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aberrant_type) wrote2014-09-27 05:31 pm
aberrant_type) wrote2014-09-27 05:31 pm
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OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Senri
Contact: undead.invader(at)gmail.com/Sushiflop@plurk
Reference: 8| Red or Stick or both
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Zoe Hange
Series: Attack on Titan
Canon notes: Original universe, fresh from canon. Her canon point is after the colossal titan and the armored titan made off with Eren; Hange was left on top of the wall to recover after directing the forces of humanity to where she was sure they'd catch up with Eren.
History: There's some specialized vocabulary and background knowledge you need to fully understand Hange's world, so I'll give it to you now.
We don't know a great many details about Hange's past, but here's what canon tells us:
At some point several years precanon (probably at least five years, and very probably more), Zoe Hange joined the scouting legion. At this time, she displayed the 'standard' feelings towards titans displayed by most characters during the series: that is, hating them completely and only wanting to see them destroyed.
However, during her first excursion outside the walls, Hange's attitude changed. The pivotal instance she describes in canon is the moment when she successfully killed a titan and then victoriously kicked its head. The head bounced much further from her kick than it should have, and this observation changed Hange's life. She began to notice more strange things about titans, such as how light their body parts were in comparison to their enormous size, and eventually concluded that titans must have a nature "completely different" than how they were usually perceived by humans.
These observations eventually caused a complete change in her behavior: whereas before she'd been enraged by titans, now she wanted to study them. She was fascinated by everything about them, from their psychology to their physique, and her expertise changed from simply being a soldier: Hange became humanity's number one titan researcher.
Time passes! The main events of canon begin! The main character, Eren, is discovered to be a titan shifter, that is: a human who can change into a titan. He's discovered and then his fate is rendered uncertain in quick succession. Some humans want to kill and dissect him, while others want to use him as a weapon against the titans. This marks the first significant place we meet Hange in the canon continuity: she's one of the scouts who comes to talk to Eren. She's encouraging and professional to him, and along with some other scouts she takes Eren to stand before the tribunal of humans who decides what will be done with him.
This is the beginning of an extremely positive Hange-Eren relationship. Eren is deemed fit to live, and given to the scouts. Obviously this is exciting for Hange, since 1) it offers a huge potential breakthrough for humanity in the war! 2) she gets to study Eren.
Hange is excited about Eren and his abilities, instead of seeming mistrustful like many of the other scouts. He's puzzled by her enthusiasm for titans until she explains the origin of her change in attitude to him, and although Eren finds her a bit baffling at times, he also seems to respond well to her explaining things to him and communicating to him.
All seems like it's going okay until two live titan specimens are killed by someone mysterious! Which sets off a search to find out who the killer is. There's not much time to look at the new recruits carefully, though, before a trip outside the walls is planned.
The purpose of the trip is actually to flush out other potential (traitorous to humanity) titan shifters! And, oh, it hella works - scouts are chased down and killed en masse by the female-type titan as she searches for Eren. Hange is there tosave the day!! help to capture the female-type titan - she and her squad left the walls in advance of the rest of the group and laid a little trap for the enemy of humanity, using equipment Hange designed. Of course, everything goes wrong, the female-type escapes, killing more scouts as she does, the whole mission is regarded as a disgrace and Eren is sent to meet the death sentence he avoided before...
Except not, as the scouts lay another trap to catch the female-type titan, as they've zeroed in on her human identity. Violence erupts within the walls! Peacefully capturing the female-type's human form doesn't work! More scouts as well as innocent civilians die, and Eren is forced to assume his titan form in an attempt to stop the female-type from escaping! And Hange is there to direct the combat in a team with Eren. This is also where they discover that the walls that protect humanity are apparently full of titans.
There's a certain section of humanity that worships the walls as gods! It's called the wall sect. A high-ranking wall sect member, hereafter referred to as Father Nick, approaches Hange, frantically demanding that she cover up the hole in the wall (titans subsist of photosynthesis, so this has special urgency as when the titan is exposed to sunlight, it might well break free of the wall and go on a frenzy devouring helpless humans).
