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Biography of the Female Titan, Annie Leonhart from Attack on Titan.
Early Life[]
Annie was born in the nation of Marley as a half Eldian/Marleyan by her Eldian father who had an affair with a Marleyan woman which cause her to be abandoned by her. A blood test exposed the infant Annie as a Subject of Ymir, and therefore she was left outside an orphanage by her mother. She was adopted by Mr. Leonhart, an Eldian of foreign origins who had ended up in an internment zone for similar reasons as Annie (found out having Eldian blood at some point in his life and forcibly moved to an Eldian ghetto). The man had previously relocated from his native homeland to Marley for better life conditions, but he was still very poor and desired better privileges, thus seeking the status of Honorary Marleyan. To this end, Annie was harshly and restlessly taught the martial arts of Mr. Leonhart's homeland since early childhood, in hopes of her to join the Marley Army's Warrior Unit in order to improve Leonhart's life conditions. The two lived in a crude house in a very impoverished neighborhood within an Eldian internment zone, in the city of Liberio.
Her father's merciless training caused Annie to be apathetic to life for anyone and herself, as shown when she stomped a grasshopper without any remorse. One day, after being pushed too far, being fed up with all her abusive treatments given by her father, she brutally crippled him in a vicious sparring match. Her father, instead of being angry at her, praised Annie for having grown and become so much stronger. Having been genuinely praised from her father for the first time, Annie's hatred of him subsided and the relation between them became much more amicable.
In addition to training with her father at home, Annie also underwent the brutal training of the Marleyan Military. She was praised by her chief overseers as impeccable for her fighting abilities. Eventually, among the numerous child soldiers in training, she was selected as one of the seven promising Warrior candidates to inherit the Power of the Titans in the future. Eventually she was chosen to inherit the Female Titan in 843.
That same year, Annie and her fellow Warriors were sent to war against an enemy nation of Marley, participating in battles and ultimately crushing the opposing country, which ended up being conquered, dissolved, and annexed into Marley. In 844, Marley was again at war with another enemy nation (or it was possibly part of the same war that had been ongoing for years, perhaps against multiple nations at once), in which Titans were used to crush it and its capital. However, it is unknown if Annie herself was assigned with any direct involvement in this war.
In 845, Annie was chosen to partake the Paradis Island Operation to seize 'the coordinate', held by the remnants of Eldia within the Walls. Her overarching commander, Theo Magath, ordered her and her comrades to attack the Eldians living in the Walls, in order to lure out and steal the Founding Titan, who, according to the Tybur Family, is expected to not being able to use the full power of the Founder to fight back. Annie was one of the four Warriors selected to carry out the mission, along with the leader Marcel Galliard, Reiner Braun, and Bertholdt Hoover, while Zeke Yeager and Pieck Finger were left out of the mission to focus on other enemy nations threatening Marley. Before leaving Marley to sail to Paradis Island, Annie was paraded through the streets of Liberio in a horse-drawn carriage with Reiner, Bertholdt, and Marcel to be celebrated as a Warrior to save the world from the remnants of the hated Eldian Empire.
One day before leaving Liberio for the operation, Annie's father apologized to her for years of harsh upbringing he gave her, that his intention had been wrong. Mr. Leonhart states to Annie that even if the whole world would curse and hate her for who she is and what she does, he promised to Annie that he will always side with her and he asked Annie to come back to him alive no matter what. She was surprised and this changed her in the process.
Annie and her fellow Warriors are carried in a Marleyan Military ship to Paradis Island, escorted by Commander Magath and other Marleyan superior officers. After arriving at the border of Paradis Island, at the wharf and wall used to inject deported Eldian criminals, Magath gave a final debriefing to the Warriors before letting them depart on their own to the north, traveling to the Walls on horseback.
