Annie Leonhart

Annie Leonhart is a graduate of the 104th Training Brigade and a former member of the Special Brigades. Her outstanding skills in blade handling and hand-to-hand combat earned her 4th place. She has the ability to transform into a Female Titan.

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Trained from a young age by her father, she was selected to become a Warrior of the Mahr Empire. In the year 845, she was sent on a mission to retrieve the Original Titan from Paradise. She was accompanied by Reiner Braun, Bertolt Hoover and Marcel Galliard. As the Female Titan, she served as a major antagonist before her defeat, during which she locked herself in a solid crystal, while plunging into a coma. Held prisoner in the crystal for 4 years under the custody of the Special Brigades, she is now finally free indirectly thanks to Eren.

Apparence

Annie is small in stature but has quite a bit of muscle for her size and build.

She has blond hair, tied up, and coming down to her neck, with a fringe that falls on the right side of her face (she tends to touch this fringe often, probably for a better visibility). When they are loose, her hair reaches her neck and is longer.

She has blue eyes. Prior to graduation, she was dressed in the uniform of the 104th Training Brigade. After graduation she has the uniform of the Special Brigades. She usually wears hoodies, with her Special Brigades military outfit she always wears a white hoodie

Titanic form

Annie's appearance as a Titan changes quite drastically, although her general physique and facial features remain the same. She has blonde hair reaching her neck and in the anime, her body consists mainly of exposed muscle (like the Colossal Titan), in which there is a distinctly limited amount of skin in her body and bone fingers. In the manga, she has the same skin as the Titan Assailant. With a massive increase in height, her face is loaded with muscle lining, especially under her cheeks, giving her the ability to stretch her mouth much more than it appears, with yellowish teeth. Compared to most other Titans encountered, Annie's titanic form looks much more physically fit and stronger. She also has a female form, which has never been seen before.

Personality

Annie is naturally solitary and withdrawn, the kind of person who socially excludes herself from others and prefers not to befriend anyone easily or at all. She is apathetic and sleepy with little desire to strive in various disciplines or meaningless activities, and instead focuses exclusively on being ranked in the top 10 of the 104th Training Brigade in order to join the Special Brigades, so as to get an easy life.

Yet, somewhere, she seems to hold a strange fascination and even feelings of respect towards people who possess a deep sense of duty and justice, in those people who can dedicate their lives, and even die for causes they believe in. In spite of the cold and calm attitude that Annie usually adopts, she showed on several occasions that she possessed, like any human being, various feelings. She was clearly angered when Reiner Braun teased her about her constant avoidance during their training in the 104th Training Brigade. Despite her apparent insensitivity, she expressed a fairly apparent level of guilt and shock, especially when she apologizes to a corpse after the Battle of Trost District.

During her four years of confinement, being able to hear Hitch Doris's voice many times, screaming at her about how she felt about seeing all those people crushed and trampled on, without knowing for sure that she could hear it, she had time to think about it. Annie had given little thought to the consequences of her actions on civilians. She became aware of the irreparable mistakes she had made in Paradise, but would be willing to do it all over again in order to return home.

During the Great Upheaval, Annie realized what the power of friendship was, how much she needed it, and finally accepted it.

Annie's dedication

Annie is also known to be very dedicated to her mission as a Mahr, so much so that she shed tears when she failed to capture Eren Jäger. While she is seemingly indifferent to the fact that she is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, she remained proud of her skills and even seemed to enjoy the very notion of combat as inferred by Eren. The only time she is seen to be genuinely smiling in a benevolent way is when she expressed a curious interest when teaching Eren about her unique way of fighting.

Personal history

Like her classmate Reiner, she was born and raised by an Eldian parent who was a lover of a Mahr who rejected her at birth. In Annie's case, this parent was her father. This one pretended to be an adoptive father. Initially this was not for love. He intended to get her into the Mahr Warrior Unit to improve his own living conditions. In addition to instilling in her that young Eldians should go out and kill all those outside the borders without differentiating between military and civilian to atone for the faults of their demon ancestors, he trained her in the martial arts of her homeland relentlessly so that she could perform her duty. He abused her both verbally and physically when she was too weak and she was only of value to him if she was selected as a warrior. She progressed in rage until one day during their training she crippled him. He congratulated her and trained her even more intensely. Annie, because of this upbringing, developed apathy, she didn't care about anything that died or lived, even herself. With her fellow aspiring warriors, while she was comfortable with their presence, she remained in the background, more interested in squashing cockroaches than listening to them.

She was finally selected as the pocessor of the Female Titan for her speed and agility in 843, and her superiors did not regret this choice. In fact, the following year she and her nominated comrades caused the destruction of an entire nation.

In 845, Operation Paradise Island was launched and Annie was chosen to participate. On the last day before it began, to her surprise, her father apologized, telling her that everything she had learned was wrong and making her promise to come back alive even if it meant giving up and losing her status as an honorary citizen, and finally confessing that he was her real biological father

Equipment

As a member of the Special Brigades, she wears their standard uniform with a white hoodie underneath.

