Eren Yeager



Eren Jaeger (エレン・イェーガー) is the main protagonist of the series. He was from a town of the outer most wall, Maria. His closest friends Mikasa and Armin have both joined the Scouting Legion with him after having their town annihilated by the titans. He holds a personal vendetta against all titans and his goal is to annihilate them form the earth.

Year 844
When Eren was a child, he saved Mikasa from being killed when visiting her home with his father. Three men - killers of her parents - were in her house. Killing two of them, he was caught off guard by the third who proceeded to strangle him. With superhuman strength, Mikasa jumps forward at the man after realizing that it is a "kill or be killed" life they are living. As Eren's father finds them surprisingly safe and unharmed, Eren gives Mikasa the sentimental scarf she always wears, and declared her a part of his family.

Year 845
With the invasion of Wall Maria after the Colossal Titan makes a path, Eren discovers the horrors of the life he is living that sets the motion for his future. Seeing the destruction of his town, mindless titans slaughtering humans, and his own mother being eaten alive as he was helpless to save her, Eren remarks that the life humans live is controlled entirely at the mercy of the titans and are nothing more than cattle. Being dragged away by a local Stationary Troop, Hanneth, Eren swears to kill every single titan in existence with tears of frustration and hatred.

Year 845 to current
After the fall of Wall Maria, Eren, Misaka, Armin briefly stayed in the “landfill” working on a farm before reaching the proper age to enlist in the military. Here they spent around four years in training, Eren placing 5th in his class rank upon graduation.

Year 850
Upon graduation, before Eren is able to formally apply for a position in the Scouting Legion, the Colossal Titan appeared the same as it did the day of the fall of wall Maria. Eren attempts to destroy it, but it vanishes in a puff of smoke after having broken the gate open.

In response to the crisis, the new recruits are scrambled and split into specific teams in charge of spreading to and defending different parts of the city. Eren is grouped with Armin. Upon seeing his comrade(s) killed, Eren leaps into battle after a Titan, only to have his leg bitten off below the knee, incapacitating him. The rest of his group attacks and dies as a result. Just as Armin is about to get eaten, Eren manages to pull his friend out of the bearded Titan's mouth, effectively switching places with him. Eren is swallowed, his left arm being severed as the titan shut its mouth.

It is later revealed that in the stomach of the bearded Titan Eren’s desperation and drive to exterminate all Titans triggered his first transformation into a Titan, bursting form the bearded Titan and proceeding to wreak havoc on all the Titans he could get his hands on. In the process he unawaredly saves the mourning Misaka’s life and is baited by a team of his classmates to help fend off a percussion of Titans from a storage headquarters for the compressed gas used to power their 3D movement gear.

As the Titans seem to overwhelm him and Misaka’s group is about to intervene, a certain Titan that killed one of Eren’s team members appears and Eren’s rage powers him to throw off the percussion and destroy the Titan. As soon as the massacre is over, Eren falls to the ground and his human form emerges from the back of his Titain form’s neck (with both lost limbs back) to the shock of all the onlookers. He is retrieved by an overwhelmed Misaka.

Upon his awakening, Eren seems to only have a faint dream-like memory of his time as a Titan and finds himself cornered by the military with only Misaka and Armin as his support. The military intends to kill Eren, thinking him an enemy. A cannon is fired at the three of them and Eren grabs onto his two friends and bites his own hand, wounding himself and partially transforming into a Titan, blocking the cannon ball before emerging form the skeleton. Eren allows Armin to try and talk them out of their tight spot with limited success until Commander Pixis intervenes.

A plan is made for Eren to use his Titan form to moves a huge bolder they had planned to use to stopper the gate if such and attack as this occurred, but were unable to move. Eren is assigned to a team including Misaka to defend him while he carries the boulder. Upon his transformation to execute the plan, though, he attacks Misaka, who tries to communicate with him to snap out of it, unsuccessfully. Eren ends up wounding himself and his body fails to regenerate, the mission is declared a failure. Despite this, the leader of the group, with some non-verbal convincing by Misaka, decides they must stay and guard Eren.

Relationships
Mikasa – Adoptive sister

Armin – One of Eren's closest friends