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OUT of CHARACTER
Name: Amane
Other characters: My first!

IN CHARACTER
Name: Eren Jaegar
Alias: That 'Suicidal Maniac'.
Fandom: Attack on Titan
Canon point/AU: Chapter 53: The Stupid Believers
Journal: no_longer_caged
Age: 16 (though mentally he's probably as mature as 19 with all the crap he's been put through.)
History:
Here

Presentation:
Eren has short brown hair that is parted down the middle and teal colored eyes. He's about 5'7 in height and he's got a reasonable amount of muscle tone on his body from his time training as a soldier and with the 3D maneuver gear. He wears the tan military uniform jacket with the survey corps emblem, the wings of freedom, on the back and also on the shoulders of his sleeves. His pants are white, he had brown boots that come up to his knees and he wears a cream colored, drawstring shirt under his uniform and 3D harness. He has his brass basement key on a string around his neck. He's not incapable of being friendly, but he does tend to furrow his eyebrows which give him a serious or angry look at times.

Determined, passionate, hot-tempered and stubborn, stubborn, STUBBORN. When Eren sets his mind to something he is going to do it. As a kid, we see him arguing fiercely with his mother, Mikasa and anyone that doubts his dream of joining the survey corps. Even after seeing the scouts return beaten and bearing nothing but the arm of one of their fallen comrades he was not deterred. If anything he was more determined to join the fight to protect humanity. Eren also has a healthy dose of pride. He doesn’t understand the people around him and their contentment to live behind the walls as though there isn’t a war going on outside them. He finds it insufferable to live sheltered and penned up. He compared it to living like cattle. He can’t stand weakness in himself or complacency in others. He hated himself for being too weak to save his mother. He has a vast interest beyond his limited life behind the walls and has a scorn for anyone else that doesn’t question things beyond their limited world.

One way to get him to attack without mercy is if something or someone rubs his sense of morality the wrong way. When he was nine he killed two of the human traffickers that captured Mikasa. His view of justice, like many kids, was pretty black and white. It really hasn’t changed much as he’s gotten older; it’s all or nothing. The Titans must die because they oppress and they harm people - the traffickers had to die for the same reason. He expressed little regret over his conviction that he was right to kill them, stating that: "I killed some monsters. They had human faces is all." In Eren’s mind, this is just rational. It’s the reality of the grim world he has to live in. Not taking initiative can be fatal. If the strong won’t fight, then who will? There’s no other way to survive.

Eren is human and can experience fear and doubt. It’s just very unlikely he’ll show it even if he has to bluff to himself. While telling the other recruits about his surviving the Wall Maria incident he has a moment where the memory makes him feel sick, but he brazens it out taking a determined bite out of his food and continuing the story. Whether it’s a defense mechanism to keep himself going or to keep the people around him going, he doesn’t give his fear priority over facing what has to be faced.

Even though people tend to think Eren is crazy at first, his passion and drive are catching. His speech about why he could never accept the easy life of one of the military police(though he did graduate 5th in his class and was eligible) actually swayed two of his team members to join the survey corps instead. When the Titans attacked at Trost, it was Eren that got Jean's head straight by reminding him that they were trained to kill Titans and that despite all that both of them had been through, they were still alive. It was remembering Eren's words to her as child about the necessity of fighting in order to survive that moved Mikasa to defend her life even when the odds were against her, having run out of gas and facing down a Titan alone. Whether he realizes it or not, Eren inspires people to try harder and to be something better than they believe themselves to be. Most of his original class, the 104th training corps, followed him into the Survey Corps.


Motivations:
Considering that he’s lost everything because of the Titans - his mother and his home - his obsession with destroying them is not surprising. He doesn’t care if other people put him down for being childish or reckless or how insane it sounds. His hatred of them and his determination to not allow them to steal anything more from him was so overpowering that even at the point of being swallowed alive by one he refused to just die there;the emotions he was feeling alone was enough to trigger his first transformation into Titan form. The gleam in his eyes and his overall demeanor morph into something frightening and twisted looking when he talks about killing them. The smile on his face when he admits to Levi that he wants to join the Survey Corps to destroy every Titan is nothing short of absolutely vicious. It can be pretty disturbing for other people to see. Levi’s take on first seeing this was - yes, he’s a monster all right and it’s not because he can change into a Titan. Mikasa, upon encountering Eren in his Titan form, remarked that he seemed to embody humanity’s rage. Eren’s fury is not over just what he’s gone through at the hands of these monsters, but is big enough to carry the rest of humanity as well. He’s not just pissed off over his own personal losses. He’s angry over every person that’s been cheated out of their future because the Titans always seem to come out ahead. So great is his desire to wipe them out that he even stated that if he couldn’t master the 3D gear, he’d go beyond the walls on his own and find another way to fight them.(Run Capitol Pigs, you just became his new 'Titans'.)