During the operation on the island, Annie along with Reiner and Bertholdt run away from Ymir's Pure Titan, who eats Marcel. She blames Reiner for the situation and suggests the trio go retrieve the person who ate Marcel, leave the island, and report back to Commander Magath. However, just as she and Bertholdt began walking, Reiner insists to continue the mission. This angers Annie, who ends up kicking Reiner repeatedly and cursing both Eldia and Marley as selfish, tribal identities. She is soon strangled into submission by Reiner, who tells he will be Marcel, claiming leadership of the mission. She reluctantly continues the operation, turns into the Female Titan, and carries Bertholdt and Reiner to the Walls.
Along the way, Annie uses her Female Titan scream to lure an army of Pure Titans, so they can follow her to the Walls, where Bertholdt is to let them through the gate of Shiganshina District. Since the job of traveling to the Walls was meant to be shared with Marcel's Jaw Titan, Annie becomes exhausted from the journey, as she ran from the coast to the Wall without rest. Once they reach the Walls, Reiner switches place with Annie, turning into the Armored Titan and carrying her, while Bertholdt transforms into the Colossal Titan. When the Pure Titan of Dina Fritz is seemingly approaching to devour Bertholdt, Annie briefly panics and shouts for Reiner to intervene, thinking Bertholdt was going to meet the same fate as Marcel. While the Titans enter Shiganshina's breached gate, Reiner's Armored Titan climbs the Wall while carrying Annie and Bertholdt, then leaves the former under the latter's care atop the Wall, while he descends to walk through the city's streets, alongside the Pure Titans, waiting for most of them to gather to the inner gate before breaching it.
Annie fell unconscious while the Warriors infiltrated Wall Rose as refugees. In Trost District, Annie is seen being among the Wall Maria refugees, receiving her food rations from Garrison soldiers.
Annie later appears as an upcoming member of the 104th Training Corps, in southern Wall Rose, watching other trainees undergoing Keith Shadis' "rite of passage". However, the instructor doesn't speak a word to Annie and many others as their faces prove that they've already been through hell on Earth, according to another instructor. Two years after that, during the trainees' training of hand-to-hand combat, Annie is seen sneaking away, with Reiner confronting her for that. He has Eren to face Annie, much to her apparent anger. However, the latter effortlessly takes the former down and Reiner soon follows him, ending up on the ground as well. Eren praises Annie for her technique and even though she reveals it was her father to teach her the move, Eren shows interest. She dismisses the thought and claims such training to be useless and continues mocking the entire military system and even her father's ideals. Annie later watches as Eren uses her move to pacify Jean. She then expresses the will to teach Eren the proper way to perform it. Annie continues her training until she successfully graduates at the rank of four.
Battle of Trost District[]
Shortly after the graduation, the Colossal Titan appears in Trost District and breaks through the outer gate, letting Titans into the town. In spite of the evacuation being finished, the trainees are unable to return due to insufficient gas, much to everyone's despair. In this situation, Annie is suddenly approached by Mikasa, who was looking for Eren. She is then surprised to hear that he, along with most of his squad, was supposedly killed in a battle. Trying to keep her cool, Mikasa attempts to shock everyone into action, with Annie and others rushing after her to reach the HQ and replenish their gas. They eventually manage to get there, albeit with casualties.
With the mysterious Rogue Titan fending off most of the Titans attacking the HQ, Annie and others attempt to get rid of the small Titans inside. After the plan's success, the group witnesses the Rouge Titan being eaten by other Titans. Annie overhears Jean and Reiner arguing about whether to take an action or not and proclaims that the Rogue Titan should be kept alive as it might serve as a powerful ally. At this point, she learns about Eren's Titan-Shifting ability after Eren emerges from the nape of the Rogue Titan's neck.
Unbeknownst to the rest of the soldiers, Eren ends up being questioned and eventually attempted to be killed by Kitts Woerman due to his Titan ability. Annie and the rest overhear the lightning strike that is caused by Eren's second, albeit half-formed, transformation into his Rogue Titan form to defend Mikasa and Armin from cannon fire. This alarms Reiner enough for him to rush near the vicinity of the lightning strike with Jean, Annie and Bertolt quickly following suit, at which point they witness the scene of Eren's Titan form surrounded by soldiers of the Stationary Guard. They watch as Armin attempts to persuade the soldiers that Eren is strategically important for mankind until Dot Pixis arrives and stops Woerman. In the aftermath of the Battle of Trost, Annie is seen apologizing to an unknown corpse as she, Reiner, and Bertolt assist in cleaning up the remaining corpses of other soldiers. Later, as they watch the burning corpses, Annie and others are asked by Jean about their choice of the military branch they want to join as he exclaims that he will enlist into the Survey Corps.