Hange gets really angry. And you can see both the rage and suffering on her face as she demands to know why there are titans in the wall, demands to know what Father Nick knows about the nature of titans. It's easy to understand her ire: the most important thing scouts do is probably research and collect new information. Scouts have died trying to find things out that, apparently, humanity already knew.
Father Nick almost gets dropped off the wall to his death before Hange regains control of herself. Unfortunately for our heroes, there's barely any time to think, even after this disaster; Eren is safe, free of his death sentence, but the new recruits are moved out to a secluded house in the countryside, the search for other traitorous titan shifters begins, and there are reports of a breach in the wall that has allowed titans to pour in to human-occupied territory!
Hange isn't there for a lot of this, but the humans do a lot of running around trying to find the hole in the wall that's permitted the titans to invade... until it's revealed that there's no hole at all, and the titans appeared in the wall through mostly mysterious circumstances. Hange only reappears to help rescue a gaggle of recruits who are the only survivors of a group of full-fledged scouts and recruits who went to search for the wall breach. There, she identifies another titan shifter, Ymir, who isn't a traitor to humanity but might not be its ally either.
The humans climb to the top of the top of the wall. They need some time to rest and regroup, and discuss the things they've learned and experienced... alas, they won't have much time at all, as the colossal titan and the armored titan, two more dangerous titan shifters, reveal themselves. Immediately the scouts are locked into pitched battle with the shifters, and Hange does a great job teaming up and giving directions to Eren in his titan form, as well as realizing how to defeat the almost-invulnerable armored titan.
Alas: in the end Eren is captured, and carried away outside the wall. Hange, injured from her attack on the colossal titan, is left behind, but before the healthy scouts leave to retrieve Eren, she gives directions to where she thinks the titan shifters will take Eren and go to ground, to rest before they head home...
And her hypothesis is spot-on. Hange would probably be thrilled to find that out if she didn't arrive in space right after that.
Personality: The first thing people probably notice about Hange is her surplus of energy as well as her incredible passion for titans. It's easy to imagine how she must be off-putting to most people: imagine someone showing up at the site of a storm that had devastated your town, only for them to wax passionate about the beauty and majesty of the storm as bodies began to rot under the rubble.
So that's Hange: dissonantly passionate about the creatures that have decimated humanity. It's hard not to notice that about her, as she talks about titans at length to anyone who will listen, gushes about titans and how interesting they are to her comrades, and is absolutely thrilled at the opportunity to get close to and interact with titans. She cries while giving them pain tests even when they don't seem to react at all to being stabbed and tortured.
However, the joy Hange takes in studying titans didn't come to her easily, or naturally. It stemmed from her scientist's mind beginning to question the nature of titans when she first began killing them outside the walls... and that questioning led to her complete change in attitude. Basically, she forcefully rerouted her own emotions so that she could better look at things with a different perspective. Instead of despising her titan experimental subjects, she talks to them like they're children. Instead of being afraid of Eren's shifter abilities, she's excited to touch his titan flesh and excited to find out what else he can do. Her weird love for titans extends from her desire to win the war against them and her love for humanity and desire to save them, but sometimes the rage bursts out.
One example of the way Hange can be dark is her treatment of Father Nick at first. She's furious with him. She grabs him by the collar and threatens to kill him unless he spills the beans on what he knows. Her face as she demands information is angry but also seems tormented as she brings up the deaths of comrades: deaths that might have been for nothing, given that some humans have information about titans they're not telling. Hange can torture for information when she has to. It might be something that makes her sick, but she can do it. Her thirst for victory, for justice for humanity, can lead to her really doing whatever it takes.
That said, she can be deeply compassionate and understanding of others. She's a good commander who cares for her comrades. When she directs soldiers in an attack against the colossal titan, she both rallies then and calls them back when they're in danger. She does a great job teaming up with Eren and really utilizing his abilities as a titan shifter. She helps to flush out the traitorous titan shifters who try to destroy humanity.
