Uri Reiss

"Rod, please pray."

- Uri to his brother, Rod Reiss, before inheriting the Coordinate

Uri Reiss (ウーリ・レイス) was the younger brother of Rod Reiss and uncle of Historia Reiss and the late Frieda Reiss. He was the true king of mankind for some time, before he gave his powers and his position to Frieda Reiss.

Appearance
He was a frail older man, usually wearing a simple light colored robe. He had neck length, thin, light hair. He also had light, weary eyes; with a calm, wise beyond his years type of expression. After inheriting the Coordinate, Uri's eyes would change between their normal light color to a color dark vacant, which meant he was bound by the will of the First King.

Personality
Despite his upbringing and his responsibilities, he was a humble man. He refused to hold a grudge against Kenny, despite the latter's rudeness and repeated attempts to attack him; believing that because of the Reiss family, the Ackerman's hate was justified. He even went so far as to bow down to Kenny and formally apologize.

He was a very calm man. He did not show any signal of pain when Kenny hurt him with a knife and he did not hesitate when Kenny aimed him with a pistol.

Even though he couldn't rid the world of Titans as he originally wanted, he truly cared about everyone. He wanted to make a paradise for the remaining members of humanity, believing not far in the future that their world would fall.

Story
He inherited Titan powers and memories of the world from his and Rod's father by eating him in the succession ritual of the Reiss family. They are the world's true, but covert royalty. Frieda later ate him in turn and inherited his powers and memories, which she later lost to Grisha Yeager during Grisha's attack on the Reiss family. Uri also inherited the ideology of the very first Reiss King, who built the Walls 100 years ago and wiped out the memories of most of humanity. As Rod attempts to pressure Historia into injecting herself with the Titan serum, he says that initially, he and Uri pleaded with their father to free humanity from the Titans. Their father refused to do so or to explain why he would not. However, after Uri consumed him, Rod could tell by his eyes that he had inherited that same ideology. Before Uri had volunteered to take on that burden, Rod claims, Uri had entrusted him "with a mission of my own in exchange": to pray. Rod states that, having become the sole creator and ultimate governing force of this world, "an all-knowing, all-powerful being", Uri had become God with the fate of humanity in his hands. As Historia still struggles with the decision to inject herself, he tells her that his mission is to summon God back into this world and devote his prayers to it. Historia, prompted by memories of Ymir telling her to live for herself, violently resists her father, throws him to the floor, and calls him a liar.Kenny Ackerman, who has been serving Rod for years, remains loyal to Uri even though Uri is long dead. When Rod says to Kenny that he never understood why his brother would have taken "a dog like you" off the streets, Kenny threatens to kill him if he ever speaks ill of Uri again, not seeming to care about the insult to himself. They met some time after Uri had inherited the Coordinate. Kenny had discovered that Uri was the true king and tried to kill him. However, he was stopped by Uri, who caught him on his Titan form. Kenny did not give up after this, even throwing Uri his knife and pointing his gun to him. However even after this, and the fact that Rod was there, saying that Kenny had to die, Uri spared his life. He said that as an Ackerman, he deserved to point his knife at him. After this, Uri, hurt by the knife, bowed before Kenny and apologized because of the persecution of his family and his frustrated attempt to create a paradise within the Walls. This heavily surprised Kenny, who though how a powerful being like him could bow before someone like himself. From that point on, Kenny was not only his bodyguard, but also a close friend. In return for his help, he wanted the attack on the Ackerman bloodline to cease; to which Uri agreed. The two spent much time together talking, with Uri going so far as to tell him that his power will soon be inherited by Frieda Reiss.

Some time after this, Uri was chained hand and foot underneath the Reiss Chapel as his successor, Frieda, sobbed and injected herself with the Titan syringe. The rest of his family, with the exception of his niece Florian Reiss, witnessed his death. He smiled as Frieda transformed into a normal, mindless Titan, and ate his upper body, inheriting his position, Titan Shifting abilities, memories of the world, and the will of the First King.

After Kenny is gravely wounded, he begins recounting earlier memories in his life; with a majority of them consisting of Uri and the Reiss succession ritual. Uri and Kenny's first interaction was a strained one, with the latter wanting to kill him for the persecution of the Ackerman family, but Uri spared his life. Kenny then thinks that he wanted to see things like Uri sees them, from a vantage point. He then tells Levi that every person that he had met on his life was a slave for something, even Uri.

Abilities
He appeared to be quite an intelligent man, surmising from his encounter with Kenny that he was of the Ackerman bloodline. Though he is never shown fighting, he was able to block a knife that was aimed for his throat with his arm.

Like previous Coordinate owners before him he has:


 * Memory Manipulation: This ability is related to the "Invincible Power," the Coordinate. He can manipulate the memories of humans.

Titan Shifting
Though his full Titan form is never shown, he possessed the same regular abilities as Titans and other Titan Shifters.
 * Regeneration: Like all Titans, he possessed healing abilities. He was able to heal from a knife launched by Kenny that pierced his left arm.
 * Enhanced Strength: This power has been shown while he was partially transformed. Even during a partial transformation, he had enough strength to hold Kenny effortlessly.
 * Partial Transformation: Similar to Ymir, he was seen holding Kenny in his Titan form's fist while almost completely outside of his Titan body, with only his right hand merged. While doing this he could talk and move both of his bodies without problem.
 * "Invincible Power": Briefly mentioned by Rod, it has the potential to exterminate all the Titans. It's unknown if he ever mastered this ability, but all Reiss members that take part in the succession ceremony gain this ability.

Relationships

 * Kenny Ackerman: Even when Kenny tried to kill him, Uri understood that his hatred was reasonable because he was an Ackerman and his family had been hunted and eliminated. Uri even apologized to him, which made Kenny come to appreciate his new friend. They used to spend time talking, to the point that Uri told him that his power would soon be inherited by some of Rod's children.
 * Mr. Reiss: Mr. Reiss was the previous holder of the Coordinate and Uri's father. Along with Rod, the two brothers would constantly beg him to release humanity from their encagement, but he always refused, never stating the reason why. While Rod was once locked behind bars for this, this never appeared to have occurred with Uri. When it came time for the power and position to be passed to a son, Uri volunteered, asking Rod to pray.
 * Frieda Reiss: Though not much interaction was seen between the two, it can be assumed that Uri cared about Frieda, which is shown when he smiled as he was about to be eaten by his niece. During the succession ceremony, Frieda shook and cried, as she didn't want to eat him.
 * Rod Reiss: Before Uri inherited the Coordinate, Uri shared the opinion with Rod that the Titans should be stopped. They tried to convince their father to change his opinion and eliminate the Titans, but it was futile. When Uri inherited the Coordinate, he asked Rod to pray for him.

People Killed

 * Mr. Reiss

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