Eren Yeager
Eren Yeager is a male anime and manga character who features in Attack on Titan.
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Biography
Origin
Eren Yeager (Japanese: エレン・イェーガー Hepburn: Eren Yēgā) was the son of Dr. Grisha Yeager and his wife Carla Yeager who was born March 30th, 835 in the city behind the Walls that resided on Paradis Island. As a young boy, he came to grow up in Shiganshina District that was a southernmost town at Wall Maria that was an outer wall of Paradis. He had a few friends although his best friend was Armin Arlert whom he often defended from the neighborhood bullies. Armin inspired his passion to leave the Walls and travel by showing him a hidden book about the outside world. Due to Eren and Armin's dream of seeing the outside world, the pair were frequently regarded as heretics and harassed constantly by other children. He was 9-year-old where he dreamed of joining the Survey Corps in order to explore the outside world beyond the walls. A year ago, he accompanied his father as they travelled outside of town to visit the Ackerman family. Arriving at their cabin, came to find the Ackerman's murdered with the killers looking to kidnap their daughter Mikasa Ackerman. Thinking quickly, Eren feigned distress and claimed that he was lost. As one of the robbers approached Eren, he pulled out a hidden knife and stabbed the man. As the second man went after him with an axe, Eren charged him with a makeshift spear, piercing him in the shoulder. Once he was down, Eren proceeded to stab him to death in a wild frenzy while Mikasa looked on. As Eren untied her in the aftermath, he was caught off-guard by a third robber, who proceeded to strangle him. Eren urged Mikasa, who was frozen in fear, to fight back, warning her that they would both be killed if she did nothing. As Eren began to lose consciousness, Mikasa finally lost all inhibition and lunged at their attacker, stabbing him through the heart and killing him. When Dr. Yeager eventually returned with the MPs, he took Eren aside, scolding him angrily for his reckless behavior. While Eren was genuinely sorry for upsetting his father, he expressed no remorse whatsoever for killing the robbers. When Mikasa remarked that she was cold, Eren gave her the scarf from his own neck; and when Dr. Yeager invited Mikasa to live with their family from then on, Eren accepted her with no hesitation, tugging on her sleeve and shyly insisting that they return home.
After Eren is woken from a nightmare by Mikasa, the two walk home through Shiganshina. They are harassed by Hannes, who begins teasing Eren for having apparently cried in his sleep. Eren is annoyed to see that Hannes and his friends were slacking off on the job and refused to be placated by their claims that the Titans will never breach Wall Maria. Leaving Hannes behind, the children stop again to watch the Survey Corps return from an expedition and Eren is crestfallen to see that the Corps has returned defeated. Upon returning home, Mikasa reveals to Eren's mother that he wants to join the Survey Corps. Carla forbids him from joining due to the Corps' high mortality rate and begs Grisha to talk some sense into his son. Grisha ignores her objections and instead announces that he will be leaving for a few days on a trip, promising Eren that when he gets back he will show the boy what he has hidden in the basement of their home. Enthralled, Eren joins his mother and Mikasa in waving him off. Carla reminds him that she will not allow him to join the Survey Corps, and they exchange a heated argument before he runs off. Eren and Mikasa scare off bullies harassing Armin and the three stroll through Shiganshina and settle by the riverbank. Armin deduces that Eren's parents found out he wants to join the Survey Corps before criticizing the widespread belief that it is impossible for the Titans to breach the Walls. Suddenly lightning strikes, and an earthquake breaks out. The three gather in the center of the district with other civilians, where they all gawk in horror at the sight of a Titan larger than Wall Maria. The Titan proceeded to kick a hole through Wall Maria's gate, sending massive pieces of debris throughout the town.