Hange is watchful, adaptable, smart and driven. She's curious and cheerful and furious at the injustices of the world. She's a great leader in charge of a lot of soldiers, who will move ruthlessly against her enemies, and hurt and threaten them if she has to. Her separate parts might be contradictory, but none of these aspects is fake; they're just the various ways she's adapted to survive in her dangerous, cruel, beautiful world. And at heart, Hange is also a teacher: she'll share her knowledge, her techniques for adaptation, and everything she knows, so that others can survive in her world too.
Abilities: Hange has no superhuman abilities, at least as of yet... unless Isayama decides to surprise us by making her a titan shifter or something. Otherwise!
- 3DMG use: obviously, she's not equipped with this as of yet, but if she ever puts it back together Hange is a practiced user of the 3D maneuver gear humanity uses to fight titans. This makes her combat-ready in a variety of terrains, though she'd have trouble on flat ground.
- athleticism: you have to be really strong to use the 3DMG. Trainees have make like gymnasts while still wearing the harness, belt, and swords that make up the 3DMG. Hange is no exception; she's generally athletic and in great shape.
- strategy: Hange is able to make up strategies on the fly and predict what decisions her opponents will make.
- wisdom: her wisdom stat, given by Isayama, weighs in at 11. Hange is a great scientist and always eager to learn more about the world. Not only that, she learns fast and can apply new knowledge.
- emotional control: imagine Hange's aggressive cheerfulness transmuted into ravenous rage. Then realize that she actually has that rage built up inside her, and realize that she uses her anger to drive her forward without (usually) actually expressing it to people. Hange has great self-awareness of herself and uses it to manage her emotions. She's not impossible to shake, and her cheer isn't impossible to break, but it's difficult.
Augment Skillset: Lab support. She's gonna do the SCIENCE
Sample: SHAZAM
Name/Handle: Senri
Contact: undead.invader(at)gmail.com/Sushiflop@plurk
Reference: 8| Red or Stick or both
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Zoe Hange
Series: Attack on Titan
Canon notes: Original universe, fresh from canon. Her canon point is after the colossal titan and the armored titan made off with Eren; Hange was left on top of the wall to recover after directing the forces of humanity to where she was sure they'd catch up with Eren.
History: There's some specialized vocabulary and background knowledge you need to fully understand Hange's world, so I'll give it to you now.
- In Zoe's canon the world is beset by titans, giant humanoids who don't seem to be generally intelligent or sentient at first and who devour other humans! Titans are very difficult to kill, and being eaten by one is a nasty, brutal way to die. Humans have hit some dark times due to pressure from the advancing titans, and they live inside giant walls so they won't be eaten by titans now.
- At some point in human history, the 3-D Maneuver Gear, which allows humans to fight titans, is invented. With the gear (hereafter referred to as 3DMG) comes the hopeful possibility of humans eventually being able to defeat the titans and reclaim their lost world.
- There are three branches of the military, two of which have to do with dealing with titans in some way: the stationary troops, who guard and maintain the walls that surround humanity and keep it safe, the scouting legion, which explores the world outside the walls and tries to learn more about titans so eventually humans can defeat them and live outside the walls again, and the military police, who deal with human criminals inside the walls.
We don't know a great many details about Hange's past, but here's what canon tells us:
At some point several years precanon (probably at least five years, and very probably more), Zoe Hange joined the scouting legion. At this time, she displayed the 'standard' feelings towards titans displayed by most characters during the series: that is, hating them completely and only wanting to see them destroyed.
However, during her first excursion outside the walls, Hange's attitude changed. The pivotal instance she describes in canon is the moment when she successfully killed a titan and then victoriously kicked its head. The head bounced much further from her kick than it should have, and this observation changed Hange's life. She began to notice more strange things about titans, such as how light their body parts were in comparison to their enormous size, and eventually concluded that titans must have a nature "completely different" than how they were usually perceived by humans.
These observations eventually caused a complete change in her behavior: whereas before she'd been enraged by titans, now she wanted to study them. She was fascinated by everything about them, from their psychology to their physique, and her expertise changed from simply being a soldier: Hange became humanity's number one titan researcher.
