In a dimly lit bedroom, Reiner's mom, Karina was currently tucking a younger version of Reiner in bed.

This was before Reiner and the others had carried out their plan to invade Paradis.  Karina sat on her son's bed and caressed his forehead on the back of her palm, explaining information to the boy.

"We were abandoned. Abandoned by the devils who's blood runs through our veins. That's why we're forced to live in this walled ghetto And it's why your father isn't here." She uttered in a low tone.

"Your father... is Marleyan. So it's against the rules for him to be with us." Saying that made Reiner's eyes stretch and his mouth gaped at the information. 

Karina pulls her hand away and covers her face in shame. "If only we were Marleyan..." She choked up as the little boy just continued to gaze at her.

Looking at the unlit oil lamp in a dark room, Reiner was laying on his bed, his arms behind his head.

Since it's been years since he's slept in his bed, he managed to outgrown the bed border as both his feet were propped up at the end bed border

. 'Oh, yeah...' He began to think, looking away and staring up at the ceiling.  'Back then, before I met violet...I strove to be a Warrior so mom and me could become Marleyans.'

He told himself as he started to think back on the hard training he went through.

He can remember running in the harsh rain, wearing the training uniform with the same yellow band.

He was hauling a backpack and holding a gun that was bigger than himself.

He was panting heavily, occasionally slipping a bit from the mud as he can hear Commander Magath, who was on a horse, yelling at him and the other Warrior candidates.  "Who said you could walk?! Faster, run you filthy seed of swine! Don't you wanna become Honorary Marleyans?!" 

After harsh training from day after day, the Warrior candidates were now down to seven after being selected. "Did you guys hear?" A boy's voice spoke, "in just a few
Years, we'll be sent to attack paradis island and rescue the romanoff's." That boy turned out to be a teenage version of Zeke. 

He and the other six were in the training grounds, all gathered together as Zeke was sitting on a crate and holding a bitten apple in his right hand.

He propped his left arm on his left knee and smiled down at his apple then at the others.

When looking up, the other six candidates were all younger versions of Reiner, Porco, Bertolt, Annie, Pieck, and finally, Marcel.

"Huh?" Reiner gaped as Zeke continued to explain. "It's almost time for us to inherit our Titans!" He tosses his bitten apple to Marcel, who easily catches it with his right hand.

"Out of us seven, six will be made warriors at once!" The blond exclaims, which makes Reiner grin to himself and look at the ground.

"No way! I'll finally become Marleyan!"  The others look at him as Porco quirked a brow, holding the apple Marcel handed to him.

"Huh? Why are you excited for? If anyone's hitting behind it's you." The boy sends an immediate glare at Porco, who casually takes a bite from the fruit.

"What?!" Porco looks away from the apple and back at Reiner's angered self. "What have you got that the rest of us dont?" 

"Huh?" 

"Are you real strong? Real smart? A crack shot? Good in a fight maybe? No" he laughed " you only made it this far by constantly going on about your love for Marley." Porco states as he watched Reiner's face contort and him sweating heavily. "Yes sir! I'll slaughter those island devils!" He mocked " just as soon as I've licked your boots cle-hey!

Reiner tightly grabs onto Porco's wrist, making the boy drop the apple as the blond shrieks. " You seriously insulting out mission?! How dare you! You sound almost like a stray Restorationist!"

"Huh?!" 

"You traitor, I knew it!" Reiner glares. "I'll report you to the commander for this!" Porco sent Reiner a puzzled look but immediately was changed to an annoyed one

"Report this, you little shit!" He reels his arm back and sends a hard punch across Reiner's face, making him let go and fall to the ground as the others just gawked at the scene and remain quiet.

"Well! Want more?!" Porco taunted, stomping his way to him as his brother finally intervenes and rushes to his side.

"He's had enough Porco!"  He grabs onto his shoulders while his younger brother just continues to degrade him. " anyone can whine about how much they hate l the island! That's why you'll be doing it here for the next 13 years!" The group just stares at Reiner as Porco rips Marcel's hands off him and stomped away.

"Porco!" He calls out to him as Zeke stands up and puts his hands in his pockets, ushering the raven-haired girl to follow.

" come on Pieck. Let's go"She looks up at him, at Reiner, then back at Zeke before trailing behind. "Hurry after us as soon as your done crying, I'll catch another beating if your late" The teenager said while Reiner was slowly pulling himself up.

