on it.

SAMPLES

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