Time passes! The main events of canon begin! The main character, Eren, is discovered to be a titan shifter, that is: a human who can change into a titan. He's discovered and then his fate is rendered uncertain in quick succession. Some humans want to kill and dissect him, while others want to use him as a weapon against the titans. This marks the first significant place we meet Hange in the canon continuity: she's one of the scouts who comes to talk to Eren. She's encouraging and professional to him, and along with some other scouts she takes Eren to stand before the tribunal of humans who decides what will be done with him.
This is the beginning of an extremely positive Hange-Eren relationship. Eren is deemed fit to live, and given to the scouts. Obviously this is exciting for Hange, since 1) it offers a huge potential breakthrough for humanity in the war! 2) she gets to study Eren.
Hange is excited about Eren and his abilities, instead of seeming mistrustful like many of the other scouts. He's puzzled by her enthusiasm for titans until she explains the origin of her change in attitude to him, and although Eren finds her a bit baffling at times, he also seems to respond well to her explaining things to him and communicating to him.
All seems like it's going okay until two live titan specimens are killed by someone mysterious! Which sets off a search to find out who the killer is. There's not much time to look at the new recruits carefully, though, before a trip outside the walls is planned.
The purpose of the trip is actually to flush out other potential (traitorous to humanity) titan shifters! And, oh, it hella works - scouts are chased down and killed en masse by the female-type titan as she searches for Eren. Hange is there to
Except not, as the scouts lay another trap to catch the female-type titan, as they've zeroed in on her human identity. Violence erupts within the walls! Peacefully capturing the female-type's human form doesn't work! More scouts as well as innocent civilians die, and Eren is forced to assume his titan form in an attempt to stop the female-type from escaping! And Hange is there to direct the combat in a team with Eren. This is also where they discover that the walls that protect humanity are apparently full of titans.
There's a certain section of humanity that worships the walls as gods! It's called the wall sect. A high-ranking wall sect member, hereafter referred to as Father Nick, approaches Hange, frantically demanding that she cover up the hole in the wall (titans subsist of photosynthesis, so this has special urgency as when the titan is exposed to sunlight, it might well break free of the wall and go on a frenzy devouring helpless humans).
Hange gets really angry. And you can see both the rage and suffering on her face as she demands to know why there are titans in the wall, demands to know what Father Nick knows about the nature of titans. It's easy to understand her ire: the most important thing scouts do is probably research and collect new information. Scouts have died trying to find things out that, apparently, humanity already knew.
Father Nick almost gets dropped off the wall to his death before Hange regains control of herself. Unfortunately for our heroes, there's barely any time to think, even after this disaster; Eren is safe, free of his death sentence, but the new recruits are moved out to a secluded house in the countryside, the search for other traitorous titan shifters begins, and there are reports of a breach in the wall that has allowed titans to pour in to human-occupied territory!
Hange isn't there for a lot of this, but the humans do a lot of running around trying to find the hole in the wall that's permitted the titans to invade... until it's revealed that there's no hole at all, and the titans appeared in the wall through mostly mysterious circumstances. Hange only reappears to help rescue a gaggle of recruits who are the only survivors of a group of full-fledged scouts and recruits who went to search for the wall breach. There, she identifies another titan shifter, Ymir, who isn't a traitor to humanity but might not be its ally either.
The humans climb to the top of the top of the wall. They need some time to rest and regroup, and discuss the things they've learned and experienced... alas, they won't have much time at all, as the colossal titan and the armored titan, two more dangerous titan shifters, reveal themselves. Immediately the scouts are locked into pitched battle with the shifters, and Hange does a great job teaming up and giving directions to Eren in his titan form, as well as realizing how to defeat the almost-invulnerable armored titan.
Alas: in the end Eren is captured, and carried away outside the wall. Hange, injured from her attack on the colossal titan, is left behind, but before the healthy scouts leave to retrieve Eren, she gives directions to where she thinks the titan shifters will take Eren and go to ground, to rest before they head home...
