104th Training Corps · Survey Corps · born in Shiganshina

Eren Yeager

エレン・イェーガー

For a child raised inside the wall, freedom meant knowing what the outside looked like. When he finally saw it, the word did not change — the price did.

Eren's story is not one of growing stronger but of growing WIDER. He was born inside the wall and knew the outside only from a book; when he finally saw it, he learned to hate the world itself. This page walks the same road: inside the wall it is narrow, sepia and low-ceilinged; beyond the wall its measure opens, its horizon rides up and its colour turns red. The width does not come free — the march at the heart of this page shows the cost, one step at a time.

The large horizon plate waits as a curator slot. Until one is uploaded the frame stays empty but standing — so does the top of a wall.

Every section on this page hangs off a horizon line at the same height: some sit above it, some below. That is exactly what the top of a wall is — not a view but a LIMIT.

Blood type and birth YEAR are blank in the record. No year has been derived by combining them with the age; the fate chart runs on AGE, not calendar years.

• 進撃の巨人

  Shingeki no Kyojin

  しんげきのきょじん

  The Attack Titan

  Fifteen metres; the one that never served anyone.

  The power he inherited from his father Grisha. The most combat-shaped of the nine: a lean frame, wiry muscle, mouth and teeth exposed. What sets it apart is not an ability but a DISPOSITION — through all of history this Titan bowed to no king and no order, and marched every time for freedom. That Eren inherits a legacy that matches his own character so exactly is the story's cruellest joke: which one shaped the other never fully separates.

  • Fifteen metres
  • Inherited from Grisha
  • Served no one
• 始祖の巨人

  Shiso no Kyojin

  しそのきょじん

  The Founding Titan

  The power that gives the order — and cannot speak on its own.

  The power that reaches every Subject of Ymir: it can command all Titans and alter that people's bodies and memories. Its lock is royal blood — if the holder is not of the king's line, the command opens only through contact with someone who is. That is why Eren held it for years without being able to use it; the distance between owning a thing and being able to use it is the cause of everything on this page.

  • Command over every Titan
  • Requires royal blood
  • Can alter memory
• 戦鎚の巨人

  Sentsui no Kyojin

  せんついのきょじん

  The War Hammer Titan

  The hand that builds weapons and structures out of hardened matter.

  The third power, taken from the Tybur family at Liberio. It produces hardened matter in any shape it likes: spears, hammers, cages, walls. It has a second property, and that is where the real advantage sits — the holder's true body need not stay in the Titan's nape; it can sit in a separate crystal joined by a cable. Striking the nape is not enough; you first have to find where the body actually is.

  • Taken at Liberio
  • Builds hardened structures
  • The body can sit off the nape

• 立体機動装置

  Three-dimensional manoeuvre gear

  Two anchors, steel wire, compressed gas and a harness. The only genuine human advantage over a Titan: height and speed. With this gear Eren was an ordinary soldier — and it is what he fell back on whenever the Titan power failed him.

• 硬質化

  Hardening

  Turning Titan matter into a shell as hard as crystal. Eren gained it through a serum, and its first great use was not an attack but a REPAIR: he sealed the breach at Shiganshina with matter from his own body. Building a wall with a power meant for breaking one is the character's whole contradiction.

• 道・座標

  The Paths and the Coordinate

  A field standing outside time that joins every Subject of Ymir to every other. The Founding Titan sits at the crossing point of that network — the Coordinate. Here is the strangest fact on this page: some of the scenes Eren sees in the past arrive from the future itself — memory and prophecy meet in the same place.

• ユミルの呪い

  The Curse of Ymir

  Anyone who inherits a Titan power cannot live more than thirteen years from the moment of inheritance. When Eren learned this, he also learned how long he had left. It is the one number that explains the haste on this page: the alias in his record — “the one in a hurry to die” — is not an accident.

1. age ten

   Wall Maria falls

   The gate at Shiganshina is breached and the Titans come in. Eren has to leave his mother Carla under the wreckage of their house, and watches her eaten in front of him. From that day every sentence of his points one way: outwards. What he lost was not only his mother but the idea that the world was safe.

   駆逐してやる…この世から一匹残らず！

   “I will wipe them out… every last one of them from this world!”

2. age fifteen

   Trost: the soldier who was swallowed

   Shortly after graduating from the 104th, he is swallowed by a Titan during the assault on Trost and presumed dead. Inside that swallowing the Titan power wakes: Eren comes back out as a Titan, hauls an enormous boulder onto his back and plugs the broken gate. It is the first time humanity sees a Titan on its own side — and the same day Eren is arrested by his own.

   戦え！戦え！

   “Fight! Fight!”

3. age fifteen

   The basement and the sea

   The Survey Corps retakes Shiganshina; Eren seals the breach with hardening and finally goes down into his father's basement. The three notebooks he finds there say that beyond the wall lies not an empty desert but a WORLD: seas, nations, armies, and millions of people who hate his own. When he reaches the shore he dreamed of as a child, the question he asks is no longer one of discovery but of arithmetic — if everything beyond the sea were destroyed, would that be freedom?

4. age nineteen

   Liberio: alone

   Years later Eren leaves the island and walks into the enemy nation alone; he lives among war casualties under a false name, helps a boy he meets in the street, and in that same city stands up in front of a gathering and declares war. On the same day he takes the War Hammer Titan. After this stop even his friends can no longer read him: someone who acts without consulting anyone has become an unknown to his own side as well.

5. age nineteen

   The Rumbling

   Contact with royal blood finally happens and the lock on the Founding Titan opens. The countless Titans inside the walls begin to walk; Eren chooses to trample most of the world and explains it as the island's survival. What stops him is not an army but the people he grew up beside — and the final blow comes from the person who protected him all his life. The narrow measure from the top of this page opens completely here; and where it opens, no one is left.

• His foster sisterMikasa Ackermanミカサ・アッカーマンShe came to the Yeager house as a child and never left his side after. Hers is the hand at this page's last stop: the person who protected him most is the one who stops him.
• His closest friendArmin Arlertアルミン・アルレルトThe one who showed Eren the book about the outside. Every idea of widening on this page is originally Armin's: the sea, the sand, the water that burns. Eren took that dream and turned it into a plan.
• The captain he served underLevi Ackermanリヴァイ・アッカーマンHe beat Eren in court to keep him on humanity's side and then took responsibility for him. The only adult measure on this page: as Eren widened, Levi stayed on the same narrow line.

• 駆逐してやる…この世から一匹残らず！

  “I will wipe them out… every last one of them from this world!”

• 戦え！戦え！

  “Fight! Fight!”

自由

Jiyū — “freedom”. The page's watermark is 進撃 (the advance), but the motto is this: for Eren the two were never separate things, and the whole tragedy of the story sits exactly there.

Dossier, portrait, birth and name data from AniList; the portrait file was downloaded into the repository (no hotlinking). Every graphic on this page — the wall crenellations, the steam layer, the Titan silhouettes — is hand-drawn SVG. AniList · Eren Yeager #40882