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Armin Arlert (アルミン・アルレルトArumin Arureruto?) is a childhood friend of Eren's
and the deuteragonist in the series. Although physically more frail
than most, if not all of the current recruits, he has proven his skills
as a field tactician and strategist with his high intelligence.
Personality
Armin ready to save the situation
Armin was very timid as a child, and coupled with the fact that he
was physically frail, often ended up an easy target for bullies. He was
so timid that he would refuse to fight back despite being taunted to do
so, always needing Eren Yeager and Mikasa Ackerman
to fend for him. As such, he grew up having very low opinion of
himself, thinking that he was useless. He enlisted only because his two
best friends, Eren and Mikasa, were enlisting. Despite being timid, he
has a variety of traits and talents that contrasts to his timid self,
which began showing as he grew older and learnt to appreciate his own
talents and develop a higher opinion of himself. He has a big dream of
wanting to venture outside the walls to see the world - a dream that he
shares with Eren. He is also a loyal person who is willing to put
himself in harm's way to defend a friend, shown when he was, along with
Mikasa, willing to defend Eren against hostile fellow soldiers despite
the very high risk of being killed. During training, despite always on
the verge of failure due to his physical frailty, he was shown to be
very persistent despite the odds, refusing to give up and did his best
to catch up with his friends. He was also shown during training to have a
sense of dignity when Reiner offered to carry his gear for him during a
drill and he refused the offer outright due to the fact that doing so
would mean that he was weak and uncapable. He is the brains of the team
and he impressed Dot Pixis, the high ranking officer in charge of the
cities defense, by his brilliant plan to attract the Titans during the
battle of Trost.
Appearance
Armin is rather short, for his age with a petite build; this lead to
his constant bullying as a child. Armin has a round face, framed by his
blonde hair and he has round blue-eyes and a pudgy nose. He, unlike
Eren, wears a calm look with his eyebrows cast downward that changes
from determined, when being strategic, or wide-eyed when shocked or
surprised.
During his childhood, he wore a long-sleeved suit-like jacket
with a collared shirt, long dress-pants and dress shoes. As a solider,
Armin wears the traditional Survey Corps uniform. Underneath his short
brown jacket, he wears a white and collared button up shirt, similar to
the one he'd worn as an adolescent. Armin also accompanies his attire
with a large green cape when assigned missions on the exterior of the
Wall.
History
Before Year 845
Armin originally lived in Shiganshina
with his parents and grandfather. He was a close friend to Eren and
used to discuss with him about the outside world with its salty oceans,
deserts and other surreal places. He inspired him to dream about being
free and explore the world beyond the Walls. He used to get into trouble
with local bullies for talking about the outside world and was regarded
as a heretic.
Armin, Eren and Mikasa see the Colossal Titan
In year 845, Armin is first introduced being confronted by local
school bullies until Eren and Mikasa come to his rescue. The trio would
then loiter around as Eren continues to muse about his desire to join
the Survey Corps. Later in the afternoon, the Colossal Titan would
appear and breach the Shiganshina district of Wall Maria, which causes
Eren and Mikasa to head in the direction of their house. Though Armin
attempts to call out to them, he holds himself back out of fear.
Unbeknownst to Eren and Mikasa, he asks Hannes
to fetch the two as they were going too close towards the Titans'
direction. He and his grandfather sit aboard a ship, waiting for Eren
and Mikasa. A year later, Armin's grandfather left with other refugees
on a campaign to retake Wall Maria. However, he died on the mission and
Armin was left alone with Mikasa and Eren.
Armin decides to join military training along with Mikasa and Eren,
because after his parents and grandfather got killed, he couldn't sit
around doing nothing. He was able to pass the basic aptitude test after
some effort and tries to help Eren with it. Armin was considered weak in
physical strength and graduated below the top ten. However, he was top
of the class when it came to theoretical courses. Although his plans
have saved Eren and Mikasa several times, he doesn't realize it and despises himself for being reliant on them.
Armin fears humanity's fate when he hears of the attack on Trost. He
trembles in fear and was having problems in fixing his gear, when Eren
tells him that not all was lost. Armin joins Eren's squad to guard the
middle of Trost and departs with him to their prescribed location. On
the way, Titans attack and eat up everyone in his squad except him.