Eren will continue to fight even when it seems hopeless. He cannot stand to see other people endangered or killed on his behalf. The first of this is shown in his having to actually be physically dragged away by Hannes from the death scene of his mother and when he got swallowed in the process of saving Armin, but most telling was during the forest chase with the female Titan. He berated squad Levi for not turning back to help their comrades who were being picked off and it seemed to torment him deeply that they were being destroyed in the process of slowing her down. He ultimately decides to trust his team, but once they've been slain he gives up on his retreat, transforming in a grief-fueled rage to face her on his own. (If he makes any friends in-game, it's likely he'll be very protective of them, even die for them to keep something like this from happening again.)

Setting:
Repeated, violent, events are sadly the norm in Eren's world. I don't think he can be anymore psychologically damaged by any of these events since he's used to it. His own world is pretty unforgiving. He's spent his whole life trying to escape the 'cage' that are the walls that the remnant of humanity is forced to live behind in order not to be devoured. He is not going to be in any way thrilled to find himself put in a different cage, this time by other humans who have the audacity to think that he'll willingly go along with their sick games. He will absolutely be out for the blood of any government that condones this sort of depravity and be sickened that in the absence of a common threat like the Titans, that this is how human beings would choose to behave. If he ever escapes the arena, he'll join rebel forces in a heart beat. Working on making those responsible for these games pay will become what he eats, sleeps and breathes. He is not forgiving of any sort of oppression.

SAMPLES
First Person Thread:
For Tributes:

"Please use the device to the right to record your current feeling on your loss. Once you are finished, someone will be along to take you back to the Capitol."

[Eren could feel the color draining out of his face and it wasn't from fear, but pure rage. His face contorted and he seriously considered picking up the device and smashing it against the wall.]

"Don't fucking play with me." he hissed. "How do I feel? How do I feel? You want to know what goes on inside my head every minute that you hold me here, hindering me from going home to protect what's most important to me? You wonder what I imagine while I wonder every day if the people I left behind when you dragged me here are still alive? You wonder what kind of fates I dream up for you game makers every time you toss a twelve year old into this hell you've created, you inhuman animals?"

[His face contorts.] "I think of every possible, brutal, horrific death that could be devised for you bastards! I imagine regaining all of my abilities and turning your Capitol into a smoldering crater in the ground! You think you can call something a game and it justifies the means? That I ever would just accept that? You're insane! I don't know why you continue to let me live, but I make you this promise: you'll regret it. All you've given me is another chance to kill you. I will get out of here. And you will pay for what you've done. If your own people won't hold you accountable, then they should just stand aside and watch and learn. If you had the balls to face me in person, I'd demonstrate how to deal with monsters like you."

[This time, he did give into his rage and throw the device. He threw it with such force that it cracked. What cowards, talking to him from a safe distance. No honor or guts. How dare they call themselves the upper class of this world?]

Prose:
He couldn't hear the bastards behind whatever protective barrier they were behind, but he could see their lips moving. They were probably wondering just how long the surly teen was going to stand there glaring daggers at them. He knew he couldn't break through the barrier and kill them - he had asked around. He supposed if it were that easy, then someone would have tried it before him. He contemplated just standing there until they decided that it was useless and that he was not going to show them anything or until they got freaked out enough at being stared down by someone who obviously wanted to murder them. But then he'd gotten a better idea. A sudden ominous glint came into his eyes and for the first time since he'd gotten to the Capitol he smiled.

It was not a pleasant smile.

His eyes landed on something on a table to the left. A map, with some markers. What could that be used for? To show your aptitude at tactics? Armin would excel at that. He felt a slight pang in his chest for a moment, but he pushed the thought of his best friend away. He couldn't think of that now. He couldn't show any weakness. Suddenly Eren was moving. He marched up to the table where the map was displayed. He looked over at the game makers and appeared to be silently counting them. Then he took the red markers he had chosen and placed them in the center. Then he grabbed all of the blue ones, every one, and placed them around the red. He stepped away from the table, bowed to his judges, and gave them an obscene gesture with his fingers before turning and stomping away.

Food for thought, you fuckers. he mused to himself as he took his leave.


What is your character scored:
Eren scored highest in his class for hand to hand combat training and graduated 5th in his class overall. As a cadet, he was able to keep balance using his 3-D gear, something which should have been impossible. As a soldier, he's pretty capable. Eren can regenerate limbs and has insanely quick healing time because of being a Titan-shifter.

Getting into that: he's insanely overpowered if he is allowed to keep his Titan shifting powers, so I expect that will be taken away upon his entering the games. (He could destroy Panem if he turns into one of these monsters - seriously.) Eren can trigger this transformation through self-harm and focus, sometimes a mixture of both. He usually bites his hand to bring the change on. He grows to 17 meters tall and can annihilate regular Titans. He still has all the combat knowledge he has while in human form and the only ones that can face him on equal footing in this form are other Titan shifters. Also, he later goes on to discover that he has the ability to control regular titans though at this time he has no idea how to trigger or control it.

That all being said, you want to rank him a 5, that will be incredibly ironic.
Token:
I would choose to let him keep his green scout regiment cape, since joining the scouts had been his life long ambition and it was a moment he was very proud of.

If for some reason that article of clothing isn't allowed, then a pin of the wings of freedom, which is the scout regiment insignia would be great too.