Eren and Mikasa hurry home as Titans begin entering the district, arriving to find their house crushed by a large rock and his mother trapped beneath the rubble. As Eren tries to help her, a Titan begins approaching the collapsed house. Hannes arrives, intending to fight off the Titan, but is overcome by fear. Rather than fight the Titan, he takes Eren and Mikasa to safety and abandons Carla. Hannes leaves Eren and Mikasa on a boat leaving the Titan-infested city. There, Eren and Mikasa witness an Armored Titan destroying the back gate of Shiganshina. As Eren realizes that he can never return home, he vows to kill every Titan in existence. Eren, along with Mikasa and Armin, are sent to a shelter for refugees from Wall Maria. Soon after, Grisha arrives and finds Eren, who tells him that his mother was eaten. After hearing this, Grisha takes Eren into a nearby forest and instructs him to go to the basement; before Eren can react, Grisha injects him with a Titan serum, turning Eren into a mindless Titan. Eren instinctively then ate his own father thus receiving his Titan powers which now included the dormant ability of the Founding Titan. After the fall of Wall Maria, Eren, Mikasa, and Armin briefly worked on a farm with other survivors of Wall Maria before reaching the proper age to en-roll in the Military two years later. During the 104th's rite of passage conducted by instructor Keith Shadis, Eren was ignored alongside others who have clearly experienced trauma in their past. Before training, Eren draws a crowd of trainees at dinnertime, describing the appearance of the Colossus and Armored Titans. He becomes sick as he remembers his mother being eaten, but when questioned he attributes it to eagerness to begin his training and kill all the Titans with the Survey Corps. Jean Kirstein interrupts Eren and mocks his decision. Eren does not admire Jean's desire to join the Military Police simply to live in the Interior Walls and the two prepare to fight each other. The bell signaling the end of dinner rings breaking the tension and the two drop their disagreement with each other.
The next day, the trainees begin practicing with vertical manoeuvring equipment. Eren utterly fails to keep himself steady and takes extra tutoring from Armin and Mikasa. He knocks himself out and at dinner, other trainees mock his performance especially after his pledge to kill all Titans. The next day, the trainees begin practicing with vertical manoeuvring equipment. Eren utterly fails to keep himself steady and takes extra tutoring from Armin and Mikasa. He knocks himself out and at dinner, other trainees mock his performance especially after his pledge to kill all Titans. Back at the dorm, Connie and Jean do not offer any suggestions and Eren visits Reiner Braun and Bertolt Hoover for help. Although they are reluctant at first, the group bonds over their similar experiences during the fall of Wall Maria. The three exchange tips and depart as friends. Instructor Shadis gives Eren one last chance to pass his manoeuvring equipment test before he will be shipped to the landfills. At first, it appears Eren can maintain his balance but Eren quickly loses control and falls over. Shadis has Eren switch equipment with Thomas Wagner and Eren finds that he is able to easily balance himself and Shadis reveals that the equipment he had been training with was defective. During hand-to-hand combat training, Eren admits to Reiner that he finds it unnecessary, claiming that it would be much wiser to run away when attacked by another human than to engage them. Reiner reprimands him for his attitude and points Eren to Annie, who is also slacking off. Egged on by Reiner, Eren tries to attack Annie with his mock knife to punish her for slacking off and is quickly disarmed by her unconventional fighting style. She makes short work of Reiner and Eren, enthralled by Annie's proficiency, asks to know who trained her. He is taken aback when she begins to lecture him on the military's flaws, pointing out that it awards its most talented trainees with positions far away from the Titans, where their skills would be most useful. Annie's words continue to bother Eren, who becomes annoyed at the idea of trainees trying to improve their skills just to stay away from the Titans. Eren confronts Jean for possessing such a mentality, which leads to a physical altercation between the two. Eren easily ends the fight by replicating Annie's moves and proceeds to lecture Jean for slacking off during his training. At one point during training, Eren takes a bad spill while using his vertical manoeuvring equipment. Frustrated, Eren asks Reiner for advice at improving and Reiner tells Eren that the only thing to do is to just keep moving forward.
In 850, Eren graduated in the top 10 of the 104th Training Corps.