Armin supposedly blamed himself for allowing Eren to sacrifice himself
to the bearded Titan. Mikasa tells Armin that his strategies have always saved their lives and he should have more faith in himself.
In Trost's military headquarters, a number of Titans were
attacking them and had took control of the supply depot. Armin devised a
plan, wherein the soldiers would lower themselves via an elevator and
lure the seven Titans towards them. As soon as they get close enough,
everyone would shoot their eyes with firearms, momentarily blinding them
and seven skilled soldiers, who would be hiding beforehand, would
attack and kill those Titans from behind. The plan succeeded and
everyone was able to refill their gas tanks to return alive.
Eren, Mikasa and Armin surrounded by the soldiers
After recovering Eren, he was detained by a group of soldiers and was
going to be executed. Armin and Mikasa defend him, as he wakes up and
is surprised. Eren plans to escape over the walls unless Armin was able
to convince the soldiers regarding Eren's value to humanity. Eren tells
him that his quick thinking had saved him and Mikasa before, as he was
the one who went to Hannes when Shinganshina was being attacked. Armin,
more confident than ever, walks over and tries convincing the soldiers
about Eren's strategic and tactical importance in turning the tide of
the battle in Trost. As a soldier, he passionately decides to die for
this cause and makes a grand salute. Pixis notices his determination and passion and prevents their execution.
Now with a boost in self-confidence, he tells the senior
strategists about a plan to retake Trost. He tells them that Eren could
carry the boulder over to the hole while other soldiers could lure the
Titans towards the walls. They proceed with the plan. Later, when Eren
lost control and was knocked out, Armin goes running towards Eren and
lands on his back. He remembers the position from where Eren had risen
earlier, so stabs him a little askew so that it wouldn't be fatal, but
would wake him up. He reminds Eren of his dream to go outside and his
personal vendetta against the Titans. Eren, successfully motivated by
Armin's effort, carries the boulder and plugs the breach.
After the news had spread that two Titans, Sonny and Bean
, were slain, Armin along with other trainees from the 104th Trainee
Squad are called in for inspection. Armin, Annie and Connie discuss
which branch of the military they would join, in which Armin declares
his decision to join. Unbeknownst to Annie, Armin notices that she is
possession of Marco's Three Dimensional Maneuver Gear. He realizes that Annie might have been the one who killed the two Titans but decided not to believe his train of thoughts.
Armin encounters the Female Titan
After joining the Survey Corps with Eren, Mikasa and the other graduates (excluding Annie Leonhart),
they went outside Wall Rose for the Survey Corps's 57th expedition,
when they were confronted by the sudden appearance of the Female Titan,
seemingly knowledgeable about military
formation. She attacked Armin while he was wearing his hood, under the
impression that he was Eren. However, once it was removed, she realized
she had the wrong subject and left him aside. Armin noticed a few things
regarding the female Titan: she avoided killing Jean and him even
though she had the chance, and it seemed as though Reiner had carved
letters onto her palms, after which she directly charged towards the
rear of the middle flank. Furthermore, she reacted to Eren's nickname
when Armin deceptively called on Jean to "avenge the suicidal
bastard." Adding the knowledge that Annie had used Marco's gear during
the checkup, Armin realized Annie was, indeed, the Female Titan.
Annie confronted by Armin
Armin asks Annie for her help in hiding Eren because she was in the
military police and they needed her to let them pass through Wall Shina
without suspicion. Annie accepts and Armin explained that he wanted to
take advantage of the geography there rather than use the 3DMG to bust
through. As she was leading them to a hiding place, Annie refused to go
inside to help them escape and asked him why he was looking at her with
suspicion. Armin then took the time to ask her the reason she was in
possession of Marco Bott's
3DMG. He recognized it not too long ago because he and Marco would
often do routine check-ups to make sure they were in pristine shape.
Annie confessed that she found it after Marco died and that she used her
own 3DMG to kill the two captured Titans. She then asked him if he had
already come to all those conclusions, why hadn't he taken action
earlier. Armin reasoned that he didn't do so because he wished to
believe that there was still something wrong with his train of thoughts.
It was when Annie refused to kill him that things turned out the way
they did.
Armin attempts to capture Annie by firing the signal from his
flare gun letting the townspeople capture her. As the people tried to
restrain her, she managed to injure herself with a sharp metal
projection hidden in her father's ring. Noticing this, Mikasa grabs both
Eren and Armin and takes them further underground as Annie in her Titan
form attempts to capture them. When Armin learns his plan had failed he
attempted to start plan B, trying to encourage Eren to fight Annie.
