Rico Brzenska (Junior High Manga)

Rico Brzenska (リコ・ブレツェンスカ) is a second year student at Attack Junior High School.

Appearance
Rico has short hair, large eyes, and wears glasses. She usually wears a jacket or a T-shirt with sweatpants.

Personality
Rico is a second year student who is also the leader of the Wall Beautification Club. She takes great pride in her cleaning and is very strict with the students in the club.

Story
After becoming members of the Survey Club, Eren Yeager, Mikasa, and Armin are on their way to class when Sasha shows them a bulletin board with a sheet that has them assigned to the Wall Beautification Club. Everyone is shocked by this and wonders what the club is. When they arrive, Eren, Sasha, and Connie begin to complain. Rico tells Eren and his classmates to quiet down after hearing all of the commotion. When she asks everyone about actually wanting to join the Wall Beautification Club, Eren asks her if she is from the club and she says yes. Eren answers Rico's question by saying that he and his classmates were forced to join by their teacher and tells her that they have other things that need to be done and asks her to pretend that she never saw their applications. When Rico hears this, she refuses and says that even though they were forced to join, they should take pride in their cleaning and that beautifying is an art. She then has Eren and his classmates wash all the windows in the human school.

After two hours of cleaning, Rico comes to check on Eren's group's cleaning and sees that the windows are spotless. Since everyone did well with cleaning, Rico decides to show them how to clean the walls using a vertical maneuvering gear, a technique that is only shown to second year students. When Rico asks Eren and his classmates if they can do the task, no one answers. Rico begins to think that Eren's group is too greenhorn when everyone is amazed with the vertical maneuvering gear that she uses. With a sigh of relief, Rico decides to train Eren's group the next day.

The next day, everyone begins training and does well except for Eren. Rico wonders why Eren is the only one who is unable to learn the vertical maneuvering gear. When Mikasa suggests that the gear is broken, Rico gets upset and says that their club ancestors sacrificed their precious pocket money to build the gears. When it turns out that Eren's gear is indeed broken, Rico is dumbstruck. When Eren learns how to use the gear the next day, Rico tells Eren's group that she thinks she can trust them with cleaning the walls after seeing how clean the windows were. The next day, everyone cleans and uses their vertical maneuvering so well that it excites Rico about not having to hire janitors. After everyone hears this, they stop enjoying themselves and Rico wonders why everyone is upset.

As the school year goes on, everyone reports to the Wall Beautification Club and does the club activities except for Jean. One day after school, Eren says that he brought Jean with him. When Rico sees Jean, she glares at him and asks him what he has been doing skipping so many days. Jean tries to come up with an excuse. When Rico mentions that Jean has been skipping right after he entered, a boy named Ian interrupts her and tells her when first years skip not to criticize them too much because it is not fair. Ian also tells Rico to conserve her energy for the fair and folk dance ahead, as well as remind her that she is his partner for the dance. Rico agrees to let Jean off the hook after hearing Ian's words. After seeing Rico's interaction with Ian, Jean makes fun of her by saying that he did not know bony guys are her type and that he thought she had a one track mind, only thinking of the club. Upon hearing his comments, Rico gets embarrassed and makes Jean and his classmates wash every window in the school.

Relationships

 * Ian - Ian is Rico's partner in the school folk dance. Rico and Ian appear to have feelings for each other.