Mikasa Ackerman
Mikasa Ackerman is a female anime and manga character who features in Attack on Titan.
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Biography
Origin
Mikasa Ackerman (Japanese: ミカサ・アッカーマン, Hepburn: Mikasa Akkāman) was a female human born to an Asian woman with her father being a member of the Ackerman clan that lived on Paradis Island at the City. Her family resided in the farmlands of Wall Maria where she helped her parents from a young age. During these years, she went through a painful scarring ritual from her mother who cut her skin to form the mark of their family. Her and her mother's heritage made them high value targets to robbers. When she was only 9 years old, a group of traffickers killed her parents and attempted to kidnap her for the purpose of selling her in the human-trading market of the Capital's Underground. Frightened and shocked, Mikasa was rescued by Eren Yeager who was the son of her family's doctor. He tricked and killed two of the kidnappers, but he was overwhelmed by the third trafficker and on the verge of being strangled. Eren desperately urged Mikasa to fight to win, who came to realize that the world can be callous and merciless before dispatching the robber from behind thus awakening the fighting instincts and perfect self-control that runs in the Ackerman clan. Grisha Yeager later arrived with members of the Military Police Brigade where in this time Mikasa was given the scarf by Eren and accepted into his family where she began living with them behind Wall Maria. In those years, she was always by Eren's side where she came to be a friend with Armin Arlert.
In year 845, she was inside Wall Maria and was seen waking Eren up, telling him that they need to return to home. She was surprised to see tears in his eyes and asks why he was crying. On their way home, they meet Hannes. Mikasa watches as Eren complains about the soldiers slacking off while on duty. Later, both Eren and Mikasa watch the return of the Survey Corps forces, witnessing yet another failure of their expedition. After returning home, Mikasa tells on Eren, revealing to his parents his desire to join the Survey Corps. Annoyed, Eren leaves, with Mikasa following him. They save Armin, who is being beaten by local bullies and together discuss their desire to go outside the Walls. At that moment, the three kids witness the sudden appearance of an extremely tall Titan peering over the top of Wall Maria. The three are stunned to see one that large, only coming back to their senses when the Titan breaches the Wall's gate. Mikasa and Eren run back to their home to find it crushed and Carla trapped under the debris. In spite of their attempts, Mikasa and Eren are unable to free her, Hannes rescues them as a Titan devoured Eren's mother. Mikasa and Eren are placed on a ship just as the Armored Titan breaks through the inner gate, letting the Titans inside Wall Maria. She witnesses Eren's vow to kill all the Titans as they are transported to safety.
After the events of the Wall Maria's destruction, the government's desperate attempt to reclaim the lands using the refugees leads to nothing but more casualties. This prompts Mikasa, Eren, and Armin to enroll with the army and become members of the 104th Training Corps. During their training, Mikasa helps Eren as much as she can as he initially fails to grasp the basics of the vertical maneuvering equipment. They manage to pass the qualifying tests, Mikasa quickly proving her skills and is praised as one of the best trainees in military history. At one point, Mikasa asks Annie Leonhart, a fellow trainee with exceptional skill, to teach her a self-defense technique that she was teaching Eren, which eventually calls for a bet with the 104th Training Corps to see who is the stronger fighter. At the 104th Training Corps' graduation, she is ranked first in the class.
Attack on Titan
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Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Mikasa Ackerman was a female human with a partial Asian heritage who had pale skin, gray eyes and shaggy black hair that was originally long. Years later, she was fairly tall and physically fit where she was a well-toned woman with muscles lining throughout her arms, legs and abdomen.
Originally, Mikasa was a cheerful, outgoing, and gentle child. Her innocence allowed her to push anxious thoughts to the back of her mind, continuing to live with her parents and loved ones happily.
After the death of her family, she came to be more emotionally withdrawn and noticeably dangerous, sometimes intimidating her enemies or even her comrades. She was shown to be quite stoic and level headed with her rarely seen to lose her cool or be at a loss of what to do, no matter how bleak the situation.
From an early age, Mikasa was unusually perceptive, aware of the harshness of nature by witnessing the manner in which predators hunt and kill weaker prey. She noted that the world was so cruel yet so beautiful at the same time.
Mikasa had said that so long as Eren was there that she felt she could do anything.
She also came to care deeply for her friends and caretakers, seeing them as the last remnants of a family she cannot afford to lose.
Powers and abilities
As an Ackerman, she possessed within her dormant power that awakened when her parents were murdered and she was going to be kidnapped until Eren saved her. This helped in the development of her fighting instincts and allowed her to show perfect self-control of her body far above the average human. Her heritage meant that she had the ability to retain her memories and not have her mind manipulated by the power of the Founding Titan. This stemmed from the ability of her bloodline that could access the Power of the Titans to a limited extent without transforming. With it, she was able to connect to every single Ackerman before her via the paths and gain their battle experience.
Urged by a need to protect Eren, Mikasa came to hone herself to be a talented fighter at a very young age. She often threw boys bigger than her with ease and scared them enough to run away upon seeing her despite their superior numbers.
During her training, it was noted that she performed exemplary in every subject and that she was a genius. She came to be quite skilled in the use of vertical maneuvering equipment and also was able to use blades to easily strike and slash Titans with speed and efficiency. This has led to her being mentioned as a military genius many times and said to be as valuable as a hundred average soldiers.
By adulthood, she came to join the military (軍事 Gunji?) where she was initially part of the Training Corps (訓練兵団 Kunren Heidan?) and part of the 104th Trainees Squad. She would later enlist in the Survey Corps (調査兵団 Chōsa Heidan?) that consisted of soldiers tasked with exploring past the Walls. She later came to be handpicked to join the Special Operations Squad (特別作戦班 Tokubetsu Sakusen-han?) by Captain Levi Ackerman.
Notes
- Mikasa Ackerman was created by Hajime Isayama where she featured in the setting of Attack on Titan.
In other media
Television
Films
- In Attack on Titan, Mikasa Ackerman appeared in the setting of the live-action film adaptation where she was portrayed by Japanese actress Kiko Mizuhara.
Video games
Other
Appearances
- Attack on Titan:
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