Attack on Titan
When the newly graduated recruits of the 104th are assigned to clean the cannons on top of Wall Rose, the Colossal Titan appears for the first time in five years. Eren faces the Titan alone, but despite getting close enough to the Titan to nearly slice the nape of its neck, it vanishes into thin air after kicking down Trost's outer gate and dismantling the cannons atop the Wall. In response to the crisis, the new recruits are split into squads in charge of defending different parts of the city. Despite their nerves, Eren's squad enters the battle in high spirits, viewing the upcoming battle as an opportunity to prove their mettle as soldiers before they enter the Scouts. However, things immediately take a turn for the worst when Thomas Wagner is devoured. Enraged, Eren tries to kill the Titan, only to be incapacitated by a second Titan biting off his leg. Eren regains consciousness just in time to save Armin from being eaten, being swallowed himself in the process. In the stomach of the Titan, Eren comes across the dead or dying soldiers who were devoured by the Titan. As he remembers his goal to kill every last Titan alive, his anguish triggers his first transformation into his Attack Titan form. Bursting out of the Titan that devoured him, proceeds to wreak havoc on all the Titans he finds. In the process, he unknowingly saves Mikasa’s life from another Titan and was baited by Armin, Conny, and Mikasa to help fend off a procession of Titans from a storage headquarters for the compressed gas used to power their ODM gear. Eventually, Eren appears to run out of energy and begins to be overwhelmed by the Titans. The sight of the Titan that killed Thomas proves to be enough to drive Eren to throw off the Titans holding him down and kill the Titan by biting its nape off. As soon as the massacre is over, Eren falls to the ground and his human form emerges from the back of his Titan form’s neck, to the shock of all the onlookers. He is retrieved by an overwhelmed Mikasa.
When he regained consciousness, Eren found himself cornered with Armin and Mikasa by a hostile military force which has decided to execute him as a possible threat due to his powers. Due to his hazy memories of what happened during the battle Eren is unable to answer their questions satisfactorily and they fire a cannon at him and his friends. Eren instinctively grabs onto his two friends and bites his own hand, partially transforming into a Titan and blocking the cannonball with the Titan's hand. While the cannon is being reloaded, Eren reveals to Mikasa and Armin that he intends to use his power to go over the wall and try to reach his father's basement on his own. Mikasa and Armin both protest the decision and Eren tells them that he will stay behind if Armin can convince the amassed soldiers not to kill him. Armin's plea falls on deaf ears among the soldiers who have cornered them, but the trio is saved by the arrival of Commander Dot Pyxis, who intervenes on their behalf. Pyxis takes the three to the top of Wall Rose and questions Eren personally. Eren's answers satisfy Pyxis and the man calls his subordinates to help devise a plan to retake Trost with Eren's powers. A plan is made for Eren to use his Titan form to reseal Trost's gate with a boulder that is in the middle of the district. Upon his transformation to execute the plan, Eren loses control and attacks Mikasa before inadvertently rendering himself unconscious. When his body fails to regenerate, the mission is declared a failure. Armin arrives on the scene and convinces Mikasa to go help fend off the Titans while he tries to get through to Eren. Armin manages to rouse Eren slightly by stabbing into his Titan's nape and piercing his human body. Armin manages to bring Eren back by reminding him of their desire to see the world together, causing Eren to remember how he wanted to join the Scout Regiment and destroy all the Titans. Eren moved the stone and was able to use it to plug the hole in the Wall. With his strength expended, Eren emerged from his Titan and his group was attacked from behind by two Titans. They were saved by the timely arrival of Captain Levi, who has arrived ahead of the returning Scout Regiment.