Eren tried to transform into his Titan form, but he was unable to do it.
It was only then Mikasa and Armin learned why, he was reluctant to
fight Annie again because he still couldn't believe that Annie was
indeed their enemy. And he didn't want to fight against one of his
comrades. Having no other option, Armin tells Eren that he and Mikasa
would go out through each of the two openings. Annie would go after one
of them and Eren should utilize the opportunity to escape via the other
opening. Realizing that his friends were in danger, Eren finally
transforms into a Titan and fights Annie.
After Annie's capture, Armin tells Jean Kirstein
that Eren's summonings to the King were cancelled and that Annie is the
Female Titan. She's been detained underground after encasing herself in
a crystal to avoid interrogation. Armin couldn't understand how the
walls were built in the first place because there were no stones or
bricks around. He hypothesizes that the Titan's hardening capabilities
were employed to build the walls. He believes it could explain how Annie
was able to encase herself in a crystal.
Armin's hypothesis was confirmed when the rock sample Lt. Hange had picked up from Annie's body matched the crystal properties of the Walls. He and the others learn from Lt. Hange that the only way they could repair the walls is if Eren can use his hardening abilities to help fix Wall Rose. Pastor Nick
tells them about a girl in the Survey Corps knowing more about what's
going on and it's up to her to decide if she'll talk. Armin then
recognized Krista because she was often seen with Ymir.
Once the Survey Corps had rescued the others from the South Squad, Armin learns that Krista's real name is Historia
and how heavily injured Ymir was during her fight with the Titans. He
immediately learns of Reiner and Berthold's secret correspondence with
Annie. Like Mikasa, Armin was very angry to learn about their betrayal
after overhearing the confession about them being responsible for Wall
Maria being breached.
During the battle with Bertolt and
Reiner, Armin states that the Colossal has very slow movements and that
they should exploit it. However, they were taken by surprise when
he uses his vapors of heat to keep them off him. Realising that Berthold
is just as desperate to stay alive, Lt. Hange orders Armin and the
other members of the Survey Corps to go after Reiner. Armin discovers a
weak link to Reiner's line of defense when he saw his armor break.
Giving Mikasa and extra set of blades, he tells her to go ofter the back
of his knee caps. Soon Berthold took everyone by surprise by falling
off the wall.
With Eren and Ymir now kidnapped by Bertolt and Reiner, he
focuses his attention in helping Mikasa and the others until help
arrives. Armin tells her the news that she had been dreading and
wrapping her lower face in the scarf, she cried. She asks him why he
always has to leave them behind when trouble rises. As Armin tries to
console her, Hannes arrives to give out rations to everyone in the
Survey Corps. He tells them that Eren has always been like that, running
into fights despite knowing the odds are against him. Hannes even
mentions that although he won't admit it, he always knew Armin and
Mikasa were there to help him out. Reinvigorated and determined to
rescue both Eren and Ymir, he takes his stance with the Survey Corps,
Wall Guards and Military Police. Armin wants Historia to stay within the
walls, but she refuses and decides to join them.
Armin and the others reach the Forest of Giant Trees
where Reiner and Bertolt were resting. While inside the forest on their
3D gears, they notice Ymir's Titan form. Armin suspiciously notices
that she was surveying everyone and wasn't responding to anyone. His
suspicions were confirmed when she captures Krista and escapes. He
realizes that Ymir was definitely working against them.
A short time later, he joins the other former members of the
104th in confronting the traitors. He remains silent during the initial
confrontation, and is forced to briefly retreat when Erwin Smith
lures a swarm of Titans into attacking the Armored Titan. When his
commander is wounded and carried off by a Titan, Armin remains focused
on the mission and joins the second attempt to retrieve Eren. Using his
gear to climb onto the Armored Titan's head, he desperately attempts to
think of what can be "sacrificed" in order to change their situation.
Remembering Bertolt 's concern when Annie joined another branch alone,
Armin informs her accomplices that she has been captured. Taking his
bluff a step further, he inquires whether they intend to leave her
behind in the Northern District, and cruelly describes how she is being
tortured. This has the intended effect, shocking Reiner and driving
Bertolt into a rage.
