Carla reminds him that she will not allow him to join the Survey Corps, and they exchange a heated argument before he runs off. Enthralled, Eren joins his mother and Mikasa in waving him off. Grisha ignores her objections and instead announces that he will be leaving for a few days on a trip, promising Eren that when he gets back he will show the boy what he has hidden in the basement of their home. Carla forbids him from joining due to the Corps' high mortality rate and begs Grisha to talk some sense into his son. Upon returning home, Mikasa reveals to Eren's mother that he wants to join the Survey Corps. Leaving Hannes behind, the children stop again to watch the Survey Corps return from an expedition and Eren is crestfallen to see that the Corps has returned defeated. Eren is annoyed to see that Hannes and his friends are slacking off on the job and refuses to be placated by their claims that the Titans will never breach Wall Maria. They are harassed by Hannes, who begins teasing Eren for having apparently cried in his sleep. He lived in Shiganshina District with his parents until the fall of Wall Maria, where he impotently witnessed his mother being eaten by a Titan.Īfter Eren is woken from a nightmare by Mikasa, the two walk home through Shiganshina.

He was the main protagonist of Attack on Titan. Eren Jaeger, a boy whose mother was eaten during the invasion, vowed to wipe every last Titan off the face of the Earth, and joined the military determined to exact his revenge.Įren Yeager ( エレン・イェーガー Eren Yēgā ?) was a former member of the Survey Corps. However, one day a Colossal Titan far larger than any other seen before breached the outer wall, allowing the smaller Titans to invade the human territory and forcing the survivors to retreat to the inner walls. The survivors responded by constructing three concentric walls: Wall Maria, Wall Rose and Wall Sina, which graced them with a century of peace. There was an insurmountable gap in power between them and mankind, and as a result, humanity was rapidly exterminated to the brink of extinction. 'That day, the human race remembered the terror of being dominated by them, and the shame of being held captive in a birdcage.' - Over 100 years ago, a natural predator of humanity appeared: the Titans, giant humanoid but mindless monsters whose sole purpose of existence seemed to be to devour humans.

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