After the events of Trost, Eren is placed in the custody of the Military Police and kept chained in a dungeon prison cell in the Royal Capital beneath a courtroom. While he is there, he is paid a visit by Commander Erwin Smith and Levi. Upon hearing his motive to kill Titans, Levi says he will accept him into the Survey Corps. Eren is left there for some time before being escorted by Corps members to the courtroom where he was tried, with Darius Zackly preceding over events. During his trial, the Military Police and Church of the Walls call for his dissection and execution while the Survey Corps, argues in favor of using his power to their advantage in scouting missions. After an outburst by Eren, Levi savagely beats him to prove that Eren will not pose a threat to him. It is decided his fate will be decided after a 'test' mission with the Survey Corps. Afterward, Erwin came to thank him for his cooperation. After joining the Survey Corps, Eren is assigned to Levi's Special Operations Squad and sent to an abandoned castle which had formerly served as the base of operations for the Survey Corps. While there, he was tasked with cleaning duty by Levi while also helping Squad Leader Hange Zoë with their Titan experiments. During one of the experiments with his Titan abilities, Eren was lowered into a well before being told to transform into a Titan, in case he loses control. However, Eren is unable to activate his Titan abilities. He was eventually brought back to the surface and has his wounds tended to by Levi's squad. Later, whilst bending over to pick up a dropped spoon with his injured hand, Eren accidentally triggers his Titan ability in a partial transformation, creating a Titan hand in a small explosion. Levi's squad surrounds Eren, demanding that he prove he is not a threat to them, and the situation has to be defused by Levi and Hange. After the incident, with the help of Hange's deductions, Eren learns that a Titan transformation requires him to have a clear goal in mind in addition to self-injury. Eren later met some of his classmates from the 104th Training Corps who had opted to join the Survey Corps. It was during this time that he learnt of Marco's death from Jean, who lectured him about his responsibilities to humanity.
War for Paradis
Transforming, he immediately attacked the military delegation present for the festival and brutally destroyed anyone at the scene in an effort to decapitate the Marleyan military. With Willy Tybur dead, his sister manifested her own transformation and turned into the War Hammer Titan who battled Eren's Attack Titan.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Eren Yeager was a young man of average height and muscular build. He once assumed the identity of Mr. Eren Kruger (クルーガーさん, Kurūgā-san).
It was shown that he was a hard-headed, strong-willed, passionate, and impulsive person.
He showed a lack of self-restraint that often led him into trouble causing his friends and family to worry about him. His limited self-control was evident in his temper, which often caused him to act recklessly in anger.
Eren had a determination to protect mankind and a strong determination to escape the Walls.
He later said that the only thing he wanted was his friends to be safe.
After seeing outside the Walls, he he grew to share his friend's curiosity of the world beyond and decided to see it for himself. This led Eren to develop a scornful attitude towards anyone who was content to live and die within the Walls' confines without ever setting foot outside. As a result of this, he greatly admired the soldiers of the Survey Corps, regarding them as "heroes" and wishing to join their ranks as soon as he became eligible for enrollment. He was quick to take offense when anyone spoke badly of the Corps, and his determination to join them caused friction between himself, his mother, and to a lesser extent, Mikasa.
He was noted to be quite charismatic and had a talent for delivering impassioned speeches. Eren was often unwittingly able to to persuade the mass of his listeners to sympathize with his point of view. Even Jean Kirstein, his bitter rival, had admitted this as he convinced over half a dozen recruits to consider joining the Survey Corps before the Battle of Trost.
It was shown that he suffered from some deep seated insecurities that was masked by his temper. He was often ready to blame himself and his incompetence whenever something went wrong, believing a course of action he took or failed to take was the reason for the disastrous results.
Initially, a defining feature of Eren was his desire to eradicate the Titans as he blamed them for the pain humanity experienced and also for the death of his mother. This changed after reading his father's books that revealed them to be humans where at this point he seemed to have let go of his hatred against them. In one case, he showed no signs of anger or unrest and instead calmly called the Titan an Eldian.
Over time, he matured and made remarkable progress in his analytical and tactical skills both in and outside of battle.
His father was a doctor named Grisha Yeager and his mother was Carla Yeager. According to Sadies, Eren resembled his mother though he had the sharp eyes of his father.