And her hypothesis is spot-on. Hange would probably be thrilled to find that out if she didn't arrive in space right after that.
Personality: The first thing people probably notice about Hange is her surplus of energy as well as her incredible passion for titans. It's easy to imagine how she must be off-putting to most people: imagine someone showing up at the site of a storm that had devastated your town, only for them to wax passionate about the beauty and majesty of the storm as bodies began to rot under the rubble.
So that's Hange: dissonantly passionate about the creatures that have decimated humanity. It's hard not to notice that about her, as she talks about titans at length to anyone who will listen, gushes about titans and how interesting they are to her comrades, and is absolutely thrilled at the opportunity to get close to and interact with titans. She cries while giving them pain tests even when they don't seem to react at all to being stabbed and tortured.
However, the joy Hange takes in studying titans didn't come to her easily, or naturally. It stemmed from her scientist's mind beginning to question the nature of titans when she first began killing them outside the walls... and that questioning led to her complete change in attitude. Basically, she forcefully rerouted her own emotions so that she could better look at things with a different perspective. Instead of despising her titan experimental subjects, she talks to them like they're children. Instead of being afraid of Eren's shifter abilities, she's excited to touch his titan flesh and excited to find out what else he can do. Her weird love for titans extends from her desire to win the war against them and her love for humanity and desire to save them, but sometimes the rage bursts out.
One example of the way Hange can be dark is her treatment of Father Nick at first. She's furious with him. She grabs him by the collar and threatens to kill him unless he spills the beans on what he knows. Her face as she demands information is angry but also seems tormented as she brings up the deaths of comrades: deaths that might have been for nothing, given that some humans have information about titans they're not telling. Hange can torture for information when she has to. It might be something that makes her sick, but she can do it. Her thirst for victory, for justice for humanity, can lead to her really doing whatever it takes.
That said, she can be deeply compassionate and understanding of others. She's a good commander who cares for her comrades. When she directs soldiers in an attack against the colossal titan, she both rallies then and calls them back when they're in danger. She does a great job teaming up with Eren and really utilizing his abilities as a titan shifter. She helps to flush out the traitorous titan shifters who try to destroy humanity.
Hange is watchful, adaptable, smart and driven. She's curious and cheerful and furious at the injustices of the world. She's a great leader in charge of a lot of soldiers, who will move ruthlessly against her enemies, and hurt and threaten them if she has to. Her separate parts might be contradictory, but none of these aspects is fake; they're just the various ways she's adapted to survive in her dangerous, cruel, beautiful world. And at heart, Hange is also a teacher: she'll share her knowledge, her techniques for adaptation, and everything she knows, so that others can survive in her world too.
Abilities: Hange has no superhuman abilities, at least as of yet... unless Isayama decides to surprise us by making her a titan shifter or something. Otherwise!
- 3DMG use: obviously, she's not equipped with this as of yet, but if she ever puts it back together Hange is a practiced user of the 3D maneuver gear humanity uses to fight titans. This makes her combat-ready in a variety of terrains, though she'd have trouble on flat ground.
- athleticism: you have to be really strong to use the 3DMG. Trainees have make like gymnasts while still wearing the harness, belt, and swords that make up the 3DMG. Hange is no exception; she's generally athletic and in great shape.
- strategy: Hange is able to make up strategies on the fly and predict what decisions her opponents will make.
- wisdom: her wisdom stat, given by Isayama, weighs in at 11. Hange is a great scientist and always eager to learn more about the world. Not only that, she learns fast and can apply new knowledge.
- emotional control: imagine Hange's aggressive cheerfulness transmuted into ravenous rage. Then realize that she actually has that rage built up inside her, and realize that she uses her anger to drive her forward without (usually) actually expressing it to people. Hange has great self-awareness of herself and uses it to manage her emotions. She's not impossible to shake, and her cheer isn't impossible to break, but it's difficult.
Augment Skillset: Lab support. She's gonna do the SCIENCE
Sample: SHAZAM