tragic backstories

lalondes:

eren: mother devoured by a titan before his eyes

mikasa: parents brutally murdered right in front of her, kidnapped by slavers, barely escaped alive

armin: parents and grandfather sent to wither away in death camps

historia: raised in total isolation as a bastard child, forced to assume a false identity to survive

ymir: wandered in the wild as a titan for sixty years unable to assume a human form

jean: chubby as a toddler