Unknown to him, he had an older half-brother by the name of Zeke Yeager who was born from his father's previous wife in Marley.
Powers and abilities
Eren Yeager was born as a human descendant of Eldia (エルディア Erudia?) where he was one of the Subjects of Ymir (ユミルの民 Yumiru no Tami?). This meant that he had the genetic potential to be turned into a Titan (巨人 Kyojin?, lit. "Giant(s)") that were giant humanoids. In this state, he would be a mindless being who generally consumed humans or was directed by the intelligence of some the Nine Titans (九つの巨人 Kokonotsu no Kyojin?). For Eren, he remained largely unaware of this in his life and as such retained a relatively normal childhood. This was until the Walls were breached and the Titans attacked the city forcing him to be evacuated from his home. In the aftermath, he came to join the ranks of the military (軍事 Gunji?) in order to be able to fight Titans. Upon joining the 104th squad, he trained extensively in hand-to-hand combat where he scored top marks in this class with him being second only to Mikasa and Annie.
As a Descendant of Ymir, he had the potential to be turned into a Titan and could inherit the abilities of an intelligent Titan by consuming one with the power. Eren's power was first triggered in him by his father who came to use a Titan injection (巨人の注射 Kyojin no chūsha?) to forcibly trigger his transformation. In that moment, he was turned into a mindless Titan where Grisha had his son consume him in order to inherit the power of the Nine Titans that had been stolen by Eren's father. This led to him claiming the power of the Attack Titan (進撃の巨人 Shingeki no Kyojin?, also translated as Attacking Titan) which allowed Eren's mind to be restored to him and the power to return back to his human form. At first, the trauma of the incident was blocked from his memory and he had forgotten about this event. However, he retained the ability to transform into a Titan where his form was that of 15m titan with shoulder-length black hair, pointy ears, and a huge mouth. To trigger the transformation, he typically had to bite his hand that send a bolt of yellow electricity whereupon his Titan body began to form. Within the Titan body, he was placed within the nape of the neck that was also a vulnerable spot. Other abilities afforded to him was the ability to regenerate his body so long as his head remained undamaged.
From a serum, he gained the power to harden his Titan skin similar to the Female Titan. He was able to extend the hardened material outwards after extensive practice where he could dispel it from his body to help form over walls.
Unknown to Eren at first, he also inherited another power from his father which was that of the Founding Titan (始祖の巨人 Shiso no Kyojin?, also translated as Progenitor Titan. This was the leading power held by the Reiss family that were royals that ruled the city in the island of Paradis. Initially, he could not fully use this Titan's abilities which included a Scream (叫び Sakebi?) which could create and control other Titans. It also had the power to modify the memories and body compositions of the Subjects of Ymir though he lacked control over it due to not being of pure royal Eldian blood. An aspect of this power was that of the Coordinate (座標 Zahyō?) ability allowing for control over other Titans. The power of the Founder was said to had resulted in the past and future not existing to him as he experienced it all at once.
During the raid on Liberio, he also came to steal the power of the War Hammer Titan (戦鎚の巨人 Sentsui no Kyojin?) that was one of the Nine Titans and had been held by Marley.
After joining the military, he came to enlist in the ranks of the Survey Corps (調査兵団 Chōsa Heidan?).
Notes
- Eren Yeager was created by Hajime Isayama where he featured in the setting of Attack on Titan.
- On the Anime News Network, Isayama noted that the character was created in order to make an, "an ordinary youngster who gets paralyzed with fear when his blue eyes see a titan".
In other media
Television
- In Attack on Titan, Eren Yeager appeared in the setting of the anime television series adaptation where he was voiced by Japanese actor Yūki Kaji and by English actor Bryce Papenbrook in the dub.
Films
- In Attack on Titan, Eren Yeager appeared in the setting of the 2015 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Haruma Miura.
Video games
- In Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind, Eren Yeager both in his human and Titan form appeared as a playable character in the setting of the Nintendo 3DS video game.
Other
Appearances
- Attack on Titan:
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