This allows Erwin, now missing an arm, to wound Bertolt and free Eren.
With their mission accomplished, Armin and the others attempt to retreat
as quickly as possible. However, their path is blocked when Reiner
panics and begins to throw Titans to prevent their escape.
This horrifies Armin, and he wonders why Reiner would do this
when it endangers Eren. At some point during the battle, a Titan lands
near him and knocks Jean unconscious. With no where to run, Armin drags
Jean towards a small cluster of trees and prepares to face an advancing
Titan with only one sword. He looks towards where Eren and Mikasa are,
seeing them in just as desperate a situation. The friends exchange
teary-eyed glances, preparing for the end.
He is saved when Eren's power as the Coordinate manifests, causing the Titans to attack first the Smiling Titan
and then the Armored Titan. This allows Armin to retrieve a horse, and
carry a wounded Jean to safety. They retreat from the battlefield,
mourning for the loss of Hannes and remembering their childhood with him.
A week later, Armin would be recruited by Levi to form a new
Special Operations Squad alongside the remaining members of the 104th's
top 10 trainees. During their first official operation, Armin serves as a
body double for Historia, and is eventually captured by the
organization that wishes to take possession of Eren and Historia.
Abilities
Armin discusses the plan of retaking Trost
Being one of the physically weakest soldiers there are, he is rarely
assigned to the frontlines and rarely seen using his 3DMG for fights.
His main strength however, lies within his intelligence - an innate
abilities in deduction and forming strategies, be it in a war room or on
the fly, as well as an eye for obscure details, making him a remarkable
field tactician, a trait that only he displays among the current
recruits. His strategies helped save his fellow soldiers numerous times
and more remarkably, he is the key person who deduced the identities of
all hostile Titan shifters among the current recruits. He wasn't able to
display his remarkable intelligence earlier due to a serious lack of
confidence in himself. After acknowledging that he is actually far more
useful than he thought he is, his genius as a tactician began to show
and thus far, even commanders are shown to take his opinions in matters
relating to Titans seriously.
Eren Yeager
- Eren is Armin's closest friend. Armin has always looked up to Eren as
he was always trying to save him from local bullies. He used to discuss
with Eren about the outside world and gave him dreams about exploration
and freedom. Armin initially felt that he was worthless and incompetent
in front of him. Eren, on the other hand, believed that his reasoning
abilities had saved him and Mikasa a number of times and trusted him
deeply. Eren gave him enough confidence to face a group of soldiers to
convince them of his strategical value to humankind.
Mikasa Ackerman
- Mikasa is a close friend of Armin's. Whenever Armin got into trouble
with local bullies, Mikasa would come and save him. Armin looked up to
Mikasa's strength and courage and felt inferior to her. Mikasa, however,
believed in Armin's abilities to reason out the best solution in a dire
situation and trusted him deeply. She was responsible for boosting
Armin's confidence and shaping his character.
Jean Kirstein
- While Armin was initially not that close to Jean due to the latter's
rivalry with Eren, their relationship has changed considerably since
joining the Survey Corps. Armin's growth as a strategist has aligned
with Jean's growth as a leader, and the two often share insights or
opinions with one another.
Annie Leonhart
- The two are shown to share a mutual respect for each other,
expressing admiration for each others' hidden qualities. This causes her
to hesitate when attacking in her Titan form, a mistake which allows
Armin to discover her true identity. He then uses emotional blackmail in
order to lure her into a trap and facilitates her eventual capture.
Reiner Braun
- Reiner is shown to have been protective of Armin, helping him during
physical training exercises and carrying him to safety during dangerous
operations. Armin initially defends him when he is suspected of being a
spy, but quickly realizes the truth and provides evidence of Reiner's
guilt.
Marco Bott
- Armin notes that they were friends, and did maintenance of their gear
together. This later allows him to recognize Marco's stolen gear when
it is presented by Annie as her own.
Trivia
Armin's character design for the animeThe name "Armin" may have multiple meanings, either from an old German word meaning "whole", or "Herman", meaning "soldier".
His birthday, November 3rd, is celebrated in Japan as Culture Day. This holiday promotes academics, culture, and the fine arts.
In sideart for Volume 11, Armin, along with a few other
characters, was depicted transforming into a Titan. His form had a large
head that was almost the same size as his small body.
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