Tsubaki

Tsubaki (つばき) is a little girl who seeks to become Murakumo's apprentice. She wants to become strong so she may avenge her parents who were killed by Titans. She is one of the protagonists of Chapter 0, the draft story written by Hajime Isayama which would later evolve into Attack on Titan.

Appearance
She looks almost identical to Eren. She's short, with black hair tied in a bun and has large eyes.

Personality
Tsubaki seems to be passionate and hardheaded. He wants to become strong in order to kill the titans and she likes training with Murakumo, which bothers her a lot. She seeks to enter the vanguard corps and she is ready to do whatever it takes to achieve it. She hates the titans about everything else, at the point of fighting a group of them head to head without hesitation and armed only with a couple of knives.

Story
She is first seen in Murakumo's house, where she is waiting for the private to return so that they could train together. Murakumo refuses his invitation and Tsubaki starts insisting, telling how she wants to become strong and to kill the titans that ate her parents. Murakumo finally tells her to practice his blade swinging 100 times a day if she wants to train with her.

She is later seen running against the titans inside the city to kill them, mad and full of rage. One of the titans tries to grab her but Murakumo protects her and tells her to stay back and to let her master to fight. She crumbles in despair when she sees her master get eaten and she is chocked when Murakumo transforms into a titan. While Murakumo is fighting, Tsubaki tells her that her nucleus is vulnerable but it is pointless and Murakumo dies while Tsubaki screams terrorized.

Tsubaki is later seen sitting in front of Murakum's grave. She stars crying but she stops in order to start training her 100 daily bladeswings and fulfill his goal: to enter the vanguard corps and to kill all the titans.

Relationships

 * Private Murakumo: Tsubaki looked at Murakumo as her master. She deeply respected her and she trusted in her strength. She was not even afraid at the fact that Murakumo was actually a titan. She was very sad when her master died and decided to train on front of her grave.

Quotes

 * (To a group of titans)"How dare you to kill my parents!! I'll exterminate you!!"
 * (To Private Murakumo's grave)"You're the hero of this town"