Marcel looks over his shoulder and down at him as he frowns and sends an apologetic look. "Reiner.....I'm sorry." He turns around and walks after the others

The blond's body begins to shake, his left hand forming a fist until he heard a voice speak to him. "Get up, Reiner, here." He tearfully looks up to see Bertolt crouched beside him and offering a hand while in the corner of his eyes he can see Annie at a tree, stomping on something.

Reiner grabs onto his hand and pulls himself up, chokingly saying, "i have To become a Marleyan... so I can live with my mom and dad. I can't wait for 13 years."  He sniffles

"But... it's like he said. I'm weak." Bertolt slightly frowns. "It isn't going to be Porco's decision to make. Besides, loyalty is important. Right, Annie?" He asks, looking over at the girl, who seemed to have spaced out.

"Huh?" She looks at the boys. "Don't know, I was distracted" She then runs off, leaving the two behind as they watch her leave. 

After she was gone, the boys avert their gaze as to what was occupying her to only reveal a stomped on, dead, decapitated cricket.

They stare at it for a bit before standing up and run after the other candidates. Bertolt looks down at Reiner's dirtied face. "So this goal? Are you sure it's what you want?" He asked

"Huh?" He replies, looking over at Bertolt, who turns away. "You get Thirteen years, and that's it." Reiner, too, turns his head away and nods in confirmation, "but I'll be a hero for Every one of them." He suddenly stops running, making Bertolt also stop and turn to him.

"If I can defeat the devils on Paradis, rescue the king, I'll have saved the whole world. The. After that, my parents will be proud to call me their son." 

He then looks up at the cloudy sky, Bertolt following his actions as they watch the clouds pass by.

While he was training with the other candidates, on Paradis island within Wall Maria, young Eren was gazing up at the skies

The boy had his hands propped on the ground, watching the clouds pass by. 

Eren let out a bored sigh "I wish something would happen." He groaned, slightly pouting

Armin suddenly appeared after running past a corner and looked around, holding a book against his chest before his eyes land on the boy. 

His eyes brighten as he rushes to them and grins. "Eren! I finally found you!" 

Else were a young girl with red hair, hiding in
The shadows gazed up at the wall

Time skip

After going through ongoing training, seven out of the six people were chosen to inherit the Power of the Titans.

As of now, Marley was currently at war.

It was night. The buildings were collapsing, fire was erupting, and of course, war was raging on. From the distance, Commander Magath and the other Marleyan officials were observing the scene in a safe range. 

"Incredible. There Even stronger  than we expected." One of the officials commented as their eyes then land on the Female Titan emerging from the gray smoke, otherwise known as Annie.

The Female Titan then gets in a stance and begins running along the battlefield, eyes focused on a watchtower as gunshots shot out. 

"The Female Titan. It's greatest strength is it's Versatility. Not only does it boost a combination of High mobility and endurance, its hardened strikes are incredibly destructive." The officials started to list off. 

She rushes her way to the tower and quickly roundhouse kick's the tower down to nothing but rubble.  "its also able to summon Pure Titans, through its rage is limited. Leonhart is perfect."

Their eyes then move over to the Armored Titan to see Reiner moving along with his arms blocking his face and being the source of bait while the soldiers carefully follow behind him. "The Armored Titan natural specialises in defence. But If it charges at full speed, it can break through gates and walls alike. As Marley's shield. It needs to stand tall where the fighting is thickest. that must withstand attacks, it suits Braun's tenacious spirit."

Then moved over to the Jaw Titan, who was inherited by Marcel, easily evade the attacks the enemies were shooting at him.

The Jaw Titan then jumps over at the enemy soldiers and their weapons, mouth open as he bites down on the now destroyed weapons and a few soldiers.

"The Jaw Titan is an assault weapon. It's speedy as it is small, with powerful claws and teeth that can crush almost anything.
Marcels shape enough to keep up with it."

As the other Titans attack, the enemy soldiers at their base were currently running to the battlefield, guns in hand when suddenly, ruble gets thrown down at them as the ground shakes

as the Beast Titan, Zeke, stares down at the destruction below with his red, glowing eyes

"The Beast Titan is more potent than ever. It's large and strong but more importantly. It can put preform an artillery unit. With nothing but a fist full of rock. What's more, it's greatest power lies in its blood."

At a far distance and by a forest and lake, the Cart Titan with its iron gear on, Pieck, emerges from the war and looks over at the glowing fire and black smoke erupting in the sky.