The Female Titan arc[]
The Female Titan appears.
Soon after Eren's enlistment into the Survey Corps, the two Titans captured for research, Sonny and Bean, are killed and the Military Police Brigade check the Three Dimensional Maneuver Gears of the trainees. During this time, Armin, Annie, and Connie Springer discuss which military branch they want to join. When Annie reveals that she will go to the Military Police Brigade, Connie considers joining them too and asks for her opinion. Annie responds by telling him that it's his decision to make, not hers. When she learns Armin plans to join the Survey Corps, she asks him what he would do if he was ordered to die. He tells her if the reasons are good, then he'll do so. Annie thinks he's weak physically, but yet he's very strong at heart. When Annie had offered Marco Bott's 3DMG for inspection as her own, this prompts Armin to become suspicious of her. Ultimately during the Survey Corps draft, Annie leaves to join the Military Police.
During the 57th Expedition of the Survey Corps, Annie makes her first appearance in her Female Titan form as she leads a group of Titans to capture Eren, wiping out the majority of the scouts on the right side of the Survey Corps' formation. Advancing further inside the formation, Annie encounters Armin. Although she corners Armin, she recognizes his face under the hood and decides to spare his life and continues her search for Eren. Armin, Jean and Reiner join together and deduce that she aims to capture Eren, realizing that Annie may have acted upon false information as part of Erwin's plan. The three are able to deduce that it is more likely for Eren to be within the center column; the safest location in the formation.
Armin, Jean and Reiner coordinate a plan together in an attempt to distract Annie to buy the other soldiers some time to regroup, but before they are able to attack her, she is able to outmaneuver them in which she manages to incapacitate Armin. Although Jean engages her in combat, her resilience and awareness of a Titan's weakness allows her to gain the advantage as she is constantly covering the nape of her Titan form's neck. Before Annie is able to kill Jean, a bloodied Armin attempts to distract her by referring to Eren by the nickname of "suicidal bastard" while falsely claiming his death. This causes Annie to halt her movements in state of hesitation and confusion, giving Jean time to escape just as Reiner attempts to attack her. Annie manages to catch Reiner in mid-air, briefly toying with him before seemingly crushing him. Much to Jean and Armin's surprise, Reiner breaks free by slicing off her fingers and manages to come to Armin's aid, leaving Annie as she sits motionless. Just as the trio attempt to flee, Annie begins to head in the direction of the Survey Corps' center column formation, in which Armin deduced that Annie may have learned of Eren's position in the formation. Annie continues to head in the direction of Eren's location, coming across various soldiers of the Survey Corps, killing them in various brutal ways. Though the formation heads into the Forest of Giant Trees, Annie follows suit and eventually catches up to Eren and the Special Operations Squad as they attempt to flee on horseback.
Annie is eventually lured into a trap in which her movements are halted by artillery fire armed with harpoons. This causes Annie to temporarily halt her pursuit as Erwin and members of the Survey Corps attempt to damage her hands in various ways with the intention of pulling her out of her Titan form. Constant provocations by Levi causes her to let out a roar which causes multiple Titans to converge on her position. Much to Erwin's surprise, the roar was intended to provoke the Titans to devour her Female Titan form, thus causing Annie to escape from her Titan form undetected via the use of her 3D Maneuver Gear. Just as Erwin orders all personnel to retreat, Annie later dons a Survey Corps cloak as a form of disguise, firing a green flare to lure Eren and the Special Operations Squad towards her direction.