Skills and Competencies

Annie has a rather special fighting style, which she learned from her father. This fighting style is very powerful, and Eren learns it little by little at Annie's side.

Power of the Titans

Like Eren, Annie has the ability to transform into a 14 meter Titan, nicknamed the Female Titan. When in titanic form, Annie is easily able to destroy squads of Exploration Battalion veterans, Livai Ackerman's team, and the squads trained by Erwin Smith. Annie obtained this power by devouring the Titan's former possessor.
Female, this predecessor being unknown. She is much more used to using it than Eren, who only recently discovered her powers. So far, it is the titan who is the most powerful because, she uses her power easily, uses powers such as solidification and, when she decomposes, she becomes Human again and still has enough energy to use the Three Dimensional Maneuver and kill Soldiers with a lot of experience before transforming again (something never seen by any known titans).

Regeneration

In her titanic form, Annie is able to heal her wounds, and even regenerate parts of her body that were lost in battle. However, she is able to take this ability to a higher level, she can concentrate and then choose which parts to regenerate faster. This was useful for Annie when she decided to regenerate only one of her eyes to see the members of the Tactical Squad and defeat them, using the surprise effect.

Solidification

Annie can solidify a part of her body in a titanic form, as shown during her 2 fights against Eren.

Cristallisation

Annie has shown the ability to be able to harden her skin so that it is similar to the Dreadnought Titan's ability, as said by Erwin. She uses this ability many times for many purposes. This armor is strong enough that the blades of the soldiers will break when they hit it.

Speed

The Female Titan is quite fast, especially during the 57th extramural expedition, catching up with the soldiers quite easily and wiping them out in the process. During her fight against Eren, after regenerating a single eye, she quickly stood up and extracted herself from under him.

Relations

Reiner Braun
At first, little is known about their real relationship. Annie acts as a lone wolf, and the few interactions with Reiner that there were, ultimately resulted in a rather cold dialogue. Reiner liked to make fun of his indolence. In reality, this distance was probably a strategy not to attract suspicion, Reiner, now a schizophrenic, had come to accept this as a reality. In any case, their real relationship was no more positive than the one they showed at the 104th Training Brigade, it was even worse. Reiner had submitted Annie to continue Operation Paradise Island after the death of their companion Marcel Galliard. Afterwards, she resented him so much that the urge to kill him had crossed her mind more than once during their mission. After being decrystallized, Annie became more gentle and intentional with Reiner, even showing emotional outpourings towards him.

Bertolt Hoover
It is strongly implied that Bertolt had romantic feelings for her. This was known to the members of the 104th Training Brigade from the looks he gave her, but the main character did not seem to realize it. Bertolt and Reiner were shocked and angry when they learned of her capture and when Armin made the two friends believe that Annie was being tortured, Bertolt lost all control and said he was going to kill them all. Annie was more neutral with him than with Reiner, who was downright hostile. Nevertheless, there is little interaction between them either as aspiring Mahrs warriors or recruits to the 104th Training Brigade, almost all of which is shared with Reiner. The fact that Bertolt is intimidated by her may be the explanation.

M. Leonhart
Her father showed her how to defend herself in combat, he was a particularly strict trainer, who did not let his daughter take breaks or yell at her during training, but this did not prevent Mr. Leonhart from loving Annie like his daughter, since he would later ask her, with tears in his eyes, to come back home one day before Operation Paradise Island.

Annie who, because of all that he did to her, feared and hated him to the point that the day she had the strength to do so, she rebelled and put him on the ground and then hit him in the leg without stopping, until he was lame for life. After that, he trained her even harder so that she would become stronger, yet a part of her loved this man, her only family. At the moment of their farewell or her father revealed his love for her all resentment disappeared, staying alive to find him was her reason to be. Moreover, remembering this memory, during the fight against the Titan Assailant in the District of Stohess, she can't help but cry, thinking of her father who she misses.

Conny Springer
Considering him as an idiot, amused by his naivety, but still attached to him to the point of risking his life and his mission to save his life.

Jean Kirschtein
It was shown that she cares for him because she spared his life during the 57th Extra-Muros expedition and was touched by the idea of losing all friendship for good because of what she did to Marco, asking him if he will ever forgive her.

Mihna Carolina
They seemed to be friends, eating together most of the time, and she was one of the only people Annie had ever gotten close to in the 104th Training Brigade.

Marco Bott
Few interactions are shown with the 104th Training Brigade, but we can assume that they cared a lot about him since it was difficult to get him killed to save his mission during the Battle of Trost.

Marlowe Freudenberg
Special Brigades recruit assigned like her to the Special Brigades Barracks in Stohess. If she thought his idealism was naive, she didn't make fun of him like Hitch Doris did, having a good respect for that. He reminded her a lot of her comrade from the 104th Training Brigade, Eren Jäger.