"The Cart Titans outstanding endurance is well suited for lengthy missions on the field." In the Cart Titan's mouth, she holds what looks like a metal transport as she exits the water, then gently places it on the ground

" because it can hold its form for days on end, we've enhanced it with specialised equipment. Pieck's superior judgment will serve well here."

looks up at the battlefield, then turns around and submerges into the water below.

"Finally...there's the Colossal Titan..."

What was inside the metal transport was Bertolt himself.

He looked at his cut, bloodied up finger, watching little electricity slowly show as soon enough, he finally transforms, Everything around him explodes and looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off, with a ginormous Titan in the centre, standing there and stared up at the sky.

"It is a god of destruction. We trust that Hoover can handle it."

The Offical finally finishes, eyes trained on the Colossal Titan. "I feel bad for those island devils." He tells Magath, a bit of cockiness can be heard in his tone. "That monster will appear from thin air and start killing them some day."

Magath, who was looking through a binocular, lowers it and replies.

"We've been training the members of this
Warrior unit since they were practically infants, and it's clear that their strong for it," He then looks over at the Offical. "but why send these children to take the Founding Titan and rescue the romanoffs, frankly I think it a bit insane."

  "You think so?" The Offical nearly scoffs, looking back in his binoculars to get a close-up view of the Colossal Titan. "I'm not so sure, we did just watch these children just bring a nation to its knees" 

Slamming his hand beside Reiner's head by a wall, Porco stares at the blond in disbelief and anger as he screams. "It makes no sense! Your obvious at the bottom of the group! So why would they pick you?!" Once the war was over and the Warriors had returned from their battle, Porco made his way to find Reiner and yell with fury in a building with the other Warriors behind him.

Reiner just chuckles and smirks up at him. "Heh, haven't you figured it out? Your at the bottom, Pock."  Grinding his teeth together Porco brings his arm back and readies a punch.

"You little--!" Just before he can punch the smugness off of Reiner, Marcel was quick to jump in and stop his brother from doing so.

"Porco stop! Calm down! You don't wanna defy the brass!"

  "Huh?" Porco's body freezes up before he falls to his knees and all fours, breaking down into tears while Reiner just nervously smiles down at him and pulls on the collar of his uniform.

"Reiner..." His smile slightly drops as he looks over at Marcel, to only see him with his back turned. "I'm sorry." The blond furrows his brows in puzzlement, wondering what he meant. 

Not long after, a parade was held for the four candidates, Annie, Bertolt, Reiner, and Marcel to start their mission to retake the Founding Titan.

The four were seated in a carriage as the horses galloped through

. The four all smiled as the boys all waved at the crowd while Annie just sent smiles to everyone. 

Within the crowd, Reiner spotted his mother, who was smiling proudly with tears streaming down her face.

His gaze softens, little tears pricking his eyes until he suddenly spots something or someone.

Looking over, he can see a man, which was his father, opened a door and entered his kitchen. 

The boy's eyes widened at the sight and as soon as the celebration was over he immediately made his way over.

Reiner slam opened the door to see his dad cooking in the dark. "Dad!" The man flinches at his voice as the boy begins questioning him. "It's you, right? My Mom used to work at these barracks a good while before I was born! You would have met her there! Her names Karina Braun!"  The man's eyes shrunk and sweat rolled down his face as he looked over his shoulder to see the boy make his way to him.

"Look at my arm band!" The boy holds onto the red armband and smiles a rad bit. "Mom has one too! We're Honorary Marleyans! Now we can all live--" 

" the hells wrong with you?!"  Reiner immediately stops walking when he sees the man turned around and started screaming and shouting down at him.

" what Did that woman send you here?! Guess she wants revenge on me?! Shit! She forced you to become a Warrior just for that?!" As he kept screaming, Reiner's face fell and his mouth dropped.

"If they find out where you're from," The man continued, "my family is screwed! So your trying to get me hanged is that it?! Well I'm running the hell away as fast as I can!"  He points at his face before stomping his way out of the building, still degrading him and his mom.

"Away from you and your damned Eldian mother!" With that, Reiner was left all alone in the dark kitchen. 

"Reiner! Reiner!" Snapping out of his daze, Reiner was on a boat with Marcel, Annie, and Bertolt, departing from Marley to recover the Founding Titan.

He looks away from the sky to see the Eldians cheering and waving them off, including his mother.