As Annie meets up with the group, she is mistaken for Levi though not for long, as Gunther questions her identity. Annie makes quick work of Gunther, killing him using her blades. As Eren and the Special Operations Squad continue to flee, Annie transforms into the Female Titan for a second time, thus continuing her pursuit to capture Eren. Although Eren initially wishes to engage her in his Rogue Titan form, the Special Operations Squad manage to convince him to put his faith in them as they begin to engage Annie in combat. Although seemingly gaining the advantage to the point of injuring her and cornering her onto a tree, the Special Operations Squad are suddenly outsmarted by Annie as she displays her ability of selective regeneration and her ability to generate a crystalline substance to protect her nape. Annie systematically kills Eld, Petra, and Oluo, causing Eren to turn back and finally engage her in his Rogue Titan form. The two engage in a brutal fight using hand-to-hand combat techniques, Annie uses her superior combat skills and agility to beat Eren systematically. with her gaining the edge in battle and succeeding in incapacitating Eren's Rogue Titan form with her signature kick. Tired and exhausted from the battle, Eren is captured by Annie by keeping him inside the mouth of her Female Titan form. Although Annie begins to flee, Mikasa gives chase while continuously attacking her in a fit of rage after having witnessed Eren's capture by Annie's Female Titan form.
Mikasa is then joined by Levi, with the two working together to wound Annie as she continues to flee. Although Annie attempts to fight back, she begins to get overwhelmed by the barrage of attacks inflicted by the two, allowing Levi to incapacitate her, gaining the chance to slice her Titan form's mouth and rescue Eren from within. As Mikasa and Levi decide to retreat with the unconscious Eren, Levi witnesses Annie's Female Titan form as it sits motionless while crying. Some time later, Annie awakens in her room in the Stohess District of Wall Sina. Her hair is depicted as having the same appearance as the Female Titan's when not tied up in a bun. Upon arrival with other rookie members of the Military Police Brigade, Annie is teased by Hitch and Marlo Sand, but Boris Feulner tells them to leave her alone, believing that she hasn't recovered from battle and is the only one who has real combat experience. The group is then given an assignment in which they are to guard a Survey Corps convoy with permission to use their 3D Maneuver Gear. Soon after departing for her assignment, Armin approaches her and asks for help in hiding Eren until they can convince the king to better protect the walls. Annie reluctantly agrees whilst putting on a ring and escorts them to a place where they can hide.
When Eren and Armin attempt to convince her to join them in an underground passageway, she refuses for supposedly feeling frightened, all while expressing her suspicion towards their plan. As Eren and Armin continue to plea for Annie to join them and prove herself innocent, Mikasa, growing tired of their discussion, takes off her hood and draws out her blades, revealing her 3D Maneuver Gear. She openly refers to Annie as the Female Titan, taunting her to fight just as two had fought before. Their suspicion is confirmed when Annie noticeably smiles in relief and acceptance of their discovery of her identity as the Female Titan; further proven by her refusal to enter the passage, where she cannot transform. Annie praises Armin's efforts for betting on his plan, declaring afterwards that her gamble has only just begun. After Armin fires a signal, disguised Survey Corps members come out of their hiding places, and restrain Annie. Seemingly captured and immobile, she still manages to flick her thumb to open a small blade hidden in her ring and wound herself, thereby allowing her to transform into her Female Titan form, killing those restraining her in the process. Now, resuming her attempts to capture Eren, Armin and Mikasa realize how desperate she is, and try to get him to fight her. Overcoming his initial hesitation, Eren transforms into his Rogue Titan form and takes Annie on in her Female Titan form.
Annie takes flight towards the wall soon after Eren transforms. She is pursued by him, Mikasa and several Survey Corps squads. The chase continues until Annie reaches a flat land with no buildings. Having nowhere to hook their 3D Maneuver Gear anchors, the Survey Corps squads and Mikasa are forced to take a long detour, while Eren gives chase alone. Annie uses this opportunity for one last ditch attempt at capturing Eren, a brief struggle between the two of them ensues, with Annie giving Eren a brutal beating by bashing his Titans skull with her fist, incapacitating him again. Although initially defeated, Eren's determination to kill Titans causes him to attack, she continues to try and escape by scaling the wall but is caught by Eren. They both battle with Eren popping Annie's eye out. In deep pain Annie frantically elbows Eren and runs towards the wall.
