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“ | Excuse us for buttin' in. | „ |
~ The Leader after killing Mikasa's father. |
The Kidnappers, mainly known as the three robbers or as the bandits, are minor antagonists in Attack on Titan. They were a group of thugs that had hidden connections with criminals from the Underground market beneath the capital Mitras. They were planning on kidnapping Mikasa and her mother so they could be sold into sex slavery. They directly caused the death of both Mikasa's parents and despite their short appearance in the show, they had an important impact on Mikasa Ackerman's character and Eren Yeager's worldview.
Appearance[]
The appearance of each kidnapper is different from the other.
The Leader[]
The leader appears to be a small man with a short, dark brown beard. His hair hides under a grey wool cap. He wears a black jacket with a light grey button-up shirt under it.
The Axe-man[]
This kidnapper is presumably the oldest of the trio and also the tallest. He appears to be quite thin and lanky, but can give off an intimidating presence. He has short dirty blonde hair and a short mustache. He wears a green jacket and a black shirt under it, as well as a brown scarf.
The Latecomer[]
The latecomer is seemingly the youngest and the most well dressed. He wears a simple black suit and tie, with a white shirt underneath. He has short brown hair that he keeps shaven to resemble something like a flattop.
Personality[]
Despite being three separate people, the kidnappers have a lot of similar character traits; They all seemed to share the same amount of cruelty and inhumanity. They didn't seem to have any problem using brute force to get what they want and having no remorse for their extreme actions or what could have possibly happened to Mikasa. Seemingly having no morals if it meant being granted with a large reward. This extreme lack of empathy caused them to commit brutal acts that as a result heavily traumatizing a young Mikasa and damaged the worldview of a young Eren Yeager.
The Leader[]
The leader appears to be the most rational one of the three. Trying to keep being objective and looking at his plan with care, but when something went wrong with said plan he quickly lost his composure; like when the Axe-Man impulsively killed Mikasa's mother. Despite his stoic demeanor, he had no care for the pain Mikasa went trough and the times when he did comment on the inhumane actions he was only concerned that his plan would go wrong and that he wouldn't be able to make money. He seems further on to be quite detached around others, speaking with little emotion (except for when he's angry) and often having an uncaring expression on his face.
He does seem to be a bit knowledgeable; knowing about the history of the Oriental bloodline where Mikasa and her mother stemmed from, even tough he believed that most people knew about this, information about specific bloodlines wasn't actually known to the population.
The Axe-man[]
The Axe-Man is the most straightforward and dangerous of the three. He can be best described as being the personification of vicious impulsivity. When he got attacked by Mikasa's mother, he murdered her despite the fact that he could have also just knocked her unconscious, he only listens to what comes to him in his head and then immediately does it, instead of thinking the best course of action through. He is also rather brash and blunt in his way of speaking not showing much concern how his actions can cause problems for their plan and this creates a small argument between him and the leader.
Despite his cruel nature, he does seem to be capable of taking a peaceful approach to handling things; when a young Eren Yeager pretended as though he was lost and couldn't find his way out of the forest, the Axe-Man started speaking in a more nice and calm way in order to make Eren leave their cabin.
The Latecomer[]
Although The Latecomer is the least characterized of the three and has least amount of screen time, he gives the impression of being quite reckless and hot-headed. When he found both of his companions dead, he was overwhelmed with rage and tried to strangle Eren to death. As he started to strangle him, Eren was trying to get Mikasa to kill him, however, he didn't seem to care about Mikasa at that point and was only focused on Eren because of his anger. This eventually gave Mikasa the opportunity to stab him in the back with a knife, killing him.
Biography[]
Past[]
In the year 844, when Mikasa Ackerman was nine years old at the time, the three robbers murdered her parents and kidnapped her. On that day, she listens to her parents who are waiting for a visit from their doctor. As the couple talks about when Doctor Grisha Yeager might arrive, they suddenly hear a knock on the door. Mikasa's father opens it and welcomes Dr. Yeager, but is immediately stabbed by the person at the door. As Mr. Ackerman falls to the floor Mikasa and her mother look confused to what is going on. The Leader of the three kidnappers comfortably walks in with one of his accomplices, while the "Latecomer" stays outside the door. When the Axe holding man starts threatening them, Mikasa's mother attempts to fight back against him and yells to Mikasa that she has to run, but the man holding the axe panics, loses his patience and strikes his axe into her shoulder, killing her. This causes The Leader of the group to angrily berate him, because their plan was to only kill the father. He then orders the Axe-Man to take Mikasa with them. He walks to Mikasa and warns her not to retaliate, then punches her in the face and knocks her unconscious.
After some hours pass, The Leader and the Axe-Man sought refuge in an abandoned cabin. The leader asks his accomplice to look at Mikasa and tell him what she's worth. The man replies she's cute but not really his type because of her age. The Leader then tells that not only are there plenty enough people from the Underground market that would be interested in having her, Mikasa is from the Oriental clan, a family from an unknown place called "Asia", and the only ones who managed to reach the Walls. As such, Mikasa is now supposedly the last of her kind within the Walls and in the world. He explains that because of her race and the rarity of it in the Walls, they would be able to obtain an extra high price if they sold her to sex slavers or some rich perverted citizen in the Underground market. The Axe-Man arrogantly responds that because her father wasn't an Oriental, therefore Mikasa isn't of pure-blood so they won't get that much of an extra prize out of her. The leader angrily replies that the mother would have been the real deal, because she was of pure blood, but now she's not worth anything because she's in "pieces". While the Axe-Man tries to defend himself, Mikasa slowly comes back to consciousness.