His mom waves and smiles, shouting at him. "I'll be waiting for you sweety!"  Glancing to his left, he sees Bertolt and Marcel waving back at everyone before turning his gaze back at the Eldians. 'That's right. Even if I don't  have a dad, I was chosen to wield the Armored Titan.' He begins to think while holding a somber expression.

'I'll save everyone from the island devils and be a hero to the world.'  Eventually enough, the group had finally arrived at Paradis island when night had stricken.

The four were riding on horses in the middle of a big field before they decided to camp nearby a forest.

They tie their horses against the branches before settling down and created a campfire,
the kids getting close for the warmth around the fire

"It's tough to cover much ground moving at night," Bertolt muttered, making Marcel glance at him and utter.

"Yeah especially when it's this cloudy."  Bertolt just furrows his brows and stares at the fire, listening to its crackling, and spoke once more. " are we sure the King Won't use the Founding Titan, I don't get it, if we blatantly attack his walls then" Reiner looks over at him, arm propped on his knee  "What's the use asking now? Just put your faith in Marley's research."  He replied

"That's right. There's no turning back."  The blond's attention turns to Marcel to see him staring at the flames

. "When we reach the wall tomorrow...we'll have to..." He trails off, lips pursing into a firm line.

Reiner narrows his brows, glancing at everyone and puzzled. "Huh? Whats wrong? Don't tell me your feeling hesitant to kill these devils...there a threat to our entire world" He quickly stands and starts lecturing the group, who continue to remain silent and watch.

" but the greatest nation in the world chose us to save it, to punish these devils for their crimes!"  Marcel stares at him, his face suddenly contorting into what seemed like a regretful and conflicted look.

He looks down at his lap and shamelessly mumbles. "I'm sorry."

  "Huh?"

  "Listen Reiner, the truth of it is....." Marcel's voice quivers. "You were never supposed to be chosen.... I influenced  the army's decision by making my little brother look bad..and putting you up on a pedestal." Bertolt and Annie just stay silent, eyes on Marcel while Reiner's face was just left confused and hurt.

"Huh?" Looking closely, Marcel was on the verge of tears.

"Sorry.... I only did it so He would...be safe...." He admits. A single tear falls as he closes his eyes and leans his head against his closed right fist.

"I'm sorry,... Reiner!"  More and more tears fell from the brunet's eyes while Reiner was just speechless and dumbfounded at his words.

'Why... why are you apologizing?' Suddenly, behind him, the ground began to shook until a Titan had emerged.

Ymir's Titan. Seeing the shadow looming over him, he slowly glances over his shoulder to see her Titan lunging at him. 

He stood there, eyes widened until Marcel came rushing in and pushed him aside, letting himself get in the grasps of Ymir's Titan.

Her Titan's mouth opens, bringing the boy close as Reiner, Annie, and Bertolt watch hopelessly. 

And just like that, Marcel was eaten.

.....

.....

The sun started to finally rise. Reiner ran off with all his might before coming across a large tree.

He makes his way to it, hands propped against the bark as he lets out heavy and fearful breaths.

He begins to gag as the scene replayed in his head until he soon vomits on the grass. 

He slowly falls to his knees, still trying to catch his breath before shooting his head over to the spot he and the others were just camping in to see the Titan nowhere in sight.

"Bertolt...! Annie...! Marcel...!" He utters, sweat rolling down on him hard as his body shook with horror.

His pupils had shrunk, his breath jagging and his voice quivering as he lowers and holds the side of his head. "They're gone....!....They were all eate!... because of me!"  His body hunches over as his forehead touches the grass.

"And I'll be next!  I'm gonna die here!" He nearly whispers until he suddenly feels a kick on his side, which makes him roll away and let out terrified screams.

He holds his hands up and pushes scoots away, still screaming.

"Not bad." A voice said, making him slightly calm down to see Annie was looking down at him, breathless, along with Bertolt, who was hunched over and had his hands on his knees. " you just beat me..." The girl slightly mocked, still breathless as sweat trickled.

"in a long-distance... race...you've never done that before..."

"Huh...?" 

"If had... transformed and defended ourselves.... we wouldn't have lost the Jaw Titan well... shit!" She cursed under her breath as she closed her eyes and tried to calm herself down. "He's gone for good
Now." Reiner lowers his arms, looking between her and Bertolt.

"There weren't supposed to be any Titans this far from the walls through!" 

"We need to go back." Annie quickly says, looking away from him and over at the campsite "Huh?" He puzzling stare at her to see her eyeing him in the corner of her eyes.