Annie encased in her crystal.
Armin, upon realizing that catching up with her by using 3D Maneuver Gear would be impossible, instructs Titan Eren to throw Mikasa upward, towards Annie. His plan works and Mikasa reaches Annie moments before she is about to reach the top of the wall. Not hesitating in the slightest, she cuts off all of the fingers of Annie's Female Titan form, leaving her struggling to hold on. Mikasa then tells her to fall down and pushes her off via the head. Eren, in his Titan form, holds down the body as both the soldiers, cut into the flesh and try to extract Annie. Upon extracting Annie from the Titan body, they find out Annie is completely enclosed inside a presumably indestructible crystal. Ensuring her inability to be interrogated and damning all their efforts to capture her into being for nothing.
War of Paradis Arc[]
She remains stuck in her crystal for over 4 years, being taken care of by Hitch and Armin. She remained semi-conscious and able to hear the words of her friends. She was released from her crystal when Eren destroys all the Walls, allowing Annie and Hitch to escape Trost District. After spending the night with Hitch, Annie attends a festival to eat pie where she is quickly discovered by Armin, Connie, Gabi, and Falco, leading to an awkward and humorous moment with Connie laughing at her pie stuffed face. Annie eventually agrees to join Armin 's group to stop the Rumbling and leaves a note behind to inform Hitch. While escaping Shiganshina District, Mikasa joins the group. As they leave with provvisions, Annie notices someone looking over them from the military headquarters' window. Before leaving Shiganshina, Gabi leads the group to her cousin Reiner Braun's hideout. Annie kicks Reiner awake so he could join them as well. As the Survey Corps and the Marleyan soldiers gather at a campfire to discuss what to do next, Annie questions if her former enemies are really willing to kill Eren to which they are reluctant to do and points to Mikasa in particular, believing she will be a problem in wanting to kill Eren to which Mikasa takes this as an attack and draws her sword, Annie quickly explains that she understands her feelings and that the main reason she wants to kill Eren is to save her father.
During a battle against the Yeagerists at the port, Annie and Reiner took heavy damage in their Titan forms and healed while on the Azumabito ship. Annie talks with Armin for a bit wondering why he was spending so much time talking to her crystalized, Armin confesses it was because he had feelings for her causing both of them to blush. Armin also tells Annie that hes also guilty of the same crimes she committed while he had the Colossal titan. Once arrived in Marley, Annie chooses not to continue the group's pursuit for Eren, and instead stays on the ship with Kiyomi Azumabito, Gabi, Falco, the mechanics, and Yelena. Reiner makes her Gabi and Falco's guardian and apologizes to both her and the later Bertolt Hoover for forcing them to continue their previous mission, which prevented both Annie and Bertolt from returning home in Liberio. Annie and Reiner share a hug and the former promises to watch over Falco and Gabi.
When the Rumbling reaches the city of Odiha, Annie is in the ship on the sea, guarding the door of a cabin containing the locked Falco and Gabi, who demand to be released and to know why they are locked as the Rumbling came. Later, when Gabi and Falco decide to go on Fort Salta on their own with the latter's winged Jaw Titan form, Annie chooses to join the two.
By the time the trio reach Eren's Founding Titan at Fort Salta, they find that their allies have been forced to fight multiple past incarnations of the Nine Titans, including the recent Warriors and Annie's former comrades. After the Rumbling is halted, the parasite "source of all living matter" turns all the Eldians present at Fort Salta, including Annie's father, into Pure Titans. Due to the efforts of Armin and Mikasa, Eren is killed and the parasite disappears, causing the Power of the Titans to vanish, and reverting Annie's father and the rest of the Titanized Eldians human again.
It is revealed that while in Paths that Eren confessed his true intentions to make her and the rest of her allies into heroes by killing him, causing her to cry. Three years later, Annie, Reiner, Armin, Jean, Pieck, and Connie became the Global Alliance's ambassadors of peace, and journey to Paradis Island to initiate peace negotiations between the Eldians and the rest of humanity.