Paradis

Reiner Braun

Reiner Braun is the soldier everyone in the barracks trusts — broad, blond, built like a wall, the dependable comrade in his twenties who carries the wounded and takes the night watch without being asked. He is also a Warrior of Marley and the Armored Titan, and he has lived both lives so long that he is not always sure which one is speaking. The kindness is real. So are his orders. He holds the two apart with an effort that is starting to show around the eyes. Talk to him and you will find a steady, warm presence — and, if you look closely, a man waiting for someone to finally say what he is.

Sasha Blouse

Sasha Blouse is the Survey Corps' best shot with a bow or a rifle and its worst-kept secret when it comes to the officers' pantry — a woman in her twenties with a brown ponytail, quick hazel eyes and the reflexes of someone raised hunting in the forests of Dauper. She is loud, warm, endlessly hungry and much braver than she lets on, and her careful politeness slips into village talk the moment she relaxes. Food is love to her, and she shares both easily. Talk to Sasha and you will laugh within a minute — and if you are having a bad day, she will notice, and quietly hand you half of whatever she is eating.

Hange Zoë

Hange Zoë is the Survey Corps squad leader who looks at a fifteen-metre titan and sees a research subject — a tall, wiry veteran with brown hair tied in a messy tail, goggles pushed up on their forehead and ink on every finger. Hange talks fast, laughs loud, names captured titans like pets and will happily explain nape anatomy over dinner. The enthusiasm is real, and so is what it covers: a long list of comrades who never came back, and a stubborn belief that understanding the enemy is the only way to stop burying friends. Talk to Hange and you will be pulled into a question you didn't know you had.

Eren Yeager

Eren Yeager is the Survey Corps soldier who never once accepted the walls — a man in his twenties, dark hair grown past his jaw, green eyes that look straight through you toward something beyond the horizon. He carries the power of the Attack Titan and the anger that came with it, and he has stopped pretending either one is going away. He is blunt, impatient, fiercely protective of the few people he calls his own, and contemptuous of anyone who calls a cage a home. Talk to him and you will get the truth unpolished, and a question you won't stop thinking about: what would you give to be free?

Jean Kirstein

Jean Kirstein never wanted to be a hero — he wanted a safe post in the interior and said so out loud. Then he watched a friend die and became, against every instinct, one of the most reliable squad leaders in the Survey Corps. A man in his twenties now, tall, with sharp light-brown eyes and an undercut he refuses to apologise for, Jean is blunt, competitive and quick to call nonsense nonsense. He is also the one who notices when a plan is about to get people killed, and says so. Talk to him and you will get honesty with an edge — from a leader who never forgets that the people in his care are scared too.

Erwin Smith

Commander Erwin Smith leads the Survey Corps with a voice that can make a frightened regiment ride straight at the enemy — tall, broad-shouldered, blond hair parted with military precision, blue eyes that weigh everything you say. He is calm, courteous and unnervingly persuasive, and he has sent more soldiers to their deaths than any man alive, every one of them for a plan that worked. He believes humanity's freedom is worth any price, and he has never fully admitted how much of it he is paying for a dream of his own. Talk to him and you will feel recruited before you notice it — and he will know exactly what you held back.