"Let's track down Jaws and leave. The Titan that are marvel should be human again." She then looks away " Come on, without Marcel to lead, this missions doomed."  She then begins to walk off while Bertolt watches her leave before silently following, leaving Reiner behind as he stared with sweat trailing fast. "Wait... We can't... We can't!" His exclamation makes the two stop walking and look at him to see him with his hand reached out as he shrieked

. "We can't go! We've gotta continue the mission as planned!"  Annie narrows her gaze at him.

"Oh, yeah... If you go back now, you'll be stripped of the amor, the next warrior will eat you" Reiner doesn't hesitate to nod at her words, making her slightly scoff and look away. "Through that isn't really a problem for me."

  "You think it'll just be me?"

"Huh?"  She looks over her shoulder to see Reiner' peered up at her with his eyebrows jagged

"You and Bertolt ran away too so why would I take all the blame? What makes y out so confident that you two I'm won't get eaten right away with me?" His words strike fear in the two, mouth slightly parting as the blond boy continued his talk.

"Going after Jaws isn't a good idea anyway. If they used its power and ran then that's it. Our Titans are way to slow to catch up to it."  Bertolt purses his lips and finally speaks. "But how can someone
Learn to use it that quickly--"

  "You mastered the Colossal Titan on your first try, you tell me!" Reiner retorts, voice raising, which makes Bertolt close his mouth and stare with wide eyes.

The blond boy begins to stand, fear lacing his face as he screamed at the two.

"Anyways, if we go back to the docks as failures we're doomed. We need the founding Titan and the romanoffs, there's no going home without them!"  Annie stares at him with conflicting before closing her eyes and slightly looking away.

"You know, if you had even been a
fraction as composed  as that Titan came at us, we wouldn't have had to lost the jaw Titan or Marcel." She turns around and begins stomping to him while Reiner watches with wide eyes.

"So you think the two of us will be blamed for running after you, huh?!"  She suddenly kicks Reiner right below his jaw, sending him back as Bertolt watches at the sidelines, eyes wide like saucers as his words were caught in his throat.

Reiner falls back on the ground while Annie glares hard down at him, screaming. "Well how about you come clean to Magath! It's all my fault so own up to it!"  She begins stomping down on his head, blood spewing out of his mouth as she proceeded to stomp and kick him around, causing more blood to fly around.

"We're not heros dumbass! The marleyans just see us as weapons! Understand they lied! Marley or eldian they're all just in it for themselves!"

The more she kicked, the more blood came trailing down his head along with his eyes rolling at the back of his head.

"And guess what?! I'm the same! I've gotta get home alive! If you feel guilty about Marcel Then die!" She gives one final kick to his face, making his body roll to his side as she takes in deep breaths, The droplets edged her eyes as she turned and began walking off, leaving Reiner laying on the ground with his face laying on his pool of blood. 

Bertolt, on the other hand, was stuck in his spot, eyes twitching as the girl continued to walk off.

She suddenly stops though, feeling someone's eyes on her as she turns around and catches a glimpse of Reiner just standing still, mouth open, blood falling from his head, and eyes still rolled back.

He suddenly lunges at her and falls to the ground, holding her in a chokehold as she immediately struggled within his hold.

  "Reiner is dead." The blond's voice chokes up, his eyes returning as they shrunk.

"If we need Marcel, then he's who I'll be." Annie looks at him with the same tearful look while Bertolt continued to watch, unsure what to do.

"Stop, let her go..." He finally says, tears falling from his eyes, but of course, Reiner continues to choke her while she kicked and tried prying his arms off.

"If we want to make it back, this is our only hope!"  Soon enough, the girl started drooling and her eyes began turning red.  "Once our mission ... is done... we can go home!"

They met up with the four warriors, who didn't seem to care about the jaws being gone, and said they wouldn't have to worry and they'd find them eventually, which made the three kids mad, one of the men pulled out an injection, and started pouring some strange fluid inside

" what's that?...." Reiner asked

"It's an injection" the man stated, then turned to them "it'll turn you Titan, it strips your autonomy away as well, no offence kids, but you'll need this, especially since we can't have you chicken out." Their eyes widened, before they could react, three of the warriors already injected them from behind

And soon plan soon initiated.

Bertolt had forcefully been transformed into the Colossal Titan and peered down at everyone inside Shiganshina.

His left-hand clutches onto the wall, eyes landing on three peculiar kids before he kicks down the wall as the debris flies and crashes everywhere.

