Annie Leonhart (Junior High Manga)

Annie Leonhart (アニ・レオンハート) is a 1st year Attack Junior High School student.

Appearance
Annie is a short girl. She has blue eyes and keeps her blonde hair tied back, for the most part, wearing her bangs over her right eye. She wears the standard Junior High uniform.

Personality
For the most part, Annie usually keeps to herself. She is known to over-react at times over trivial matters, but is able to recognize this and apologize when needed.

Despite her mostly quiet and reserved nature, Annie is not afraid of confrontation. She can easily stand up for herself when others try to stop her, either from performing a task or trying to talk to a classmate.

Volume 1
Annie is part of the first year class entering Titan Junior High School and is assigned as part of Class 3. During the welcome ceremony, Annie overhears fellow student Eren's love of cheese loaf; due to this being her favorite food also, Annie became too embarrassed to admit this after he stated it. She would begin to develop a grudge against Eren in response.

Later on, Class 3 takes part in a dodge ball tournament and Annie is able to knock out four other players, winning the match for her class. She overhears they will be going up against Class 4 (the class Eren is part of) and goes over to address them. Noticing Eren is gone, Annie is told by Armin that Eren's in the bathroom and will be part of their match. Annie swears her side will win and returns to her team; just before the match, she goes back over and is shown Jean as proof that Eren is there. Not buying it, Annie calls them out and is about to report them when Eren finally arrives. She leaves after declaring once more that Eren's class will lose. During the match, Annie is almost eliminated by Mikasa; she catches the thrown ball and promptly eliminates Armin. As the match winds down, Annie is surprised when Eren manages to eliminate her and win the match for his team.

Annie later joins the student council and quickly gets on the nerves of fellow student Hitch. Hearing that Eren is part of the Survey Club (in addition to the Wall Beautification Club), Annie stands up and declares that while the council takes notes and keeps tracks on clubs all over campus, the Survey Club has been the exception. She vows to have the club disbanded. Hitch and Marlowe follow her (despite her telling them not to) and discover Eren and the Club members on a field trip to Wall Rose. Both sides agree to a game of rock, paper, scissors to determine the fate of the Survey Club.

With each side earning one win apiece, Annie goes up against Eren as the deciding vote. When asked why she hates him so much, Annie refuses to give the reason why. They get stuck in a tie for thirty minutes before Annie loses her grip and prepares to get hit by Eren; however, Eren relents and asks her again why she hates him. Annie finally admits that he mentioned her favorite food as his first and that she could not bear admitting that to everyone. After hearing Eren apologize, she then realizes that the entire thing was blown out of proportion by her and admits defeat to Eren. The next day during lunch, Annie goes up to Eren, Armin and Mikasa and asks to sit with them. Warming up to Eren, she gives part of her lunch to him and they become friends.

Eventually, a school dance is announced and Annie decides to try to ask Eren to go with her. However, she is prevented by Mikasa from approaching him. Not backing down, Annie tries to get Mikasa to let her speak with Eren. They begin arguing and eventually Eren goes over to see what is going on. Unable to ask him with Mikasa glaring at her, Annie quickly comes up with an excuse to get Eren away from Mikasa and claims he has been appointed by the Student Council to observe possible Titan delinquent activities. Eren accepts and agrees to meet her after school; when Mikasa tries to include herself, Annie claims only those approved by the Student Council are allowed to. Walking away, she ponders how she managed to create such a grand lie in order to just get Eren alone. Soon, Eren comes and is ready to start; before Annie can reveal the truth, he spots a Titan and goes off to confront it. This happens several times until Annie tells Eren it was all just a ploy to get him away from Mikasa. Pulling out the flyer, she asks Eren to go with her to the dance, but he reluctantly says no. Crushed, Annie believes that it was all a waste of time and that he is already going with Mikasa; she is then surprised (along with Mikasa, who had been tailing them) that Eren was asked by Armin. Eren accepted (due to Armin's lack of confidence) and, knowing there will likely be other chances, proposes both Annie and Mikasa go together; both of them refuse.

Not finding a partner, Annie attends the athletic fair with the rest of the school but quickly loses interest. She sees the event as pointless and goes to leave; however, Krista comes up to her and asks for her help in cheering on the underclassmen. Initially reluctant to, Annie eventually agrees. She is given a cheer uniform but is embarrassed at having people seeing her dressed like this; she goes to leave but Eren tells her she looks great in it. He tells her to do her best cheering them on and, slightly blushing, Annie agrees to. However, hearing Eren remind Armin that they are going to the dance together causes Annie to ultimately run away.

Relationships

 * Eren Yeager - At the start of the year, Annie held a grudge against Eren due to his actions during the welcoming ceremony; this only intensified after a dodge ball match where her side lost to Eren's. Eventually, Annie admits that she over-reacted and drops her grudge. They eventually are able to reconcile and become friends. It is believed that Annie has a crush on Eren, due to her wishing to invite Eren to a dance and her blushing after Eren compliments her efforts to cheer them on during the athletic competition.
 * Mikasa Ackerman - Annie and Mikasa see the other as rivals, although Annie was initially less driven by the two's rivalry. She does not appreciate Mikasa's numerous attempts to prevent her speaking with Eren, standing up to her several times.