Before their argument can continue, Eren, who had with his father discovered the bodies of the Ackerman family a couple of hours ago, arrived at the cabin. The Axe-Man angrily lashes out at him asking how he found their hiding spot. Eren pretends that he is lost in the forest and he isn't able find his way back. The Axe-Man looks at The Leader who gives a hand gesture that he needs to make Eren go away. He begins to console Eren in order to get rid of him, but he is stabbed by him in his throat while he is off his guard. The Leader jumps up from his chair from shock and Eren walks out of the room and closes the door. The Leader angrily runs out the room with an axe in his hand but, Eren took another knife tied it to a broomstick and impales the leader through his shoulder. While they both fall back into the room again Eren jumps onto the leader's belly and begins furiously stabbing him repeatedly in the chest while screaming that this is what he deserves.
As The Leader lies dead on the floor Eren unties Mikasa, but she tells him that there was a third kidnapper with them. Suddenly the door opens and the Latecomer appears, shocked at the sight of his dead accomplices. He kicks Eren across the room, before he can grab a knife and begins to strangle Eren in a fit of rage. Eren while slowly losing consciousness tells Mikasa to fight. She grabs Eren's knife, fearfully standing still not knowing what to do. Until she experiences the Coordinate's "Awakening" of the Ackerman superhuman strength and mental resolve, giving her the focus and power to rush at the kidnapper and stab the man in the back, piercing his heart. The bodies of the three kidnappers were later discovered by the Military Police soldiers that Eren's father Grisha had alerted, shocked that a couple of kids were capable of this.
Battle of Trost District arc[]
Six years later, in 850, while Eren is carrying the giant boulder in his Titan form, he starts to talk in his inner monologue about his belief of how every person was born with "the gift of freedom" and that people who are trying to take that away don't matter, (while saying this, Eren remembers the moment when he attacked the leader of the Kidnappers.)
Female Titan arc[]
The Commander of the Military Police, Nile Dawk, conducts an investigation about Eren's character and background in order to find anything to use against him at the court martial, in order to win a political-military trial. Nile brings out to the General Darius Zackly, the jury and all the people present the event of six years ago, revealing the time when Eren and Mikasa, two children of nine, managed to mercilessly kill three grown men. While he concedes that their actions were justified self-defense, he tells the court that the lack of humanity in their actions should be questioned and that Eren is not a trustworthy figure for humanity, due to his character and personality being quite unsettling. This leads to speculation that not only Eren is a Titan; Mikasa might be one too, and they're both enemy invaders allies of the Colossal and Armored Titans trying to deceive humanity by posing as saviors of Trost. In time over the months, Eren and Mikasa will clear their names.
War for Paradis arc[]
In 854, while Mikasa locks Louise in her jail cell, the latter asks the former why she joined the Survey Corps, as she thinks that it's because of Eren. Mikasa tells her not to talk about it. As she walks away, she suddenly starts to get painful headaches and thinks back to her memory of Eren stabbing the Leader of the kidnappers to death, along with Eren then calmly walking to Mikasa, without any sign of shock nor trembling, despite his first murders, saying the everything will be fine. While not regretful for killing one of the kidnappers, Mikasa still sees the event in a far different and darker light than she did in her younger years. While she once saw Eren as nothing but a savior, now in her mind, she recalls Eren's face after his kills in a more disturbing way, showing a rather dangerous and mentally unhinged child. Horrified by Eren's recent actions in Marley, Mikasa wonders if she'd been in denial about who Eren really is and if the way he handled the kidnappers as a child should've been the first indication of this.
Whilst visiting several memories of their father, Grisha Yeager, Eren shows his half-brother Zeke Yeager, the time when Grisha found the dead bodies of the three robbers and angrily told Eren about the weight of his actions, whilst Eren remorselessly, without any sign of trauma, told him that he simply disposed of three dangerous beasts who happened to resemble men. Zeke is slightly disturbed by Eren's behavior at an early age and Eren explains to him that he was never brainwashed by his father as Zeke can see how Grisha disapproves of Eren's behavior in the memory. Eren goes on to explain that he just kills whoever tries to take "his freedom", claiming that instead he will "take theirs" and that he has been this way "since the day he was born."
Alternate Reality[]
Lost in the Cruel World[]
Mikasa imagines a different version of her life during the years 844 and 845, which ends with Eren's death at the age of ten. In this alternate reality, Mikasa meets Eren under much more peaceful circumstances, the way it was supposed to be, had the the three robbers not come. It is the same day when in reality both Mikasa's parents had been killed. In this imaginary reality instead, the bandits decided to take a break and camp in the woods for a while, before reaching the Ackermans' house, and at some point they end up being attacked and killed by a group of wild dogs. Their ravaged bodies are later found by Eren and Mikasa while they are exploring the woods. They call their parents and Grisha reports the bodies to the Military Police, who arrive and later inform him that they were three wanted criminals, guilty of many serious crimes.