Once his part was done, Bertolt was pulled out from the Titan's nape

The man begins to carefully but surely, climb himself down from the boys evaporating Titan he dragged down

When he gets closer to the ground, it begins to shake, making him suddenly stop and look over behind him to see a shadow of a Titan emerging from the smoke.

It was the Smiling Titan. His eyes shrink and were frozen in his spot until the Titan suddenly walks past him and ignores him completely. "Huh?" He watched the Titan walk off as eventually, more and more Titans started piling in the broken wall. Eventually, Reiner also forcefully transformed into the Armored Titan and made his way through the district until finally seeing the inner gate.

He gets in a stance at the mans command, ready to charge straight into the wall while he started thinking to himself.

'I wanted to be a Warrior!... because I thought I could make my mom's with to live with my father come true... But... My father who didn't want any part of us.'

He then begins charging toward the inner gate, the cannons firing bounce off of him with ease.

'mom lived for a dream that she knew was hopeless. I should never have been chosen. I should have died today. I should have ran way from these people!.' He thinks back on Marcel's apology and tearful look, making him grind his teeth inside the nape and furrow his brows.

'Why apologize? And why save someone like me?' He shakes the thought away as he gets near the gate. ' this can't be the life I worked hard for! We should have ran away! And we will! Somehow! Before I die! I need to do something!' And so, he crashes the gate down with ease as the soldiers, cannons, and debris fly everywhere.

In a warehouse

Annie was resting against a pillow, her blond hair was down from her ponytail.

Her eyes flutter and soon enough, she opens them and stares at the warehouse's roof. She gradually sits up, noticing Bertolt and Reiner sitting by her in silence, and asked them once they see her. "Where are we?"

"In Wall Rose, we're safe, the injection seems to wear off too," Bertolt answered as Annie looked around at the citizens.

She took notice of their injuries and balled up forms, heck, some of them have passed away from their wounds.

Her eyes then land over at three kids, all of them huddle close, Three of the kids had pulled their knees against their chest while the other sat with his cross.

One of the girls was weeping. Annie's eyes linger on that girl's despaired face, mouth slightly parting. "Annie... Bertolt..." She looks away when she feels Reiner put his arm around her shoulder and Bertolt's, bringing them close as Reiner closed his eyes and whispered.

"I'm sorry... I'll be the Warrior I should've been...for Marcel...ill find a way to save us from these people..." And after two years since they broke down the walls, the three had joined Paradis' military, being placed in the 104th Cadet Corps.

Reiner was lined up with the rest of the cadets, eyes staring ahead until Commander Shadis made his appearance and loomed over him.

He lowers his head to his level and shouts at the blond. "Ox face! Just what in the hell did you come here to do?!" Reiner quickly salutes and states. "I'm here to save humanity!"

After moving into more cadets he saw the next person wearing a hood over their head, but couldn't see the figures face ' who's that?'

commander shadis walked over to the person "  WHO ARE YOU!?" He yelled " sir! Latina sander! From shiganshina sir!" She replied, saluting, It was defiantly a girl

" AND WHY ARE YOU HERE CADET!?" The commander demanded " to end the Titans! And set humanity free!" She answered

" THATS THE WORST ANSWER IVE EVER HEARD! AND WHY ARE YOU WEARING A HOOD!?!?" The man was practicly yelling at the poor girl, but everyone was surprise that she didn't tremble that not one tear was shed

" To keep people's attention off of me! Sir! My appearance has been told to be very attracting!" He actually didn't yell anymore, in fact he just flung her hood off, that's when everyone's eyes, widened, beautiful green eyes like emeralds, light cream skin, and the most beautiful red hair like a rose, in a pony tail by a purple ribbon, the girl still frowned, narrowing her eyes up at the commander." I can see why now....you may put you hood back up! You'll just end up as Titan food" He grumbled, then walked away

The girl violet grit her teeth , while growling under her breath then pulled her hood back up ' she's an angel....' Reiner thought in awe

Before joining the military

the three were with the refugees, in the snowy plains where they met a man sitting by a cabin home, a campfire emitting and telling his story to the three with a sorrowful look.

" my village was in the southeast mountains of wall Maria. For us it happened at dawn. The animals were all making a racket, on top of that I heard a strange rumbling, i realised it was footsteps and opened my window too
Look..." The man quickly remembers the terrifying look of a Titan's face before looking back at the fire.

"What happened next is a blur, but I ran away on my horse. Alone...Leaving behind three kids about your age." The next day after the man told his story, he hanged himself for everyone to see.

After joining the Cadet Corps, Annie went undercover, wearing a hat, glasses, pigtails, jacket, and bag as she was walking down an alleyway within a district.

She was currently tailing a man as she watched him turned to a left corner and walk off.

She quickly hurried her way, making sure her footsteps weren't loud and looked down that alleyway.

Her eyes slightly widen when she sees that the man had suddenly vanish, How could he just disappear?

She furrows her brows until she feels a heavy hand place on her shoulder, making her lightly gasp and widened her eyes.

She slightly glances over to see a man, which turned out to be Kenny Ackermann, smirking down at her with an amused expression. "Hello there missy. You must be a girl of refine taste to take such an interest In this old geezer." She quickly looks away and stares at the ground.

"I was born at an inn My mom worked at,
She only met my father once. But She described him to me in detail. So that I'd know when I saw you." Kenny's eyebrows crease. "Well, ain't that a touching story . If you wanna give your daddy a hug then put your hands up."

"How can you be so sure that it isn't true?" She asked

"I made my sister a promise. So this tale of yours is a joke and a shit one at that." he said

There was a pause.

Annie's hand forms into a fist before shrieking. "You're so mean......daddy!" She quickly throws a kick behind her as the heel of her shoe crashes into the brick wall.

Kenny was able to evade it in the nick of time as Annie sent a glare at him before dashing her way out of there.

He watches her leave, 'tsking' at her figure before grabbing his hat, which flew off from the impact and muttered. "Well damn... seems you hit your rebellious phase" He then begins to chase after her " come back!" Annie looks over her shoulder and starts to pick up the pace.

The next morning in the Cadet Corps cabins, Bertolt was asleep as his body was in a rather... odd state.

His legs were crossed and propped against the wall while his arms were behind his back.

He somehow was asleep oh so soundly while the three soldiers, which were, Connie, Marco, and Thomas, were all staring down at them and giving their own predictions to one another. "Huh...That's a new one," Marco muttered, hands on his hips.

"his legs saying it'll snow today right?" Connie assumed, crossing his arms while Thomas placed a finger under his chin. "Yeah bit his torso's saying clear sky's ."

"Call it hail and get moving or you'll be late for muster." The three look over to see Reiner making his way to them before putting his arm in front of them.

The three stared at him as he yelled down at Bertolt. "Bertolt Wake up!"

Later on that night, the three had gathered together, a bit far from their cabins and hiding behind some stacked logs.

Annie slouched in her spot the warriors returned for a report "While these two remained here, I was crawling around the capital's sewers." She lets a loud exhale. "But I hit my limit...almost hit caught"

The man purses his lips. "Your limit, huh?" Annie sends him a quick look before looking away and closed her eyes.

"Should we take what we have back to marley?" she asked

"Not if it's all we have to show after five years." His words made Annie grow frustrated, but held in her anger

"Then, what are you saying we do?" She questioned as the man replied nonchalantly

"Destroy Wall Rose. It's the only way we can smoke out the Founding Titan and the romanoff."

The three remain silent, knowing they were going to get injected again

But during that time, Latina revealed her true self, and her power, which lead to Annie being forced to kill the scouts during their expedition, trying to take Latina, the Titans in wall rose, the castle, the Warriors appearance, saving the two shifters and ymir along with eren, then their final battle for wall Maria

Past
During training

Eren collapes from Odm training

Reiner quickly lands on the ground and rushes his way to him to hear him breathe heavily.

"Eren, don't kill yourself. take a break. ."  "Shit!" The boy, Eren, cursed as he continued to take in deep breaths.

"Hey Reiner... How'd you get so strong? What do I need to do to be like you, or Latina, or Mikasa?" Little tears begin to slowly fall as his voice quivered a bit. "I've got to change...or I'll die without accomplishing a damn thing...!" The blond just stares at him, recalling his own struggles when he was a Warrior candidate before replying.

  "Just do what you've have to. Keep moving forward."  Eren looks over at him, small tears edging as he sees Reiner offer his hand to him. He accepts it as he pulls himself up.

"That's all we can do." The blond continued as Eren slowly nodded. "Right. Thanks for the advice." He quickly wipes the droplets away while Reiner questioned him

"Your gonna butcher all the titans right? I'm sure you can do it" Reiner send a smile at him. 

Reiner was sitting in a room alone, with a shot gun, he loaded it, he looked like he was at his breaking point, just as he was about to pull the trigger

Outside, Falco had slammed his hand against the wall where Reiner was in and rested his forehead against the wall.

His face and clothes were dirty from the training as he mumbled

"Damn it! If nothing changes then...!" Hearing his voice, Reiner's eyes widen as

He looks over at the bar windows and makes his way over to see Falco walking off while holding a bag. "That's right... I still....have them...and her..." He mumbled, putting his hands against the bars as he continued to watch Falco walk off until he was far from his vision

As Reiner watched, Falco was staring at the ground dejectedly, walking in silence as he clutched the bag's strap. 

' what was I thinking?...she'd be hurt if I did that...' he tossed the gun aside

As falco makes his way home, he looks up to see he was at an entrance of a hospital. He frowns at the sight of the injured Eldian soldiers.

"The hospital..." He turns away and begins to walk off.  "Hey!"  He quickly stops and looks over his shoulder to see it was the soldier with half of his left leg gone and was sitting on a bench.

He was waving at Falco over, to which, he listens and makes his way over to the bench and sat down.

Once so, he watched a nurse push a man in a wheelchair before looking down.

The awkward silence filled the air, so Falco quickly looked over at the man and spoke. "So..., your able to talk now huh? guess that means your recovering."  Looking closely at the man, he had long, brown hair that covered his right eye while his left eye was bandaged up.

He also had a small beard growing a small mustache as well. The man doesn't look at Falco as he replies. "Meh. This place is for treating psychological wounds but...mine are fake..."

"Huh?"  The man looks down at his lap and continues. "I said I lost my memory and can't go home, but I forgot where I came from due to amnesia...but I just don't wanna go back...I'm not quite ready..to face my family yet." Falco's face softens, hands resting on his legs as the man slightly moves his head at him and mumbles. "Will you report me?" Falco shakes his head and looks down at his lap. "No, I wouldn't do that." 

The man then takes notice of Falco's state and goes to ask. "You're all beat up. Guess that's from your Warrior training?" The boy nods again, a frown plastering. "Yeah, but honesty... Its pointless. There's Another candidate who's way better than me. So there's no way that I'll be chosen."

" I'm glad to hear it"

  "Huh?"  Falco looks over at the man to see him looking up at the orange sky. "You're a good person. I hope you'll get to live a long life." The man tells him.

Falco just stares at him, mouth gaped before looking away and sighing. "Thing is, I don't want this other candidate to be Picked."

"Why not?" The man looks down at him and notices Falco blushing from his words. "Is this rival of yours a girl by any chance?" He assumes, making Falco's face turn red and quickly looked the other way shamelessly.

"She's famous around here. She did incredible things in the war. Ask anyone...and they'll tell you she should be the next armor....it doesn't matter what I want...cause I can't do a damn thing about it...."

It was silent after that. The man just looked at Falco, holding his crutch. Apart from Falco's words makes the man thinks of someone and how at one point, he thought the same. 

The man soon brushes the thoughts away before looking up at the sky again and says. "Every day I've spent here, I've wondered, how did all these people let it come to this" He then looks over at the injured and unstable soldiers.

"minds and bodies ruined... dreams of freedom erased... personality's burned away....no one would want to go to war" Falco glances at him then follow his gaze while the man continues.

"If they knew what it would do to them."  He looks back at the setting sky.

"Butt it's not like we all leapt into hell willingly...most of us were pushed...some of us were pushed by other people...and some were pushed by the environments we grew up in...." Falco looks at him again with raised eyebrows.

"So...the few who do chose to leap inky hell see it differently than the rest...and they are also to see something beyond
The hell. Maybe that's something is hope. Or maybe it's just another hell...."  The man's hair then slightly parts, revealing his green, almost-dead like, eye as he narrows his gaze. "Fact is, you can only find out by moving forward."

That man.....

Was eren....

After the boy left, eren felt another presence " you sure took your sweet time" he turned and faced a woman who had her hood up covering her hair " what took you so long?" He asked

" sorry, just keeping things on track" she says talking a seat next to him

" you better be resting as well, we don't need you tiring yourself out....Latina..." the girl looked up at him smiling teasingly " your one to talk, I see you've started growing a beard"

he chuckled " yeah...but I think I look good with it don't you?" He questioned while the girl gave a look which then formed into a cringe " what?"

" sorry...but no..." she said which makes him gawk at her making her laugh " excuse me!" He fake gasped dramatically placing a hand over his heart